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`16.Apr.2025` Darren 'dmcoles' Coles (ANF)	Unofficial successor: Action Replay 5 DeMoN cartridge An improved Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga 500 and WinUAE has been developed using reverse engineering. The hardware component is DeMoN, the software is called Action Replay 5. The Action Replay III was a popular plug-in module for the Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 that offered developers and gamers various functions to access the system's hardware more deeply. The main function was the use of the hardware as a cheat module, with which the Amiga could be "slowed down" using a potentiometer in order to successfully master tricky game situations. Game data stored in the working memory of a currently running game could be changed, for example to give yourself more life. Bypassing copy protection mechanisms or "ripping" music, samples or images and many other functions were also possible with Action Replay III and its predecessors on the Amiga. (snx) [News message: 16. Apr. 2025, 21:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Apr.2025`	Scala game: The Hobbitron Chronicles The Hobbitron Chronicles is a point-and-click version of the text adventure Adventure 3 created with Scala MM400. Accordingly, the Scala Player (or Scala) is required to play the game. The aim of the game is to find and destroy three magical rings hidden in different eras: the past, the present and the future. (snx) [News message: 16. Apr. 2025, 21:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Apr.2025`	iComp: ACA1240/1260 now available for all customers ACA from iComp (individual Computers) is a modern turbocard series for various classic Amiga models. The fast version for the Amiga 1200 holding a 68040 or 68060 processor has been available to interested parties for a few days now. The card was first mentioned at the end of 2018 and has already been delivered to iComp's existing customers since February of this year. Jens Schönfeld mentions in the current announcement that not all planned features are yet included on the card. At this year's Revision demoparty in Saarbrücken, an Amiga 1200 with an ACA1260 at 100 MHz is running for the AGA/060 Demo Competition, according to iComp. Sales of the ACA1240 and ACA1260 are limited to one card per customer. Interested parties must therefore register on the iComp website before purchasing. (nba) [News message: 15. Apr. 2025, 00:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2025` RastPort	Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.1 The relatively new "Quite OK Audio Format" (QOA) is a lossy audio compression format: audio signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded at 278 kbits/s, or more precisely at 3.2 bits per sample - exactly 1/5 of the bits required for an uncompressed WAV file. It is therefore less complex than the well-known OGG Vorbis and MP3 formats, but still significantly smaller than lossless file formats (see also a corresponding German (siehe auch einen entsprechenden heise.de article). According to Grzegorz Kraszewski, this could also be a good alternative for the Amiga in terms of computing effort, quality and file size. He has implemented a decoder in M68k assembler and written a tool that converts QOA files into uncompressed AIFF (source code on GitHub). The author points out that this version is not yet optimised and does not use 68020+ instructions. (dr) [News message: 14. Apr. 2025, 06:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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