21.Jun.2022
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Self-made project: 68060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000(T) and 4000(T)
Matthias Heinrichs has already developed several hardware projects: among others a Flickerfixer for Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000 or Matzes graphics card for all Amigas equipped with Zorro slots. Now he has published documents for a turbo card for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T), which can be equipped with up to 128MB SDRAM, a 68060CPU with 50/75/100MHz or a 68040 with 25MHz. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
Robert Smith
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Video review: WinUAE & FloppyBridge
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short video review, the developer looks back at the history of this project and gives an outlook on his current project. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
Janne Peräaho
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AmigaOS 4: Creating XML files using RexXMLib
RexXMLib is an ARexx library that allows to write XML documents with ARexx scripts with minimal effort. For example, data can be converted to XML form, XML documents can be generated or a variety of XML data files, such as license keys, can be created algorithmically.
RexXMLib has support for PObjects schema (Amiga XML preferences file) allowing to easily create preferences files. RexXMLib comes with sample scripts that show how to create preferences files, license files, and XML databases. Features:
- Automatic indentation that ensures clean readble XML files
- Supports arbitrary XML element names, attributes, and attribute values
- Support for PObjects schema (Amiga XML preferences file)
- Support for fuzzy PObjects arguments
(dr)
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21.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 repoeted). On June 18 another update has been released. Changes:
- new mini-game (chicken flees from fox) is activated, the game is played with one chicken
- saving the game by clicking on the disk icon in the bottom menu
- more random appearance of boar and fox (without a specific tag)
- game packed with Titanics Cruncher to save space in ADF file
- mini-game: D - shoot a wild boar, L - the chicken running away from the fox
(dr)
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20.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Real-time strategy game Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released
Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer for AmigaOS 3 and called it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported). Now Bruno "BeWorld" Peloille has released an SDL implementation for MorphOS 3.17 based on the source code. Also needed is the latest version 2.0.22 of the SDL libraries. (dr)
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20.Jun.2022
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The Amiga Buyer's Guide - Edition 2022
Carl Svensson deals with all facets of the Amiga: Besides his ARexx development environment RxEnv, he also devotes himself to philosophical topics time and again. Now, with his 2022 edition of his 'The Amiga Buyer's Guide', he provides assistance for all those who are concerned with the question of which of the classic Amiga models to buy today.
This guide is primarily aimed at those who have little or no previous Amiga experience, but experienced or former Amiga owners are sure to find one or two useful pieces of information as well. (dr)
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20.Jun.2022
Gunnar (ANF)
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Video preview: Space Invaders Remake
Arne von Boehn is writing a Space Invaders remake in 68K assembler on a Vampire4 standalone. The state of the game shown in this preview video was programmed in one day. It is not quite finished but already playable. Under the title link you can download the demo version and the assembler program code including all graphics and music files.
When the game is ready, the program code will be explained in the Amiga Homeschooling online course, showing how easy it is to program Amiga games. (dr)
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19.Jun.2022
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Chat software Pidgin 2.13.0r2 for AmiCygnix
Since today chat software Pidgin is available in version 2.13.0 release 2 for AmiCygnix at OS4Depot (screenshot). Pidgin supports several protocols which can be used in parallel.
New in this package:
- Update of the SSL/TLS layer GnuTLS to version 3.7.3
- Fixed Facebook plugin that didn't work anymore before
- Update of Skype plugin to version 1.7
- Update by libotr of the OTR plugin (off-the-record messaging) to version 4.1.1
- New Slack plugin (untested)
- Discord plugin not working at the moment!
- Spell checker updated
Protocols supported:
- 1. Pidgin package:
- AIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- GroupWise
- ICQ
- IRC
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP / Jabber
- Zephyr
- 2. Third party:
- Discord
- Facebook
- Skype (HTTP)
- Slack
- Twitter
Download: pidgin.lha (27 MB) (snx)
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19.Jun.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 157 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 157 (July/August 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include reviews of "Junior's Great Adventure" and "Devil's Temple - Son of the Kung-Fu Master" as well as a preliminary report about the Amiga37 event.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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19.Jun.2022
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Aminet uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to Aminet:
NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 553K 68k Remote filesystem & AREXX bet...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 662K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 663K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiQuake2_AGA.lha game/shoot 1.1M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II
AmiQuake2_RTG.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II
gimastermind.lha game/wb 201K 68k GI Master Mind
qoi.lha gfx/conv 170K MOS Quite OK Image benchmark/conv...
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 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
MED.90sDream.lha mods/misc 161K MED.90's Dream
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 1.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 1.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
Deark.lha util/arc 2.9M MOS Extract data from various fil...
qoi-datatype.lha util/dtype 11K 68k Datatype for the Quite OK Ima...
pfetch.lha util/moni 18K Pretty fetch for MorphOS
newmeter.lha util/wb 23K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 10K 68k 7 AmigaDOS scripts by Stefano...
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19.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to OS4Depot:
autodocviewer.lha dev/uti 124kb 4.1 AutoDoc viewer for OS4
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
pixy.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.0 Pixel editor new generation
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
amigainputanywhere.lha uti/har 303kb 4.1 Control mouse and keyboard with ...
wet_update.lha uti/wor 213kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.8 patch
(snx)
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19.Jun.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to AROS Archives:
devtoolmsdos.zip dev/mis 38Mb Create with dosbox your game easily
whatiff1.05.lha doc/mis 494kb Magazine AmigaGuide Format June ...
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19.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_28.73.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.6.2.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
Woof!_10.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
qoi.lha Graphics/Convert Quite OK Image benchmar...
AmiTube_1.1.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien...
NetFS-revised_3.1.lha Network/Filesystem Network File System for...
RNOPDF_1.5.lha Office/Show A compact PDF viewer.
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19.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.06.2022
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 18.06.2022:
- 2022-06-17 updated: Super Seymour saves the Planet (Code Masters/Optimus Software) patch redone, access faults fixed, highscore load/save, more trainer options, 68000 quitkey support (Info)
- 2022-06-13 improved: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts) added speed regulation, joypad controls, added ButtonWait, skipped code protection completely (Info, Image)
- 2022-06-13 improved: 7 Cities Of Gold (Ozark Softscape/Electronic Arts) fixed issue for 68000/68010 (Info)
(snx)
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19.Jun.2022
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga sighting: Microsoft says goodbye to Internet Explorer on Amiga 1000
Via the Twitter account of its current web browser "Edge", Microsoft says goodbye to its predecessor "Internet Explorer": now it would be time for it to surf the great web of heaven. The text is accompanied by an animation in which the logo of the browser lights up on the screen of a computer whose operating system it never ran on - an Amiga 1000. (snx)
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19.Jun.2022
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Editor: 'Lite XL' 2.0.3r2 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released
At the end of last year George Sokianos had released the first version v1.16.12.3 of his port of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported). The now available version is for the first time also available for MorphOS. He writes about it:
"I am delighted to inform you all that a few hours ago I released a new version of LiteXL, the v2.0.3r2, not only for AmigaOS 4.1 FE but also for MorphOS. For the first time, LiteXL runs on MorphOS, something I was working on for the last couple of months.
For all of you who love to use MorphOS, please give it a try and send me your feedback. How does it work? Is it fast on your system? Is it helpful for you for your development projects?
There are some known issues though. Some of them are SDL problems and some are LiteXL's ones, which I am working on fixing in future releases.
The MorphOS version wouldn't be possible without Bruno's "BeWorld" Peloille work. With his SDL port, his testing and help I managed to have LiteXL work quite well. Thank you so much Bruno for your support and the SDL fixes.
From now on, the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS code is merged into one branch. This is necessary to simplify the work on both systems, fixing the same problems.
Of course, my work doesn't stop here. Your support with plenty of coffee, and the good words I hear from those who contacted me, give me the motivation to continue working on the next fixes and releases." (dr)
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19.Jun.2022
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Paperback: Bare Metal Amiga Programming
"Bare Metal Amiga Programming" is Edwin Van Den Oosterkamp's second paperback on programming the Amiga after Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction. This time the programming of the hardware bypassing the operating system is on the agenda. In this way, assembler programmers should learn to use the hardware to the maximum. (cg)
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17.Jun.2022
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Full version of Riamel
'Riamel: Black Prophecy' was a sequel to the 1992 RPG Lords of Time written by Steve Postma, and for years only a demo version of this sequel had been floating around. The site "Amiga Games That Weren't", which collects information about unreleased Amiga titles, now reports about the efforts and finally the success to make the full version of this game available, which can also be downloaded there. (dr)
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17.Jun.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 7
'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 seventh episode was published. (dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Music: Amiga sound modules available as album
The musician Konsta 'DJ Muffler' Mikkonen has released some of his Amiga sound modules as album on Bandcamp which he composed in 1997/1998 and which were used in diverse demos and intros by Haujobb, Scoopex, DCS, Nah-Kolor and Loveboat. The music was composed with an Amiga 1200 and Protracker (4 x 8-bit audio channels / 28 kHz) and can be bought for 1 Euro or more. (dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.8.0 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
The changes include among others updates to MUI 5 and AmiSSL 5.1 as well as the latest versions of IBrowse (demo), Hollywood Player and AmigaAMP:
- AmiKit Morpheuz 11.7.0 by Jan Zahurancik
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.2 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.31 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 5.1 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: Another World WHDLoad Slave 2.7 by Harry & JOTD
- UPDATED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.6 by ALB42
- UPDATED: DOpusFTP now uses passive transfers to maximize compatibility
- UPDATED: DOpusFTP address book (backup is created first, of course)
- UPDATED: HollyMan 9.1 - a Workbench Pacman clone by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.1 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: hURL 1.2 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: IBrowse 2.5.6 (020/FPU) DEMO by Stefan Burstrom and Omnipresence Intl.
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1 (4-June-2022) by E.Vasilakis, D.Panokostas, G.Sokianos, C.Charabaruk and J.R.Santurde
- UPDATED: Infinite Music Player 3.382 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: MUI 5.0 (20210831) by Stefan Stuntz, Thore Bockelman and Jens Maus
- UPDATED: MUIbase 4.4 by Steffen Gutmann
- UPDATED: ScummVM RTG (Fullscreen) 2.2 by Artur Jarosik
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 18.8 (build 6478, 28-May-2022) by Bert Jahn et al.
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.47 by Georg Wittmann
(dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Preview video: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege'
In the latest preview video on the side-scrolling beat'em up Metro Siege (amiga-news.de reported), the developers show the latest changes and enhancements made to the game engine and the initial design of level 9. (dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Video presentation: Michael Spindler on 'Akiko 32' and 'Akiko Portable'
On Saturday, 28.05.2022, the RETROpulsiv 15.1 took place at the university in Augsburg. During this event Michael Spindler gave a presentation (in German) about his 'Akiko 32'-Projekt project and reported on the current status.
The Akiko32 is an Amiga-AGA compatible computer with extensions in modern mini ITX format. The board is a hobby development and appears as open source for non-commercial purposes. On the board is a 68030 processor in PGA form factor, which can be clocked with 14MHz or 50MHz and also the complete AGA chipset (Alice, Lisa, Paula). To save ICs, not the usual combination like in the A1200 (Budgie, Gayle, CIAs) was used, but an Akiko IC which does almost the same tasks in the CD32. Currently the developer is working on the network card, which is based on the ZorroLAN.
Simultaneously, the developer has been working for a good half year on the 'Akiko Portable', an Amiga to go, which is not an emulation. This is supposed to fulfill the following requirements:
- as thin as possible
- two to three hours of battery operation targeted
- 14 inch display
- conversion of Amiga signals to the TFT display
- USB-C power supply
- Compact Flash card routed to the outside
- Notebook keyboard with number pad
- Trackpad
- USB for data exchange
The goal is to present a first early prototype at Amiga37. (dr)
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14.Jun.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: The Gaming Chronicles - Episode 1 - The Amiga 500
Nicola Caulfield & Anthony Caulfield from London have produced films documenting the video games industry, in addition to various other documentaries for cinemas, broadcast and advertising. Their work includes "From Bedrooms to Billions", the history of the British video games industry from 1979 to the present day, released in 2014, and the sequel "From Bedrooms to Billions", entitled "The Amiga Years", released in May 2016 (amiga-news.de reported).
Over the years, hundreds of hours of filmed interview material have accumulated, not all of which has been included in previous films. The two were thus looking for a way to make this material available to everyone and present it in an informative and entertaining way. Thus the idea of the 'Gaming Chronicle's was born.
The Gaming Chronicles are specially created episodic content that covers certain topics in gaming or computer history in more detail. The crowdfunding campaign now launched for this is intended to help fund this project.
Over time, it is hoped that this work will become a digital film resource containing everything there is to know about the gaming industry. The goal is to produce a main documentary-style episode of 50-60 minutes, but also to create several self-contained featurettes totaling 40 minutes that will act as companion material to the main documentary and put all of this into a downloadable archive.
For this first installment, the filmmakers have decided to focus on the Commodore Amiga 500 computer, which was released 35 years ago this very year. The Kickstarter campaign, which runs through Sunday, July 10, 2022, has already raised about $18,400 of the 24,354 needed. (dr)
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14.Jun.2022
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #127 - Chip-RAM upgrade with RAMesses
In issue 127 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton upgrades his Amiga 500 to 2MB Chip RAM using RAMesses introduced by us at the end of March: with this board developed by Andrew Hutchings it is possible to upgrade an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV without soldering or cutting the motherboard. (dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Weather tool: Wet 6.8 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young - among others http-handler, ReAction-GUI for XAD Avalanche or Netsurf ports - has released an update for his weather tool 'Wet', which now also uses AmiSSL 5. Furthermore, the proxy server tooltype format has changed and now needs to be 'https://proxy-server:port'. The update requires a previous installation of version 6.7. Wet is available for AmigaOS 3.9 and 4.
You can support the developer on his Ko-fi page. (dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Video: Amiga Computer Buyers Guide 2022
For all old and new users interested in the Amiga, Ravi Abbott summarizes in his YouTube video the current possibilities to run Amiga software. The spectrum ranges from the 'THEA500 Mini' over FPGA Amigas like Minimig, UnAmiga, FPGA multisystems like FPGA Mister, Mist 1.4 and NeptUNO up to PowerPC based Amiga computers. (dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Dock bar: WBDock 2 V2.604
Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar 'WBDock 2' for AmigaOS 3.1 and to version 2.604. Changes:
- added special support for project icons with a default tool of Mount (for example from Devs/DosDrivers or Storage/DosDrivers): if the drive is already mounted, the context menu gets new items Unmount and Eject. If you run it again, it will eject the drive rather than issue an "already mounted" error message.
- added a new special position value which positions a dock relative to another dock. Using this you can implement sub-docks by adding wbdock config files to the dock.
- allows to change the icon label.
- supports multi-picture files using OS 3.9's PDTA_WhichPicture attribute.
(dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Jump'n Run: Progress report on 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes regularly informs on his Twitch channel about the latest progress and developments of his Jump'n Run 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night', which is developed with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has summarized this information on his project page with an update richly illustrated and reports among other things about the first implementations of the multi-layered, overlapping parallax system recently integrated into the Scorpion Engine into his game, the start of work on another graveyard level or the new, improved world map.
You can support the developer on his Patreon site. (dr)
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