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`29.Apr.2022`	Platformer: Developer for Amiga port of 'Flea' wanted As John Girvin from Nivrig Games (e.g. Turbo Santa or Turbo Tomato) reports, developer Alastair Low (Lowtek Games) said in a conversation on Twitch that he would be open to a port of his platformer 'Flea' to the Amiga. The game was originally funded and released through a Kickstarter campaign for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but ports are now also available or in development for Dreamcast and Windows. The source code was written using Nesmaker. According to John Girvin, this project "looks very doable". (dr) [News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 17:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2022` Passione Amiga (ANF)	Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 7 The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro) form. Its current issue consists of 42 color pages and includes the following topics: more ... (snx) [News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 13:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Apr.2022`	Video: Installation of AmiKit XE on Apollo V4 system In a short video Willem Drijver has demonstrated how to install the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE on a system equipped with a Apollo-V4. (dr) [News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 10:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2022`	Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.2 / 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' announced At the end of March the new major release 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was made available. Today with version 3.9.2 a second bug fix release was added. Changes: fixed some enforcer hits fixed drawing problem with text cursor updated several guide files added a new blitzlib "crc.obj" by Ray Brooks (@rayui) to the distribution At the same time, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') has announced the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: From June 1 to September 1, 2022, Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic. The idea behind this contest is to increase the number of programmers and the knowledge around the Amiga and the use of Blitz Basic and AmiBlitz to create games. This means that all games submitted must include source code so that beginners have examples to study and learn from. So if you always wanted to deal with a new programming language or apply your knowledge, you now have the opportunity to do so. Only games for 68k Amigas with AmigaOS are allowed: MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS are excluded. Also, submissions requiring Vampire cards, graphics cards or other special hardware will not be accepted. More details at the link above. (dr) [News message: 28. Apr. 2022, 22:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2022` MorphZone (Webseite)	MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.5 (2nd update) Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.3 and then as a bugfix version 3.4 of his MorphOS web browser 'Wayfarer'. Changes: HTTP HEAD requests to resources would poison the Curl disk cache with 0-byte files, leading to websites failing to load/work correctly Minor speed improvements in JavaScriptCore and timing code Improved refresh speeds when typing text on websites showing animated contents as you type The HLS player will iterate through all streams of the master playlist now if a selected sub playlist fails to play Re-worked post-seeking playback restart to avoid auto-start of streams that start playback from non-0 position Fixed audio buffer under-run handling Invisible video streams fixed not to enable overlay Improved invalid certificate error handling UI flows Disabled touch events support minor fix for HTTP AUTH regression Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) Update: (29.04.2022, 06:48, dr) According to the developer, some mis-compilation has crept in that negatively impacted stability of recent builds in some situations. Hi has fixed that by releasing verion 3.5. Update 2: (01.05.2022, 07:38, snx) The author informs there are additional problems that seem to have been introduced with version 3.3 and recommends to revert back to Wayfarer 3.2 (wayfarer3.2.lha, 26 MB) for now. (dr) [News message: 28. Apr. 2022, 06:08] [Comments: 1 - 01. May. 2022, 07:48] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2022` Seiya (ANF)	PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 133 (Italian/English) The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other. The current edition features the Amiga games 'Dune' (Amiga CDTV), 'Green Beret', 'Gunship 2000', 'Scramble' and 'World Championship Speedway'. (dr) [News message: 28. Apr. 2022, 05:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2022` Gunnar (ANF)	Apollo Team: Deluxe remake of Menace in development Already in August last year Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), announced the HD conversion of the Menace game for Vampire Amigas with an animated end boss on his homepage (amiga-news.de reported). As Gunnar von Boehn reports, the Apollo team has now started working on the Amiga shooter and published a first demo video. The features of the remake: true smooth 50 FPS scrolling High resolution truecolor with alpha blending dual player cooperate fun stereo 16bit music in combination with 16bit game soundFx in CD-quality The final game is supposed to contain all six original levels and fully animated end bosses. The game requires over 200 MB of FastRAM as well as a 68080 CPU and Super-AGA chipset. The game will be released as a commercial title with box. The source files including all data files of the first level will be published as part of the programming series "Amiga Homeschooling" to demonstrate to interested people how to program games for Amiga and Saga. programmieren kann. Download of the preview demo: MENACE4.exe (103 MB) (dr) [News message: 28. Apr. 2022, 05:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Apr.2022` Twitter	Graphics card ZZ9000: New, experimental firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems (update) Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with connections beyond that (network, USB, SD cards), which can be pre-ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Now he provides an experimental, new firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems, which fixes fixes spurious register write misses. All those who encountered graphics and audio glitches should test this 'BOOT.bin' and report. Download: zz9000-fwpack-110-20220502b.zip (1 MB) Update: (30.04.2022, 22:11, dr) Meanwhile a new test version of Zorro 3 firmware for ZZ9000/ZZ9000AX is available with improved resampling and DSP lowpass filter. Download link updated. (dr) [News message: 28. Apr. 2022, 05:15] [Comments: 2 - 03. May. 2022, 10:03] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2022` (ANF)	Event: Ticket sale for Amiga37 started On October 15 and 16, 2022 in Mönchengladbach (Germany) the Amiga37 will take place (amiga-news.de reported). Now the ticket sales have started. Tickets can be bought on a separate website (title link). (dr) [News message: 27. Apr. 2022, 06:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2022`	Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.0 Beta 4 vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS, vAmiga. Parallel to the current update of the Amiga emulator, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application with the latest vAmigaCore and implemented a new boarderless strategy regarding the automatic detection of the display area. (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2022, 06:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2022`	Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #123 - Review of accelerator board A630 In issue 123 of his '10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast', Douglas Compton has reviewed the A630 accelerator board for the Amiga 600, developed by Archi-TECH. (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2022, 06:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2022` Cathal (ANF)	Kickstart patch for using NTSC Agnus chips on PAL systems At the title link, 'Cathal' has published his project, with the help of which the NTSC version of the 2 MB Agnus custom chip can also be used for PAL systems. However, patching the Kickstart ROM file requires Windows. He writes about it: more ... (snx) [News message: 25. Apr. 2022, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2022` Willem Drijver (ANF)	Video: ApolloBoot Omni R8 - Starting different operating system versions At the title link, Willem Drijver undertakes a "journey through time" in his video in the form of different operating systems, which he starts one after the other in real-time on his Apollo V4 standalone. For this purpose, ApolloBoot Omni was used in advance, a pre-configured utility for easier installation and start-up of the different operating systems from various AmigaOS versions to AROS, Atari TOS and Mac OS. (snx) [News message: 25. Apr. 2022, 10:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2022`	Video tutorial: How to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA. He says the tutorial is suitable for beginners and includes an example of the binary search algorithm, which is very useful when searching for a word in the list. (dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2022, 06:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2022`	Game announcement: Andrew Vaisey's puzzle game 'Spheroid Andrew Vaisey is a very versatile and busy developer who describes himself as an "8/16bit graphician, musician & coder", but has always had a connection to the Amiga as well. He has been creatively active in graphics and music on the C64 since the 1980s. In the 1990s, he used Amiga-based software for pixelating (various versions of 'Deluxe Paint'), composing (various versions of MED, OctaMED, and Protracker), and coding (AMOS and Blitz Basic 2). Since the 2000s, he has used Windows PC-based cross-development software tools for pixelling and composing. As a member of various demo groups he produced numerous C64 demos, but also games. As Andrew told us, he had managed to bring his Amiga 1200 back to life some time ago and was thus able to transfer all the files previously thought to be 'lost' to his development laptop: unfinished AMOS games, some BLITZ BASIC 2 applications, and a lot of DPIII images and MED/OctaMED/ProTracker modules. This included a game he had developed in AMOS on the Amiga about 27 years ago, whose origin was based on an earlier, simpler version for the C64 (circa 1990). When he recently restored all the data from his old HD, the AMOS version no longer ran. However, he liked the idea of the game and so he started to rewrite it from scratch in Blitz Basic 2 using the old graphics. 'Spheroid' is a puzzle game in which you move a metal ball through a maze of tiles to reach the exit within the given time and the maximum number of moves allowed. Different tiles have different properties and affect the ball in different ways. As long as you keep moving, the time does not count down. This week Andrew will release a 10-level demo version, the final version should have around 50 levels. He kindly provided us with it in advance, so that we could get a first impression. After a long loading time, the game greets us with a start screen that informs us about the different properties of the tiles. The main protagonist, the metal ball, rolls from the left edge of the screen into the center of the "O" of 'Spheroid' as a loving detail at the beginning. And the driving music that runs later in the game sets the mood for the tricky tasks ahead! But the final version will have additional intro music and several level soundtracks as well. In the levels, the player is shown the colors of the tiles at the upper, right edge, which can be entered safely and without losing one's life. And so the first two levels progress quite quickly, as they are pleasantly clear: However, the same applies here: Pride comes before the fall. If you are a bit too energetic and enthusiastic, the ball will run over the edge of the playing field and a life will be lost... The ball will also explode if you mistakenly enter a tile with an "illegal" color. Beside the normal tiles there are the special tiles explained at the beginning: voids - your ball falls into oblivion cracked - tile falls away after you move off it mine - tile explodes after you move off it transporter - transports your sphere to the other transporter on screen grooves - vertical & horizontal, can only move in the groove direction ice - slides your sphere in the direction you were moving conveyor - moves your sphere in the conveyor arrow direction bridge switch - activates the 'bridge' tile to cross any gaps colour switch - changes an unsafe colour tile into a safe colour tile wall - blocks your path exit - exits the level! I bravely "rolled forward" to level five: Here you have to use a bit more brainpower in advance, since you have to look closely at the tiles with the arrows and thus calculate in advance where it will ultimately land. But: mastered! I got stuck at level six for the time being... Here there are "meanly" not only the blue slide fields, but also normal, blue blocks. Since the color of the fields that can be entered without danger changes again and again and blue did not belong in this level, this was the end for me. The final version will also have a passcode system that allows you to continue tinkering in exactly the level you failed at last. And not only the game itself is a welcome, nice change for in between, also the lovely little details like the shadow of the spinning ball or the sound effects e.g. when displaying the next level show that Andrew was at work here with joy and mind. The final version of Spheroid will have the following features: a raytraced loading screen loading music new title screen music between 50 and 60 levels 4 or 5 in-game tunes a passcode system to skip completed levels a ray traced ending screen available to buy on physical media available to download as a disk image compatible with all Amiga versions! That's when we say: Thank you Andrew! And good luck for the final development. We'll update the message as soon as the demo will be available. (dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2022, 06:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	Hollywood 9.1 released Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 9.1. This is a maintenance release which contains mostly bug fixes amid a few new features. It is available free of charge for all customers who bought a Hollywood 9.0 license and can be downloaded from the restricted download area using the personalized user accounts. more ... (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 18:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.16 Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.16 for MorphOS 3.16. more ... (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 14:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	Email client: YAM development discontinued The last Nightly Build is almost a year old: As the authors of the Amiga email client YAM now confirmed to us on request, the development has been stopped. more ... (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 13:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	Aminet uploads until 23.04.2022 The following files have been added until 23.04.2022 to Aminet: more ... (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 23.04.2022 The following files have been added until 23.04.2022 to OS4Depot: more ... (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 23.04.2022 The following files have been added until 23.04.2022 to AROS Archives: more ... (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.04.2022 Die folgenden Pakete wurden bis zum 23.04.2022 dem MorphOS-Storage hinzugefügt: more ... (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022`	WHDLoad: New installers until 23.04.2022 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 23.04.2022: more ... (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2022` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Do it yourself: Kickstart Flash ROM At the title link, Oleg Mishin has published his project for creating a Kickstart Flash ROM oneself. Depending on the Amiga model, there are both a 40 and a 42 pin variant. (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2022`	'Return to Monkey Island' announced, Interview with developer Monkey Island is a five-part graphic adventure series based on an idea by Ron Gilbert. He was heavily involved in the development of the first two parts, which were also released for the Amiga, before leaving LucasArts in the early 1990s. At the beginning of April, the developer announced another 'Monkey Island' part in his Blog. Initially interpreted as an April Fool's joke, it became certainty with the release of a first teaser: 'Return to Monkey Island' will be released in 2022. In an interview with ars TECHNICA, the developer now gives first insights into the development and the history of the game. (dr) [News message: 23. Apr. 2022, 17:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2022` Twitter	RTG driver: P96 V3.3.0 released Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.0 of his RTG driver P96 which among others offers "faster C2P/P2C (for CV3D even hardware-accelerated), new drivers for classic GFX cards like Retina Z2 (the very first one, don't confuse with Z3 version) and Visiona". Changes: more ... (dr) [News message: 23. Apr. 2022, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2022`	Video test: A600/1200 CF2IDE adapter In his latest video, Chris Edwards tests the new A600/1200 CF2IDE adapter released by RetroRewind, which claims to be "the world's first and only CF2IDE adapter with buffering, which separates a total of 24 signals from the rest of the system." This improves the signals and thus contributes to the system's stabilization. A converter is also integrated, which prevents the HDD LEDs on some CompactFlash cards from litting permanently. Furthermore, an additional drive is also supported, which can be connected to the 44-pin connector CN3. (dr) [News message: 23. Apr. 2022, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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