26.May.2023
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Strategy game: Devlog #1 - Target platforms, supported languages
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published first information and a first interim status on the development of the game:
"Basically we are working on a version that should be playable on the Amiga38. This means that the player should be able to create a character and execute a hack. That is the minimum goal that should be achieved by then.
As target platform we aim at an Amiga 500 with 1MB memory. At the same time, the game will be developed absolutely system compliant, which will allow us to access an optional network stack. Yes, you will be able to play the game alone without any restrictions in the story. Nevertheless, we already have some cool multiplayer features on the list. More information will follow in the coming weeks once we have completed initial testing.
We are aware that not everyone understands English or that for quite a few the English vocabulary is limited. That's not a shame, Frank's English vocabulary is not the best either. Especially in terms of understanding the story present in the game, this can be problematic. At this point we can give the all-clear:
The game will support English and German at release. New languages will be included by adding translated language text files. We, that is LogicalByte, do NOT have to change anything in the game files themselves. It's up to the community to do this on their own to support people who don't know English and German very well. We are currently doing final tests and will publish a guide (and suitable tools) in due time.
We know from inquiries that you are greedy for new image material. We would like to fulfill this wish and will publish new pictures time to time in the coming weeks. Please understand that we need longer for some things. :)" (dr)
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26.May.2023
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AMOS: Eclips animation in "Projects in the attic" added
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Included was the game "Eclips", in which you steer an owl through a landscape that is always the same. The group added the archive "EclipsAnim.rar" to this game, which now offers a complete animation in the sense of changing landscapes. Impressive! (dr)
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26.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: Level Up in Salzburg (Austria) with participation of Amiga Future
On July 1 and 2, 2023, the event "Level Up", a "Gaming and eSports festival", will take place for the third time at the Messezentrum Salzburg in Austria. In the retro area, the print-magazine Amiga Future will also take part with some computers. (snx)
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26.May.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 146 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about WAR (AMOS Strategy-War Game from 1992), Boxx 4 (2023 Game) and Death Rally (2023 PC conversion). (snx)
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26.May.2023
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Music video: Controlling an Akai MPC ONE with Horny (MorphOS)
In a recent video, 'Dj Collins' shows how he controls his Akai MPC ONE using Horny from the Pegasos II under MorphOS. The Akai audio output is recorded from an Amiga 4000 with a Toccata sound card and the file is transferred via the network to HD-REC for mastering. (dr)
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26.May.2023
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Video-Tutorial: Converting iff files into sprites in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains how to convert IFF image files into sprites for an AMOS program. (dr)
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26.May.2023
nivrig (Twitter)
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Video: Polyphonic sounds and music on the Amiga
The YouTube channel "Magical Synth Adventure" shows in its latest video with the range of audio possibilities on the Amiga, with which, for example, real-time speech synthesis and simultaneous midi and audio output are possible. (dr)
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25.May.2023
A1k-Forum
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Compiler: Status of M68k support in LLVM
At the beginning of 2021, the first implementation of an m68k backend for the compiler LLVM had begun thanks to donation funding (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Min-Yih "Min" Hsu reports in a blog entry about the progress of the past year. (dr)
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25.May.2023
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3. It can load Amiga Hunk-Executables, Kickstart ROMs and WinUAE State File (.uss). (dr)
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25.May.2023
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SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.6 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 53.6:
- read_startup_args() now uses AllocDosObject() to create the RDArgs for
ReadArgs() instead of allocating it locally on the stack. Strangely this bug
didn't seem to cause any problems on AmigaOS 4 but on AmigaOS 3 it caused an
AN_BadFreeAddr (#0100000F) alert on filesystem exit (ACTION_DIE).
Requirements: newlib.library V53.40 or later (or V53.30 as included in AmigaOS 4.1 FE) and the filesysbox.library V54.4 or later for AmigaOS 4, filesysbox.library 54.3 or later for AROS and AmigaOS 3 and optional the requester.class (ClassAct/ReAction, for password requester) for AmigaOS 3.
Downloads:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha (81 KB)
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha (149 KB)
smb2fs.ppc-amigaos.lha (128 KB)
(dr)
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25.May.2023
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Video tutorial: MUI-GUI in Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed a two-part tutorial on Twitch (part 1, part 2) showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic. (dr)
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25.May.2023
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Blog: RAM configurations on an Amiga 500 (Rev 8A)
In the latest blog entry on Retrohax.net, various RAM configurations on Amiga 500 8A motherboard are tested and documented. The 8A motherboards are the latest ones, using the 8375-AGNUS and supporting up to 2MB Chip RAM. Rev.8 was used in the A500plus and the standard A500, but with unpopulated RTC, battery, etc. (dr)
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25.May.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.05.24
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.05.24:
- BIN/CUE format support and more complete CD-ROM emulation
- CD-ROM: code consolidation and bugfixes
- CDROM: Table of contents and addressing improvements
- Rudimentary tape support (BETA feature)
- More tape command implementations: Erase, Seek and ReadPosition
- Improved OMTI support
- RP2040: Fix support for 2GB SD cards
- RP2040: Fix USB log corruption
The following features can not be used without additional hardware, which is not yet commercially available:
- EXPERIMENTAL SP/DIF output on expansion pins of RP2040 boards
- EXPERIMENTAL audio playback support from BIN/CUE files
(dr)
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24.May.2023
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Event: Evoke demoparty in Cologne, Germany (28.-30.07.2023)
This year's edition of the Evoke demoparty will take place at the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne (Germany) from 28 to 30 July. The homepage has now been activated and it is possible for demo groups to register. As usual, various competitions will be held. (dr)
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24.May.2023
Mastodon
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Preview video: Rastan port in development
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now a port for the Amiga 500 is in development, using the Scorpion engine. (dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2023, 05:59] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2023
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio: Prelude Software Bundle 4.0
Thomas Wenzel writes: "This is a fork of the last release by me before Oliver Gantert took over to improve and refactor it and to include support for his new Prelude ZII+ soundcard.
I have tried to fix all the bugs which Oliver also fixed in his branch. Along the way I took the opportunity to implement a watchdog which can resume a broken and stalled data transfer on its own. This can happen during some ZZ9000 graphics operations for example. The watchdog can't prevent the sound from being interrupted for a short time but after that it will resume automatically instead of just hang.
I have set the version number back to 4 to reflect the AHI v4 support and to clearly separate it from Oliver's branch.
So if you experience unexpected hangups during playback, or if you are just adventurous, this is the version to try. :)
If you are using an Amiblaster Deluxe soundcard, this version is also the one to choose."
Download: PreludeSoftwareBundleV4.lha (116 KB) (snx)
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23.May.2023
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Video: Amos Anim Player
A few days ago we reported about the new "Amos Anim Player" released by "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP". The group now have published a YouTube video which demonstrates the features of the player. (dr)
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23.May.2023
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Video: Graphic timeline of homecomputer
In its latest video, the YouTube channel "Retro Dream" shows the development of home computers from 1977 to 1992 as a graphic timeline that also includes the various Amiga models. (dr)
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22.May.2023
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.34
Thomas Wenzel has released an update of his audio playback program AmigaAMP at the title link. Version 3.34 includes the following bugfixes:
- MHI is only released when it has to be. Volume settings are now restored correctly when reassigned
- Stuttering of visualization with 48 kHz MP3 files via mpega.library fixed
- Minimum intuition.library version for OS4-style IDCMP port sharing set to 52 to avoid collisions with VampireOS
- Fixed ScanTask crash when playlist window is closed
(snx)
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22.May.2023
Michael Kafke (MEDIA-X) (ANF)
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Graphic adventure about computer game magazine "ASM" announced (German)
A text-graphic adventure for the Commodore Amiga will soon be released about the German computer games magazine "ASM - Aktueller Software Markt" (1986 - 1995). The player slips into the role of editor-in-chief Manfred Kleimann and experiences the everyday madness in the editorial office.
The game was essentially created in the 90s and has now been reworked and finished in cooperation with some former ASM colleagues. Details such as screenshots are being withheld by the distributor, APC&TCP, for the time being, the official presentation is planned for an upcoming ASM special.
Therefore one can only register for a newsletter at the title link so far. However, Michael Kafke had already shown the game at ARC 2023 in Duisburg, so it can already be seen on some videos recorded by visitors. It will also be demonstrated at Amiga38 in October. (snx)
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22.May.2023
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Juggler Encore: Real-time hologram of the 1986 ray-traced animation
Milan Pollé, the author of the graphics software "Candy Factory (Pro)" (interview from 2002, Aminet demo version), won first place in the "Wild Competition" category at the Outline Demoparty held last weekend in the Netherlands with his real-time hologram imitation of the Juggler raytracing animation from 1986. In the linked video, he explains his procedure and presents the result. (dr)
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22.May.2023
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Preview video: Forest of Illusion
The programmer 'DomKid' has published a first preview video of his platformer "Forest of Illusion" developed with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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21.May.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywod: Updates for 6 Plugins
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present updates for the following Hollywood image and animation plugins:
- APNG 1.2 (load and save APNG animations)
- FLIC 1.2 (load FLI/FLC animations)
- JPEG2000 1.2 (load and save JPEG2000 images)
- PCX 1.2 (load PCX images)
- TIFF 1.2 (load and save TIFF images)
- YAFA 1.2 (load YAFA animations created by Wildfire)
The plugins now support several new features of Hollywood 9 and 10 such as loading and saving images and animations in palette mode, file system adapter support, user tags, and support for the arm64 platform on macOS (Apple Silicon).
All plugins are now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal under the title link. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k), AmigaOS3 FPU (m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS (m68k/ppc), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64, arm64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided. (snx)
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21.May.2023
Twitter
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Datatype: WarpDTPrefs 45.12
Oliver Roberts has updated the preferences program WarpDTPrefs for his Warp datatypes. Changes:
- Fixed the default background checkboxes being disabled incorrectly due to the re-ordered alpha channel mode lists in the previous release.
- Increased minimum stack size to 16K, for safety.
- OS3 and MorphOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9h.
- OS4 version recompiled with GCC 11.2.0.
(dr)
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21.May.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: Hotfix for tech demo "Space Cavern Blaster" V0.13
In version 0.13 of the cross-system platformer "Space Cavern Blaster" (amiga-news.de reported), which was released a few days ago, the developer made a mistake when implementing a new feature that made it impossible to use moving platforms because the player always slid through them. This bug has been fixed with the present hotfix. (dr)
[News message: 21. May. 2023, 14:21] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2023
itch.io
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Music: Soundtrack of Boxx 4 available
For the Jump'n Run "Boxx 4" (amiga-news.de reported), the developer has released the soundtrack on Bandcamp. (dr)
[News message: 21. May. 2023, 14:15] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2023
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Aminet uploads until 20.05.2023
The following files have been added until 20.05.2023 to Aminet:
neatmail.lha comm/mail 70K MOS Neat mail client
PureBasicItaCat.lha dev/basic 19K Italian catalog for PureBasic...
oscar64.lha dev/cross 1.4M MOS C Compiler Assembler and Runt...
cdp505.lzh disk/misc 96K 68k Upgrades CrossDOS Plus 5.0x t...
TSGuiItaCat.lha disk/misc 24K Italian catalog for TSGui v2....
DSKSL142.lzh disk/salv 34K 68k DiskSalv 1.42 for AmigaOS 1.3
Programming_Docs.zip docs/lists 3K Programming Manual URLs Listing.
anaiis.lha driver/oth 248K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.23
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 262K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
GvpPatch_17.lha driver/oth 5K 68k improve reliability of serial...
RescueLander.lha game/actio 48K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ball.lzh game/misc 135K 68k Precursor to MegaBall
Gotcha199.lha game/think 80K 68k Pair two numbers to get the 1...
ham_convert.zip gfx/conv 5.2M HAM graphic converter
mednafen.lha misc/emu 12M OS4 Mednafen
MoonlightWaltz.lha mods/8voic 4.9M 16bit 6ch Ballroom Waltz by H...
2D_ATcad_AIAB.jpg pix/misc 1.2M ATcad Workbench
2D_ATcad_HELP.jpg pix/misc 760K ATcad Screenshot
Acadia5.jpg pix/views 255K Picture of Acadia National Pa...
Vim_9.0-i386-aros.lha text/edit 14M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_9.0-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 15M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_9.0-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 15M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
LHa_4U4A-i386-aros.lha util/arc 64K x86 LHa for UNIX for AROS
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 5.1M MOS create lha archives intuitively
lhasa.lha util/arc 4.1M MOS Free Software LHA implementation
iGame.lha util/misc 427K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 11M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 120K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-amiga... util/sys 208K OS4 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 159K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
getwbinfo.lha util/wb 5K 68k Display/save to env WB screen...
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21.May.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.05.2023
The following files have been added until 20.05.2023 to OS4Depot:
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
merlin_browser.zip net/bro 3Mb 4.0 A simple web browser
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
igame.lha uti/mis 427kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
installerlg.lha uti/mis 208kb 4.0 Commodore Installer replacement
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 15Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
mickjt-mplayerrx.lha vid/pla 27Mb 4.1 MickJT-MPlayer for RadeonRX
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21.May.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.05.2023
The following files have been added until 20.05.2023 to AROS Archives:
vim_9.0-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 14Mb The ubiquitous text editor
installerlg.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 120kb Commodore Installer replacement
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21.May.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.05.2023
The following files have been added until 20.05.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
hURL_2.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... A plugin for Hollywood ...
HollywoodSDK_10.0.lha Development/Hollywood Plugin development kit ...
HollywoodCubicIDE_10.0... Development/Hollywood Hollywood add-on for Cu...
Iris_1.15.lha Email Iris, the MorphOS email...
LHArchiver_1.10.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
dRally.lha Games/Race Open Source Engine / De...
fheroes2_1.0.4.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Wayfarer_5.3.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
WarpPNG_45.27.lha System/Datatypes PNG image datatype V45.22
ADiffView_2.4.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
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21.May.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.05.2023
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 20.05.2023:
- 2023-05-16 improved: Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Origin Systems) DMA wait in replayer fixed (Info)
- 2023-05-16 improved: Wizkid (Sensible Software) Wizardoids mini game works now, more disk accesses removed and Bplcon0 color bit fixed added, access fault fixed, Wizardoids game can be run with CUSTOM2 (Info)
- 2023-05-14 improved: Big Time Sensuality (Axis) fixed/final version of the demo is now supported, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2023-05-14 improved: Wembley International Soccer (Audiogenic) ButtonWait support for title picture (Info)
(snx)
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21.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Subscription campaign ended - More pages starting with issue 163
In April, the print magazine "Amiga Future" advertised for additional subscribers to increase the number of pages of the magazine: With 24 new subscribers to the magazine, the number of pages should have been increased by four, with 48 by eight pages.
However, the target was not met. Nevertheless, the number of pages in the magazine will be increased by four to 56 starting with issue 163 - the difference in costs will be borne by APC&TCP as the publisher. (snx)
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21.May.2023
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Apollo team: Comparision of Vampire accelerator boards
Under the title link, the Apollo team has created an overview (PDF file) that compares the features of the different Vampire models. (dr)
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20.May.2023
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Video tutorial: Programming assistance for AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains in the current video his programming assistance which he wrote for AMOS and which can be downloaded from his homepage. It helps to find out the screen co-ordinates, hardware co-ordinates, available colours, and colour hex values. (dr)
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20.May.2023
Michael Bosshard (Twitter)
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Minimig: Source codes and gerber files published
Developer Ranko Rodic has made available the source codes and production files for the various revisions of the Minimig parallel to the release of revision 1.97itx (amiga-news.de reported). The production files contain the necessary schematics, PCB layouts and other resources that are needed to build the Minimig board and that also allow modifications and extensions. (dr)
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