19.Nov.2021
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.3
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.
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18.Nov.2021
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Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.9.13
Rupert Hausberger's "Scripted Amiga Emulator" is written in Javascript and HTML5. The goal of his project is to make the 'Amiga Classic' emulation available for browsers. This should not require any browser plugins or third-party scripts, but only HTML5 and Javascript. Finally, it should be possible to play demos, intros or mods, play games or benchmark the browser. After a small break, he has now brought version 0.9.13 online, which brings the following changes:
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18.Nov.2021
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.1 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Besides new versions of some Amiga programs, minor update 11.7.1 (changelog) of Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4/400 also includes version 4.1.6 of the underlying emulator AmiBerry that was released last month.
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17.Nov.2021
Discord
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Preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
'Z-Team' has announced a remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 as their entry for this year's AmiGameJam. Now a first preview video of the game developed with the Scorpion Engine has been released.
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[News message: 17. Nov. 2021, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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17.Nov.2021
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Video tutorial: Episode 20 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 20 was published, which continues in chapter 7 and is dedicated to the topic 'Sprites'.
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17.Nov.2021
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Amiga Art Contest 2021: Announcement of the winners
In a video show the winners of the this year's Amiga Art Contest (amiga-news.de reported) have been announced.
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16.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 3/4: New Netsurf test build
In May 2020 the version 3.10 of the ReAction-based Amiga port of the web browser Netsurf was released. Until the next official release 3.11, so-called test builds are published by the developers, which already include changes but may still contain bugs.
After a longer break, Chris Young has now updated the build version #5314 with the root certificates, which are included in the currently current version #5318. When asked, Chris Young explained to us that especially the OS3 version has to be considered as a pure test version - 'very alpha/beta quality'. Furthermore, he holds out the prospect of a possible special AmigaOS 3.2 version, should it prove true that the ReAction gadgets and his workarounds for the old versions are the cause of the instability.
A short test of the OS4 version first takes us to our main page, which loads without problems. When selecting a single message, three or four seconds pass:
Now the message about Ben Hermans is selected and the source on amigaworld.net is called. The page loads quickly, but an additional window opens with a list of JavaScript errors. At least it becomes clear that the page obviously does not work without the infamous tracking tool..:
Well remembered is that GitHub pages often cause difficulties (under previous Wayfarer versions sometimes no text was visible), so we test the link to Dirk Hoffmann's MacOS emulator vAmiga:
The page itself loads very quickly, but the warning messages increase again. Furthermore, logging in is not possible because the corresponding link is missing. Basically, JavaScript can be disabled in the settings. Furthermore Chris Young gave us the tip to add "log_filter:level:CRITICAL" to the choice file under NetSurf/Users/Default to stop the display of the errors. Finally, we allow ourselves to type a big name into the input field: heise.de:
Apart from the fact that you are overwhelmed by JavaScript errors, this was probably a bit too big. But NetSurf ran stable and one can only hope that the development will be continued to have another alternative especially under AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2021, 20:03] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of "Zeewolf" available as free download
Amiga Future offers the full version of the shooter Zeewolf for free download. ADF and IPF disk images are offered, as well as a ready WHDLoad install.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2021, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2021
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulation: FS-UAE Lanucher 3.1.48
The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for configuring and launching the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The now released update includes some translations that were forgotten in the original release. The author points out that due to changes in the SDL library used by FS-UAE, the controller configuration in FS-UAE Lanucher may need to be updated to make the emulator respond to all joystick or joypad buttons again.
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15.Nov.2021
Nivrig Games
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Game announcement: Arcade action game 'Turbo Santa'
After the huge success of Turbo Tomato, John Girvin of Nivrig Games has announced his next game for the 68k Amigas: In Turbo Santa, the player must fill in for Santa Claus, who has fallen asleep, and try to deliver presents in time to save Christmas.
The story: "Christmas Day has come to The Garden. The children are starting to wake up and wander around, still half-asleep, looking for the presents Santa has left them. But none are to be found!
Gather magical gifts as they appear and toss them to the dreaming children. Don't miss, and watch out for the GRONCH dashing around stealing presents! Take too long and the children will wake up to no presents and Christmas will be ruined!"
Turbo Santa (video) has been announced for December and will be available for free. It will require 1Mb Chip Ram and Kickstart 2.04. Music is by DJ METUNE.
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14.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to Aminet:
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14.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
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14.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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14.Nov.2021
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Adventure: Release date and final trailer for Ermentrud - Hero with Horse
More than twenty years after its first announcement, release date of the point-and-click adventure "Ermentrud - Held mit Pferd" (Ermentrud - Hero with Horse) has been set: In about four weeks, on December 10, 2021, the game will be available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows, Mac OS and iOS). A video introduces the game.
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14.Nov.2021
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Graphics card: Status update on the ZZ9000
In 2018 the ZZ9000 as the successor of the FPGA-based and open source Zorro II/III compatible graphics board MNT VA2000 could be preordered. The ZZ9000 combines a RTG graphics board, AGA scandoubler and network card equipped with two 666-MHz-ARM coprocessors for applications demanding high processing power like accelerated graphic rendering or JPEG and MP3 decoding. Besides, an USB port provides support for USB mass storages.
Now on the product site the following statement was published: "Due to the global chip shortage, we have decided to stop selling ZZ9000 temporarily. We have preordered all necessary parts to build and ship all existing orders. The current shipping target for 92% of existing orders is January 2022 and the rest in March 2022. Thank you for your patience and support."
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13.Nov.2021
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Tools for ARexx development: RxEnv V1.2
At the beginning of September we reported on Carl Svensson's project RxEnv which is supposed to add a 'REPL' to the ARexx development environment.
REPL is for 'Read, Eval, Print, Loop' and offers the option to enter any ARexx code in an interactive window and get immediately response. This might be helpful to find bugs in the code (see this article).
His intension and the story of his project, Svensson has explained in his article The Joy Of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARexx. Now he has released version 1.2 of RxEnv with the following changes:
- Implemented immediate mode in the REPL.
- If an error occurs, rxpp now exits with return code 20 instead of return code 1.
- Added malloc() checks to rxpp.
- Added the pprx script.
- Minor cleanups in REPL code.
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