08.Nov.2024
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.10
Version 3.9.10 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, he has now taken the time to move the current development tree into a final release version. The editor now consists of pure Basic code and can be easily improved. He is now in the process of revising the REDDebugger, but this is a long way off.
Download: AmiBlitz3910final.lha (11,2 MB) (dr)
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08.Nov.2024
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Print-/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #26 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. The topics of the current issue 26 include various game reviews, for example on Cecconoid or Holy Warrior, as well as background articles on the game Tony and the financial aspects of Commodore's history.
The magazine is available as printed edition for 12,75 Euro (plus about 5 Euro shipping) as well as digital edition (PDF) for 3,48 Euro. (dr)
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07.Nov.2024
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System-friendly Pac-Man game: Part 4 of the video series
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on an Amiga implementation of the game Pac-Man, which is using operating system calls only (amiga-news.de reported). Meanwhile part 4 of his video series has been published at the title link, showing how to add a MessagePort to a task, so that other tasks can change the score by sending messages.
The source code shown in the videos is published at GitHub.
Previous parts:
- Teil: Introduction
- Teil: Testing sound waveforms
- Teil: Blinking power pellets and timer.device
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07.Nov.2024
itch.io (ANF)
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft updated (WHDLoad configuration fixed)
The Rogue-like game Roguecraft has been updated: Besides extended troubleshooting in the readme file, the WHDLoad configuration file has been fixed, enabling usage on THEA500 Mini and other unconventional systems. (snx)
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06.Nov.2024
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Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.2 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS)
"audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. (nba)
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06.Nov.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 171
The German and English edition 171 (November/December 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from its editors and from Amiga specialist retailers. The topics of the issue include:
- Interview Simon Phipps
- Interview Carlo Pastore
- Interview Achim Pankalla
- Review SkyShapers
- Review The Ruin of 0ceanus Pr1me
- Review Roguecraft
- Review Dr. Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan
- Review Hell Bent
- Review Holy Warrior & Raffle
- Review Agente 357
- Review ignition
- Review X-bEnCh
- Special Amiga Usergroups
- Special myTOOLS
- Special Knowledge 4: Amiga vs. Atari - Which was the better gaming machine
- Special A1222 from a coder's perspective Part 2
- Special Classic Reflections - Whatever Happened to MacroSystem? Part 1
- Special Demoscene: The Colour Out Of Space
- Special Demoscene: As Good As New
- Special Demoscene History: The last diskmag of the 1990s
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06.Nov.2024
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: new versions of KickRom-Progger and KickRom-Flash
Press release: We are pleased to present two of our popular products in version 2.
KickROM Flash Rom V2
The KickROM Flash Rom V2 is a programmable Flash-Rom replacement for EPROM devices (e.g. 27c400) or Kickstart-Roms in the Amiga computer. Up to 4 Kickstarts (512 kb each) can be loaded onto one device and switched via jumpers or a switch.
The special feature of version 2 is that the respective active block is also displayed via the LED display on the top. Version 1.x will continue to be sold until it is completely replaced by version 2.
A KickRom flash can be purchased from 29.95 euros. A programming service is also available for customers without a programming device.
Features
- Fits all Amigas (a separate version for the Amiga 600 is available)
- Holds up to 4 Kickstart roms on one chip
- Switchable via jumpers or an optional rotary switch
- New in V2: Active bank is indicated by an LED display on the top.
To the product
KickROM Flash Progger Programmer V2
The KickRom Progger v2 is a programming device for programming the KickROM flash devices. In addition, commercially available 27C400 modules can be read out. The programmer can be operated via the serial interface directly on your Amiga or via USB on more modern computers. From V2 the Progger has a new firmware with some new features and instead of a MicroUSB interface a USB-C socket for data transfer and power supply.
The KickRom Progger V2 can be purchased without accessories for 49.95 euros. A zero-force socket and a serial cable for BigBox Amigas are available as options.
As of V2, the Y-modem is also supported via its own firmware in addition to the X-modem protocol.
The programmer has the following additional capabilities with the Y-modem protocol:
- File size of the file to be programmed is checked before the programming process
- Support for packet sizes of 1024 bytes. This enables faster transmission.
- All 4 blocks can be read out directly and are automatically divided into four files and named according to the block numbers (rom_x.bin).
- All 4 blocks can be written directly to the respective block by naming the block number in the file name (file_[1-4])
- A byte swap is automatically performed for .rom based on the file extension
To the product
Upgrade service for customers of version 1 of the programmer
For customers of V1 of the KickRom Flash Progger we offer an inexpensive upgrade service. Customers who want to upgrade the programmer to V2 simply contact us via e-mail. For an upgrade price of 10 Euro plus shipping costs we will replace the control chip and flash the new firmware. (cg)
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06.Nov.2024
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Pacman variant: Fast Food 2 (AGA)
The Pacman variant “Fast Food 2” (Video) is the unofficial successor to the Codemaster classic Fast Food, written with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. It offers 25 stages, 3 different levels of difficulty and saveable high scores. The soundtrack has not yet been completed; a final version with all the music tracks will be released shortly. (cg)
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05.Nov.2024
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MOD player: rePlayer V0.16.6 for Windows
The new version 0.16.6 of rePlayer, Arnaud Nenys' versatile audio player for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), offers Amiga fans and music enthusiasts a wealth of convenient features and some major updates. The tool, originally developed to play Amiga music modules without any problems, allows to play modern standards such as MP3 or OGG, and is now also able to handle the XMP format. (nba)
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05.Nov.2024
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Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.3
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.3. Changes:
- Improved Dynamic Hires OCS palette generation.
- Dynamic Hires and Atari 8-bit post-conversion screen allowing user to modify iff saving, enable opening output image, enable opening source directory (palettes file is always saved).
- Fixed broken CIEDE Dynamic Hires switch.
- HAM6: improved extra triple mode.
(nba)
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05.Nov.2024
YouTube
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Game: Hyper Wings 1.2
Christian Geldmann's Hyper Wings (amiga-news.de reported) is an Asteroids-like space shooter (video). The game, which is written in assembly and offers various levels of difficulty, is still in active development despite the version number 1.2. A "Best of 5" mode and sound options have now been added, and improvements have been made to the graphics and game engine.
Download: hyperwings_v1.20.adf (880 KB) (nba)
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05.Nov.2024
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 in the last two months.
- News for September/October 2024.
- Old articles from Génération 4 23 to 25: Review of Operation Stealth, Review of Wipe Out, File: Cabal, the movie, the video game, News: Disney turns to microcomputing, Review of Battlemaster, Reiew of Back To The Future Part 2, Review of Flood, File: Dick Tracy, the movie, the video game, Interview with Jim Walls, Review of Wings Of Fury, Review of Neuromancer, etc.
- Interview with Cyril Houzé (Dune AGA graphic designer).
- Interview with Steve Hammond (game designer from DMA Design).
- The best of Byte from February to August 1990.
- File: The "Who's who?" of Commodore and the Amiga.
- File: David Plummer's biography.
- File: Tracking routines in Graftgold's Amiga games.
- Tutorial: Installing Odyssey 64-bit on AROS as a Linux host.
- Tutorial: How to configure and use Synergy Server and Synergy Client on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: How to create a Kickstart diskette for the Amiga 1000 with WinUAE.
- DIY: Restoring two Amiga 4000s.
- Programming: Assembler - Programming a cracktro on the Amiga.
- Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 3, part 2, the sprites.
- Special quiz about the A600GS.
(nba)
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04.Nov.2024
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Cowboy/shootout game: Full version of Duel released
In "Duel", two cowboys (or a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the now finalised version (amiga-news.de reported) you can choose from 29 characters. (dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2"
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #5 under the title link, among others transparency effects are demonstrated. (dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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AROS: Review of October 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of October at the title link. (dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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Preview video: Danmaku #6
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime. Now that the complete, new development team is together - graphics: Holger Crome, music: Roland 'Triace' Voss, code: Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener - the original name of the game "Hyperborea" (amiga-news.de reported) has been discarded in order to finally decide on a common title. Until then, the Japanese name of the game genre for Bullet Hell, Danmaku, will be used as the working title. Changes to the sixth preview video:
- new WIP stage 1 background graphics: a preview of Crome's great level 1 artwork!
- new animated player ships: the original ship asset was bought from Matt and reworked by me to fit the palette restrictions.
- new explosions: same for the new explosions which have a lot more animation frames now.
- new spread-shot gfx: there was rightful criticism that it looked a bit too much like an ice-cream cone, so I threw it away and made a new one.
- new additional animated bonus stars: IMO the bonus stars were a bit too static, so I added a smaller animated variant.
- bonus star magnetism: it's just a much more satisfying game experience if you collect lots of bonus stars instead of missing most.
- new sparks on hit: when you hit an enemy there are procedural "sparks" now, for additional feedback and to make it more vivid.
- animated bullets (not really new but for the first time in a WIP video): it's no real bullet hell game without those famous rotating oval bullets ;)
- shadows for all floating enemies / player ships: I'm a big SWIV fan, so this was kind of mandatory ;)
- fresh set of enemy placeholders: no more BS :) The current placeholders' originals have either been bought from Matt or lent from a Dezaemon spritesheet before quickly being tweaked for the engine.
- title screen placeholder: the name "Hyperborea" is no more. And until we found a new one, I asked some AI to generate a title screen for a classic shmup named "Placeholder" using Japanese for the title...
Well, good enough for now (and better don't try to translate it ;) ).
- player ship / shot coloring configurable in main menu: was so quick and easy to add, so why not!
- shadows and sparks can be enabled / disabled in main menu: in case somebody doesn't like the eye candy.
- further really massive bullet code / memory optimizations: the more bullets the better, so...
- new bullet patterns: still rather simple because it's a WIP demo.
(dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 24-02 (English/German)
The third issue of the diskmag “Amiga Rulez” is available simultaneously in German and English versions. For the first time, the current issue features game tests (Sensible Soccer) and a review of the best scene productions of 2023. (cg)
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03.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to Aminet:
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
MusicPort-AHI.lha driver/aud 7K 68k AHI driver for Trinity 1240/1...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 10K 2024 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 8.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NAFCYI1991S2-B00.zip text/bfont 1.2M NAFCYI Summer 1991 (BMP Fonts)
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 2.3M OS4 A PDF generator
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 17M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
BaseConv.lha util/wb 66K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o...
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03.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 9Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wipeout-re_fe.lha gam/dri 9Mb 4.1 WipeOut RE Fantômas Edition
wipeout-re_fe-data.zip gam/dri 137Mb 4.1 Datas for WipeOut RE Fantô...
a_little_remember_gam... gam/mis 8Mb 4.0 A Simon Says (Senso) like game
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
rvncd.lha net/ser 124kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
compression.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.1 A PDF generator
legadon.lha uti/tex 280kb 4.0 A simple ePub reader (Text only ...
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03.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
kmusicplayer.i386-aros.zip aud 11Mb kMusicPlayer is a visual music p...
rfxgen-aros.zip aud 796kb A simple and easy-to-use fx soun...
perl-5.7.2.x86_64-aros-v1... dev/lan 11Mb Perl 5.7.2 x86_64 ABIv11
lib_glfw_3_4.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 926kb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
lib_raylib5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 22Mb A simple and easy-to-use library...
libmad-0.15.1b.x86_64-aro... dev/lib 118kb Libmad
raygui.i386-aros.zip dev/mis 7Mb raygui is a simple and easy-to-u...
residualvm-0.3.1-1.x86_64... emu/mis 4Mb ResidualVM x86_64 abiv11
scummvm-1.9.0-1.x86_64-ar... emu/mis 17Mb ScummVM x86_64 abiv11
koala_seasons.i386-aros.zip gam/str 4Mb game compiled using raylib..
owb-2.0.i386-aros.zip net/bro 50Mb Odyssey Web Browser
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03.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
glib-2.0.lha Dependencies/Library/Misc A second experimental M...
ATasm_1.09.lha Development/Cross Mac65 compatible 6502 c...
libwebp-1.4.0.lha Development/Library WebP codec is a library...
glib-2.6.0.lha Development/Library Low-level core library ...
fluidsynth_2.4.0.lha Development/Library fluidsynth_2.4.0.lha
libFLAC-1.4.3.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFLAC...
SDL2-demo_1.0.lha Development/SDL2 Port of SDL2-demo
SDL2-Demokit_1.0.lha Development/SDL2 Port of Patater SDL2 de...
AmiArcadia_33.42.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Arinoid_1.0.lha Games/BrickBreaker Port of Arinoid
MCE_15.21.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenMoHAA_0.80.0.lha Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.80.0 for Mo...
Mutatris_1.3.0.lha Games/Think Port of Mutatris by Pap...
Untangle_1.1.lha Games/Think A logic puzzle, where t...
FFmpeg_6.1.2.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
Legadon_0.3.lha Office/Show A new simple ePub Reader
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03.Nov.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.11.2024
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 02.11.2024:
- 2024-10-31 updated: Pop-Up (Infogrames) manual included, publisher corrected (Info)
- 2024-10-29 new: Charly (Magic Soft) done by DJ Mike (Info)
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03.Nov.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2024
As usual Robert Bernardo presents several videos of AmiWest again:
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02.Nov.2024
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Action adventure: October update for Castlevania AGA
Dante Mende has released another update to his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure “Castlevania”. He adjusted the moving platforms on level 2 to align with the floors in the level (so the player sprite don't appear with "feet sunk" in the floor if he just walks out of them). DJ Metune is now in charge of the music department, about half of the soundtrack is still currently finished. (cg)
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02.Nov.2024
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GUI for identify.library: Huh? 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's “Huh?” is a MUI-based graphical user interface for Richard 'Shred' Körber's identify.library, which can read built-in extensions and other properties of the system. (cg)
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