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25.Jul.2021

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2021.5.2
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.

Recently version 2021.5.2 has been released providing bug fixes as well as the new feature translucency which is demonstrated by an included demo:

For a first overview about the options and possibilites of the engine, Hogan recommends this YouTube video. How to import existing Backbone projects and create animation loops and slopes are also demonstrated by vidoes.

The Scorpion Engine is an ongoing work-in-progress version of the Scorpion Editor for Windows. According to the author a "documentation is almost certainly likely to come when the engine is stable, but the engine is constantly under development. Documents and tutorials would quickly go out of date, all of my time on the project goes into much needed bug fixes and features." Nevertheless many projects and games have been announced or released during the last time. The author has confirmed to us that his Game Construction Kit is not only aimed at professional developers, on the contrary:

"It's really designed for anyone who wants to make an Amiga game. I am a professional game developer so I've designed Scorpion to be fast and flexible enough to make the games I want to make. But at the same time, I've also tried to make it as straight forward as possible for non-developers. Mixel, for example, is making the largest and most complex Scorpion game to date entirely by himself with no background in programming: Creeping Me Out: Hex Night."

Taking up the question of one of our readers, if ports to any other platforms are planned he replied:
"A port for AmigaOS4 is not planned yet. I have started work towards porting Scorpion to other platforms, but I can't guarantee AmigaOS4 compatibility at this point." (dr)

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25.Jul.2021

Aminet uploads until 24.07.2021
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to Aminet:

HWP_RapaGUI.lha          dev/hwood  7.2M  MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   2.1M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
dsp3210.lha              driver/oth 301K  68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
MCE.lha                  game/edit  3.2M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  3.5M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  3.7M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.3M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.8M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.2M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Ewy.lha                  mods/8voic 1.2M      EWY 16bit 5ch Amiga Piano Ballad
ASE2019_1.50.lha         text/edit  133K  68k Text editor
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha    text/edit  12M   x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha  text/edit  14M   OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha  text/edit  13M   MOS The ubiquitous text editor
ToolsMenu.lha            util/cdity 73K   68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
Alltests.zip             util/misc  14K   68k Automated Amiga Test Program
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  621K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  735K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  786K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
TestProgram.zip          util/misc  27K   68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys   121K  x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys   155K  MOS Commodore Installer replacement

(snx)

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25.Jul.2021

OS4Depot uploads until 24.07.2021
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to OS4Depot:

picasm.lha               dev/cro 142kb 4.0 PIC16F84 Assembler for the Amiga
crash.lha                dev/uti 3kb   4.0 C source included
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
iconverter.lha           gra/ico 99kb  4.0 Convert WB 1.x/MagicWB icons to ...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 786kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
showfiles.lha            uti/she 43kb  4.1 sorted & text-formatted file...

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25.Jul.2021

AROS Archives uploads until 24.07.2021
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to AROS Archives:

vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha        dev/edi 12Mb  Vim
iconverter.i386-aros.lha     gra/con 98kb  Convert WB 1.x/MagicWB icons to ...
installerlg.i386-aros.lha    uti/wor 121kb Commodore Installer replacement

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25.Jul.2021

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.07.2021
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:

HWP_RapaGUI_2.0.lha       Development/Hollywood/... A cross-platform GUI to...
Iris_0.125.lha            Email                     New email client suppor...
MCE_13.0.lha              Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
InstallerLG_1.0.0b2.lha   System/Shell              Commodore Installer rep...
Vim_8.2.2993.lha          Text/Edit                 A highly configurable t...

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25.Jul.2021

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.07.2021
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 24.07.2021:

2021-07-18 new: Worthy (Pixelglass) done by JOTD (Info)
2021-07-18 new: Scuba Diver (Surreal) done by JOTD (Info)
2021-07-18 improved: First Samurai (Vivid Image) uses less chip memory, 3-button support added (Info)
2021-07-16 fixed: Incredible Shrinking Sphere (Electric Dreams) interrupt fixed (access to dmacon removed), gaame copyright info corrected into the slave (Info)

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24.Jul.2021
Aminet

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.13
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.

Changes of version 0.8.13:

Number of Animations increased from 64 to 128. When updating project to this version there is no going back.
When saving a project, if using the same previous name a backup of the project file is created.
FIX: In tile properties of tileset 1 being used in all tilesets while in runtime.
FIX: In tile properties screen solid tiles being displayed in incorrect positions.
FIX: In ground collisions where the Objects are bigger than tile size.
FIX: Fixed glitch happening when using Camera Shake in large maps.

(dr)

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24.Jul.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite) Developer tool: vasm 1.8l
Earlier this week Frank Wille released an update of the modular assembler vasm. A list of changes in version 1.8l can be found at the title link. (snx)

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23.Jul.2021
MorphZone (website) MorphOS 3.15: Bugfix for RAM handler
RAM handler of MorphOS 3.15 comprises a bug lasting for some years already that may result in the RAM: root directory to appear to contain many duplicate entries. With help by user 'AngryTom', MorphOS team member Harry 'Piru' Sintonen could fix this bug and release a patch for it now. To install it, extract the archive and drag & drop "ramrootfix" to SYS:WBStartup.

Download: ramrootfix.lha (21 KB) (snx)

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23.Jul.2021
MorphZone (forum) MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.125
Today MorphOS team member Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released an update for his e-mail client Iris. Changes in version 0.125 include improvements of spellchecking, context menus and HTML markup code of e-mails.

For feedback to the author the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)

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23.Jul.2021
Amigans

Developer package: DevPack 1.1
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The first version was released at the end of October 2020. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does not have any dependencies on the commercial Workbench environment and can be installed on harddrive by extracting the lzx archive. Diverse compilers, text editors and other tools are included as listed in the Readme.

Changes of version 1.1:

Released as an LZX archive as well as a dynamic (auto-expandable up to 3.9GB) SFS hardfile (HDF) for WinUAE and Amiberry
ADDED: AmiLua 0.2 by Lua team, Matthias Rustler, http://aminet.net/package/dev/lang/amilua_src
ADDED: AmiPython 2.3.3 by Tim Ocock, conversion and Amiga specific code by Irmen de Jong, http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/python/
ADDED: AMOS Pro Compiler by François Lionet, including PDF manual
ADDED: ASM-One 1.48 & 1.49-RC2 by Boushh of TFA, https://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/680x0:AsmOne
ADDED: Blitz Basic Demos by Erik Hogan, https://github.com/earok/BlitzBasicDemos
UPDATED: FreePascal 3.2.2 by ALB42, https://blog.alb42.de/fpc-amigaaros-m68k/
UPDATED: REDPILL 0.8.12 by Zener - Game Creator with AGA support, http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/REDPILLGameCreator

(dr)

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