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11.Jan.2022
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Vertical shooter: Amiga port of 'Knightmare' released (update)
The musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the final version of his amiga version of the game 'Metal Gear' last year (amiga-news.de reported). Also originally written for the MSX and published by Konami was the vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare, of which he released his amiga port today (official video). He wrote:

"Originally released in 1986, Knightmare is one of the many classic games produced by Konami for the MSX. It’s the first in a trilogy of games with each edition opting for a different style of gameplay throughout the series. You play as Popolon and your Mission is to rescue Aphrodite from the clutches of the evil Prince of Darkness. You have to fight your way through 8 levels of enemies and bosses along the way to rescue the Goddess of Love and Beauty. The action takes place in the form of a top-down vertical scrolling shoot’em up style including various power-ups along the way".

The Amiga port contains the follow features:

Original game fully disassembled to ensure accurate gameplay
All graphics remastered by Toni Galvez
Brand new title and loading screens
High quality Amiga Enhanced Sound Effects
All levels and bosses have unique Amiga Enhanced soundtracks
All new Hi-score table with automatic saving to disk
50hz / 60hz gameplay option
Built-in auto-fire
Additional secret bonus power-up added ( can you find it? )
Compatible with all Amigas running 512k chip and 512k other ram

Download Knightmare v1.1: knightmare-v1.1.zip (9 MB)
(9 MB)
Download Soundtrack ProTracker: knightmare-soundtrack-mod.zip (1,3 MB)

Update: (19.01.2022, 06:39, dr)

Meanwhile a bug fixed version 1.1 is available. The download link has been updated. (dr)

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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website) A570: 2 MB memory expansion for the external CD-ROM drive
The A570, a CD-ROM expansion for the Amiga 500, can itself be expanded by additional memory. Information on a corresponding 2 MB do-it-yourself PCB can be found at the title link. (snx)

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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website) Floppy drive emulator: Gotek Flash Floppy
Files for an alternative do-it-yourself PCB to the classic Gotek - an emulator of floppy disk drives for the usage of ADF files - can be found at the title link. Oleg Mishin's board for external or internal mounting can be equipped with an 0.96" OLED display and with push buttons or a rotary encoder. (snx)

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31.Dec.2021
Amigablogs AROS: Text editor 'TwinsIDE 0.1' in progress
According to the developer 'serk118' under the title link, he has started developing a text editor called 'TwinsIDE' for AROS IDE. As he writes, the original plan was to either finish his work on porting AmiDE or to work on porting MurksIDE. But since the latter does not support syntax highlighting, he decided to write a text editor from scratch. (dr)

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30.Dec.2021
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AmigaOS 4: First public version of editor 'Lite XL' released
Recently George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had announced that he is going to port the Linux editor Lite XL. Now he has released the first public version v1.16.12.3 of his port.

According to the author "LiteXL for AmigaOS 4 is still experimental and there are some known issues, but it is quite usable. It is recommended to use it on a fast AmigaOne, although it was tested on microAmiga1 and works pretty good, but slow."

Using an AmigaOne X5000, the editor could be started without problems (screenshots see above). Under WinUAE and AmigaOS 4.1 it runs with the help of the PatchCompositeTags, which gives the following result:

(dr)

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