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06.Feb.2025 Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 1.02 (update)
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler "Bolminok's Kingdom" requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for €1.50 at itch.io.

Update: (09.02.2025, 07:10, dr)

Version 1.02 is now available, which saves some chip RAM and contains a few corrections. (cg)

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05.Feb.2025
AmigaKit (E-Mail) A1200NG: New photos of the emulator-based mainboard
At the title link AmigaKit has published further photos of its ARM- and emulator-based mainboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported). The latest and probably final revision of the hardware, which corresponds to the Amiga 1200 mainboard in terms of dimensions, has a sound mixing circuit and a CDDA feed, as well as a connection for a 12-volt power supply and the option of connecting SATA and IDE drives to internal USB headers.

Greaseweazle technology for reading and writing various floppy disk formats has been integrated. On the software side, AmiBench is used as the desktop interface, as with the A600GS, and FinalWriter 7.2 will be one of the included application programs - which A600GS owners will receive as a free update. Different operating systems and ROMs can then be used on the A1200NG. (snx)

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02.Feb.2025

AmigaOS 4: VideoVortex - GUI for searching and watching YouTube videos
Video Vortex is a graphical user interface for YT.rexx for searching and viewing YouTube videos. YT.rexx is a script that provides direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. VideoVortex, on the other hand, saves the user the cumbersome and tedious task of editing various configuration files and offers a clear and easy-to-use user interface that was written with Hollywood and the MUIRoyale plugin.

With the help of the full version of the media player "Emotion" (amiga-news.de reported) the videos can be played directly. Thomas 'TearsOfMe' Kölsch uses the alternative YouTube frontend Invidious for the search. The author has already gained experience in dealing with Hollywood in his previous projects such as AmigaTText or A Little Remember Game.

Even if some users have already installed YT.rexx on their computer, it is recommended to download it (again) when starting VideoVortex for the first time. Emotion should also have already been started once so that an "APPDIR:" entry can be found. (dr)

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02.Feb.2025
tukinem

Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video) as follows:

we can at any time during the game switch the color scheme between the original color palette from the PC version of CGA, and the 32-color version
the game code has been refined so that the game runs on the weakest Amiga 1000 (with additional fast RAM)
all animations from the original have been faithfully ripped
we have the possibility to create a tournament for 2-4 players with the possibility to save the game
we have a board editor for levels 51-99
we have atmospheric music playing in the background by E!ghtBM

(dr)

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