05.Feb.2021
Vintage is the New Old
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the contest celebrate 10th anniversary. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 27, 2021, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at NOMAM.
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03.Feb.2021
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New preview video: Shoot'em Up 'Inviyya'
The development of the shoot'em up game 'Inviyya' (we reported on it) inspired by the classic R-Type has been almost completed: A new preview video shows the latest level of development - according to the developer the final tests have been started. The game will be published on poly.play.
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02.Feb.2021
English Amiga Board (Website)
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Self-made project: Real-time clock for A500 and A1000
Marcel Jähne's "A1k SimpleClock" is a real-time clock for the A500 and A1000 which is put on the socket of the 68000 processor. All required documents can be found on Gitlab under a free license.
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02.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Video: Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX) in progress
On Youtube a video shows the Amiga port of the MSX game Metal Gear which is the first part of a action adventure game. According to the author, the "gameplay code is 90% complete".
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02.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable Demo: Nameless single screen platform game
For a so far nameless single screen platform game (video) created with the Scorpion Engine now a demo version was released providing three playable levels.
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31.Jan.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.107
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
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31.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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31.Jan.2021
Juan Carlos Martin (Mail)
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Point'n Click adventure: "The Widow" updated (update)
Already on 21. January Juan Carlos 'Templario' Herran Martin announced an update of his point' click adventure 'The Widow' on his Morgue Soft website. But only from today the new version 1.10 is available. Additional to German and Italian catalogs and new sounds, some bugs were fixed and minor changes done, among others "the Bath Girl doesn't showed naked when you take some object from her".
To amiga-news.de, Juan Carlos confirmed his intention of closing the "chapter Amiga" and thus also his website by March 12. In contrary to the past practice, he is going to upload his most important programs to the different Amiga archives like Aminet, OS4Depot or AROS archive.
Update: (02.02.2021, 05:40, dr)
As a reader pointed out, the website of Morgue Soft already has been closed. Juan Carlos explained, that he has to disable his website due to limited memory for website traffic provided by the web hoster. Instead of paying he decided to close the website as signal of solidarity for almost all shops in Spain are closed. He pointede out that except the erotic games all software will be archived on OS4Depot und MorphOS. He also has indicated that in one way or another he might continue his developer activities.
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31.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to Aminet:
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31.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to OS4Depot:
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31.Jan.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to AROS Archives:
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31.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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31.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.01.2021
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 30.01.2021:
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30.Jan.2021
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Raspberry Pi as m68000 replacement: PiStorm
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to a CPU socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 using an adapter for emulating a fast m68k processor. In contrary to the Buffee project a Linux-based solution is used instead of running the 68k emulator directly on the hardware.
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29.Jan.2021
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Accelerator board project 'Buffee': ARM processor emulates 68040/400 Mhz
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB RAM.
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29.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge', updates of other plugins
The Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge' shows the free video RAM. By double clicking the plugin, the program GraphicBoards is started. Additionally all other Screenbar plugins have been updated:
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28.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Tanker simulation: Full versions of 'Campaign' and 'Campaign II' as download
The full versions of the tank simulations 'Campaign' and 'Campaign II' released in 1992 and 1994 can be downloaded from the Amiga Future website. Additional to ADF and IPF disk images, also WHDLoad installers are available. The pdf document described as "Manual" actually only is a one page "addendum" to the manual.
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28.Jan.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Second beta version of Amiga Space Invaders
"Space Invaders" (video) written in Blitz Basic is supposed to be quite an authentic port of the arcade classic with the same name released in 1978. The new beta version provides minor improvements and an "Easter-Egg" of the original.
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28.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 127 of Amiga Future online available
The English issue 127 (Juli/August 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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