06.Feb.2020
nördli (ANF)
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Amiga comeback: Game developer and mailorder publisher 'Mutation Software'
The programmer Adrian Cummings is going to reactivate his old label 'Mutation Software' which in the 90ies he used to release and sell some games for the Amiga and PC. Now new editions of three former games are planned.
Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun and Castle Kingdoms will be available again in spring - all of them in a box in a limited edition inclusive an autograph of the developer. For autumn a new platform game "Wiz" has been announced.
At the beginning of the year Cummings has released the assembler sourcecode of his game Cyberpunks originally published by Core Design as well as an archive with several graphics. Due to a hard disk failure the source code is slightly damaged at two points. Besides some informationen on level data are missing.
Downloads:
CyberPunks_src.zip (100 KB)
MutationGfxDump.zip (1 MB)
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06.Feb.2020
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Working with adf images: GoADF! 2.2
The shareware programm (7 Euro) "GoADF!" can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. New in version 2.2:
- a new Antivirus module - now GoADF! will detect any virus hidden in the image bootblock that is in the XVS library database.
- added full support for HFE files, now you can create images for your HxC Floppy Emulator.
- A lot of patches, improvements and optimizations, like when you create a new image from diskette, GoADF! now can use the name of the source volume as default filename and checks if the file extension '.adf' is present, if not it automatically append.
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05.Feb.2020
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New demo version of Wings Remastered for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS
In autumn of 2015 the rights holder Cinemaware Retro announced an Amiga port of its Wings remake "Wings Remastered". A first playable preview was released in November of 2015. As a condition for completing the game was to get sufficient preorders (55 Euro) - approximately about 300 preorders were placed. After releasing a pre-version of the game at the Amiga 32 in 2017, nothing has happened about Wings Remastered.
What about Cinemaware Retro at all? The appearances in the social media have not been maintained, several paid orders of the "Collector's Editions" of 'Defender of the Crown' and 'Rocket Ranger' have been only delivered after the process was outsourced to another shop.
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener, who was originally in charge of writing the Amiga port, is occasionally working on the game. About a year ago a short status report was published. In a post on amigans.net he now has announced the release of new demo versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (x86).
The developer who according to his own statement has not been paid at all is asking for your patience. He is going to complete the game in any case even if there will be problems regarding the payment because he has invested so much work in the project. His motivation is low because the mount of work is much higher than expected and he is also working on other projects.
Direct download:
Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D (95 MB)
Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D Tabor SPE (95 MB)
Wings Demo AOS4 MiniGL for MiniGL4GL4ES (95 MB)
Wings Demo MorphOS (95 MB)
Wings Demo AROS x86 (94 MB)
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05.Feb.2020
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Review of "Black Dawn Rebirth"
The blog "Amiga Guru" has published a little review of the commercial Dungeon Crawler "Black Dawn Rebirth" released at the end of October.
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05.Feb.2020
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Full version for download: Iron Tracker
The Amiga Future website offers disk images and WHDLoad installers of the racing game Iron Trackers released in 1989 for free download.
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[News message: 05. Feb. 2020, 00:03] [Comments: 0]
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04.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SSHTerm 1.1
Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom has released version 1.1 of an Amiga spezific SSH solution called SSHTerm. It requires AmiSSL 4.3.
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[News message: 04. Feb. 2020, 15:01] [Comments: 0]
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04.Feb.2020
Indie Retro News
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Shoot'em Up: Playable demo of Inviyya
In October 2018 preview videos of the shoot'em up game 'Inviyya' were available. At this time it was said that the engine was completed and the final release would be supposed to be available before Christmas 2018. Meanwhile a playable demo version has been released for the first time.
The "world premiere" of the game which the developer still classifies as "pre beta" took place in a live video stream on twitch.tv last Sunday. Inviyya was inspired by the classic game R-Type, requires an Amiga 500 and according to the developer "features 6 levels, couple of special weapons, 3 layer parallax scrolling and nice music and sfx". A commercial release will be available at Poly.play.
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03.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ZGloom - open source Gloom engine for Windows and Linux
ZGloom is a reimplementation of the Gloom engine for Windows and Linux which seems to be compatible to all the level data of the series. So far only a very early version is available and currently the program has to be compiled by yourself.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2020, 22:12] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free Gotek clone: OpenFlops emulates classic disk drives
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. In comparision to them, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. As firmware the free FlashFloppy is used which originally should be also used for Gotek.
Improvements of OpenFlops compared to Gotek:
- Can be installed on many different platforms
- Directly supports a wide range of image formats
- Flexible track layout for Raw Sector Images
- Extremely configurable
- Supports AutoSwap for games with a large number of disks
- Easily accessible pin headers for connection of a i2c display (either OLED or LCD), rotary encoder (including power)
- Built-in amplified speaker, or easily-accessible pin header for an external one
- USB connector can either be soldered on the board or connected to a pin header
- Connected Motor signal
- Emulates two drives at the same time (Not yet supported by the firmware, but it will come)
- Has additional 3.3V, 5V and GND power pins
- And hey, it's Open Hardware!
According to the developer "all of this comes in the same form factor (and mounting holes) as the board installed in the original Gotek, hence it can be easily installed in any shell or enclosure designed for it."
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2020, 22:05] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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New Amiga emulator for MacOS in progress: vAmiga
Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is supposed to become a new, "user-friendly" Amiga emulator for MacOS computers which can emulate an A500, A1000 or A2000. According the developer the programming has been started 12 months ago - and the basic features of the emulator implemented yet. Now he is concentrating on improving the compatibility. So far official releases are not available but new alpha versions are regularly released on Github.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2020, 21:56] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.2020
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Hyperion and Cloanto allegedly close to finalizing settlement
In one of the two remaining lawsuits between - amongst others - Hyperion and Cloanto, all involved parties submitted a joint request last Friday, asking to extend a deadline set by the Judge for one week, since (quote) "Business representatives of Hyperion, Cloanto, and C-A Acquisitions, Inc. have been engaged in several days of intensive face-to-face settlement discussions in Europe geared toward a global resolution of all claims [...]. Hyperion, Cloanto, and C-A Acquisitions, Inc. are finalizing changes to a negotiated term sheet, which they anticipate will soon be executed."
The motion was signed by the judge the same day, so the parties involved now have until next Friday to finish the settlement negotiations they started last fall or ask for another extension. (cg)
[News message: 02. Feb. 2020, 18:29] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.02.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 1st, 2020:
sana2-tftpclient.lha comm/tcp 70K 68k TFTP client using only the SA...
amrss_src.lha comm/www 243K amrss - MorphOS RSS client, s...
Bingo_AROSx86.lha game/board 6.2M x86 Bingo Machine
Bingo_MOS.lha game/board 5.9M MOS Bingo Machine
Bingo_OS3.lha game/board 5.8M 68k Bingo Machine
Bingo_OS4.lha game/board 7.0M OS4 Bingo Machine
Bingo_WOS.lha game/board 8.7M WOS Bingo Machine
OpenDune_RTG.lha game/strat 278K 68k Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE
BeleagueredCastle.lha game/think 2.8M 68k Beleaguered Castle solitaire ...
anaglyph3d.lha gfx/conv 605K MOS Create anaglyphs for r/b glasses
webptools110_a68k.lha gfx/conv 4.3M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
uae4all_rc3_032.lha misc/emu 537K MOS UAE4All port to MorphOS (Balr...
uae4all_rc3_032_src.lha misc/emu 1.1M UAE4All source port to MorphOS
TimeToGo.lha mods/misc 189K Time To Go 4ch Rocky Protest ...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 568K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 633K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 719K OS4 Multipurpose utility
DockBot.lha util/wb 340K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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02.Feb.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.02.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 1st, 2020:
app.lha dev/lib 642kb 4.0 C++ classes for basic Amiga prog...
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
adtools.lha dev/mis 84Mb 4.1 GCC-based development toolchain ...
adtools-clib2.lha dev/mis 1Mb 4.1 GCC-based development toolchain ...
dosbox.lha emu/com 3Mb 4.1 an x86 emulator
hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v...
vindentiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Picture Viewer written in Hollywood
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
bzip2.lha uti/arc 1Mb 4.0 Bzip2 file compressor/de-compressor
unrar_ml.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 Unpak RAR files
reportplus.lha uti/mis 719kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
preferences.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 Window with Icons for starting d...
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02.Feb.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 01.02.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 1st, 2020:
ScummVM_2.1.1.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
ReportPlus_7.7.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Anaglyph3D_0.2.lha Graphics/Convert Create anaglyphs for r/...
UAE4ALL_rc3_0.32.lha Emulation UAE4ALL release candida...
Hode_0.2.8.lha Games/Adventure Hode is a re-implementa...
UAE4ALL_rc3_0.32-src.lha Development/Sources UAE4ALL release candida...
LosChinos_3.40.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
Bingo_1.43.lha Games/Board Bingo Machine is progra...
HydraCastleLabyrinth.lha Games/Platform A platform game, "metro...
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02.Feb.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.02.2020
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 February 1st, 2020:
- 2020-01-29 improved: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) freeze on several configurations fixed (Info)
- 2020-01-27 new: Rolling Thunder (U.S. Gold) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-01-26 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) fixed 68000 incompatibility and joypad detection (Info)
- 2020-01-26 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) support for italian version added (Info)
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01.Feb.2020
Forum64 (Webseite)
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Text/graphic dventure: The Curse of Rabenstein
The interactive graphic horror adventure game "The Curse of Rabenstein" was written by the same author as Hibernated. Originally it was created with the HTML-based adventure kit Adventuron and now ported to several retro platforms.
"Rabenstein" uses a two-word-parser and it is recommended creating own maps but you cannot come into a hopeless situation or die. A digital download still is not available, but a collector's edition is available on poly.play with the following content:
- 3,5"-Disk
- Cardboard box
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- 8-page DIN A5 manual
- Stickers
- Din-A3-Poster
- Shrink-wrapped
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Feb. 2020, 22:59] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Arcade game: Rotator
In Rotator developed by Psytronik you control a vehicle and have to "carefully manoeuvre it through the varied challenging landscapes collecting diamonds whilst trying to stay above the ever-rising flood level!". The physical edition of Rotator is available to pre-order while the download version can be purchased yet.
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[News message: 01. Feb. 2020, 13:30] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Cross development: Atom packages for Amiga-Syntax-Highlighting 1.3.2
The Amiga syntax highlighting extension for the Windows text editor Atom is available in version 1.3.2. Since our last news item among others a new dialog box for Amiga libraries has been added.
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01.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.7.3
Since the end of 2019, the Basic development environment AmiBlitz has been available in version 3.7.3. Among others this new version provides bug fixes and an updated Italian catalog.
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01.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.70
AGABlaster can play Commodore's CDXL video files (amiga-news.de reported). This version provides automatic video centering and keyboard video controls.
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01.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Open source flicker fixer for Amiga 500/2000
Niklas Ekström is working on an open source flicker fixer for the Amiga 500 and 2000. His concept is based on a FPGA connected to the custom chip Denise.
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30.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: 1 MB Chip RAM expansion for Amiga 500+
On Github you can find documents for a 1 MB chip RAM expansion for the Amiga 500+ "using only a 40 pin (2x20) female 2.54mm connector. The remaining pins are for the RTC which is on-board the A500+, so they are unecessary for RAM expansion. This makes it possible to use a 40 pin connector, which is cheaper and easier to find."
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[News message: 30. Jan. 2020, 23:29] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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3d model: Enclosure for Vampire V4 Standalone
Jorgen Bilander has created a 3d model for a Vampire enclosure inspired by classic Commodore keyboard cases. Hints and a lot of pictures he has also provided.
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[News message: 30. Jan. 2020, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench mouse pointers for Windows 10
On github you can find Workbench mouse pointer for Windows 10.
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[News message: 30. Jan. 2020, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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New French Amiga online retailer: MicroMiga
MicroMiga is the third French online retailer with Amiga articles (after Amedia and Voxel). So far almost exclusively hardware expansions and replacements parts are available.
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[News message: 30. Jan. 2020, 23:15] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Video report on Amiga Ireland (17./18. January, Athlone)
Dan Wood has published a detailed video report on the "Amiga Ireland" which took place about two weeks ago in Athlone (Ireland).
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[News message: 30. Jan. 2020, 01:44] [Comments: 0]
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