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Archive 05/2025

`03.May.2025` Puni (ANF)	AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup - April 2025 The blog “Gaming on AmigaOS 4” has again published a monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4. (cg) [News message: 03. May. 2025, 22:43] [Comments: 1 - 04. May. 2025, 13:45] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.May.2025` (ANF)	Java program: ham_convert 1.11.1 Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based programme ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format. Changes in version 1.11.1: Higher quality Lanczos image resizing. Older Bicubic was too blurry Support for additional input formats: webp, psd, pict, pcx, tga Command line input image resizing is now also supported. Enable using the resize_Width_Height parameter, for example resize_320_240 Updated command line parameter descriptions, missing or incorrect mode/parameter messages MSX2+ screen 10 conversion can now use palette colors to reduce jagged blocky artefacts characteristic of YJK (4×1 attribute clash) Bug fixes (cg) [News message: 03. May. 2025, 22:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2025` Mastodon	Amiga Games That Weren't: Mars Cops At the end of September last year, the website Games That Weren't reported on the space shooter "Mars Cops" planned by Arcana Software at the end of the 1980s. Pete Galey informed the editors of the website that there was a demo version of the Amiga version on number 488 of the 17 bitit public domain disk. This can now be tested. (dr) [News message: 02. May. 2025, 06:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2025`	Developer log: Amiga Isometric #10 Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de berichtete). In the tenth issue (video), he reports on the remaining creation of Zone 2 and a bonus zone. (dr) [News message: 02. May. 2025, 06:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2025`	SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death 1.0 At the end of November, 'Quantum Code Monk' released a first pre-release version of its Scala MM game conversion "The Angel of Death" for AmiGameJam 2024, which is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game released by Sierra in 1987. As Jessie Bains, you try to take control of the drug trade in the town of Lytton. The graphics have been reworked and are heavily inspired by the original game. A few side quests, a points management system and a very simple luck mini-game have also been added. AmigaOS 3.x as well as Scala or the Scala Player are required. Also 4 MB RAM and a minimum resolution of 640x512. (dr) [News message: 02. May. 2025, 06:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.May.2025` AmigaKit	Emulator hardware: CPU Boost Kit available for "A1200 NG" As announced a good week ago, AmigaKit is now offering a CPU Boost Kit for the "A1200 NG" emulator solution for around 24 euros, which increases the performance of the board by up to 20 per cent by boosting the CPU from 1.5 GHz to 1.7 GHz. After activating the CPU boost option in the main menu, SysInfo reports around 300 MIPs (previously 250 MIPs) according to AmigaKit. (dr) [News message: 02. May. 2025, 06:06] [Comments: 1 - 03. May. 2025, 00:50] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2025` David Brunet (ANF)	New articles on Obligement website The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News from March/April 2025 News: AROS in 2024 News: What's new for ANAIIS? Old articles from Génération 4 36 to 41: News: Behind the scenes of Drakkhen 2 development, Behind the scenes of BAT 2 development, Gremlin - a greater ambition Reviews: Hare Raising Havoc, Vengeance of Excalibur, No Buddies Land, Advantage Tennis, World Class Rugby, Shadow Sorcerer, etc Interview with Hal Barwood Interview with Roland Florac (Amiga developer) Interview with Mev Din (game designer) Hardware: Sew Ready case for Amiga 500 DIY: AmigaOne XE part 1, "quickly and easily" upgrades Articles from ZINE diskmag #°1 (October 1989) File: The game tuning process during development Tutorial: Using Smart SMBFS on MorphOS Tutorial: Installing Odyssey 64 bits on AxRT Linux Tutorial: Tips for the AmigaOS 3.9 Shell/ViNCEd Programming: Music and drawing in C and SDL2 on MorphOS Programming: Programming a cracktro on the Amiga 500 (three parts) Programming: Creating a demo chapter 4, part 1, the Blitter Amiga quiz specially generated by Gemini artificial intelligence (cg) [News message: 01. May. 2025, 17:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2025` Youtube: Paddys Retro Kanal (ANF)	Video: Amiga Talk - Die Reise geht weiter! (German) A (German) video discussion was published on Paddy's retro channel, in which Chris Hülsbeck, Michael Spindler, Dennis Pauler, MIGs Yesterchips and Matthias Heinrichs were guests. Michael Spindler, for example, developed his own Akiko32 board and his own Amiga laptop. Chris Hülsbeck answered questions that were put to him. (snx) [News message: 01. May. 2025, 05:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2025`	Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.3 The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimix, which however requires a very fast computer (68060 processor with 64 MB or actually designed for PiStorm extensions). The port of MAME version 0.106, which dates back to 2006, is now available in version 1.3 and offers further corrections regarding the AGA and OCS native modes and the emulation of various games. (snx) [News message: 01. May. 2025, 05:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2025`	Video: A-Z Of Amiga Music The approximately one-hour video "A-Z Of Amiga Music" presents the music of various Amiga titles in alphabetical order of the game names, from Alien Breed to Zone Warrior. (snx) [News message: 01. May. 2025, 05:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.May.2025` Mastodon (ANF)	Event: Canberra Vintage Computer Exhibition 2025 On July 19/20, with the support of the Australian Computer Museum Society and the Vintage Computer Federation, the Canberra Vintage Computer Exhibition will take place for the fourth time - this time in the McCowage Hall of the Daramalan College in Dickson. (snx) [News message: 01. May. 2025, 05:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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