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Archive 08/2024

`31.Aug.2024` Paweł Tukatsch	Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the game can be purchased as a Collector's Edition from the Polish shop Retronics. For 38 euros (plus shipping) you get a slipcase with two 3.5" discs, a map of the levels printed on a canvas and a manual. (dr) [News message: 31. Aug. 2024, 16:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Aug.2024`	Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update) Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.6.1: Default to speech disabled Fix crash when trying to close speech system when it failed to initialise Update: (14:09, 01.09.24, dr) Version 1.6.2 was released today, which increases the maximum OpenAI API key size to 256 characters. Download v1.6.2: AmigaGPT.lha (221 KB) (dr) [News message: 31. Aug. 2024, 16:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Aug.2024`	Video: AmiKit 12 on a Raspberry Pi 5 Under the title link, Amiga Bill talks to AmiKit developer Ján Zahurančík about his workbench distribution AmiKit 12 and shows how it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. He also gives tips and tricks and talks about the development of the distribution. (dr) [News message: 30. Aug. 2024, 22:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Aug.2024`	Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8 The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released: Bug fixes Performance improvements Speed up initialization on 68000 systems Lideflash improvements - prompt the user before doing anything & reboot if necessary (dr) [News message: 30. Aug. 2024, 22:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Aug.2024`	Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2 pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the successor, four players will now be able to compete against each other. (dr) [News message: 29. Aug. 2024, 20:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Aug.2024` itch.io	Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newly invented programming language FOCAL, before it was ported to BASIC in 1973 and thus became known to a wider public (Wikipedia). Phil Spilsbury has published the original source code on GitHub, as it was printed in the book "BASIC Computer Games" in 1978. If you want to get a first impression, you can test the version ported to HTML5 by Chris Ainsley in 2019 in your browser. At the beginning of 2020, 'Dr Guru' published a version adapted to Amiga Kick Pascal in the Amiga-Dresden forum (German), the source code of which is still accessible. Now 'lifeschool' has also taken on the game as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024 and, in addition to the original version from 1978 (with or without language), has published a conversion he created with HAM background images and a few additional questions to answer. The game runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga with KS 3.0+, 0.5 MB chip and 1 MB Fast-Ram. (dr) [News message: 29. Aug. 2024, 19:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Aug.2024` Amigans (Forum)	AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1 In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer software. In Dickinson's blog, Dixon already describes what he does on a daily basis with his two NextGen computers AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. He has now started his own blog and describes his current use of various applications and tools and his reasons for using them in the first entry under the title link. Subsequent blogs will present newly discovered applications, tools or tips and their updates. (dr) [News message: 29. Aug. 2024, 09:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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