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25.Nov.2024



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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25.Nov.2024
itch.io


Puzzle game: Connect available for free
Frank from the LogicalByte team writes: "Hello everyone, it's been over 2 years since we released Connect (amiga-news.de reported). During this time, we have received a lot of praise, which has made us very happy. The gaming community has also sent us suggestions for improvements, which we have implemented as long as they fit into the concept and the game technically allowed it. As expected, the box version sold well and sales of the digital version were also satisfactory. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support!

Nevertheless, it is time to take the next step and we have decided to offer this game for free. With this we would like to offer the other players of this world the opportunity to spend great hours with this game on the Amiga. Remaining copies of the box version are still available at Alinea Computer." (dr)

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25.Nov.2024



SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death
After Adventure 2 Remake and Beyond a Steel Sky, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a third game project for Scala MM, which he has now submitted for the AmiGameJam 2024 instead of Beyond a Steel Sky: The Angel of Death is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game published by Sierra in 1987, but with different roles. As Jessie Bains, you try to take control of the drug trade in the town of Lytton.

The game is still in development: sound and music are missing and the graphics are only placeholder graphics. The story is also only 20 to 30% complete. AmigaOS 3.x and the Scala-MM-Player are required. (dr)

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25.Nov.2024
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel


Turn-based strategy: November-2024-Update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his November update: "A new version of my Amiga game "Settle the World" is available.

The "Quality of Life and Pathfinding Update - November 2024" contains mostly bug fixes and a completely revised pathfinding.

n the last few months I've changed my real-life job, otherwise I would have lost my job. This job is very demanding and I can no longer manage to work four or more hours a day on "Settle the World". Development will definitely continue, but at a slower pace than last year. As always, you can download the latest version of the game free of charge from my project page. You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the corresponding developer diary for the update.

I would be very pleased to receive feedback and constructive criticism." (dr)

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24.Nov.2024



Aminet uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to Aminet:
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24.Nov.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
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24.Nov.2024



AROS Archives uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
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24.Nov.2024



WHD-Load: New installers until 23.11.2024
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 23.11.2024: more ... (snx)

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24.Nov.2024
GitHub


Do it yourself: Amiga adapter RiskyKVM for keyboard-video-mouse switches
RiskyKVM is intended as an Amiga adapter for keyboard-video-mouse switches, but can also be used as a USB to DB9 and Amiga keyboard interface. (snx)

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24.Nov.2024



ADF-Blitzer 3.10
Andreas Gouder's program ADF-Blitzer for creating and writing back ADF images has been released in version 3.10. Besides smaller additions, it does now also support German language besides English. Further localizations are not intended.

Download: adfblitzer.lha (33 KB) (snx)

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23.Nov.2024



Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.3
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 10.3 eliminates problems when working with PCI bridges:
  • Bridge configuration was refactored again. Bridge and parent device are now passed already into the constructor of a PCI device, and not only when it is added.
  • Fixed a trashed register in the Mediator board scan.
  • The Mediator scan did not pass the parent device correctly into the device creator, thus giving devices behind bridges wrong bus IDs.
  • For some strange reason, the Mediator does not seem to decode the address bits for selecting a device behind a PCI bridge correctly; it seems to ignore them. Therefore, the Mediator currently supports only a single device behind a bridge.
  • Some bridges take apparently several milliseconds to accept a configuration. Now the library inserts a 50ms delay after having installed the target busses after setting up a PCI bridge.
  • The time delay function was broken and passed in the wrong command to the timer.device.
(cg)

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22.Nov.2024



Operating system-compliant Pac-Man conversion: 5th-7th part of the video series
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on a conversion of the game Pac-Man that only uses operating system calls. Episodes five to seven are entitled "recreating a WSG sound", "the pac-man sprite" and "the clyde BOB". (cg)

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22.Nov.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)


Scene World Podcast episode #202 - Making the fan-made Broken Sword 2.5
In the 202nd edition of the "Scene World" podcast, the team welcomes Marius Gosch, one of the founders of the Broken Sword 2.5 project, which also runs on AmigaOS thanks to ScummVM. The interview, in which Gosch talks about his work as a writer and puzzle designer on this fan-made sequel to Broken Sword 2, starts at timestamp 1:43:08 of the podcast. (cg)

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22.Nov.2024



Tetris clone: "Tetra Zone"
Around eight years ago, Wei-ju Wu published a seven-part series (plus additional episodes) on Amiga hardware programming in C on his YouTube channel. Now he is in the process of writing a Tetris clone called "Tetra Zone" for the AmiGameJam 2024, which implements techniques from this tutorial series (YouTube video).

His game extends the original with three preview stones, a hold function, a "ghost stone" and support for "wall kicks". Another goal was to achieve a stable frame rate of 50/60 fps on a 5-bitplane screen. He has now released a first pre-release version (without sound). (dr)

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22.Nov.2024



Developer log: Shattering the Magicore 8-color limit
In a recent blog entry on his game "Magicore Anomala" (amiga-news.de reported), which is currently in development, developer Dan Salvato explains why the background in the game uses eight colours or less - and how it is still possible to use Copper to change the colour palette to create an even more colourful image while displaying different areas of the background. (dr)

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20.Nov.2024



Event: Videos from 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany)
At the turn of the month the 25th Amiga Meeting North took place in Neumünster, Germany. Two videos now show the presentations of Michal Schulz about PiStorm and Emu68 and Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer about new hardware developments. (snx)

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20.Nov.2024
Mastodon (ANF)


Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
Four images from Island Graphics from 1985 have now been added to the collection of early Amiga graphics. Three of them show ballerinas. They were based on paintings by the French painter Edgar Degas, which were transferred to the Amiga as a background image using a Genlock and then traced using a painting program. (snx)

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19.Nov.2024
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Event: World of Commodore 2024 in Mississauga (Canada)
On 30 November and 1 December 2024, the World of Commodore 2024 Amiga convention will be held in Mississauga, Canada (near Toronto). A variety of Commodore devices, from the Amiga and the C64 to the PET, will be on display at the event. Visitors will also be able to purchase new and old hardware from various dealers. more ... (nba)

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19.Nov.2024



Linux: Kernel 6.12.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has compiled the Linux kernel 6.12.0 for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 to coincide with its release. The new version makes the Linux kernel real-time capable and also provides more flexibility for the scheduler. more ... (nba)

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19.Nov.2024
Andreas Gouders via A1K


ADF-Tool: ADF-Blitzer 3.0 has been published
More than two decades after the last version 2.20, Andreas Gouders has released version 3.0 of his ‘ADF Blitzer’. The tool can be used to convert floppy disks in drives DF0: to DF3: into an ADF file or to write ADF files back to floppy disks. more ... (nba)

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18.Nov.2024
deadwood


AROS: Odyssey browser 2.1 (64-bit) released
Following the release of version 2.0 of the Odyssey browser for AROS 32-bit (amiga-news.de reported) and a preview of the 64-bit version, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has now released version 2.1 of the browser for AROS (64-bit), Windows and Linux (YouTube video).

As the developer writes, this version builds on the updated WebKit engine and media player in Odyssey 2.0 (see above) and also offers JavaScript acceleration via a JIT compiler for increased performance and the ability to utilise multiple CPU cores when running under AxRuntime. more ... (dr)

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18.Nov.2024



Reimplementation of 'Frontier: Elite II'-Intros with browser playback v0.4
In mid-2021, we already reported on Mark Watson's project to recreate the graphics and music of the Frontier: Elite II intro in C and, in the process, to implement improved 3D models (e.g. planetary sky added to the intro) or support for 2 and 4 times the original screen resolution.

The new version 0.4 provides the following changes: more ... (dr)

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