28.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 24 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 the episode 24 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection.
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[News message: 28. Jan. 2022, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jan.2022
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RMC Retro Amiga Demo
In addition to his various YouTube videos, Neil aka RMC has set up a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games called The Cave. It is located in Chalford in Gloucestershire and is about to open to the public. To mark the occasion, he has brushed up on his assembly programming skills and written and released an "old school" Amiga demo.
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[News message: 28. Jan. 2022, 20:45] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jan.2022
Günter Bartsch (Mail)
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BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 28. Jan. 2022, 12:57] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jan.2022
Indie Retro News (Website)
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Tetris variant: Drag & Drop
'Drag & Drop' (Video) is a Tetris variant where blocks aren't falling down from the top of the screen, instead the player has to put them on on the playfield using Drag'Drop himself. The game can be downloaded for free, it is possible to pay a user-defined fee to the author before starting the download.
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[News message: 27. Jan. 2022, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.1
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
Yesterday version 2022.1 has been released adding screen size settings, new movement types and more (teaser video).
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2022, 08:59] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2022
VITN
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 130 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
Among others the latest issue includes articles on the Amiga games "Victory", "Dune II", "GFL Championship Football" and "Jack the Ripper".
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2022, 07:20] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #132 - Netlabels with Simon Carless
Simon Carless is a former Amiga musician and founder/owner of the Monotonik netlabel, which rose to prominence in the late '90s and early '00s. Jörg Dröge and guest co-host Martin Wisniowski pick his brain about this unique time in the development of the internet, independent labels, and music distribution (interview begins at 19:15).
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2022, 05:58] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2022
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland: 324 games online
At the beginning of the new year, Mirko Engelhardt writes about achievements and future plans:
"We now have 324 games online, of which 28 games are also available on CD 32 or CD, plus 86 PD games. We've never had this many games online before. That was a real feat in 2021 and also already in January 2022. We will continue to expand that: Promise! The goal is to have at least 600 downloads in total this year. This includes the PD stuff. For apps, we want to increase to at least 10 (currently 4), and for demos to 40 (currently 18). Also in focus are the books, which we want to give to the respective history offers. Just rummage around and you will increasingly find what you are looking for. A goal for 2022 is also the presentation of all companies that support Amigaland so far (that will be hard :)) If you have any other wishes, please let us know. We will then also do that :)"
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2022, 05:43] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2022
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Hyperion blog apparently hacked by spammers
At the end of 2010, Hyperion had introduced a "developer blog" to inform users about current events around AmigaOS 4. The last official contributions date back to 2017, from then technical director Costel Mincea. Then in November, The Ultimate Guide To Online Dating was the first entry that had a recognizably unofficial character. Since the beginning of the year, there has been an update on Windows and related topics every few days, each with links to download portals and similar offers well hidden in the text.
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2022, 01:17] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 23 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 the episode 23 was published, which is about sprites and its collision detection.
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[News message: 25. Jan. 2022, 06:00] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas'
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support.
With the help of PatchCompositeTags the game runs under WinUAE without problems.
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[News message: 24. Jan. 2022, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2022
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AmiTube: Setting up a docker server
In his latest blog post with accompanying YouTube video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow describes how to set up your own AmiTube server using a docker container.
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[News message: 24. Jan. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2022
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Platformer: Status update on 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes continues to work on his jump'n run Creeping Me Out: Hex Night, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. Following his Winter update, the developer reports in today's entry on how he's improving much of the current project from its unofficial predecessor, Zombie Holiday (OSX), and has also released a new preview video of the frog boss.
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[News message: 24. Jan. 2022, 06:41] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Iconic 1.0 released
Press release:: In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: Iconic. Iconic is the ultimate icon loader and saver plugin for Hollywood. It will make all your icon dreams come true because it can load and save icons in pretty much all of the most common icon formats. The following formats are currently supported:
- AmigaOS 1.x style icons
- AmigaOS 2.x/3.x style icons
- AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 icons (aka GlowIcons)
- AmigaOS 4.x Icons
- macOS Icons (*.icns-Format)
- MagicWB icons
- MorphOS/PowerIcons icons (PNG)
- NewIcons
- Windows icons (*.ico-Format)
Of course, Iconic also supports loading and saving of the metadata found in the Amiga icon formats like tooltypes, icon position, drawer view mode, icon type and so on. Thanks to Hollywood 9's new support for palette images it is also possible to load the icon palette, set a transparent pen and access the raw palette pens used in the icon image data. Of course, Iconic doesn't only support palette-based icon images but also icons that contain true colour images with alpha channel. Several of the icon formats listed above also support palette and true colour images within the same icon file and several different icon sizes within the same icon file. All of this is supported by Iconic as well!
This is why Iconic is the ultimate icon plugin for Hollywood and a must-have for every Hollywood user. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by Iconic.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it!
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 16:12] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (comment)
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AROS: Update 6 of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision two times. New are some Shell commands, GUIs for searching, splitting and joining files, extended support for packers, two additional window-related commodities, updated ROMs, a bugfixed reqtools.library, VirusZ III and a number of small improvements.
Furthermore there is a short description of the window options.
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 11:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to Aminet:
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.01.2022
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 22.01.2022:
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2022, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2022
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Graphics card: Presale of ZZ9000 for ninth batch
In his online shop, Lukas F. Hartmann has updated the item describtion of the graphics card ZZ9000 which now says: "Parts for all cards sold so far (Batch 8) are in stock and production is in progress. We have reopened pre-sales for Batch 9 which we expect for a June 2022 shipping target. Before buying, please keep in mind that due to the global chip shortage, additional delays can happen. We will ship your card eventually, but patience is key."
He also reported yesterday on Twitter that the delivery of the first batch of the ZZ9000AX sound module is slightly delayed (mid/end-February) due to the complicated manufacturing of the ZZ9000->AX cable and the manufacturer's overload before the Spring Festival.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 16:55] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2022
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Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops
The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the Developer Blog), the V1 is still the last official release.
For that the developer has crossed out his warnings ("THIS BOARD IS UNTESTED!!! IT MIGHT NOT WORK AT ALL! It might kill your cat or burn your house down. You have been warned."), noting now that this version of the board has been tested and works well - "apart from a couple of very minor issues". However, he could not recommend using this version of the board, even if it worked. Instead, one should download the project documents and check them for errors.
If that is too much trouble for you, you can order already produced boards. Both the German pcb4diy.de and the Irish store Sordan offer the board for around 34 and 28 Euros, respectively, plus shipping.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 14:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Status update on Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. In yesterday's entry he reports about video driver, SD card driver, EmuControl and bug fixes. Finally he has pointed out to some tutorials he has started writing:
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 08:23] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2022
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Software performance profiler 'Profyler' for developers
As the author Mike Steed wrote, Profyler "is a software performance profiler - or profiler for short - for AmigaOS 4. It allows the execution speed of the various functions that make up a program to be measured, facilitating optimization of the program to improve its performance.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 05:41] [Comments: 0]
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