• BrainTeaser (März/April)
• Kaliko Minigolf (März/April)
• Pirate's Puzzle (April/Juni)

• warpscumm_0.1.0b.lha
• warpsdl_0.1usr.lha

Weitere neue Spiele sind u.a.: Merchant Colony, Virocop, Impossamole, Darkmere, Fire and Ice, Katakis, Jaguar XJ220, R-Type II und viele andere.

I've finally got around to finishing off all of my Amiga compiles, and they've all been uploaded. Details below.

News first!

68000 Support
I've decided to drop 68000 support - I'm going by the assumption that if a user has enough memory to play some of these variants, then they will have a better processor than the bog standard one. All variants will now be targetted for the 68020. Demands from some of the Zangband-based variants are increasing, and with the addition of Lua into Angband and Zangband, and inveitably into their offspring, then a basic unexpanded 68000 system just wouldn't be able to cope.

It's been a while since I've had any feedback from a 68000 user - if what I'm doing is such a bad move, please do not hesitate to contact me, and I can put together 68000-targetted executables.

New code
Well, not exactly new code, but all of the variants now use the same Amiga-specific code. Previously, Zangband and it's variants used the most up-to-date code, and Angband was still stuck with some old code that was several years old. Not any more - Angband now benefits from the new code too. I've altered some bits and pieces, but you probably won't notice much of a difference. The main difference is that Angband graphics now work the way they should do, along with masking. Also, if you use the Adam Bolt tiles, these will now work with all versions, not just the Zangband-based ones.

Lua
The Lua-based variants all compile and run successfully for the Amiga. I have compiled all of the Angband alpha releases (2.9.4, 2.9.5, 2.9.6, 2.9.6.alpha2 and 2.9.6alpha3) and all of the Zangband dev releases (2.7.0 Pre-release 1, 2.7.0 Pre-release 2, 2.7.0 Pre-release 3 and 2.7.0 final). If you're eager to take a look, the Zangband dev releases are available below, along with the versions with Shayne Steele's option and branding patches. Angband alphas remain unreleased.

Uploads
These have no long been done, so you'll have to wait for Robert to move them all to their respective locations.

Conglomoband 0.0.1 - conglomoband-001-ami.lha (1437K)

CyAngband 0.3.2 - cyangband-032-ami.lha (506K)

D11-Angband 1.1.0 - d11angband-110-ami.lha (580K)

EyAngband 0.4.0d - eyangband-040d-ami.lha (658K)

Gumband 2.2.0a - gumband-220a-ami.lha (784K)

Hengband 1.0.9r1
There's a little bit of a problem on the graphics for this variant - light doesn't seem to bahave the way you'd expect it to. You won't see the yellow glow around the player, and floors won't light up as you'd expect. Apart from this, it's OK. All lighting behaves properly in ASCII mode.

hengband-109r1-ami.lha (1414K)

NTAngband 0.2 - ntangband-02-ami.lha (1286K)

PernAngband 5.1.1 - pernangband-511-ami.lha (1612K)

UnAngband 0.4.8g - unangband-048g-ami.lha (830K)

Zangband 2.6.2 & Option Patch 1.6 & Branding Patch 1.3
Shayne Steele's patches have been included here - for further details of the patches, check out his site.

zangband-262o16b13-ami.lha (961K)

Zangband 2.7.0 Dev Release
Chance to check out the current stable dev release with Lua scripting.

zangband-270-ami.lha (1184K)

Zangband 2.7.0 Dev Release & Option Patch 1.7 & Branding Patch 1.4
Zangband with the latest versions of Shayne Steele's patches - again, check out the details of the patches at his site.

zangband-270o17b14-ami.lha (1189K)

CD32 (andere als Englisch)
Disk-version (andere als Deutsch)

Die Amiga Arena sprach mit Stefan Blixth über seine neuen Programme, und ein sehr ausführlicher Kommentar von Stefan rundet das Interview ab. Das Interview ist in Deutsch und English vorhanden.

PuzzelBOBS News
Auf der PuzzelBobs Supportseite der Amiga Arena liegt das Modul "Rockers Galore" von "Up Rough System" zum Download bereit! Passend zum Puzzle-Spiel bietet dieses Modul einen relaxten Dub Sound! Einfach in das Verzeichnis "Module" von PuzzelBOBS kopieren!

Aural Ilusion V. 3.0 Source freigegeben
Der bisher unveröffentlichte Source-Code des leider nie erschienenen Sound-Samplers Aural Ilusion V 3.0 von "Blachford Technology" liegt nun zum Download und zur freien Weiterentwicklung bereit. Nach Angaben von Nicolas Blachford darf dieser Code frei verwendet werden.

• Improve text Requester:
  More easy to select vectorial font
  Font Path can be changed.
• Bug Fix:
  Control anim requester
  Movie Factory
  pp_CheckBox
  Processing tool: Linked Freehand
• Increase to 50 the number of gadget usable in arexx dialog
• New Arexx Command:
  pp_ScreenToFront
  pp_PlaceGui
  pp_Convert2RGB
  pp_ScalePicture
  pp_GetLocale.
• AdjustLevels and AutoLevels work well now with Stencil
• Improve AppIcon (add the possibilities to load Icon)
• Jpeg size detection is much faster.
• Add a menu to the undo/redo button:
  Free Current Undo/Redo
  Free All Undo/Redo
• Improve RAW saving, with a requester.
• When PfPaint can't load a picture, he try to load it as a RAW picture.

This is a 'last resort' plugin, there will be files it will not work on due to formatting differences, but it can be used for files for some files which no plugins exist yet (I tested it on an Outlook 2000 email, worked with no glitches, works with a few glitches on some Mac text files).

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This month we take a look at the graphically stunning Descent game Freespace: The Great War and an interactive guide to the upcoming ALT-WOA Amiga show on the 23rd February.

• 08.02.02 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) supports German version too, misc other changes
• 08.02.02 new: Carcharodon - White Sharks (Demonware) done by Galahad
• 06.02.02 improved: Rotor (Arcane) blitter waits added, snoop mode fix
• 06.02.02 new: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) done by Bored Seal
• 06.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) music/sound fixed, blitter waits added and more
• 06.02.02 improved: Cliffhanger (Psygnosis/Spidersoft) Fast-Mem support
• 06.02.02 improved: Alien Breed Story (Team 17) Fast-Mem support, delay added

In der aktuellen Version können die Spieler nun endlich die Städte gegnerischer Spieler anektieren und somit andere Spieler vernichten. Desweiteren ist es nun auch möglich, mehrere Städte im Reich zu verwalten und jede einzelne Stadt seinen Bedürfnissen entsprechend anzupassen.

Als kleiner grüner Angestellter des Ministeriums für galaktische Unsicherheiten, Unterabteilung Kornkreise, stolpern Sie in eine Rebellion gegen das allmächtige Ominibrain. In über 80 Locations finden Sie viele neue Freunde und Mitverschwörer. Eine ausgeklügelte Story mit vielen überraschenden Wendungen, zahlreiche Subgames und komplett deutsche Sprachausgabe warten auf Sie.

THE FEEBLE FILES für den Amiga kommt auf 2 vollen CDs und enthält komplett englische und deutsche Sprachausgabe. Die Amiga-Version benötigt entweder einen Amiga mit 68060, 4 MByte Grafikkarte und 32 MByte Speicher oder einen PPC Amiga mit 4 MByte Grafikkarte und 32 MByte Speicher.

A new update to AmigaTalk has been uploaded to aminet (by the Author). Several new classes, such as Boopsi, IFF & DataTypes have been added to the system, as well as a lot of bug fixes. Since I found some more bugs at the last-minute (after the archive was uploaded, sigh), please be sure to download the AmigaTalk-Update archive as well. AmigaTalk is a port of Little SmallTalk with a GUI for the Amiga.
Jim Steichen, Author of AmigaTalk.