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16.Feb.2024

Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bugs here and there. New features:

Title screen (eg, player select)
Players at same height repel each other
Butterflies
Score screen, including breakdown of each player's kills vs other players

Still to come:

Title screen text loop
Performance mode build for smooth gameplay on A500
Mega Drive conversion
Maybe additional levels derived from the original game's map packs?
AI and/or some form of single player mode

Download: jump_n_bump_LATEST.adf (dr)

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16.Feb.2024

Tool: EmptyADF 1.0
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) has now used ReBuild to create the EmptyADF tool, which can be used to generate empty ADF files. Main features:

creating DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images
creating OFS or FFS disk images
creating images with or without system bootblock
creating disk images with your own label
completing system disk dates:
- last root alteration date
- last disk alteration date
- filesystem creation date

He tested it under AmigaOS 3.2, but it should run on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and installed ReAction libraries. (dr)

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11.Feb.2024

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MIDI transfer. Without this, BarsnPipes is NOT usable. I had tried very hard to write a CAMD driver for USB MIDI transmission. Unfortunately, this did not lead to the success I had hoped for."

In a thread on AROS World, help was sought in this regard, which Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has now provided using his CAMD-MIDI driver under the title link.

Regarding the installtion he has written:

Delete any file present in the devs:midi directory (probably just "debugdriver")
Copy the file "mididriver" into devs:midi directory.
Reboot.

In the archive there are two tools:

"ShowClusters" will show the midi ports of the driver.
"MidiWatch" will monitor a given port as argument (usually mididriver.in.0 or mididriver.out.0).

Update: (16.02.2024, 06:18, dr)

A new version is available on Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet's website: it fixes a bug that caused AROS to crash. He has also added the shell commands MidiThru (forwards messages from one port to another) and MidiSendC (sends a middle C to a specific port).

Charlet also found out that there are two bugs in camdusbmidi.class.c that prevent the sending of multiple midi messages in the nParseMidiOut() function. A corrected version is now also included in the archive. The following must therefore be installed:

Copy "mididriver" into devs:midi (and remove any file that may be there before).
Replace "camdusbmidi.class" from SYS:Classes/USB with the one included in the archive.
Reboot.

(dr)

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06.Feb.2024 Aracde classic: "Donkey Kong"
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. The game is running on a Amiga 500 (YouTube video). (dr)

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