11.May.2016
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Crowd funding: Turrican 2 - The Orchestral Album
Already in the past, Chris Hülsbeck experimented with orchestral arrangements. Now he is going to record the songs from the Amiga classic Turrican II with an orchestra. In order to be able realizing "Turrican 2: The Orchestral Album", the fans have to finance it via Kickstarter with 75.000 Euro. So far about 44.000 Euro has been donated.
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10.May.2016
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Alien Breed clone: Prototype of new "Chaos Guns" engine
Originally "Chaos Guns" was meant to be a multiplayer shooter, a mix of Alien Breed and Hired Guns. Two years ago, a first demo version was released. Shortly afterwards the only programmer did back out. According to the team in a blog entry, meanwhile for a new programmer was looked and the concept of the game was completely reconsidered and simplified.
The old engine Chaos Guns, which was written in the exotic language PowerD, was far too demanding for Amiga computers. Therefore the graphics have been reduced from 256 to 32 colours and a classic tile-base model used. The Multiplayer theme "had to go" but the functional inventory and items management was reworked.
In order to be able testing the changes, different prototypes have been developed. At first there were some internal versions created with the Windows-based Game Maker, now also a playable version for the Amiga was released using Backbone (Youtube video).
The Backbone prototyope is meant to demonstrate the concept of the game to prove "that a full game using Backbone IS possible". The proper game will be written in computer code, which the Slovakian programmer Jozef Tomka will do.
The prototype is available in three different versions which differ from the size of the section of the playfield. Version A features the biggest section of the playfield but does not run smoothly on a 68030.
Download:
ChaosGunsBBDemo.lha (7 MB) (all three versions)
ChaosGunsBBDemo-A.lha (2 MB) (biggest section of the playfield
ChaosGunsBBDemo-B.lha (2 MB)
ChaosGunsBBDemo-C.lha (2 MB)
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09.May.2016
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Graphic card: Picasso II+ clone "Matzes-GraKa" available
For quite some time, Matthias "Matze" Heinrichs has been working on clone of the Picasso II+. Now in the Kryoflux store such a graphic card can be bought. Matzes-Graka has the same performance like the original card - a Cirrus GD5434 graphic chip with 2 MB RAM is also used - but is "about 25% faster than a Picasso II+ in an A2000 with A2630 accelerator board".
The card also can be used in an Amiga 500 - after soldering the expansion port connector. It has an integrated monitor switcher, which switches between Amiga and VGA signal. Matzes-GraKa consists of two parts (mainboard and slot sheet with VGA-port) which are connected with a flat ribbon cable.
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08.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 97 can be read online
After issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out, the articles of the English (title link) and German version of the magazine can be read online watching image files. You also can purchase a pdf version.
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08.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Free Pascal updated
In 2004 Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh ported the compiler Free Pascal to MorphOS and two years later for the first time adapted it to AmigaOS 4. Based on Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's version of Free Pascal for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x he has adapted the latest version for AmigaOS 4. Completed by Marcus Sackrow the compiler now is available for all platforms.
Karoly Balogh himself does not use the version for AmigaOS 4, therefore he asks all users to try it and give feedback.
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08.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 7th, 2016:
SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 8.5M MOS SQLite database manager
HTTX.lha comm/www 111K 68k HTML to formatted text conver...
NetSurf-m68k.lha comm/www 11M 68k CSS capable web browser
NitroNobel2016Src.lha demo/intro 89K OldSk00l Crackers Retro intro...
Time_Zone_BBS_Intro_3... demo/intro 116K 68k Legionay's BBSIntro3^Deceit/u...
BoingCube.lha demo/misc 2.7M OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
FredMonReplaySrc.lha dev/asm 7K 68k Example Source: Play A FredMo...
Amiga-Trademarks.pdf docs/misc 1.4M List of Amiga related trademarks
umc.lha driver/vid 36K 68k Calculates Picasso96 screen m...
WormWars.lha game/actio 791K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 684K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
robin_hood_demo.lha game/demo 64M MOS Robin Hood: The Legend of She...
RedEclipse1.5.3_Aros.lha game/shoot 110M x86 A Free, Casual Arena Shooter
cetro_del_sol.adf game/text 880K 68k Spanish text adventure
Brikabrak.lha game/wb 34K 68k Move all same type shapes tog...
opus-tools-0.19_a68k.lha mus/edit 329K 68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.19_aros.lha mus/edit 436K x86 Opus Audio Tools
abcm2ps.lha mus/misc 484K MOS Convert music tunes from ABC ...
z.lha text/edit 5.2M 68k Vi(M) like editor that works ...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 153K 68k WarpDT preferences program V45.9
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 517K WOS TIFF and BigTIFF image dataty...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 641K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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08.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 7th, 2016:
warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 517kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ...
gmap.lha emu/mis 45Mb 4.0 Amiga Player & Maldita Castilla
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
sqlman.lha off/dat 8Mb 4.0 SQLite database manager
strlen.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 Shell command to return the leng...
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 35kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
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08.May.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.05.2016
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 May 7th, 2016:
- 2016-05-04 new: Megademo (Possessed) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-05-01 updated: Hybris (Discovery Software) reverted to previous install release (Info)
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07.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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ReWarp: Reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 in progress
Under the title link Dennis van der Boon (well-known by his SonnetAmiga project) is working on a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. The goal of "ReWarp" (screenshot) is to make it possible runing WarpOS-programms under PowerPC computers which are supported by the WarpOSEmu.
A supporter of the project mentioned the PowerPC cores e500, e5500 and 4x0 - that means the processors of the AmigaOne X5000 as well as of the Sam460 and of the Tabor-board.
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[News message: 07. May. 2016, 15:33] [Comments: 0]
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07.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Vampire-600/Apollo update "SILVER5"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also features an emulteg) graphic chip named SAGA.
The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire-600 accelerator boards togehter with the included version 0.9c of the SAGA-driver allow programmable screen solutions (screenshot of the user Marios Filos with a 8-Bit solution of 1360x768 pixels).
Changelog:
- Bugfixes (SFS, HDToolBox, VBRControl etc.)
- Some Core speed-ups
- In-ROM support for big partitions (>4Gb) on internal IDE
- SD card improvements
- Programmable screen resolutions
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07.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: CD³² prototype added
Two new entries have been added to the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" concerning the Amiga CD³². Additional to the Full-Motion-Video module, which allowed the full screen mode outpit of MPEG films, under the title link you can find the "Spellbound"-prototype of this game console, which was sold by Carl Sassenrath during the AmiWest 2010.
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07.May.2016
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AMOS games: Mink Gold, preview to Total Pattern
Mink Gold is a version of Pacman (Youtube video) which was wriiten in AMOS. The same author supported by a graphic artist and a musician also has announced the Sokoban game "Total Pattern" (Youtube video) which is supposed to be released soon.
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07.May.2016
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Level editor for Turrican 2
Dennis Meuwissen has developed a level editor for the Amiga classic Turrican II. The programm runs under Windows and requires the files of the CDTV version of Turrican II. So far not all elements of a level can be changed. You can get further information in the readme. In a Youtube video, Meuwissen plays the first level of the game which was changed with his editor.
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06.May.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Free download: Dizzy Dice
The gambling game Dizzy Dice was released in 1990 and now is available for free download.
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06.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Review of tool collection "Enhancer Software"
In his blog, Epsilon introduces the software collection Enhancer Software .
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06.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpTIFF 45.9
Again after five years, Oliver Roberts has released another update of his WarpTIFF-datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which are sold as Shareware.
Changes in version 45.9:
- Can now load image files conforming to the BigTIFF specification
- Added JPEG AltiVec speed optimizations for the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS versions making decoding speed of baseline images 1.5x faster on a G4 and 1.9x faster on a PA6T, with fancy upsampling off, on average. These optimizations can be toggled off/on using the new USE_ALTIVEC setting
- JPEG Huffman decoder in PowerPC versions is now 5-10% faster
- Applications may now configure the datatype settings via a local variable, overriding any global user settings present in ENV:
- Replaced usage of old Exec and Dos AmigaOS 4 functions with the new ones
- Updated with libtiff 4.0.6, zlib 1.2.8 and jpeglib 9b
- AmigaOS 4 version and MorphOS AltiVec code recompiled with GCC 5.2.0
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
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06.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.5 68k (SDL-MUI-Version)
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his SDL and MUI based AmigaOS/68k port of the web browser NetSurf. This port of Netsurg is different to the one based on ReAction provided by Chris Young (review) which additional to the version for AmigaOS-4 is available as beta version 3.5 for AmigaOS 3.5.
The update of the SDL-version (video of NetSurf 3.4 under AmiKit X) provides a MUI-based preferences. Besides, it is now possible to use TrueType and non-TrueType fonts. The libraries and source codes correspond to the latest version. This time NetSurf was compiled with GCC 3.4 instead of 4.5 which provides a better 68k output.
Download: NetSurf-m68k.lha (11 MB)
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06.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 54 (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 on vintage computers.
The latest version among others includes articles about the games "Darius+", "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein", "Combat Lynx" and "PHM Pegasus".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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05.May.2016
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Emulation: Debian 8 for FS-UAE
If you ever have been thinking about running the latest version of the Linux distribution Debian using an Amiga emulator, you can now give it a try: Today a configuration file for the emulator FS-UAE as well as a HD-image including Debian 8 have been released.
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05.May.2016
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Sensible World of Soccer - The official world cup in Netherlands (20./21.08.)
Since 2004 all fans of the classic Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS) meet for "Sensible Days" each year, together looking back on past times and selecting the "official" SWOS world champion. According to the website "there will be two main tournaments (PC SWOS and Amiga SWOS), two side tournaments (Classic Sensi and X-Box) and hopefully a few surprises (oranges and apples anyone?).
Ifg you want to see how strong the players are, you can watch a video of the last year's PC final. The Sensible Days 2016 will take place on August 20th and 21st in Bornerbroek (Almelo), Netherlands. The maximum possible fee (entry fee, 3 overnight stays, 8 meals, unlimited snacks and beverages) would be 120 Euro, but there are different charges.
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