21.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Tutorial: Game programming in assembler with modern tools
In his blog "Amiga Game Dev", Graeme Cowie (e.g. Bomb Jack Beer Edition) offers a tutorial about game programming in assembler. The tutorial is devided into single "episodes". So far four episodes have been published - he will publish new ones a week.
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[News message: 21. Nov. 2019, 00:23] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2019
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Elbox: Driver updates for Mediator (pci.library, MedConfig)
On October 31, Elbox has updated some drivers: The Mediator multimedia configuration tool MedConfig which "helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables of Mediator drivers for the PCI cards" was updated to version 2.4 and is supposed to fix the stuttering audio output. Besides, version 13.9 of the pci.library was released.
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20.Nov.2019
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Quiz: AskMeUp XXL 3.5 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS), update
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 1600 questions in 15 categories. A demo version containing 100 questions is available for free. Changes of this version:
- New! In "Quiz" and "Survival" modes, you can now select the add-on(s) you want to play (enabled/disabled by [1], [2], ... keys and by a mouse click on AmigaOS 4/MorphOS).
- Game / Explosions now optimized and faster ("Survival" and "Cup" (The explosive confrontation) modes).
- About / "Google+" button replaced by a "Twitter" one.
- Recap / Survival / Now the "exploded" state of the avatar is displayed.
- Questions / Questions updated.
- Questions / Typos fixed.
- Translations / Some rare Spanish translations were missing: they are now translated. Muchas gracias Enrique.
- Translations / Italian translation improved.
- Specific. MorphOS / Graphic bugs could appear during the animation on the question: fixed.
- Specific. MorphOS / A black screen could appear between two screens: fixed.
- Specific. MorphOS / Cup / Animations optimized when selecting a theme of questions.
- Specific. MorphOS / Compilation with GCC 4.4.5 (previously 2.95.3) and the lastest SDK 3.14.
- Specific. Windows / Recap / The rank was not correctly displayed: fixed.
- Available add-on: Girls band: Two new avatars, Maria Bella and Acid Jaimie (free).
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20.Nov.2019
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AMOS Professional X: Adapting AMOS to AGA
For quite some time the source codes of the BASIC development environment "Amos Professional" has been available on Github. Frédéric Cordier (e.g. game engine AmiDark) has taken on the task of developeing it further and adding new functions. On Amiga Impact he has described the progresses he made so far:
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18.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Working with ADF files: GoADF! 2.0
The shareware programm (7 Euro) "GoADF!" can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. This latest version also supports the formats DMS, ADZ and HFE.
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[News message: 18. Nov. 2019, 22:55] [Comments: 0]
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18.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Run'n Gun: The Ninja Zombie Killer (AGA)
In 'The Ninja Zombie Killer' (video) you do not finish a level by getting to the exit but surviving zombie waves. The game was written with the construction kit RedPill, requires an AGA Amiga and supports two fire buttons.
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17.Nov.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 16th, 2019:
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17.Nov.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until November 16th, 2019:
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17.Nov.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 16th, 2019:
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17.Nov.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 16th, 2019:
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17.Nov.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.11.2019
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 November 16th, 2019:
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga 600: Extension board eX601
Under the title link Lotharek offers an extension board called eX601 for the Amiga 600 developed by the Furia developer Boris Krizma which provides 1 MB additional chip RAM, a realtime clock with battery, an extension socket for the Indivision ECS and two clock ports for e.g. the Rapid USB developed by Individual Computers.
The price is 39,48 Euro plus shipping from Poland.
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 3.0
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based one-chip-systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the tinkerboard from ASUS. The changes of version 3.0 you can find on the corresponding GitHub site.
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Raspberry Pi: Emu68 alpha version 0.1
For adventurous users Michal Schulz has released a very early work-in-progress version of his announced Motorola-68000 emulation for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 together with two 68k test programmes.
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench enhancement: BestWB 1.3 for AmigaOS 3.1.4
Similar to BetterWB, BestWB is a collection of Workbench tools for, in this case, AmigaOS 3.1.4 "without the unneeded bloat often associated with these kind of distros. It persues speed and usability and does not focus on eye candy."
New Features:
-TiTleShadow is a program that enables title bar font customization.
-AHI enables third party audio hardware under a unified interface.
Updates:
-IconLib46 46.4.513 -> 46.4.518
-ToolsMenu 1.9.1 -> 1.10.2
-TSGUI -> 2.6b21
-WBDock 2.13 -> 2.14
Bugfixes:
-Cleaned up the installation script.
-Improved some documentation.
-Removed DOSPrefs as its operation is both buggy and quite hackish.
Tweaks:
-MMULibs is now optional when going full install (Not in the Update).
-FullPalette can be easily toggled on or off quite easily.
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16.Nov.2019
amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update for retro arcade game "Huenison"
The commcercial game 'Huenison' (trailer) combines diverse features of former arcade games. This update for the game, orginally released in 2013, provides diverse improvements for the graphical representation:
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16.Nov.2019
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Individual Computers: Pictures of cooling system of ACA1260
Individual Computers has published some first pictures of the announced 68040/68060-based accelerator board which show the cooling system of the board: Obviously the developers chose an active cooling, the fan would have been custom-made for Individual Computers.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2019, 15:32] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2019
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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ComicOn 1.0 (all Amiga systems)
ComicOn written with Hollywood downloads comic strips from websites and shows them. Several English strips like Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts are supported. ComicOn is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS and requires some additional Hollywood plugins which have to be installed before.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2019, 00:39] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2019
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Free USB adapter for input device: HID2AMI
Using HID2AMI different USB input devices ("HID", "Human Interface Devices") can be connected to the Amiga. The documentation for the board and the firmware of the adapter which is based on an ARM-micro-controller are available on Github. Occasionally the developer offers a small number of the product for sale. Documenations for printing a case with a 3D printer as well as a hardware compatibility list are also available.
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16.Nov.2019
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USB interface for reading and writing floppy disks on PC: Greaseweazle
After his Gotek firmware FlashFloppy, Keir Fraser has started another project for reading and writing floppy disks on PC: Similar to Kryoflux, 'Greaseweazle' reads the magnetic layers of the disks independently of the used disk format and saves as much information as possible in a so called "Flux Level Image" in the Supercard-Format (SCP) which enables reading and writing copy-protected disks.
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15.Nov.2019
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Hardware extension: "A314" adds internal Raspberry Pi to A500
Niklas Ekström has developed a FPGA-based adapter board which allows you to connect a Raspberry Pi to the internal extension port of the Amiga 500. The Verilog source code, the source codes of the Amiga and Linux software as well as the design for the "A314" board are available at Github under a free license.
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[News message: 15. Nov. 2019, 00:19] [Comments: 0]
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15.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated
Simone Bevilacqua has released an update for his arcade game KOG (video) which was released 11 years ago. Since the initial release the game has been completely reworked at least twice. Now the following changes have been implemented:
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14.Nov.2019
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CDXL player: AGABlaster 0.9.65 alpha
AGABlaster is a player for an adapted version of Commodore's video file format CDXL: Among others now a colour depth of up to 24 Bit is supported, frameskipping or frames with variable colour depth. Additionally the video file includes all necessary (timing) informationen for playing a stream.
AGABlaster was written in assembler and on (fast) AGA computers it can play video streams with a solution of 320x256 with 24 frames per second and 8-Bit stereo sound. Currently graphic or sound cards are not supported but the player also can be used on OCS machines although it was primarily written for the AGA chipset.
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14.Nov.2019
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C64 remake: RiverRaid Reloaded
RiverRaid Reloaded (video) is a remake of the 8-Bit classic River Raid. The executable of the full game only is 128 KB and should run on all Amigas.
Download: RiverRaidReloaded_1.1.adf (880 KB)
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[News message: 14. Nov. 2019, 01:12] [Comments: 0]
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14.Nov.2019
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Shoot'em Up in 8-Bit style: Sardonic
'Sardonic' (video) is a shooter in 8-Bit style which is supposed to be a hommage to classics like 'Space Invaders' or 'Galaga'. Versions for AGA and OCS (requiring 1 MB Chip-RAM) Amigas are available.
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[News message: 14. Nov. 2019, 01:02] [Comments: 0]
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14.Nov.2019
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Open source implementation of "Amiga Explorer" protocol
"FTS4" ("File Transfer Serial 4") is an implementation of the Amiga Explorer protocol which currently only supports serial connections. FTS requires at least AmigaOS 1.3, AmigaOS 2.0 is recommended.
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[News message: 14. Nov. 2019, 00:51] [Comments: 0]
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14.Nov.2019
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Linux connection for Amiga Explorer: fuse-aexplorer and lxamiga.pl
fuse-aexplorer is a file system driver for Linux which can mount drives shared by Cloanto's Amiga network software Amiga Explorer under Linux. The author warns that his "software is highly experimental" and you use it "fully AT YOUR OWN RISK". He also explained that "the Amiga Explorer protocol really isn't meant to be used as a network file system". Therefore diverse hacks had to be used.
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[News message: 14. Nov. 2019, 00:45] [Comments: 0]
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