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20.Nov.2022

Action game: Chaos Arena released
"Last Minute Creations" is a Polish group of Amiga game developers and has now released their third game after "GermZ" and "'Atarenium Falcon" (amiga-news.de reported): "Chaos Arena".

The goal of the game is to push opponents out of the arena by attacking them. The whole thing is made more difficult by the fact that all players look the same, so you first have to find out who you are. In addition, the arena is constantly shrinking. Features of the game:

Chaotic and fierceful duel between 12 warriors
Simultaneous 6-player versus mode
3 chaotic arenas
You've lost too early? Strike remaining players with thunders!

An Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3, 512KB CHIP-RAM and 512KB RAM is required. (dr)

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16.Nov.2022 Experimental operating system for the Amiga 4000: Apollo
Dietmar Planitzers unfortunately named "Apollo" project is an experimental operating system for the Amiga 4000. It is incompatible to existing systems, but tries to implement modern concepts on the Commodore computer - the author mentions a process management built around dispatch queues similar to Apple's Grand Central Dispatch as one example.

Interested users need to compile Apollo themselves, the project is being developed on MacOS using the integrated development environment Xcode. Currently the only software available is a bunch of unit tests - which have to be invoked manually, since there's no automated unit testing framework yet. (cg)

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11.Nov.2022
Amiga Future (website) Do it yourself: Sound card Prelude replica (Update)
The Zorro II sound card Prelude supported recording and playing in full-duplex mode at a resolution of 16 bit and a frequency of upto 64 kHz. Those who are interested in building a replica themselves can find a corresponding project - inluding the expansion module MPEGit - at the title link.

Update: (14.11.22, 08:00, snx)
The GitHub repository has been removed meanwhile. As the developer of the replica, Alexander Engelhardt, told us, it had been just a backup, while by himself his work has been just released at a1k.org so far. The reason is that he would like to wait for possible bug reports first, an official release will follow. (snx)

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11.Nov.2022 Puzzle game: LUMA
Indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (among others Wheel of Fortune implementation YAWoFFA or Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam) has released the Amiga port of the puzzle game LUMA, originally written for the Commodore 64.

LUMA is laser based sliding puzzle game where the goal is to connect lasers to targets of same color by using mirrors to deflect the beam. The lasers have to be activated using batteries. Each level must be solved within a specific amount of moves. The game has 128 levels and can be downloaded for a price to be set by the user. (dr)

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