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Archive 09/2020

`18.Sep.2020` Indie Retro News (Webseite)	Prototype of an unreleased jump'n run: Green Thang "Green Thang" (video) is a jump'n run game which has been started being developed for the Amiga in 1994. Due to a crashing market, later only a version for the Atari Jaguar was developed further but which only some time later was also dropped. The website "Games that Weren't" succeeded in finding a playable prototype of the Amiga version. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Sep. 2020, 22:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Sep.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Full version for download: Directory Opus Magellan 2 The website of the Amiga Future offers the full version of the file manager "Directory Opus Magellan 2" for free download. The download - an ISO image of the CD - can be only be accessed by registered users due to the size of the file. Hint of the editors: Our reader "Gert" has pointed out that the CD image can already be downloaded on Sourceforge for quite some time. There are not any limitation regarding the downloads. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Sep. 2020, 22:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Sep.2020` Markus Steffan (ANF)	Game developer Chris Földing (Jonathan, Stadt der Löwen) died Chris G. Földing (audio interview from 2019 (German)) was graphic artist and media designer who in cooperation with Markus Frisch in the 90s released several graphic adventures for Amiga and PC: Holiday Maker, Die Stadt der Löwen and Jonathan. Markus 'Neo Hippie' Steffan who in the past years travelled to Memmingen to visiting the scenes of the game and storing the experiences in his travel diaries maintained regular contact with Földing. He told us that the game developer died last Wednesday at the age of 72. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Sep. 2020, 00:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Sep.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Floppy emulator: Gotek competitor OpenFlops availalbe preassembled OpenFlops is a floppy emulator which in contrary to Gotek is under a free licence and according to the developer also offers several other advantages. The British shop Simulant now offers preassembled OpenFlops. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 17. Sep. 2020, 23:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Sep.2020` Indie Retro News (Webseite)	Demo game for Scorpion Engine: Jump'n Run "Monkey Ladd" The Jump'n Run "Monkey Lad" (video) is a clone of the Sega classic "Alex Kidd" developed with the Scorpion Engine. The project files of the game are available on Github. Download: monkeylad.adf (880 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 17. Sep. 2020, 23:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Sep.2020` Indie Retro News (Webseite)	Playable Demo: Dungeon Crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" "The Shadows of Sergoth" is a Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master which was released in 2018 for the Amstrad CPC 6128. Some months ago an Amiga port has been announced and now a first playable demo version released (video). The game requires 1,5 MB Chip-RAM and at least a 68020 processor is recommended. If you are going to play Shadows of Sergoth on an Amiga with 68000 or 68020 processor, you can turn off animations in the option menu. For the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 a commercial release of the game is planned in digital as well as boxed version. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 17. Sep. 2020, 00:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Sep.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Self-made project: Using standard power supply for A500/A1200 Tobias "MastaTabs" Seiler's A500 Single Power and A1200 Single Power are adapter boards which replace the powersupply port of an Amiga. By the help of the board, the computers can be supplied with electricity using a standard 12-Volt power supply. As a little bonus the board also provides a seperate power switch. The A500 version has been successfully tested by the developer. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 16. Sep. 2020, 22:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Sep.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Self-made project: A500/A2000 2MB Chip-RAM adapter Matt Harlum's "A500/2000 2MB Chip RAM Mod" is an adapter board which can use the last generation of the "Agnus"-chip (MOS 8375) in an A500 or A2000. This version of the Amiga-Adress-Generator supports up to 2 Megabyte Chip-RAM. A corresponding RAM is already included on the board. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 16. Sep. 2020, 22:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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