03.May.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.3 among others provides bug fixes and an improved support of Windows XP.
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.
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03.May.2024
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Survival game: Zombie Survivor
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fend off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The game is in development and currently has a world with 99 levels.
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02.May.2024
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Platform game: Level 2 of the demo version of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas
At the end of January, we introduced the platform game project "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas in detail. A few weeks later, a demo version with the first level was released (YouTube video). Now the developer 'lionagony', supported by his daughter who contributed graphics, has released the second level which, unlike the first, scrolls automatically (YouTube video). It also offers simulated parallax scrolling on 6 layers. The author is looking forward to constructive criticism in the comments.
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02.May.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 29
Issue 29 of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available from the publisher. The cover story is the French games industry, and the magazine also includes reviews of "Final Fight Enhanced" and of the book "Demoscene: The Logo Art", a retrospective of the A500 expansion "Bodega Bay" and a tutorial on how to connect a Sony Vaio PCMCIA CD drive to an A600.
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or as a subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file.
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01.May.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
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01.May.2024
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Video from Amiga 30 event in California: Steve Jobs' fishing trip to Amiga 1983
As part of the Californian Amiga 30th birthday celebrations, Amiga investor and director Bill Hart told the story of Steve Jobs visiting the Amiga developers, who were in need of financial support in 1983. Jobs had money, so Amiga was interested in talking to him.
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30.Apr.2024
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Quake 2 now also available for AmigaOS 3.x as digital version
Press release: Alinea Computer is very pleased to be able to offer the version for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) as a digital download in addition to the Quake 2 version for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and has implemented numerous features that did not yet exist for any Quake 2 port for AmigaOS/68k.
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30.Apr.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for April 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
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30.Apr.2024
IndieRetroNews
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Arcade shooter: Phoenix500 now also for AGA-Amigas
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has updated the arcade classic Phoenix500, released a few days ago for ECS-Amigas, with a version optimised for AGA systems. The top-down space shooter (YouTube video) now includes new graphics by Toni Galvez in its AGA mode. Phoenix500 can be downloaded from the website under the title link in return for a voluntary donation to the developers.
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30.Apr.2024
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TankX: Tank game returns after 30 years with new single-player mode
About 30 years ago, the tank game Tankkk was released, in which each k in the name stood for the number of tanks in the game. Until now, Tankkk could only be played with up to six players on one computer. Now, after almost three decades, developer K-P Koljonen has re-released the game, which has been renamed TankX. In the new version 1.1, computer-controlled tanks have been added so that TankX can now also be played solo against the Amiga.
The player can use processor-controlled tanks in battle, include a CPU teammate, play a human vs CPU team death match or have all tanks controlled by the CPU. There are three different CPU tank drivers to choose from:
- Scary: medium range radar, comes towards the opponent and shoots
- Wary: medium range radar, shoots once and then flees
- Lazy: long range radar, doesn't move, but shoots from a distance
In addition to the single-player mode, the new version also includes revisions to the menu, a pause mode, newly created and revised battlefields and new music tracks.
TankX runs on any Amiga with at least Kickstart 1.2, OCS, 68000 and 1 MB RAM. The LhA archive includes the 68k version and an ADF version for emulators and AmigaOS 3.2.
Download: TankX (1.5 MB)
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30.Apr.2024
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The Guardian: An ironic look back at the Amiga
'The Guardian', a renowned British daily newspaper, published a commentary in English on 26 April 2024 that takes a ironical look at the enduring love for the Amiga, which is classed as technically obsolete. Entitled ‘My Undying Love for the Painfully Uncool Amiga’, the article highlights the quirks and weaknesses of the once revolutionary computer platform.
The article humorously plays with the discrepancy between modern technology and the limited possibilities of the Amiga. It takes a critical, if humorous, look at the technical limitations and cultural idiosyncrasies that make the Amiga a rather uncool choice today, according to author Dominik Diamond. Despite the criticism, a certain affection resonates in the lines - a tribute to the important role the Amiga played in early computer and gaming culture.
For readers who appreciate a sharp-tongued commentary, the article offers an entertaining yet critical look at how and why some technologies stand the test of time - or not.
The full article can be found on The Guardian website at the title link.
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30.Apr.2024
Pixelwalker (ANF)
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez #2 now also available in English
Almost a fortnight ago, the second issue of the disc magazine Amiga Rulez was published in German (amiga-news.de reported). The English edition has now also been available as of 28 April. In the current update version, the event section has been expanded and initial bugs have been fixed.
The magazine was written in AMOS and is available in ADF format (880 KB). It can be downloaded free of charge from amiga-rulez.de and from the Demoscene website Pouet under the title link.
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29.Apr.2024
Mikkel (Forum)
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Heise: Article about the Commodore insolvency 30 years ago today (German)
At the title link, Heise.de dedicates a German article to the company's history on the occasion of Commodore's insolvency 30 years ago today. Two concluding paragraphs also mention the Escom period and the THEA500 Mini.
Independent of the anniversary, also the Guardian has published a nostalgic article about the Amiga.
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2024, 22:08] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2024
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Music tip: Appeal by SoDa7
The ChipChop 17 musicdisc was also released during this year's Revision demo party. 'SoDa7' also contributed a track for this: "Appeal". You can dance your way through the YouTube video he has now published.
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29.Apr.2024
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Demo: "V4driver" 1.06 for Apollo Vampire V4
In mid-January, Sami Vehmaa released "V4driver", his second demo after 30 years, which he wrote exclusively for the Apollo Vampire V4 (amiga-news.de reported). With this update to version 1.06, he has made some fine adjustments such as the parallax timing. The demo should now also run at 50 FPS (hold down the space bar to display FPS).
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29.Apr.2024
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Developer log: New graphics for the strategy game "Ecliptic"
At the beginning of April, a new demo version of the strategy game "Ecliptic", which is currently under development, was released (amiga-news.de reported). Now the author has published a detailed developer diary in which he explains how he creates new monsters and backgrounds for the second level and uses code examples to show how he inserts them into his game. There is also a corresponding YouTube video.
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28.Apr.2024
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Aminet uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to Aminet:
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28.Apr.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to OS4Depot:
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28.Apr.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
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28.Apr.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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28.Apr.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.04.2024
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 27.04.2024:
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28.Apr.2024
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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:
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28.Apr.2024
Mastodon
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Do it yourself: HD floppy drive - Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk (Amiga-HDDLW)
"Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk" describes the conversion of a 1.44 MB PC floppy disk drive into a corresponding HD drive for the Amiga. It is described for two models, the MPF920-E from Sony and the FD-235HF from TEAC. After the conversion, the speed of the motor is halved, as is typical for the Amiga, when an HD diskette is detected, otherwise it remains unchanged.
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28.Apr.2024
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A simple AmigaOS GUI in assembler
At the beginning of October last year, Edwin van den Oosterkamp kindly wrote a tutorial for us based on his book "Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction" on how to create a GUI in C and thus demonstrated an introduction to C programming. Now he has published a similar example source code on his website, which shows this GUI creation in assembler. This article is not so much a tutorial as an accompanying text to the assembler source code, which has also been made available on the download page.
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27.Apr.2024
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A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS
Press rekease: Cardiff, 27 April 2024
A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce further development of Personal Paint. Latest version 7.4 will be pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS Computer.
A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint from Cloanto in 2014 (amiga-news.de reported) which has led to notable development over the last decade for both Classic Amiga systems and Next Generation systems.
Personal Paint has a rich record of being bundled with home computers over the years. In 1996 PPaint 6.4 was part of the Escom's Amiga 1200 Magic Pack. Even more recently in 2016, PPaint 7.3 was bundled with A-EON's powerful X5000 computer system. In 2024 the tradition continues with a new
version 7.4 being pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS.
A-EON's latest update to this famous paint package accelerates 1080P and larger high resolution screens. 1080P is the resolution that most HDMI televisions operate at and the default screen mode of the A600GS. The drawing tools at this resolution would ordinarily be very slow. However they have now been significantly accelerated by using ARM native code.
The latest Personal Paint 7.4 from A-EON is ready-to-run on the A600GS and will bring a nostalgic paint package experience to modern 1080P televisions.
Matthew Leaman, MD of A-EON remarked: "Personal Paint originated on Classic Amiga systems which are these days becoming rarer, more expensive and requiring on going maintenance. This fact alone does not help to expand the future use of Personal Paint outside the Amiga community. As one of A-EON most important applications, Personal Paint can now have a new lease of life on low cost ARM hardware platform such as the A600GS. We are excited by the development possibilities that this provides for this famous application. We hope we can reach a wider audience, expanding the user base and ensure the application's longevity for many years to come."
Trevor Dickinson, A-EON’s co-founder added: "Personal Paint became the leading easy-to-use Amiga program for bitmapped graphics and animation and was one of the first to support AGA and RTG. We developed updated versions for both 68K and PowerPC, and it's great to see the ARM accelerated version
joining the family."
Personal Paint 7.4 will be launched in Q2/2024 on the A600GS computer system.
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27.Apr.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" April fixed / Poll for May
In the poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" for April, two tasks were selected: in Wanderer, deletion should be allowed by pressing the Del key (#116) and DiskInfo should display the correct FAT instead of the wrong OFS (#105). Both tasks were solved and the corresponding archives (#105 and #116) were made available.
The poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" May has been started.
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