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Archive 02/2020

`05.Feb.2020`	New demo version of Wings Remastered for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS In autumn of 2015 the rights holder Cinemaware Retro announced an Amiga port of its Wings remake "Wings Remastered". A first playable preview was released in November of 2015. As a condition for completing the game was to get sufficient preorders (55 Euro) - approximately about 300 preorders were placed. After releasing a pre-version of the game at the Amiga 32 in 2017, nothing has happened about Wings Remastered. What about Cinemaware Retro at all? The appearances in the social media have not been maintained, several paid orders of the "Collector's Editions" of 'Defender of the Crown' and 'Rocket Ranger' have been only delivered after the process was outsourced to another shop. Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener, who was originally in charge of writing the Amiga port, is occasionally working on the game. About a year ago a short status report was published. In a post on amigans.net he now has announced the release of new demo versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (x86). The developer who according to his own statement has not been paid at all is asking for your patience. He is going to complete the game in any case even if there will be problems regarding the payment because he has invested so much work in the project. His motivation is low because the mount of work is much higher than expected and he is also working on other projects. Direct download: Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D (95 MB) Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D Tabor SPE (95 MB) Wings Demo AOS4 MiniGL for MiniGL4GL4ES (95 MB) Wings Demo MorphOS (95 MB) Wings Demo AROS x86 (94 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Feb. 2020, 18:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2020`	Review of "Black Dawn Rebirth" The blog "Amiga Guru" has published a little review of the commercial Dungeon Crawler "Black Dawn Rebirth" released at the end of October. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Feb. 2020, 00:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2020`	Full version for download: Iron Tracker The Amiga Future website offers disk images and WHDLoad installers of the racing game Iron Trackers released in 1989 for free download. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Feb. 2020, 00:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	AmigaOS 4: SSHTerm 1.1 Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom has released version 1.1 of an Amiga spezific SSH solution called SSHTerm. It requires AmiSSL 4.3. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Feb. 2020, 15:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2020` Indie Retro News	Shoot'em Up: Playable demo of Inviyya In October 2018 preview videos of the shoot'em up game 'Inviyya' were available. At this time it was said that the engine was completed and the final release would be supposed to be available before Christmas 2018. Meanwhile a playable demo version has been released for the first time. The "world premiere" of the game which the developer still classifies as "pre beta" took place in a live video stream on twitch.tv last Sunday. Inviyya was inspired by the classic game R-Type, requires an Amiga 500 and according to the developer "features 6 levels, couple of special weapons, 3 layer parallax scrolling and nice music and sfx". A commercial release will be available at Poly.play. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Feb. 2020, 00:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	ZGloom - open source Gloom engine for Windows and Linux ZGloom is a reimplementation of the Gloom engine for Windows and Linux which seems to be compatible to all the level data of the series. So far only a very early version is available and currently the program has to be compiled by yourself. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2020, 22:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Free Gotek clone: OpenFlops emulates classic disk drives OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. In comparision to them, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. As firmware the free FlashFloppy is used which originally should be also used for Gotek. Improvements of OpenFlops compared to Gotek: Can be installed on many different platforms Directly supports a wide range of image formats Flexible track layout for Raw Sector Images Extremely configurable Supports AutoSwap for games with a large number of disks Easily accessible pin headers for connection of a i2c display (either OLED or LCD), rotary encoder (including power) Built-in amplified speaker, or easily-accessible pin header for an external one USB connector can either be soldered on the board or connected to a pin header Connected Motor signal Emulates two drives at the same time (Not yet supported by the firmware, but it will come) Has additional 3.3V, 5V and GND power pins And hey, it's Open Hardware! According to the developer "all of this comes in the same form factor (and mounting holes) as the board installed in the original Gotek, hence it can be easily installed in any shell or enclosure designed for it." (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2020, 22:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2020` Generation Amiga (Webseite)	New Amiga emulator for MacOS in progress: vAmiga Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is supposed to become a new, "user-friendly" Amiga emulator for MacOS computers which can emulate an A500, A1000 or A2000. According the developer the programming has been started 12 months ago - and the basic features of the emulator implemented yet. Now he is concentrating on improving the compatibility. So far official releases are not available but new alpha versions are regularly released on Github. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2020, 21:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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