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11.Jan.2019
Amigaworld (Webseite) Review: Installation of new A1200 keycaps (a1200.net)
On Indie Retro News there is a detailed review on the installation of the new A1200 keycaps which were financied by crowdfunding. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2018
Alexander Fritsch, selco (ANF) Speech synthesis: SAM 1.1
The Amiga port of Sebastian Macke's C-reimplementation of the well-known C64 speech synthesizer SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) now can be found on Aminet. SAM runs on all Amigas and supports sound output via the audio or ahi.device as well as in a WAV-File. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2018

Jump'n Run: The Kiwi's Tale for CD32, AGA and ECS
"The Kiwi's Tale" written by Erik 'Earok' Hogan (video) was developed about 10 years ago for the PC and is meant to be a fan sequel of "The New Zealand Story". There is a version for the CD32 with CD-DA sound and versions for AGA and ECS, currently without background sound.

According to the author the game has the following features:

Screen updates with 50hz, smooth eight-ways-scrolling, very big levels
Duration like in commercial games
15 levels
2 weapons
3 flight devices
8 kind of enemies
2 final enemies
Two players option: the second joystick controls the flight devices
CD audio
Support of joysticks with one or two fire buttons as well as CD32 joypad
Hidden bonus game on disk

Although the author does not describe the game as very "polished", it is completed and in future he is only going to fix bugs. If somebody provided music in MOD format, he would add it to the AGA- und ECS ports. The game requires 2 Megabyte ChipRAM and at least a 68020 processor. Some additional FastRAM is recommended to smoothly play some particularly hectic parts of the game. The ECS port was done at last and therefore has not been extensively tested.

Controls:

Fire: Fire button 1
Jump: Fire button 2 or 'up'
Leaving flight device: Keep pressing the fire button 2 or fire button and 'up'
Pause: 'P' or 'Play' (CD32)
Quit: 'Escape' or 'Forward'+'Reverse' (CD32)

A 'cheat' the developer also provides: If all levels are supposed to be accessible, in the map view you have to press the Space key for some seconds or the green button (joypad).

Download websites:

CD32
A1200
ECS (Experimental) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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