13.Nov.2020
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Competition Pro clone featuring Arcade parts: ArcadeR (Update)
The ArcadeR's design is heavily inspired by the classic 'Competition' joysticks, but inside the newcomer is making use of actual Arcade components - a noname clone of a Sanwa joystick mechanism, to be precise. The sticks are available in different colours and provide optional autofire as well as a configurable 2nd fire button.
Two small switches at the front of the case are used for (de)activating autofire and selecting if the right fire button should act as button 2 or button 3. The autofire frequency can be adjusted using a potentiometer, but that potentiometer can only be accessed after opening the case. The second fire button is not electrically compatible across different systems, so the customer needs to specify the target system when purchasing a stick. This setting can be switched between "Atari/Amiga" and "C64" later on using a solder bridge.
A detailed review of the joystick is available on Youtube.
Despite the UK top level domain of the official website, RetroRadionics is actually based in China. If the joysticks are in stock, users keep reporting shipping times as short as two weeks, but German users keep reporting Problems with DHL (German: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) when their packages are getting relabeled by DHL after they arrive in Germany. The only European distributor of the ArcadeR known to us at the time of writing is the British dealer ZX Renew.
Update: (19.11.2020, 22:30, cg)
The Spanish dealer 'micomputer' is also selling the ArcadeR.
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12.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 125 of Amiga Future online
The English 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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11.Nov.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Games collection for AmiCygnix 1.6
Edgar Schwan has updated his games collection for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. 24 games are included, most of them board- or cardgames but also a shoot'em up and a interactive fractal zoomer.
New in version 1.6:
- New game "Pioneers", a clone of "Settlers of Catan".
- Neue versions:
- Ace of Penguins 1.4 instead of version 1.2. The card game "Spider" has been added and the card game "Solitaire" offers new possibilities. The GUI tool for starting the individual games has been revised and optimized for standalone start.
- XEmeraldia 0.4.3 instead of version 0.4.1. The graphics have been optimized.
- XGalaga 2.1.1.0 instead of version 2.0.34. The playing field is now bigger and a variation called "Hyperspace" is now included.
- The xMahjongg GUI tool has been revised and optimized for standalone start.
- All programs have been recompiled. Programs that require GTK+ 2 now use GTK+ 2.24.32.
- All programs can now be started "Standalone".
- The icon set has been updated. Thanks to Thomas Blatt!
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Included games:
- The Ace of Penguins: A collection of one-player games:
- canfield - a cardgame
- freecell - a cardgame
- golf - a cardgame
- mastermind - the well known code-breaking game
- merlin - a logic game similar to "lights out"
- minesweeper - the well known logic game
- pegged - a board game
- solitaire - a cardgame
- spider - a cardgame
- taipei - a mahjongg like game
- thornq - a cardgame
- BomberClone (A game like "Super Bomberman". With network support.)
- GLightOff (Puzzle game)
- gSoko (Sokoban clone)
- gTans (Tangram game)
- GtkAtlantic (a game like "Monopoly")
- Pioneers (a clone of the board game "Settlers of Catan")
- Sudoku-Savant (a clone of the board game "Sudoku")
- XaoS (Fractal zoomer)
- XEmeraldia (a variation of the game "Tetris")
- XGalaga (Shoot 'em up)
- XLightOff (Puzzle game)
- XMahjongg (a solitaire game)
- xtris (a multiplayer tetris clone with network support)
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11.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Single screen platform game: 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' announced for 2021
The Single screen platform game 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' is a clon of the classic arcade game Snow Bros.. A first playable preview has been already released in 2007 - but then the development stopped. It was now restarted by a six-man team. A video shows the current state of the development.
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10.Nov.2020
amigablogs.net (Webseite)
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Free graphic set for game developer: "NEONworld"
One of the submissions to the Amiga Art Contest 2020 was a graphic set for an imaginary game called "NEONworld". On his Patreon website, the graphics artist Kevin Saunders has provided the set as zip archive. It can be used in free game projects without any limitations. Saunders only wants to be listed in the credits.
The graphics are meant for screen solutions of 320x256, use 16 colours and were drawn on the Amiga using Brilliance. The UFO was rendered with Lightwave. An example level for the game concept intended by Saunders is included as well.
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10.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Early video preview: Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma'
In Erik 'earok' Hogan's jump'n run 'Duckstroma' the player controls a duck which can use its eggs for jumping in higher levels. The game already has been released for MSX and ZX Spectrum using the flip-screen feature.
Now a video of the Amiga prototype was published showing smoothly scrolling levels. The port for the Amiga is written with Hogan's Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine.
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09.Nov.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Competition: Submissions to the 'Amiga Art Contest 2020' released
For the graphic competition "Amiga Art Contest 2020", started in July, all submissions in the categories "hand drawn artworks", "Photographic" and "Raytracing" now are available on the website of the organizers. The tracks do not seem to be available but some of them can be listened to in a video.
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09.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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3D-Shooter: Another early Tech-Demo from 'Blask'
'Blask' (video) is a 3D-Shooter written in AMOS which is still in the very early stage of development and is supposd to be run on an Amiga 500. In a discussion on ppa.pl (Polish) the developer has talked about the latest progress of the game. He has already released two pre-versions of the game under the former name "Alien Enemy: Dangerous".
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09.Nov.2020
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Little discourse on render-library
In our report about the game AmiBrixx we have attended the auhor Jörn Renkert on the fact that under usually an OS3 port of a Hollywood application requires a graphics card and therefore pushing a port for AGA Amigas.
Unfortunately we did not succeed in running the game on an Amiga1200 equipped with Blizzard 1230 and 128 MB FastRAM. All required libraries have been installed as mentioned by the author. Before this test, on the Amiga of our editor version 40.8 of the render.library was installed but disabled. Instead of it, version 30.0 was active. After even the last edited version released by the author crahed we did remember the previously disabled version 40.8 render.library.
After resetting the system to version 30.0, the game started without problems. We then found two diiferent versions of the library on Aminet:
- Version 40.8, released in 2005, and
- version 32.0, released this year.
Contrary to the information given there in the readmes, version 40.8 was written by Timm S. Mueller (e.g. graphics card picture viewer Mysticview), version 32.0 by Henryk Richter (e.g. author of the music player Eagleplayer). Getting more information about the different versions, we asked the authors for a statement. Kindly enough both oh them replied. Hendryk Richter has summarized it:
"Version 32 of the render.library are virtually identical to 30.0/31.0. After consultation with Timm, the version bump from 31 to 32 was done to merge the different versions of the v30 branch available on Aminet. Only a build for 68060 without FPU was added since the last upload. I do not know any program (68k) which requires a version >30 of the render.library.
The development branch V40 of the render.library was Timm's rewrite in C of the assembler version for providing the option of porting it to PPC platforms. As mentioned in the readme, this re-implementation the much slower on 68k Amigas with processor <68040. It is recommended to use V30-V32 with 68k."
After the installation of version 32.0, the game also worked fine. Therefore we do not only recommend version 32.0 for 68k Amigas - considering the crashes we must advise against this version 40.8.
On request of amigas-news.de the author Timm S. Mueller explained that currently he is not going to deal with it again.
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08.Nov.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #79 - Ultimate Floppy Emulator
In issue 79 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the Ultimate Floppy Emulator developed by Edu Arana and compares it with the GoTek drive. The floppy emulator can be connected internally or externally to the computer, the AFD files can be provided on an USB stick or on a MicroSD card.
Currently the Ultimate Floppy Emulator is sold out, but preorders for the next batch are possible.
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08.Nov.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 07.11.2020:
tok64.lha dev/lang 56K MOS C64 Basic Converter
partcopy.lha disk/misc 13K 68k copy partitions from/to HD to...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
GemRB-Morphos.lha game/role 3.1M MOS Portable Bioware's Infinity E...
scr2gif.i386-aros.lha gfx/conv 97K x86 Converts ZX Spectrum screens ...
st2iff.i386-aros.lha gfx/conv 106K x86 Atari ST NEOchrome/DEGAS to I...
RGetSize.lha gfx/misc 9K MOS Outputs width and height of a...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.1M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
EvenMore.lha text/show 349K 68k V0.94: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 442K MOS V0.94: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 432K OS4 V0.94: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
ShowGRexx.lha util/dtype 10K Simple batch converter for Sh...
BogoMIPS.lha util/moni 360K OS4 standalone BogoMIPS calculator
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 120K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 153K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
WebRadio_sbar.lha util/wb 94K MOS A sbar plugin to listen to We...
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08.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 07.11.2020:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
shooter15.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 Shoot at enemies and collect (P)
kens_drawers_modern.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 Ken's icon v4 style drawers...
bogomips.lha uti/ben 233kb 4.0 Standalone BogoMIPS gorbulator
whetdhrystone.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 Whetstone, Dhrystone, Sieve, Bog...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 754kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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08.Nov.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until 07.11.2020:
ccleste.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 2Mb Tough platform game with retro s...
st2iff.i386-aros.lha gra/con 106kb Atari ST NEOchrome/DEGAS to IFF ...
aya02.lha net/mis 2Mb access wolfram alpha answer mach...
ha.i386-aros.lha uti/arc 163kb The best archiver for text file ...
bogomips.i386-aros.lha uti/ben 217kb Standalone BogoMIPS gorbulator
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08.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 07.11.2020:
Chrysalis_3.14.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
Chrysalis-update_FR_1.... Chrysalis Script permettant d'ins...
Chrysalis-update_EN_1.... Chrysalis Script allowing to inst...
pc105_i_1.1.lha Devices/Keyboard MorphOS Italian Keymap
GemRB_0.8.5b3.lha Games/Role Portable Bioware's Infi...
ShowCRexx_0.9.lha Graphics/Tools Arexx script for ShowCa...
VectorInk_1.0.lha Graphics/Vector A basic vector graphics...
WitchCleaner_1.40.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
EvenMore_0.94.lha Office/Show A freeware Textviewer C...
WebRadio_2.3.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar A sbar plugin to listen...
WhetDhryStone_1.3.lha System/Benchmark AmigaDOS commands for M...
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08.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.11.2020
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 installer has been added until 07.11.2020:
- 2020-11-05 improved: Mega-Typhoon (Bernhardt Braun / Nordlicht Edv.) adapted to whdload 17 (Info)
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07.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Commerciall AGA platform game: 'Wiz' available as download or boxed edition
Adrian Cummings' AGA platform game 'Wiz' (promotion video) is now available. The boxed edition can be purchased for 21 British Pound - about 23 Euro - shipping included. The box contains two disks as well as a drinks coaster with 'Wiz' design. The USB version includes the disk image on an USB stick as well as two two disk labels and - while stocks last - a mini poster (A5) and a button badge. The download version is available on itch.io for ten USD (eight Euro).
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