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11.Nov.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)

AmigaOS 4: Games collection for AmiCygnix 1.6
Edgar Schwan has updated his games collection for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. 24 games are included, most of them board- or cardgames but also a shoot'em up and a interactive fractal zoomer.

New in version 1.6:

New game "Pioneers", a clone of "Settlers of Catan".
Neue versions:
- Ace of Penguins 1.4 instead of version 1.2. The card game "Spider" has been added and the card game "Solitaire" offers new possibilities. The GUI tool for starting the individual games has been revised and optimized for standalone start.
- XEmeraldia 0.4.3 instead of version 0.4.1. The graphics have been optimized.
- XGalaga 2.1.1.0 instead of version 2.0.34. The playing field is now bigger and a variation called "Hyperspace" is now included.
- The xMahjongg GUI tool has been revised and optimized for standalone start.
All programs have been recompiled. Programs that require GTK+ 2 now use GTK+ 2.24.32.
All programs can now be started "Standalone".
The icon set has been updated. Thanks to Thomas Blatt!

Included games:

The Ace of Penguins: A collection of one-player games:
- canfield - a cardgame
- freecell - a cardgame
- golf - a cardgame
- mastermind - the well known code-breaking game
- merlin - a logic game similar to "lights out"
- minesweeper - the well known logic game
- pegged - a board game
- solitaire - a cardgame
- spider - a cardgame
- taipei - a mahjongg like game
- thornq - a cardgame
BomberClone (A game like "Super Bomberman". With network support.)
GLightOff (Puzzle game)
gSoko (Sokoban clone)
gTans (Tangram game)
GtkAtlantic (a game like "Monopoly")
Pioneers (a clone of the board game "Settlers of Catan")
Sudoku-Savant (a clone of the board game "Sudoku")
XaoS (Fractal zoomer)
XEmeraldia (a variation of the game "Tetris")
XGalaga (Shoot 'em up)
XLightOff (Puzzle game)
XMahjongg (a solitaire game)
xtris (a multiplayer tetris clone with network support)

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite) Single screen platform game: 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' announced for 2021
The Single screen platform game 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' is a clon of the classic arcade game Snow Bros.. A first playable preview has been already released in 2007 - but then the development stopped. It was now restarted by a six-man team. A video shows the current state of the development. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Nov.2020
amigablogs.net (Webseite) Free graphic set for game developer: "NEONworld"
One of the submissions to the Amiga Art Contest 2020 was a graphic set for an imaginary game called "NEONworld". On his Patreon website, the graphics artist Kevin Saunders has provided the set as zip archive. It can be used in free game projects without any limitations. Saunders only wants to be listed in the credits.

The graphics are meant for screen solutions of 320x256, use 16 colours and were drawn on the Amiga using Brilliance. The UFO was rendered with Lightwave. An example level for the game concept intended by Saunders is included as well. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite) Early video preview: Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma'
In Erik 'earok' Hogan's jump'n run 'Duckstroma' the player controls a duck which can use its eggs for jumping in higher levels. The game already has been released for MSX and ZX Spectrum using the flip-screen feature.

Now a video of the Amiga prototype was published showing smoothly scrolling levels. The port for the Amiga is written with Hogan's Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Nov.2020
commodore.news (Webseite) Competition: Submissions to the 'Amiga Art Contest 2020' released
For the graphic competition "Amiga Art Contest 2020", started in July, all submissions in the categories "hand drawn artworks", "Photographic" and "Raytracing" now are available on the website of the organizers. The tracks do not seem to be available but some of them can be listened to in a video. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite) 3D-Shooter: Another early Tech-Demo from 'Blask'
'Blask' (video) is a 3D-Shooter written in AMOS which is still in the very early stage of development and is supposd to be run on an Amiga 500. In a discussion on ppa.pl (Polish) the developer has talked about the latest progress of the game. He has already released two pre-versions of the game under the former name "Alien Enemy: Dangerous". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Nov.2020

Little discourse on render-library
In our report about the game AmiBrixx we have attended the auhor Jörn Renkert on the fact that under usually an OS3 port of a Hollywood application requires a graphics card and therefore pushing a port for AGA Amigas.

Unfortunately we did not succeed in running the game on an Amiga1200 equipped with Blizzard 1230 and 128 MB FastRAM. All required libraries have been installed as mentioned by the author. Before this test, on the Amiga of our editor version 40.8 of the render.library was installed but disabled. Instead of it, version 30.0 was active. After even the last edited version released by the author crahed we did remember the previously disabled version 40.8 render.library.

After resetting the system to version 30.0, the game started without problems. We then found two diiferent versions of the library on Aminet:

Version 40.8, released in 2005, and
version 32.0, released this year.

Contrary to the information given there in the readmes, version 40.8 was written by Timm S. Mueller (e.g. graphics card picture viewer Mysticview), version 32.0 by Henryk Richter (e.g. author of the music player Eagleplayer). Getting more information about the different versions, we asked the authors for a statement. Kindly enough both oh them replied. Hendryk Richter has summarized it:

"Version 32 of the render.library are virtually identical to 30.0/31.0. After consultation with Timm, the version bump from 31 to 32 was done to merge the different versions of the v30 branch available on Aminet. Only a build for 68060 without FPU was added since the last upload. I do not know any program (68k) which requires a version >30 of the render.library.

The development branch V40 of the render.library was Timm's rewrite in C of the assembler version for providing the option of porting it to PPC platforms. As mentioned in the readme, this re-implementation the much slower on 68k Amigas with processor <68040. It is recommended to use V30-V32 with 68k."

After the installation of version 32.0, the game also worked fine. Therefore we do not only recommend version 32.0 for 68k Amigas - considering the crashes we must advise against this version 40.8.

On request of amigas-news.de the author Timm S. Mueller explained that currently he is not going to deal with it again. (dr) (Translation: dr)

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