21.Jul.2020
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WarpOS port of Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (update)
Raven Software's Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is a 3D action game released in 2002. Its source code was released in 2013. The WarpOS port requires the level files of the commercial release. The developer warns against several bugs which still have not been fixed.
Update: (22.07.20, 21:30, cg)
In the German comment area a reader has pointed out that the game is not suitable for the original accelerator boards produced by Phase 5 due to the hardware requirements - it might be meant for G3/G4 based PCI cards in a Mediator-PCI busboard which are integrated by the sonnet.library into the system.
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21.Jul.2020
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Self-made project: Connecting USB keyboards, mice and joysticks with USB2Amiga
USB2Amiga uses an Arduino Pro Mini and an USB Host Shield as well as a Level-Shifter (3,3V to 5V) in order to provide an adapter for connecting USB devices to any Amigas. Main target platform is the CDTV: Mice and keyboards are working yet, joysticks still have not been tested.
For any additional device (mouse, joystick, keyboard ) another USB2Amiga adapter is required. Implementing a Hub is not planned for this would complicate the code of Arduino. Step by step all Amiga models will be supported, only connecting external keyboards to an A600 or A1200 will not be possible due to the different keyboard protocols of these computers.
USB2Amiga will be released under the GPL, the Git archive of the archive will be mirrored also on Github.
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20.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Richard Löwenstein: AMIGA JOKER - 30 very personal years
As a delayed birthday present Richard Löwenstein, editor of the computer magazine "Amiga Joker" from 1991 till 1996, has written some personal notes under the title link on occasion of the 30. anniversary of the discontinued magazine.
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20.Jul.2020
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.28 released
Thomas Wenzel wrote: After extensive testing, the new version of AmigaAMP now is ready for an official release. Mainly bugs have been fixed.
In the 68k version now Bebbos GCC 6.5 is used which now again produces correct Non-FPU-Code. Therefore AmigaAMP again works on an unexpanded 68020. The support for the sndfile.library was implemented again, so classic sound files (AIFF, WAV, 8SVX) can be played. As usual first of all the new version is available on the homepage of AmigaAMP, later also on Aminet.
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19.Jul.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.07.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 18th, 2020:
wla_dx_v9.11.lha dev/cross 4.7M 68k 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
fpc-3.2.0a-arm-aros.lha dev/lang 53M FreePascal for arm AROS ABIv0
fpc-3.2.0a-i386-aros.lha dev/lang 53M x86 FreePascal for i386 AROS ABIv0
fpc-3.2.0a-m68k-amiga... dev/lang 37M 68k FreePascal for AmigaOS 3.x
fpc-3.2.0a-ppc-amiga.lha dev/lang 54M OS4 FreePascal for AmigaOS 4.x
fpc-3.2.0a-ppc-morpho... dev/lang 54M MOS FreePascal for MorphOS
redpillgamecreator.lha dev/misc 1.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 7K 2020 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 2.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ChickenCoop.lha game/jump 372K 68k Action-platformer. You play a...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 725K 68k Amiga AGA port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 725K 68k Amiga RTG port of Duke Nukem 3D
Eagleplayer.lha mus/play 2.9M 68k V2.06, comprehensive sound re...
Picasso96FixV2.lha util/boot 2K 68k Picasso96 fix for high resolu...
tz8.lha util/time 3.8M 68k Timezone Database & Library
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19.Jul.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.07.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 18th, 2020:
songplayer.lha aud/pla 468kb 4.0 Cool and powerful audio player
fpc.lha dev/lan 54Mb 4.0 Free Pascal for AmigaOS4
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19.Jul.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 18.07.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until July 18th, 2020:
AmiBlitz3_3.7.4.zip Amiblitz is the furtherdevelop of BlitzBasic 2 f...
AtomicBomberman_2.10.lha A fan rewrite of the Win95 game *** Atomic Bombe...
FPC_3.2.0a.lha Free Pascal Compiler
GNU_Robbo_0.66.lha GNU_Robbo_0.66.lha
InstallerLG_0.1.0a49.lha Commodore Installer replacement.
PacMan_0.9.4.lha Pacman, clone of the original pacman. Port by Be...
Ri-li_2.0.lha A snake game
SacrificioPagano_1.65.lha A special app to people that bealive in the magi...
StarFighter_2.3.lha Starfighter is a space shoot 'em up game origina...
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19.Jul.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.07.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until July 18th, 2020:
- 2020-07-17 improved: Navy Seals (Ocean) trainer fixed and improved (Info)
- 2020-07-15 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) password protection removed (Info)
- 2020-07-13 improved: Road Kill (Vision) fixed sound in AGA release (Info)
- 2020-07-13 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) fixed joystick controls (Info)
- 2020-07-13 improved: Exile (Audiogenic) reduced chipmem usage, fixed soundtracker replay (Info)
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19.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Gauntlet III - The Final Quest (Intro Theme)
- Nicky Boom - World 1
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18.Jul.2020
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AmigaOS 4: Beta testers for multi-touchscreen driver wanted
Alfredo Amendolagine has written an update of his USB touchscreen driver which now also supports multi-touch. A video shows how the driver can be used. The author also promises to support additional screens if sufficient documentation is available. Users who want to test the driver are invited to contact Amendolagine.
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18.Jul.2020
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Amiga floppy reader: ADF-Copy 1.104 supporting Flux-Level
Dominik Tonn wrote: "ADF-Copy is a small hardware i developed which uses a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller to read and write non copy protected Amiga disks with an out of the box PC 3.5" Floppy drive connected to the microcontroller which can be build with a few jumper wires on a breadboard with no additional component. The low level stuff is handled in the microcontroller which is controlled by a Java application."
Similar to Greaseweazle or Kryoflux, the latest versionen of the software now also can read disks at flux level and therefore also can read copy-protected disks.
According to the author "writing is not yet implemented". In flux format a track is bigger than the RAM of the micro controller. Therefore the data have to be transferred "on-the-fly". It is supposed to be saved saves in SuperCardPro Format.
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18.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version for download: Realm of Maiyessae
The website of Amiga Future offers the full version of the game "Realm of Maiyessae" (video) written with the shoot'em up construction kit("SEUCK") for free download.
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17.Jul.2020
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Other books written by Adam Zalepa in English translation
Adam Zalepa writes books on Amiga topics and with a little delay he also offers them in an English-language translation. Since out last news item, some new books have been published in English - available either as printed version including a pdf-file or just the PDF for a reduced price:
- Wordworth 7 - user`s manual
- Deluxe Paint - user`s manual
- MorphOS - Volume Two
- AMIGA OS 3.1 Volume Two
- AMIGA OS 3.1 Volume Three
- AMIGA E Programming base
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17.Jul.2020
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Media player: EaglePlayer 2.06
EaglePlayer is a media player for the Amiga playing a lot of audio formats (MP3, AIFF, MOD...). The program has been available for many years and still is being updated. Version 2.06 provides many minor improvements and a new "Skin" for the user-interface of the program. Besides diverse bugs have been fixed:
- some more 68000 related fixes (some plugins are still 68020+)
- 14 Bit Amplifier: significant audio quality improvements
- automatic limitation to 28 kHz sampling rate on OCS and when
non doublescan display modes are detected
- way better defaults for the 14 bit table for uncalibrated systems
(previous default was closer to 13.5 Bit - like AHI)
- fixed 14 bit table for calibrated setups: the C. Buchner
quantization approach was wrong, resulting in unnecessary artifacts
- fixed transition delay from one song to another
- added optional noise shaping for 16-14 bit conversion (060 or faster)
- adjusted default volume for filtered mixing modes
- support for stereo 14 bit calibration
- Amiga1200 autodetection with appropriate adjustment for the "highboost"
equalization filter (A600 and A1200 have a different audio filter
compared to the other Amiga models)
FFT Analyzer
- whole new set of new display modes in High and True color P96 RTG
(using AMMX acceleration, if detected/available )
internal sine/cosine table instead of math libs due to
broken mathtrans/mathffp libraries
MPEG Audio (i.e. .mp2/.mp3)
- automatically select freqdiv=2 in 8 Bit output mode
(i.e. when neither of 14 Bit/Pamela/AHI/Toccata Amplifier are active)
preliminary UTF-16 support for Moduleinfo and ID3TagV2
Moduleinfo
Playerloader
- 68000 fixes and sanity checks for some tests to avoid
enforcer hits (e.g. tronic)
renamed some eagleplayers for more resilience against
broken unarchiver tools (replacing spaces with underscores in
filenames)
better check for MP3 files with certain ID3v2 header versions
AIFF file detection improvements (AIFC)
Patternscroll
- P96 RTG support: colorful and faster scrolling, color bars in 16/24 bit
Protracker
- fixes for some tightly looping modules in cases where "song end"
detection is disabled (thanks to Gerben van K. for the report)
fix for some broken Protracker modules which work with VBlank timing
only
AIFF
- ADPCM support added (standard IMA4, Tavenard's ADP4)
Manager
Pamela Amplifier
- 16 Bit audio output plugin for Vampire V4
QuillUI
- truecolor user interface for big screens (>800x600) as homage to
a certain movie series
TFMX_Pro player by Don Adan included
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17.Jul.2020
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.17
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.17:
- The frame control system has been redone, now it is faster and smoother.
- In Audio screen, after playing a sound the duration in seconds of the sound is displayed.
- FIX: After deleting an object in the level, there was a freeze.
- FIX: games using sound effect were suffering slowdowns.
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16.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FreePascal 3.2.0a for all Amiga systems
Despite pronouncements to the contrary, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released another update of his Amiga port of the programming language FreePascal.
Version 3.2.0a is based on Károly 'chainq' Balogh's hints which made available the versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (i386, ARM) on the official download site as planned.
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16.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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The 100% useless AROS distribution version 0.2
By releasing version 0.2 according to the author Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow his AROS distribution "it's only 99% useless". His version is based on AROS64 before SMP was added.
The author wrote: "I added some more programs, (not only my own) the FP-IDE does work, but sadly the compilation still crash, so you have to use the shell to compile. I even got the network to work and MUIMapparium shows the map nicely and search also works".
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16.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Hardware preview: "mouSTer" - USB mice and joypads for vintage computers
The Polish shop retrohax.net has announced an adapter called "mouSTer" which can connect any USB mice or joypads to vintage computers. Among others the following features are offered:
- it works with every mouse and with every Game USB pad
- PS4 pad support - USB
- config via USB flash drive - INI file + default config
- config transfer via USB flash drive
- firmware upgrade via USB flash drive (takes 3 seconds, of which 2 seconds is the time the bootloader needs to recognize the flash drive)
- tested with flash drives from 32MB to 32GB
- mouse emulation mode defaults - Amiga, Atari ST, joystick/gamepad
First of all a minor batch of the adapters will be produced for test purposes. Besides, the adapter is supposed to be work with other vintage computer systems as well. Retrohax has not announced any date for availability.
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16.Jul.2020
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Competition: Amiga Art Contest 2020
The "Amiga Art Contest 2020" (video) is organized by the Youtuber 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In this second issue you can participate in the categories "original hand drawn artwork", "creative photo editing", "3d rendering/raytracing" and "original Amiga music". All artwork of the previous year can be seen in a gallery.
All artwork and music must be created on an Amiga in one way or another. Deadline is October 11. The winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast".
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15.Jul.2020
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C-A Acquisition Corp. renamed to Amiga Corporation
In 2019 Mike Battilana (Cloanto) founded the C-A Acquisition Corp. and transferred the trademarks, copyrights and Internet domains he had acquired from Amiga, Inc. to this company. So far, amiga.com didn't show anything worth mentioning, but now several Amiga-related logos and a note that these brands are registered trademarks of "Amiga Corporation" have been added to the site.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana confirms that "C-A Acquisition Corp." was renamed to "Amiga Corporation" but that it would remain discreet ("low profile will continue") until the [legal] issues are sorted out. He says the company is not completely inactive though, amongst other things it has been placing full-page advertisements in Amiga Future for more than a year.
Battilana pointed out to a Twitter thread which can be used for directly asking him questions about Amiga Corporation or his plans for the Amiga.
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15.Jul.2020
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Changes in Hyperion's Management
Last summer, distribution of Hyperion's shares drastically changed when the
company issued a capital
increase: New shares were issued to pay debts of nearly 400000 Euros owed
to Ben Hermans - allegedly for the latter's work as the company lawyer.
As a result of this, the other shareholders - in additon to Timothy de
Groote, who is mentioned in public documentation, Trevor Dickinson, Costel
Mincea and the Frieden Brothers are said to own shares - now
collectively own less then three percent of the company.
Shortly after that, Costel Mincea handed
over (German) his AmigaOS 4 centric forum
os4welt.de to a third party and resigned from his post as a director
("besturder") of Hyperion. The latter was not communicated publicly by either
Mincea or Hyperion at the time, but with quite a bit of a delay the change in
management is now recorded in Belgium's official company register (KBO,
Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen): Only Timothy de Groote is listed
as a "Besturder" for Hyperion now, the request
to have Costel Mincea removed as a director (PDF, Dutch) is available as well.
de Groote himself had increased his number of shares during the 2019 capital
increase - albeit only by a very tiny amount, compared to Hermans' mass
of additional shares. Now the author of the
Amiga documents report claims
on Twitter that Ben Hermans sued de Groote last November, a claim that is
confirmed to amiga-news.de by a second source.
The results of this legal battle are currently unknown. There are unconfirmed
rumours that Timothy de Groote, who was still representing Hyperion at the
Amiga 34 last October, resigned from his post as a director in the
meantime and is only listed in that position until a replacement is found. So far
we were unable to either verify or dispel these rumours.
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15.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Asteroids clone for Vampire: Preview videos for 'Jake and Peppy'
"Jake and Peppy" is a clone of the classic game Asteroids and Super Stardust which is written for the Vampire architecture and therefore requires its Fast-RAM access as well as the extended command set AMMX. On Youtube some preview videos are available which shows the engine.
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14.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 120 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 120 (May/June 2016) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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13.Jul.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: "Fred's Journey" now also available as a Boxed Edition
Press release: APC&TCP is proud to release the new Amiga game Fred's Journey in a physical version for collectors. A digital copy is provided free of charge. After Trap Runner, Fred's Journey is Retroguru's second Amiga title released on APC&TCP.
About Fred's Journey:
Fred fondly remembers his past journeys on the Commodore 64. Deciding to relive his adventures he heads out again!
Features:
- Runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga, with 1MB RAM from Kickstart 1.2 onwards
- Written in 100% 68k Assembler
- 50fps, soft parallax scrolling, more than 50 colours
- Oldschool pixels
- 20 levels
- 7 chiptunes
- Hidden cheats
- Highscore
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12.Jul.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 11th, 2020:
Amix530.lha comm/amiex 998K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 8K 2020 Carset for F1GP
AmiQuake_AGA.lha game/shoot 231K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AmiQuake_RTG.lha game/shoot 231K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AmiQuake2_AGA.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
AmiQuake2_RTG.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
YvesGrolet-sources.zip game/shoot 20M sourcecode for Psygnosis' Ago...
VideoEasel.lha gfx/misc 1.8M 68k THE flexible Cellular Automaton
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 2.0M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
GrabPrefsPointer13.lha util/cli 17K 68k Extracts WB1.3 Pointer images...
MMULib.lha util/libs 723K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 768K 68k the final CON: solution. ^Z, ...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 113K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 145K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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12.Jul.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until July 11th, 2020:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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12.Jul.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until July 11th, 2020:
InvidiousPlayer_1_1.lha A little script to play videos from https://www....
MCC_BetterString_11.34... BetterString custom class for MUI by BetterStrin...
MCC_NList_0.126.lha NList custom classes for MUI by NList Open Sourc...
MCC_TextEditor_15.54.lha TextEditor custom class for MUI by TextEditor.mc...
MCC_TheBar_26.20.lha Next Generation Toolbar MUI Custom Class by Alfo...
OpenSupaplex.lha OpenSupaplex - reimplementation of Supaplex (Clo...
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12.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Stormlord (Ingame Music)
- Turrican II (The Final Fight)
- Elvira - Garden Level (Metal Tribute)
- Carrier Command (2020 Edit)
- Christmas at the Mall
- Christmas Heartland
- Speedweeder
- Xmas Carol In The Nude
- Guitar Slinger Plus
- Apprentice Title (Dream Dancer)
- Cyberpunks World 1
- Occ-San-Geen
- Turrican 2 - The Great Bath (Piano Live)
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12.Jul.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaKit: 8MB memory expansion for the Amiga 1200, version 1.5
The "8MB Fast RAM Memory Expansion (FPU Upgradable)" for the Amiga 1200 provided by AmigaKit was reworked. By version 1.5 the second production run was started featuring a reduced size of the card.
Functions:
- 8 MB 32-bit Fast RAM to boost total system memory to 10 MB
- Memory auto configures with no drivers required
- Second clockport header to give computer more expandability
- Floating Point Unit socket accepting optional 68882 PLCC FPU up to 40 MHz
- Memory can be configured to 4 MB, 5.5 MB or 8 MB Fast RAM using on-board jumpers
- PCMCIA compatible in 4 MB or 5.5 MB mode
(5.5 MB PCMCIA compatiblity mode requires downloadable software patch added to startup-sequence)
- Header for optional Real Time Clock module: available installed at special price
- New version 1.5 design (July 2020)
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11.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.16e
Frank Wille has updated his portable linker vlink featuring the following changes:
- Changing the address within an output section in a linker script didn't work correctly when the destination memory region (load-address) differs from the relocation memory region (execution-address).
- Data commands in linker scripts didn't work when there was nothing else in the output section.
- Fixed a segfault when a linker script moves the address counter backwards inside an output section.
- Fixed uninitialized pointer when loading input files via a linker-script INPUT command.
- New linker-script command: RESERVE(n) to reserve n bytes of memory and fill it with the current FILL value.
- FILL-pattern should always be written in big-endian.
- Replaced FILL command by FILL8 and FILL16.
- New option -mall to merge everything into a single output section.
- Weak symbols must only be resolved in executables.
- (rawbin) Motorola S-Records: Fixed start address in S8 and S9 trailer.
- (vobj) Fixed reference to a defined weak symbol in an object.
- (elf) Fixed reference to a defined weak symbol in an object.
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09.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: Bubble Story
"New Bubble Story" (video) is a clone of the Accolade classic Bubble Ghost. The game is supposed to be run on an A500 and among others offers two different worlds each consisting of 16 levels. The game is to be released in 2021.
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08.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ignition 1.08
Achim Pankalla has added further features to the AmigaOS 4 version of Axel Dörflers' open source spreadsheet sofware "ignition".
Changes:
- Reworked gtdrag.library
- ignition can be started multiple times now
- Error corrections in many settings dialogs
- Reworked font and font attribute handling
- Fixed bug in cell handling
- Visual feedback for the toolbar buttons
- Consistent keyboard control, and shortcuts
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07.Jul.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Designer 5.0 manual online available
Press release: Airsoft Softwair has just released the manual for the brand-new Hollywood Designer 5.0. Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. After 8 years of development, version 5.0 was released a few weeks ago.
The full manual of Hollywood Designer 5.0 is now available for everybody to read on the official Hollywood portal in both HTML and PDF versions. Both documents contain lots of screenshots to illustrate the use of Hollywood Designer 5.0 better. It also contains a detailed changelog of what has changed between Designer 4.0 (2012) and Designer 5.0 (2020).
Finally, the full manual of Hollywood Designer 5.0 is also available in German now thanks to the incredible translation efforts by Dominic Widmer and Helmut Haake. Besides HTML and PDF versions there is also a zip archive you can download which contains the manual as an AmigaGuide document that can be used as a drop-in replacement so that Hollywood Designer's live help system is in German too. The German version is available in the German section of the official Hollywood portal.
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07.Jul.2020
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Assembler source codes for Psygnosis' shooter 'Agony' released
According to the developer Yves Grolet on Facebook, with the help of a third party he has transferred the complete content of his last Amiga harddrive to a PC and has made available all source codes of projects founded there for non-commercial use. Among others the archive includes the source codes of the shooter Agony released in 1992 by Psygnosis as well as some minor projects and prototypes developed by Grolet.
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07.Jul.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.3.0
AmiExpress 5 written by Darren Coles is a rewrite in Amiga E of the original mailbox program developed by Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies. Version 5.3.0 offers an internal implementation of the Zmodem protocol, HTTP transfers and QWK and FTN support.
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[News message: 07. Jul. 2020, 00:11] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jul.2020
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Individual Computers: New power supply units can be preordered
From now on it is possible to preorder new power supply units from Individual Computers for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200. The delivery is planned for 10th August. The offered solution consists of a common laptop power supply unit as well as a second unit put between the power supply unit and the computer which is in a C64 module case featuring additional Amiga specific elektronics and the power switch.
According to the developer the "CA-PSU", available for 75 Euro, "is the first power supply on the market that fully complies with the original Commodore specifications, introducing cable drop compensation for best regulation that even settles the voltage drop in the input filter of the target computers. This means that the voltage on the main 5V rail will never deviate more then 0.9%, measured inside the computer - no matter if the computer is in vanilla configuration or heavily expanded. Conventional power supplies will either supply too-high voltage to a vanilla machine, or too-low voltage to an expanded machine, causing malfunction or even defects."
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06.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable demo: Shoot'em Up 'Ftype'
'Ftype' written in AmiBlitz 3 (video) is a classic, vertically scrolling shooter including a bonus system. The game is still at a relatively early stage of development which the author describes as "stress-test". Destination platform in an non-expanded A1200. The game is supposed to be run also on an A500 provided a compatibility problem with the Amiblitz compiler will be fixed.
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06.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.4.0
Version 4.4.0 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released.
New features/improvements:
- 68000 address and bus error (bus errors are not used in Amiga) stack frames are now 100% accurate, including all undefined behavior like partially updated flags or registers. Last missing part that wasn’t fully accurate previously.
- 68010 emulation is now cycle-accurate. Including loop mode.
- 68030 MMU emulation simplified and optimized.
- CPU tester detected rare CPU/FPU bugs fixed.
- Multiple CPU tester detected undocumented CPU and FPU (all models) behavior emulated, mainly edge cases that almost never happen normally. More information in detailed changelogs.
- Debugger assembler and disassembler updates and fixes.
- 1x-8x CPU multipliers are now also supported in prefetch (more compatible) CPU mode.
- Implemented Paula serial port emulation receive break condition detection support.
- “diskchange rdh0:” can be now used to eject drag&drop mounted directory/file/archive harddrive.
- On screen led floppy leds have brighter border if inserted disk is write protected.
- If 2 light pens/guns enabled and if gun 2 moves, enable only gun 2 crosshair. Previously gun 1 move enabled both crosshairs.
- “Default” filter mode now enables aspect ratio correction and scales to window/screen size only when display size is too large or too small.
- Ignore ncap/winpcap dll version because recent ncap versions have smaller version number than old winpcap versions.
- GUI Reset button now copies current full GUI config to active config, including options that normally can’t be changed on the fly.
- FPU default is back to 64-bit. Very few programs require 80-bit accuracy, it wasn’t worth the speed loss.
- Black borders are not anymore enabled in autoscale center mode.
- Few custom chipset and CIA emulation updates.
- Added easy to use and transparent printf()-like debug logging method for developers.
Fixed bugs:
- If disk read DMA was started without any selected drive(s), it was always emulated in turbo mode.
- Screen capture to clipboard created blank image if 256 color or less RTG mode and capture before filtering was set.
- When ejecting directory filesystem that points to plain file or archive, not all host file handles were closed properly.
- Switching GUI panels left stale entry in internal array, possibly causing random crash after switching panels many times.
- Config file (*.uae) icon is now correct again.
4.3.0 bugs fixed:
- Some RTG to RTG mode resolution switches didn’t resize windowed mode correctly.
- CD32 pad red button didn’t always work as a normal fire button, depending on how it was configured.
- CD32 ROM delay loop patch was skipped. Broke CD32 CD if CPU speed was too fast.
New emulated hardware:
- Hardital Dotto (clone of ICD AdIDE)
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05.Jul.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.07.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 4th, 2020:
MUIbase-4.2.lha biz/dbase 5.7M MOS Programmable relational datab...
MCC_BetterString-11.3... dev/mui 316K MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.126.lha dev/mui 2.0M MOS NList custom classes for MUI
MCC_TextEditor-15.54.lha dev/mui 870K MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
MCC_TheBar-26.20.lha dev/mui 1.6M MOS Next Generation Toolbar MUI C...
FloppyFile.lha disk/misc 8K 68k Floppy imager with raw disk s...
Atheros5000sp.lha driver/net 7K atheros5000.device 1.6 spanis...
Maluva.lha game/edit 228K MOS DAAD extension
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
PAWS2DAAD.lha game/edit 172K MOS PAWS/Quill database extractor
Chimaera.lha game/text 128K OS4 rethinking the Colossal Cave ...
AmiLines_3.00_rus.lha game/think 23K Russian catalog file for AmiL...
Soliton_RU.lha game/think 321K Russian translation for Solit...
amipc-engine.lha misc/emu 44K 68k PC-Engine/TurboGrafx Emulator
Armakuni.lha mods/8voic 491K Armakuni 7ch NR Party Mix
NR2020.lha mods/8voic 404K 8ch Ninja Remix 2020 Theme
NRWasted2020.lha mods/8voic 281K 5ch Wasted Ninja 2020 by HKvalhe
MooAMPlifier16.lha mus/misc 41K MooAMPlifier 16colored skin 1.6
Morpheus_1.77.lha text/dtp 3.1M MOS Word processor
Rival-V1.3a-MOS.lha util/dir 431K MOS Recursively compare/merge two...
vtx_dt.lha util/dtype 65K OS4 viewdata/videotex/teletext fr...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.3M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 112K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 145K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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05.Jul.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.07.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 4th, 2020:
vtx_dt.lha dat/ima 65kb 4.0 Dtype for CEPT-3/videotex/telete...
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
sdl2.lha lib/mis 10Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 316kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 870kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.07.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until July 4th, 2020:
AmiArcadia_26.5.lha A Signetics-based machines emulator.
AtomicBomberman_2.10.lha A fan rewrite of the Win95 game *** Atomic Bombe...
CosmoEngine.lha A new game engine for playing Cosmo's Cosmic Adv...
InstallerLG_0.1.0a48.lha Commodore Installer replacement.
InvidiousPlayer.lha InvidiousPlayer.lha
Libfreetype_2.10.2.lha MorphOS port of LibFreetype 2.10.2 by BeWorld.
libmpg123_1.26.1.lha mpg123 with libmpg123 1.26.1 - Fast console MPEG...
Maluva_0.9.lha DAAD extension
MCE_11.9.lha Multi-game Character Editor by James Jacobs.
Morpheus_1.77.lha Word processor with Unicode support
MUIbase_4.2.lha Programmable relational database w/ GUI by Steff...
PAWS2DAAD_2.2.lha PAWS/Quill database extractor
Rival_1.3a.lha Recursivelly compare and merge contents for two ...
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05.Jul.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.07.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until July 4th, 2020:
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05.Jul.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaKit: 4MB Fast Memory Expansion for Amiga 600
Probably based on this public projects the British retailer AmigaKit has 4MB Fast Memory expansion for the Amiga 600 produced. The expansion is compatible to the 1-MB chip RAM expansion and to the PCMCIA adapter.
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04.Jul.2020
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Individual Computers: Indivision AGA Mk3 can be pre-ordered
From now on you can pre-order the third generation of the scandoubler/flickerfixer "Indivision AGA" from Individual Computers. The currently offered version is meant for A1200 and A4000T - this one requires a minor modifications to the A4000T mainboard by the user - computers.
This third generation now "supports synchronisation of the output signal with the computer's V-Sync signal" which "allows sliky-smooth animations and perfect scrolling without tearing". This requires a monitor supporting a refresh rate of 50 Hz.
The developers also wrote: "Another improvement over the predecessor models is automatic monitor recognition: The configuration tool can detect what size of monitor is connected and make suggestions for ideal output frequencies that are within the specifications of the monitor. This reduces the "first setup" to a matter of minutes, maybe even seconds if you're using one of the presets for popular display panel sizes that we provide.
Indivision AGA Mk3 is plugged over the Lisa chip. For the first time, a second connection is required to take advantage of all features of the product: An additional adapter is clipped on top of a CIA chip to route keyboard signals to the flicker fixer. This gives way for a huge practical improvement over previous versions of the flicker fixer: You can now make small adjustments to the output picture format, including positioning and re-sizing of the output picture without the need to load the configuration tool. While Indivision predecessors required the user to exit a game, load the config tool, make adjustments and then re-boot into the game, you can now open a simple menu using a hot-key combination, make adjustments with the keyboard or mouse and then exit this live configuration menu - all this without leaving the game or demo that's currently running."
The new Indivision AGA is suppoed to be delivered from 10th August.
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03.Jul.2020
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode 91: David Pleasance talked about his new book
In the 91th issue of the Scene World podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller have interviewed David Pleasance (Commodore UK) talking about his time at Commodore and his new book From Vultures to Vampires.
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03.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: Single screen platform game "Chicken Chaser"
"Chicken Chaser" is a single screen platform game being created with the construktion kit RedPill. A new video on Youtube shows the latest stage of development.
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02.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.8.4
Dirk Hoffmann's vAmiga is supposed to become a new, user-friendly Amiga emulator for Mac-OS computers (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday version 0.9.8.4 was released which fixes an audio bug introduced in version 0.9.8.1 (list of changes).
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02.Jul.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 145
The English and German issue 145 (July/August 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes reviews of "The Queens Footsteps" and "Distant Suns" as well as a special about the Action Replay Amiga 500. (snx)
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01.Jul.2020
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Company history: Commodore's involvement in a financial scandal in 1965
Many users know that Jack Tramiel's company Commodore was experiencing financial difficulties back in the 60s and could only continue existing by the help of Irving Gould. That those financial difficulties are related to a financial scandal some users might know as well. But you cannot find detailed information in the Internet or in books.
The brief summary of this story published by Brian Bagnall in his first part of Commodore's history encouraged the American "Zube" to look for more details. For a limited time he could read the 3000 page final report of the investigative commission which examined the crash of the Canadian financial
institution Atlantic Acceptance Corporation - this finance company which in the middle of the sixties did hold many shares of the "Commodore Business Machines".
In the text which "Zube" already published in 2007 he painted a very gloomy picture of the persons involved. But he explicitly states that he did not had sufficient time for reading the whole documents and that he is not an expert.
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01.Jul.2020
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- May/June 2020 news
- News: The Annuaire Amiga is 20 years old!
- Old articles from Joystick 4 to 6:
- News: Amiga 3000, at last!
- Interview with David Ward
- Review: Crack Down, Review: Rotox
- Interview with Laurant Weill
- Review: 688 Attack Sub
- Review: Budokan
- Point of view: Hubert Auriol tests racing games on Amiga
- Interview with Nick Wilson and Matthew Stibbe
- Review: Aquanaut
- Review: Lords Of War
- Review: Player Manager
- ...
- Interview with Leonard Tramiel (Atari)
- Interview with Bruno Peloille (MorphOS developer)
- Review: MUIMapparium 0.8
- Review: Heroes Of Might And Magic 2
- Review: Strife
- Hardware: MIST 1.4 (update)
- Point of view: Why did Commodore launch the Amiga 600?
- Point of view: The problems that caused the bankruptcy of ICD
- The Amiga history of Peter Molyneux
- Classic Reflections - What happened to MicroniK?
- Tutorial: Utilization of Open Firmware
- DIY: Replacing the clock battery of an Amiga 2000
- Special quiz about MacroSystem.
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30.Jun.2020
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop game running on an A500 with a screen rate of 50 Hz. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled. For sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats are used (mod, 8svx, anim5).
For some days an update is available which additional to the full example project Amigo the Fox includes diverse changes and improvements:
- Mid-air platformer control is drastically improved, though there's still some refinements to be done
- Ability to set collision handling per direction. It's now possible to define that an enemy will bounce off walls but won't bounce when hitting the floor from height, for example
- Ability to configure a platformer actor so it won't walk off it's platform (this is done from the 'collision down' parameter)
- Previously, a "player projectile" type couldn't collide with the player itself. This has been fixed, allowing for objects that collide with both the player and other objects
- Removal of various unused parameters for simplicity
- Improved efficiency of animated tile system
- AGA enhancement: Fades are super smooth 24 bit. On OCS machines, fades remain at 12 bit
- AGA enhancement: Color palette is 24 bit. On OCS machines, palette remains at 12 bit
- Map compilation has been made much more powerful. You can include any number of background and foreground layers and the compiler will merge them all down to a tight and efficient tileset, containing no visually redundant tiles
- A1000 officially supported
- ECS/AGA enhancement: Border blank. Border is always black, even when index 0 of palette isn't
- Various improvements for Backbone importer
- Default fonts are included with every new project (cheers to Koyot for this)
- Commercial derived sample games have been depreciated, and will be replaced and removed in future updates. They were never meant to be finished, they were simply meant to show that commercial quality, console like games are entirely possible in the engine. They'll be replaced with similar games featuring free assets
- Various other minor tweaks to support 'Amigo the Fox' and future Scorpion games
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30.Jun.2020
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Mahjong clone: BlitzWays
"BlitzWays" (video) is a puzzle game inspired by Mahjong which the author Sebastian Hartmann has completed after 28 years and released last Saturday at the demo party Gubbdata 2020 in Lund (Sweden). The game requires at least 1 Megabyte Chip-RAM as well as Kickstart 2.0.
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