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Archive 10/2018

`24.Oct.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	CS530 and CS540: New A500 accelerator boards in development The Polish people Szymon 'Cizar' Paprocki and Andrzej 'Sellen' Rogozynski are working on accelerator boards for the Amiga 500 which will be equipped with processors of 68030, 68040 or 68060. Prototypes already exist. You can watch videos about the "CS530" and "CS540" on the Youtube channel of Paprocki. All statements of the developers only are available in Polish and the boards still are in an early development stage. The following features are planned: MC68030 (with FPU MC68882) and 040 processors, 68060 also planned SDRAM or DDR chips as FastRAM, controlled by a Spartan6 FPGA controller Slot for CF cards IDE port (40 Pin) A ARM ST32H7 microcontroller with 400Mhz, its function is not clear. Translations of third parties from the Polish say "a new chipset with access to the complete FastRAM". NAU8822AYG-based soundcard with MP3-decoder and AHI implementation. The original Amiga signal is supposed to be taken through the card USB UEXT WIFI (ESP 32 WROOM) MicroSD slot 12-bit stereo sampler Hardware MPEG decodierung HDMI port (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Oct. 2018, 23:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Oct.2018` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Arcade game: Mink Gold 2 Another release for the game competition of the Retrokomp is "Mink Gold 2" written with AMOS: You have to collect jewels, operate switches and avoid collisions with enemies. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Oct. 2018, 23:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Oct.2018` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Print magazine: Amiga Future 135 - preview and excerpts A preview and extracts of issue 135 (November/December 2018) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a meeting report from the 'Classic Computing' as well as reviews of Rocket Ranger and Workbench Explorer. (cg) [News message: 24. Oct. 2018, 23:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Oct.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Sokoban clone: Magazyn Magazyn is a Sokoban clone developed for the game competition of the Retrokomp. The latest release still has not any sound. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Oct. 2018, 16:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Oct.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Shoot'em Up previews: Invaders (playable preview) and Inviyya (video) Inviyya is a shoot'em up game (videos: 1, 2) inspired by R-Type which has been developed for two years. The engine was finished but according to the author still some bugs have to be fixed and diverse levels to be completed. The final release is planned before Xmas. Invaders is a clone of the classic Space Invaders. The game has been developed for the game competition of the Retrokomp but still is not quite finished - e.g. sound is missing. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Oct. 2018, 16:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Oct.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Event: Amiga Hackroom122 Meetup (27./28. October, Warsaw) On October 27 and 28 in Warsaw the 'Amiga Hackroom122 Meetup' will take place. The first day is dedicated to the demoscene and a MorphOS presentation of Grzegorz Kraszewski. On the second day there will be workshops on AMOS and music trackers. Ticktes are available for 10 Zloty (about 2,40 Euro). (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Oct. 2018, 15:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Oct.2018` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Scene World: Podcast Episode #54: Gamescom 2018 In the latest issue of the "Scene World" the editors report about their experiences as exhibitors at the Gamescom. On site developers and publishers were asked about their expectations for 2019 regarding the retro gaming scene. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 23. Oct. 2018, 15:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Oct.2018`	Linux distribution with Amiga design: Workbench OS "Workbench OS" (video) provided by John Petrella and Adriano Morselli is a Linux distribution with Amiga design. The desktop Mate is changed with several themes and and a corresponding icon set based on the look of different AmigaOS versions. Besides, the emulator FS-UAE is preinstalled (Kickstart-ROMs are not included) and the usage of Icaros under a virtual environment is explained on the website of Workbench OS. Workbench OS is available as these different versions: The "preview" version from December 2017 as PCLinuxOS edition with RPM package manager or with DEB package system. The "stable" version was released about three weeks later and is only available as RPM/PCLinuxOS version. For this December a version based on Debian Testing was announced. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Oct. 2018, 02:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Oct.2018`	Hyperion: Graphical illustration about origin of AmigaOS customers A few days ago Hyperion has published a pie chart on its Facebook site which illustrates from which countries all the customers are who purchased a download during the last 30 days. About three weeks ago AmigaOS 3.1.4 was released which might be a big part of the downloads: (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Oct. 2018, 00:25] [Comments: 1 - 23. Oct. 2018, 11:23] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Oct.2018`	Event: Pictures of MicroAlchimie (France) Last weekend in Clérieux (near to Lyon) the "MicroAlchimie" took place. About 60 visitors and the Amiga traders Amedia and Relec met to celebrate retro computers. Pictures of the event now can be found on amiga-ng.org. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Oct. 2018, 00:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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