amiga-news.de - Archive

Archive 06/2021

`14.Jun.2021` Blog Amigaguru	Game announcement: 'CYBERSPHERE' for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86) In his latest blog entry the 'AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog' has announced a new commercial point&click adventure developed by GDG-Entertainment among others for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86). You can get some first impressions by watching a YouTube trailer. According to GDG-Entertainment the game will have the following features: Loads of locations to visit, divided into three main areas: city streets, city undergrounds, space station. Voxel-based futuristic graphics. Easy icon-driven mechanics that mimics text-adventures ones. Full range of sound effects and inspiring music. Localized in English, French and Italian. Hardware requirements: CPU: G3 or PPC440 (AmigaOS), G3 (MorhpOS) Fast memory: 512MB (AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS) Harddrive: 100MB According to AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog the game has been finished and will be probably released in August 2021. On its website there is also a demo version for each platform available. (dr) [News message: 14. Jun. 2021, 07:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2021`	Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2021 The "Amiga Art Contest 2021" (video) is organized by the two Youtubers 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In its third edition, participants can submit their works in the categories of "hand-drawn artwork", "digital photography", "ray tracing" and "music pieces". The submissions of the two previous years 2019 and 2020 can be viewed on the official website. Only works created or (in the case of digital photographs) edited on an Amiga (real or emulated) are eligible. Second place winners will receive A-EON sponsored digital licenses for Personal Paint 7.3 or ImageFX 4.5, first place winners will receive four $50 vouchers for the Retrorewind.ca store. Deadline for entries is October 11, winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast". (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 14. Jun. 2021, 06:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2021` Reddit	68k.news: Simple HTML-Google News for vintage computers Recently we reportd about the FrogFind! search engine which simplifies search results and thus make them accessable for older browsers. Simultaneously to this project the YouTuber 'Action Retro' has created a Google News website based on SimplePie and a php port of Mozilla's Readability which displays news items without menus, ads, footers and all what it is not necessariliy needed for the message itself. So it is possible to read them for example with the Amiga browser AWeb. You can set your country as well as your favourite news section in the upper menu of the website. The source code is available on GitHub. (dr) [News message: 14. Jun. 2021, 05:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2021`	Remake: Textadventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut) In 2019 the commercial textadventure 'Hibernated - This Place is Death' was released as first part of a planned trilogy. His release Stefan Vogt now has ported as Director's Cut' to the Z-machine originally developed by Infocom: An development environment for textadventures. Vogt finally "ended up completely rewriting it" adding "tons of narrative content and new riddles". The game also now is available for many platforms. Probably on 1. August the game also will be available in a boxed edition on poly.play featuring the following content: 3,5" floppy disk Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18,5 x 2,5 cm) Mission patch Developer's autograph card MicroSD card including disk images and more Manual (DIN A5, English) Quick guide "How to Play Interactive Fiction" Stickers Din-A3 poster Shrink-wrapped The game can be pre-ordered for 35 Euro. (dr) [News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 12:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2021` AmigaLove	Third part of textadventure series: Silk Dust After Two Days to the Race and The Queen's Footsteps, Davide Bucci has released the third part of his textadventure series named 'Silk Dust'. About the tasks of the player the author has written: "Today is April 19, 1907. You, Emilia Vittorini, arrived yesterday in Varenna, on the shore of the beautiful Lake Como. You are hosted at the magnificent Villa Briccorosso; Princess Lucilla Briccorosso is preparing the Silk Road Race, a 10,000km rally raid between Cairo in Egypt and Peking in China, to be done by car. You represent ITA, founded by your father, the company that built the car the Princess just bought to use during the rally. The car is supposed to be delivered today. Your role will be to assist the delivery and make sure everything is perfectly functional". Obviously the author has used real persons and places. Its history he has explained in a separaten article. The game is available for several platforms like Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum etc. The author asks for reporting "typos, errors and bugs". (dr) [News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 08:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2021`	Aminet uploads until 12.06.2021 The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to Aminet: KONEY_MECHMICROBES.lha demo/sound 362K 68k KONEY: MECHMICROBES Hardcore ... ALS.lha dev/amos 546K 68k AMOS Layers System REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support dsp3210.lha driver/oth 95K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP EXULT_RTG.lha game/role 49M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (EXULT) AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 938K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (DXX-Re... ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of ODAMEX OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 276K 68k Amiga port of Dune 2 (OpenDUNE) DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.5M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox Lofoten.lha mods/8voic 2.0M Lofoten 8ch Synth by HKvalhe Crockettstheme.lha mods/misc 250K 4ch Crockett's Theme Corrected RNOArchive.lha util/arc 1.7M MOS Graphical archive manager RNOArchive_AROS.lha util/arc 1.8M x86 Graphical archive manager RNOArchive_OS4.lha util/arc 2.1M OS4 Graphical archive manager TDir2Guide.lha util/cli 11K 68k Create AGuide from text dir scan dintwm.lha util/wb 26K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager (snx) [News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 07:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2021`	OS4Depot uploads until 12.06.2021 The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to OS4Depot: oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an... egalaxtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 45kb 4.1 USB driver for eGalax touchscree... itmtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 45kb 4.1 USB driver for ITM touchscreen c... wavesharetouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 44kb 4.1 USB driver for waveshare touchsc... thewidow.lha gam/adv 19Mb 4.0 Game Terror Paranormal Adventure loschinos.lha gam/chi 4Mb 4.0 This is the classic spanish game... aos-iconsupdate7.lha gra/ico 17Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ... redeth.lha net/sam 3Mb 4.0 Graphical interface to manage co... zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 11Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server. rnoarchive.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 Graphical archive manager. (snx) [News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 07:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2021`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.06.2021 The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to MorphOS-Storage: RNOArchive_1.0.lha Files/Archive Graphical archive manager TheWidow_FinalVersion.lha Games/Adventure The Widow the point and... LosChinos_3.51.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa... AnimWebConverter_4.10.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t... YT_URL_Extractor_2.2.lha Network/Web YouTube URL extractor. (snx) [News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 07:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2021` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	A-EON Technology: Updates for Warp3D Nova and Copy command As part of their Enhancer Software, A-EON Technology have updated both the graphics card driver Warp3D Nova and their own variant of the Copy command - the latter being, besides AmigaOS 4, also available for AmigaOS 3.x. The Warp3D Nova update is especially useful for owners of Radeon RX 570/580 cards, fixing a bug that caused freezes. As always, customers can download the new versions using the Updater software. Changes: Warp3D Nova 1.85 (Warp3DNova.library, W3DN_SI.library, W3DN_GCN.library) W3DN_SI/GCN: Added framebuffer lock failure detection to prevent a crash (#717) W3DN_GCN: No more freezing with RX 570/580 cards (#361) W3DN_GCN: Fixed W3DNHelloTriangle corruption with Radeon RX 570/580 cards W3DN_SI/GCN - Using an array of textures in a loop would cause graphics corruption and also a GPU lockup. FIXED W3DN_SI/GCN - Elementwise access to vec3 vertex shader inputs was broken. FIXED DDK: Added tests for the bug listed above Copy 46.7 / 54.7 Fixed bug in setting the path of the destination file if it wasn't provided. It could use the source file's path instead of the current dir. (snx) [News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 07:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2021` Artur Gadawski (Mail)	Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board Wicher 1220 for A1200 After developing the Wicher 508i accelerator board for the A500, Artur Gadawski from 7-bit has announced the version for the A1200, the Wicher 1220: Currently the board is in beta test phase and will have the following features: CPU: MC68EC020 CPU clock speed: 25MHz, 33MHz Memory: 11MB Fast Ram (16MB SDRAM) SPI-Controller Realtime clock (RTC) microSD card reader Ethernet controller A price for the Wicher 1220 has not yet been set. (dr) [News message: 12. Jun. 2021, 06:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

<- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ->