05.Dec.2021
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Review: 'Turbo Santa' released, 'Santa Rocks' re-released
The mid-November announced arcade action game Turbo Santa from Nivrig Games has just been released for free download. Here, the player must fill in for Santa Claus, who has fallen asleep, and try to deliver the presents in time to save Christmas.
We were kindly allowed to take a look at the game in advance and jump into the fray ourselves.
The 'Jingle Bell' mix created by DJ METUNE foreshadows that this will not be a cozy little game over coffee and speculoos.
Okay: collect gifts, drop them off at a sleeping child, done. Not a bit of it! ;) Let's try it.
Haha, we have the first gift firmly in our hands, but where are the kids? As briskly as they run through the area, they seem to have exciting dreams. Not so easy now to throw a gift horizontally or vertically at a child via 'fire' key and thus deliver it.
By the way, you get a multiple bonus only if you successfully deliver the gifts without interruption: If a 'shot' misses the mark, it's gone. As you can see, there are not only bonus points to collect after delivery, but occasionally also useful tools: I was able to freeze the hustle and bustle on the screen for a few seconds and collect and deliver presents in peace. And the quick-witted Grunch, who is always snatching presents from under your nose, doesn't get in the way:
The purest blessing! You realize that this is not as easy as it seemed at the beginning. Especially not for a casual gamer like me. I'll just talk myself out of it now, that it's also sooo much more difficult with the keyboard...;)
To celebrate the release, Nivrig Games has launched a highscore contest running from December 05 to 24: The best three highscores, which can be reported at the specially created website, will win vouchers or goodies from the Bitmap Soft or Retro32 online stores.
Since we are once in the Christmas fever, we also test the re-released Santa Rocks at once.
Here, too, the Grunch is up to his mischief and tries to stop us - here again as Santa Claus in action - with an avalanche of huge snowballs. The same music awaits us, so that we are immediately caught in the 'NIVRIG' universe again:
Well, that looks a bit clearer and more peaceful...Let's go! :)
Pah! We are not impressed by a few snowballs. On the contrary: we use the initial tranquility to practice a few 'moves': At the bottom right of the screen, arrows always indicate which special tricks our Santa has in store. The arrows pointing upwards mean that we can pulverize an incoming ball by jumping forward with the corresponding key:
We can do the same by double-pressing a side arrow key. It works! However - and the instructions don't tell you this: You get the most points if you switch to the corresponding track just behind a passing snowball. A full 5 points.
However, you really have to time it exactly: If you're too early, you'll be swept away by the mass of snow... And of course it doesn't get any easier as the game progresses: the balls come sailing towards you faster and faster, and at some point at an angle. The game is immense fun, which is also immensely encouraged by the sounds of Santa Claus and the grunt. And you smile proudly when the grunch behind his barrier is annoyed beyond measure.
In my humble experience, the game is easier to play via keyboard and also has the edge with me because of the somewhat more loving graphics. (dr)
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05.Dec.2021
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Aminet uploads until 04.12.2021
The following files have been added until 04.12.2021 to Aminet:
AExplorer_Update.lha comm/net 120K 68k Cloanto Amiga Explorer Update
SoS_TakeMe.lha demo/aga 4.3M 68k Take Me by System of Sound
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 31K 68k 20 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
MakeCD_3.2d.lha disk/cdrom 954K 68k Final release of MakeCD made ...
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 19K 2021 Carset for F1GP
DRC.lha game/edit 599K MOS DAAD Reborn Compiler Frontend
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 17M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
CalcKey10a.lha misc/math 16K 68k Pop-up Calculator (1989.10.7)
SoS_ToTheDeath.lha mods/anaki 106K To The Death by Mr. Roboto
Varta_Deathspill-Agei... mods/misc 301K Octamed production by Paulee ...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 301K 68k Updated HippoPlayer, a module...
imp3.lha mus/play 35K MOS Do stuff on Amiga!
StandardGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 7.4M Standardised GlowIcons Icon Set
PPMore18a.lha text/show 14K 68k Text file viewer (1991.09.28)
Install-SCSI-v43.45.lha util/boot 407K 68k Install scsi.device 43.45 for...
Window_Vision.lha util/cli 3K 68k A Window sizing utility (1991...
WinSize_LRInc.lha util/cli 3K 68k A Window sizing utility (1987)
DOpus4-SeqRename.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx script: sequence-rename...
SteMarRegMag2Theme.lha util/dopus 642K My Magellan II theme
ILBMdt.lha util/dtype 52K 68k IFF ILBM picture datatype 47.5
TGAdt.lha util/dtype 28K 68k Targa (TGA) picture datatype ...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 160K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 460K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 10K 68k 7 DOS scripts by Stefano Mari...
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05.Dec.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.12.2021
The following files have been added until 04.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 379kb 4.0 MIDI sequencer
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
quickstarter.lha uti/wor 314kb 4.0 Quick program start menu
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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05.Dec.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.12.2021
The following files have been added until 04.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
pixelartist.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 6Mb OpenGL game. Swap blocks to matc...
standardglowicons.lha gra/ico 7Mb Standardised GlowIcons Icon Set
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05.Dec.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.12.2021
Die folgenden Pakete wurden bis zum 04.12.2021 dem MorphOS-Storage hinzugefügt:
IMP_3.355.lha Audio/Players Play modules from inter...
ModExplorerNG_3.81.lha Audio/Players A module player by J?rg.
SDL_2.0.16_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.1...
DRC_0.27.lha Games/Editor DAAD Reborn Compiler Fr...
Wayfarer_2.9.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
WitchCleaner_2.20.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
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05.Dec.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #128 - Gunnar von Böhn (Apollo team)
In episode 128 of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Gunnar von Böhn of the Apollo team, programmers of the FPGA implementation of an 68k-like CPU used for the "Vampire" accelerator boards. Interview starts at 37:38 minutes. (snx)
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05.Dec.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Boxed edition of Ad Cosmos Ex Terra
"Ad Cosmos Ex Terra" is a compilation of three games that require at least an Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM. It has been released as download version already in summer (amiga-news.de reported) and is in addition now also available as a physical product by APC&TCP.
The set consists of the woodcutter game Lumberjack Revision, the four-players implementation of the classic table tennis game Pong in version PoNG4b, and the jump'n'run game Jump Besi Jump. (snx)
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05.Dec.2021
kas1e (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4.1: Test of latest RadeonRX driver and Kernel
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin, in a YouTube video, has tested version 2.8 of the RadeonRX driver included in the recently released version 2.1 of the Enhancer software, including a not yet publicly available beta version of the kernel, in which some improvements have been made, especially for the AmigaOne X5000.
For the video comparison on his AmigaOne X5000, he used a Saphire Pulse Radeon RX 560 2Gb and eight GL4ES games he had ported over the last 2 years. The improvements and increases in frame rate (FPS) over the older v2.7 RadeonRX driver and public kernel show up in summary as follows:
- Quake3: +133 FPS.
- HCraft: +50 FPS
- Worlds: +30 FPS
- SuperTuxkart: +10-20FPS
- Foobillard++: +20FPS
- Neverball/Neverputt games: Up to +100FPS in some places, +250-400 FPS in others.
- Fricking Shark: +40FPS
- Wisp Engine: varying, in some places +100%.
As he reports "all of course still without DMA support, which should give us much greater speed increase."
(dr)
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04.Dec.2021
Daniel Stenberg
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Webinar: The Future of Open Source
On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 9:00 PT (Pacific Time), a 60-minute webinar with GitHub sponsors will be held on the future of open source: The Future of Open Source: Is It Sustainable?. Among others, Daniel Stenberg, the initiator and main developer of cURL, command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs, will participate there. Corresponding implementations also exist for AmigaOS-m68k (Diego Casorran) or AmigaOS 4 (Michael Trebilcock).
In this discussion, leading developers in the open source community talk about their personal successes and challenges in sustainability as well as funding approaches and what opportunities there are to get involved. Prior registration is required. (dr)
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04.Dec.2021
Pouet.net
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Intro competition: The Nano Awards 2022
The Lovebyte Demoparty 2022, which will take place on Discord and Twitch from February 11-13, 2022, will also award the best intro production of 2021. The nomination process began on December 1, 2021 on demozoo.org and pouet.net and includes intros ranging from 32 bytes to 256 bytes for a variety of platforms. Nominees will be announced on January 1, 2022. (dr)
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03.Dec.2021
Amigaworld
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Website lists Christmas games: Amiga Christmas Tree
To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas mood a bit, 'Cammy' has taken the trouble to set up his own website listing all Amiga games related to Christmas. Thereby also the link for the source of supply is given. The service is rounded off with a few suitable MODs for the topic. She encourages the Amiga users to report missing games. (dr)
[News message: 03. Dec. 2021, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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03.Dec.2021
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 2
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', streams 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 (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Yesterday episode 2 was published. (dr)
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02.Dec.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.9
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's Wayfarer web browser is now available in version 2.9 and provides the following changes:
- Implemented Proxy settings
- Added right mouse button override settings that make it possible to open the default context menu on websites that try to block it
- Fixed several edge cases where Wayfarer's url bar wouldn't correctly show page's url
- Added code to handle "ContentDisposition: attachment" to trigger downloading instead of displaying the target url
- Fixed 'Reload' to work after a failed page load
- Downloaded filename had 1st letter truncated in some cases due to a bug in header parsing
- Enabled USE_NEW_THEME in WebKit to change how some controls are drawn
- Default CSS tweaks to prevent invisible checkboxes/radio buttons
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool and e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu also the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (dr)
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02.Dec.2021
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Game soundtrack: Albums on Delphine games announced
Génération Delphine is a project to honor the game soundtracks of the French software company Delphine Software International by releasing albums of the restored tracks.
The first album, dedicated to the game Future Wars, was supposed to be released in November, but has now been postponed to early 2022. However, a new preview video has been released, showcasing clips from the album. (dr)
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01.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 128 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
In this issue among others the Amiga games 'Robocop 3' and 'Off Shore Warrior' are introduced. (cg)
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01.Dec.2021
Marek Duda (Mail)
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Arcade game Jump: New preview video, digital version available for pre-order
A week ago we reported about the possibility to pre-order Marek Duda's arcade game 'Jump' in the 'boxed version'. Now he has released a new preview video on YouTube. Likewise, he has now conceded the possibility to also pre-order a digital version of the game for 29 euros at the title link. (dr)
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01.Dec.2021
Kevin Saunders
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Tutorial: Techniques of graphics programm 'Brilliance II'
Pretty much two years ago, graphics and game designer Kevin Saunders (including Boss Machine, RESHOOT PROXIMA 3 or Menace remake) on amigaworld.net announced a tutorial for the graphics program Brilliance II for 2020.
Now he has published the first part of his tutorial as a YouTube video and PDF file linked there, mainly addressing the 'Rub Thru' tool that is exclusively available in Brilliance. According to the Brilliance II guide, 'Rub Thru' allows two buffers to be merged by combining the swap buffer with the current buffer. In October 1993, Obligement published an detailed review.
It is possible that Kevin Saunders' project will result in a book. (dr)
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30.Nov.2021
Reddit
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Cache management: Source code of 'HyperCache' released
In the late 1980s, early 1990s, Canadian-American programmer David Plummer wrote the cache management 'HyperCache'. Inspired by a user's request, Plummer now published the source code on GitHub and wants to give interested users, programmers and developers the opportunity to take a nostalgic look at program code of that time in general and in particular at the 'state of knowledge' of the author, who was still learning C at that time.
For various legal and liability reasons, the code cannot be released as free software at this time, but it is available to anyone for exploration and nostalgic tinkering. If anyone still has Lattice C installed, Plummer would be happy to know if the program can still be compiled. The Obligement website published a detailed test report on this in the early 1990s. There is also an English review in the archives, which among other things also mentions the price of HyperCache Professional 1.01B at that time: It cost US $49.95. (dr)
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29.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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ModExplorerNG 3.81 for all Amiga systems
In our last news we reported about the 'final version' 3.8 of the ModPlayer developed by Jörg Renkert. Now he has made both his announcements true and on the one hand provided his audio player sorted by target systems with their own versions: The NG variant is still available for all Amiga systems, but if you use the OS3 variant you have to reckon with it running slowly on corresponding systems. Therefore he has created a separate ModExplorerCE version for AmigaOS 3 systems, which contains all important functions as well, but some, like ARexx, have been deactivated or simplified like the search function. Furthermore, with ModExplorerME there is now also a separate version for Android systems.
On the other hand, he has cleaned up some bugs in the NG version 3.8 and released the successor 3.81. (dr)
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