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05.Jun.2021
Reddit (Webseite)


Amiga disks on PC: Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer V2.5
Similar to ADF Drive, Robert Smith's project "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer" uses a a micro controller - an Arduino board - for enabling a common PC disk drive reading and writing Amiga disks.

In his latest video the YouTuber Neil alias 'RMC' introduces the new feature of the project: Direct access to a disk, inserted into a disk drive of a PC, from the emulator WinUAE.
All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license. (dr)

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05.Jun.2021
Retrowiki (Webseite)


Crowdfunding: Book "Demoscene The AGA years"
Following the successful crowdfunding of the first volume of the history of the demoscene, which can be still acquired, now the international crowdfunding website 'Indiegogo' has started the new campaign for the second volume, covering the years 1994 to 1996. So far almost 15.000 of 18.000 Euro has been donated. (dr)

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05.Jun.2021



A-EON beginnt mit Auslieferung des "AAA Bundle"
As user "AmiFrog" tells os4welt.de, he received his "AAA Bundle" yesterday. His photo shows the scope of delivery of the package, additionally the bundle buyers should have received a download link for the "Remix Edition" of the Amiga documentation "Viva Amiga":


The bundle was introduced as part of the "A1222 Plus Early Adopter" campaign - customers of the 115 euro bundle should have the chance to win one of the first A1222 computers sold to end customers. The last status update we know about the production of the A1222 Plus is from September 2020. (cg) (Translation: bb)

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05.Jun.2021
a1k.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 3.2: Updated Native Developer Kit NDK 3.2 R2
A Native Developer Kit is already included on the AmigaOS 3.2 CD, a version "R2" now available contains the following changes:
  • Autodoc, BumpRev, CatComp and Localize integrated in the Tools directory
  • Added missing entries to Shell and Layers Release Notes
(cg) (Translation: bb)

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03.Jun.2021
Aminet


Aminet: New Version of AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ
Today the new version 47.2 of the AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ was published on Aminet. Among other things the following points were added:
  • 1.5: The Vampire V4 is able to boot AmigaOS 3.2, but this requires a special procedure from the user. More information on the support page of the Vampire
  • 4.15: Graphical errors in the palette's settings editor and help subsystem are most likely due to the Indivision AGA MK3 scandoubler. Only a new firmware could solve this.
  • 4.16: If no drives are connected or none are detected when booting the Amiga, the process stops with a black screen. Either connect a drive or floppy drive or switch to the Early Startup Control menu by holding down both mouse buttons.
  • 12.11: When asked if the current Kickstart ROM can also be used to boot older AmigaOS versions, it is pointed out that the system partition must absolutely contain the workbench.library and the icon.library to be extracted from the 'AmigaOS 3.2 Install3.2.adf' image. Further support is not provided here.
(dr) (Translation: bb)

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03.Jun.2021
Amigans (Webseite)


Demo: THE CURE for AGA-Amigas
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua had produced a demo called 'THE CURE' some time ago, which he released at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 and won first place in the oldskool category. Now he has released an update that, among other things, fixes a supposed memory leak.

At the end of 2017, he extracted the graphics engine from one of his other demos to play around with in the time that followed. Among other things, he intended to release a game based on it, but failed: the engine would have been too tiring on the eyes and inappropriate for small or medium graphic elements.

So he concentrated on using the engine in a demo, but beyond that he pursued a higher goal: to send out a message. Amiga users can convince themselves of this in advance by watching the YouTube video on his site. But Simone recommends for the full graphical and acoustical enjoyment to play the demo on an Amiga, which should fulfill the following conditions:
  • AGA Amiga
  • 68030 @ 50 MHz
  • ~32 kB CHIP RAM
  • ~14.5 MB FAST RAM
  • ~15 MB disk space
(dr) (Translation: bb)

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02.Jun.2021



Shoot'em Up: More info about RESHOOT PROXIMA 3
Ex-"Amiga Joker"-editor Richard Löwenstein is still working intensively on his third shoot'em up. After RESHOOT and RESHOOT R, the title "RESHOOT PROXIMA 3" is currently being developed.

The developer regularly informs about the latest progress on his Patreon page. Last week, for example, he explained his approach and changes to the ocean theme of his game in a short video. For three months he tinkered with the visual design of this level because he was not satisfied with the original version, which, in his opinion, did not contain anything unique or surprising. He came up with the idea of perspective scrolling: that's what he calls a variation of scrolling that applies scrolling at different speeds to different rows of images. This creates the illusion of a camera pulling forward on a 3D structure, he says. This can greatly enhance visual depth, he says. Normally, horizontally scrolling games like "Street Fighter II" are associated with this, but examples on the Amiga would be rare. He still mentions "Lionheart", "Elfmania", "Overkill" and "RESHOOT R". For his latest game he wanted to turn the feature to vertical orientation, which he succeeded in doing after a few attempts. He asks users to tell him what they think about the sample scene and also if they know any other games with vertical scrolling, if any.

In another brief statement, Richard Löwenstein shares that his "pixel artist" Kevin Saunders and he have completed the themes and color scheme for all five sections of the game. Likewise, his the code and implementation of all visual effects for the levels ready. (dr) (Translation: bb)

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