07.Apr.2022
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately after it was founded - whose shares were already available on the stock exchange for a few hundredths of a cent at that time.
Although there was initially talk of hundreds of Amiga titles that were to be brought to various mobile platforms - the range of around a dozen titles and the Blackberry as the only supported platform never changed. Almost two years later, the offer had to be completely discontinued as the license received from the new owner of the Amiga rights expired at the end of March 2015.
AGI's official website has never featured much more than an animated boingball in all these years (Web Archive), but at the end of March, amigagamesinc.com was completely overhauled: There is talk of a "relaunch", the "resurrection of old games" and the "ultimate mobile platform for playing your favorite retro games". Interested parties can invest in this project in advance in order to have a "say" in the development of the platform and the selection of titles.
This investment is made by purchasing so-called NFTs. The tokens offered by AGI are graphics related to games such as Dune or Rocket Ranger, which are available at a unit price of USD 250. The income generated in this way will be used to finance the development of the "Retro Infinity Player" - i.e. the software engine with which AGI intends to bring retro classics to various modern platforms. The only information about the Retro Player that can be found on the website is the statement that it is "Blockchain based" und already in development.
There is no imprint to be found on the site, and according to the Terms & Conditions, which are over 60 pages long on our computer, amigagamesinc.com is an offer from Active World Club. The latter's website does not contain any content either and just announces an imminent "Reboot". According to the company's own Twitter channel, the cryptocurrency "Active World Rewards Token" (AWRT) currently appears to be AWC's main area of business.
Editor's note: "Blockchain", "NFT" and "cryptocurrency" are the very buzzwords that have been used for several years now in a constant attempt to entice investors and private investors to make speculative purchases. That someone at Amiga Games Inc. is really working on the development of a retro player can probably be ruled out - quite apart from the fact that an allegedly "blockchain-based" retro player makes no sense whatsoever. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Apr.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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New maps for a classic Dungeon Crawler: Blackest Crypt
Raven's 1992 Dungeon Crawler Black Crypt just got five new dungeons developed by a fan of the game. The mission pack is called "Blackest Crypt", changes only the levels while the story stays the same and works with both a WHDLoad install and the disk version of the original game.
Direct download: BlackestCrypt010.lha (74 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Apr.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: issue 135 of Amiga Future readable free of charge
The German and Englisch editions of 'Amiga Future' issue 135 (November/December 2018) can now be read for free on the magazine's website.
Remainders of the physical issue as well as PDF files at a higher resolution are available from the publisher. (cg)
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06.Apr.2022
Erik Hogan (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
Today version 2022.2 was released, which among other things adds the ability to create custom masks and provides improved string support and save and load functions.
In addition, the developer is working on a video series with Michael Parent from BitBeamCannon (e.g. DaemonClaw, Metro Siege). The game studio is currently developing a new game for the A500 with the help of Scorpion Enginee, using features such as parallax and translucency in four-bit plane mode. The collaborative video series about this game is not intended to be a tutorial for creating a game from scratch, but rather a documentation of the steps involved in creating this game, providing tips and tricks for Scorpion beginners and veterans alike. Michael Parent has released the first video, which shows the process of setting up a new project and implementing layer parallax. The second and third videos will follow in the next few days. (dr)
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06.Apr.2022
Artur Jarosik (Patreon)
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer".
Since our last message, the developer has made some fixes to the game and yesterday released version 0.98:
- Replaced Speech.mix with one adding "Repairing" speech in Repair Bay
- Fixed memory trash with damaged buildings
- Fixed repairing of vehicles on Repair Bay
- Fixed : music wouldn't stop in some cases on v4
The game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo processor, especially the V4 series. However, as the author explained to us, it might be playable on a 68060 processor with a graphics card with the music and sound effects turned off.
If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon website. (dr)
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06.Apr.2022
deadwood (Mail)
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux. Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux.
Now the developer has released version 41.2, which provides, among other things, the following changes:
- AROS-Shell, an AmigaDOS-compatible Shell, is now available for you as a native Linux program. You can write DOS scripts and use shell commands to interact with Linux filesystem.
- AxRuntime becomes a bridge between AROS x86_64 and Linux by allowing running native AROS programs as standalone Linux programs. In this function AxRuntime is similar to Wine. Wine allows running Windows programs on Linux, AxRuntime allows running AROS programs on Linux.
This release comes with 4 applications: AROS-Shell, MPlayer, WookieChat and Final Writer 7 (demo). Additionally AROS x86_64 applications like MUIbase can also be used. (dr)
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05.Apr.2022
pikewerfer (forum)
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MorphOS: Free fonts package (also for AmigaOS)
Monotype employee 'pikewerfer', with permission from his superiors, has put together a free font pack that can be "bought" for 0 Euros under the title link. The "MorphOS Value Pack" contains ten different types, including their variants (italic, bold, etc.) there are 27 fonts.
The license of these OpenType fonts also includes AmigaOS, as far as their use is technically possible there. The creator would be pleased about feedback. (snx)
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05.Apr.2022
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Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers.
In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key data:
- Size: default is 19", if second stretch goal is reached then there will be a 17"
- Ratio 5:4 (1280x1024 panel)
- Ports:
- Input: HDMI, VGA, composite video, interlace component input, AV1 and AV2
- Output: speaker, composite (streaming)
- Front panel: Front USB only if you add a front panel and wire them up, default will be a blank user panel waiting for customisation
- 3D printed prototypes, later injection molded version (reason for Kickstarter campaign)
- side speakers
- Using the Gbscontrol firmware for the 'GBS-8200' video converter as optional add on, not standard.
(dr)
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04.Apr.2022
McGeezer
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Today a new preview video for the game was released which is in development. It can already be pre-ordered as a boxed edition. A demo version of the first stage is also available on itch.io.
(dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL required.
Download: Symmetrix.lha (71 kB) (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 29 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now episode 29 was published. (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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AmiGameJam 2022: The winners
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen:
- 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez.
- 2nd place: Jean-François Fabre's Pacman clone MsPacman 500.
- 3rd place: 'Dante's' conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name, Green Beret.
Congratulations! (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
(ANF)
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Pre-order: New Amiga mechanical USB keyboard
Simulant Systems Ltd is a computer hardware, software and online IT support service provider based in York, United Kingdom. Today it was announced that production of Amiga USB mechanical keyboards will be started.
Amiga Corporation's first officially licensed mechanical USB PC keyboard features Brown Cherry MX keyswitches, Amiga-style sublimation printed keycap characters, green LED status indicators and injection-molded case. With limited availability, the keyboard can be pre-ordered for around 120 Euros plus 38 Euros for the corresponding international keycaps. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Video: All about MiSTer FPGA
The YouTube channel 'My Life in Gaming' has published a video that goes into detail about the MiSTer FPGA board: what is needed, how to set it up, which consoles, computers, handhelds or arcade cores are supported. Supposedly worth watching even for long-time users. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
OSnews
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Overview: The world of non-C operating systems
As an online portal, The Register provides news and analysis from the world of technology companies. In a recent article, the authors explore the question of what current commercial operating systems exist that were written before C was invented or that do not use the C programming language at any level or layer.
They explain that the Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL), a compiled, system-oriented programming language developed by Martin Richards in 1966 and first implemented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the spring of 1967 (cf. Wikipedia entry) , was by no means just an insignificant transitional step, since it was used in two famous operating systems: so also in the TRIPOS operating system, which was later used as the original basis of AmigaOS.
Furthermore, an overview of programming languages and OSes based on them is given, for example Lisp with the OS Mezzano, Interim or ChrysaLisp. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.1
A week ago, version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Now version 3.9.1 fixes some bugs:
- fixed crash when no source was loaded by default
- fixed crash when trying to open a second instance of AB3 with "clone wb"-option
- fixed Enforcer hits when inserting a new source line
- fixed crash on MorphOS when loading a source
- fixed misworking FPU-detection on 68060 systems
(dr)
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03.Apr.2022
Patrick Nevian (Mail)
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Chris Hülsbeck songs: Album "Piano Collection II" released
Patrick Nevian is a hobby programmer responsible for games like Ambermoon Arcade or the 'Tales of Gorluth' series. He first combined his hobby and his profession as a music producer and pianist in 2008, when he interpreted songs from various Amiga games on the piano and released them as a free album.
The musician Chris Hülsbeck, well-known for his soundtracks for the Amiga games Apidya, Turrican or Rainbows, among others, became aware of this and released the album 'The Piano Collection' with the pianist in 2015 after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Following a survey conducted in 2020 as to which Huelsbeck titles should be included on another album, Patrick Nevian has now released Chris Huelsbeck The Piano Collection - Volume II: The Players Choice, which can be ordered as a CD for ¤29.00 free shipping. Title List:
- Apidya: War at Meadow's Edge
- The Great Giana Sisters: Ingame music
- X-Out: Main theme
- Z-Out: Main theme
- Jim Power: Main theme
- Gem'Z: Credits
- The Apprentice: Main theme
- Turrican: Victory
- Turrican II: Freedom
- Grand Monster Slam: Main theme
- Tunnel B1: opening music
- Rock N Roll: Music from level 1
- Turrican I bis III: Medley of main themes
- Turrican II: The Wall
- Turrican III: Medley from level 1 and 2
- Madness: Main theme
- The Adventures of Quik & Silva: Ingame medley
- Two bonus tracks
(dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to Aminet:
Artstate-Loopback.zip demo/sound 24K 68k 32Kb executable music for GER...
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 366K POSIX compatibility library f...
zlib_S1212.lha dev/c 1.0M WOS ZLib 1.2.12 StormGCC link lib...
BeebAsm.lha dev/cross 733K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
atto.lha dev/gg 302K MOS Atto Emacs is inspired by Mic...
MuManual.lha docs/misc 945K 68k mmu.lib: examples, includes, ...
SAGADriver.lha driver/oth 289K 68k SAGA Driver Package
spacecadetpinball-aos... game/actio 5.1M OS4 SpaceCadetPinball
spikedislike.lha game/actio 41K 68k Endless disliking of spikes
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
PrBoom.lha game/shoot 848K 68k Amiga port of PrBoom (DOOM)
webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools122_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.6M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 150K 68k MuLib driven ShapeShifter vid...
ptplayer.lha mus/play 31K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 674K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.1M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 747K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
exutil_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha util/wb 1.5M x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MOS.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
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03.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 237kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 231kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 197kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vbcc.lha dev/cro 3Mb 4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha dev/cro 188kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
vbcc_posixlib.lha dev/lib 366kb 4.0 POSIX compatibility library for ...
spacecadetpinball.lha gam/act 5Mb 4.1 SpaceCadetPinball ported to Amig...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
devinfosng.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.1 Nearly all about the aos4.1 hard...
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
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03.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
breaker.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 548kb Arkanoid clone
exutil_aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb An exif based batch renamer pict...
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03.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
vbcc_PosixLib_3.0.lha Development/C POSIX compatibility lib...
BeebAsm_1.09.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
Atto_1.22.lha Development/GeekGadgets Atto Emacs is inspired ...
AmiArcadia_28.4.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
GrafX2_2.8.lha Graphics/Draw GrafX2 version 2.8, SDL...
Exutil_1.1.2.lha Graphics/Tools A small MUI based utili...
FFmpeg_4.4.1.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
MouseEyes_1.4.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Displays Mouse Eyes in ...
Uptime_1.5.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Uptime in scree...
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03.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.04.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 02.04.2022:
- 2022-04-01 updated: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) patch redone, annoying control bug in main menu fixed, 24-bit problems fixed, lots of trainer options added, CD32 joypad support, highscore load/save, source code included (Info)
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02.Apr.2022
Twitter
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.10 was released providing the following improvements and new features compared to version 1.9:
- Adds support for the ZZ9000AX audio expansion with native 48000Hz, Stereo s16i playback and capture. Capture is not yet supported by driver/tools.
- Adds AHI driver for ZZ9000AX. Please note that only very fast Amigas can mix 48kHz audio through AHI. If you have a 020 or 030, it's best to use 24kHz for AHI.
- Adds MP3 decoding support on an ARM core of ZZ9000 powered by minimp3.
- The tool axmp3 in the drivers package demonstrates direct MP3 playback at 48kHz, with very low Amiga CPU usage (not using AHI). The tool is Open Source.
- C code refactor splits out many modules from ZZ9000OS main.c for better maintainability
According to the developer "the plan is to ship out the bulk of ZZ9000AX batch 1 orders next week, which is supported by this firmware." (dr)
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02.Apr.2022
Discord
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.0
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
Yesterday, version 5.0 was released, which, among other numerous bug fixes and improvements, improves the auto-crop function. The most important changes:
- Updated Display panel help, with info about Auto-Crop
- Updated version date
- Auto-Crop: Only change Height in DMX approach, to avoid possible problems with width
- Updated version date
- Auto-Crop: improved minimum width calculation, for both LowRes and HighRes modes
- Remove floppydrivebridge library from pipelines, as it's now part of Amiberry
- Updated version date
- Fixed Auto-Crop assigned to custom control
- Fixed #923: when auto-crop is enabled, auto-fix options that cause trouble
- Fixed incorrect Aspect Ratio when using Auto Crop
(dr)
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01.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin MouseEyes 1.4
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'MouseEyes', that displays eyes in the screen title looking at and following the mouse pointer, to version 1.4 for MorphOS. Changes:
- The pupils of the eyes are now only shown on the active screen. On all other screens running an instance of Mouseeyes, the pupils are hidden. This also has the side effect that one can easily spot the active screen based on existing pupils in case of a multi-monitor setup.
- Now comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley.
(dr)
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