04.Dec.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 2024.12.03
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2024.12.03 introduces support for Ultra-SCSI (Fast-20) on RP2040/RP2350-based platforms, currently still in beta. You can find more details on this and the other changes at the title link.
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04.Dec.2024
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.7.3 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.7.1 has now been released for AROS.
New features, besides bug fixes, are OpenGL support, the ability to draw samples and saving parts of samples as waveform files.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 2.7.3 is now available, which fixes a cause of a crash. In addition, a more straightforward individual tracks zooming mechanism has been implemented.
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04.Dec.2024
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Programming competition: Voting opened for AmiGameJam 2024
Aim of AmiGameJam 2024 was to program a successor to an existing Amiga game. After the closing date, the winner can now be voted for until Christmas. To take part, you have to be registered on the website and can then submit your rating after clicking on the individual games.
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04.Dec.2024
heckmeck-Blog (ANF)
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Programming competition: Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024
For the fourth time, the Logiker website is holding a Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge. Participation in this programming competition is open until Christmas Day, and prizes include issues of PDF magazines and a book.
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04.Dec.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link.
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03.Dec.2024
Mastodon
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Developer log: Writing an own dialogue scripting language
Developer Dan Salvato has presented the creation of his own dialogue scripting language for his under-development game "Magicore Anomala" in a detailed blog post (amiga-news.de reported). In "Writing My Own Dialogue Scripting Language", Salvato describes the motivation and development process behind the creation of a custom language for implementing dialogues in video games. He discusses technical challenges and describes the components script, parser, bytecode and renderer. With specific script examples, he explains how his solution makes it possible to efficiently implement complex dialogue structures.
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03.Dec.2024
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AmiGameJam candidate: Last Battle 2
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. Under the title link, 'msmalik681' has published his interpretation of a successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which has also been ported to the Amiga: "Last Battle 2" is a classic beat'em up in the arcade style of the 80s.
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03.Dec.2024
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 11
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 12-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue includes another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of Datastorm and Gigawatt, and a throwback to the US print magazine "COMPUTE!".
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02.Dec.2024
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AROS: Review of November 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of November at the title link.
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02.Dec.2024
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Video: Installation of an Indivision AGA MK3 in the CD32
In part 1 of a two-part series, the YouTube channel "Amiga Retro" shows how an Indivision AGA MK3 is installed in a CD32.
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02.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Review of MediaVault
MediaVault is a program for AmigaOS 4 for streaming radio stations and playing podcasts, which was written by George 'walkereo' Sokianos and last updated at the end of 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci takes a closer look at the application and its mediavault script, which can be used to save parts of streams and entire podcasts in a file on the hard drive.
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02.Dec.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.43
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video) is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
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01.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to Aminet:
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01.Dec.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
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01.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
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01.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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01.Dec.2024
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WHD-Load: New installers until 30.11.2024
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 30.11.2024:
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01.Dec.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Supremacy (Encore64 V2)
- Rainbow Islands Christmas
- Ethereal Void part 1 (nightwolf 2024 remix)
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01.Dec.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Amiga Advent Calendar
The Australian Moya 'Cammy' Jackie has started another Christmas campaign and presents an Amiga Advent Calendar at the title link. Behind each door is a game, mod, demo, artwork or piece of software contributed by the Amiga community. Further contributions to fill the calendar are welcome.
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01.Dec.2024
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Game: Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
As reported, the Electric Black Sheep team have reworked their game "Star Dust Wars". This "Director's Cut" has been published yesterday at the title link.
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01.Dec.2024
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Programming the Amiga 500: Spritework
Michael Martin's latest entry on his experimental programming projects on the Amiga 500 is dedicated to sprites, including a look at the continuity compared to the Atari.
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30.Nov.2024
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Dungeon crawler: Halloween X 1.10 (AGA)
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler Halloween X (video) can be purchased for 5 USD at itch.io. The developer has released several updates since the initial release:
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30.Nov.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.5 (Update)
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 10.4 contains the following changes:
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30.Nov.2024
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Amiga 500 keyboard as a USB device: Leonardo 1.2
"Amiga 500 Keyboard - Arduino Leonardo" is a further development of Amiga500-Keyboard, it transforms an Amiga 500 keyboard into a USB input device with the help of an Arduino Leonardo. Compared to its predecessor, it offers some new functions such as the recording of macros. The new version 1.2 also offers support for multimedia keys.
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30.Nov.2024
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AmiGameJam: Numerous new games introduced
The deadline for this year's edition of the AmiGameJam programming competition, which has the motto "The Sequel That Never Was", is just a few hours away: Participants are to develop a sequel to a classic Amiga game. A number of new titles have been presented in the last two days, and we are currently aware of a total of 15 games intended for the jam:
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29.Nov.2024
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Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 1.5
Christian Geldmann's “Hyper Wings” (Video) is a shooter developed in Assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 1.5 fixes some bugs and also features the following changes:
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29.Nov.2024
GitHub
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CLI command: sysvars V0.15.1
sysvars is a small CLI tool that creates several environment variables holding valuable system information (e.g. CPU and FPU, the chipset or Kickstart version). These variables can be used, for example, in the startup-sequence to enable/disable certain patches, assigns etc.
Version 0.15.1 again fixes errors in Vampire V2 detection.
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29.Nov.2024
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AmiGameJam candidate: Anguish
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. 'lionagony', who previously worked on Silhouette Threat, has released his idea of a sequel to Agony for AGA Amigas.
The first level of "Anguish" (YouTube video) can currently be played.
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[News message: 29. Nov. 2024, 08:57] [Comments: 0]
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29.Nov.2024
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Video tutorial: Using the AMOS command "SCREEN OFFSET"
In another video in his tutorial series on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows another way to scroll a screen vertically by using the SCREEN OFFSET command.
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[News message: 29. Nov. 2024, 08:48] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
OSnews (ANF)
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Linux PPC removes support for CHRP (e.g. Pegasos)
The maintainers of the PowerPC port of the Linux kernel are planning to remove support for CHRP ("Common Hardware Reference Platform") systems. The Pegasos/Pegasos 2 systems from bplan are among those affected. However, this change will have no effect on the PowerPC computers from Eyetech, ACube and A-EON: here the community has always been responsible for kernel adaptations.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:58] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
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Preview videos: Beat'em up "Last Battle 2" , Shoot'em Up "Galactic Plague"
Two developers provide a first insight into the status of their projects developed with the Scorpion Engine by publishing videos showing some gameplay:
Last Battle 2 is to be a beat'em up which sees itself as an unofficial successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which was also ported to the Amiga.
Galactic Plague is a vertically scrolling shooter that the designer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before deciding to use a more modern platform due to its limitations and instability.
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28.Nov.2024
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Interview: The story of Twintris
The blog “Spillhistory” spoke to programmer Svein Berge about his Tetris clone Twintris, which was first published by Digital Marketing in 1990 and then distributed on various magazine disks in 1991.
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28.Nov.2024
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry V7.0.0-RC1
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch and is used, for example, in the AmiKit workbench distribution for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. A modified version of Amiberry is also the basis for the THEA500 Mini.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:35] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
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Windows: py-guide-viewer displays AmigaGuide documents
py-guide-viewer is an extended AmigaGuide viewer written in Python. The program is compiled for Windows, it also offers some features that the Amiga originals do not offer: Images, sounds and pieces of music - in modern file formats - can be embedded in the text file using UUencode and displayed or played within the guide pages. The py-guide-viewer also supports emojis, the text-based original symbols are replaced by small graphics.
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