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21.Jul.2021

Project announcement: Universal Commodore power supply
The website 'RavenWolf' is generally dedicated to the research and restoration of all kinds of retro technology. In the latest project, a universal Commodore power supply is to be developed in the next few months. It is intended to be built by any hobbyist and will therefore mainly use commonly available components.

The reason for this is that Mike Brixius, project initiator, often receives used Commodore computers with either missing or wrong power supplies, which in case of doubt can damage the hardware. The goal is thus to build a tabletop power supply that will work with any Commodore computer.

Brixius began to catalog all Commodore machines (that he could think of) that use an external power supply. From this he was able to deduce that he would need to provide a total of 5 different voltages to cover all models:

5 volts DC at 5 amps for an extreme A500 configuration plus 1 external hard drive
9 volts DC at 1 amp for the Commodore 16 and 116 (if they are to be supported)
12 volts DC at 1.5 amps for the A500 plus an external drive
-12 volts DC at a measly 0.1 amps for the Amigas
9 volts AC at 3 amps for the early VIC-20s or 1 amp if the early VICs are to be omitted

To simplify the project, support for the early Vic IIs, C16, and C116 can be dropped. However, as Brixius writes us, his prototype will support the Vic IIs

In addition, he intends to display information about power consumption, for which he plans to integrate a compact DC voltage and current meter. More information about the project as well as videos will follow in the near future. (dr) (Translation: bb)

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17.Jul.2021
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Arcade shooter: Bean Versus The Animator
'17BitRetro' has released the arcade shooter 'Bean Versus The Animator' which can be purchased for 5 Dollar. The archive includes a lguide as well as five adf files. According to the developers they "wrote it originally back in 1994 and finished it off this year".

Features:

6 frantic levels
6 big boss fights
12 weapons
2 Player Simultaneous Action
32 colours
8 Bit SFX and Music
Movie style Intro and Outro
Lightgun or Mouse Controls

System requirements:

OCS / ECS or AGA Amiga
Kickstart 2.04 or higher (only tested under 2.04 and 3.1)
1 MB Chip Ram. Recommended 1.5MB overall to use extra drives
Mouse or Lightgun: Sega Light Phaser 3050 with Amiga adapter and CRT was tested.

(dr)

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17.Jul.2021
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Shell extension: Go Shell 3.0
The developer Krzysztof Donat wrote: "GoShell is free and easy tool to open Shell terminal in fullscreen on separate screen. You can choose any screen mode, set the colors and fonts, change the terminal window settings, and more. GoShell also has several predefined color sets, e.g. classic OS 3.x or OS 1.3, dark, green, orange etc."

Main features of the tool:

Customizable screen, font and colors
A set of predefined color sets
Support for KingCON and ViNCEd (e.g. filename-completion with TAB )
Hiding the mouse pointer in full screen mode
Switching screens GoShell and others and quick access to the console with [Amiga]+m
Exit the console with [Ctrl] + \

GoShell is Freeware but the author appreciates any little donation. (dr)

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14.Jul.2021
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail) Amiga disks on PC: Copy program A-Copy
A-Copy is a program that looks a lot like X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows. It requires the ADF drive hardware, which uses a Teensy USB Development Board as an adapter between PC and floppy drive. (cg) (Translation: bb)

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14.Jul.2021

AmigaOS 4: Python implementation of Space Invaders
Programmed by Tomohiro Nishikado and Taito distributed by Taito, Space Invaders premiered in 1978: an attack of aliens had to be fended off with the spaceship, moving left and right with it at the bottom of the screen and trying to decimate with shots the rows of regularly arranged aliens that were constantly moving horizontally, gradually moving downwards.

Subsequently, there were also numerous conversions for the Amiga, such as "Super Space Invaders" or DeLuxe Galaga. In 2014, developer Lee Robinson wanted to test his Python programming skills and wrote a Python clone of the game, the source code of which he published on GitHub (YouTube video).

Amiga programmer Janne Peräaho has taken this source code, ported it from Python 3 to Python 2.5.6 and created a conversion for AmigaOS 4.

Extras:

Full screen mode
Unlimited attack waves
Highscore
Title music
Moon background
Amiga-Icon

We have tested the game briefly: The game runs in slow motion under WinUAE on a Windows computer with 2.20 GHz. Maybe newer and faster systems can get more out of it. Native on an AmigaOne X5000/20, on the other hand, it runs smoothly and is thus perfectly suited for a short phase of distraction.

The game can be downloaded for free from OS4Depot, the author is happy about a small donation if you like it, which he also considers as motivation for future projects. (dr) (Translation: bb)

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