21.Dec.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 172 - preview and reading samples
The reading samples and preview of issue 172 (January/February 2025) of Amiga Future are now online. The issue features the following topics, among others:
- Interview Macro System Part 2
- Show report Amiga Meeting 2024
- Preview AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3
- Knowledge 5: Fast scaling of bitmaps
- Developer Log: Settle the World
- RAM-modules
- Demoscene
- Dungeonette
- Tales of Evil
- Neon Noir
- Halloween X
- 2 Tiny Cowboys
- Fast Food Dizzy
- Beyond the screen: The history of RPGs on the Amiga
- VASM
- ADF Blitzer
- AmiKit for Rasberry
- Amiga 600gs
The editors ask all Amiga Future subscribers to check whether the publisher has their current postal address and e-mail address. The Amiga Future is already packed and sent out a few days before the publication date, so any changes to your address should be communicated as soon as possible. (cg)
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21.Dec.2024
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Programming Course: A500 Programming - Finishing the Shooting Gallery Project
In the ninth part of Michael Martin's course on hardware-oriented A500 programming, the sample project is completed: In "Finishing the Shooting Gallery Project”, the project is expanded to display more than one shot from the player at a time. (cg)
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21.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 4.10
"Dir Me Up" tries to emulate the approach of modern file managers on AmigaOS 4. The update to version 4.10 includes a preview for text documents using UTF8 and UTF16 encoding and displays ID3 tags of selected MP3 files (including cover images). There are also updated translations, additional predefined file types and minor bug fixes. The update is available free of charge to all registered customers, others can download a free demo version or purchase the full version for 20 euros.
(cg)
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20.Dec.2024
Trevor Dickinson
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Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust!
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. In it he gives an outlook on the numerous Amiga events already announced for the coming year, but also looks back on this year's Amiga meetings.
He also announces a new batch of "A1222 Plus" boards. He wrote: "In other good news, with the A1222 Plus selling relatively well, A-EON and AAA Technology have commissioned another batch of motherboards. The deposit has been paid, and production is underway, with delivery expected in the early New Year." (dr)
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19.Dec.2024
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Sokoban variant: Ami Robbo 2, Physical Edition
A "Physical Edition" of the Sokoban variant Ami Robbo 2 (video) released in the summer is available from the Polish magazine "Komoda & Amiga plus". For 28 euros (including tax) you get a "sturdy", presumably unprinted box with a "sleeve" in the "Ami Robbo 2" design, a postcard on the back of which the level passwords can be entered, a sticker, a printed manual (English, German, Polish) and two disks: one for the actual game, the other for the level editor. (cg)
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19.Dec.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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German print magazine: ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), issue 12/24
Press release: After the great success of the german ASM revival issue 3/23, the editorial team is now upping the ante: this year's issue of german ASM ("Aktueller Software Markt"), number 12/24, has now been published and can now be ordered from amigashop.org. The current magazine offers a comprehensive overview of the new retro releases from summer 2023 to autumn 2024, taking into account the classic computer systems from A for Amiga to Z for ZX Spectrum, in over 40 tests for a total of 12 different computer systems.
What else is there in the new edition of ASM?
- Manfred Kleimann didn't miss the opportunity to write the foreword again - he also fought the Great London Fire of 1666 again, while Martina Strack helped the lemmings again after 30 years and Klaus 'Cruiser' set sail on the Paradroid deck cleaned up.
- Big thanks also go to Torsten Oppermann, who met with Chris Hülsbeck and Julian Eggebrecht for ASM to talk about old and new times and let us share in them.
- Clem Chambers, head of the famous software company CRL, talks about what it was like to run a software company in the 80s and what he did afterwards.
- Michael Kafke tells us pretty much everything about the ASM adventure, Stefan Vogt chats about the details and introduces us to Hibernated 2 (while we take a closer look at his masterpiece "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor").
- The reader survey from the last issue will be resolved, there will be a programming competition (again...) and one or two surprises.
- And of course all the sections from the last issue are back on board, as is Donald Bug, who is letting go of all his clothes this time...
(cg)
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19.Dec.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #204 - ScummVM with Eugene Sandulenko
In the 204th edition of the "Scene World" podcast, the team welcomes Eugene Sandulenko as a guest - one of the project leaders of ScummVM, the virtual engine for numerous classic adventure and role-playing games. The interview starts about 30 minutes into the recording. (cg)
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19.Dec.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 11.2
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" supports without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer
all known PCI solutions for the Amiga. The current version includes the following changes:
- GetBoardAttrs() and SetBoardAttrs() could loop forever
on unknown tags, the end marker for the known tags was
incorrect.
- The PCI BAR register parser did not compute the parity
correctly for some boards.
- Two new tags were added for GetBoardAttr(), namely
PRM_PCIMemWindowLow and PRM_PCIMemWindowHigh, which
provide the PCI address range available for a device
at config time, or the PCI address range a device is
mapped into later. These are PCI addresses, not 68K
addresses.
- SetBoardAttr() can now write PRM_MemorySizeX and
PRM_MemoryFlagsX at config time to dynamically size
PCI devices. This is useful for tools called from
within the PCI-Configuration file.
- Fixed a missing register initialization when unloading
tools from LIBS:PCI.
- Added example source code for an init tool for sizing
PCI devices dynamically.
- Fixed the description of the autoconf vendor IDs in the
autodoc file.
(cg)
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18.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 14.12.2024
The following files have been added until 14.12.2024 to Aminet:
TuneFinder.lha comm/misc 79K OS3 Search and play onlin...
vS10-ami.lha demo/mag 258K OS3 OCS/ECS Diskmag and D...
vs10_os4.lha demo/mag 1.9M OS4 AOS 4 Diskmag and Dem...
xlink.lha dev/misc 312K OS3 Virtual linking of Am...
devtest.lha disk/misc 41K OS3 AmigaOS block device ...
f1champ.lha docs/misc 76K GEN Statistics of Formula...
caveman.adf game/actio 880K OS3 Console game conversi...
g17demo_68k_and_wos.lha game/demo 355M VAR Demo version of Gorky...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.8M OS4 Signetics-based machi...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M OS3 Signetics-based machi...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machi...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS com...
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip mus/edit 12M ARO Tracker/Synth hybrid ...
MakeKick.lha util/boot 20K OS3 Make Kickstart floppy...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.5M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testp...
CPU-A.lha util/moni 474K OS3 System Information To...
xrom.lha util/shell 538K OS3 ROM analyze tool
adate.lha util/time 92K OS3 Versatile date and ti...
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18.Dec.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.12.2024
The following files have been added until 14.12.2024 to OS4Depot:
vs10.lha dem/mag 2Mb 4.0 An Amiga chartmagazine for Amiga...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
loview.lha gra/vie 7Mb 4.0 the Easy Viewer and Thumber :)
(snx)
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18.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 14.12.2024
The following files have been added until 14.12.2024 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 12Mb Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
(snx)
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18.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.12.2024
The following files have been added until 14.12.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
FlipClock_2.10.0.lha Ambient/Blankers Port of FlipClock scree...
Protrekkr_2.7.5.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
SpaceWar_1.21.0.lha Games/Shoot2D Port of Space War by Pa...
OpenRCT2_0.4.17.lha Games/Strategy OpenRCT2 is an open-sou...
Wizznic_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of Wizznic by Papi...
Iris_1.46.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
(snx)
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18.Dec.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.12.2024
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 14.12.2024:
(snx)
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18.Dec.2024
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaKit: Apparently modified A1200 mainboard planned
At the title link, AmigaKit shows photos of selected areas of a mainboard that is very similar to that of the Amiga 1200, but shows changes in detail:
- USB ports where the external floppy disk drive used to be connected
- moved connectors for the internal floppy disk drive and its power supply, possibly to make room for a new external floppy disk drive connector
- Connections for the hard disk and fan power supply where the parallel port used to be located
- Changes to the keyboard connector area, possibly to replace the original keyboard controller
- CompactFlash connector instead of the PCMCIA connector
(snx)
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18.Dec.2024
Boing Attitude (ANF)
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Boing Attitude interview with Oliver Roberts now in English
The November issue of French "Boing Attitude" magazine contained an interview with Oliver Roberts (Warp-Datatypes, IBrowse, AmiSSL, AmigaOS 4). Now it is also available in English at the title link. (snx)
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18.Dec.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Christmas game: Santas Present Drop 4
Following three previous parts, Rob Smith continues his AMOS-programmed christmas games series with "Santas Present Drop 4". This time four leading elves of Santa's toy factory have been kidnapped and have to be rescued. (snx)
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17.Dec.2024
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Case study: Using the Scorpion engine for porting Ghosts 'n Goblins to the Amiga
A noteworthy case study shows how Ghosts ‘n Goblins can be ported to the Amiga using the Scorpion engine. Developer Skyzoo73 presents a playable demo of the first level with AGA graphics in 64+16 colours. He was supported by IM76 (music conversion, from 6 to 4 channels) and Griffon (additional help). The port contains many classic elements of the original arcade game, including zombies, platforms, magical transformations and hidden bonuses.
The demo already includes game-mechanical details such as checkpoints, a countdown timer and various death animations. Despite some missing or faulty enemy animations, the progress is remarkable. The port impressively demonstrates the potential of the Scorpion engine for the development of new Amiga games. (nba)
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17.Dec.2024
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Demoparty: MountainBytes 2025 (Switzerland, 14.-16.02.)
MountainBytes is considered the most important demoscene event in Switzerland. Next year, too, there will be a whole weekend of celebrations together, from 14 to 16 February 2025 in Cham. The program:
- Friday: Meteoriks 2025 nomination gala with huge demo show afterwards
- Saturday: competitions (OHP, music, graphics, oldschool realtime, PC realtime), workshop roundtable, live act
- Sunday: workshop-results, Swiss Demo-Zmorge
(nba)
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17.Dec.2024
Electric Black Sheep
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Game: Update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
The Electric Black Sheep team has submitted an update for the game "Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut" (amiga-news.de reported).
The T-Fighters' collisions with obstacles were corrected and a bug in the menu was fixed. The keys F1 to F10 and 0 to 9 can now also be used to control the volume of the music and sound effects. In addition, a simplified "engine" with fewer calculations has been integrated to improve performance on Amigas with slower CPUs.
Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut ideally requires an Amiga 1200 with a hard disc, accelerator card and Fast RAM, and can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation. (nba)
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17.Dec.2024
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A festive arcade game: Santatron 2024
John Girvin recently attracted attention with the AmiGameJam winner ‘Rogue Declan’. Now he is adding something sweet to the festive season: he is publishing the cute Amiga game "Santatron 2024", which is also part of the coverdisk of the latest "Amiga Addict" magazine.
In this festive arcade shooter, the player takes on the role of Santatron, who must save Christmas from the commercial terror. Santatron shoots his way through his Christmas cave, taking out toys and gingerbread men taken over by the AI, freeing his loyal Christmas elves and collecting power-ups and presents. With varied level design, an atmospheric soundtrack and a pretty 2D retro charm, Santatron 2024 brings nostalgic Christmas spirit to the Amiga.
The game runs on classic Amiga systems (OCS) with at least Kickstart 1.3, 512 MB Chip RAM and 512 MB other RAM, and can also be played on more modern systems with AGA, even in emulation.
Santatron 2024 is available as a free download, but voluntary donations are gladly accepted. The executable ADF and a matching disk label are offered for download. (nba)
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16.Dec.2024
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Game remake: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10
'pixelplop' is currently developing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, released by Simon Green in 1993, for this year's AmiGameJam. The new game supports four instead of just two players (a-news.de bamiga-news.de reported). In the current version 0.10, several new features have been added and changes have been made since our last report.
A summary of the changes:
- Fixed potential crash when in Frontend on some systems.
- Fixed crash on exit.
- Fixed Loading Screen and Frontend Menus running too fast.
- Fixed big graphical glitches when the map preview scrolls on and off.
- A lot of restructuring to try and make the game more system friendly
- If a player gets several kills in quick succession an announcer will say "EXTREME"!
- AI Bots should be able to correct themselves if they get stuck going around in circles for a while.
- 1 line fix that stops the game crashing if there are no AI players!!!
- AI will attempt to dodge incoming bullets.
- Improvements to the AI path finding.
- Players should no longer be able to get walled in when level generates.
- Enabling the Extra Joysticks should not crash the game when temporarily re-enabling the system.
- Radar dots are now the correct colours for all players in horizontal split.
- Option to turn on/off permanent blood splats.
- Option to turn on/off spectating other players until after all human players are out.
Extreme Violence 2 requires an Amiga with an OCS chipset and 1 MB Chip RAM and can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation (longplay of v0.9 of the Author himself). (nba)
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16.Dec.2024
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Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.3 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS)
"audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. Numerous bugs have been fixed in the new version 0.12.3. (dr)
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16.Dec.2024
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MOD player: rePlayer v0.16.8 for Windows
The new version 0.16.8 of rePlayer, Arnaud Nenys' versatile audio player for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), offers Amiga fans and music enthusiasts a wealth of convenient features and some major updates. The tool, originally developed to play Amiga music modules without any problems, allows to play modern standards such as MP3 or OGG, and is now also able to handle the XMP format. (dr)
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15.Dec.2024
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Epsilon's World: Amiga games from 2024
For his blog, 'Epsilon' has set out to present Amiga games from all years, although this list will not and cannot necessarily be complete. Starting from the back, he first presents games from the year 2024 at the title link. All games were tested by him on real hardware - an Amiga 500 or 1200 - and under FS-UAE.
Presented are Dungeonette, Tiny Pixel Adventure, Roguecraft, Cecconoid, AMI H.E.R.O., Dr. Dangerous - Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan, Tale of Evil, Neon World, Riviera '79, Pooyan, Donkey Kong 500, Battle Squadron 2, Fast Food 2, Glubble, Spheroid, Ami Robbo 2 and The Lost Pixel. (snx)
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15.Dec.2024
Martina Hřebcová
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Appraisal: Sam460 - PCIe pioneer (czech)
In her latest article, Martina 'sailor' Hřebcová pays tribute to the Sam460 mainboard at the title link as the first for Amiga operating systems that had a PCI Express slot. She goes on to describe in particular the use of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Linux on it. (snx)
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15.Dec.2024
Roland Heyder (ANF)
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Windows/Linux/Mac OS: AmigaBASIC Music demo adapted for QB64-PE
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder writes (translation): "Yesterday version 4.0.0 of the programming language QB64-PE (Phoenix Edition) was released [a QuickBASIC reimplementation for Windows, Linux and Mac OS; editor's note], on which, among others, I have been actively working for about three years.
In this new version, the typical Amiga sound capabilities have now been reproduced for the first time, such as multi-voice (4 channels), the possibility of synchronization with SOUND STOP and SOUND RESUME as well as the creation of own waveforms with WAVE.
To test these new possibilities, we ported the old AmigaBASIC demo "Music" (included on the Extras 1.3 disk for example) from 1985 to QB64-PE - or actually just took it and tried it out, the necessary changes were negligible. So this old Amiga demo shines in new splendor after 39 years." (snx)
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