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)
(dr)
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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 à 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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06.Apr.2022
Erik Hogan (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
Today version 2022.2 was released, which among other things adds the ability to create custom masks and provides improved string support and save and load functions.
In addition, the developer is working on a video series with Michael Parent from BitBeamCannon (e.g. DaemonClaw, Metro Siege). The game studio is currently developing a new game for the A500 with the help of Scorpion Enginee, using features such as parallax and translucency in four-bit plane mode. The collaborative video series about this game is not intended to be a tutorial for creating a game from scratch, but rather a documentation of the steps involved in creating this game, providing tips and tricks for Scorpion beginners and veterans alike. Michael Parent has released the first video, which shows the process of setting up a new project and implementing layer parallax. The second and third videos will follow in the next few days. (dr)
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06.Apr.2022
Artur Jarosik (Patreon)
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer".
Since our last message, the developer has made some fixes to the game and yesterday released version 0.98:
- Replaced Speech.mix with one adding "Repairing" speech in Repair Bay
- Fixed memory trash with damaged buildings
- Fixed repairing of vehicles on Repair Bay
- Fixed : music wouldn't stop in some cases on v4
The game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo processor, especially the V4 series. However, as the author explained to us, it might be playable on a 68060 processor with a graphics card with the music and sound effects turned off.
If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon website. (dr)
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06.Apr.2022
deadwood (Mail)
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux. Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux.
Now the developer has released version 41.2, which provides, among other things, the following changes:
- AROS-Shell, an AmigaDOS-compatible Shell, is now available for you as a native Linux program. You can write DOS scripts and use shell commands to interact with Linux filesystem.
- AxRuntime becomes a bridge between AROS x86_64 and Linux by allowing running native AROS programs as standalone Linux programs. In this function AxRuntime is similar to Wine. Wine allows running Windows programs on Linux, AxRuntime allows running AROS programs on Linux.
This release comes with 4 applications: AROS-Shell, MPlayer, WookieChat and Final Writer 7 (demo). Additionally AROS x86_64 applications like MUIbase can also be used. (dr)
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05.Apr.2022
pikewerfer (forum)
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MorphOS: Free fonts package (also for AmigaOS)
Monotype employee 'pikewerfer', with permission from his superiors, has put together a free font pack that can be "bought" for 0 Euros under the title link. The "MorphOS Value Pack" contains ten different types, including their variants (italic, bold, etc.) there are 27 fonts.
The license of these OpenType fonts also includes AmigaOS, as far as their use is technically possible there. The creator would be pleased about feedback. (snx)
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05.Apr.2022
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Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers.
In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key data:
- Size: default is 19", if second stretch goal is reached then there will be a 17"
- Ratio 5:4 (1280x1024 panel)
- Ports:
- Input: HDMI, VGA, composite video, interlace component input, AV1 and AV2
- Output: speaker, composite (streaming)
- Front panel: Front USB only if you add a front panel and wire them up, default will be a blank user panel waiting for customisation
- 3D printed prototypes, later injection molded version (reason for Kickstarter campaign)
- side speakers
- Using the Gbscontrol firmware for the 'GBS-8200' video converter as optional add on, not standard.
(dr)
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04.Apr.2022
McGeezer
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Today a new preview video for the game was released which is in development. It can already be pre-ordered as a boxed edition. A demo version of the first stage is also available on itch.io.
(dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL required.
Download: Symmetrix.lha (71 kB) (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 29 of assembler coding course
'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. Now episode 29 was published. (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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AmiGameJam 2022: The winners
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen:
- 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez.
- 2nd place: Jean-François Fabre's Pacman clone MsPacman 500.
- 3rd place: 'Dante's' conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name, Green Beret.
Congratulations! (dr)
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