13.Apr.2022
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Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported).
In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a special 'PRESS PLAY ON TAPE' variant: a special version whose soundtrack is the rockin' tongue-in-cheek song "Man with the Gun" by the Commodore 64 revival band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. (dr)
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13.Apr.2022
OSnews
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Raspberry Pi: Development status of free firmware
'Raspberry Pi' computers require partially closed source software to boot - the so-called raspi-firmware package. But since its release 10 years ago, there have been efforts to make it bootable with open source software only. In a recent blog entry Gunnar Wolf describes how free firmware for the Raspberry is progressing. (dr)
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13.Apr.2022
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as well as the articles 'What is Amiga in 2022? Part 1' and 'A500 CPU replacement'.
The magazine is available in a printed edition inclusive Commodore 64/128 Coverdisk for 9,67 Euro (plus 5 Euro shipping), the price for the digital edition is 2,15 Euro. (dr)
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12.Apr.2022
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Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("Not only marvelous Atari machinery"), an annual gathering of enthusiasts of the home computer era, which took place last weekend.
Even though there was no entry for Amiga-Basic this year, we don't want to withhold the first place winners in the individual categories from our interested readers and present them:
(dr)
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12.Apr.2022
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Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a thread on ppa.pl (machine translation).
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11.Apr.2022
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics:
- Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, The Lone Ranger, Silverman y la Isla Esmeralda, Drag’n’drop Deluxe
- Parliamo con RetroGames Ltd a proposito di THEA500 Mini
- From Vultures to Vampires primo volume – edizione italiana
- Ian Hetherington (Psygnosis) e John Madden
- AmigaOS 4.1 su PegasosII
- Blender – transizioni audio e sottotitoli
- Interviste con: Mevlut Dinc (Vivid Image), Colin Vella
- E inoltre: Games news, Tech news, Scena demo, Nuovi Talenti, La Posta dei Lettori
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11.Apr.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Scandoubler announcement: 'Medusa' converts video signals to VGA/DVI
The scandoubler Medusa accepts a composite, S-Video or RGB signal and converts it into proper VGA output, which is also converted into a digital signal available via a DVI-I connector. There is also an option to digitize an analog audio signal, combine it with the DVI output using an appropriate adapter and output the audio/video combination via HDMI.
Medusa is said to be much cheaper than the no longer manufactured 'FrameMeister' used to be, plus it accepts resolutions bigger than traditional PAL/NTSC - like the ones used by the Atari ST. In contrast to the Open Source Scan Converter, it supports composite and S-Video signals and is claimed to be easier to configure. The new scandoubler is supposed to be available for purchase starting in May, some dealers already accept preorders (RetroLemon,
lotharek.pl). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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11.Apr.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: DrawBridge for MiSTer in development
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppy disks with a standard PC disk drive connected. After successfully implementing this project, the developer explores in his latest video the possibilities of transferring this to the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer as well. (dr)
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11.Apr.2022
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.8 with WHDLoad support
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
The new version 0.9.8 mainly offers some improvements when creating the build: now it is possible to generate automatically a WHDload package which could make distribution easier and also allows the game running on the new THEA500 Mini (see YouTube video). Also, you can choose to compress the game assets, making the build smaller, more suitable when distributing it via floppy. Besides that some minor improvements and a lot of fixes are included. Full Changelog:
- WHDLoad support when exporting the game, creating a lha package (LHA and WHDLoad required in C:)
- Check instructions in the readme file to run games on The A500 Mini
- All image and audio assets can now be compressed when exporting the game (Build button)
- New action trigger Orbitate Parent to have and object orbitate another one
- Spritesheets and tilesets can be deleted if no longer used
- Improved IFF ILBM compatibility for compressed graphics
- A bit of rollback to some chip memory optimizations to make the games more stable
- In level edit screen scrolls will scroll twice as fast for faster navigation
- All exe's are now compiled using latest Amiblitz3.9
- HUD texts are using color 1 by default to avoid using the same default background colors
- In tileset screen when the tile image file is not valid it will be shown in red
- Fix in Autoslice
- Fix for projects not using any tileSet
- Fix for some random crashes
(dr)
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11.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to Aminet:
Ghetto_Crew.lha demo/ecs 331K 68k Ocean Floor demo for GERP2022...
void-dreams37.zip demo/misc 537K 68k Demopack - April 2022
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7K 2022 Carset for F1GP
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
CitadelRemonstered.lha game/shoot 3.9M 68k Citadel Remonstered
Gotcha199.lha game/think 78K 68k Pair two numbers to get the 1...
Oz_Game.lha game/think 27K 68k Logic game based on David Par...
WhatIFF1.04.lha mags/misc 674K What IFF? #1.04-March-2022
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
pccard.lha util/libs 56K 68k Library to parse PCMCIA infor...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 122K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 483K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
Anno.lha util/time 327K 68k Reminder and calendar utility
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11.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
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11.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb Point and click adventure game
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11.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
MirrorCopy_2.5.lha Files/Tools A clone of MirrorCopy b...
Symmetrix_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Screen Blanker for MorphOS
Uptime_1.5a.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Uptime in scree...
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11.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.04.2022
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 09.04.2022:
- 2022-04-09 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-09 improved: Legend of the Lost (Impressions) keyboard problems on 68000 machines fixed, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-08 improved: Dan Dare 3 (Speed Buggy) keyboard problems on 68000 machines fixed, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-07 improved: Data Storm (Visionary Design) added joypad controls & trainer, fixed keyboard, 68000 quitkey, added manual (Info)
- 2022-04-06 improved: Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep (Interplay) AGA flag removed, use less memory, trainers and solution added, install script updated (Info)
- 2022-04-05 improved: Operation Harrier (U.S.Gold) CD32 joypad support added, byte write to volume register fixed, default quitkey changed to Del, interrupts fixed (Info)
- 2022-04-04 improved: Last Ninja 3 (System 3) level code can be entered with CD32 joypad buttons (REVERSE/FORWARD), latest joypad reading code used (Info)
- 2022-04-04 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) fixed spurious delay/button click, restart now works (Info)
- 2022-04-04 new: Green Beret (Dante Retro Dev) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2022-04-04 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) support for 512k chip, sound fixed (Info)
- 2022-04-03 improved: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) 68000/NoVBRMove quitkey support (Info)
- 2022-04-03 updated: Ninja Remix (System 3) patch redone, trainer options added, CD32 joypad support, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
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10.Apr.2022
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Prototype: A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga or PC
An Amiga fan from England is working on a metall case inspired by the PET/CBM series from Commodore. Thanks to different backplates, the "A-Pet" will be able to house a generic PC motherboard or various Amiga models. While the proportions will be similar, the case is not an exact match of the original PET cases: It's not using a 9 or 12 inch monitor but offers a 14 or 17 inch display. And regular Amiga keyboards would be too wide for a standard PET case anyway.
Currently, the designer is working on a first prototype, he's reporting his progress in an Amiga forum regularly. The project's current state is also illustrated in a Video.
The A-Pet is laser cut from metal sheets which are then folded like a sheet of construction paper. The designer plans to sell finished, powder coated cases to end users. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Apr.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 4 of 'WhatIFF?' published
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.
As Timo Paul, the creator of the magazine, told us, his original motivation for the magazine was to create something similar to Amiga World, Amazing Amiga and Amiga Report: "There is a lot of software that people want to use but the guides are not there and WhatIFF? offers a helping hand to those who want to use creative software such as Lightwave and Brilliance. As the magazine grows with writers I hope to offer more guides on other software. In addition each issue offers tutorials on how to fix your Amiga, update, or use in unique ways."
Topics of issue 4:
- Reviews: AmiGemini, AmiKit Pi, USB mouse adapters, firmware update of TerribleFire 1260 accelerator board
- Guides: Second part of Lightwave 3.5 tutorial, tutorial for Brilliance, tutorial for OctaMED, fixing an Invidision AGAMk2cr, creating a Gemini Capsule
- Interview: Chris Edwards (PiMiga)
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09.Apr.2022
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.2
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-news.de reported).
In version 0.2 the checking of DOSDISK and the determination of the name of the floppy disk is improved. In addition, minor bugs have been fixed and BAMcopy now works.
Download: gcopy.zip (30 MB) (dr)
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09.Apr.2022
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.0 Beta 2
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS, vAmiga. Parallel to the current update of the Amiga emulator, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application with the latest vAmigaCore and fixed a few minor bugs. (dr)
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09.Apr.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 3 (update)
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the second beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a graphics bug caused by returning an erroneous value from DENISEID
- Several smaller GUI tweaks
- Enhancements:
- Added support for the debug board implemented by @mras0
- Improved HDF geometry prediction
- A new write-through mode makes hard drives persistent
- Added several new debugging features:
- Catchpoints (stops emulation on CPU exceptions)
- Software traps
- Copper breakpoints and Copper watchpoints
- Rudimentary callstack recording
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.
Update: (11.04.2022, 06:28, dr)
Meanwhile beta version 3 was released.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash during startup on some machines
- Drag and drop was broken for drives other than Df0 and Hd0
- Enhancements:
- Hard drive controller is now compatible with Kickstart 1.2
- Status bar icon reports the initialisation state of the HD controller
- New app icon
(dr)
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08.Apr.2022
Void
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Demopack: Issue 37 of 'Dreams' released
Void is an Amiga demo group that has been active since 1995. Its members come from different parts of the world: United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland, United States, Greece, Switzerland and South Africa. Yesterday they released the 37th issue of their demo pack Dreams for AGA-Amigas. (dr)
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08.Apr.2022
Indiegogo
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Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The AGA Years' near completion
About a year ago, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years', was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. The second part, 'Demoscene - The AGA Years', which is dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996, has also been crowdfunded. In an update published yesterday, the publishers announced that after some delay not only the content of the book has been written, but also the work on the layout and design of the 468 pages has been completed. Now the proofreading is still pending.
Those who did not participate in the crowdfunding can pre-order the book from the French publisher for 35 Euros. (dr)
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08.Apr.2022
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Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #19, last issue for now
After a 12-year break, the 18th issue of the English-language diskmag 'Jurassic Pack', first published in 1995, was released in January 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Editor Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj has now published the 19th issue and announces in the editorial that this might be the last one for good.
They would have spent more time chasing people and their promises in the last few weeks than getting creative themselves. This included two intros, several interviews, promised support in the form of articles and much more. And if there is no response even to multiple requests, he can only understand that as disinterest. He laments not only the waste of time, but also the demoralizing effect.
In addition, the three-person editorial team would crumble apart peu ā peu. Likewise, he would not have expected the ever dwindling interest in Diskmags at the time of the relaunch. The fact is, however, that in contrast to 20 years ago, many people nowadays get their information from forums or podcasts. That's why they're now taking a break and we'll see if the joy and desire returns. The content of the 19th issue:
- three background songs
- Report on 'Deadline 2021 Party'
- Report on 'Polish Summer 2021 Party'
- Interview with the organizer of 'The Party'
- Introduction of musicdisk Cheesy Listening
- Interview with Jochen 'Virgill' Feldkötter (Amiga musician, programmer of scene intros for Windows, developer of demo tools like 'AmigaKlang'
- Interview with group 'Abyss' (demos, demo tools, games, e.g. Wong Way Driver)
- Interview with demo groups 'The Union' and 'Overlanders', creators of the demo 'FirST Love' (AtariST)
- Article on "Proper productions releases management"
- Interview with programmer 'Sim' about the Amiga demo 'Voyage', created by 'Razor 1911'
- Introduction of eleven everlasting music productions
- Report on the local demo scene in south Denmark
- Interview with the demo musician Peter 'Mr. Pet' Cukierski
- Interview with the British Amiga programmer 'Galahad' (Fairlight, Scoopex)
- Interview with Fredrik 'Gnilk' Kling, member of the demo group 'Noice'
- Article: "Why diskmags have totally gone out of fashion"
- Article: "Groups are redunant anno domini 2022"
- Artikel: "Are really all maineditors loudmouths?"
- Article: "This is why Sceners keep the Scene spirit alive"
- Article: "How the upgrading madness (nearly) killed the Scene"
- Article: "'Sofasceners'- Scening from home"
- Prologue
(dr)
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07.Apr.2022
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately after it was founded - whose shares were already available on the stock exchange for a few hundredths of a cent at that time.
Although there was initially talk of hundreds of Amiga titles that were to be brought to various mobile platforms - the range of around a dozen titles and the Blackberry as the only supported platform never changed. Almost two years later, the offer had to be completely discontinued as the license received from the new owner of the Amiga rights expired at the end of March 2015.
AGI's official website has never featured much more than an animated boingball in all these years (Web Archive), but at the end of March, amigagamesinc.com was completely overhauled: There is talk of a "relaunch", the "resurrection of old games" and the "ultimate mobile platform for playing your favorite retro games". Interested parties can invest in this project in advance in order to have a "say" in the development of the platform and the selection of titles.
This investment is made by purchasing so-called NFTs. The tokens offered by AGI are graphics related to games such as Dune or Rocket Ranger, which are available at a unit price of USD 250. The income generated in this way will be used to finance the development of the "Retro Infinity Player" - i.e. the software engine with which AGI intends to bring retro classics to various modern platforms. The only information about the Retro Player that can be found on the website is the statement that it is "Blockchain based" und already in development.
There is no imprint to be found on the site, and according to the Terms & Conditions, which are over 60 pages long on our computer, amigagamesinc.com is an offer from Active World Club. The latter's website does not contain any content either and just announces an imminent "Reboot". According to the company's own Twitter channel, the cryptocurrency "Active World Rewards Token" (AWRT) currently appears to be AWC's main area of business.
Editor's note: "Blockchain", "NFT" and "cryptocurrency" are the very buzzwords that have been used for several years now in a constant attempt to entice investors and private investors to make speculative purchases. That someone at Amiga Games Inc. is really working on the development of a retro player can probably be ruled out - quite apart from the fact that an allegedly "blockchain-based" retro player makes no sense whatsoever. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Apr.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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New maps for a classic Dungeon Crawler: Blackest Crypt
Raven's 1992 Dungeon Crawler Black Crypt just got five new dungeons developed by a fan of the game. The mission pack is called "Blackest Crypt", changes only the levels while the story stays the same and works with both a WHDLoad install and the disk version of the original game.
Direct download: BlackestCrypt010.lha (74 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Apr.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: issue 135 of Amiga Future readable free of charge
The German and Englisch editions of 'Amiga Future' issue 135 (November/December 2018) can now be read for free on the magazine's website.
Remainders of the physical issue as well as PDF files at a higher resolution are available from the publisher. (cg)
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