17.Jul.2024
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Obligement: interview with developer Kari-Pekka Koljonen
A new interview with Kari-Pekka Koljonen has been published on the Obligement website, in which the Finnish developer talks about his experiences and projects and his involvement in the demoscene. Koljonen's best-known projects include the module player HippoPlayer and the artillery game TankX. The full interview can be found under the title link. (nba)
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17.Jul.2024
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Games database LemonAmiga back online after hacker attack
The comprehensive games database LemonAmiga was the victim of a hacker attack last Sunday (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, the website is back online and fully usable.
According to the operators of LemonAmiga, the hackers gained access to the entire database during the serious security incident. The administrators have taken immediate action to close the security gaps and implement additional protective measures. Users are asked to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication to secure their accounts. (nba)
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17.Jul.2024
Reddit
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Arcade Attack: interview with Barry Leitch about Lotus 2
Barry Leitch is one of the world's longest-serving composers of video game music and has provided soundtracks and effects for a large number of games during his career. His best-known works include the classic racing games Lotus Turbo Esprit Challenge and Super Cars 2 for the Amiga and Horizon Chase 1 and 2, a recent retro-style racing game series for Playstation, Xbox, Switch and iPhone.
The Arcade Attack podcast previously published an interview (in English) with the musician in 2019 about his work on the classic Lotus 2 and has now republished it on YouTube with a playthrough of some Lotus 2 racetracks to accompany the talk. Barry provides exciting insights into his creative work and the process of developing his soundtracks. (nba)
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16.Jul.2024
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Demoscene: TRISTAR + TSA and DevLab-TSA makerspace archive has been launched
The members of the former demoscene group ‘TRISTAR’ have put an archive online that contains extensive material from the period 1987 to 2012, including demos (for C64, PC and Amiga), music and graphics documenting the creative history of the group. Also of historical interest are the collections of photos and videos of scene parties and reports as well as scroll texts from Tristar productions. Those interested can also find the productions of the following art group The Solaris Agency (T.S.A) under this link.
In addition, content from the joint makerspace ‘DevLab T.S.A’ is now available. This offers a platform for creative minds to realise their projects in a collaborative environment. Since 2021, the makerspace has been open to interested visitors on certain days to provide an insight into the ongoing projects and working methods. Further information and visiting times can be found on the subsite of DevLab T.S.A.. (nba)
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14.Jul.2024
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles (ANF)
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Programming: IDE Codecraft 1.15
Camilla Boemann's Codecraft is an integrated development environment (IDE). It was tested with SAS/C and E, but should also support other programming languages. The IDE is free of charge, but requires at least AmigaOS 3.2.2 as it is an extension of the program TextEdit.
The now released version 1.15 contains, among other things, additions by Darren Coles, so that there is now syntax highlighting for the E programming language. In addition to support for E-VO debugging, a register and memory browser as well as build configurations have been added and the search in files has been improved. Various bug fixes and a change of the key combination for compiling (now Amiga+B) complement the update. (snx)
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14.Jul.2024
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Games database LemonAmiga has been hacked
The games database and retro community "LemonAmiga" has apparently been hacked: both lemonamiga.com and its sister site lemon64.com are currently offline, with only a note from the operators indicating that they are currently analyzing the attack and working on securing their own systems.
According to reports in various forums, around 60 accounts of LemonAmiga users have apparently been taken over, mostly very old accounts that have not been actively used for many years. Initially, the hijacked user accounts were used to start arguments in the forum or to make the port of 'Doom' the highest rated Amiga classic in the games database. Shortly before the shutdown, the forums were simply flooded with link spam.
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14.Jul.2024
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Aminet uploads until 13.07.2024
The following files have been added until 13.07.2024 to Aminet:
HHH-KWR.adf demo/sound 880K 68k Borschtsch - Kuchenwurm
HHH-SBM.adf demo/sound 880K 68k Borschtsch - (Sp)BassMan
laffiks_fractal.lha dev/amos 4K Laffik's fractal set
CVBasic.lha dev/cross 265K 68k BASIC compiler for Colecovision
evo.lha dev/e 694K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
FileSystemStressTest.lha disk/misc 19K 68k Stress tests disks and file s...
TankX.lha game/2play 1.5M 68k 1-10 player tank combat (upda...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 9K 2024 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Elongated.zip mods/crash 96K All drums (Not a solo). 8 bit xm
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 686K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 866K OS4 Multipurpose utility
isomount.lha util/rexx 43K Mounting ipf,dms,adf,hdf,iso
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14.Jul.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.07.2024
The following files have been added until 13.07.2024 to OS4Depot:
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
reportplus.lha uti/mis 866kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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14.Jul.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.07.2024
The following files have been added until 13.07.2024 to AROS Archives:
gocr-kens-drawer.lha gra/ico 2kb Unofficial kens drawer for Gocr
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14.Jul.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.07.2024
The following files have been added until 13.07.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
sunny_0.5.lha Ambient/Utilities A commodity to makes th...
ThunderSlash.lha Games/Shoot2D A nice shoot'em up by J...
Wayfarer_8.9.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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13.Jul.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: "VD aktuell" 04
Press release: Summer fun with the retro gaming illustrated magazine on 64 full-color pages!
It's getting hot outside, time for some cool, easily digestible retro snacks! In the new issue of german VD aktuell, we take an intimate look at the relationship between Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood - are they really just colleagues? After a detour to the beach, we then head straight into space and reminisce about retro gaming classics. But we also take a look outside the box and talk about Planet of the Apes and a non-gaming phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s: video libraries!
As always, there's news in the retro news section, plus brief introductions to new games and new hardware. The video program for the Virtual Dimension and Fog Lake Production channels once again gives you a detailed preview of the next three months and our comic "Danger Dennis" enters its second round.
What are you waiting for? Get your hands on it! (cg)
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11.Jul.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future now with 68 pages
The publisher of "Amiga Future" has announced that the size of the print magazine has steadily increased in recent months - starting with the most recent issue, the magazine has 68 pages. It is hoped that the increased size will attract more subscribers. (cg)
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10.Jul.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Crowdfunding: Book project by David Pleasance - "Dare to Dream"
After "Commodore - The Inside Story" and "From Vultures to Vampires", former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance is looking for pre-orders for a third book project at the title link. This time, however, the subject is fictional - "Dare to Dream" invites the reader to dream about what might have been if the author, together with the co-managing director Colin Proudfoot, had succeeded in taking over Commodore UK as planned following the bankruptcy of the parent company.
According to the description, former Commodore developer Dave Haynie assists him in writing the book. Participants in the crowdfunding campaign will receive the finished work for 30 British Pounds plus shipping costs (for the EU this will amount to a total of 40 Pounds, around 47 Euros), with the regular retail price being 39 pounds later. (snx)
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10.Jul.2024
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.9
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.9 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This fixes six bugs and introduces a "YouTube Experience" notice, which appears when that website is visited for the first time. (snx)
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10.Jul.2024
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Test: Audio playback on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus
Due to its incompatible FPU, the use of AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus is subject to restrictions, which also affect popular audio playback programs such as AmigaAMP. 'Ktadd' has tested a few of them at the title link.
AmigaAMP requires up to 80 % of the processor power due to frequent calls of the FPU emulation. The test report lists setting changes that enable the use of this program with an operable user interface, albeit exclusively.
TuneNet manages MP3 files - apparently the only format tested by Ktadd - with a processor load of eight to 32 %; with Ogg Vorbis files, however, Eldee 'Eliyahu' Stephens comments that CPU usage will jump and one ends up with the same responsiveness issue as well.
DAPlayer, on the other hand, is at eight to ten percent for MP3 files, while SongPlayer is only 5 % and the Hollywood program RNOTunes performs best in this regard with 3 %.
Finally, the blog article compares the general strengths and weaknesses of the programs mentioned, on the basis of which there is no generally valid recommendation as to which of them should be used on the A1222 Plus. (snx)
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09.Jul.2024
Robert Koon (ANF)
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Developer's diary: Dune II - The Building of A Remaster
Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II, has set himself the goal of developing a remake for the Amiga that largely eliminates the limitations of the original release compared to the DOS original. Koon lists the following disadvantages of the existing Amiga port, among others:
- the heavily abbreviated intro
- the lack of an AGA-specific version
- constant diskette changes
- cuts to the gameplay and the soundtrack
Every two to three days Koon documents his progress in an entry in his developer diary. This journal will also be published in book form once the work is complete. If you want to support the developer in advance, you can donate one or three euros per month on Patreon and get real-time access to the developer diary.
It is not yet clear whether or in what form the finished game will be distributed. As Koon tells us, the code for his version has been written from scratch, but all assets come from the DOS version and therefore have to be licensed by Westwood.
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09.Jul.2024
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Rogue-Like "Roguecraft". Preview video, boxed edition can be pre-ordered
The 'Roguelike' Roguecraft, a revised port of the C64 title Rogue 64 from the same developer, is to be released in September in digital and physical editions. Pre-orders for the boxed edition will be accepted until the end of the month. Torque' shows the current status of the game in a YouTube video. (cg)
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09.Jul.2024
EAB (Webseite)
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Multiple-choice adventure: Ninja Carnage
In "Ninja Carnage", the player controls a constantly cursing ninja who has to execute a Yakuza boss. The game mechanics are described by the developer as "Die & Retry": decisions have to be made constantly, wrong decisions lead to one of 128 different death sequences.
The game has been translated into seven different languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Polish. The Amiga version uses the HAM6 mode and runs on every OCS computer.
(cg)
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09.Jul.2024
IndieRetroNews (Webseite)
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Game: Chopper Duel 1.1
Chopper Duel is an Amiga version of the MS-DOS game of the same name by Addict from 1993. The helicopter duel comprises 50 playing fields with 32 colors, requires 512 KB RAM and can be controlled by joystick or keyboard. (snx)
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09.Jul.2024
itch.io
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Game template: Survival game 'CyberCity2069' with source code
According to the author, "CyberCity2069" was to be a "survival game with RPG elements", which was developed with AmiBlitz 3. The player returns to the city after three years in the wilderness and has to earn a living with odd jobs in a cyberpunk setting.
The title has been abandoned by the developer; apart from the basic elements of the strategy part, only two of the planned arcade mini-games have been implemented so far: driving through the city and collecting falling garbage. The unfinished game, including the source code, can be purchased for one US dollar.
The license for the program code is simply "do what you want with it". The assets (graphics, sounds) come from third parties and can be used under various licenses; they are all linked on the Cybercity project page. (cg)
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09.Jul.2024
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Point'n Click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.07
Another update has been released for the Point'n Click adventure "Holiday" (video), which fixes various minor bugs:
- Discovered and fixed a bug with V1.05. If you completed a day after midnight, the day would roll over to the next day, and all mission objectives would not count towards any score. The day would then roll over again, so the next day would start 2 days later (e.g. Day 3). I added a variable for the actual day, as well as the game day, so the computer knowns what day the player is on.
- Sometimes the music would keep playing after the game was shut down. I made a fix for this in V1.05, but it only fixed a few rooms. The Launch Script how runs BastyPlayer again when you quit the program, therefore always stopping the music.
- Fixed being able to use items on the peninsula screens without being instantly taken back to Room 1.
- Added 10 more hidden click boxes to different places in the game, for example, Morgan's Bar, and some on the south beach.
- Fixed some spelling mistakes introduced with V1.05, such as Petro instead of Pedro. And 'The Day the Temperature'.
- Changed Fight Check In Desk to Hotel Check In Desk.
- Updated the version in the title of the game to V1.07
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09.Jul.2024
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Free/Libre hardware: SMD2000 "Bushfire", an A2000 in Mini-DTX form factor
SMD2000 "Bushfire" is a version of the A2000 motherboard in mini-DTX format (170 mm × 203 mm). The computer has a modular design: In order to be able to work with different Agnus revisions, the Agnus and chip RAM are located on a separate daughterboard. The processor is also on a separate board. The ISA slots have been removed; instead of the video slot, SMD2000 has an RGB2HDMI connection for plugging in a Raspberry Pi connection as well as an internal video header so that S-video capacity can be added later.
In the meantime, the documents for the motherboard, a first CPU card and two different Agnus plug-in cards have been published on Github. The official announcement also holds out the prospect of a third Agnus card that will ensure (mechanical) compatibility with the developer's preferred case: a Silverstone ML09.
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