22.Jan.2021
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Videos of virtual meeting of "Amiga Ireland"
This year the annual meeting of "Amiga Ireland" has been virtually organized. On YouTube you now can watch the videos which were shown on the meeting last Saturday. Among others the results of the Creative Competition, tutorials on Lightwave and BlitzBasic and interviews with Trevor Dickinson and David Pleasance.
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22.Jan.2021
amiga ireland 2021 online youtube channel (ANF)
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Prototype: New 2-Stick controller for Amiga or C64 introduced
"Abstraction Games" has developed a new joypad for C64 and Amiga which has four fire buttons but also two sticks - working on the joystick port without having to change something on the computer. In the past dual-stick-controllers often were used in slot machines but so far has been not available for Commodore home computers.
Two games have been also introduced which the developers have adapted to the new joysticks: Chaos Engine and Commando (C64). Probably the games will be commercially distributed, maybe as Kickstarter campaign.
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22.Jan.2021
Amiga Documents (Twitter)
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Lawsuit: Hyperion und Cloanto allegedly close to a settlement again
A year ago, Hyperion and Cloanto asked the judge presiding their lawsuit to extend a deadline because they were allegedly close to finalizing a settlement. A few days later, the negotiations were aborted.
In another motion dated January 20th, both Parties address the judge again, asking for another extension. They announce that settlement discussions had been resumed in October 2020 and that "on Thursday of last week, the Parties reached the terms of settlement on the main agreement".
The motion goes on to explain that "the only tasks that need to be completed are for the Parties to attend to seven ancillary documents, including an assignment and novation agreement, mutual releases, stipulations of dismissal, and documents related to a proceeding in Belgium." (cg)
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21.Jan.2021
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Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimated the amount of enthralling material our research has uncovered, added to which as Trevor and I reached out to many of the people who feature in these stories, to our surprise (and sheer delight) many have responded and added even more intriguing content than we could have ever wished for."
And he continued: "In order for us to deliver that, we have no option but to split the book into Volume 1 and Volume 2." Volume 1 is supposed to be published in the second quarter of 2021. All those who participated in the Kickstarter campaign last year, will get volume 2 for 50% off (the printed edition for 17,50 Pound Sterling, about 20 Euro plus shipping, the pdf edition for 8,50 Euro). If you wish to take advantage of this offer all you need to do is to send an email to David Pleasance.
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21.Jan.2021
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MicroTouch driver: Full version of GPTouch available
The Amiga Future offers the full version of 'GPTouch' for free download. GPTouch is a driver for touch screens produced by MicroTouch in 1991.
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20.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Driver update for Wicher cards
A new driver disk for the expansion cards Wicher 500i rev.2c/Ex, Wicher 508i (Ex), Wicher 608, Wicher CDTV and Wicher 1211 developed by 7-bit has been releaed. The sdcard.device as well as the Ethernet drivers enc28j60_w16.device and enc28j60_w32.device has been updated.
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20.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Apollo core: Release 5 for Vampire 4
The Apollo core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola providing a new graphic resolution called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards. Apollo Release 5 provides the following changes:
- Copper compatibility fixed. This fixes a high number of games which before were displayed not perfectly.
- CPU speed up. We are working on /testing CPU improvements which will give you about 10 MIPS speedup.
- H.D.M.I Monitor compatibility improvement
- More Screenmodes. We will add more Screenmodes to the monitor drivers allowing you to e.g. access 800x600, 1024x768
- Deluxe Galaga works now on APOLLOS
- Improved PIP feature.
- Smoother truecolor Video Playback for the Workbench
- "Magic" PAL/NTSC Hotkey switching your Amiga video out to PAL/NTSC50/NTSC.
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19.Jan.2021
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Turn-based space strategy: Imperium Terranum 2.802a
The source code of the turn-based space strategy game Imperium Terranum 2 has been available on Aminet for many years. For some time now the little documented Pascal source code 'Fook42' is converting into standard conforming Cn - aiming at later improving the game, e.g. adding support for graphic cards.
The version which was now uploaded to Github was not changed regarding the game play but features free screenmodes for the main screen (640x512) and the planet view (320x256) to choose. The selection is saved in the pictogram of the game. The update has to be copied over the full version of 'Imperium Terranum' since on Github only the main program is available.
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18.Jan.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Online competition: Results of 'Commodore Creative Competition 2021'
The results of the "Commodore Creative Competition" this year for the first time virtually organized by the Amiga Users Ireland are now available. All contributions of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" can be downloaded.
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18.Jan.2021
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 2
For publishing the first issue of the British "Amiga Addict", 500 pre-orders were required. The magazine was delivered in December. Now the second issue can be ordered which will be delievered from 29. January.
Among others the latest issue contains an interview with Mike Dailly and Steve Hammond (DMA Design) about diverse DMA classics, a 5-page CD32 and CDTV console section as well as a tribute to the Amiga developer Dave Needle who died five years ago.
Amiga Addict is supposed to be published monthly and is available as single issue or as subscription, either printed or as pdf.
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17.Jan.2021
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.99991
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." Other websites like Haxor.fi, Modland and Modules.pl are supported as well. A rating function is also included. In the latest version a console bug was fixed. Besides: "Fixed/improved the code dealing with the players and updated the HTTP User-agent to make all HTTP sources work." If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker. Any ideas for improving the program are welcome!
As the author Tygre told ue, his homepage is completely maintained using an Amiga 1200 being in his office at work. Due to COVID currently he cannot easily reset the Amiga if it has freezed so it may happen that the website is temporarily not available for quite some time.
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17.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 16.01.2021
The following files have been added until 16.01.2021 to Aminet:
jansson_library.lha dev/c 215K OS4 native lib for manipulating J...
NoMoreDiv0_Debug.lha dev/debug 20K 68k Division by Zero Debugger
FamousAmigaUses.lha docs/lists 26K A guide about famous Amiga uses!
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 6.3M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
amath.lha misc/math 1.4M 68k Simple command line calculator
Wasteland2021.lha mods/8voic 93K Wasteland 2021 5ch Lv1 Ninja ...
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.7M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
ami-markdown.lha text/edit 1.2M OS4 Edit and view Markdown documents
amostools.lha util/arc 147K MOS Tools to work with AMOS programs
aiostreams.lha util/batch 251K MOS Stream video from major onlin...
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 51K 68k For all CPU's 68000-68080 & U...
detect_vampire.lha util/boot 1K 68k Detects Vampire expansion card
NoMoreDiv0.lha util/boot 13K 68k No more Division by Zero
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 247K 68k Keep your time right
diskusage.i386-aros.lha util/cli 59K x86 DiskUage estimates file space...
DiskUsage.lha util/cli 6K 68k DiskUsage estimates file spac...
md.lha util/cli 4K 68k Enhanced version of DIR command
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 196K 68k File indexing and search util...
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 773K 68k the final CON: with ^Z & TAB ...
BelarusMOS.lha util/sys 1K Free Belarus country for MorphOS
timeit.i386-aros.lha util/time 58K x86 Shell command for timing othe...
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17.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.01.2021
The following files have been added until 16.01.2021 to OS4Depot:
jansson_library.lha dev/lib 215kb 4.0 A native library for manipulatin...
libpsem.lha dev/lib 83kb 4.0 POSIX semaphore implementation
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
earmark.lha uti/tex 948kb 4.1 Edit and view Markdown documents
a1222-mcu-watcher.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 Workbench Tool To Show A1222 MCU...
x5000-mcu-watcher.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Workbench Tool To Show X5000 MCU...
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17.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.01.2021
The following files have been added until 16.01.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AMOStools.lha Development/AMOS Tools to work with AMOS...
AmiArcadia_26.83.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
OpenBor_7142.lha Emulation OpenBOR is the ultimate...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.1.lha Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
Rise_of_the_Triad_rott... Games/Shoot 3D MorphOS Port of "rottex...
ShadowWarrior.lha Games/Shoot 3D JFShadowWarrior is 3D R...
AIOstreams_1.7.lha Network/Streaming Stream online video fro...
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17.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.01.2021
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 16.01.2021:
- 2021-01-13 improved: Neuromancer (Interplay) reduced memory requirements (Info)
- 2021-01-13 improved: Bubba'n'Stix (Core Design) added joypad controls, uses less memory, added levelskip and skip intro (Info)
- 2021-01-12 fixed: The Kristal / Kristal, The (Addictive) some patches were missing in the latest slave (Info)
- 2021-01-12 fixed: Putty Squad (System 3) panel gfx bug fixed, better compatibility with CD32 pads (Info, Image)
- 2021-01-12 improved: Prawo Krwi (Techland Soft) stack moved to expmem, fixed SMC, fixed keyboard handling, fixed copperlist (Info)
- 2021-01-10 improved: Master Axe (Epic) removed AGA-only restriction, fixed music, added quit key on 68000 machines (Info)
- 2021-01-10 improved: Apprentice (Rainbow Arts) added joypad controls, trainer added, new imager and icons (Info)
- 2021-01-10 improved: Advanced Ski Simulator (Code Masters) reduced memory requirements (Info)
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16.Jan.2021
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Video port: New DB23F video connectors available
The US American companies Soigeneris and Retronic Design - both selling their products also on ebay - joined their forces to have this D-Sub connectors remanufactured. They also inform that "we are working on a matching plastic hood for the DB23 connector which we hope to have out Q1 2021. In the meantime, it is possible to use a DB25 hood, however the mounting screw holes will not line up properly."
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16.Jan.2021
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Internet radio: Radio Ericade plays Amiga mods twenty-for-seven
The according to their own statement "last true Amiga music broadcaster" Radio Ericade from Sweden plays Amiga mods just around the clock. The program is completed by editorial content e.g. advertising active mailboxes. Besides, every Saturday evening 9 p.m. CET the show "Amiga Flashback" runs. The maintainer of the website plays his favourite songs and tells anecdotes of the heydey of the Amiga.
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16.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 126 of Amiga Future available online
Issue 125 (March/April 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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16.Jan.2021
Domagoj Ozanic (ANF)
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Amiga-WARP calender for 2021
The same procedure as every year: The Croatian Amiga-WARP club has created a calendar for 2021 which can be downloaded as Croatian or English pdf version.
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