07.Dec.2024
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Commercial action RPG: Dungeonette - The New Adventure (AGA/CD32) available
Adrian Cummings' action RPG "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" (video) is now available. A boxed edition - a DVD case containing a CD32-compatible CD, printed manual, USB stick with ADF files and two disk labels - is being sold on ebay UK for just under 36 euros plus postage, while the purely digital edition is available from etsy.com for 18.80 euros.
Dungeonette - The New Adventure runs on any AGA-Amiga, compatibility with THEA500 Mini, A600GS and WinUAE has also been ensured by the developer. On faster systems there may be occasional speed problems, for these cases the Dungeonette WHDLoad patch is recommended. (cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Coding workshop: A500 programming at hardware level - A Sprite Rendering Engine
The eighth part of Michael Martin's course on hardware-level A500 programming is about sprites again: "A Sprite Rendering Engine" explains the interaction of the sprites created in the last episode with other elements of the graphics hardware. (cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Web tool: Worms DC Asset Editor
Alexander Groupe's Worms DC Asset Editor is a web-based replacement for the "WormPrefs" tool from Worms: Director's Cut. The tool was inspired by the announced update for Worms DC, which will soon celebrate it's 30th birthday.
The Asset Editor can now do everything that the original WormPrefs could do, including:
- Import of existing Worms DC assets
- Export of WRM16 (custom level), MNT (mountains) and DIY (landscape) files
- Import of level/mountain/landscape images as IFFs
- Interactive palette adjustments
- Previews of everything
For his editor, the author first had to reverse engineer and document all custom file formats used in Worms. Talking to amiga-news.de, Grupe spoke of a "reverse engineering odyssey" in which his low-level assembler experience was very useful. Three bytes are still "unsolved", otherwise all questions about the file format have been answered - including problems such as "is this the height, only shifted 6 bits to the left?" and "this must be a BLTSIZE specification?".
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07.Dec.2024
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Text adventure: Morning Panic
Written in Amiga-E, "Morning Panic" is the first text adventure by Moya 'Cammy' Jackie. Described by the author as a " small and simple text adventure", the title requires at least Kickstart 2.0. (cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.2 LTS for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.2, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. This release has been given "LTS" status ("Long Term Support") by the Linux team and will be provided with updates until at least the end of 2026. Compared to the previous version, two minor bugs have been fixed:
- drm/radeon: Fix spurious unplug event on radeon HDMI
- KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix kmv -> kvm typo
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06.Dec.2024
George 'walkero' Sokianos
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.6r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. The update makes the changes from the official Lite XL 2.1.6 release available to Amiga users, and the OS4 implementation is now based on SDL 2.30.9.. (cg)
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06.Dec.2024
hyperion-entertainment.com (ANF)
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Gorky 17: WarpOS support, minor update of AmigaOS 3 version, new demo
Steffen Häuser has now also ported the RPG/strategy mix "Gorky 17" to WarpOS after AmigaOS 3. There is also a small update for the 68k edition: the wrong language file may have been installed during the installation process, this error has been fixed.
Registered existing customers can download the archive with the combined 68k/WarpOS version in the download area, for all others there is now an updated demo version that also supports the PowerPC. (cg)
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06.Dec.2024
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.38
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS or via this link.
Version 0.38 includes a lot of changes regarding e.g. palette, menu or AmigaGuide. (dr)
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06.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.05 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again cross-compiled the source code of MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 with GCC 11.3.0 and linked it with the last stable version of SDL 2.30.9..
Download: MilkyTracker-SDL2.lha (2,1 MB) (dr)
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05.Dec.2024
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.45 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.44 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. New features of this version include faster downloading and displaying of e-mails, replying to and canceling of calendar entries, and the option of always sending e-mails as a blind copy to a preset address.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 1.45 is now available to fix a memtrash that could occur under certain conditions.
Download: iris.lha (27 MB) (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 2024.12.03
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2024.12.03 introduces support for Ultra-SCSI (Fast-20) on RP2040/RP2350-based platforms, currently still in beta. You can find more details on this and the other changes at the title link. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.7.3 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.7.1 has now been released for AROS.
New features, besides bug fixes, are OpenGL support, the ability to draw samples and saving parts of samples as waveform files.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 2.7.3 is now available, which fixes a cause of a crash. In addition, a more straightforward individual tracks zooming mechanism has been implemented. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
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Programming competition: Voting opened for AmiGameJam 2024
Aim of AmiGameJam 2024 was to program a successor to an existing Amiga game. After the closing date, the winner can now be voted for until Christmas. To take part, you have to be registered on the website and can then submit your rating after clicking on the individual games. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
heckmeck-Blog (ANF)
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Programming competition: Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024
For the fourth time, the Logiker website is holding a Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge. Participation in this programming competition is open until Christmas Day, and prizes include issues of PDF magazines and a book. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link. (snx)
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03.Dec.2024
Mastodon
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Developer log: Writing an own dialogue scripting language
Developer Dan Salvato has presented the creation of his own dialogue scripting language for his under-development game "Magicore Anomala" in a detailed blog post (amiga-news.de reported). In "Writing My Own Dialogue Scripting Language", Salvato describes the motivation and development process behind the creation of a custom language for implementing dialogues in video games. He discusses technical challenges and describes the components script, parser, bytecode and renderer. With specific script examples, he explains how his solution makes it possible to efficiently implement complex dialogue structures. (nba)
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03.Dec.2024
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AmiGameJam candidate: Last Battle 2
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. Under the title link, 'msmalik681' has published his interpretation of a successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which has also been ported to the Amiga: "Last Battle 2" is a classic beat'em up in the arcade style of the 80s.
According to the developer, the fight game should run on all Amigas with OCS and 1 MB of Chip RAM and make use of both joystick buttons. Currently, the first level of "Last Battle 2" (YouTube video) can be played. (nba)
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03.Dec.2024
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 11
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 12-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue includes another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of Datastorm and Gigawatt, and a throwback to the US print magazine "COMPUTE!". (nba)
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02.Dec.2024
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AROS: Review of November 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of November at the title link. (dr)
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02.Dec.2024
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Video: Installation of an Indivision AGA MK3 in the CD32
In part 1 of a two-part series, the YouTube channel "Amiga Retro" shows how an Indivision AGA MK3 is installed in a CD32. (dr)
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02.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Review of MediaVault
MediaVault is a program for AmigaOS 4 for streaming radio stations and playing podcasts, which was written by George 'walkereo' Sokianos and last updated at the end of 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci takes a closer look at the application and its mediavault script, which can be used to save parts of streams and entire podcasts in a file on the hard drive. (dr)
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02.Dec.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.43
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video) is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
Detailed changes of version 0.9.43:
- Game setup page now has a basic and advanced page. In advanced page the level
loading strategy can be decided.
- For final games now all levels files are stored in a single file, this will
speed up loading levels.
- In the Game Setup advanced page you can choose to store all levels in memory,
load each one or have them all in memory.
- Improvements in palette handling when slicing new spritesheets.
- Added aid when setting a jump for an object.
- Added a Condition trigger to check M8 mod tracker commands.
- Added action trigger Angle from 8Dir to calculate angle from delta x and
delta y movement.
- Better editor representation of UI Bars.
- Small optimization for objects with map collisions.
- Instantiate helper in triggers screen now shows all instantiates instead of
just one.
- Fix in Map Speed for new projects as it was initially 0.
- Change in collision boxes display to try to avoid them leave the screen
dirty.
- Change in requesters to avoid an issue when saving after working in a project
for a long time.
- Fix for shape exporting when using font sheets.
- Fix for copper gradients being erased at runtime under some configurations.
- Melter font is now being loaded and used in the editor anymore.
(dr)
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01.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to Aminet:
TuneFinder.lha comm/misc 70K 68k Search and play online radio ...
AmiSpeedTest.lha comm/net 77K 68k Network speed test utility
curl-8.11.2.lha comm/tcp 3.1M 68k File and data transfer tool a...
TWIR-Dave.zip demo/aga 7.0M 68k animated demo with sound. AGA...
png2cMOS.lha dev/c 67K MOS convert png images to ANSI-C ...
zlib-1.3.1.lha dev/lib 75K 68k Data compression library
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.9M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 30K 68k Convert X68000 exec/data file...
DiskCopier11a.lha disk/bakup 59K 68k Simple floppy disk copier
uaemidi.lha driver/oth 14K 68k UAE MIDI driver for CAMD (wit...
AmiRobbo2_DEMO.adf game/demo 880K Ami Robbo 2 playable demo
HalloweenX_Demo.lha game/demo 661K 68k HalloweenX AGA Game, Demo
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
level2silhouette.adf game/jump 880K 68k Level 2 of AGA Game Silhouett...
silhouette-threat-AGA... game/jump 880K 68k Level 1 of AGA Game Silhouett...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 35M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
sysvars.lha util/boot 24K 68k Put system information in env...
Trinity.lha util/misc 33K 68k Trinity Tools
UHCBatch.lha util/misc 40K 68k UHCTools ReAction GUI w. source
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.5M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AIBB_ManticoreV4.lha util/moni 1K 68k AIBB Module: A600 - Apollo Ma...
CPU-A.lha util/moni 472K 68k System Information Tool
Anno.lha util/time 367K 68k Reminder and calendar utility
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
iff-converter.lha gra/con 1Mb 4.0 Convert images into raw format.
gif2abk.lha gra/mis 4Mb 4.0 converting GIF animations to AMO...
mediavault_script.lha net/mis 17kb 4.0 Choose player or download stream...
sacrificopagano.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.0 Magic Tool
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01.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
ft2clone166.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 4Mb FastTracker II Clone is a music ...
dosbox_manual_many_lang.zip doc/man 114kb Dosbox Manual Many language
sacrificiopagano.lha uti/mis 5Mb Magic Tool
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01.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
MilkyTracker_1.05.00.lha Audio/Tracker An XM/MOD tracker by th...
png2c_1.0.lha Development/C Convert png images to A...
AmiArcadia_33.60.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
SDDapple_0.14.lha Emulation An Apple ][+ and //e em...
PacMan-SDL_1.0.lha Games/Action Port of PacMan-SDL
MCE_15.23.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Woof_15.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
EgoBoo_2.22.lha Games/Shoot3D An old quick port of Eg...
fheroes2_1.1.4.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Rob-O-Tronic_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of Rob-O-Tronic by...
UHCTools_1.8.lha Misc A collection of program...
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01.Dec.2024
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WHD-Load: New installers until 30.11.2024
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 30.11.2024:
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01.Dec.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Supremacy (Encore64 V2)
- Rainbow Islands Christmas
- Ethereal Void part 1 (nightwolf 2024 remix)
(snx)
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01.Dec.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Amiga Advent Calendar
The Australian Moya 'Cammy' Jackie has started another Christmas campaign and presents an Amiga Advent Calendar at the title link. Behind each door is a game, mod, demo, artwork or piece of software contributed by the Amiga community. Further contributions to fill the calendar are welcome. (snx)
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01.Dec.2024
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Game: Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
As reported, the Electric Black Sheep team have reworked their game "Star Dust Wars". This "Director's Cut" has been published yesterday at the title link. (snx)
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01.Dec.2024
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Programming the Amiga 500: Spritework
Michael Martin's latest entry on his experimental programming projects on the Amiga 500 is dedicated to sprites, including a look at the continuity compared to the Atari. (snx)
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