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Archive 08/2024

`06.Aug.2024` Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)	Game: Heretic II (2024) to be released for high-performance 68k Amigas Press release: Brussels – August 05, 2024. Hyperion is excited to unveil a brand-new port of Heretic II (2024) developed by Steffen Häuser, tailored specifically for high-performance 68K Amiga systems. About Heretic II: Heretic II is the highly acclaimed conceptual sequel to the Hexen and Heretic series by Raven Software. Heretic II relies on a modified version of the Quake II engine by id Software and plays from a behind-the-back third-person perspective as in the Tomb Raider series but still controls a lot like a first-person shooter. Features: Quake II 3D Engine from id Software Software renderer and MiniGL renderer (MiniGL renderer can only be used when 3D hardware drivers are available for PiStorm). The software renderer runs 25 fps on 640x480 on Pi CM4, 21 fps on Pi 4, 19 fps lowres on Pi 3. For Pi 3 there are also 480x270 and 640x360 resolutions Atmospheric game music via Ogg Vorbis replay Localization (both text and audio output) in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish Improved quality of the video intro/extro Multiplayer support (internet or LAN for up to 32 players) Impressive enemy AI Excellent player control (mouse, keyboard, joystick), optional PSXPort support Expandable with new mission packs such as Quake Technical requirements: AmigaOS 3.x PiStorm (Pi 3, Pi 4 or Pi CM4) or via emulation such as UAE 64 MB RAM minimum, more recommended Picasso96 with chunky 16-bit modes (no AGA) AHI 4.18 mpega.library (game installer can install it) 400 MB free hard disc space This new version of Heretic II is available as of the 9th of August via dealers and the official distributor Alinea Computer. (snx) [News message: 06. Aug. 2024, 14:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2024`	Book: German edition of "The Making of Prince of Persia" now available Jordan Mechner is an internationally renowned game designer whose best-known work is probably "Prince of Persia". Mechner recorded the creation of this global hit in his memoirs, which he wrote down during development and published in 2020 (amiga-news.de reported). The book has now been published in German, translated and edited by Stephan Freundorfer: "Jordan Mechner: Die Erschaffung von Prince of Persia – Tagebücher 1985-1993" (original title: The Making of Prince of Persia) invites the reader into the wild, golden 8- and 16-bit era and lets them participate in the restless life of a young creative who is looking for his place between screen and pixels – and becomes famous. Mechner's memories and sketches are historical documents, very personal insights into early game development and the emergence of digital narratives. The officially licensed version of the 1985-1993 diaries presents Mechner's original drawings, design documents and business records. Also included in the German translation are appendices with explanations of people, companies, contemporary terms and games. The hardcover version of the title comprises 368 pages, completely in colour, with over 300 illustrations and can be ordered at a price of 34.80 euros from well-stocked bookshops and directly from the publisher Gameplan via the title link. (nba) [News message: 06. Aug. 2024, 13:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2024`	Blog: The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article entitled "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art" on his website datagubbe.se. In it, he discusses how CRTs smoothed out the hard edges and block structures of old video game graphics through their blurring and artefacts such as scan lines and colour overlays. Svensson also points out that modern techniques such as anti-aliasing and dithering, which contribute to smoothing and colour blending, enhanced the visual experience on CRTs, which is often misunderstood when pixel art is displayed on modern flat screens. To visualise these effects, Svensson also shows images from games and applications for the Amiga, including Ruff'n'Tumble, Monkey Island, Silkworm and Deluxe Paint IV. (nba) [News message: 06. Aug. 2024, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2024` Didier Malefant (Mastodon)	Gimmick: Humourful assessment of a GitHub account To "roast" someone means to mock and belittle them in a humorous way and is usually meant in a nice way. This tradition became particularly popular in the USA through the "Dean Martin Show" (see Wikipedia article). The user 'codenoid' has now applied this concept to GitHub accounts: all you have to do is enter the username of an account on the website set up under the title link and you will receive an amusing summary of the activities and projects (including translation into the desired language) with the help of AI. We have been reporting on Richard Körber's projects, who also has a GitHub account, for some time now. He has kindly agreed to let us take the piss out of him here... Thank you! :) "Richard Körber, huh? "Open Source developer and Java professional"? More like a wannabe coder stuck in a retro time warp! Your "little private computer museum" sounds suspiciously like a last-ditch attempt to gather all the discarded tech you couldn't bear to part with. With 71 public repos, it's impressive how you've managed to wring out so little attention – a whopping 0 stars on your computer museum? That's some real dedication to mediocrity! Your stargazers count speaks volumes: maybe a grand total of 501 on "acme4j," but let's be honest; it's not like you're pulling in celebrity-level applause. A whopping 57 followers? It seems like half of them must've hit that follow button on accident! Java enthusiast? More like Java aficionado of obscurity. And what's with the retro obsession? Are you trying to resurrect the 80s or just desperately holding on to some nostalgia? Get it together, Richard - it's time to evolve from your basement's computer graveyard." (dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2024, 19:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2024`	Video: Image and music editing possible with the A600GS? YouTuber 'Proteque' took a look at the now available A600GS computer (amiga-news.de reported), particularly with regard to image and music editing. His conclusion: he has high hopes for the future and is happy to support the project, but currently it was not in a state he can enjoy it. In his opinion, the computer is not intended for the "casual gamer", but for Amiga enthusiasts. What bothers him most at the moment are the slowdowns in the desktop environment due to the 68k emulation and the fact that OctaMED does not start, but this should be fixed this week. As Amiga Kit explains in response to our article, four system updates have been released since the video was published, which have fixed most of the bugs. OctaMED, for example, is now running smoothly again, as a problem with the stack of fonts in the disc font library has been fixed. (dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2024, 13:24] [Comments: 1 - 06. Aug. 2024, 16:41] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2024`	Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v3.7 R104 for Windows 10/11 Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video of version 3.7). Numerous changes have been incorporated since our last news item. In version 3.7, for example, the map editor panel (draw/erase) has been better centred for Windows 11 and all binaries have been compiled with Lazarus V3.4. (dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2024, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	Amiga Kit: A600GS available / Paolo Cattani games pre-installed Press release (PDF): Cardiff, 4th August 2024 Famous Amiga games developer, Paolo Cattani (interview from 2019) has provided his classic Amiga games to be pre-installed on the new A600GS computer. Virtual GP and Thunderhell are installed ready to play on the A600GS. Existing A600GS users can download a free update to install the games to the games menu. Virtual GP was sadly Paolo's last production for the Amiga range of computers shortly after Commodore's bankruptcy. He wanted to to contribute to the Amiga games scene so started the development of Virtual GP (codename AlienF1). VGP would have to accomplish two missions: on the one hand, it would implement a fast 3D engine aimed at hi-specification Amigas (AGA and 68030 required) featuring gouraud shading, texture mapping, billboarding, curved surfaces and all the things that were "hot" at those times; on the other hand, it had to be the most realistic simulation of a Formula One car available on the Amiga. Thunderhell is a classic shoot-em-up game. The game is an horizontal scrolling (with three levels of parallax), fast paced shoot'em up full of enemies, bullets, explosions and all the bells and whistles that one could expect from a game of that genre. Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are thrilled that Paolo has agreed to include his great games with the A600GS. We are grateful for his support of our project." Paolo Cattani added: "As a pioneer in the development of video games for the Amiga range of computers I'm very glad and honoured to give my contribution to an amazing project which keeps alive the memory of a machine that was such a glorious milestone of the IT history." The A600GS is available for around 130 euros (plus shipping) at AmigaKit.com or for around 155 euros (plus shipping) at AmigaKit.fr. (dr) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 19:46] [Comments: 1 - 05. Aug. 2024, 07:33] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	Aminet uploads until 03.08.2024 The following files have been added until 03.08.2024 to Aminet: amrss.lha comm/www 804K MOS amrss - MorphOS RSS w/ SSL cl... zodiac-demo.zip demo/ecs 143K 68k Demo by Zodiac (Nov. 1989) keystate.lha dev/amos 1K AMOS code to read key states wavetables.lha dev/amos 4K Wavetable generator MemLog.lha dev/debug 4K 68k trace unmatched allocs to fin... RogueDeclanDemo.adf game/demo 880K 68k Rogue Declan (Demo) TurboTomatoDemo.adf game/demo 880K 68k Turbo Tomato (Demo) banana.lha game/jump 544K 68k Cute platform game like Rainb... KillEmAll.lha game/shoot 750K 68k Platform shooter based on Ali... traitor4.lha game/shoot 293K 68k Hanger 18 prequel, Syndicate ... Turtleminator.lha game/shoot 995K 68k V1.1 Cannon Fodder style game AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... CFlavor.zip mods/crash 118K Music from the STROBE II demo. CrysJung.zip mods/crash 107K Dramatic/cinematic. 8 bit xm. DeathSquad.zip mods/crash 71K Angry synths and beats. 8 bit xm DreamBurn.zip mods/crash 184K Low toned, hiphop, dark. 8 bi... DriveBY.zip mods/crash 87K Metal from 1993. 8 bit xm Exposure.zip mods/crash 95K A metal epic. 8 bit xm eyesocket.zip mods/crash 77K Noise instr./driving rhythms.... FlameSheep.zip mods/crash 98K Old school music from '92. 8 ... Infexion.zip mods/crash 84K Evil horns/synths & heavy dru... MagneticWaste.zip mods/crash 159K Long expermiental electro 8 b... psychor.lha mods/crash 119K Fast and furious breakbeat. 8... AS_Patch.lha util/boot 12K 68k Fix CPU/FPU Bug in AmigaStart ScreenTime.lha util/time 73K 68k Screen clock with calendar (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	OS4Depot uploads until 03.08.2024 The following files have been added until 03.08.2024 to OS4Depot: cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks... dirmeup_demo.lha uti/fil 17Mb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	AROS Archives uploads until 03.08.2024 The following files have been added until 03.08.2024 to AROS Archives: cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb This is a SDK to make your decks... beebase_kensv4.zip gra/ico 13kb Unofficial kensv4 icon for beebase more_icons_kensv4.zip gra/ico 274kb application and drawer icon kens... (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.08.2024 The following files have been added until 03.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: SDL_2.30.5_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL... fheroes2_1.1.1.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio... Iris_1.32.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email... YouTube-Extractor_2.7.lha Multimedia YT.rexx is a script for... (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	WHDLoad: New installers until 03.08.2024 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 03.08.2024: 2024-08-02 new: Magic Serpent (Software 2000) done by DJ Mike (Info) 2024-07-29 new: Glubble (Oxygene) done by Wepl (Info, Image) (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	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: Castlevania Vampire Killer Tyros Edition Thexder (Dark Side of the C) Formula One Grand Prix Tyros 3 Edition (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	AROS: Review of July 2024 In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of July at the title link. (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024`	Tutorial: Creating a Kickstart disk for the Amiga 1000 with WinUAE (German) Already in mid-July Domingo Fivoli has described how to create a Kickstart disk for the Amiga 1000 in his german Commodore blog at the title link. For this he used the emulator package Amiga Forever and the Amiga Explorer, whereby the kickstart data was read from an Amiga with GrabKick, transferred with CrossDOS and finally written to a disk image file using the program WriteKickDisk. (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2024` IndieRetroNews (Webseite)	Game announcement: Video about "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" (update) Adrian Cummings (Mutation Software) has published a short video at the title link on the current state of development of his game "Dungeonette - The New Adventure", which is announced to be released at the end of the year for AGA Amigas including the Amiga CD³². In a forum the author explained: "It will run on stock Amiga AGA and CD³² with 2 MB Chip-RAM and of course [on THEA500 Mini] etc. It is a hybrid of many games in reality and has some roots in Diablo for sure but also many others as a hack & slash dungeon crawler. Just for the record... Originally the basic game was written for Apple Watch many years back and then also a version was released for Spectrum Next back in 2017/18. This version is all new just for Amiga however and only resembles those previous titles in name only." Update: (18:54, 07.10.24, dr) The release date has now been specified as Friday, 6 December 2024. Since the video under the title link is no longer availale, this Video introduction was done by the German YouTube channel 'MagisthansSpielekiste'. (snx) [News message: 04. Aug. 2024, 07:57] [Comments: 1 - 07. Oct. 2024, 18:57] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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