18.Oct.2022
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Event: Review of Amiga37
Last weekend the Amiga37 took place in Mönchengladbach. We would like to summarize here for our readers what there was to see for news, but also interesting observations at the fair:
- according to ACube and Trevor Dickinson the A1222 boards (Tabor) will be produced at the end of the year and should be available at the beginning of next year
- price will be similar to the Sam boards, so it should be around 900 Euro
- an A1222 board was shown on site, but not in operation
- ACube's laptop is supposed to be an open source laptop with a T2080 PPC CPU and upgradeable GPU, which can also run AmigaOS 4
- The MorphOS team showed a beta version of MorphOS on an A1200 and A4000 (with PPC cards)
- The Apollo team is working on baords for the A3000 and A4000
- also working on the possibility to boot (and play) from ADF
- in addition, a cable is being developed to connect a floppy drive to the V4 so that you can boot from floppy instead of ADF
- Ben Hermans was also at Amiga37 and talked to Mike Battilana, Matthew Leaman and Trevor Dickinson
- Alinea Computer presented their new Subway 2021 USB card: up to four USB interfaces are provided on the Amiga with clockport. These interfaces are compatible to USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 specification (no high-speed mode)
- a Subway Power Adapter for the old Subway was shown as a prototype, which can provide more power for USB devices like hard disks or cell phones (up to 800 mA are possible). The card also has built-in overload protection and will also be available for the Subway 2021.
- Nico Barbat and Simon Neumann introduced their new publishing company Look Behind You and presented two news:
- the card game Amiga Duel: 32 Amiga models have been lovingly illustrated and researched, printed on cards and now compete against each other by features such as year of manufacture, innovation, computing power or kickstart. The card game is available for around 13 Euros
- the book Die Geheimnisse von Monkey Island (The Secrets of Monkey Island) is a homage to the adventures of the ingenious pirate and has been published in a German first edition for about 25 Euro
- Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener showed the latest version of his soccer game in 3D look Souverän Soccer:
- in addition to bug fixes and engine tuning, features such as kicking in, fouls, free kicks, penalties and a jumping goalkeeper have been added
- Triace, member of the group Desire, has composed two great pieces of music for the game
- all this can be seen in his latest preview video, recorded live at Amiga37
Those who would like to get an impression with the help of videos:
- Video by Jörg "Torque" Klopsch and McFly
- Video by "Alles Spielkram": DAS war die AMIGA 37
- Video of the live stream from 16.10.2022
Last but not least: On the occasion of Amiga37 Amiga Kit has published a detailed second blog entry. (dr)
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18.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 2
n the first part of his developer diary Daniel Bratton reported how he started to reprogram the board of the game Powermonger with the intersecting lines (amiga-news.de reported). In the second part he now publishes the complete code for generating the map and the polygon, which is also available on GitHub. (dr)
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17.Oct.2022
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Hollywood APK Compiler 4.2 released
Press release: Hollywood APK Compiler 4.2 has just been released. This is a minor update which adds support for the latest target API requirement for uploading apps to the Google Play Store. This update is provided free of charge for all existing APK Compiler customers and can be downloaded in the restricted download section. (cg)
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17.Oct.2022
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Trading simulation with RPG elements: Aquabyss
The game 'Aquabyss', first announced in 2018 with a teaser video, was released on Amiga 37 last weekend in a pre-release version. The game is a trading simulation in the style of Elite - without 3D sequences, but with various RPG elements. The game is set in a steampunk underwater world at the beginning of the 19th century.
Aquabyss is delivered on a floppy disk, which downloads the rest of the game data from the Internet during installation. However, an Internet connection is not necessary to actually play the game, it only makes some comfort functions available, such as saving game scores to the game server. Updates can be downloaded and installed directly from the game or - if the Amiga is not connected to the net - manually. Aquabyss can be installed on any number of computers, but only one computer can connect to the server at a time.
At the Amiga 37 a floppy disk version was available for just under 37 Euros, at the same time the distribution of the digital version for 30 Euros was supposed to start - the latter, however, failed due to a server problem, which the provider wants to fix as soon as possible. Aquabyss requires 2 megabytes of chip and 8 megabytes of Fast RAM, and the computer must also be connected to the Internet during installation. Theoretically, Aquabyss is compatible with a 68000 processor, but a 68030 is recommended for smooth gaming.
What is currently being distributed is explicitly still a pre-release version of Aquabyss: Users report crashes and program errors, saving game saves did not work at first and the German translation still has various gaps. However, the game is constantly being worked on, the faulty save function was corrected during the Amiga 37, for example. Known problems are minor incompatibilities with OS 3.2.1 - which is already being worked on - or with Apollo-based turbo cards.
As for the Apollo problems, the vendor refers to the developers of this FPGA-based processor replica: The number of problems varies from one version of the Apollo core to the next, there is no possibility to intervene - the Apollo core is simply "not 100% Amiga compatible".
Editor's note: We would like to thank 'Endee' from the a1k forum for kindly allowing us to take his screenshots. (cg)
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17.Oct.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 33 of assembler coding course / Racing Cars Game Jam
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 33 was published.
Furthermore he started the Racing Cars Game Jam. As with the Retro Trex Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported), the idea behind this jam is to expand the knowledge and awareness of retro computers. This time consoles are also allowed. The challenge is to create an identical, cloned or original version of a car racing game. Some examples are listed on the website. At the end of the contest, there will be a live stream showing all the games. The contest will run until December 18, 2022. (dr)
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17.Oct.2022
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Magnifier tool: Lupe 2.1 for AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS
At the end of June Matthias "UltraGelb" Böcker released version 2.0 of his magnifier tool for MorphOS and AmigaOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2.1, which also supports AmigaOS 4. The changes:
- Added italian AmigaGuide documentation translated by Samir Hawamdeh.
- Added an TEXTFRAMETYPE option to change the type of frame that is to be drawn around the coordinates and RGB displays.
- The window can now also be moved around by using the cursor keys or the numeric key pad. The 'immovable' option has no effect on this. For details/qualifiers please see the documentation.
- 68k version now uses z.library (http://aminet.net/util/libs/zlib.lha) for PNG saving. The z.library that comes with MUI5 also works.
- Added support for application.library/ringhio on OS4 to notify the user when an image was saved.
- Added native support for OS4 intuition screen notifications when WB wants to close/reopen.
- Added native support for iconify and jump-screen gadget if OS4 is detected.
- There is now an OS4 native compile of Lupe.
- Added a 'Pause' mode that can be activated either by Project menu and its menu key, just pressing space when the Lupe window is active or by a definable hotkey (see PAUSEKEY argument/ToolType).
- The 68K version of Lupe now checks for zlib.library at program start and if there isn't it will disable the 'Save PNG' menu item.
- There is now a bonus drawer which at the moment only contains an alternative glow icon by Luca (thanks for the icon :-))
- Double-clicking the Lupe window while holding the SHIFT key will move the Lupe window to the back now if it's not set as a frontdrop window. Useful when set to borderless.
- Double-clicking the Lupe window will bring it to font now if it is not set as a backdrop window.
- Added glow icons done by Mikhail Malyshev which will be used from now on for the 68K version of Lupe.
- Added HORIZSLIDER option to have the zoom-slider in the bottom border of the window instead of the right border.
- FRONTDROP option is now simulated on classic AmigaOS and does a timed WindowToFront() every now and then.
- Added BACKDROP and FRONTDROP options to have the window either always stay in the background or in the foreground respectively.
- Added WINDOWBORDER option.
- Added padding for RGB and and coordinates texts between frame and text. Use XTEXTPADDING and YTEXTPADDING to change the padding horizontally and vertically respectively.
- Added 'Open Icon-Info' menu item to the 'Settings' menu to open the icon info window on the workbench of Lupe's icon. This mostly makes sense with the ICONNOTIFY option to have another way to edit all options without the need to restart Lupe.
- Reworked the menu structure. Instead of having just the 'Project' menu, screen related items are now in the new 'Screen' menu. Settings related items were moved to a 'Settings' menu.
- Improved scaling/blitting so that there are no small black borders anymore on the right and bottom sides.
- Lupe will now try to use the systems default font (gfxbase.defaultfont) before using topaz.font as a final fallback.
- You can now specify your own font Lupe will use to display Coordinates and RGB using the UserFont argument.
- Fixed broken error handling for the PNG saver in the Amiga68k version.
- Coordinates and the RGB pixel value are no longer drawn in the window border but instead are drawn in the window itself now.
- Added russian catalogs by Mikhail Malyshev.
- Added italian catalogs by Samir Hawamdeh and Luca Longone.
- Added visual prefs Iconify gadget support, so Lupe now also sports an iconify gadget on OS3.x if visual prefs is running or the standalone 'tbiclass' (aminet/dev/gui/titlebar_ic.lha) is installed.
- Mouse wheel zoom can now be inverted by tooltype or CLI argument INVERTWHEEL.
- Lupe will now open its AppIcon at 0,0 when iconified.
- Added some missing localisations in the about requester.
- Lupe now displays its name and version in the screen title when the window is active.
- Fixed an enforcer hit when parsing CLI arguments that are defined as /K/S.
(dr)
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16.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to Aminet:
HWP_AVCodec.lha dev/hwood 5.9M ALL Hollywood plugin for FFmpeg c...
WhatIFF1.07.lha mags/misc 48K What IFF? #1.07-October-2022
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 328K 68k JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.17
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 160K 68k PNG image datatype V45.26
WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 298K 68k WebP image datatype V45.3
AmiSSL-5.4-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.4-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.4-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 2.4M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
UHCGUI-Current.lha util/wb 58K 68k GUI frontend for the UHC-Tool...
(snx)
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16.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
warpjpegdt.lha dat/ima 328kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.17
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 160kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.26
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 298kb 4.0 WebP image datatype V45.3
ced_pro.lha dev/ide 1Mb 4.0 Professional IDE for AmigaOS
ced_pro_demo.lha dev/ide 528kb 4.0 Professional IDE for AmigaOS
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
hwp_avcodec.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for AVCodec
hwp_rapagui.lha lib/hol 7Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
(snx)
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16.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
hwp_avcodec.lha dev/lib 6Mb Library Plugin For Hollywood App...
whatiff1.07.lha doc/mis 48kb Magazine in AmigaGuide
snakeme.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb Snake game with many options.
blobwars-1.19-i386-aros.zip gam/pla 65Mb Platform shooter. Rescue blobs. ...
kens_icons_v2.lha gra/ico 3Mb Glow Icons Style By Ken Lester
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16.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
IMP_3.382.lha Audio/Players Play modules from inter...
DAPlayer_1.14.lha Audio/Players Digital audio player mp...
HWP_AVCodec_1.5.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for FF...
MCE_14.02.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Lupe_2.1.lha System/Ambient/Utilities The magnifying glass pr...
LiteXL_2.1.0r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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16.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.10.2022
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 15.10.2022:
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16.Oct.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.8.6
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based ham_convert converts modern graphics files into the Amiga's HAM format. Meanwhile version 1.8.6 has been released, featuring improved multithreading that should work better with big.little configurations. (snx)
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15.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.2
At the beginning of October Richard Körber published version 40.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). He has just updated to version 40.2 with the following changes:
- Added more boards
- Added French translation
- Reduced file size of library and tools by using short relocation tables
- Alert strings can now be up to 100 bytes long. The previous limit of 50 bytes was too short for some detailed strings. IdAlert() still uses a default limit of 50 characters, to maintain compatibility. Use the IDTAG_StrLength tag to extend the strings to full 100 bytes. Identify's own Guru tool uses the new limit already
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (98 kB) (dr)
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15.Oct.2022
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Obligement: Review of game "Wrong Way Driver"
The Obligement news site published a review of the arcade game Wrong Way Driver, which was released in 2021. The original is in French, but machine translations are provided. (dr)
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15.Oct.2022
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Scorpion Engine: Introduction of the new positioning feature
In a recent video, Erik Hogan, developer of the Scorpion Engine, introduces a new, innovative feature of the Scorpion Engine that allows exact X/Y positioning of actors in the map as well as overriding actor variables, events and control ports.
The feature will be included in the upcoming stable version 2022.8 and is already available in the experimental branch of the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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14.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 1
Developer Daniel Bratton had been "fascinated with what appeared to be a living breathing world – and that world looked like a gaming tabletop", ever since the game Powermonger came out in 1990. Since then, he said, he's always wondered how that was programmed. That eventually motivated him to learn how to program the Amiga so he could recreate it.
In the first part of his developer diary, Daniel Bratton now reports on how he reprogrammed the game board with the intersecting lines - with the help of the Visual Studio Code Extension, which he will discuss in more detail in later entries. (dr)
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13.Oct.2022
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ACube Systems: Delivery of Sam460LE boards in November
Press release: We would like to thank all our customers for their support and patience.
Despite all our efforts to deliver the new Sam460LE by the end of September, we suffered some delay in the production and, unfortunately, the boards are still not ready for delivery.
Unfortunately, we had to make a last-minute change of some components (connectors) that are no more available and this has delayed (again) the production as we had to test the pre-production boards one more time.
After this last-minute modification, pre-production boards passed every test and are ready to go. We are expecting to be able to ship all the boards to our customers in November.
At Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach we will show the pre-production boards on which are based the final boards we will send to customers. We will update our customer as soon as we have news. See you in Mönchengladbach! (dr)
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13.Oct.2022
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Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.0
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.0 of the web browser Artic Fox for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. Mainly, the browser is meant for older resp. slow systems (e.g. G3 with Ubuntu 10.04) because it is using an older version of the Goanna engine which has a good performance on slower systems. As a result, certain pages like GitHub cannot be fully displayed.
Download: arcticfox-40.0.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (40 MB) (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.0
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.1.0 of the firmware was released. Changes:
- Removed Apple quirks from defaulting to right-aligned strings
- Akai S1000/3000 read delay in SCSI-1 mode
- Limit drive capacity to actual file size
- Initiator compatibility fixes (RP2040 specific)
(dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris V0.50
A month ago, Sami Vehmaa released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas equipped with graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported). This update to version 0.50 adds an easy and a hard mode, each of both with highscore. Additionally, the game now can be completely controlled with the keyboard. (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 7 of 'WhatIFF?' released
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).
Now issue 7 is available providing these topics among others:
Reviews:
- Classic Amiga Programming Book
- FastATA 4000 MK-VII
- AmiKit 8MB Expansion
- AGAClouds
- AmyTree 2022
Tutorials:
- Installing AmigaOS3.2 on AmigaOS4.1 via E-UAE
- Lightwave 101 - Editing MOD config file
- Brilliance 101 - Morphing
- Bringing IFFs over to PC/Mac
Interviews:
- AmigaLove.com - Eric Hill
- Last year`s Amiga Art Contest Winner - Hernain
(dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.4 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.4 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6, which was also released yesterday. The changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6 (11.10.2022) version, which brings security and other bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 11.10.2022.
- Added a proper Amiga-specific ossl_sleep() function, replacing the default fallback busy wait function.
- Consolidated all routines that individually open timer.device to instead use a single unified thread-safe solution.
- File locks on the OS4 libraries are released during initialisation and no longer held until reboot or expunged from memory.
- Handle setting of Roadshow TCP/IP stack type on OS3.
- Removed unnecessary multiple openings of dos.library, some of which were mistakenly never closed.
- Reworked SDK macros for split API functions to better handle when __USE_INLINE__ is not defined.
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.4-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.4-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.4-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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DIY: Remake of audio digitiser AP420
The AP420, released by Phoenix Microtechnologies in 1991, is an audio digitiser that can take a microphone or line-level input and is connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. 'wiretap-retro' has posted an updated schematic on GitHub that matches the one in the official PDF manual, with the addition of a second RCA jack so you can connect stereo audio. Likewise, he has upgraded the microphone jack, which now features a 3.5mm TRS jack. The selector switch on the board can be used to switch between the RCA input and the microphone input. (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Commercial puzzle game: Connect
In the puzzle game "Connect", you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. The game offers over 4 billion possible board variations and can be played alone, in cooperation or against each other.
A physical version of Connect can be purchased exclusively next weekend at the "Amiga 37" in Mönchengladbach. From next week, a digital version can then also be obtained from the developer's itch.io site. (cg)
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