16.Nov.2019
amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update for retro arcade game "Huenison"
The commcercial game 'Huenison' (trailer) combines diverse features of former arcade games. This update for the game, orginally released in 2013, provides diverse improvements for the graphical representation:
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16.Nov.2019
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Individual Computers: Pictures of cooling system of ACA1260
Individual Computers has published some first pictures of the announced 68040/68060-based accelerator board which show the cooling system of the board: Obviously the developers chose an active cooling, the fan would have been custom-made for Individual Computers.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2019, 15:32] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2019
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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ComicOn 1.0 (all Amiga systems)
ComicOn written with Hollywood downloads comic strips from websites and shows them. Several English strips like Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts are supported. ComicOn is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS and requires some additional Hollywood plugins which have to be installed before.
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16.Nov.2019
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Free USB adapter for input device: HID2AMI
Using HID2AMI different USB input devices ("HID", "Human Interface Devices") can be connected to the Amiga. The documentation for the board and the firmware of the adapter which is based on an ARM-micro-controller are available on Github. Occasionally the developer offers a small number of the product for sale. Documenations for printing a case with a 3D printer as well as a hardware compatibility list are also available.
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16.Nov.2019
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USB interface for reading and writing floppy disks on PC: Greaseweazle
After his Gotek firmware FlashFloppy, Keir Fraser has started another project for reading and writing floppy disks on PC: Similar to Kryoflux, 'Greaseweazle' reads the magnetic layers of the disks independently of the used disk format and saves as much information as possible in a so called "Flux Level Image" in the Supercard-Format (SCP) which enables reading and writing copy-protected disks.
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15.Nov.2019
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Hardware extension: "A314" adds internal Raspberry Pi to A500
Niklas Ekström has developed a FPGA-based adapter board which allows you to connect a Raspberry Pi to the internal extension port of the Amiga 500. The Verilog source code, the source codes of the Amiga and Linux software as well as the design for the "A314" board are available at Github under a free license.
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[News message: 15. Nov. 2019, 00:19] [Comments: 0]
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15.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated
Simone Bevilacqua has released an update for his arcade game KOG (video) which was released 11 years ago. Since the initial release the game has been completely reworked at least twice. Now the following changes have been implemented:
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14.Nov.2019
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CDXL player: AGABlaster 0.9.65 alpha
AGABlaster is a player for an adapted version of Commodore's video file format CDXL: Among others now a colour depth of up to 24 Bit is supported, frameskipping or frames with variable colour depth. Additionally the video file includes all necessary (timing) informationen for playing a stream.
AGABlaster was written in assembler and on (fast) AGA computers it can play video streams with a solution of 320x256 with 24 frames per second and 8-Bit stereo sound. Currently graphic or sound cards are not supported but the player also can be used on OCS machines although it was primarily written for the AGA chipset.
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14.Nov.2019
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C64 remake: RiverRaid Reloaded
RiverRaid Reloaded (video) is a remake of the 8-Bit classic River Raid. The executable of the full game only is 128 KB and should run on all Amigas.
Download: RiverRaidReloaded_1.1.adf (880 KB)
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14.Nov.2019
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Shoot'em Up in 8-Bit style: Sardonic
'Sardonic' (video) is a shooter in 8-Bit style which is supposed to be a hommage to classics like 'Space Invaders' or 'Galaga'. Versions for AGA and OCS (requiring 1 MB Chip-RAM) Amigas are available.
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14.Nov.2019
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Open source implementation of "Amiga Explorer" protocol
"FTS4" ("File Transfer Serial 4") is an implementation of the Amiga Explorer protocol which currently only supports serial connections. FTS requires at least AmigaOS 1.3, AmigaOS 2.0 is recommended.
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[News message: 14. Nov. 2019, 00:51] [Comments: 0]
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14.Nov.2019
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Linux connection for Amiga Explorer: fuse-aexplorer and lxamiga.pl
fuse-aexplorer is a file system driver for Linux which can mount drives shared by Cloanto's Amiga network software Amiga Explorer under Linux. The author warns that his "software is highly experimental" and you use it "fully AT YOUR OWN RISK". He also explained that "the Amiga Explorer protocol really isn't meant to be used as a network file system". Therefore diverse hacks had to be used.
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[News message: 14. Nov. 2019, 00:45] [Comments: 0]
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13.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Arcade game: AMiner 2019-10-08
AMiner (video) is a simple arcade game for one or two players which under time pressure was originally developed for the video game competition of the Retrokomp. Since the initial release a year ago the author has provided several updates and continutes to develop the game.
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[News message: 13. Nov. 2019, 23:28] [Comments: 0]
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12.Nov.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 9th, 2019:
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12.Nov.2019
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AmigaOS 4: Arena shooter 'Blastaway'
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's 'Blastaway' (video) is an arena shooter with 50 levels in five different worlds. The game principle is inspired by Wizard of Wor, the graphics by The Chaos Engine.
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12.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.14 (November 2019)
An update of the MorphOS SDK 3.14 released in October provides updated versions of the binutils. Additionally some minor problems were fixed and the memory requirement lowered to 1 GB. The SDK requires at least MorphOS 3.12 and harddisk space. The source codes of the archive are available as separate download.
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[News message: 12. Nov. 2019, 18:33] [Comments: 0]
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11.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of Dominium for free download
The strategy game Dominium released in 1993 now can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future.
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[News message: 11. Nov. 2019, 23:13] [Comments: 0]
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10.Nov.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 9th, 2019:
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10.Nov.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 9th, 2019:
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10.Nov.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 9th, 2019:
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10.Nov.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.11.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until November 9th, 2019:
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10.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.0.2
For Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE there are ports for Windows, Mac OS X and different Linux and BSD versions. The latest version 3.0.2 fixes a bug of the video scaling under Windows which happened if the fullscreen mode was closed.
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10.Nov.2019
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Operating system: Friend announces "Sky-Computing"
The operating system FriendUP (amiga-news.de reported) is inspired by the Amiga but not compatible to it. The former developers of AROS and MorphOS programs, Hogne Titlestad and Paweł Stefański, as well as the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot are involved in this project. Under the title link now they announced to introduce "Sky Computing" which is to link all their different cloud solutions.
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10.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Game announcements: Preview videos onf 'Metro Siege' and 'Formula Fun'
Metro Siege (video) is a horizontally scrolling beat'em up for up to two players which requires 512 KB chip and Fast RAM. According to the developers "it will feature foreground and background parallax, over 60 colours on screen, multi button and joypad support, 2 player co-op and sophisticated combat with dozens of moves even the karate kid would be impressed by!".
According to the developer the fun racer 'Formula Fun' (videos: 1, 2) developed with AMOS is inspired by classic games like 'Indy Heat', 'Super Sprint' and Super Off-Road. The videos have been already recorded in February and show an early prototype of the game.
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