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`03.Jan.2024` Mastodon	Recovered: Early music programs "Computer Composer" and "Magic Harp" Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences also manages a curated collection of software believed to be lost by Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen. The collection comprises ten games, demos and experiments on artificial personality and artificial creativity, which also includes the two music programs "Computer Composer" (1986) and "Magic Harp" (1986/87) for the Amiga. Perhaps Kirschen's most ambitious idea was to make software that could generate music autonomously using "artificial creativity". Early versions of the project, called "Magic Harp", were developed for the Amiga 1000, using digital sound samples. The Amiga software was never published commercially, but was profiled in several large newspapers in 1988 under the name "JFY Box" or "Jiffy Box" after it was used to score a BBC TV documentary. "Computer Composer" (demo version) is a colorful early demo of Kirschen's process to generate new music by recombining patterns extracted from existing music. Unlike the later "Magic Harp", which featured large (silent) animated "artificial personalities", this demo uses speech synthesis to announce when it is "writing an original composition". It was probably intended to be shown by Kirschen at technology and music trade shows in summer 1986. This software was created on an Amiga 1000. This demo allows the user to create or play music in four styles: "Maharishi Madness", "Saxman Rock", "Peruvian Indian" and "Bugle Boy Blues". In "Magic Harp" Kirschen arranged the production of two themed music discs ("Pop" and "Baroque") with Irving Gould, which were to be included with the Amiga 1000. Only a beta version of the Baroque version has survived. (dr) [News message: 03. Jan. 2024, 11:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Dec.2023` Frank Abbing (ANF)	Game: Re-release of Weltendämmerung (german) "Weltendämmerung" is a real-time strategy game by Frank Abbing (UAC Design, Risk implementation "Riskful"), which he had already written at the beginning of the 90s in AmigaE and Assembler (DevPac) as his first Amiga game, but only published in 2001. Now the author has made it available again as an ADF file on archive.org. In the game, you take on the role of Robert Ungar. He must try to defeat the creatures of Dr. Coypu. In order to accomplish this task, he must succeed in getting an army of mutants under his control. Download: Weltendaemmerung.adf (880 KB) (snx) [News message: 31. Dec. 2023, 09:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Dec.2023` Puni (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for December For the month of December 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx) [News message: 31. Dec. 2023, 09:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Dec.2023` Puni (ANF)	Demoscene: Diskmagazine Versus #9 from 2019 as online edition Issue 9 of Versus, the disk magazine from Nucleus and Void with Amiga demoscene charts, was released in 2019 and has been made accessible now by 'Browallia' as an online edition. (snx) [News message: 31. Dec. 2023, 09:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023` Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)	Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port) In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 08:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	AROS: Review of December 2023 In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 08:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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