29.Jan.2025
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Video: PiStorm68K - Dual 68000 CPU & PiStorm with Physical Switch Demo (update)
The PiStorm68k can accommodate any Raspberry Pi of the generations 3 and 4, and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. Using a simple switch, it is possible to switch between the emulated and the real CPU.
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29.Jan.2025
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Do it yourself: Retro joystick USB adapter DualJoy
DualJoy is a firmware for the Rapsberry Pi Pico that turns it into a USB adapter for two D-Sub 9 joysticks, as they are used with the Amiga.
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29.Jan.2025
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Restoration report: The first perfect computer - Amiga 1000
At the title link, Celso Martinho describes in a longer report with many photos how he restored and upgraded a second-hand Amiga 1000.
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29.Jan.2025
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Announcement: New issue of German print magazine Amiga Joker in October 2025
After the revivals of 2017 and 2019, another special issue of the German print magazine "Amiga Joker" is going to be published in October. They are still looking for letters to the editor, picture contributions for the gallery and a few articles. Interested parties can contact them by e-mail at joker@spieleschreiber.de.
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28.Jan.2025
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Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero 1.1.1
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, the player has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (Video).
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28.Jan.2025
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Action game: "Operation Steel Rain" playable demo has been released
"Operation Steel Rain" is a new run'n'gun action game in development for AGA Amigas. Inspired by mecha-style games like "Assault Suits Valken" (SNES) or "Ranger-X" (Megadrive), the game brings platform shooter action to the Amiga screen.
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28.Jan.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Darkland
"Darkland" was an advanced action role-playing game developed by New Deal Productions in the early 1990s. The game was intended for the Amiga, but never reached commercial release.
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28.Jan.2025
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Demoparty: Lovebyte 2025 (15-16 February)
On the weekend of 15-16 February 2025, the virtual demoparty "Lovebyte" will take place on Discord and Twitch - an event dedicated entirely to so-called sizecoding, i.e. programming with as few bytes as possible. Under this year's motto "Blind Date", all competition entries will be presented anonymously so that the works can be experienced independently of their creators.
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28.Jan.2025
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 166 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
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28.Jan.2025
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Video: Interview with "Ports of Call" developer Rolf-Dieter Klein
Rolf-Dieter Klein set new benchmarks for manager simulations with "Ports of Call", developed by him and Martin Ulrich and released in 1987 under the Aegis label. In the YouTube video interview with Magisthans Spielekiste, Klein provides insights into the development of this ship management game, the challenges faced during development and the compromises made during the creation process.
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27.Jan.2025
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.8.0
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 2.8.0 has now been released for AROS (and other systems). Changes:
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27.Jan.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (update)
Just last week SDL 3 was officially released with version 3.20. As usual, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki is implementing the multimedia library for AmigaOS 4.1 and has now published a first release candidate which contains the following Amiga-specific changes:
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27.Jan.2025
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Amiga-500-Guide: Version 2 of the manual for (re-) beginners (German)
Last year Patrick Schwedt wrote a German PDF file with all kinds of tips for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or are starting to use it again after a long time. Version 2 is now available on Aminet, which has been expanded and now contains 61 pages. Almost all the pictures have been revised. A new feature is an illustrated guide to installing hardware extensions.
Download: Amiga_500_Guide_V2.0.pdf (5 MB)
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27.Jan.2025
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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.5
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language, and meanwhile he has gained some progress. He has now released version 0.1.5 with the following changes:
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27.Jan.2025
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Strategy game: LightTheLEDs
Rodrigo Vertulo, who previously published "Skinny Marley" (amiga-news.de reported), now wants to remind Amiga fans of their creative spirit with "LightTheLEDs" and offers an "electrifying challenge" with his new game, in which you have to connect batteries to LEDs, but have to go through at least one resistor to ensure that the circuit works correctly.
The game runs on any OCS Amiga and is available for the equivalent of around 2.40 euros.
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26.Jan.2025
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Aminet uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to Aminet:
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26.Jan.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
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26.Jan.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to AROS Archives:
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26.Jan.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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26.Jan.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.01.2025
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 25.01.2025:
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26.Jan.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 3000/4000
KickSmash32, currently available in version 1.4, is a Kickstart ROM replacement module for the Amiga 3000 and 4000, which can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files.
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26.Jan.2025
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Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.3 (update)
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC frequencies and note conversion from C-1 to B-3 for ProTracker.
Update: (27.01.2025, 07:00, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.3 is already available, which adds the Amiga ST-xx sample format: it is now possible to load 8svx and original Amiga St-xx sample formats directly into wavconvert.
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26.Jan.2025
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Music competition: Winter edition of the Boozedrome
On February 22nd, the next Boozedrome will not take place on location in Helsinki, but this time purely on YouTube. Music modules of a maximum length of three minutes and a maximum size of 2 MB that can be played by HippoPlayer 2.45 without additional libraries can be submitted. They will then be played on an Amiga 600 with an 68020 processor and some Fast-RAM.
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2025, 09:09] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2025
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Music: An introduction to Amiga (techno) hardcore
At the title link, Jude Noel has written an overview of the Amiga techno hardcore music scene in English and links to corresponding tracks for direct listening.
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26.Jan.2025
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Video: Why the Commodore Amiga CD³² failed
In the video at the title link, 'The Matrix' once again addresses the failure of the Amiga CD³². Picking up on this, 'Havok' has also written a text on the subject for The Oasis BBS, which he co-runs.
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26.Jan.2025
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Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported).
In this January update, some level graphics were added for the game StarRay and, for comparison, the graphics of the Atari ST version, as these are better than the Amiga version despite the technical disadvantages.
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26.Jan.2025
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.9
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.9 was released:
Driver
- Performance improvements
- Add support for AIDE
Lideflash
- Add support for RIDE
- Add support for Zorro-LAN-IDESATA
- Support bank erase on Matze TKs
- Support more flash models
- Support programming CDFS to 68EC020-TK
- Fix 68EC020-TK detection
- Inhibit DOS devices during programming
- Add version string
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2025, 07:08] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2025
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Video player: Amos Anim Player v2025
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported).
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23.Jan.2025
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Video analysis: Shadow of the Beast - The Greatest Video Game Tech Demo Ever
In a 14-minute video, the Youtuber "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a close look at the Amiga classic "Shadow of The Beast" and explains, among other things, how the up to 13 independently scrolling levels or the sometimes over 120 colours on the screen come about - but also why the title sometimes comes across as a bit monotonous in terms of gameplay due to the many technical gimmicks that push the hardware to the limit.
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23.Jan.2025
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Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.07
Amiga Yoomp! is a conversion of an Atari 8-bit game from 2007. In the last few weeks, several updates have been released that bring the following changes:
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22.Jan.2025
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Audio playback: Interview on the occasion of version 1.0 of AmiModRadio
Shortly before Christmas - after years of almost asymptotically approaching this version number - AmiModRadio 1.0 was released. Reason enough for us to ask its programmer 'Tygre' for an interview.
About the program: AmiModRadio accesses the more than twenty thousand music modules in Aminet, but also tens of thousands of tracks from Haxor.fi, Modland and Modules.pl, in order to download a piece of music, unpack it and play it on one of the playback programs such as AmigaAMP, DeliTracker, EaglePlayer, HippoPlayer, MultiPlayer or TuneNet. A rating function is also included. AmiModRadio is open source, the files are available on SourceForge and BitBucket. Anyone wishing to report bugs is asked to do so via the official bug tracker. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
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