01.Jul.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 9
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding 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 reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Here the ninth episode was published. (dr)
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01.Jul.2022
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Blog: Introduction of text editor "reED" for AROS and AmigaOS 3
The blog "Amiga alive" not only reports about various software and hardware news, the operator also presents his own, partly older projects in the series AMIGA alive DevLog from time to time. In the latest blog entry, the C-programmer will report about an editor he started a long time ago under the name "proWEB": an HTML editor with advanced features like sophisticated TABLE creation, FRAME management etc. First started for AmigaOS 3, then continued for AROS, but finally stalled.
Development of the editor has now resumed under the name "reED". As the developer reports, "it took me just a day to make all code adjustments from AROS' gcc to AmigaOS' vbcc, including lots of stylistic improvements, and I got a working executable. The code now doesn't use any special compiler features, and should work with gcc, probably SAS-C, etc. just as it does with vbcc. There were a couple of minor differences between AmigaOS and AROS that needed to be taken care of - for example my old AROS system used a font called "ttcourier" instead of "courier"".
"reED" has its own GUI layout engine, it has a large function menu (many functions are not yet implemented), uses ASL file requesters, can edit multiple documents, it can highlight/cut/copy/paste - and it has real tabs with keyboard control.
Even though the editor has been made to work, the developer is still considering whether to continue this project. If, then both AmigaOS 3 and AROS should be supported, whereby he has the hope for an updated vbcc for AROS. As the developer Frank Wille told Amiga-News on request, this is currently not planned. Reason: More than 15 years ago he had created an experimental version. But the official AROS header files are full of gcc-specific (i.e. not ISO-C compliant) instructions and therefore not usable on any other compiler. (dr)
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30.Jun.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.3
At the end of March the new major version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Yesterday a third update with bug fixes was released with version 3.9.3. Changes:
- fixed a bug that the current directory was not set for the executable when "Compile&Run"
- fixed a window refresh bug on AmigaOS3.2 when window was moved out of screen
- fixed a source corruption bug if one clicked in a non existing line (after end of source)
- fixed a possible crash when doing copy&paste
- fixed: togglestate of menuentry "generate debug code" was sometimes wrong
- fixed: console window was not opened at own screen, even if the option was set
- fixed: changes to current sourceline were forgotten if menu item was selected or user clicked somewhere in source
- fixed a bug in "screenslib" that always tried to open "cybergraphics.library" even on Kick <3.0-systems
- changed behaviour of "wzlib": lack of wizard.library will not crash at startup
- therefore Amiblitz3 will not crash at startup anymore, if wizard.library is not found
- changed: finally the full rewrite of the eventloop has been completed
- removed file extention for displaying blitzlibs-list (Library Browser)
- added display of decimal offset values (Definition Browser)
- changed: PEDs messages are now displayed in source window, not at screen bar
In addition, the documentation and examples were revised:
- updated documentation drawers
- updated autodoc for graphics.library
- added documentation for RndSeed-command to vallib.guide
- added some lib-sources from UltimateBlitz3-distribution (internal)
- added some code examples from original Blitz2-manual
(dr)
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29.Jun.2022
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Event: Demo party 'Evoke' (Cologne, 05.08 - 07.08)
In August, this year's edition of the Evoke scene demo party will take place at the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne (Germany). As usual, various demo, graphics and sound contests will be held. Special categories for retro computers are not planned, 8- or 16-bit productions can be submitted in the category Alternative Platforms - but here you might have to bring your own hardware. (dr)
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29.Jun.2022
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Video: Is AROS The Future of Amiga?
In this YouTube video, Dan Wood explores the question of whether AROS, the open source development of the classic Amiga operating system, is a worthy successor to it, and for that looks at the Icaros Desktop distribution. (dr)
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29.Jun.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.9
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.9 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which mainly includes changes for media playback. As the author writes, ClearKey encryption is not very popular nowadays, but is still used by some live streaming services. Wayfarer can now play these streams (e.g. https://tv.nrk.no).
The emulation of touch events makes it possible to search on mobile Youtube again. In this regard, the developer refers to the updated FAQ page: instructions on how to fix Youtube/iOS search and how to use a VPN with Wayfarer (with additional hardware) have been added.
Jacek also thanks everyone who had donated to the project in the last. He said that this is a motivation for further development. Changes:
- Implemented ClearKey DRM support for HLS media streams
- Implemented HLS stream quality switching accessible from the media popup
- Added configurable touch events emulation (think Youtube-Mobile seeking slider)
- Refactored the HLS player to allow MPEG-TS playback
- Live HLS streams now start playing closer to the current time
- Improved stream end position reporting to get some streaming services correctly skip to next stream after playing ads
- Updated libcurl
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
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28.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Kultmags.com: Amiga Fever issues added (German)
On kultmags.com the computer and video game magazines of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are preserved in digital form for posterity with the permission of the rights holders. Most recently, Jakob Voos, who once founded the Protovision publishing house with Malte Mundt, gave permission to add all four issues of German magazine Amiga Fever.
So far, however, only the first two issues could be scanned, and help in finding the remaining issues is requested. (snx)
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28.Jun.2022
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Review: Workbench distribution AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Windows
About two weeks ago version 11.8.0 of the workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows/Mac/Linux was released (amiga-news.de reported). Our reader Thomas bought the latest version for his Windows computer and kindly tells us his impressions:
"After the purchase, you will receive an e-mail with the download link quite quickly. Before that you should definitely install VcRuntime https://file.amiga.sk/amikit/download/vc_redist.x64.exe, otherwise the installation will fail. The version Amikit 11.5.0 is delivered, which can be updated later. Original Amiga ROMS are necessary, otherwise the installation will fail. In which form or better said from which source the ROM's come, is up to you. Whether Amiga Forever or original AmigaOS (OS 3.1.4, OS 3.2, OS 3.9 etc.) does not matter.
The installation process runs through smoothly. In between, Picasso96 is downloaded and installed independently. After the installation process has run through and Amikit has been loaded, the Morpheus Updater opens automatically. There you can update Amikit 11.5.0 to version 11.8.0. This update is the biggest one (23 MB) and for this reason it seems to cause problems. Always only 12-14 MB arrive. This gave me no peace, so Jan was written to on Discord asking him what the problem could be. He answered promptly and wrote me that a few had the same problem. He then sent me the archive of 11.8.0, since the error could not yet be narrowed down. So I could update to version 11.8.0 myself. Many thanks Jan to the fast and smooth help.
The next step is to install AmigaOS 3.2 and the corresponding update 3.2.1. For this you put all AmigaOS 3.2 ADF's, the Amiga1200.Module, Update3.2.1.lha into the Rabbithole directory and start the Morpheus Updater again. There you can select and install the AmigaOS 3.2 installation. This is done quickly, after an automatic reboot it is freshly installed. So you have the latest AmigaOS running in the WinUAE installation. Amikit uses WinUAE for the AmigaOS emulation on the PC.
So Amikit transforms the PC into a modern Amiga. The Rabbithole is used to start PC programs directly from the AmigaOS. So you can run programs like VLC, Chrome etc. on the screen of the AmigaOS and don't need to switch to Windows. In addition, Amikit is faster than any Amiga hardware depending on the PC model, even if turbo cards etc. are used.
But it will never replace the feeling of real Amiga hardware. But it is not so easy to use it on the go. That's where Amikit makes sense. If you want to use the AmigaOS everywhere, Amikit is a good choice. It is a complete AmigaOS for people with little time and desire to build their own AmigaOS.
For myself it only serves as a replacement to real Amiga hardware. Mainly I use Amikit to transfer files from the PC via NAS to the Amiga and vice versa or when I want to use the AmigaOS mobile. The purchase was worth it."
Herzlichen Dank, Thomas. (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b3
By releasing version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and yesterday released the third beta version. Changes:
Bug fixes:
- SlowRam mirror emulation was broken
Enhancements:
- The video config panel has been redesigned
Compatibility:
- Improved UART timing
- Improved display window emulation
- Improved display logic emulation
macOS 10.15 or higher is required. (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
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Preview video 27: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). According to the developer, "the game still runs on a standard A1200 without turbo card and without Fast RAM in PAL lowres with 50 frames per second."
About his 27. preview video the developer wrote: "This time I concentrated not so much on the ingame playfield engine but more on all that other necessary stuff, mostly the menus and tournament logic. Therefore the new video is maybe a bit boring to watch ;) Nevertheless it's a very huge step forward because from now on "only" the actual match gameplay is missing, everything else is in place (well, apart from bug fixes and polishing and some music and more sfx, of course)." (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
ALBs Blog
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AmiTube: Preview video to version 1.2
Yesterday the developer Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released a preview video to the forthcoming version 1.2 of AmiTube showing a new feature: a play list like feature to play the downloaded movies automatically or by random or in a loop. (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Video: AMIGA Alive and Kicking
Already in March 2020, the documentary "AMIGA Alive and Kicking" - originally marketed under the name "Amiga 2020", as it was also supposed to be released this year - was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now Steven Fletcher has finished the post production work and the video, which documents various events and shows interviews with community members or developers and vendors, is available as a digital download for 10 Pounds. (dr)
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26.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Update of Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday another update veröffentlicht. Änderungen:
- Mill for the production of wheat flour added
- Bake oven bread from flour
- Added milk-drinking cat, thanks to which mice do not steal flour from the warehouse
- Added sheep and cat sound
- New background music for the mini-game with the fox and the main farm screen :-)
- Enlarged farm x2 !!! Scrolling through the image when reaching the edge of the page
- Improved upper rainbow that no longer disappears from the screen
- When shopping / selling on the store map screen, the top screen with available cash is not hidden, so that the account and stock status can be seen at any time
Adding scrolling leads to increased hardware requirements: 1,5MB ChipRAM bzw. 1MB Chip + 0,5MB FastRAM. (dr)
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26.Jun.2022
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Aminet uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
links-mos.lha comm/www 7.2M MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
vbcc_target_m68k-amig... dev/c 689K ISO C compiler, M68k-AmigaOS ...
vbcc_target_m68k-kick... dev/c 486K ISO C compiler, AmigaOS 1.2/1...
vbcc_target_ppc-morph... dev/c 940K ISO C compiler, MorphOS Target
c2plib.lha dev/misc 158K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
ShellInternals.lha docs/misc 26K Amiga Shell internal workings
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 14K 2022 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 6.6M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
qoi.lha gfx/conv 208K MOS Quite OK Image benchmark/conv...
zx81paint.lha gfx/edit 32K 68k Paint program, creates ZX81 c...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
ne.lha text/edit 1.3M MOS The nice editor is coming home
AmiSSL-5.2-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.2-OS4.lha util/libs 3.0M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.2-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 692K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
Lupe.lha util/wb 201K MOS The magnifying glass program
newmeter.lha util/wb 25K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
(snx)
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26.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 2Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
rexxmlib.lha dev/lib 188kb 4.1 ARexx XML procedure library
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
sm502.audio.tar.bz2 dri/aud 641kb 4.0 SM502 audio driver for the Sam46...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 27Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
pidgin.lha net/cha 27Mb 4.1 A chat client for AmiCygnix
pidgin-src.lha net/cha 4Mb 4.1 Sources of Pidgin 2.13.0r2 for A...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 19Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
amigainputanywhere.lha uti/har 166kb 4.1 Control mouse and keyboard with ...
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
thumbnailmaker.lha vid/mis 6kb 4.1 Arexx script for ArtEffect, gene...
(snx)
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26.Jun.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to AROS Archives:
mpega.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 71kb include files for mpega.library
devtoolmsdos.zip dev/mis 38Mb Create with dosbox your game easily
whatiff1.05.lha doc/mis 494kb Magazine AmigaGuide Format June ...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb Point and click adventure game
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
zunepaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 530kb Bitmap paint with additional eff...
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb Generator of printable calendars
(snx)
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26.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
VanillaConquer_TD_R1.lha Games/Strategy Vanilla Conquer is a po...
qoi.lha Graphics/Convert Quite OK Image benchmar...
Pixy_1.0_AlphaRelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
Lupe_2.0.lha System/Ambient/Utilities The magnifying glass pr...
LiteXL_2.0.3r2.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
ne_3.3.1.lha Text/Edit The nice editor is comi...
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26.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.06.2022
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 25.06.2022:
- 2022-06-21 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) better joypad controls, trainer added (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Space Hulk (Electronic Arts) fast ram support, 68000 quitkey, savegame feature restored (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) using fast memory, 68000 quitkey, snoop bugs removed (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Deep Core (ICE) 68000 quitkey, joypad/2nd-button controls, many fixes, highscore saving added (Info)
(snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Floppy (comment)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.3 beta 220624
Paolo Besser released a beta version of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop which contains the recent ABIv0 backports by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, but also other additions, and asks users willing to support it to test it. (snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Clock port/Raspberry Pi interface
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported) Niklas Ekström now provides information under the title link for the reproduction of an interface with which communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi is possible via the clock port.
After appropriate software adjustments, the developer hopes to be able to run services such as the file system a314fs, which enables access to directories of the Raspberry Pi, and the SANA II network driver via it. (snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 135 (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 the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. (snx)
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25.Jun.2022
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Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.16
As Thomas Winischhofer told us at the end of October last year, the development of his 'MusicMaker V8' was actually finished. Apparently, however, he always finds the time and inclination to fix minor bugs and to continue to maintain his sample-based music editor, which he started as a hobby project in 1986, so that since version 3.12, the fourth update to version 3.16 has now been released. Changes since our last report:
Version 3.16:
- Relocated prefs file (MM_V8.prefs) from S: to ENVARC:, if the latter exists (which is normally the case under OS2 and later). This also fixes the annoying requester when starting MM under 1.3.
- Installer: Install MM_V8.prefs to ENVARC: if available
- Installer: Ask if prefs file should be overwritten
- Installer: By default, do not install developer kit
- Add install script for AmigaDOS 1.3 since the installer needs >=2.x
Version 3.15:
- Filerequester: Fix long standing and potentially lethal sorting bug
Version 3.14:
- Filerequester:
- Make list display faster
- The path-resolving-bahavior described under the entry for 3.13 below was for OS2 and later. Now MM does the same under 1.3.
Version 3.13:
- Filerequester:
- fix race cond when typing a filename
- No longer resolve assigns when clicking "Parent"
(dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Video: Dual boot with Amiga 500 and ACA500plus?
The musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' got an ACA500plus expansion card for her Amiga 500 and presented it in a first video. In the latest video she now tests whether a dual boot of AmigaOS 1.3 and 3.1 is possible. (dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 8
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding 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 reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Here the eighth episode was published. (dr)
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25.Jun.2022
AB-UltraNarwhal
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Jump'n Run: Duckstroma released
After the second demo version was released at the beginning of June (amiga-news.de reported), the finished amiga version is now available and can be downloaded at a self-determined price.
In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM. (dr)
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