03.Jun.2019
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Book: Getting Started with Warp3D Nova
Originally published on his blog, on the advice of a programmer Hans de Ruiter has reworked and extended his lessons about his 3D system "Warp 3D Nova" and published it as book on Amazon. A print version for 26 Euro as well as an eBook for 5 Euro are available.
"Getting started with..." provides the following chapters:
- Tutorial 1: Create a window
- Tutorial 2: Hello triangle - draw something
- Tutorial 3: A splash of algorithmic colour - procedural texture mapping
- Tutorial 4: Colour another way - per-vertex colour
- Tutorial 5: 3D at last - draw a cube
- Tutorial 6: 3D lighting - add lighting to the scene
- Tutorial 7: Animation - making objects move
- Tutorial 8: Adding texture - texture-mapping
- Tutorial 9: Normal mapping - extra realism with surface bumps and features
- Warp3D Nova gotchas - easy mistakes and how to avoid them
- GLSL shader debugging - tools and tips
- Where to go from here - next steps in your graphics programming journey
Hint of the editors: The eBook is a Kindle edition thus first has to be converted (inclusive removing the DRM protection) for using with other devices. Otherwise you can access it with the latest Amazon app.
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03.Jun.2019
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Pong 4 as commercial release
Last October "PONG 4k" was released which is a PONG clone for four players. Now the game can be purchased also as commercial release. For 9 Euro plus shipping the Polish website amiga.pl.net offers a CD in a DVD box including a manual printed fully in colour, a sticker (7x10 cm) and an A3 poster. The game was written for a CD32 but also runs on other AGA Amigas.
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03.Jun.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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Leu 0.01: Opening Excel and ODS files
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's Leu is a program for opening and editing (currently with limited functionality) Excel (xls, xlsx), OpenOffice and LibreOffice files (ods) and is available as an early version for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (ARM, x86, x64).
Download: Leu0.01.lha (8 MB)
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02.Jun.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.06.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 1st, 2019:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 209K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
ADV-ITA.lha dev/amos 130K 68k Italian adventures creator
CestinoGlobale.lha dev/basic 51K 68k Global trashcan under Blitz d...
ColourMatch.lha dev/basic 28K 68k Colour match in Blitz
cflow-mos.lha dev/c 1.4M MOS Generate a program flowgraph
file-mos.lha dev/gg 1.5M MOS Determine file type
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 776K Hollywood 8.0 spanish catalog...
fd2pragma-mos.lha dev/misc 352K MOS V2.197 create pragma, inline,...
BulletExamples.lha dev/src 58K 68k Example code for using outlin...
flickerfixer.zip docs/hard 523K Amiga 2000 Flickerfixer / Sca...
xpksublibs.lha docs/misc 278K XPK Sub-Libraries Guide
MCE.lha game/edit 2.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BioJet.adf game/misc 880K 68k BioJet
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Divertimento03.lha mods/midi 60K Divertimento03, General MIDI ...
Divertimento12.lha mods/midi 38K Divertimento12, General MIDI ...
Faithslovetheme.lha mods/misc 95K Faith's Love Theme 4ch Sexy R&B
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 636K 68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
BootPicture.lha util/boot 30K 68k Shows a picture and plays a s...
DOpusRxTrash.lha util/dopus 29K Global trashcan for DOpus Mag...
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 33K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
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02.Jun.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.06.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 1st, 2019:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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02.Jun.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 01.06.2019
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until June 1st, 2019:
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02.Jun.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 01.06.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 1st, 2019:
DisplayInfo_1.2.lha System/Monitoring Show info about availab...
Cow3D.lha Graphics/3D Cow3D.lha
MCE_11.31.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
File_5.37.lha Files/Tools Determine file type.
VidentiumPicta_1.20.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
fd2pragma_2.197.lha Development/Misc A tool to create pragma...
Image_to_ODG_1.0.lha Graphics/Convert A tool to convert PNG/J...
MovieViewer_1.0.lha Multimedia A Hollywood script disp...
Agenda.lha Office/Organizer A nice and easy address...
Armagetron_0.2.5.2.lha Games/Race An OpenGL Tron clone.
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02.Jun.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.06.2019
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 June 1st, 2019:
- 2019-05-31 fixed: Super Stardust (Bloodhouse) soundFx in game were trashed if intro was not skipped immediately, more options for trainers added (Info)
- 2019-05-31 fixed: Putty Squad (System 3) flicker background bug introduced with joypad support is fixed now (Info, Image)
- 2019-05-31 fixed: Falcon (Spectrum HoloByte) slave removes the disk protection in SPS 268 Mission Disk I, supports SPS 1602 Mission Disk II (Info)
- 2019-05-27 improved: Deliverance (21st Century) joypad support added, trainer moved to splash window (Info, Image)
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02.Jun.2019
AmigaLife (Webseite)
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Amiga Demo Launcher v1.6b
The demo group Resistance presents their first public (beta) version of the Amiga Demo Launcher.
Amiga Demo Launcher (ADL) is an application to replay executable file demos from a playback queue.
Some featues:
- Replays many old OCS file demos on an AGA Amiga with a 68060 CPU
- Single playback queue entries can be also created directly
- Supports a reset device which is connected at the serial port of your Amiga, it counts down a given playtime and does a hardware reset if it reached the end value. After that, the next demo will be fetched out of the playback queue and get played
For more information, read the AmigaGuide file which is included within the archive.
Download: RSE-ADL16b.lha (9 MB) (snx)
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02.Jun.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Using Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Copy 1.010 and ADF-Drive firmware 1.010
Using the USB adapter ADF-Drive and the corresponding copy program ADF-Copy you can read Amiga disks with a PC drive under Windows, Linux or on the Raspberry Pi
(amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.010 provides the option of deleting a disk image by complete overwriting. Besdies, the speed of all write operation was increased. The latest and also updated ADF-Drive firmware 1.010 is required.
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02.Jun.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.12dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new development version of his emulator FS-UAE which provides the following changes:
- Change default for bezel option to 0 (off)
- Change in FS-UAE Launcher: Fixed recently introduced bug when downloading files via cache
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31.May.2019
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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"Officially licensed" Commodore jerseys on Amazon
On Amazon, "Score Draw" offers retro jerseys of German soccer clubs, among others also red and white jerseys with "Commodore" logo. In contrast to jerseys of other teams, these are not complete copies of the original jerseys: on the "official Commodore retro jerseys from 1986" (product description of the producer) the logo and the name of the corresponding club are missing - the FC Bayern München is not mentioned even in the article description.
Obviously the license for the brand of the Munich team would have been to expensive - since Score Draw does promoting his article as "officially licensed" it is probable that he reached an agreement with the owner of the Commodore brand rights. What the original Bayern jersey looked like you can see on the website of the Trikot-Museum.
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31.May.2019
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Full version as download: Highway Patrol 2
The full version of the racing game Highway Patrol 2 is available in the download section of the Amiga Future as ADF, IPF or WHDLoad archive.
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30.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 98 (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 on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Virtual GP" and "Wing Commander".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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30.May.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Game: Reshoot R released
Press release: Bombs away for Reshoot R - Modern action for the retro platform Amiga
Pürge/Übersee, May 28th, 2019: The development studio spieleschreiber and the publisher APC&TCP today announce the availability of the retro action game Reshoot R.
After almost three years of development, Reshoot R finally lights up its laser cannons - as you'd expect, for original Amiga hardware. The horizontal scrolling shoot'em up, in the style of classics like "R-Type", throws the player into an exciting space battle. In five elaborately designed themed worlds, fighter pilots fight side-by-side with the courageous space heroine Aryn against the attacks of the evil Tars species.
The action remains faithful to arcade traditions to combine elaborate high-end visuals with high-speed, demanding challenges. Fast gameplay, breathless dynamics, and exciting tension peaks characterise the fight between the heroine and the ballet of attack waves. Extra weapons and power-ups support her in her fight for survival. If your battle is fought successfully, eternal glory awaits you in the automatically saved highscore list. In addition, there is a premiere for Amiga action games: Those pilots can enter their performance on an internet ranking website and so they can compare their skills against those of other gamers.
Reshoot R is initially available as three seperate releases: Download Edition, Pure Edition and Signature Edition. The Pure Edition includes the game on CD-ROM and a printed manual. The Signature Edition has the game on CD-ROM, with a printed manual including a making-of special and the soundtrack on a separate audio CD. The audio CD soundtrack is also available separately.
All Amiga products are now available in the online shop of APC&TCP. Any specialist dealers who want to offer Reshoot R directly to their customers may contact APC&TCP by e-mail for details.
About Reshoot R:
Reshoot R is a 2D horizontal shoot'em up in the style of those great arcade classics Silkworm, R-Type and Gradius.
Features:
- Developed and programmed by industry veteran Richard Löwenstein
- Plays to the performance capabilities of the Amiga CD³², 1200 and 4000
- Five themed arenas in elaborately designed retro design
- Exciting attack waves and boss fights
- Extra weapons and power-ups
- Multi-level scrolling, up to 100 objects on screen
- 50 Hertz refresh rate ensures constant high-speed
- More than 400 colours on screen
- Thrilling soundtrack and SFX play simultaneously
- Locally stored highscore list and additional internet ranking option
- Runs on standard hardware of the A1200, A4000 and CD³², no add-ons required
- Tested on Amiga systems with 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 CPUs
System requirements:
- Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 or Amiga CD³²
- Joystick or CD32 compatible controlpad
- 2 MB chip memory, more memory supported
- Runs on compatible Amiga emulators on Windows, Mac and Linux
More information is available at the title link.
About spieleschreiber:
spieleschreiber is a development studio specialising in retro computer games. The founder and core of the team from Pürge in Upper Bavaria is games journalist Richard Löwenstein. Richard Löwenstein successfully developed computer games in the 1980s and wrote articles for the trade magazines Happy Computer, 64er and Amiga Joker.
Reshoot R was in development for three years and was developed in co-operation with the entire retro community.
Design, coding, production: Richard Löwenstein. Graphics: Kevin Saunders. Music and sound effects: Martin Ahman.
About APC&TCP:
APC&TCP has been active as a publisher for Amiga products for over 25 years.
From APC&TCP come products like Amiga Future, Amiga Family, Flyin High, Marblelous, Pinball Brain Damage, CygnusED, Roadshow and much more.
APC&TCP has tried for many years not only to publish high-end Amiga games like Reshoot R but also smaller projects like Trap Runner.
APC&TCP is always looking out for interesting Amiga projects to publish. (snx)
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27.May.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Version 8 of Hollywood plugin for Vim released
Tom Crecelius has updated the Hollywood plugin for the text editor Vim: Version 8.0 is available now supporting the latest Hollywood version. For users of AmigaOS it is interesting to know that the plugin also works with the MUI version of Vim funktioniert. As usual you can download it from the official Hollywood website under the title link.
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26.May.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 25.05.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 25th, 2019:
grimape.adf demo/intro 880K 68k Grimape May 2019 by Grimape
BulletExamples.lha dev/src 53K 68k Example code for using outlin...
MCE.lha game/edit 2.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Adom.lha game/role 1.8M 68k Ancient Domains Of Mystery R101
Adom_68020.lha game/role 1.8M 68k Ancient Domains Of Mystery R1...
Adom_68040.lha game/role 1.7M 68k Ancient Domains Of Mystery R1...
ADOM_Guide.lha game/role 90K Official ADOM Guide
Atlantis.lha mods/8voic 2.6M Atlantis 13ch Deep Amiga Ambient
DisplayInfo.lha util/moni 160K MOS Show info about available dis...
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26.May.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.05.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 25th, 2019:
liba52.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC...
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
activitymonitor.lha uti/mis 61kb 4.1 monitor changes to your files.
siddump.lha uti/mis 89kb 4.0 C64 music debug output utility
sidid.lha uti/mis 79kb 4.0 HVSC playroutine identity scanner
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26.May.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 25.05.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 25th, 2019:
powermanga.i386-aros.zip gam/act 7Mb Vertical shoot-em-up scroller.
displayinfo.lha uti/har 160kb Show info about available displa...
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26.May.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 25.05.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 25th, 2019:
iris_beta60.lha Email New email client suppor...
DisplayInfo_1.2.lha System/Monitoring Show info about availab...
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26.May.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.05.2019
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 25th, 2019:
- 2019-05-22 updated: Jim Power (Loriciel) support for second button, added CD32 controls, manual added (Info)
- 2019-05-20 improved: Starray (Logotron) added CD32 controls, trainer added (Info)
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25.May.2019
AmigaWorld.de (Twitter)
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Open Hardware: Amiga-1200 expansion modul
This time Matthias Münch has published documents for replicating an expansion modul for the Amiga 1200. The modul is suitable for the Flickerfixer Indivision AGA Mk1 and Mk2cr as well as for an USB extension like Subway or RapidRoad.
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25.May.2019
AmigaWorld.de (Twitter)
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3D print: Casing for ACA500
Under the title link data for printing a casing for the accelerator board ACA500 developed by Individual Computers has been published. There is no documentation if it is also suitable for its successor ACA500plus.
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25.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Memory expansion: OpenAmiga600FastRamExpansion
After the publication of documents for replicating a memory expansion for the Amiga 500, under the title link data also are available for the Amiga 600. It is based on the LVD design (amiga-news.de reported). The board is equipped with 4 MB DRAM.
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25.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Indivdual Computers: Buddha-Flash-Firmware 52.101 / Ordering new controllers
Individual Computers has released a firmware update for the IDE controller Buddha Flash. Version 52.101 fixes two bugs both occuring when "crossing a 32-bit boundary under certain conditions". According to Jens Schönfeld "a very similar bug is in the IDE drivers of Amiga OS 3.1.4" which might be based on previous versions. The developer team of Hyperion has been informed.
Additionally new controllers ("Anniversary Edition") will be produced and are supposed to be available not later than by mid June. Pre-orders are possible.
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19.May.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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Lawsuit: Cloanto is not entitled to sue
After three previous setbacks, Cloanto again had to face a defeat in court in the legal dispute with Hyperion. According to the order of the court from 16th May (PDF file, 129 KB), Cloanto is not entitled to sue against Hyperion based on the Settlement Agreement from 2009.
Only with regard to the registration of Amiga trademarks in Europe by Hyperion, Cloanto was successful: Since Hyperion only is allowed to use certain Amiga trademarks by the Settlement Agreement worldwide, according to the court the usage of further Amiga trademarks could be understood as infringement of the Settlement Agreement.
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19.May.2019
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.96
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga."
Version 3.96 mainly is a bug fix release.
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19.May.2019
Ultimate Creative (ANF)
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Music: Teaser video for Crunch by Pseudaxos
After "Loading" in 2016 and "Loading MegaWatts Edition" in 2018, Pseudaxos is going to release a new album produced by Ultimate Creative this year. By their own account, all musics are fully composed on Amiga. At the title link, a video teaser has been published. (snx)
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19.May.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.05.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 18th, 2019:
labanbbstro.exe demo/intro 8K 68k Jalla BBStro by Laban (1998)
labanblueii.exe demo/intro 122K 68k Blue II intro by Laban (1999)
labanj4f.exe demo/intro 46K 68k Just 4 Fun intro by Laban (1998)
bgdbserver.lha dev/debug 37K 68k gdbserver for remote debuggin...
flickerfixer.zip docs/hard 492K Amiga 2000 Flickerfixer / Sca...
Koules-AROS.zip game/actio 221K x86 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
F1GP2019Carset.lha game/data 23K 2019 Carset for F1GP
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 333K 68k Amiga AGA port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 342K 68k Amiga RTG port of Duke Nukem 3D
OpenDUNE_AGA.lha game/strat 255K 68k Amiga AGA port of OpenDUNE
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 256K 68k Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 31K 68k View a graphics file compress...
emutos.lha misc/emu 685K EmuTOS - Amiga version
Michellestheme.lha mods/8voic 169K Michelle's Theme 5ch LSL5 track
siddump.lha mus/misc 52K MOS C64 music debug output utility
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 209K 68k Keep your time right
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.1M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
AmiKick.lha util/misc 43K Check Kickstart images under ...
IFFDecode.lha util/misc 34K 68k Decode an IFF file
ussload.lha util/misc 16K 68k UAE state save file loader
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19.May.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.05.2019
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abkviewer.lha gra/vie 332kb 4.1 ABKViewer show AMOS Sprites in a...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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19.May.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 18.05.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 18th, 2019:
koules.i386-aros.zip gam/act 221kb Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 693kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
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19.May.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 18.05.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 18th, 2019:
AmiArcadia_25.4.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
SacrificioPagano_1.50.lha Misc A special app to people...
SIDDump_1.07.lha Audio/Misc A C64 music debug outpu...
iris_beta60.lha Email New email client suppor...
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19.May.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.05.2019
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 18th, 2019:
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19.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Flickerfixer: MultiFix AGA V0.1 in development
Matthias Heinrichs is working on a Flickerfixer expansion board for the Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000(T). Under the title link in the forum of a1k.org he has introduced his project.
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19.May.2019
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld.de: New circuits available
During the last weeks on Amigaworld.de Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has published some circuit boards of hardware extensions for self-assembly (e.g. Kickstart switcher, mouse ports, SCSI Terminator board), recently the RAM expansion A572.
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19.May.2019
AmigaWorld.de (Twitter)
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Archi-Tech: New Amiga-600 accelerator board in development
The Polish company Archi-Tech is developing an accelerator board for the Amiga 600 (picture). The latest prototype has a Motorola-68030 processor with 50-MHz clocking as well as 64 MB RAM.
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19.May.2019
AmigaWorld.de (Twitter)
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Retro 7-Bit: Memory expansion Wicher CDTV
In January the 8-MB memory expansion "Wicher CDTV" for the Amiga CDTV was announced by Retro 7-Bit. Meanwhile it is available and also has a Amiga-600 compatible IDE controller for 2,5" hard drives.
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19.May.2019
AmigaWorld.de (Twitter)
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Alternative Amiga-1200 keyboard published on GitHub
Adam Eberbach is developing an alternative CherryMX keyboard for the Amiga 1200. He has published the project under the MIT licence on GitHub.
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19.May.2019
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.2.1
A bug fix release 4.2.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released.
4.2.0 bugs fixed:
- Picasso IV and uaegfx YUV (video) overlay fixed. Didn’t affect RGB overlays.
- Reset/restart didn’t reset overlay state.
- Graphics corruption in some AGA programs (for example Alien Breed 3D).
Old bugs fixed:
- PPC emulation + Picasso IV: some programs had incorrect colors (For example Shogo MAD).
- A2386SX bridgeboard unreliable/hanging floppy access fixed.
- Changing accelerator board options (jumpers etc) on the fly didn’t do anything.
- Fixed hang when attempting to play physical CD32 CD with video tracks.
- Fixed crash when mounting UAE controller HDF with more than 30 partitions.
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16.May.2019
Amiga Future (website)
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Hyperion Entertainment acquired ReAction GUI toolkit
Press release:
Full acquisition of ReAction GUI toolkit
Brussels, May 14, 2019
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is pleased to announce that it has acquired full ownership of ReAction.
ReAction is the official AmigaOS GUI system since it was incorporated into AmigaOS 3.5 in 1999. With the release of AmigaOS 4 and newer it has been improved, bug-fixed and a more consistent and uniform look was created as is apparent from the various applications that make use of it. Hyperion Entertainment and the AmigaOS development team would like to thank the original developers for creating ReAction and providing the opportunity to roll out ReAction on all versions of AmigaOS.
Stay tuned for more news regarding ReAction in the near future!
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15.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Accelerator board: Fúria firmware 12.7
The firmware of the Amiga-600 accelerator board Fúria of the Slovakian developer Boris 'Boboo' Krizma (amiga-news.de reported) has been updated. It is available for 2K and 4K memory chips. An ISP cable as well as the Xilinx software is required for updating the firmware on the 68EC020 board.
Download:
Furia_EC020.jed (2K version, 123 KB)
Furia_EC020.jed (4K version, 123 KB)
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14.May.2019
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.6.14 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.6.14:
- Use the Editor tooltip to choose your IFF paint program, then in tiles and spritesheet screen you can quickly edit your images
- Added action trigger New Question to start a new question
- Added action trigger Add Answer to add a new answer to the started question
- Added action trigger Ask Question , that will set up a variable with the value from answer
- Now it is easier to set up the text to use in Show Text/Dialog
- Text and Dialogs now stop the other triggers from being processed
- In Level Objects screen you can use 1 and 2 to quickly move between levels
- Added extra check to HUD code
- Added extra checks to LoadSound
- On load level added extra frame to avoid corrupted graphics
- Fixed Color 0 being overwritten with certain settings
- Disabled Blitz2 bitmap out bounds check
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12.May.2019
Amiga Future (website)
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Graphic board: First ZZ9000 equipped
The graphic board ZZ9000 is the successor of the VA2000 (amiga-news.de reported) and could be reserved since last summer. According to the developer on Twitter, the first board now was equipped and can be tested.
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.05.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 11th, 2019:
agt-driftwood.zip demo/euro 4.1M 68k Demo (8th place) from Revisio...
cps-brutalism.lha demo/euro 14M 68k Demo (6th place) from Revisio...
DeProfundis.zip demo/euro 1.6M 68k Demo (2nd place) from Revisio...
elk-knarkzilla.lha demo/euro 16M 68k Demo (3th place) from Revisio...
hjb-signals.lha demo/euro 6.8M 68k Demo (4th place) from Revisio...
kLik-RESETkani2019.zip demo/euro 1.2M 68k Demo (12th place) from Revisi...
mds-20y.lha demo/euro 601K 68k Demo (9th place) from Revisio...
noc_dgr.lha demo/euro 7.5M 68k Demo (7th place) from Revisio...
tbl_eon.zip demo/euro 1.6M 68k Demo (1st place) from Revisio...
TEK-FutureOfLimits.zip demo/euro 246K 68k Demo (10th place) from Revisi...
unique-origins.lha demo/euro 9.0M 68k Demo (5th place) from Revisio...
Void-GummyBearDemo.lha demo/euro 328K 68k Demo (11th place) from Revisi...
aYS_Coda.zip demo/intro 64K 68k Intro (2nd place) from Revisi...
DontBeSquare.lha demo/intro 9K 68k intro (2nd place) from Revisi...
eastari.zip demo/intro 116K 68k Intro released in April 2019
grimape.zip demo/intro 114K 68k Intro from the GriMaPe Meetin...
menace_cracktro_v1_0.lha demo/intro 30K 68k Intro (7th place) from Revisi...
MenaceCracktroSource.lha demo/intro 101K Menace crack intro (source)
nah-revision2019.zip demo/intro 63K 68k Intro (4th place) from Revisi...
SFL-Electromathesis.lha demo/intro 63K 68k Intro (3rd place) from Revisi...
spbgoon.lha demo/intro 63K 68k Intro (1st place) from Revisi...
void-versuscubes.lha demo/intro 34K 68k Intro (6th place) from Revisi...
void-waveoflights.lha demo/intro 59K 68k Intro (5th place) from Revisi...
NS_Intro.lha demo/misc 84K 68k Simple nice Intro by Axel Sof...
ACME.lha dev/cross 480K MOS Crossassembler for 6502/65C02...
WormWars.lha game/actio 855K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 693K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 925K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
dkd-wolf.lha game/demo 53K 68k Game demo (4th place) from Re...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
OpenDUNE_AGA.lha game/strat 256K 68k Amiga AGA port of OpenDUNE
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 26K 68k View a graphics file compress...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Bathtublovers.lha mods/misc 833K Bathtub Lovers 4ch Sexy R&B L...
sidid.lha mus/misc 57K MOS HVSC playroutine identity sca...
HipWrap.lha mus/play 7K 68k A wrapper for HippoPlayer
IFFDecode.lha util/misc 34K 68k Decode an IFF file
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.05.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 11th, 2019:
libfreeimage.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 OSS library project for popular ...
libfreeimage-src.lha dev/lib 11Mb 4.1 OSS library project for popular ...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 173kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
d_cmd.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 D is a small shell util for list...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 18kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
rtestcase_cmd.lha uti/she 5kb 4.1 A small program the compiles and...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 10Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 11.05.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 11th, 2019:
dosbox_manual.pdf doc/tut 183kb dosbox emulator manual pdf
protrkkr_guide.lha doc/tut 8kb Guide in text file for protrekkr...
schismtracker_manual.pdf doc/tut 1Mb Pdf Guide of impulse traker 2 Clone
jackpot.i386-aros.lzx gam/mis 1Mb Slot machine
slotmachinewarmup.i386-ar... gam/mis 475kb A new slot machine
whd_menu.i386-aros.zip gam/uti 1Mb Managing and launching WHDLoad G...
zunepaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 541kb Bitmap paint with additional eff...
zunebrot.i386-aros.zip gra/mis 154kb Mandelbrot Program
zunefig_v1.4r345.i386-aro... gra/vec 5Mb Reimplementation of amifig with ...
zuneview.i386-aros.zip gra/vie 817kb Picture viewer with advanced fea...
zunearc.i386-aros.zip uti/arc 86kb A Zune front end for Archivers
awc.i386-aros.lha vid/con 2Mb Easy web tool to convert your...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 11.05.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 11th, 2019:
GoatTrackerStereo_2.76... Audio/Tracker Tracker-like C64 stereo...
MCE_11.3.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
WormWars_9.16.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
ACME_0.96.4.lha Development/Cross A crossassembler for 65...
Dopus5_92_dev_debug.lha Files/Manager Dopus5_92_dev_debug.lha
Hu-Go!_1.6.lha Emulation A TurboGrafx16/PC Engin...
2048_1.0.lha Games/Board A simple game based on ...
4p_0.09.lha Graphics/Draw A simple paint program ...
AbandondedBricks_1.12.lha Games/Think Another Tetris clone (S...
AlienAttack_1.1.lha Games/Shoot 2D A spaceInvaders clone d...
AlienVsPredtor_1.0-src... Development/Sources Aliens versus Predator ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.05.2019
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 11th, 2019:
- 2019-05-11 new: Quartzbox (Quartz) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2019-05-05 updated: Zool (Gremlin) various fixes, trainer added, controls improved (Info)
- 2019-05-05 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) CD32 controls added (Info)
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12.May.2019
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE (11.0)
The Workbench distribution AmiKit, meant for emulators, has been updated to version XE (11.0). The changes include a new desktop design (inspired by the Workbench from 1986), a picture-in-picture function for playing games in a Workbench window (requires WinUAE 4.2.0), an installation option for AmigaOS 3.1.4 as well as further 29 programs and 6 games.
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12.May.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Questions for interviews with Hyperion and the MorphOS-team wanted
Recently Stephen Jones did a video interview with Mike Battilana (Cloanto, C-A Acquisition Corporation). Now he is collecting questions for further interviews with Hyperion Entertainment and the MorphOS-Team. Please send them via eMail to steve@imica.net.
The procedure will be the same as before: Only those questions will be asked which were sent by users before. There will not be any further enquiries. The interview will be recorded in the coming months on site. Therefore again you are asked to support Jones by donating money for his trip via Patreon.
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10.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Reading ADF files: GoADF! 1.1
The Shareware program (7 Euro) "GoADF!" can "acquire data from the ADF file in an easy and intuitive way". Changes in version 1.1:
- running on the Workbench screen enabled, configuring by new tooltypes:
- WB_SCREEN=(TRUE|FALSE) - if TRUE, the GoADF! will be opened on the Workbench screen, default FALSE
- WB_WIN_WIDTH=xxx - if the WB_SCREEN tooltype is true, this param set width of the GoADF! windows, default 620
- WB_WIN_HEIGHT=xxx - if the WB_SCREEN tooltype is true, this param set height of the GoADF! windows, default 400
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10.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: H.E.R.O. clone BioJet
BioJet (video) is an arcade adventure game inspired by H.E.R.O. The graphics of this game originally were created with an Amiga and in 1997 used in the MS-DOS game "Cybergene".
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09.May.2019
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PDF viewer: GrimoriumPDF (AmigaOS 3/MorphOS)
GrimoriumPDF is a PDF viewer written with Hollywood which also supports password protected PDF documents (except under AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS). The program is available for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows (32/64 Bit).
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05.May.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.05.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 4th, 2019:
Void-Dreams27.zip demo/misc 517K 68k Demopack with intros from Rev...
C_Source_In_Python.py... dev/gcc 2K Embed C source in a Python sc...
libpng_S1637.lha dev/lib 763K WOS LibPNG link library for StormGCC
libpng1637_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.6M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
SDL_AGA.zip dev/lib 754K 68k AGA port of the SDL audio/vid...
F1GP2019Carset.lha game/data 23K 2019 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 2.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
OpenDUNE_AGA.lha game/strat 255K 68k Amiga AGA port of OpenDUNE
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 257K 68k Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 26K 68k View a graphics file compress...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
GoatTrackerStereo-mos... mus/edit 973K MOS Tracker-like C64 stereo music...
HipWrap.lha mus/play 8K 68k A wrapper for HippoPlayer
NTSCPics4PAL.zip pix/misc 71M NTSC graphics rescaled for PAL
Hexaae_WB_shots_2018-... pix/wb 4.2M Hexaae's Workbench screenshot...
xad_libarchive.lha util/arc 1.9M OS4 XAD/UnArc client for RAR5/ZIP...
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 33K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.05.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 4th, 2019:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
xad_libarchive.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 XAD/UnArc client for RAR5/ZIPX a...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 10Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
capslock_cmd.lha uti/wor 125kb 4.1 Filtering CapsLock tapping
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.05.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 4th, 2019:
arospdf-icons.lha gra/ico 8kb New Drawer and Program Icons
txt2pdf-icons.lha gra/ico 6kb New Drawer and Program Icons
zunepaint_drawer-icons.lha gra/ico 4kb New Drawer icons
zupaplayer-icon.lha gra/ico 12kb new icon and drawer
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.05.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 4th, 2019:
C64Tools.lha Development/Cross Covert Bitops C64 Tools.
Basic-Boss_0.2.2.lha Development/Cross Basic-Boss C64 Cross Co...
D64VRM_0.4.lha Emulation/Misc D64 (C64) Virus Remover.
FrodoSrc_4.2.lha Development/Sources FrodoSrc_4.2.lha
GoatTrackerStereo_2.74... Audio/Tracker Tracker-like C64 stereo...
HermIRES_1.29.lha Graphics/Tools A C64 hires-bitmap editor.
AmiArcadia_25.3.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
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05.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Turrican II - Traps (Aegean's Renewal 2001)
- Turrican II - Concerto for Lasers & Enemies (Aegean's Renewal 2001)
- Turrican - Outside Part 1 (Aegean's Renewal 2001)
- Turrican II - The Final Fight (Aegean's Renewal 2001)
- Turrican II - The Desert Rocks
- Turrican II - Traps (The Dark Traps Remix)
- Vampire
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05.May.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Reading ADF files: GoADF!
According to the website of "GoADF!", "this app allows even the begginer users of Amiga to acquire data from the ADF file in an easy and intuitive way." The program is Shareware but not restricted in any way. By registering it for about 7 Euro you support the development of the program.
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05.May.2019
exec.pl (Webseite)
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Event: Pictures of Syntax-Error-Retro-Party in Katowice
On 6. April in Katowice the Syntax-Error-Retro-Party took place. Two picture galleries have been published on exec.pl.
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03.May.2019
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2019 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News Tech n°28 to 31:
- File: Cycles, registers et adressing modes of the 68030
- Programming: ARexx - Screens, windows and messages
- Programming: Assembler - RGB plasma
- Tutorial: Utilization of Yacc
- Programming: AMOS - Find a file without requester
- File: C ANSI
- Programming: C - BOBs
- Programming: GFA Basic - timer.device
- Tutorial: Utilization of Flex
- Programming: AMOS - Plotter, etc.
- Interview Denzil Long (coauthor of Dune 2).
- Review: AEROS 3.5.
- Review: Amiga Forever 8.
- Review: Atari++ 1.7.3.
- Review: Icaros Desktop 2.2.5/2.2.6.
- File: integrated circuit packaging.
- File: Oxxi, Inc.
- DIY: Pimp my Pegasos (update).
- Tutorial: Make a backup of MorphOS on an external USB hard drive.
- Tutorial: Mapping Kickstart 3.1.4 Rom using MapROM on an ACA500Plus.
- Tutorial: Installing AmigaOS 3.1.4 on an ACA500Plus (or any Amiga).
- Special quizz about Scala.
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03.May.2019
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Video interview: Mike Battilana (Cloanto)
In February the managing director of Cloanto, Mike Battilana, succeeded in transferring all Amiga rights from Amiga Inc. to "C-A Acquisition Corp." which was founded by him. After that Stephen 'ClusterUK' Jones (e.g. Checkmate A1500 Plus) started a crowd funding campaign for financing a trip to Italy in order to meet Battilana and ask him some questions which before he had collected in diverse English-language forums.
The resultat is a video which lasts more than two hours. After Battilana was introduced in detail he and Jones who are friends since the eighties discuss the questions. Jones also provides a timetable listing which issue is discussed at what time:
- 00:12:00 Overview of Amiga history since late 90's to build context.
- 00:17:20 Red and Blue wars that I missed, which I believe caused a lot of the problems we have now ?
- 00:19:30 Discussion about the Gateway deal?
- 00:12:30 Which beer you prefer, as poster has promised to buy him one (or more) at Amiga34 in Germany.
- 00:24:00 Are you going to Las Vegas in August at Comm Vex?
- 00:25:30 Somebody did not want to ask a question due to my avatar LOL
- 00:26:10 Will amiga.com finally be for Amiga fans instead of trying to pawn off a snowman screen saver LOL
- 00:31:45 HI Michael thanks for supporting the Amiga platform when very few were .
- 00:32:35 How does it feel when specific parties (and many people on various forums) try to paint you as the (only) bad guy, for simply defending yourself in court?
- 00:36:35 Who do you think you are? Response to answer “Is that the best you've got?“
- 00:40:00 What would your parents think of this?
- 00:42:50 Where do you get off?
- 00:43:10 Did you ever understand what Amiga Inc. tried to do the past 20+ years? If yes - what did they do?
- 00:46:20 Thoughts on new clones coming out e.g. AmyITX, ReAmiga, Pauls A4000 board etc?
- 00:50:50 Does Cloanto support Fair Use when it come to Amiga media and material?
- 00:52:40 Where do you see Amiga in 5, 10, 25 year times, and what are your plans for the Amiga?
- 1:00:00 Any thoughts about expanding Amiga Forever to include MAC os8 emulation, Mac ppc emulation, and Atari ST emulation?
- 1:02:00 Given the recent (and not so recent) court / legal actions, is there any new development regarding the "Discourse on Possible Futures" specifically open source?
- 1:05:40 Possibility of a version of workbench/ ROM that would work out of the box with the Vampire range of accelerators or even just the V4 stand alone? Since the Vampire supporters support you blindly are they licensing your ROM copies?
- 1:07:00 Should Cloanto secure the necessary rights, would the company let independent developers access the source code or contribute, without having to sign an NDA or contracts of sorts and will we be allowed to freely share the patches and/or derivative work ?
- 1:09:50 Amiga Inc. had a plan of going cross platform with the AmigaDE product as a VM. What plans still exist and does the invention of WebAssembly in the browser influence this?
- 1:12:30 Will there ever be a bridge technology that allows accelerated 68k machines to run VM code along with Next-Generation AmigaOne series platforms?
- 1:13:50 Will AmigaOS 3.1 be open sourced and under what license? and Does Cloanto have the ability to open source Amiga OS? If so why does he not open it up?
- 1:15:40 How are you going to make sure, to the best of your ability, Jens Schoenfeld (or any other important people) does not leave the Amiga Classic hardware scene?
- 1:19:00 Are there some plans to bring back updated RKM manuals in some form? There are reasonable inexpensive print-on-demand services today, or maybe as e-books or PDFs?
- 1:20:55 I have and love my AmigaONE X1000 that runs AmigaOS4.1FE now and have long dreamed of an AmigaOS4.2! Can you please tell us NG Amiga users how Cloanto owning the Amiga IP will affect future updates to OS4.x?
- 1:24:00 Why is Cloanto Corporation and C-A Acquisition Corporation organized under the laws of the state of Nevada?
- 1:25:05 I also updated my classic Amigas with the recently released OS3.14 and physical roms from Hyperion and again wonder how Cloanto owning the IP rights moving forward will affect OS3.14 and future updates moving forward ?
- 1:26:00 I’d like to know what he thinks about the Vampire and the growth of the 68K community in a post-PowerPC age.
- 1:26:45 Now that you own all the IP, will you be looking to create a rebirth machine range including entry level A500/A1200 equivalent, and if yes, would you consider the classic micro computer form factor? and If so would you be looking to work with existing hardware manufacturers (A-EON, Apollo etc) or would you try to do it "in house"?
- 1:29:00 I'm planning on buying wb 3.1.4 and ks roms. But who actually owns both? Who should I buy it from? if hyperion is selling them, does he get a commission?
- 1:33:20 What happened with the 8-Bit guy's request for licensing?
- 1:36:20 Will we see Amiga as a cloud based OS and possible to install as a virtual machine?
- 1:38:05 In event of open sourcing of AmigaOS 3.1, have you considered using source code license compatible with AROS source code license?
- 1:39:35 What are all the Amiga related IPs that he owns and what rights does that give him?
- 1:40:30 How do third party companies get in touch about licensing and new product design to be inline with IP rights?
- 1:43:15 Are you going to reach out to hardware developers, and what support will you be offering?
- 1:44:15 Have you any plans to develop in house software for classic accelerated Amigas?
- 1:44:40 Will you encourage the support of Raspberry Pi and other SBC's?
- 1:47:10 As the technology world around us is increasingly becoming "touch screen only," I would like to know if your plans for either the Classic AmigaOS or NG include plans of ditching traditional mice and keyboards, or if they will still be supported?
- 1:48:45 Do you plan on leveraging hardware companies (A-Eon, A-cube, etc.) to move away from PPC toward a more affordable hardware CPU platform? and Do you plan on making AmigaOS4.x hardware agnostic, or keeping it limited to one family of CPU's?
- 1:50:10 Would you be for forming an Amiga (OS) Foundation to support development in the same vein as the Apache, Mozilla, and various BSD Foundations?
- 1:50:55 Will there be new 3.X AOS versions in the future? How will the lawsuit effect that?
- 1:52:20 As a Mac/Linux user I really only use the ROM files from my current version of Amiga Forever. "We'll soon start working on a Mac version of Amiga Forever” seems to have been on the Cloanto website for a very long time now. Are Cloanto still working on a Mac version of Amiga Forever which offers the same, or better functionality as the Windows version?
- 1:54:15 Will there be an Amiga Mini or would they be willing to work with Emubee for the furtherance of their Amiga X project? and Will the new entity, Cloanto or whatever support (or better: get involved into) the AmigaX project?
- 1:56:30 I recently read that Commodore Italy has acquired global rights for Commodore trademarks. Do you have any thoughts or plans to partner with them for products?
- 1:58:30 Can you confirm that Cloanto now owns the Amiga name and logo (the one on the A500 etc) and if so, are you willing to license it out to third party products?
- 2:01:25 The work from Olaf and Thomas on 3.1.4 is awesome. The cleanest and best update to 3.1 so far. How do you think Cloanto can support and contribute to OS3 development from now on?
- 2:04:38 The Amiga logo has been revised on numerous occasions. The logos associated with the operating system and the hardware include, among others, the original variant written in italic Times (created by Commodore) and one more stylised variant written in a modified bondoni typeface (created by Amiga Technologies). Under Cloanto management, which one do you plan to use up ahead and why? What graphical identify do you feel properly represents the Amiga in 2019?
- 2:08:00 Michael thoughts on where we are now and what are his plans for the future
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29.Apr.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 138
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 138 (May/June 2019) have been released today and can be ordered from the magazine staff or various Amiga dealers. This issue's topics include a review of Aranet and AmigaOS 3.1.4 #2 as well as a report on the demo scene.
Please note that from 6th until 29th May the editors of the Amiga Furure are on vacation - orders (also of downloads) will be processed afterwards.
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29.Apr.2019
Diverse (ANF)
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25 years ago: Insolvency of Commodore
This very day 25 years ago the computer company Commodore, producer of the famous home computers C64 and Amiga, had to register insolvency. In a review Heise online reminds of Commodore (German).
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28.Apr.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Report and video of Amiga prototype "Zorro" (Update)
Under the title link Eric Hill has reported on his recently purchased Amiga development system. According to his information, this prototype was named "Zorro" and is a later variation than "Velvet". Commodore did send it to Hewlett-Packard hoping that the company would support it but it would not. In spring 1985 a private person bought it from HP.
The main differences in comparison to the ordinary Amiga (1000) as Eric Hill found out:
- Commodore logo instead of Amiga checkmark on the case
- Commodore keys inbstead of Amiga keys
- No signatures on the inside top cover of the case
- Custom chips Portia (instead of Paula) and Daphne (instead of Denise) as well as an early Agnus version
The computer used a Kickstart disk version 29.11. A video complements the report.
Update: (07:29, 05.05.19, snx)
As it turned out meanwhile, the disk has been overwritten by the previous owner with Kickstart 1.2. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Apr.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 27th, 2019:
md2_1.4.17_beta.lha comm/news 154K 68k Last public version of MicroD...
md2_14.lha comm/news 506K 68k Integrated standalone mailer ...
F1GP2019Carset.lha game/data 23K 2019 Carset for F1GP
LumberjackPlatform.adf game/jump 880K 68k Lumberjack Platform (Bootable...
LumberjackPlatformHD.lha game/jump 218K 68k Lumberjack Platform (HD Install)
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 374K 68k Amiga AGA port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 383K 68k Amiga RTG port of Duke Nukem 3D
mijfif.lha gfx/show 86K MOS JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR viewer
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 26K 68k View graphics files compresse...
LarryIsBack.lha mods/8voic 253K Larry Is Back 6ch Hip Hop by ...
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha mus/edit 471K 68k Opus Audio Tools
NTSCPics4PAL.zip pix/misc 54M NTSC graphics rescaled for PAL
Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
AkikoTFFix.lha util/misc 4K 68k Reenables Akiko on CD32 with ...
StartBar-ITA.lha util/wb 164K 68k Italian version of StartBar
StartWin.lha util/wb 40K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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28.Apr.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 27th, 2019:
exomizer.lha emu/uti 616kb 4.0 A cruncher for 8-bit computers u...
lzma_lib.lha lib/mis 242kb 4.0 LZMA/XZ (de)compression library
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28.Apr.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 27th, 2019:
atari800-310.i386-aros.lha emu/com 964kb Emulator of Atari 8bit computers
rnoeffects-icons.lha gra/ico 6kb Drawer and program icons
run_lodepaint.lha gra/ico 5kb Icon plus script which does not ...
txt2pdf-icons.lha gra/ico 7kb Drawer and program icons
crono.i386-aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb Generator of printable annual or...
jill.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 18Mb A Multipurpose Utility For Workb...
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28.Apr.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Storage until April 27th, 2019:
miJFIF_1.996.lha Graphics/Show A JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR ...
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28.Apr.2019
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Crowd funding: Odroid-XU4 system IndieGo XS as retro-console with AEROS
On Kickstarter under the title link a campaign was started for pre-financing ARM-Linux-based minicomputer which can be used for playing video games using emulation. Among others Pascal Papara's AROS distribution AEROS is preinstalled.
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27.Apr.2019
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Source code of "Trap Runner" released
After the collector's edition of his jump'n run Trap Runner has been available, similar to other games Frank Wille has released the source code, level files and graphics of the game under a Public Domain licence. The archive includes all files necessary for creating a disk image of "Trap Runner".
The build process is portable that means you can assemble the game on different platforms. Additional to an ISO-C99 compiler and the AmigaOS assembler includes, only GNU-make, vasmm68k_mot and vlink are required. All other tools you can build from the source code. In Makefile you only have to adapt the variable ASINC to the corresponding environment. It includes the path to the Amiga includes.
Download: TrapRunner1_2.lha (1,6 MB)
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27.Apr.2019
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Commercial Shoot'em Up: "Skillgrid" as download or Boxed Edition (AGA)
Skillgrid (video) developed by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) is an abstract, vertical shoot'em up which runs endlessly and according to the developer with "frenetic, tactical gameplay", diverse sub-games and many boss battles the player is supposed to be encouraged to chase after new highscores. The game requires an AGA computer.
Skillgrid is available from itch.io as chargeable download for 7,99 USD (about 7 Euro) or from RGCD as Boxed Edition providing two variants: As "basic CD-only version that comes with an auto-booting jewel-cased, glass-mastered CD complete with a professionally printed 16-page manual, a large weather-proof vinyl RGCD sticker, RGCD and Retream postcards and two disk labels (so you can make your own floppies from the images on the CD)" (for about 19 Euro) or as "deluxe version comes with all this plus a packet of four beautiful 25mm button badges, an A3 poster (rolled) and the game on two floppy disks - all presented in a plastic clam shell box complete with custom made foam insert" (for additional 6,90 Euro).
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27.Apr.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 97 (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 on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Air Support", "Frankenstein", "Skyblaster" and "Tube Warriors".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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26.Apr.2019
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amiga-news.de: Server move completed (update 2)
During the next hours amiga-news.de will be moving to a new sever. To avoid loss of data, all interactive elements of our web presence (comments, forums) are currently disabled. Once the work has been completed, these features will be enabled and this news item updated. We thank you for your understanding.
Update: (26.04.2019, 21:50, cg)
The move to the new server has been completed, we will now update the DNS entries. It might take a bit of time until all DNS servers know the address of the new server, so depending on the ISP used, visitors might still end up on the old server for a little while.
Update 2: (27.04.2019, 15:00, cg)
DNS entries are updated, all work is done. If you notice anything unusual, please drop us a mail or post in the comments section. (cg)
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25.Apr.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Using Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Copy 1.001 and ADF-Drive-Firmware 1.001
Using the USB adapter ADF-Drive and the corresponding copy program ADF-Copy you can read Amiga disks with a PC drive under Windows, Linux or on the Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.001 of ADF-Copy provides the following changes:
- more detailed diskinfo and used blocks
- format disk, format several disks
- changing drive timings for larger compatibility woth older drives, mtp mode on/off, number of retries and saving them to EEPROM
- compare disk to adf file
- graphical overhaul of interface
- bugfixes of v1.000
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