12.Jan.2010
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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ACU-Party: Amiga/ Commodore/ Unix meeting (31. January, Holland)
For the second time the Dutch "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" will organize in IJmuiden (Holland) the ACU- ("Amiga, Commodore & Unix") party. The event will take place on 31. January from 10 am until 4 pm. All users of Amiga, Commodore or Unix computers are welcome.
The address of the location:
Buurthuis De Spil
Frans Halsstraat 29
1971VZ IJmuiden.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate 1.118
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager similar to tools from the Linux-world like RPM or dpkg.
Version 1.118 fixes some bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AOrganiser 0.7
Andy Broad has published AOrganiser for AmigaOS 4 which is a organizer similar to Digita Organizer (screenshot of version 0.4). Version 0.7 offers an extended ARexx support as well as different modes (two days, week, month).
Download: aorganiser.lha (257 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Alpha version of Gallium3D
Gallium3D is a 3D-Layer which provides drivers for 3D-graphic chips by e.g. Intel and Nvidia.
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has published a first alpha version for GeForce-graphic boards of the series 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx. You can support this development by donating for the Bounty project.
Download: mesa-nv.i386-aros.zip (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2010
Pagestream-ML
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DTP: PageStream 5.0.5.3 (beta)
Registered users of the DTP-program Pagestream can download a new beta version 5.0.5.3 of the AmigaOS-version (68k) of Pagestream.
Download sites:
Full archive 5.0.5.3
Only the program and the libraries of version 5.0.5.3
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2010
Hollywood-ML
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AmigaOS 4: Workbench Rock, Paper, Scissors
Workbench Rock, Paper, Scissors is a WB game created with Hollywood 4.5 for AmigaOS 4.1 (screenshot). The author Brian Hargrove originally had written this game as hidden gimmick for Hollywood which he is using for his job.
Download: wbrps.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2010, 07:56] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jan.2010
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WHDLoad: New packages until 08.01.2010
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Besides several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added, improved or updated since our last message:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messaging: SabreMSN 0.63, AmiMSN 1.2-WIP
SabreMSN 0.63
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based MSN-messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. The changes are listed in the changelog.
AmiMSN 1.2-WIP
Michael Trebilcock's AmiMSN is an Instant-Messenger-Client written in ARexx for the MSN-network. The changes in this version are listed in the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2010
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Toolbar and Hollywood-Demo Coolbar
Carsten Siegner's "Coolbar" is a toolbar which was created with Hollywood 4.5 and which uses the new graphic routines of the Hollywood update which was published some days ago.
Siegner calls the program as "demo" because it should demonstrate the features of Hollywood 4.5 and does not provide the complete functions of different toolbars. Nevertheless drag'n drop is already supported. Additionally you can change the size of the toolbar without set levels.
Download: coolbar.lha (618 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2010
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 82
Press release: The Amiga Future issue 82 (January/February 2010) has been released today. In issue 82 you'll find reviews of AmigaOS 4 Update 1, Maniac Mansion - Day for the Tentacle, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World and much more. Furthermore there are interviews with Markus Weiß and Carlos Peris.
Besides lots of full versions and PD software we have the full versions of Scavenger 1, Scavenger 2, Maddog, Quasar Wars, Jelly o Chelly, Shroom, Gammon, Sneech, Piles o Tiles, Peg it Classic, 6th Sense, Samplitude, unreleased bonus material of Bernhard Aichinger and much more on the cover CD. A more detailed description of content and some excerpts can be found on our web site.
The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers like APC&TCP, Alinea, AmigaKit, ASB, GGS Data, Hast, Voxel, Samuli and Vesalia.
Of course we look for more dealers interested in adding the Amiga Future to their range of products. If there are some Amiga dealers interested in offering the Amiga Future to their customers out there then please write us an email.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue and subscription each with or without the cover CD. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Jan.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Round Table: Interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden
For his Podcast Amiga Round Table Richard Lawrence interviewed the AmigaOS-4 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden before Christmas. The 17 MB file can be downloaded under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Jan. 2010, 13:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jan.2010
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Interview with Cinemaware founder Bob Jacob
Under the title link Matt Barton has published an interview with Bob Jacob who is one of the founders of Cinemaware. The interview is based on a video from December.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2010
Stefan Haubenthal (ANF)
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MorphOS: GoatTracker 2.69
Version 2.69 of the C64-Tracker "GoatTracker" was ported by Ilkka Lehtoranta, 'Varthall' and Stefan Haubenthal to MorphOS.
Download: GoatTracker-morphos.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2010
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: Download version of A-live 09 available
Under the title link you can now purchase and download Pascal Papara's software package called A-live 09 which is also included at the AROS complete system called AresOne.
A-live 09 consists of Tomasz Wiszkowski's burning program FryingPan (incl. licence key) and the text editing software Cinnamon Writer written by Claus Desler as well as of the AROS-drivers for the AresOne-PC. Purchasers of A-live 09 will get future updates for free. Most of the proceeds will get the developers and a part will be used for the AROS bounty program.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jan.2010
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: C++-Framework Amiga Neat
Amiga Neat written by Luc "jeanluc72" Knaepkens-Duellberg is a C++-Framework similar to QT. It provides all features of C++ for Amiga developers , offers wrapper for all kernel-APIs and includes a lot of subclasses which - according to the author - "make your life more comfortable".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jan.2010
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Hardware: A-EON announced AmigaOne X1000
Finally after a one-week marketing-campaign today the Belgian-British company A-EON has published detailed information on his AmigaOS 4-hardware which will be called "AmigaOne X1000". According to the website the X1000 is supposed to be availble "still before summer" and will help to establish the Amiga again as combination of "great hardware as well as great Operating System".
They are not still allowed to call the name of the used CPU. Currently it is available only very limited. Most of the readers probably had never seen "one in the wild". "It's a dual-core Power Architecture CPU, with a very low Thermal Design Point".
The specifications of the X1000-motherboard, called "Nemo":
- ATX Formfactor
- Dual-core PowerISAâ„¢ v2.04+ CPU
- "Xena" XMOS XS1-L1 128 SDS
- 7.1 channel HD audio
- 4x DDR2 RAM slots
- 10x USB 2.0
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- 2x PCIe x16 slots (1x16 or 2x8)
- 2x PCIe x1 slots
- 1x Xorro slot
- 2x PCI legacy slots
- 2x RS232
- 4x SATA 2 connectors
- 1x IDE connector
- JTAG connector
- 1x Compact Flash
"Xena" is the configurable microcontroller called XCore produced by XMOS
On a discussion on amigaworld.net Robert Trevor Dickinson ("TrevorDick") from A-EON said that the CPU of the X1000 has definitely more than 1,2 Ghz.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2010
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AROS: Kickstart-Bounty started again
After the first phase of the Kickstart-replacement-bounty program was stopped without any results now Gary 'gaz' Pearman hast started this project again. He will have to be finished until 1st March.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2010
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AmigaOS 4: Sprite-Creator for Hollywood
Alfkil Thorbjørn Wennermark's Sprite Creator for Hollywood is similar to Bob-editor from AMOS.
Download: spritecreator.lha (853 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Crosscompiler-Toolchain for Linux and AmigaOS 4.1
The script crossscript.sh included in the archive creates under Linux a Crosscompiler-Toolchain for developing software for AmigaOS 4.1. Then the file distcode transfers it to the Ram-disk of the AmigaOS.
Download: distcode.lha (97 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE r2
Christopher Handley's RunInUAE enables to use the Amiga emulator E-UAE under AmigaOS 4. E-UAE has to be installed before. With the release 2 loading of games on several disks should now work.
Changes in release 2 of RunInUAE:
- Hopefully fixed HD installed games not starting for some people (please reinstall Workbench 3.1)
- Added automatic loading of multi-disk games
- Per-drawer & per-game config files now work with ADFs (bug fix)
- Now opens an App Window for you to drop games on; easier than dropping them on its AmiDock icon
- A new icon, thanks to David Braconnier
- Improved installer & manual, thanks to user feedback
Download: RunInUAE_r2.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 4.5 available
Today Hollywood 4.5 was published. Please read the official press release.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jan. 2010, 18:18] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: Monthly Page 9 / Interview with Davy Wentzler
The Monthly Page is an English magazine published as PDF-file. The latest issue consists of three pages and offers among others an interview with Davy Wetzler (Audio Evolution).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.62
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 as well as AROS.
With version 0.62 it is possible to transmit several files at once (under AROS causing crashes). There is a detailed list of changes in the Readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: iffilbm.demuxer 51.3
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski has updated his Reggae-class iffilbm.demuxer. Version 51.3 fixes some bugs.
Download: iffilbm.demuxer-51.3.lha (16 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jan. 2010, 21:19] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jan.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News: tinyulMUI 1.1, IRA 2.04
Frank Wille has published a new version of IRA which is a portable disassembler for AmigaOS 3-binaries. Additionally with the MUI-based tinyulMUI an upload-tool is available with which programs can be transmitted to tinybld-based Programmable Interface Chips like e.g. Minimig is using it.
Both programs are available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
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PR-campaign: Is Hyperion announcing new hardware? (2nd Update)
At the screenshots of the Firefox-port Timberwolf published two dys ago the website a-eon.com could be seen. Smart users figured out that this website belongs to Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment) and obviously has hidden some hints to Hyperion's next project.
By clicking the graphics on each site you can release another text or get the next hint (1.html, 2.html, 3.html, 4.html). Each day a-eon.com will be completed with another hint. Again and again you can read the terms "OMEN" or ("OM"), "ENIGMA" and "AEON" with which users tried to make anagrams.
The hint added today plays with these terms and then shows the text "Have you figured it out yet?". The I-dot at "it" is something more dark - if you move the mouse cursor above it you get the reaction: "(Oh no! Don't look at that!".
If you ignore this warning and have a look at the I-dot you will see that it is a highly scaled down photo. A photo which apparently shows a part of a motherboard.
In a thread at amigaworld.net Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden explained that it is more than "just" new hardware. Further information will be available tomorrow.
According to the Belgian Staatsblad (PDF-document) the company A-EON was founded in April 2009 by Ben Hermans and the both British men Robert Trevor Dickinson and Anthony Moorley.
Update: (03.01.10, 12:14, snx)
Meanwhile almost the complete mainboard is visible, also one further picture was found on the server which seems to show part of a case.
2nd Update: (03.01.10, 13:52, snx)
Hans-Jörg Frieden adds that the slots on the mainboard are two PCIe x16, three PCIe x1, two PCI 33 MHz and finally one "Xorro" slot, with the latter being in line with the third PCIe 1x slot. All 16 lanes of the PCIe x16 slot can be used only if just one slot is occupied, though, otherwise two times eight lanes are used.
The javascript file (4.js) used for today's page confirms that the CPU is a PowerPC - and according to another picture already found on the server it seems to provide more than one core. At the second still covered position on the mainboard, there seems to be a chip called "Xena" which might serve as a custom chip. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyUAE 1.2
After the beta version Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea has now published a first release candidate of his user-interface for the Amiga-emulator E-UAE. For the bounty-project so far 316,34 Euro were donated.
Download: easyuae-1.2.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2010
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
The following articles have been added during the last two months to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. If you want to support the magazine with translations of single articles then please contact David Brunet.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of November/December 2009
- Old news from September/October 1997 and November/December 1997 and their relatives articles
- Review of Open Tyrian
- Review of Quake
- Review of Amiga Forever 2008
- Hardware: Indivision ECS
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
- File: History of the Amigan year 1997 (update)
- Tutorial: Enhance a Mac mini G4
- Tutorial: Create themes for AmigaOS 4.1
- Tutorial: Utilisation of RDBrecov
- Tutorial: Boot up MorphOS 2.4 from an USB key on Mac mini G4
- Special quiz about the year 1994, 1995 and 1996
Articles in english :
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
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01.Jan.2010
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AmigaOS 4: New screenshots of Firefox-port Timberwolf
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden are working on a Firefox-port for AmigaOS 4.1 which will be called Timberwolf. Meanwhile the bookmarks-system is working as well as the "Popup-Windows" which are used for displaying the menus (screenshot) and Help-Bubbles (screenshot).
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained that they have been involved in different projects during the last time. But it is planned to release an alpha-version soon ("soonish").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
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Text adventure: An Amiga Christmas Story
"An Amiga Christmas Story" is a text adeventure writtten in AMOS which was originally meant for the Xmas-competition but was finished too late. The author described the the game as the "first chapter of a longer story which will be published anytime".
The game should run on Amigas with at least 512 KB RAM. The ZIP-archive includes an ADF-file as well as a LhA-archive for the installation on the harddrive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Scanner-application SCANdal 1.3-stable
Michal Zukowski has published an update sof his Scanner-application SCANdal. Changes in version 1.3-stable:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF and PDF saver
- Fixed JPEG saver
- Sketch plugins support (NOTE: do not use plugins from MorphOS 2.4, latest plugins are included in SCANdal archive, plugins don't work with 1.4.5)
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx driver)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
- Settings window
- Autoincrement filenames
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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BOH: Underground-Theme
For his commercial arcade game BOH, Simone Bevilacqua has published another theme called "Underground". Additionally graphic artists can get the game for free if they create themes for the game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Further downloads online
Further files have been added to the following categories of the Amiga Future download area: C64 Digital Talk, WinUAE, videos, game and application demoversions, respectively, Spielekiste Extra and APC&TCP FD. New files are marked by a sun. (snx)
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29.Dec.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ViewHTTPPic updated
ViewHTTPPic downloads files from the Internet and provides them to other programs. The author uses it to be capable of viewing single pictures on a 8-Bit-screen with e.g. Multiview while using IBrowse on an AGA-screen with e.g. 3 Bit. The latest update includes several bug fixes.
Download: ViewHTTPPic.lha (36 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2009, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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29.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.22
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4 which fixes several bugs and is now based on SVN-version 1202. The expat.library as well as at least AmigaOS 4.0 are required. For some functions version 4.1 is required.
Download: owb.lha (13 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2009
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Competition "Amiga Christmas Tree": Four other games
Dwarves in the Iceland
It is a Lemming-clone which is still an early release (screenshot).
Download: DITI.lha (155 KB)
Xmas Glass Ball Factory
It is a simple mind game. There are versions for ECS, AGA and graphic boards.
Download: XMAS_GBF.lha (70 KB)
Sam and Max
This a point'n click-adventure created with Gaphic Adventure Creator ("GRAC") with the two comic heros Sam & Max
(screenshots: 1, 2, 3). The author calls it as a first attempt to work with GRAC. Hint: The game requires an assign GRAC2: which has to refer to the directory which includes the Sam&Max-folder.
Download: GRAC2.zip (608 KB)
Christmas Boulderdash
This is Guido Mersmann's famous BoulderDäsh RTX which the author facetiously had offered for several times as game for the competition - obviously in vain.
Download: boulderfull.lha (4,5 MB)
The vote will be soon started. Currently a HTML-solution which is compatible to IBrowse is tried to be found. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2009
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.58
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit-home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-port was made by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controled with joysticks or analog controllers.
New features of version 1.58 include:
- Fixed a couple of issues in the GUI, specifically when entering data into string gadgets
- Fixed again a couple of exception handling issues in the menu
- Made the keypad stick configurable, the keys for joystick emulation are now part of the configuration
- Added a dummy front-end, "NONE", that does not render anything to the screen
- This release supports .CAS images; however, they are not part of a C: (tape) emulation, but emulated as disks. Depending on the contents of the tape archive, the disk is either considered a boot disk, a binary or a basic file
- This release supports better disk support for BASIC and MAC/65 files. If you insert such a file into the emulated disk drive, the emulator will build a DOS 2.0S compatible disk structure around it and you can load the image from the emulated disk as D:PROGRAM.BAS or D:PROGRAM.ASM. Note that such disks are *not* bootable, you first need to boot, and then turn on the emulated disk drive
- Fixed emulation of read-modify-write instructions. The 6502 consistently writes the old value before replacing it by a second write with the updated value
- The default alsa output device has been changed from hw:0.0 to default, making it more compatible to hardware setups
- The disassembly of the BVC instruction was invalid, fixed
- Added the space bar as possible source for joystick events
- Fixed some issues with preferences reading
- Added additional tests for ROM image verification
- Fixed a NULL pointer reference in the cartridge module
Download: Atari++_1.58.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Meeting: Amiga-Club Denmark
On Saturday 30th January 2010 the Amiga Club Denmark will meet in Værløse at Copenhagen. You can bring along your own Amigas or different Commodore computers. Guests from abroad are also very welcome.
AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented and can be tested from everybody. Amigabounty.net will present the latest developing version of the Firefox-port Timberwolf. Additionally the Minimig will be performed and there will be a section for playing classic Amiga games.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Sequencer: HD-Rec is Open-Source
Version 1.0 of the MIDI and audio sequencer HD-Rec (screenshots) will be published soon. Author Thilo Köhler will not commercially distribute this program but publish it as open-source software on sourceforge.net.
Interested programmers may contact the author in order to be entered as developer. HD-Rec is written in AmiBlitz and requires the still unpublished version 3.5.1 of this BASIC-distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2009, 23:51] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2009
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Lawsuit between Amiga and Hyperion settled
Under the title link the official judgment is available which confirms the joint stipulated motion for judgment entry as granted.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2009, 17:51] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2009
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE-interface AmiGame 2.0
AmiGame is an interface for the Amiga-emulator WinUAE which among others inlcudes a database and currently 1724 preconfigured games (video). Version 2.0 is available in French, English, Italian and Polish. A German translation is still missing and wanted.
Features:
- 1724 pre-configured games - click'n play, that's all
- Boxscans, discscans, covers, musics, logos included
- Automatic ADF & Whdload scanner
- Audio player with playlists usage
- Youtube video player to watch longplays, speedruns, et cetera...
- Multilingual
- Database engine (search games with many fields: artists, coders, musicians, type, year, et cetera...)
- Store and save your favourite games and prefs
- Nice interface with many skins
- Rate your games and see results in a chart
- Partnerships links for reviews and test
- Direct download with legal links only
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2009, 17:34] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WinUAE: New version of online-help
The online-help of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE was reworked:
- All GUI screenshots updated
- New Expansions tab added
- CPU - New 68040 MMU option
- IO Ports - New Protection Dongle option
- Sounds - New Drivers options
- Various options moved around
- AmigaDOS - Parameter information added to all commands
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2009, 16:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Port of Virtual Grand Prix 3 "possible"
The Aminet-team asked author Paolo Cattani if it is allowed to publish the MorphOS-version of his Formel 1 simulation "Virtual Grand Prix 2" on Aminet. The author answered that it is still possible to donate for VGP2 as well as it is possible to port the successor Virtual Grand Prix 3 although there are some "technical problems" and he is not going to "promise the earth".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 16:04] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: AmiMSN 1.2-WIP ("Xmas-edition")
- Minor memory leak fix
- Launch from icons. PNG/NewIcon/Old-style icons included
- Removal of MD5SUM. Using function in rxlibnet
- Only says "is now known as" if they were already online
- "User is typing.." message sent to recipients. This is only
now possible due to the new switchboard code in 1.1
- Changed text font (that will be shown on recipients side)
from MS Sans Serif to Segoe UI
- Recognises when WLM aborts a file being sent to you
- Thumbnail data sent from Windows Live Messenger when an image
file is offered, is saved to RAM:Preview.png
- Obtain ticket quicker on OS4
- If someone offers you a file without saying anything first,
a window will now open. Increases compatibility with some
clients that use a new switchboard session for file transfers
- Small change to try to stop clients from requesting your
avatar too often
- A few minor optimizations
- Fixed long standing bug when removing a group in IRCd mode.
Anyone who was online in the group/channel that was removed,
the WHOIS reponse would still show them being in that now
non-existant channel
- Crude Direct connection support for receiving when listening.
Should work in the majority of cases when receiving from WLM
Users of AmigaOS 4 should add the libraries rxsocket.library and rxlibnet.library to the Blacklist of the JIT-emulator to avoid problems with AmiMSN.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 15:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
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FFmpeg: SVN-Version 20918
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of FFmpeg for AmigaOS. Please note that the playback program FFplay, which is included, requires version 61 of the ixemul.libary.
Download: ffmpeg-svnr20918-m68k.lha (17 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 13:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE
Christopher Handley's RunInUAE makes running the Amiga-emulator E-UAE under AmigaOS 4 more comfortable. E-UAE has to be seperately installed.
Download: RunInUAE_r1.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 13:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Astronomy program 3D Stars 1.0
With "3D Stars" written by Dan Charrois und William Eaves you can travel through virtual interstellar spaces at the speed of light. The data of the positions of the suns were taken from the Hipparcos-satellite.
Download: 3D_Stars.lha (25 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 12:49] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2009
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: SimpleMail 0.35
On time on Christmas an update of the MUI-based eMail program SimpleMail was published. Changes since version version 0.33:
- New ARexx-commands: MAILDELETE, MAILMOVE, MAILSETSTATUS and VERSION
- A new column in the message list offers an outline of the mails
- You can now search the contents of the mails
- New command line argument: PROFILEDIR and IMAGEDIR
- Some bug fixes
Currently versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4 are available. The MorphOS-port will follow soon. The SimpleMail Team wishes all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Download sites: AmigaOS 3 / AmigaOS 4
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2009, 22:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2009
A. Otto - Admin. Tristar (ANF)
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Demo Scene: Tristar website now with Internet-Radio
The Tristar website was updated. An Internet-radio was added which plays free available music from the world of the video game remix scene. The Tristar-Team wishes all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010. Enjoy the website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2009, 18:44] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2009
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes all Amiga fans Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are looking forward to experience the next 12 months with our Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2009, 17:16] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.0.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available in version 2.0.1. Changes since the last release:
- Bugfix: Random interference in some AGA screen modes
- Bugfix: Blitter onedot line drawing mode was partially broken in non cycle exact modes
- Screenshot and AVI recording "capture before filtering" options
- Tar archive support added to "archive" harddrives
- Custom chipset emulation compatibility updates. NOTE: ECS Denise
undocumented feature is now emulated and some demos have blank
screen if chipset configuration is set to ECS Denise/Full ECS
- More compatible directory filesystem character set translation
- Mouse driver (tablet) mode didn't work without magic mouse
- Ignore unrar.dll versions that do not support unicode
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2009, 15:30] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2009
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Competition "Xmas Amiga games": Four games published
Four games were published for the "First Annual Festive Amiga Game Making Competition" started two weeks ago. More details wil be published on the official website of this competition.
Cornelius Saves Christmas
Cornelius saves Christmas is a platform shooter with 30 levels (YouTube video, screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4).
Download: CSC.lha (2 MB)
X-Mas Desaster
X-Mas Desaster is a Shoot'em Up for AGA-Amigas. The player controls an "ugly, rabid Alien" and tries to kill the mankind which is saved by Santa Clause (screenshot).
Download: x-masdisaster.lha (270 KB)
Syman
Syman is an implementation of Senso/Simon for the Amiga (screenshots: 1, 2).
Download: Xmas_Syman.lha (140 KB) / Xmas_Syman.adf (880 KB)
Santa Montana (Preview)
If you want to cope with "Santa Montana" you must throw presents to the chimneys of the inhabitants (screenshot).
Download: santamontana.lha (35 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2009, 14:39] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2009
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.2 for all Amiga-Systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit-Systems from Commodore. Ports of version 2.2 are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and. The changes are listed in the official Readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Dec. 2009, 17:24] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2009
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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Twitter-Client: AmiTwitter 0.23 for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS
AmiTwitter (screenshot, documentation) is an open-source, MUI-based client for Twitter.
The latest beta version offers the following features:
- Sends Tweets and Direct Messages on the Twitter network
- Downloads Following Tweets Timeline (and images)
- Downloads @Replies; Retweets of me, by me and to me
- Downloads Public Timeline (Random Tweets just for fun...)
- Displays the most recent Tweets that you have sent
- Displays the most recent Tweet by all friends and followers (currently via User ID only)
- Follow/Unfollow, Block/Unblock specified Users
- Receive/Stop receiving SMS messages from Users
- Update your Twitter website profile; view Favorites, and view Users currently Blocking (currently via User ID only)
- Display most recent Tweet for any User (whether following them or not)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Dec. 2009, 16:29] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Scanner driver and software SANE for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported the Scanner application SANE to his X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1, 2). The package includes a lot of drivers ("Sane Backends 1.0.20") as well as some graphical or console based scanner-programs ("Sane Frontends 1.0.14"). This current version only supports Scanners with USB-port or network-interface.
Supported Backends:
- microtek2
- hp
- fujitsu
- epson
- canon_dr
- avision
- net
- mustek_usb
- ma1509
- lexmark
- hp5400
- hp4200
- hp3900
- gt68xx
- genesys
- epson2
- epjitsu
- dell1600n_net
- coolscan3
- coolscan2
- cardscan
- canon630u
- artec_eplus48u
- umax
- snapscan
- xerox_mfp
- umax1220u
- u12
- test
- stv680
- sm3840
- rts8891
- plustek
- pixma
Included Frontends:
- xscanimage
- xcam
- scanimage
- scanadf
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Dec. 2009, 05:14] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2009
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AROS: New audio driver for iMica
In the next year Steve "Cluster UK" Jones will sell a new serie of his AROS-complete system iMica. The computers will be pre-configured as Dualboot-systems with IcAros 1.2 and Ubuntu 9.10. By order of Cluster UK, Davy Wentzler has developed drivers for the soundchips of the iMica. These drivers will also available seperatly for ten British Pounds.
Additionally each iMica will from now on include licenced versions of "Workbench 1.3 and Workbench 3.1" which can be used with UAE or Janus-UAE.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2009, 20:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2009
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Pictures of Commodore-Show in Maarssen, 19. December
On 19. December in Maarssen (Netherlands) a meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place. You can find pictures of this meeting on the website of the club.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2009, 15:43] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2009
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Software-News until 21.12.2009
Text viewer: EvenMore 0.69
EvenMore is a textviewer written in AmigaE and by Chris Perver. Changes since the last version:
- Modified exec list sorting to receive a list length variable, so it doesn't need to be counted first. Also modified Dir2Text plugin to accept this
- Was freeing information bar pattern data by mistake when launching an external program
- Pär Boberg has updated his Swedish catalog file following the changes made to the preferences
- Added two new escape code sequences. ESC[52m will set the displayed font in EvenMore to the user selected font, while ESC[53m will set the displayed font to the default system font. This will allow plugins such as the Generic2Text plugin to switch to a uniform system font when viewing hexadecimal files.
- Updated Generic2Text plugin to use the system font when viewing hexadecimal files
MorphOS: Drawerball 0.8q
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 0.8q which is a very early version of a simple file manager.
AmigaOS 4: Modula 2-development environment AgletM2PPC
AgletM2PPC is a complete Modula 2-development environment inclusive compiler. Only a text editor is required (GoldEd, CygnusEd and TurboText are supported). Changes since the last release:
Compiler:
- The compiler itself is now PPC native, and is
significantly faster!
- The size limit on procedures is now probably large enough
for any sane program
- A bug which caused extremely excessive stack use was fixed.
Now 40 or 50K should be enough for almost any compile
- Some code generation errors were fixed
- Fixed problem with Opaque pointers resolved within the
IMPLEMENTATION module by imported pointer types
- Added compiler warning: OpenArrayCopyWarn
- SDK 53.8+ now using the GNU assembler v2.18 vs. 2.14
in earlier SDKs. This required that some instructions be
output slightly differently
- Certain "recording" versions of FP instructions are no
longer generated, since Sam 440ep/flex does not support
them
(Pre)Linker
- Mod2Lnk recognizes a "-stack" switch and inserts the
"$STACK:xxxx" cookie into executables.
The .asm files no longer need be kept around. All dependency
information is in the object file now. Asm files are written
to T:
- Added the "-g" debug switch, which causes both exported and
non-exported symbols to be put into the Elf symbol table so
that SymbolsRTS can find them as well
M2IDE
- Option "Make Icons?" added for the project file save
- Fixed problem of GR on exit if M2IDE changed its current
directory
- Multiselect now supported for the "Misc Files" file
requester
Amiga Modules
- Added Definition files for about 25 more Amiga Libraries,
and all supplied Amiga definition files (over 150 of them) were
brought up to the v53.13 SDK
- The TextEditor gadget is now working much better, as the
Definition file now adjusts to a glitch in the SDK's .h
file
Aglet Modules
- System module SymbolsRTS was introduced for better debugging
of exception locations
- CLI program arguments and Workbench ToolTypes are
transparently (almost) unified when the ArgsSupport module
is used to read startup arguments
- Many improvements in the (experimental) SimpleXXX modules
(SimpleGUI, SimpleScreens, SimpleMenus, SimpleGraphics, etc)
- new modules: BigInt, for 155 bit integers; IconSupport, for
writing out icons
Filesharing: Testing Amigift 2.0 for free
Amigift is a P2P file sharing system based on the giFT-demon (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) ported from the Unix-system and which has a MUI-based graphical user-interface called "GiftMUI" (screenshot). The author now offers a key with which you can test all the features of the shareware program for a limited time for 30 minutes per session.
AmigaOS 4: Astronomy program Digital Universe for 40% discount
The astronomy program Digital Universe can be ordered for a discount of 40% until 1.1.2010.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Dec. 2009, 15:39] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Picture viewer ShowGirls 1.2 / WAManager 1.0
ShowGirls is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which provides some picture editing functions and features known from "MiniShowPicture", "ShowPPC" and similar programs. Additionally pictures can be catalogued and assigned to virtual albums.
Version 1.2 includes some bug fixes as well as the WAManager which was integrated (screenshot). With this new program also written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak you can manage Picasa Internet albums and offers in version 1.0 the following features:
- User authorization
- Album list gathering
- Album creation, name, comment and access rights modification
- Uploading of images to albums
- Checking for already uploaded images
- ShowGirls integration
- Images can be resized to given dimmensions and recompressed to JPEG format with selected quality. All image formats for which a Datatype or Reggae class exists are supported
Download:
ShowGirls-1.2.lha (463 KB)
WAManager-1.0.lha (880 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2009, 11:47] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2009
Retro Gamer (ANF)
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Game consoles: Alien-Breed-Series will be continued
The Alien-Breed-Series, which was published from 1991 to 1996 for the Amiga and partly for the PC as well, will be officially continued with "Alien Breed Evolution". Under the title link you can find a short report on the Xbox-360-version at 4Players.de (in German). Versions for Playstation 3 and PC will be published next year. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Dec. 2009, 10:12] [Comments: 0]
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