29.May.2020
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Amiga Source Preservation: Source texts and PDF books under free licence
The project "Amiga Source Preservation" originally was going to safeguard as many source texts of Amiga programs as possible and making them available under a free licence. Since about a year books on Amiga have been safeguarded as well which then are offered under the Creative Commons licences for free download.
The books are saved in a Gitlab repository and periodically also uploaded to the Aminet. The website of the project offers an overview about the 16 books and 110 source texts released so far.
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29.May.2020
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9995
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version includes new skins, fixes bugs and now also runs on an A4000/30, an A1200 with 68060 processor and an A600 equipped with a Vampire. The format of the program cache changed. Therefore you should delete the content of the "cache" directory if you are going to update the tool. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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28.May.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.5 for all Amiga systems (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager similar to Norton and Midnight Commander which additional to the mouse interface can be also completely controlled with the keyboard. MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The program at least requires 4 MB RAM. According to the author the AmigaOS 4 version does not run on a X5000.
Changes in version 0.5:
- video fixes
- browse, copy, move, rename, view/edit in lha/lzx archives
- browse, extract, view files from xad supported archive types
- start executables by pressing (shift) enter
- tools menu
- now includes a build for 68000 CPUs
Hint of the editors: Obviously MCAmiga does not work with Vampire systems, due to the affinity of the Vampire team with operating system "Coffin OS" which also includes illegal copies. The corresponding error message is slightly misleading and suggests a incorrect detection of Coffin OS.
Update: (29.05.2020, 23:00, cg)
According to the author in the comments of his blog, he only forgot to remove the bloackade of the Vampire. The author wrote: "It was my try to point to a problem… seems not many people care.. so it became stupid and useless… therefore I decided a while before already to remove that." (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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USB adapter for classic joystick: UJOY/1A
The US-American retailer has developed another adapter for connecting an Atari/Commodore-compatible joystick to a modern computer: UJOY/1A uses an USB micro controller "Silicon Laboratories EFM8UB1" to make old joysticks understand the USB protocol. The adapter is available for 19 USD, the schematic (but not the documents for making a board) are available for free as PDF.
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28.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of Grand Prix 500 for download
The full version of the motorbike racing game Grand Prix 500 II can be downloaded in the download section of the Amiga Future as ADF image or WHDLoad version.
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27.May.2020
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Beambender: Interview with Bernhard Aichinger / PC version downloadable
Olaf Köbnik wrote: 17 Jahre after the first release of Beambender (Amiga-Version) by Amiga Arena now with permission of Bernhard Aichinger the long missed PC version of Beambender is offered for free and legal download.
Even after 25 years, afrer the installation Beambender runs under Windows 10 without any problems. An (German) interview with Bernhard Aichinger who contributed the graphics for the Amiga and PC version you can also find under the title link.
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27.May.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Arcade classic in 36 kilobytes: Tiny Galaga
After Tiny Invaders, the demo group Abyss has released its second minimalistic clone of an arcade classic called "Tiny Galaga" (video) which is less than 40 kb.
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27.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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SciFi shooter/racer: First demo of "Verge World Icarus Rising"
According to the authors "Verge World" is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements." The game is being developed for diverse retro platforms. Now a first playable Amiga preview version is available.
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26.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 110 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga games "Cyber Kick" and "Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo Specchio".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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26.May.2020
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser Netsurf 3.10
The web browser Netsurf - and also Chris Young's ReAction-based Amiga port (must not be confused with the SDL version) - is available as version 3.10 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4.
Specific AmigaOS changes:
- Added Page Info icon and window.
- Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
- Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
- Allow running JavaScript from ARexx.
- Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.
Cross-platform changes:
- Improved handling of NetSurf generated queries and errors, including:
- Timeouts.
- Authentication requests.
- Certificate problems.
- Created consistent visual style for NetSurf Core generated content.
- HTML layout fix for {min|max}-width on replaced elements.
- Improved keyboard navigation.
- Improved local history with keyboard navigation and improved display.
- Fixed mouse interaction issue when entire document had visibility:hidden.
- Refactoring of the browser window handling.
- Refactoring of the HTML content handler.
- Refactoring of SSL certificate handling.
- Refactoring of HTML, text search and selection code.
- Many improvements to JavaScript robustness.
- Many new and improved Duktape JavaScript bindings.
- Improved core/front end interface for content scaling.
- Much improved content caching, both in memory and disc caching.
- Added a generic hashmap, used by the disc cache code.
- Fetcher improvements for robustness and performance.
- Updated JavaScript engine to Duktape 2.4.0.
- Improved handling of aborted fetches.
- Improved integration testing with framework built around monkey front end.
- Improvements to monkey front end to make testing more extensive and reliable.
- Minor HTML form improvements.
- Minor HTML handler optimisations.
- Fixes to HTML handler for robustness.
- Refactoring generation of about: pages.
- Fixed save complete not to save multiple copies of the same files.
- Change how animated GIFs are rate-limited to be in line with other browsers.
- Added a page info core window.
- Clamping screen DPI to a sensible range.
- Initial work towards supporting HTML5 canvas element.
- Various treeview fixes.
- Hubbub library 0.3.7 (HTML parser):
- Minor code quality improvements.
- Fixes for some HTML5 element handling.
- LibCSS library 0.9.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):
- Fixed a problem in the parsing of invalid media blocks.
- Minor code quality improvements.
- LibDOM library 0.4.1 (Document Object Model):
- Improved HTML TextArea element handling.
- Fix SubtreeModified event to be fired after updating attribute values.
- Support finalising the namespace strings.
- Basic support for keypress events.
- Improvements to event dispatch event lifetime handling.
- Support for InnerHTML.
- Added support for HTMLCanvasElement.
- Minor code quality improvements.
- Fixed HTMLElement property setters.
- Fixed HTMLTitleElement text getter/setter.
- LibNSBMP library 0.1.6 (BMP support):
- Minor code quality improvements.
- LibNSLog library 0.1.3 (Filterable logging):
- Added support for short log level names.
- LibWapcaplet library 0.4.3 (String internment):
- Free global context if no strings leak.
- Enabled build with toolchains that don't support statement expressions.
- Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.
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26.May.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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A4000 motherboard suitable for ATX cases: A4000TX
Two years ago the Finnih developer 'hese7' offered his A4000 motherboard clone A4000+ Alice and promised an ATX-compatible version. The aim of the developer was to create a version of the A4000cr motherboard including the daughterboard which is compatible to ATX cases and power supplies and additionally supports fullsize Zorro cards.
Meanwhile the clone has been finished. On Amibay you can purchase empty boards in a collective order. The latest Revision 1.1 offers the following features:
- ATX form factor (actually a hybrid ATX/EATX form factor)
- uses standard ATX power supply
- 68030 processor and 68882-FPU
- CPU slot connector for accelerator cards
- four full-length Zorro III slots
- three (inactive) ISA slots
- 3.5" IDE port
- extended video slot
- onboard Fast RAM support up to 112MB (Meutoxo)
- Kickstart ROM support up to 4MB (Romy)
- Amiga mouse and joystick ports
- PC PS/2 keyboard and PC PS/2 mouse support
- support for native Amiga and PC floppy drives
- 24-pin breakout header with full RGB port support (for external scandoublers, genlocks, SCART cables, etc..)
- power connectors for two case fans
- serial and parallel ports, 3.5mm stereo jack
- on-board RTC with battery
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26.May.2020
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling (e.g. Data Becke
Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling has written books and software for the Amiga which have been published e.g. at Data Becker. In this video interview with Scene World he has talked about Amiga publishing houses in the 90s as well as his current books for the C64 Mini and the C64 Maxi.
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25.May.2020
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Operating system: NetBSD 9.0 with support of PPC-boards
The free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD is available in version 9.0, among others as port for Amiga computers - for the first time also for the PPC-boards made by Phase 5, although this version is called "very experimental". The global changes of NetBSD 9 are listed in the release notes, specific Amiga changelogs and downloads you can find on the project sites NetBSD/amiga and NetBSD/amigappc.
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25.May.2020
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Replica of A1200 mainboard: ReAmiga 1200 Revision 1.5
John 'Chucky' Hertell has published an updated version of his A1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Revision 1.5 among others offers a S-Video instead of a Composite-Video port.
Changes:
- Fixed a signal shorted to VCC in Rev1.4 (C0D)
- Added a 74LS08 so now H and V sync is always buffered (this NEEDS to be installed or you will not get V and H sync out onto the monitors)
- this to allow longer monitorcables and also save Alice if something goes wrong when hotplugging monitorcable.
- Colorsignals to RGB and VGA port is now always via the PNP transistor buffers, so RGB port will not be a darker color. It is not recomended to
- attach 2 monitors at once.
- Composite out is now optional Composite OR Svideo out. (you cannot move old RCA to new board due to this) SVideo needs to be installed aprox 1mm “over” the PCB.
- Included a “Svideo” standoff for this. do that PCB as a 1mm pcb.
- Added connector for 7V fan (actually where 5V is “gnd” and 12V is plus)
- Added leds for _RST, _KB_RST, _ODD_CIA, _EVEN_CIA and _ROMEN also to Serial TXD and RXD (from the 5V level)
- TOTALLY OPTIONAL!. Resistor at bottom 470Ohm so it is not that bright this is for all leds, change to higher or lower after taste (lowest 33Ohm).
- Moved Mouseconnector and shrunk PCB some so you can have a mouse PCB like Amiga 1200 Rev 2.
- Added mousePCB compatible with Amiga 1200 Rev 2 aswell that have a optional Joysticktester (not mousedirection)
- Added jumperheaders for selectable PAL/NTSC Default start (then do not populate that 0ohm resistor, now removed from locator and pick&place data)
- Moved VGA Connector so it aligns more to other Dsubs.
- Adopted components so you can do a full socket of board (remember that sockets is a source of problems)
- Added resistor to IDE Activity so now adapters that made IDE led always bright will be handled correct.
- Moved extra powerconnector slightly to not touch BVision when installed.
- Fixed Silkscreen so all used components now have value.
- Added pads close to floppyconnector for a 0Ohm resistor if you want to do the Escom floppypatch instead of a wire.
- Added pads close to ROM socket for optional DRA0 pullup that some machines had with a 470Ohm (I think) resistor from clockport to a via. now a SMD resistor can be used.
- At bottom of board close to optional 1K resistor for zenerdiode, added a pad for possability to disable the default “sync on green” if wanted. cut and solder
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25.May.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Datatype for WebP: WarpWebP.datatype 45.1
Oliver Robert's has completed his collection of Warp datatypes by another one: The image format WebP. The datatype is based on Google's libwebp 1.1.0. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, WarpOS and MorphOS are available, a graphic card is not required.
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24.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 23rd, 2020:
RNOXfer.lha comm/tcp 2.2M MOS Graphical FTP/FTPS client
RNOXfer_68k.lha comm/tcp 1.9M 68k Graphical FTP/FTPS client
RNOXfer_OS4.lha comm/tcp 2.6M OS4 Graphical FTP/FTPS client
A-MagIssue2_202005.adf demo/mag 880K 68k Issue two of A-Mag disk magazine
Bin2C.lha dev/c 3K 68k Converts binary files to C so...
DesignerSP.lha dev/hwood 95K HW Designer 4/5 spanish catal...
IoTools.lha disk/misc 109K 68k Iomega tools (ZIP/JAZ) for th...
Africa-AROS.zip game/board 290K x86 Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 340K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
3SInstall.lha game/patch 20K 68k The Three Stooges Hard Drive ...
AB3DTrainer.lha game/patch 19K 68k Patch program for Alien Breed 3D
AmiSGE.lha game/patch 23K 68k Decode/Encode Frontier:Elite ...
GDTrainer.lha game/patch 18K 68k Cheat for Gloom Deluxe
GloomTrainer.lha game/patch 18K 68k Cheat for Classic Gloom
RTInstall.lha game/patch 21K 68k R-Type Hard Drive Installer
SetJoyPort.lha game/patch 6K 68k Allow games to use joypad con...
StarCrusaderPa.lha game/patch 20K 68k Speedup patch for Star Crusader
Greeblies.lha game/shoot 118K 68k Manic shoot'em'up written in ...
Nerdkill.lha game/shoot 98K 68k Tension relief massacre game
dtview2.lha gfx/show 59K 68k Picture viewer for public scr...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
CPCConv_v1.02.lha misc/emu 14K 68k Amstrad CPC emulator disk ima...
DOSBox_Jit.lha misc/emu 1.7M MOS MS Dos emulator with JIT
dsk2cpc10.lha misc/emu 8K 68k AMICPC disk image convertor
Morpheus_1.75.lha text/dtp 2.7M MOS Word processor
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 332K Annotate Pascal Syntax
EvenMore.lha text/show 349K 68k V0.93: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 442K MOS V0.93: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 431K OS4 V0.94: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 297K EvenMore textviewer plugins s...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 821K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.0M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 579K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 733K OS4 Multipurpose utility
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 112K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 145K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
AppLauncher_sbar.lha util/wb 42K MOS Run apps from the screenbar
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24.May.2020
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OS4Depot: More than 4000 files uploaded / Uploads until 23.05.2020
On May 17 the 4000th file was uploaded to the OS4Depot. Uploading the last 1000 file thus took eight years and two months.
The following archives have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
atomicbomberman_compo... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
atomicbomberman_warp3... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
simpletransfer.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.0 Quick and Easy Transfers on a Ne...
inputeventsniffer.lha uti/mis 25kb 4.1 Check all kinds of input events
reportplus.lha uti/mis 733kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
mwait.lha uti/she 16kb 4.0 multi wait command for 1.x+.
nowinedsrc.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.0 TextEditor multipage (MDI) (sour...
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24.May.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 23rd, 2020:
Africa_1.54.lha A conversion of 3W boar...
AppLauncher_2.5.lha Run your apps from the ...
DonkeyKong_1.5.lha LCD game conversion
DOSBox_0.74r4Jit.lha A DOS-emulator that use...
EvenMore_0.94.lha A freeware Textviewer C...
GenesisPlus_2.1b.lha Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Iris_beta0.86.lha New email client suppor...
MacMiniJedi.jpeg MacMiniJedi.jpeg
MCAmiga_0.4.lha MyCommander for Amiga
Morpheus_1.75.lha Word processor with Uni...
PegasosJedi.jpeg PegasosJedi.jpeg
SDL2_Libraries.lha All Libraries SDL2 with...
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24.May.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
- 2020-05-22 improved: Monolith (Megawatts) crash in main part on slow machines fixed (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-19 fixed: WatchTower (OTM/Cyberarts) fixed lockup when detecting controllers (Info)
- 2020-05-19 fixed: Starray (Logotron) fixed lockup when detecting controllers (Info)
- 2020-05-19 improved: Quasar Wars (Light Designs) fixed lockup when detecting controllers, added icon (Info)
- 2020-05-19 fixed: Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus) fixed lockup when detecting controllers (Info)
- 2020-05-19 new: Gulp! (ICE) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2020-05-19 improved: Flimbos Quest (System 3) blitter wait patches can be disabled, nice icons added (Info)
- 2020-05-19 improved: Propaganda (Zero Defects) wrong register handling in interrupts fixed (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-18 new: Wicked House (Origin) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-18 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) enhanced trainer options (Info)
- 2020-05-18 fixed: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) fixed spurious fire when pressing second button for jumping (Info)
- 2020-05-17 new: Mindfield (Megawatts) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-17 new: Monolith (Megawatts) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-17 improved: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) fixed crash when saving high-score, fixed non-working 2-button joystick, added delay on "Cool Coyote" screen (Info)
- 2020-05-17 updated: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) Slave name corrected (Info)
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24.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Raytracing tutorials with Lightwave on an Amiga
Under the title link "Muadib" releases YouTube Raytracing tutorials showing Lightwave on an Amiga. Each Sunday on 7 p.m. (Central European Summer Time) the presentation is broadcast via webcast on Twitch.tv.
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23.May.2020
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Portrait: The RedPill developer Carlos Peris
Besides the well-known developers like Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) or Hans de
Ruiter (ZitaFTP, Warp3D Nova) there are a number of other active developers we would like to introduce to our readers in a loose succession.
We would like to start with the Spanish programmer Carlos "trackerhero" Peris. He might be known to our readers for his Amiga game editor
RedPill which recently has been updated to version 0.7.14. Additional to Peris the Spanish graphic artist Jordi Palome belongs to the team of Redpill who also has created the logo.
Peris is a professional developer for mobile games working for Ubisoft in Barcelona. Developing software for the Amiga is nothing but a hobby. And although he prefers programming games, he uses his game editor RedPill but, as he explained, "making them in the game editor helps me a lot to put me in the user position and help to improve the tool." Although the editor provides limited features hehopes that the Amiga Fans are interested in RedPill and use it. Peris frankly admits that he finds it easier to start projects than finishing them with a final and satisfying result. Sometimes this is also reflected in his Amiga biography:
This started in 1993. At the age of 14 he got an Amiga. He was impressed: "What a machine!". Thus, as he said himself, he "arrived a bit late to the Amiga scene" using his computer mainly for games. Some years later he got an Amiga 1200 and started programming in Blitz Basic. The first results he himself described as "ugly games" e.g. Wave Run Gold, Whirlwind or Amidonkey. Many of them, as mentioned, unfinished.
Simultaneously he also joined the demo scene, especially "Ozone", writing in 68k assembler. His biggest contribution was the Intro for the "Trashcan 5" demo.
Like many others, at the beginning of the year 2000 he got a PC and learned programming in different languages. He never left the Amiga and at that time among others he released the game which name also became his "pseudonym": Tracker Hero (video). It is a music game similar to "Guitar Hero". He also wrote the game X-MasDisaster at this time.
Screenshot of the RedPill game "Mirror"
Now he completely concentrates on RedPill and games based on it. His main goal is to simplify creating 8-Bit games. Nowadays he thinks again more retro games are released. He guessed that "it took more time to the amigans to get back to its passion". Fortunately he could recriut his partner Jordi Palome for his recently started game project HappyBat so we are looking forward for updates.
One request the developer has: "What would help me the most is someone that helps me to explain Redpill to people, like doing tutorials, videos, whatever. I have no time and am not really good at it, and it is really very important!" You can contact the author via the website of RedPill but of course we also can pass on any feedback or support you would provide to him.
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22.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade port: Tapper, version 02A
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic game from 1983 to the Amiga. In this new test version all gameplay features have been implemented except the sound. The author said: "Still got a fair bit of work in Dpaint to do as well as a few bits of game code to write but I think it's coming along quite nicely."
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22.May.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.14
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.14:
- New action trigger Play Anim 8 to play an animation based in the direction of
the object.
- Play Anim 8 uses 8 anims, starting with the Up/North Animation, and in
clock-wise order. It uses 8 animations.
- New action trigger Play Anim 4 to play an animation based in the direction of
the object.
- Play Anim 4 uses 4 anims, starting with the Up/North Animation, and in
click/wise order. It uses 4 animations.
- In a level, when a background image is used without any tiles placed, the
palette from the image will be used.
- For HUD bar elements, now it is possible to adjust the height of the bar.
- Extra check in Auto Slice to avoid slicing a big image by mistake.
- Level editor map now shows all available area instead of the camera limits
area.
- FIX: Tile properties display fixed when using tiles with border.
- FIX: Fix in export game routines.
- FIX: moving a livel object leaved some trash in the screen.
- FIX: Level editor now can scroll to the bottom of the level.
- FIX: Fix in edit trigger up/down controls, now last trigger is reachable.
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22.May.2020
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 85
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others Iris now display GMail threads. Besides, "the autoconfiguration of emails was significantly improved, especially for GMail-managed domains and Yahoo."
The author appreciates any feedback. Please use the corresponding MorphZone discussion.
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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English/Danish assembler workshop from 1990
"Programmering i maskinkode på Amiga" is a Danish assembler workshop, which from 1990 on was commercially distributed in 12 lessons. Meanwhile the author has made available the workshop on his website for free. Thanks to Amiga fan 'Amix73' there is also an English-language translation.
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21.May.2020
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta07
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. Changes:
- Fixed bug in Cairo library caused skippable DSI on some sites in cairo_clip_intersect_rectangle_box() by adding related patches from the latest version of Cairo.
- Replaced old, statically linked, Pixman library v0.32.4 by newer v0.36.0 from Salas00: https://github.com/salass00/pixman_lib
Salas00's version is a real amiga native shared library and has AOS4 native TLS (thread-local storage) implementation, which means that rendering done now not from the same thread, but from different ones => things can be faster.
New pixman-1.library coming with release archive in the LIBS directory, so no action needs, all continue to works out of the box. Thanks Salas00!
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, and mouse cursor over the video, then after 2 seconds of inactivity we hide mouse pointer. Moving mouse or clicking mouse buttons made cursor be visibly again. I.e. mimic usual video-players behavior.
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, then we disable screen blankers and enable them back once we exit from full-window playback.
- Fixed nasty bug with missing TAG_DONE in the Dtpic object creation. Before it working by pure luck: If the memory following the unterminated tag list contains 'lucky' or invalid tag values then nothing bad happens.
But a single 'unlucky' (but valid and possibly dangerous if not used correctly) tag value may cause unpredictable havoc (c) Thore.
- Rewritten DoSuperNew() function to use DoSuperMethodA() directly instead of DoSuperMethod(), as the later internally do call the same DoSuperMethodA(). So we skip that step to make DoSuperNew() be more efficient with less stack space in use.
Thanks to Thore for hint and Oliver for explaining.
- Added support for 4th and 5th mouse buttons for stepping backward (4th) and forward (5th) through the browser history. I.e same as in IBrowse.
- Major improvements in spoofing area by Javier: new Spoofing preferences. Together with inbuild (and not editable) default Odyssey's user-agent, you can now add/edit your own ones.
You also can choose what user agents you want to show on the menu and which didn't. All the user-agents saves in the 'useragents.prefs' placed in Conf , just like 'userscripts.prefs' or 'searchengines.prefs'.
The work which spends on was big, so there can be issues so plz check it carefully and report all bugs and suggestions. Everything localized as well, see bottom of OWB.cd. Thanks Javier!
- Notification titles are now localized as well, see OWB.cd for MSG_NOTIFY_DL_COMPLETED, MSG_NOTIFY_DL_CANCELLED and MSG_NOTIFY_DL_FAILED (c) Javier.
- Updated Italian catalog by samo79 and new Danish catalog by NBache.
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Virus Help Team Denmark: Update of VirusZ_III.Bootblocks
The "Virus Help Team Denmark" (VHT) has released an update of its bootblock collection which is used in Georg Hörmann's program VirusZ III:
- Bavarian Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- Gandalf Decoded Virus
- Guru Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- Random Access Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- Sinister Syndicate [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- And 167 harmless bootblocks
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20.May.2020
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Conversion Kits: Using A500(+), A600 or A1200 as USB keyboard
Tynemouth Software offers Conversion Kits for A500(+) and A600/A1200 which replace the mainboard of the Amiga and use the keyboard of the Amiga as well as joysticks (A500 version) as USB devices. The LEDs of the case are also used for viewing "Power" and "Numlock". The Conversion Kits do not require any additional drivers or preferences at the host computer.
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20.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 117 of Amiga Future readable online
Issue 117 (November/December 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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19.May.2020
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Hyperion: "Release Notes" and further translations for AmigaOS 3.1.4.1
For registered users Hyperion has released the "Locale Extras 45.315", which "includes localization materials for greek, polish and russian languages that require additional system setup to work."
Additionally Hyperion has "received numerous requests from users asking to unveil the technical developer notes, also known as "Release Notes", regarding the changes involved in those AmigaOS updates." Therefore the "Release Notes for AmigaOS-3.1.4.x" are available to all interested users in the download section of the Hyperion website.
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17.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 16th, 2020:
Nutcrackers_Game_Menu... demo/intro 58K 68k game menu/intro by Nutcrackers
Pathetic_Demos_1.adf demo/misc 880K 68k some old party demos by 'Path...
Pathetic_Demos_2.adf demo/misc 880K 68k some old party demos by 'Path...
The_Zaphod_Collection... demo/misc 880K 68k Small demos by Chris 'Zaphod'...
The_Zaphod_Collection... demo/misc 880K 68k Small demos by Chris 'Zaphod'...
bytes.lha dev/lib 27K 68k string conversion library
redpillgamecreator.lha dev/misc 1.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
Cybervision64_install... driver/vid 880K 68k CyberVision 64 install disk (...
AztecChallenge_E01_CD... game/actio 41M 68k Aztec Challenge Remake 1st Level
Shadow_3rd_Moon_1.5.lha game/actio 238K 68k Shadow of the 3rd Moon update...
Uropa_2_v32Update.lha game/actio 153K 68k Update Vulcan's Uropa 2 to ve...
Uropa_2_v33Update.lha game/actio 13K 68k Update Vulcan's Uropa 2 to ve...
Africa.lha game/board 294K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 349K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
LCD_Dreams.adf game/misc 880K 68k Ports of 4 Game&Watch LCD gam...
DonkeyKong_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.9M x86 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_MOS.lha game/wb 2.8M MOS LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_OS3.lha game/wb 2.8M 68k LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_OS4.lha game/wb 3.2M OS4 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_WOS.lha game/wb 3.1M WOS LCD game conversion
AsciiMandelbrot.lha gfx/fract 204K MOS Bench a Mandelbrot set in a c...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 11M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
VideoEasel.lha gfx/misc 1.8M 68k THE flexible Cellular Automaton
PoligoniRegolari.lha gfx/show 20K 68k Draw regular poligons with 3-...
RNOPDF_ECS-AGA.lha gfx/show 9.0M 68k Compact PDF viewer
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.7M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
SamplesMaster.lha mus/edit 109K 68k Creates IFF and RAW samples (...
tlu-AmigAtari_Icon_Pa... pix/icon 20K 68k Icon Pack for AmigAtari Demo
Morpheus_1.74.lha text/dtp 2.7M MOS Word processor
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 1.5M Annotate v3: Pascal Syntax Hi...
Reformat.lha text/misc 14K 68k Adjusts text file line width ...
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.1M MOS MyCommander for Amiga
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 72K WOS Windows BMP datatype V45.8
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 331K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.15
WarpPCXdt.lha util/dtype 66K WOS ZSoft PCX datatype V45.6
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 160K WOS PNG image datatype V45.23
WarpPSDdt.lha util/dtype 70K WOS Adobe Photoshop® datatype V45.6
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 546K WOS TIFF and BigTIFF image dataty...
tz.lha util/time 499K 68k Timezone Database & Library
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.05.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 16th, 2020:
warpbmpdt.lha dat/ima 72kb 4.0 Windows BMP datatype V45.8
warppcxdt.lha dat/ima 66kb 4.0 ZSoft PCX datatype V45.6
warppsddt.lha dat/ima 70kb 4.0 Adobe Photoshop datatype V45.5
africa.lha gam/boa 349kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 204kb 4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 11Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
rnoxfer.lha net/ftp 3Mb 4.1 Graphical FTP/FTPS client
mwait.lha uti/she 14kb 4.0 multi wait command for 1.x+.
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 16.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 16th, 2020:
ACE_1.20.lha The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
AsciiMandelbrot_2.4.lha Draw a Mandelbrot set i...
Hi-Low-Equal Poker Car... Hi-Low-Equal Poker Card...
Julius_1.4.0.lha An open source re-imple...
Morpheus_1.74.lha Word processor with Uni...
RNOXfer_1.2.lha A graphical FTP client ...
SDL2_Libraries.lha All Libraries SDL2 with...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 16th, 2020:
- 2020-05-16 new: Call It Wot Ya Want (Magic) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-16 new: Soundtracker Injury 4 (Visual Arts) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-16 new: Soundtracker Injury (Electronic Artists) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-15 improved: Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus) support for blue/second button added, level codes improved, added joypad support (Info)
- 2020-05-15 improved: International 3D Tennis (Sensible Software/Palace) uses less chip memory, fixed title music replay (Info)
- 2020-05-15 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) fixed jump with a helmet, trainer improved (Info)
- 2020-05-15 improved: Flimbos Quest (System 3) joypad/2nd button controls added, manual added (Info)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Megademo 3 (North Star & Fairlight) crash in part 5 on 68000 machines fixed (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) supports another version (Info)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) trainer improved, fixed sound replay, fixed quitkey, improved joypad controls (Info)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) highscore table fixed, keyboard handling fixed, uses kickemu instead osemu (Info)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Deconstruction (Brain-Logo) supports another version, new install script (Info)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Danger Freak (Rainbow Arts) fixed sound replay, added quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-05-10 fixed: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) joypad detection (Info)
- 2020-05-10 improved: Benefactor (Digital Illusions) fixed slave structure (Info)
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17.May.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.4
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow continues playing with the video unit of the FreePascal compiler which he ported and currently focusing on how to resize the window. As a result he has released the new version 0.4 of the file manager MCAmiga which is available for all Amiag systems.
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15.May.2020
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Windows: Software synthesizer "AmigaKlang" generates samples for MOD files
The software synthesizer 'AmigaKlang' generates samples which can be used in MOD tracks, typical for the Amiga. The samples can be saved as binary files or directly written in existing MOD files but also be exported as Amiga code which is very memory saving because the samples are only generated when they were started (Example on Soundcloud, 27 KB).
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13.May.2020
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Tutorial: Using FS-UAE on Linux with real MIDI hardware
Warren Vercueil has published an illustrated, English-language tutorial (PDF) which explains the usage of real MIDI hardware from inside the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. He has used the MIDI application BarsnPipes but his setup should also work with different applications.
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13.May.2020
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Free downloads: 'Eddi Edwards Super Ski' and 'Super Sport Challenge 3'
The commercial games 'Eddi Edwards Super Ski' and 'Super Sport Challenge 3' can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future for free.
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12.May.2020
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PDF viewer: RNOPDF for Amigas without graphics board
The first version of the PDF viewer RNOPDF, written with Hollywood, was released one and a half year ago for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS for Amigas equipped with a graphics board. Now also a version for ESC and AGA Amigas is available.
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11.May.2020
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Internal Flickerfixer/Scandoubler for A500/A2000 under free licence
Niklas Ekström is working on a FPGA-based Scandoubler/Flickerfixer which can be internally used in an Amiga 500 or 2000. In a first development stage a DE10-Lite-FPGA-developer board is connected to the pins of the custom chip "Denise". The FPGA generates a VGA signal from the CSYNC and 12-Bit-RGB signals. Originally the next step would have been a completed board equipped with FPGA and a SDRAM module directly put on the Denise.
Meanwhile Ekström takes a different approach: Currently he is changing his adapter so it can be directly put in the socket of Denise and thus replacing the original chip. By adapting a free emulation of Denise, written in Verilog, he is going to create a FPGA-based replacement for the 35 years old original chip which directly output a VGA signal.
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10.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 9th, 2020:
Gallows-Invaders.adz demo/file 174K 68k Invaders by Gallows (1992)
encore_morphilia.lha demo/misc 47M MOS Morphilia by Encore - demo fo...
encore_morphoza.lha demo/misc 36M MOS Morphoza by Encore - demo for...
Lunatics-Incantation.adz demo/track 361K 68k Incantation by Lunatics (1992)
hexify.lha dev/c 13K 68k Convert binary data into a he...
ms.lha dev/c 30K 68k C str to us / ms utilities
vstring.lha dev/c 35K 68k A simple string building API ...
zerodbg.lha dev/c 14K 68k Useful macros for debugging p...
buffer.lha dev/lib 53K 68k Tiny C string manipulation li...
rgba.lha dev/lib 53K 68k RGB / RGBA parsing / formatti...
redpillgamecreator.lha dev/misc 1.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
renderlib68k.lha dev/misc 239K 68k image processing kernel
Square_Destroy.adf game/board 880K 68k Variant of classic Reversi ga...
DonkeyKong_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.9M x86 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_MOS.lha game/wb 2.8M MOS LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_OS3.lha game/wb 2.8M 68k LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_OS4.lha game/wb 3.2M OS4 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_WOS.lha game/wb 3.1M WOS LCD game conversion
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 11M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
1000er-9101.adf mags/1000e 880K German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9102.adf mags/1000e 880K German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9103.adf mags/1000e 880K German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9104.adf mags/1000e 880K German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9105.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9201.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9202.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9203.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9204.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9205.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9206.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9207.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9208.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9209.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9210.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9211.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9212.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9301.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9302.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9303.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9304.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9305.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9306.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9307.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9308.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9309.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9310.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9311.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9312.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9401.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9402.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9403.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
1000er-9404.adf mags/1000e 880K 68k German magazine for A1000 own...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
IcarosLive_2_2_8.tar.bz2 misc/os 2323M x86 Icaros Desktop LIVE!
Isolated.lha mods/misc 1.2M Isolated 4ch Hard Rock by HKv...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 39K 68k Samples creation and saving
Schlagerparty_1.01.lha mus/edit 231K MOS Mp3 encoder with GUI
Morpheus_1.72.lha text/dtp 2.6M MOS Word processor
EvenMore.lha text/show 354K 68k V0.92: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 443K MOS V0.92: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 435K OS4 V0.92: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 299K V0.92: EvenMore textviewer pl...
SmartClipboard_sbar.lha util/app 229K MOS Define actions to act on clip...
CD32BootSelector.lha util/boot 127K 68k CD32 Boot Selector
LoadModule.lha util/boot 21K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
TLSFMem.lha util/boot 18K 68k TLSFMem O(1) Memory Allocator
zmakebas.lha util/conv 89K OS4 BASIC Text to ZX Spectrum/ZX8...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 799K 68k JFIF (JPEG) picture datatype ...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 194K MOS WarpDT preferences program V4...
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 552K WOS TIFF and BigTIFF image dataty...
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 770K 68k final CON: solution. ^Z, TAB ...
DockBot.lha util/wb 377K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.05.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 9th, 2020:
warpdtprefs.lha dat/ima 194kb 4.0 WarpDT preferences program
warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 552kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 11Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
evenmore.lha uti/tex 431kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 09.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 9th, 2020:
SDL2_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL2 with...
TopTasks_1.4.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Top Tasks in sc...
MorphOS-SDK_3.14-20200... Development/SDK The MorphOS Development...
Hode_0.2.9.lha Games/Adventure Hode is a re-implementa...
AskMeUp_XXL_BoardGames... Games/Think AskMeUp_XXL_BoardGames_...
ENCORE_Morphoza_1.0.lha Demoscene Demo by Encore released...
ENCORE_Morphilia_1.0.lha Demoscene ENCORE_Morphilia_1.0.lha
CrispyDoom_5.8.0.lha Games/Shoot 3D Crispy Doom is a limit-...
SmartClipboard_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Define actions to act o...
Schlagerparty_1.01.lha Audio/Encoder An Mp3 encoder with GUI
OpenAL_1.20.1.lha Development/Library OpenAL Soft is an LGPL-...
ResidualVM_0.4.0git.lha Emulation ResidualVM is a cross-p...
Morpheus_1.73.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor with Uni...
HydraCastleLabyrinth.lha Games/Platform A platform game, "metro...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 9th, 2020:
- 2020-05-08 improved: Megademo 3 (North Star & Fairlight) fixed problems with part 17 on some machines (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-08 new: Kraftwerk Mega-Mix (Spacecake) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-08 new: Elektrica (Cascade) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-08 improved: Gods (Bitmap Brothers) fixed crash in some configs, removed possible slowdowns (Info)
- 2020-05-08 improved: Twin World (Blue Byte/UBI-Soft) added joypad support, fixed sountracker replay (Info)
- 2020-05-08 updated: Jim Power (Loriciel) corrected install script (Info)
- 2020-05-08 improved: Exile (Audiogenic) reduced chipmem usage to 512k, fixed soundtracker replay (Info)
- 2020-05-06 new: Megademo 3 (North Star & Fairlight) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-05 new: Birthday (Turnips) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-04 fixed: Ninja Warriors (Sales Curve) level select option corrected (Info)
- 2020-05-04 new: Danger Freak (Rainbow Arts) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2020-05-04 improved: Atmosphere (Stone Arts) level 2 interrupt problem fixed, timing fixed (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-03 new: Atmosphere (Stone Arts) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-03 improved: The Island Of Lost Hope (Digital Concepts) quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
- 2020-05-03 updated: Gods (Bitmap Brothers) fixed crash with cheat key, added 1 MB chip memory Slave (Info)
- 2020-05-03 improved: Exile (Audiogenic) support for AGA/CD32 releases added, multiple savegame support (Info)
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10.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New song added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following song has been added:
- Cybernoid II - (The Alt-Rock Mix)
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10.May.2020
Amigatronics (ANF)
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Video series about Amiga on TV
The team of the Spanish-language website Amigatronics has started a video series on its YouTube channel about movies and TV series presenting an Amiga. In the first issue an Amiga 4000 in the movie "Quantum Apocalypse" 2010) is introduced. According to the team this is the only performance of this model.
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09.May.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Review: Video production under AmigaOS 4
In his blog the musician and Amiga programmer Andy Broad has explained how he cut and mixed his Youtube video "One Man Band" (playing two guitar parts as well as bass) using Audio Evolution and Blender under AmigaOS 4 - only for the audio recordings a Linux laptop was used.
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09.May.2020
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Porting Amiga applications on Linux: AxRuntime
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux. Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux.
In a discussion on AmigaWorld Śmiechowicz explained that currently the APIs of AmigaOS 3.1, CybergraphX, AHI, MUI as well as of some open source libraries and classes are supported but "It is the intend to eventually support API from all (Amiga)families".
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09.May.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: JAmiga 1.3
On Sourceforge Joakim Nordström has released another beta version of his Java port "JAmiga" which originally was crowdfunded. As far as we can see though the last changes in the archive of the source code on SF are three years or more old. The changes in the latest release are not known.
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08.May.2020
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Virus Help Team Denmark: VirusZ_III.Bootblocks updated
The "Virus Help Team Denmark" (VHT) has updated the collection of bootblocks for Georg Hörmann's VirusZ III due to the new trojaner on Aminet which includes a bootblock virus called "Jackal" - but the update also detects other bootblock viruses which have been found since the last release.
Hint of the editors: The update detects the Jackal bootblock virus itself but cannot find the original trojaner which spreads the bootblock virus.
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08.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Sokoban: Magazyn 1.0
The Polish game "Magazyn" (video) is a port of the Sokoban game with additional elements like keys and bonus items. The game originally has been released during the competition "RetroKomp 2018" but is constantly developed.
Direct download: Magazyn1.0.lha (20 KB)
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08.May.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Paperback: Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction
Edwin Van Den Oosterkamp's "Classic AmigaOS Programming" is an introduction in to Amiga OS programming in C and assembler. This book is meant for programmers without Amiga experiences or for former Amiga programmers who after a longer break are going to start developing software for the Amiga again. The book is published by the author himself, a digital edition obviously is not available.
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07.May.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.13
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.13:
- Input buffering for Input Up and Input Fire: Save input for some frames. Configure it in input screen.
- New condition Grounded that allows Coyote time or edge tolerance.
- Old Grounded and Not Grounded triggers are not invalid but deprecated.
- New action trigger Enable SFX that allows to turn on/off the sound effects in the game.
- New action trigger Set NTSC to change display to PAL or NTSC.
- In RP Editor the gap between the game display and the editor display has been reduced.
- FIX: When changing the level the tab displayed could be wrong.
- FIX: Sprite background was not cleaned properly when loadgin a new project.
- FIX: For games without tiles, the palette was wrong.
- FIX: HUD elements could have some flickering when values changed too fast.
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07.May.2020
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Joystick in Atari-VCS style: Hyperkin Trooper
The "Trooper" produced by Hyperkin is a joystick looking like the joystick of the Atari VCS, compatible to Atari and Commodore, providing a fire button and a 3 metre cable. The device can be ordered from different shops, e.g. from Amazon and ebay.
The "Trooper" is a reworked edition of the joystick included in the package of the Retron 77 console which earned criticism (German) for its lack of durability. First reviews and pictures of the hardware you can find e.g. on Forum64 (German).
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06.May.2020
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Hungarian PDF magazine: Amiga Mania, issue 13/14
"Amiga Mania" is an elaborately designed pdf magazine from Hungary including 41 pages which is dedicated the Amiga. Among others the latest double issue (PDF) is about the accelerator board "Classic 520", Amikit XE and the games "Scourge of the Underkind" and "Project Horizon".
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06.May.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Issue 144 of Amiga Future published
The English and German issue 144 (May/June 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Topics include reviews about "Tiny little Slug", "AmiCygnix" and "Rotator".
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