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Archive 02/2021

25.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite) Dungeon Crawler: Black Dawn Rebirth as free download
'Black Dawn Rebirth' is a Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master. Since October 2019 the game has been commercially distributed but now is available on the website of the project as free download. You can make a little donation before the download ("pay what you want"). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)

Tactical shooter: Second preview of 'Project Horizon '
'Project Horizon' (video) is a tactical shooter similar to Chaos Engine or Alien Breed. This second preview the author called "bug fixed preview" and is available as ADF and HD version (with sound).

Project Horizon requires ECS or AGA and 2 Megabyte Chip-RAM (based on the used graphics). The game will finally also require a hraddrive and provide a map editor for creating new levels.

The engine itself also runs with less Chip-RAM. The sorce code of the engine as well as the editors and tools will be released for free together with the final version of the game. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (website) PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 119 (Italian/English)
Besides its original language, Italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The reviews of classic games compare their ports to different platforms available at that time.

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx)

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25.Feb.2021
amigaforever.com (ANF)

Network solution: Amiga Explorer 9
Press release: Cloanto, Amiga software developers since 1986, released today version 9 (9.0.7.0) of Amiga Explorer, the Amiga-PC networking software that first saw the light in 1997.

New features include:

Protocol extended to support additional file system operations (random read and write, append, etc.)
Protocol extended to query additional server-side system properties (platform and branch, RAM, ROM version and CRC32, various date and time attributes, etc.)
Added "Virtual Files" folder to the namespace root (contains disk images and other virtual files)
New option to automatically set the Amiga clock from the Windows side
New features in the Properties dialog: show or hide the Amiga icon under the "This PC" namespace, enable or disable the crash reporter, Changelog tab, etc.
New Setup Wizard to transfer the Amiga side
Enhanced data extraction when reading disks with errors
All file and directory property dialogs now contain an edit control to rename the file or directory
Numerous other fixes and enhancements (see the Changelog)

Several new protocol features are the result of ongoing collaborations with open source developers, including some who are working on GNU/Linux Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) drivers.

The "AE" tool, which gives Windows command-line access to Amiga Explorer configuration and data sharing features, has also been extended to support the new features. Type "AE Help" to see a list of command-line options.

Upgrades are free to all Amiga Explorer and Amiga Forever Plus Edition customers. Amiga Explorer is also free to try under a shareware license. Registration is appreciated, but many features, including the command-line mode, are fully functional in trial mode.

Traditionally, updates to the Amiga (server) side of Amiga Explorer have also been made available on Aminet. This file too has been refreshed, and is now able to patch any version released since 1997 to the latest 9.0.7.0 build. As the new Amiga version includes functionality to support updates originating from the Windows (client) side, Amiga-side patch releases like this one could become less necessary in the future.

The full Amiga source code and the Windows "core" source code is available to a closed group on GitHub. Windows core features include the data exchange features and the command-line user interface, i.e. everything that is needed to implement, study or support the full protocol, including the buildable Visual Studio project used for Cloanto's distribution. The Windows namespace extension and its installer are not currently part of this set. The plan remains to extend the open source availability as certain milestones in the data exchange protocol are met. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)

AROS distribution: AROS One 1.4 (x86)
The new version 1.4 of the distribution 'AROS One' based on the 'ABI v0' trunk is available. It integrates the update of the ABI-v0 trunk recently released and offers some new features like dual PNG pictogramms.

The creator of the distribution recommends to test it first on a virtual machine, especially VMWare. He also provides some video tutorials to to help newcomers and exisitung users get started:

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2021
aGGreSSor (ANF) AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 trunk
After a break of four years, the AROS developer Deadwood has ported back the changes made to the "ABIv1" trunk to "ABIv0". He named this project "AROS ABIv0 20170402": the date refers to the ABI-v1 code which is the base for the release.

The update includes 27 new functions, 14 new components and 26 bug fixes. Among others the virtual machines 'VMWare' and 'Virtualbox' now support USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. An updated version of the distribution AROS One based on the ABIv0 trunk has been updated as well. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite) Playable demo: Point'n Click adventure 'Wilcza Buda' in HAM6 mode
'Wilcza Buda' is a classic point'n click adventure. The secon demo version now runs in HAM6 mode (video). Wilcza Buda runs on Amigas equipped with Kickstart 1.2 and higher and can be played from disk or harddrive. It requires 2,5 MB RAM (thereof 1 MB Chip-RAMm) or more. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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