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06.Jun.2015

Platformer: "The Game"
David Eriksson's "The Game" is an unfinished platformer written in AMOS. The game is fully playable, according to the author it only lacks "a title and a little bit of polish". The author explains that "there is no real ending, you just get to a room that says Well Done and there's no real end".

Eriksson also states that "The main reason I stopped development was that when I tried the game on a clean A1200 there was some minor sprite flicker that I couldn't get rid of (and its still there) but now I decided to clean up some other parts of the game up a bit and release what I have."

"The Game" was heavily inspired by the retro platformer You have to win the game, even if work on the former started way before the latter was released.

"The Game" runs on 68000-based Amigas but according to the author "it still is a little slow". An Amiga 1200 with some FastRAM is recommended. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015
Martin Merz (ANF) AISS 4.19 released
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which is a system for managing toolbar images under AmigaOS and other systems.

AISS 4.19 has more than 7.900 images. Due to compatibility reasons alle pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jun.2015
(ANF)

Sam460 customers can return AmigaOS 4.1 and get a refund
Three weeks ago, MorphOS 3.8 has been released, including support for the Sam460 motherboards from ACube. Now the Italian hardware vendor reacts to this development and offers his customers a refund if they want to return their copy of AmigaOS 4.1: If you return your AmigaOS DVD to ACube, ACube will pay you 48 Euros.

The exact conditions for the refund are listed in a PDF file that is linked to from ACube's webshop:

The refund is only available for "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition OEM" and needs to be requested no more than 30 days after purchase of the hardware
the DVD package is unopened and still shrinkwraped
The customer returns the DVD to ACube at his own costs and also pays any additional paypal or bank fees required for returning the money to him
To avoid the additional costs and the hassle of sending the DVD back to ACube, customers can request a refund immediately after ordering the hardware, bevore it's even processed at ACube

All Sam460 variants are still available only as a bundle with AmigaOS 4.1 though. The fact that ACube keeps referring to a "refund" even if it's clear new customers can pretty much buy a motherboard and request the 'refund' at the same time and that the company explains in detail why they're offering a refund - including a link to the EU guidelines on "Unfair Commercial Practices" suggests that ACube's contractually obligated to always sell a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 with their Hardware.

It's currently unknown if the refund will also be available when purchasing a Sam460 through another dealer. (cg)

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02.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum) MorphOS: Calimero 0.14
Carsten Siegner's word processing software Calimero is still in development. Beta version 0.14 features different levels for objects and allows you to copy them to the clipboard, to cut and to paste them.

Download: Calimero_beta_0.14.lha (9 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)

AmigaOS 4: Filemanager Dir Me Up 2.40
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays has released an update of his commercial filemanager "Dir Me Up".

Changes:

Create drawers:

Checkbox added to automatically go into new drawer after creation
Check added on non valid characters (:,//)
Possible input of slash (/) to create several drawers in a row

Volumes details now displayed in "text" preview field when selected
Quick double click comeback on files
Prefs: .wmv and .webm suffixes added like video

(snx) (Translation: dr)

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