02.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.8.4
Dirk Hoffmann's vAmiga is supposed to become a new, user-friendly Amiga emulator for Mac-OS computers (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday version 0.9.8.4 was released which fixes an audio bug introduced in version 0.9.8.1 (list of changes).
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02.Jul.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 145
The English and German issue 145 (July/August 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes reviews of "The Queens Footsteps" and "Distant Suns" as well as a special about the Action Replay Amiga 500. (snx)
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01.Jul.2020
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Company history: Commodore's involvement in a financial scandal in 1965
Many users know that Jack Tramiel's company Commodore was experiencing financial difficulties back in the 60s and could only continue existing by the help of Irving Gould. That those financial difficulties are related to a financial scandal some users might know as well. But you cannot find detailed information in the Internet or in books.
The brief summary of this story published by Brian Bagnall in his first part of Commodore's history encouraged the American "Zube" to look for more details. For a limited time he could read the 3000 page final report of the investigative commission which examined the crash of the Canadian financial
institution Atlantic Acceptance Corporation - this finance company which in the middle of the sixties did hold many shares of the "Commodore Business Machines".
In the text which "Zube" already published in 2007 he painted a very gloomy picture of the persons involved. But he explicitly states that he did not had sufficient time for reading the whole documents and that he is not an expert.
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01.Jul.2020
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- May/June 2020 news
- News: The Annuaire Amiga is 20 years old!
- Old articles from Joystick 4 to 6:
- News: Amiga 3000, at last!
- Interview with David Ward
- Review: Crack Down, Review: Rotox
- Interview with Laurant Weill
- Review: 688 Attack Sub
- Review: Budokan
- Point of view: Hubert Auriol tests racing games on Amiga
- Interview with Nick Wilson and Matthew Stibbe
- Review: Aquanaut
- Review: Lords Of War
- Review: Player Manager
- ...
- Interview with Leonard Tramiel (Atari)
- Interview with Bruno Peloille (MorphOS developer)
- Review: MUIMapparium 0.8
- Review: Heroes Of Might And Magic 2
- Review: Strife
- Hardware: MIST 1.4 (update)
- Point of view: Why did Commodore launch the Amiga 600?
- Point of view: The problems that caused the bankruptcy of ICD
- The Amiga history of Peter Molyneux
- Classic Reflections - What happened to MicroniK?
- Tutorial: Utilization of Open Firmware
- DIY: Replacing the clock battery of an Amiga 2000
- Special quiz about MacroSystem.
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30.Jun.2020
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop game running on an A500 with a screen rate of 50 Hz. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled. For sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats are used (mod, 8svx, anim5).
For some days an update is available which additional to the full example project Amigo the Fox includes diverse changes and improvements:
- Mid-air platformer control is drastically improved, though there's still some refinements to be done
- Ability to set collision handling per direction. It's now possible to define that an enemy will bounce off walls but won't bounce when hitting the floor from height, for example
- Ability to configure a platformer actor so it won't walk off it's platform (this is done from the 'collision down' parameter)
- Previously, a "player projectile" type couldn't collide with the player itself. This has been fixed, allowing for objects that collide with both the player and other objects
- Removal of various unused parameters for simplicity
- Improved efficiency of animated tile system
- AGA enhancement: Fades are super smooth 24 bit. On OCS machines, fades remain at 12 bit
- AGA enhancement: Color palette is 24 bit. On OCS machines, palette remains at 12 bit
- Map compilation has been made much more powerful. You can include any number of background and foreground layers and the compiler will merge them all down to a tight and efficient tileset, containing no visually redundant tiles
- A1000 officially supported
- ECS/AGA enhancement: Border blank. Border is always black, even when index 0 of palette isn't
- Various improvements for Backbone importer
- Default fonts are included with every new project (cheers to Koyot for this)
- Commercial derived sample games have been depreciated, and will be replaced and removed in future updates. They were never meant to be finished, they were simply meant to show that commercial quality, console like games are entirely possible in the engine. They'll be replaced with similar games featuring free assets
- Various other minor tweaks to support 'Amigo the Fox' and future Scorpion games
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30.Jun.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Mahjong clone: BlitzWays
"BlitzWays" (video) is a puzzle game inspired by Mahjong which the author Sebastian Hartmann has completed after 28 years and released last Saturday at the demo party Gubbdata 2020 in Lund (Sweden). The game requires at least 1 Megabyte Chip-RAM as well as Kickstart 2.0.
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29.Jun.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: Action and role play game "EON" (AGA)
Since 2014 the game "EON" has been developed using a Construction Kit for Windows featuring action and role play elements which now is supposed to be ported to AGA Amigas. In a preview video the developers has given some insights into the current stage of development. According to the authors the game "is designed to make use of the dual playfield and scroll parallax for almost the entire game". The destination platform is an A1200 or a CD32 without any upgrades.
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29.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Flashback 20/20 feat. Amiga 35: Postponed to 26. and 27. June 2021
Due to the Corona pandemic the organizers of the "Flashback 20/20 feat. Amiga 35" had already postponed the event from June to September 2020. But also this date had to be canceled. Therefore the event now was postponed to the next year and will take place from 26. to 27. June 2021. If you want to return you ticket please visit this website.
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2020, 22:48] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 111 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga game "Bridge Strike" and the multimedia product "10 on 10: DemoCD" dedicated to the demos of
programs and games.
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29.Jun.2020
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Amigakit: Zorro-II-RAM card ZORRAM A2000
The ZORRAM - must not be confused with the Zorro-III-RAM card by the same producer introduced 2010 - is a memory expansion for a Zorro-II slot of the A2000. Using the jumper you can select between 0, 5,5 or 8 megabyte memory. The card supports autoconfig and is compatible to all revisions of the A2000 mainboard.
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2020, 22:38] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.06.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 27th, 2020:
303bcnAnthems.lha demo/aga 1.3M 68k Musicdisk AGA
fpc-install.3.2.m68k.lha dev/lang 37M 68k Free Pascal Compiler (final r...
fpc-install.3.2.ppc-a... dev/lang 53M OS4 Free Pascal Compiler (final r...
fpc-install.3.2.ppc-m... dev/lang 53M MOS Free Pascal Compiler (final r...
libfribidi.lha dev/lib 230K OS4 Free Unicode Bidirectional Al...
redpillgamecreator.lha dev/misc 1.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
atheros5000.lha driver/net 888K OS4 Driver for 54Mbps wireless ne...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 6K 2020 Carset for F1GP
Maluva.lha game/edit 226K MOS DAAD extension
MCE.lha game/edit 2.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.0M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
WBCutnPaste.lha util/wb 38K Cut, copy and paste files in ...
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28.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.06.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 27th, 2020:
libfribidi.lha dev/lib 230kb 4.0 Free Unicode Bidirectional Algor...
atheros5000.lha dri/net 888kb 4.0 Driver for 54Mbps wireless netwo...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
soliton_rus.lha gam/car 331kb 4.0 Russian translation for Soliton 2.2
jump-n-blob_src.lha gam/pla 66kb 4.0 Typical jump and run platform game
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
acuario.lha gra/scr 5Mb 4.0 A nice screen saver with beauty ...
fairies.lha gra/scr 2Mb 4.0 Portable And freeware screen sav...
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28.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 27.06.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 27th, 2020:
Acuario_2020.lha A screen saver with mermaids written with Hollyw...
breaker_2.1.lha Breaker 2.1 port by ACE - Need PowerSDL
EasyRPG_Player_0.6.2.1... A program that allows to play games created with...
Fairies_2020.lha Fairies_2020.lha
FPC_3.2.0_FINAL.lha Free Pascal Compiler
libmpg123_1.25.13.lha mpg123 - Fast console MPEG Audio Player and deco...
OpenSupaplex.lha OpenSupaplex 0.7.1 - reimplementation of Supaple...
SDL2_Libraries.lha All Libraries SDL2 with all SDK files for MorphOS.
T-C-4.lha 100% FREE Open-Source Cross-Platform C++/SDL2 Te...
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28.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Replica of AGA-Amiga in development: Akiko32
According to the developers of the Akiko32 board, the final development stage has began. If it is completed - shipping the prototypes is supposed to start in in July - the release of the documents of the board for non-commercial purposes is planned.
Additonal to the development work for the CPLD firmware and other software also adding information to the website is in the works.
Specifications of Akiko32:
- 68030 processor with 14 or 50 MHz
- 64 MB SDRAM
- 2 MB Chip-RAM
- AGA chipset with Akiko chip
- IDE port
- clock port
- 1 MB-CD³²- or adapted Kickstart-ROM
- Expansion ports for network card and RGB
- I²C bus with voltage monitor, clock and EDID and ICY ICY compatible connector
- Connector for front panel
- MiniITX format
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27.Jun.2020
ArtiSoft
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.10 (SDL version), update
There are two different versions of the browser NetSurf, which both (review) are constantly developed: Chris Young's ReAction-based version recently has been updated to version 3.10.
Now Artur Jarosik also updated his port of Netsurf which is based on SDL to version 3.10. It now uses the latest version 4.6 of AmiSSL as well.
Changes:
- Updated to newest sources.
- Integrated AmiSSL for https support. Version 4.6 recommended. Older versions are unstable. Note: make sure you have current time and local region set on your WB.
- Updated libjpeg from jfif-44.13 jpeg datatype by Henryk Richter.
- Fixed Enforcer Hits.
Update: (28.06.2020, 06:40, dr)
Upon request of amiga-news.de, Artur Jarosik wrote us, that the new version requires a FPU. Besides: Currently the AGA version does not work. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: Interview with Dave Haynie
In his video series on restoring an Amiga 4000, under the title link 'RetroManCave' has interviewed the former Commodore developerv Dave Haynie.
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[News message: 27. Jun. 2020, 04:12] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2020
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Full version for download: VideoTitler
On the website of the Amiga Future the full version of "VideoTitler" written by Aegis Development can be downloaded for free.
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