02.Mar.2021
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Tetris clone: Crazy Columns 0.98 (beta)
Jochen Hoffer has released the new beta version 0.98 of his clone called "Crazy Columns" of the classic Sega game 'Columns' (video). Now it is possible to play all four modes which are impemented.
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[News message: 02. Mar. 2021, 22:45] [Comments: 0]
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01.Mar.2021
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Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years' available
Last summer it was announced as Demomaker - The Amiga Years. Meanwhile the illustrated book 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years' has been successfully crowd funded and published. It can be ordered from the French publisher for 35 Euro (review).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Mar. 2021, 22:04] [Comments: 0]
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01.Mar.2021
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- January/February 2021 news
- Old articles from Joystick 16 to 18:
- News: Rebirth of Activision
- Interview with Philippe Agripnidis
- Review of Bard's Tale 3: Thief Of Fate
- Review of Cohort: Fighting For Rome
- News: Full fire on Virgin Games
- Interview with Richard Joseph
- Review of Cybercon 3
- Review of Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire
- Interview with Frédéric Raynal and Frank Girolami
- Review of The Secret Of Monkey Island
- Review of Cadaver: The Pay Off
- Review of F-15 Strike Eagle 2
- Interview with Éric Luczyszyn (Amiga Impact)
- Interview with Perry Kivolowitz (ASDG)
- Interview with Kim Lemon (Lemon Amiga)
- Review of Boxx and Boxx 2
- Review of AOrganiser 1.2
- Hardware: KingSpec Industrial Disk On Module IDE 4 Go
- File: Amiga Games List (update)
- Tutorial: How to program a game in assembler (1st part)
- Practice: Exploitation of a relational database with SQLite on MorphOS
- Practice: MorphOS Shell commands
- Special quiz about the year 2020 on Amiga
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28.Feb.2021
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Aminet uploads until 27.02.2021
The following files have been added until 27.02.2021 to Aminet:
AExplorer_Update.lha comm/net 113K 68k Cloanto Amiga Explorer Update
KONEY_TAKE_EM_IN.lha demo/sound 316K 68k KONEY: TAKE'EM IN Techno Musi...
argparse.lha dev/c 18K MOS A command line arguments pars...
mandel_dsp.lha gfx/fract 48K 68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3...
lha-114i.tar.gz misc/unix 223K Archiver for .lha and .lzh fi...
Palace2021.lha mods/misc 2.1M Palace 2021 4ch Lv5 by HKvalhe
MMULib.lha util/libs 724K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 719K MOS Multipurpose utility
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 376K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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28.Feb.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 27.02.2021
The following files have been added until 27.02.2021 to OS4Depot:
slotmachinewarmup.lha gam/boa 2Mb 4.0 A easy slot machine game
viewstl.lha gra/vie 351kb 4.1 An STL (3D Model) viewer (MiniGL)
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28.Feb.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 27.02.2021
The following files have been added until 27.02.2021 to AROS Archives:
arsfsdoctor_v1.zip aud 87kb SFS Recovery Application
antiryadgx_4.9.tgz dev/uti 288Mb 3D/2D Game Engine
slotmachinewarmup.lha gam/boa 2Mb A easy slot machine game
angband.i386-aros.zip gam/rol 3Mb SDL version of classic role play...
new_drawer_icons.zip gra/ico 43kb New Colored PNG Drawer Icons
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28.Feb.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.02.2021
The following files have been added until 27.02.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
argparse_1.02.lha Development/C A command line argument...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.1.lha Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
Zatackax_1.0.lha Games/Action Zatacka X is a modern, ...
ScummVM_2.3.0git.lha Games/Adventure A collection of various...
Hurrican_1.1.lha Games/Shoot 2D A Turrican game clone
OpenTyrian_2.1_SDL2.lha Games/Shoot 2D An open-source port of ...
SlotMachineSAGA_WArMUp... Games/Think A slot machine game to ...
Sam460cr_UserManual.pdf Hardware/Sam460cr Sam460cr_UserManual.pdf
Sam460ex_UserManual.pdf Hardware/Sam460ex Sam460ex_UserManual.pdf
ReportPlus_8.02.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
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28.Feb.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.02.2021
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 27.02.2021:
- 2021-02-27 improved: Combat Air Patrol (Psygnosis) fixed crashes, SMC removed (Info)
- 2021-02-26 new: Super Gem'Z (Software 2000) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2021-02-25 improved: Burning Rubber (Ocean) New RawDIC imager (game needs to be reinstalled), Patch for enhanced version redone with same features as standard version, keyboard support for route selection screen added, new install script, more trainer options added (Info)
- 2021-02-25 improved: Elfmania (Terramarque/Renegade) keyboard support in all places, 68000 quitkey added (Info)
- 2021-02-24 improved: Shadow Warriors (Ocean) early version fixed (Info)
- 2021-02-24 improved: Tiny Bobble (Pink^aBYSs) uses less memory, selectable button configuration added (Info)
- 2021-02-24 updated: Shadow Warriors (Ocean) new imager, another version supported, protection fixed, uses fast memory, 68000 quitkey added, trainer enhanced, access faults removed, manual and icons added (Info)
- 2021-02-21 improved: Switchblade 2 (Gremlin) added 2-button/joypad controls, trainer fixed (Info)
- 2021-02-21 improved: Darkmere (Core Design) fixed memory allocation, SMC fixed, blitwaits optimized, trainer added, uses fast memory, added joypad controls (Info)
- 2021-02-21 improved: King's Quest Enhanced (Sierra) fixed crash when saving on 68000, MT32 direct support, keyboard layout selection (Info)
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28.Feb.2021
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:
- Shadow of the Beast II - The Crystal Caverns
- A Final Hyperbase (Enigma from Scratch mix)
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27.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: Mr. Mochi's Delivery Service
Additional to the release of a new preview video, now the game was given a proper name: 'Mr. Mochi's Delivery Service'.
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[News message: 27. Feb. 2021, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Timothy de Groote no longer a director at Hyperion
Last summer, there were hints that Ben Hermans had sued Timothy de Groote and rumors about the latter's departure as a result of that. In the last few days, this became official: Belgium's company register now lists only Ben Hermans as a Hyperion board member.
But in contrast to Costel Mincea and de Groote, who were listed as "Besturders" (directors), Hermans' position is that of a "vaste vertegenwoordiger" (permanent representative) of the actual director. The latter position is held by Ben Hermans CVBE ("Coöperatieve vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid", a limited liability company) founded in 2011. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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26.Feb.2021
Iris Webseite
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MorphOS: EMail programm Iris 0.113
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
Since our last nes item, several changes has been made. These are the most important ones:
- Improved the email address suggestions when typing in To fileds, Iris now learns and ranks suggestion by the user's choices when writing emails
- Adds the signature when creating a message via 'Forward as Attachment'
- Implemented advanced search
- Added a button to view all attachments at once
- Implemented a glossary
- Tweaks and improvements in the text editor
- Implemented MDN (read receipt) support, both requesting and sending a receipt
For feedback to the author, the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
(dr) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Feb. 2021, 05:39] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Dungeon Crawler: Black Dawn Rebirth as free download
'Black Dawn Rebirth' is a Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master. Since October 2019 the game has been commercially distributed but now is available on the website of the project as free download. You can make a little donation before the download ("pay what you want").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2021, 21:47] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Tactical shooter: Second preview of 'Project Horizon '
'Project Horizon' (video) is a tactical shooter similar to Chaos Engine or Alien Breed. This second preview the author called "bug fixed preview" and is available as ADF and HD version (with sound).
Project Horizon requires ECS or AGA and 2 Megabyte Chip-RAM (based on the used graphics). The game will finally also require a hraddrive and provide a map editor for creating new levels.
The engine itself also runs with less Chip-RAM. The sorce code of the engine as well as the editors and tools will be released for free together with the final version of the game.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2021, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 119 (Italian/English)
Besides its original language, Italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The reviews of classic games compare their ports to different platforms available at that time.
Download sites:
Italian
English (snx)
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25.Feb.2021
amigaforever.com (ANF)
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Network solution: Amiga Explorer 9
Press release: Cloanto, Amiga software developers since 1986, released today version 9 (9.0.7.0) of Amiga Explorer, the Amiga-PC networking software that first saw the light in 1997.
New features include:
- Protocol extended to support additional file system operations (random read and write, append, etc.)
- Protocol extended to query additional server-side system properties (platform and branch, RAM, ROM version and CRC32, various date and time attributes, etc.)
- Added "Virtual Files" folder to the namespace root (contains disk images and other virtual files)
- New option to automatically set the Amiga clock from the Windows side
- New features in the Properties dialog: show or hide the Amiga icon under the "This PC" namespace, enable or disable the crash reporter, Changelog tab, etc.
- New Setup Wizard to transfer the Amiga side
- Enhanced data extraction when reading disks with errors
- All file and directory property dialogs now contain an edit control to rename the file or directory
- Numerous other fixes and enhancements (see the Changelog)
Several new protocol features are the result of ongoing collaborations with open source developers, including some who are working on GNU/Linux Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) drivers.
The "AE" tool, which gives Windows command-line access to Amiga Explorer configuration and data sharing features, has also been extended to support the new features. Type "AE Help" to see a list of command-line options.
Upgrades are free to all Amiga Explorer and Amiga Forever Plus Edition customers. Amiga Explorer is also free to try under a shareware license. Registration is appreciated, but many features, including the command-line mode, are fully functional in trial mode.
Traditionally, updates to the Amiga (server) side of Amiga Explorer have also been made available on Aminet. This file too has been refreshed, and is now able to patch any version released since 1997 to the latest 9.0.7.0 build. As the new Amiga version includes functionality to support updates originating from the Windows (client) side, Amiga-side patch releases like this one could become less necessary in the future.
The full Amiga source code and the Windows "core" source code is available to a closed group on GitHub. Windows core features include the data exchange features and the command-line user interface, i.e. everything that is needed to implement, study or support the full protocol, including the buildable Visual Studio project used for Cloanto's distribution. The Windows namespace extension and its installer are not currently part of this set. The plan remains to extend the open source availability as certain milestones in the data exchange protocol are met.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2021, 20:19] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.4 (x86)
The new version 1.4 of the distribution 'AROS One' based on the 'ABI v0' trunk is available. It integrates the update of the ABI-v0 trunk recently released and offers some new features like dual PNG pictogramms.
The creator of the distribution recommends to test it first on a virtual machine, especially VMWare. He also provides some video tutorials to to help newcomers and exisitung users get started:
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2021, 00:46] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2021
aGGreSSor (ANF)
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 trunk
After a break of four years, the AROS developer Deadwood has ported back the changes made to the "ABIv1" trunk to "ABIv0". He named this project "AROS ABIv0 20170402": the date refers to the ABI-v1 code which is the base for the release.
The update includes 27 new functions, 14 new components and 26 bug fixes. Among others the virtual machines 'VMWare' and 'Virtualbox' now support USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. An updated version of the distribution AROS One based on the ABIv0 trunk has been updated as well.
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