18.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Multiplayer via Internet: AmigaLive 0.983 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
AmigaLive is a "Netplay" client which uses the network support of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE providing multiplayer games via the Internet. Both players contact the AmigaLive server and then can play an Amiga game together or against each other as if they were sitting in front of the same computer. AmigaLive also offers simple chat functions.
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18.Jun.2020
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.7.4
The latest version of the programming language AmiBlitz only contains changes in the integrated development environment which is included in AmiBlitz:
- added new tooltype "CURSORSTYLE" with styles "block", "line" and "underline"
- added new tooltype / configuration setting "ASKBEFOREQUIT": before closing the ide, the ide asks before closing
- added new doubleclick-feature: whenn doubleclick on a source word, all occurencies will be shown in label list window
- added new search feature : when opening search-window, the current word is added to the search string gadget automatically
- added new keyshortcut behaviour: ALT+UpArrow/DownArrow: move current line up/down
- added new keyshortcut behaviou: CTRL+LeftArrow/RightArrow moved cursor to start/end of word
- added package "NIB.include" from AmiNet for displaying icons
- changed settings: set minimum screen resolution to 640x480 for screenrequester in ide-settings
- changed eventhandling code of source window (partly converted from asm to ab3)
- changed boundlines from 6 to 2 (cursor distance to top/bottom the source window starts to scroll up/down from)
- fixed scolling issue when marking blocks with mouse while scrolling (was way to fast)
- fixed calculation of viewable columns to use full window width of source window
- fixed non-tokenization issue #7 at source files with uppercase fileextensions (*.AB3)
- fixed display problem with more than 1GB available chip/fast memory
- package fix: REDDebugger-file has now executable bit set (thanks to mdbergmann)
- minor localization fixes
Direct download: AmiBlitz3-3.7.4.zip (10 MB)
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17.Jun.2020
ALB42 Blog (ANF)
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Source codes of MUIMapparium and Leu released, development abandoned
Marcus "ALB42" Sackrow has released the source code of some of his Amiga applications on Github, among others his spreadsheet Leu as well as the OpenStreetMap viewer MUIMapparium. In an entry in his blog Sackrow explained that he discontiniued developing the software:
"As you might know I did not want to have my programs on the highly illegal distribution Coffin OS. You cannot detect Coffin, but it’s a distribution especially made for Vampire, therefore if I block Vampire they will not include my software anymore. Besides the Vampire users could push the Vampire team to condemn this distribution and stop to promote it. All of that did not happen, they still added my stuff, even with the Vampire block and the people became mad about me, not about the Vampire team (or the coffin team). I’m not good at being the bad guy."
Upon request of amiga-news.de Sackrow confirmed that currently he is not motivated to do anything for the Amiga. But the disputes concerning Coffin is only one of the several reasons for his decision. For the moment the server required for MUIMapparium he is going to continue maintaining.
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16.Jun.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable preview: Tactical shooter "Project Horizon"
Project Horizon (video) is a "top-view tactical action game that obviously takes place on the dark side of the moon". It requires 2 MB Chip-RAM and a harddrive. The game is supposed to distributed for free including source code and level editor.
Now a playable preview was released which is available as ADF version (download site) without music and as HDF image with music (download site).
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16.Jun.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 145 - preview and excerpts
A preview and extracts from issue 145 (July/August 2020) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a review of "Fred's Journey", the sixth part of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 special and an interview with Andre Zeps (Tiny Little Slug). (cg)
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15.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Arcade racer: Developer diary on "Super Sprint"
The British developer Graeme Cowie is working on a port of Atari's racing video game Super Sprint to the Amiga. In short "development updates" on Youtube he gives insights into the latest state of the project.
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[News message: 15. Jun. 2020, 23:59] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jun.2020
LemonAmiga (Webseite)
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Arcade games: Bad Ninjas, Blain Home, Lord Vader, Super Capacitor
José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Retro Wars, Mini Zorro, Mini Swat) is a very active graphic artist who in co-operation with different developers and using different Game Construction Kits like Backbone or GRAC creates little games distributing them half-commercially. During the last one and a half year obviously we missed some of his releases:
The platform game Bad Ninjas was created with Redpill and is available also as "boxed edition" from the authors. All other games are Backbone productions: Blain Home and Super Capacitor also are platform games while Lord Vader is a beat'em up.
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14.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 13th, 2020:
luettjebookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
Roadie.lha comm/net 49K 68k Commodity/GUI App for Roadsho...
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos 118K 68k 3 AMOS sources+exes by Stefan...
AMCommand.lha game/shoot 100K 68k Arcade Missile Command
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 6.3M 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AGAConv.lha gfx/conv 723K MOS Commodore Amiga CDXL Video Co...
WastedNinja2020.lha mods/8voic 207K 5ch Wasted Ninja 2020 Alterna...
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.7M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
led-20200202.tar.gz text/edit 14K A simple line-oriented text e...
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.5M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
WarpDTPrefsSP.lha util/dtype 12K WarpDTPrefs 45.11 spanish cat...
AmiSSL-4.6.lha util/libs 5.9M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiUpdateSP.lha util/wb 11K AmiUpdate 2.47/53.13 spanish ...
tdcc.lha util/wb 1.3M MOS Timer for shutdown and displa...
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14.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 13th, 2020:
chimaera.lha gam/adv 128kb 4.0 rethinking the Colossal Cave adv...
rftg.zip gam/pla 119Mb 4.1 Run, Shoot & Jump
amilines_rus.lha gam/puz 23kb 4.0 Russian catalog file for AmiLine...
gemrb.lha gam/str 6Mb 4.0 Portable Bioware's Infinity...
homeworld.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Real-time strategy video game
netpanzer_afxgroup.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Multiplayer online RTS game with...
wesnoth_afxgroup.lha gam/str 297Mb 4.0 Battle for Wesnoth (afxgroup ver...
iodbc.lha off/dat 2Mb 4.0 Indipendent Open Database
iodbc_sdk.lha off/dat 662kb 4.0 Indipendent Open Database SDK
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.1 Little Personal Finance program
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Get MD5 and CRC32 checksums
bbquote.lha uti/tex 57kb 4.0 Wrap clipboard text in BB quote ...
gnash.lha vid/med 8Mb 4.0 The GNU Flash player
gnash-src.lha vid/med 8Mb 4.0 The GNU Flash player
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14.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 13th, 2020:
AGAConv_0.9.5.lha Commodore Amiga CDXL Video Converter
AmiSSL_4.6_68k.lha OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library.
Ancient.lha Decompress ancient formats
FireAttack_1.0.lha LCD game conversion
Imp_1.0.lha Play modules from internet, chat...
IntyBASIC_1.4.1.lha BASIC compiler for Intellivision
Omanko!_1.0.lha A tiny web tool made to get the MD5 and CRC32 ch...
tdcc_0.2.lha Timer for shutdown and display/blanker control
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14.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 13th, 2020:
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13.Jun.2020
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C source codes for unreleased Amiga games: "Magic Miner" and "Sea Trade"
Magic Miner and Sea Trade are two Amiga games written in C, which the author Joona Palaste started developing around the turn of the millennium but never finished. Palaste describes the status of the games which were compiled using DICE as "almost completed". He has released the source codes under the GNU GPL on Github.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2020, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text adventure: "The Queen's Footsteps", collector's edition
"The Queen's Footsteps" is a text adventure available for a lot of platforms. The "collector's edition" which can be purchased on poly.play includes the game as disk image on a microSD card, a printed manual, a DINA3 poster as well as a pocket mirror in linen bag. As bonus the adventure "Two days to the Race" featuring the same actor is also included.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2020, 19:39] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.15
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.15:
- Extra HalfBrite (EHB) support added. Now you can have 64 colors in ECS games.
- Tile animations are now possible. Anim speed can be changed but for the time being all animations have the same speed.
- FIX:When no sprites are used, the tile palette is used for the game.
- FIX:issue in Change Tile trigger when used tilesets with borders.
- FIX: issue in Dialogs not showing properly. This only happened in the exported game.
- FIX: in bar HUD elements.
- Some other minor changes and fixes.
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12.Jun.2020
Gregory Donner (E-Mail)
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Graphics card: Firmware and driver update for ZZ9000
For his graphics card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported) Lukas F. Hartmann has released updates of the firmware and the driver. Version 1.6.2 among others offers improved stability and performance.
Changes:
- Higher stability, esp. with 68060/CyberStorm. Better output signal. 1.5.1 for Zorro 3 had faulty FPGA timing. We finally figured out this was a Xilinx Vivado bug
- Improved raw read/write speed
- Improved speed on some P96 drawing functions, especially RectFill() Pattern
- Fixes to network driver incl. the possibility to switch to INT2 instead of INT6 in the case you have hardware conflicts. To do this, set the interrupt jumper on ZZ9000 to INT2 and create an empty file ENVARC:ZZ9K_INT2
- Unified scandoubler (“videocap”) code for Denise and Videoslot sampling with slightly better centering
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12.Jun.2020
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Full version for download: Nicky 2
After the platform game Nicky Boom, now the successor released in 1993, "Nicky 2", can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. An ADF disk image as well as WHDLoad installer are available.
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[News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 23:43] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson
After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell the Amiga history "starting from the day when Escom were the highest bidder at Commodore's liquidator’s auction in New York (I was there), how their attempts to relaunch the Amiga spectacularly failed, then the troublesome years when our beloved computer bounced around from company to company, Viscorp, Quickpack, Gateway 2000, etc. and beyond."
For 15 Euro supporters will get an e-book (epub, mobi and PDF), for 30 Euro a printed book. Both variants are supposed to be available in February 2021.
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[News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 21:52] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Missile Command
Kevin Gallagher's "Missile Command" (video) is a remake of Ataris' arcade classic having the same name. The game runs on each Amiga having at least 512 KB RAM. The developer is already working on another arcade remake, the shooter Phoenix.
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[News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 21:24] [Comments: 0]
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