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`05.Nov.2019` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Interview with Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future) At amigans.net an interview with Andreas Magerl was published who is the publisher of the print magazine "Amiga Future". (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2019, 23:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2019` Scene World Magazine (ANF)	Video interview: Roman Werner (Traps'n Treasures, Leonardo, Eliminator) (update) Roman Werner is a former video game developer whose best known game might be his jump'n run Traps'n Treasures but who was also involved as musician in other games (Leonardo, Eliminator). In the video interview with Scene World he has talked about his time as video game developer for Starbyte and his latest retro activities like type-in BASIC games for competitions or the "One Button Controller" which he developed. Update: (25.11. 2019, 23:00 cg) In the German comments section, people were asking for a summary of the long interview. In response, Jörg Dröge from the Sceneworld team supplied the following detailed overview of the topics discussed during the two hours. Thank you, Jörg! 00:00:55 "First commercial product" an dem ich mitgewirkt habe. 00:01:38 "How to get into Computers?" 00:03:47 "Shorter Listings next time"? 00:04:00 "Did you got a Datasette at some point, or Disk Drive?" 00:04:30 "How were the prices in Switzerland?" 00:05:19 "Disk Drive was more expensive than the c64, cause 1541 was like a computer, CPU, ram on its own" 00:06:05 "Then you started with gaming and discovered the cracking scene" / meeting in shopping centers? 00:07:30 Stars Wars when I was 10 00:08:07 "Accoustic Coupler" / Big Apple nickname 00:09:45 “Swiss Cracking Association” Bild von Cracker Landkarte?? 00:09:56 "Same group that was famous later on for having coded the first Amiga Virus" 00:11:25 "But you could get rid of it, right?" 00:12:15 Jim Sachs / Defender of the Crown Bild??? 00:12:35 "Press said that Defender of the Crown was photo realistic" 00:14:39 "You write mostly about Amiga or Atari Stuff on your blog, why not C64?" 00:15:32 "You are known of those people who can do everything a bit graphics, coding, music?" 00:16:20 Christian Gleinser / Shadow Switcher / Frogs Bild??? 00:17:00 "Synthesizer / music for computers 00:18:07 "Sound Fx" Bild??? 00:20:00 "Leonardo" C64 version 00:21:20 "Animated Intro, Leonardo going into the house" Bild??? 00:22:24 Eliminator / John Philips / How the intro music was made 00:25:05 Music NTSC/PAL timing / DTV / Summer Games 00:27:00 On Amiga you could switch PAL/NTSC 00:27:54 "Your own game?" Traps'n'Treasures 00:32:20 "Traps'n'Treasures is the game we are talking about" Bild??? 00:32:32 - 00:32:43 cut 00:34:05 - 00:34:38 00:38:43 "Suprising that Starbyte went bankrupt" 00:41:00 Last Ninja 3 in 1991 sold 3.5 Million / 5.5 Million. 00:43:56 Krisalis Bild??? 00:44:55 "Did you ever work on other games?" 00:45:55 "2016 returned to retro-scene" 00:46:18 BASIC Tenliners Contest Bild??? 00:48:00 Single Button Game concept / Single Button Game Controller Bild??? 00:50:26 "How many were produced?" 00:51:00 Delayed sending 00:52:45-00:55:30 Intellivision Amico / Graphic Designer Peru / Victor working on Mobile Games 00:55:12 "Leonardo 2" 00:59:13 "Rolling Ronny" / "Level-Ed" 01:00:00 Starbyte wanted to replace the hero in TnT 01:01:00 Commodore bankrupt 1995 01:02:06 Race between "Lemmings" (Jeroen Tel) / "Mayhem in Monsterland" 1993 01:03:09 Mike Clarke (Psygnosis) / dutch developers wanted to tick off the system 01:05:00 - 01:06: DTV / TheC64 Discussion 01:08:35 "What do you do nowadays?" 01:08:59 "Do you still know assembler?" 01:09:39 "VCS developers did not have any tools" 01:10:55 "Two type of people - People who want to talk about it or people who say let it be" 01:11:25 "Meeting for Gamescom / Blackjack" 01:14:18 "Preserving the stories" 01:14:30 "1977 Homecomputers / PET / Toasters / FAX machine" 01:15:30 "CD-Player came to market" 01:16:00 "Micowave" 01:17:00 "VHS Player" 01:17:35 "Scene C64 - Fixing your C64 / Capacitors / FPGA / Software does not age 01:19:45 Emulating a Seagate drive 01:20:35 Arcade Machines Batteries that leaked 01:21:54 "VHS tape quality" 01:23:30 "VHS Player" 01:24:19 "Going to the Cinema" 01:25:00 "Bulgaria / Brand new Cinema" 01:27:07 "Vinyl" players 01:27:40 Stereo from 1992 (with 10) 01:28:30 Record covers to present your dream / Every medium has its beauty 01:29:25 Cherish old computer games and video game consoles 01:30:09 If you have the tools you can fix it 01:30:20 Harddisk with all my Amiga Stuff on it blew up 01:31:35 "one of the few people from the German part of Switzerland" 01:33:25 "Everybody threw their old games away" 01:33:45 After 12 years Last Ninja 3 on disk 01:35:00 Traps'n'Treasures box close up / 1400 Euro 01:35:50 Was sent 10 copies to give my friends 01:37:40 "You know so much more about the old days than me" * Über die 90er Jahre * 01:38:00 "My knowledge starts at 1990 when I got my own C64" 01:39:00 George Lucas re-Releasing frist Start Wars Movie on VHS tape (Gold Edition) 01:39:20 1997 Jurrasic Parc 2 was released / "Had to see it" 01:39:30 First movie I ever saw 1994 "The Flintstones" 01:40:00 "Super Mario Brothers" Movie 01:40:21 "Who Framed Roger Rabit" / Bob Hoskins (nicht Bob Hopkins) 01:41:56 "School friend I swapped disks with" 01:41:24 "86" (war eigentlich "96") WinRAR / Duke Nukem 3D - mit 15 01:41:47 School Library had a computer with Tomb Raider 01:42:00 "Toblerone" 01:42:30 PS1 Metal Gear / Tomb Raider / Destruction Derby 01:42:50 PC Version 01:43:00 "That are the ninenties for me" 01:43:15 CDs with D64 images with Leonardo, Zak McKraken, Maniac Mansion / Learned about all the classics 01:43:32 2008 with Ebay - access to Originals 01:44:00 "Did you actually every work on a C64 game commercially" 01:44:44 "Rather develop for a Commodore 64 than for the Amiga" 01:45:20 Sound on Amiga / No filter / Same "Obarski"-sounds on Amiga 01:46:00 Going with Intellivision Amico? 01:46:40 "Sams Journey can't be beaten" 01:47:53 "...and then you hire Jeroen Tel for the music" 01:48:00 "You have it a lot easier nowadays because you have all the information" 01:48:33 "Want to figure it out myself" 01:49:30 "How many people know how to program a needle printer?" 01:49:50 "Fast Loader that would work on all drives (NTSC/PAL)" 01:50:30 "Good luck on the Demake of Traps'n'Treasures. 01:50:42 "Kickstarter?" "Not such a fan" 01:51:29 "Will ask you for a demo" 01:51:39 "We talked almost 2 hours" / used to talk english 01:52:11 "Whats your next plan?" 01:52:50 BASIC games based on a 3-Page Listing 01:54:02 Christian's "BASIC Weihnachten" 01:54:40 "Old Starbyte buddies" 01:55:45 "You are pretty proud of it and keep the memory alive on your blog" (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2019, 23:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2019`	Vampire team distributed pirated software during 'Vampire Standalone' launch For years, a customized, unlicensed distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 targeting the FPGA based 'Vampire' accelerators and Amiga clones has been available on the net. The package comes with tons of preinstalled software - including hundreds of games and productivity applications that used to be distributed commercially. Whenever people were criticizing this, Gunnar von Boehn's Vampire team was quick to point out that they were not involved with the distribution called 'Coffin' and didn't see a reason to act. But in the days following "Amiga 34", where the 'Vampire Standalone' variant was sold to endusers for the first time, an increasing number of users reported on a1k.org that they had recieved a CF card with preinstalled Coffin OS from Gunnar von Boehn himself when purchasing their Vampire computer (screenshots (German): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). When other users started criticizing this approach to launching a commercial product into the market - selling 32 Vampire units at a price of 550 Euros each at A34 should have generated sales of more than 17000 Euros in just a few hours - Vampire spokesman 'grond' explained that the team had to switch back to Amiga Kickstarts due to "ongoing boot problems with AROS" and had bought Kickstart 3.1 licenses from Mike Battilana (Cloanto) right at the show. Additionally, "H&P had given their OK" for the distribution of AmigaOS 3.9, according to grond (Screenshot (German)). This would explain just a tiny fraction of the software actually contained in the Coffin distribution - the package has a total size of 32 Gigabyte and contains a complete collection of preinstalled WHDLoad games as well as many other commercial titles such as Cinema 4D, SAS/C or "Foundation Director's Cut" - but was probably meant to diffuse the main point of criticism: Pirating software still available from dealers, like AmigaOS 3.9, is generally frowned upon, even in the usually rather 'Abandonware' friendly retro community. But due to our own conversations with Jürgen Haage from many years ago, we doubted even the claim that the Vampire team got permission to distribute AmigaOS 3.9. And approached by amiga-news.de, Mr. Haage did indeed state that he didn't know about the Vampire project and did not have any communication with the people behind it - according to him, nobody approached Haage & Partner to ask about OS 3.9. amiga-news.de has contacted Gunnar von Boehn to ask for a statement regarding this matter and to see if he could forward our mail to 'grond', since we do not have a contact address for the latter. Von Boehn states that his team "considers the current legal situation regarding the OS as very sad" und mentions that "not even properly purchased licenses might not guarantee legal ownership" - we assume he's referring to the legal battle between Hyperion and Cloanto. Mr. Von Boehn did not address Coffin OS in his reply, but admits in a subclause that he thinks Vesalia is still selling AmigaOS 3.9. We did not recieve a reply from 'grond'. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 04. Nov. 2019, 23:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019`	Aminet-Uploads until 02.11.2019 The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 2nd, 2019: f64summer.lha dev/cross 20K MOS Checksummer for BASIC listings AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 745K 68k Amiga AGA port of Duke Nukem 3D AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 753K 68k Amiga RTG port of Duke Nukem 3D AMIread.lha mags/misc 32M MOS Disk mag preview DOSBox_AGA.lha misc/emu 1.9M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74 DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.9M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74 Morpheus_1.0.lha text/dtp 275K MOS Word processor PPCCpuInfo.lha util/cli 115K MOS query some PPC cpu proprieties IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 950K 68k free icon.library in optimize... perciman_68k.lha util/wb 1.4M 68k Tool to manage contact and ot... perciman_MOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Tool to manage contact and ot... perciman_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 Tool to manage contact and ot... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019`	OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.11.2019 The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 2nd, 2019: asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 75kb 4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons... mindspace.lha gra/vec 10Mb 4.1 Create MindMaps, UML and quaint ... deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019`	AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.11.2019 The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until November 2nd, 2019: hivelytracker-1.8-i386-ar... aud/tra 1Mb SDL version of Amiga AHX module ... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019`	MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 02.11.2019 The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 2nd, 2019: lariad_pl_1.0.lha Games/Platform Polish translation for ... aha_0.5.lha Text/Misc Ansi HTML Adapter PerCIMan_0.6.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con... f64summer.lha Development/Cross Checksummer for BASIC l... Iris_beta69.lha Email New email client suppor... AsciiMandelbrot_2.0.lha Graphics/Mathematics Draw a Mandelbrot set i... SacrificioPagano_1.60.lha Misc A special app to people... Python_2.7.6-16.lha Development/Python Python_2.7.6-16.lha Chrysalis_3.12.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to... Morpheus_1.0.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor PPCCpuInfo_1.2.lha System/Monitoring AmigaDOS command to que... HWP_AHX_1.3.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for AH... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019`	WHDLoad: New installers until 02.11.2019 Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until November 2nd, 2019: 2019-11-01 improved: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis) skip intro added, joypad support added, quitkey on 68000 supported (Info) 2019-11-01 improved: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ultra Games) unlimited energy added, supports SPS 2994 version, BoxIcon added (Info) 2019-11-01 fixed: Dyna Blaster (Hudson Soft) fix an access fault in battle mode (Info) 2019-11-01 fixed: Tintin on the Moon / Tim und Struppi auf dem Mond (Infogrames) sub-folder "data" used as CurrentDir (Info) 2019-10-30 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) new imager, new install script, borders fixed on AGA (Info, Image) 2019-10-29 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) runs on 2MB chip, added joypad support, added trainer (Info) 2019-10-28 improved: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) 68000 quitkey support, works without PreLoad, uses less chip memory (Info) 2019-10-28 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) fixed sprites in main multi scrollings screen (Info, Image) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Announcement: New FPGA Amiga implementation M5 Under the title link Jesús de la Torre - among others developer of a laser upgrade for Amiga mice - has announced a new Amiga FPGA board in Mini-ITX format called M5 for 224,95 Euro. A Kickstart-ROM chip provided by Cloanto is included but alternative versions can be loaded as well. The used FPGA is a Spartan 3 XC3S400 (PDF survey), for the emulation of the 68000 processor and the Custom chips are separate softcore and a revision of the Minimig implementation will be used (blog entry with comments, automated English deutsche automatisierte translation). (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Computer case: Second batch of Checkmate 1500 Plus can be preordered As announced, Stephen Jones will produce another batch of maximal 500 pieces. From the first batch, still 100 cases have to be delivered. These cases for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200 now can be preordered. The delivery time is three up to six months. In a video Jones provides further details. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2019` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.12 Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's "Chrysalis" is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.12 for MorphOS 3.12. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required. Updates: Iris-Betaversion 69 MPlayer 1.3.0 WebRadio 1.10 VidentiumPicta 2.0 RNOTags 1.0 RNOPDF 1.3 ScummVM 2.1.0 ACE 1.19 WHDLOpener 1.3 ModernArt 3.0 Polybios 1.2 HollywoodPlayer 8.0 RNOInfoScreen 1.7 AHX-1.3 plugin for Hollywood Download: Chrysalis_3.12.iso (710 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Nov. 2019, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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