26.Aug.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable demo: Jump'n Run 'Minky'
'Minky' (Video) is a jump'n run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte of RAM. The now released playable pre-release version includes the first four levels, the release of the full version is supposed to be "soon".
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[News message: 26. Aug. 2022, 22:50] [Comments: 0]
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26.Aug.2022
Kas1e (ANF)
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OpenGLES ports: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are the third and fourth part of a series of first and third person shooters set in the Star Wars universe. The source code of both games was released years ago, shortly after that ports for AmigaOS 4 were released, which were still based on MiniGL at that time.
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[News message: 26. Aug. 2022, 22:38] [Comments: 0]
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26.Aug.2022
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Database: MUIBase is now BeeBase, version 1.0 available
Steffen Gutmann has been maintaining a programmable relational database called MUIBase since 1998, most recently version 4.5 had been released in mid-July. Since the open source program is now available for various other platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) in addition to Amiga systems, the name 'MUIBase' was no longer optimal, however. The author seems to see it that way, too: Yesterday BeeBase 1.0 was released.
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[News message: 26. Aug. 2022, 18:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: WiFi development for Emu68 paused
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website.
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[News message: 25. Aug. 2022, 06:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2022
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Puzzle game: PuzzleTronAmiga
PuzzleTronAmiga is a simple puzzle sliding game (YouTube video) released by Ecalius Software. It is written in AMOS Professional 2.0 and runs on any standard Amiga 500. The game is available on itch.io for 2 Euro or more.
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[News message: 25. Aug. 2022, 06:15] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.5
At the end of March the new major version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Today a fifth update with bug fixes and minor enhancements has been released. Changes:
- fixed: some Requesters where shown on WB instead of IDEs own screen
- fixed: library "ab3pft.library" was tried to open before dynamic assignment was done
- fixed: deleting a line could crash PED
- fixed: minor display bug when updating line numbers
- fixed a cursordisplay bug when jumping to top or bottom of source
- improved: handling of double-click mouse event
- improved: requester showing compile errors
- changed: display color of line numbers
- fixed display problem on AmigaOS1.3: Error text of debugger was not readable as the text was drawn as white text on white backgroud
- added to repository: disassembled rundebuglib, inputoutputlib, runerrlib
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[News message: 24. Aug. 2022, 21:06] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2022
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Article: Self-made Amiga cases
In the forum of Amiga Love, 'SimonGK' has written a detailed article about several, self-made cases for his Amiga computers.
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[News message: 24. Aug. 2022, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2022
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Turn-based space strategy: Imperium Terranum 2.820
The source code of the turn-based space strategy game Imperium Terranum 2 was ported from Pascal to C. 'fook42' continues to update and improve this port. After a longer break (amiga-news.de reported), now version 2.820 is available. Changes:
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[News message: 24. Aug. 2022, 05:26] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2022
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Aiostreams V1.7.5: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AROS instead of on the PC.
Today version 1.7.5 has been released. Changes:
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[News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 15:37] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2022
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-08-22
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
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[News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:54] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 9
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available as digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro, via Amazon) edition. Its current issue consists of 48 color pages and includes among others the following topics:
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[News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:51] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2022
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Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of shoot 'em up "ACE"
The Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported) runs until November 1, 2022. In a small series we present game projects that are currently being developed for this competition. So in the first article we presented the games "Deathmine" and "Capacitor's Revenge" by 'PixelPlop', the second article described in detail 'TheoTheoderich's' turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World". The third past of our series today is about the shoot 'em up "ACE" and its programmer 'DarkGiver'.
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[News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:45] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.6.0
Youen Chéné - one of the organizers of a programming community in Normandy called Codeurs en Seine - is in the process of writing a Visual Studio Code Extension that adds support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). The extension is in alpha stage, so syntax highlighting is still limited.
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[News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:06] [Comments: 0]
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22.Aug.2022
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New links on AmigaSource website
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous categories like software, hardware, demos etc. Because Pistorino changed to a new database some time ago, some articles are not yet available again.
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22.Aug.2022
S0Y (Mail)
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Preview video 3: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is primarily dedicated to converting games to the Amiga platform using the game construction kit RedPill. After his Abu Simbel Profanation project, he has now begun the conversion of Temptations, a platform game originally published for MSX-1 in 1988. The basis for this, however, is a port for Android. With the author's permission, he uses graphics and music, but modifies some of them (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 22. Aug. 2022, 05:48] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2022
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Dossier: Hidden messages and easter eggs in AmigaOS
David Brunet has listed on his Obligement news page an overview of all the messages and easter eggs hidden in Kickstart or AmigaOS, starting from Kickstart 0.7/0.9 up to AmigaOS 4/U-Boot. The original article is in French, but machine translations are offered.
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2022, 17:41] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2022
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Preview video: Sci-fi racing game "Hyper Runner"
The developer team of Raster Wizards - among others The Shadows of Sergoth or Super Metal Hero - had already announced a new sci-fi racing game "Hyper Runner" for the Amiga two months ago with the release of a first YouTube video. The second video released now shows static objects, more HUD elements (information displays) as well as hard and soft collisions. The game is written in Amiblitz 2 and is more than half finished.
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2022, 14:36] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2022
Erik Hogan
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.6
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2022, 13:29] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2022
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Aminet uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to Aminet:
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21.Aug.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
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21.Aug.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
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21.Aug.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2022, 07:18] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.08.2022
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 20.08.2022:
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[News message: 21. Aug. 2022, 07:18] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 15
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 15 is now available.
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2022, 10:01] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2022
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Video: Brief look at history of Commodore logos
The YouTube channel "Commodore History" has given a brief overview about the history of the logos used by Commodore: starting in 1958 as Commodore Portable Typewriter Company Limited to the creation of the famous "chicken lips" logo in 1965 when they were called Commodore Business Machines (Canada) Limited, to their demise in 1994 as Commodore International Limited.
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2022, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2022
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.133 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels.
Download: linux-image-5.10.133-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2022, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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