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11.Apr.2022

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics:

Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, The Lone Ranger, Silverman y la Isla Esmeralda, Drag’n’drop Deluxe
Parliamo con RetroGames Ltd a proposito di THEA500 Mini
From Vultures to Vampires primo volume – edizione italiana
Ian Hetherington (Psygnosis) e John Madden
AmigaOS 4.1 su PegasosII
Blender – transizioni audio e sottotitoli
Interviste con: Mevlut Dinc (Vivid Image), Colin Vella
E inoltre: Games news, Tech news, Scena demo, Nuovi Talenti, La Posta dei Lettori

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11.Apr.2022
Carlos Peris (Mail)

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.8 with WHDLoad support
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.

The new version 0.9.8 mainly offers some improvements when creating the build: now it is possible to generate automatically a WHDload package which could make distribution easier and also allows the game running on the new THEA500 Mini (see YouTube video). Also, you can choose to compress the game assets, making the build smaller, more suitable when distributing it via floppy. Besides that some minor improvements and a lot of fixes are included. Full Changelog:

WHDLoad support when exporting the game, creating a lha package (LHA and WHDLoad required in C:)
Check instructions in the readme file to run games on The A500 Mini
All image and audio assets can now be compressed when exporting the game (Build button)
New action trigger Orbitate Parent to have and object orbitate another one
Spritesheets and tilesets can be deleted if no longer used
Improved IFF ILBM compatibility for compressed graphics
A bit of rollback to some chip memory optimizations to make the games more stable
In level edit screen scrolls will scroll twice as fast for faster navigation
All exe's are now compiled using latest Amiblitz3.9
HUD texts are using color 1 by default to avoid using the same default background colors
In tileset screen when the tile image file is not valid it will be shown in red
Fix in Autoslice
Fix for projects not using any tileSet
Fix for some random crashes

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11.Apr.2022

Aminet uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to Aminet:

Ghetto_Crew.lha          demo/ecs   331K  68k Ocean Floor demo for GERP2022...
void-dreams37.zip        demo/misc  537K  68k Demopack - April 2022
F1GP2022Carset.lha       game/data  7K        2022 Carset for F1GP
Exult_RTG.lha            game/role  50M   68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
CitadelRemonstered.lha   game/shoot 3.9M  68k Citadel Remonstered
Gotcha199.lha            game/think 78K   68k Pair two numbers to get the 1...
Oz_Game.lha              game/think 27K   68k Logic game based on David Par...
WhatIFF1.04.lha          mags/misc  674K      What IFF? #1.04-March-2022
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.4M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.7M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.9M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
pccard.lha               util/libs  56K   68k Library to parse PCMCIA infor...
ADiffView.lha            util/misc  122K  68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
WHDLoadMenu.lha          util/misc  483K  68k A WHDLoad frontend
Anno.lha                 util/time  327K  68k Reminder and calendar utility

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11.Apr.2022

OS4Depot uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to OS4Depot:

amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
jasspa-memacs.lha        uti/tex 2Mb   4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...

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11.Apr.2022

AROS Archives uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to AROS Archives:

nmtm.lzx                     gam/adv 26Mb  Point and click adventure game

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11.Apr.2022

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:

MirrorCopy_2.5.lha        Files/Tools               A clone of MirrorCopy b...
Symmetrix_1.0.lha         System/Ambient/Blankers   Screen Blanker for MorphOS
Uptime_1.5a.lha           System/Ambient/Screenbar  Display Uptime in scree...

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11.Apr.2022

WHDLoad: New installers until 09.04.2022
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 09.04.2022:

2022-04-09 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
2022-04-09 improved: Legend of the Lost (Impressions) keyboard problems on 68000 machines fixed, manual included (Info)
2022-04-08 improved: Dan Dare 3 (Speed Buggy) keyboard problems on 68000 machines fixed, manual included (Info)
2022-04-07 improved: Data Storm (Visionary Design) added joypad controls & trainer, fixed keyboard, 68000 quitkey, added manual (Info)
2022-04-06 improved: Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep (Interplay) AGA flag removed, use less memory, trainers and solution added, install script updated (Info)
2022-04-05 improved: Operation Harrier (U.S.Gold) CD32 joypad support added, byte write to volume register fixed, default quitkey changed to Del, interrupts fixed (Info)
2022-04-04 improved: Last Ninja 3 (System 3) level code can be entered with CD32 joypad buttons (REVERSE/FORWARD), latest joypad reading code used (Info)
2022-04-04 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) fixed spurious delay/button click, restart now works (Info)
2022-04-04 new: Green Beret (Dante Retro Dev) done by JOTD (Info)
2022-04-04 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) support for 512k chip, sound fixed (Info)
2022-04-03 improved: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) 68000/NoVBRMove quitkey support (Info)
2022-04-03 updated: Ninja Remix (System 3) patch redone, trainer options added, CD32 joypad support, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)

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09.Apr.2022
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.2
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-news.de reported).

In version 0.2 the checking of DOSDISK and the determination of the name of the floppy disk is improved. In addition, minor bugs have been fixed and BAMcopy now works.

Download: gcopy.zip (30 MB) (dr)

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09.Apr.2022 Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.0 Beta 2
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS, vAmiga. Parallel to the current update of the Amiga emulator, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application with the latest vAmigaCore and fixed a few minor bugs. (dr)

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09.Apr.2022

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 3 (update)
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the second beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:

Bug fixes:

Fixed a graphics bug caused by returning an erroneous value from DENISEID
Several smaller GUI tweaks

Enhancements:

Added support for the debug board implemented by @mras0
Improved HDF geometry prediction
A new write-through mode makes hard drives persistent
Added several new debugging features:

Catchpoints (stops emulation on CPU exceptions)
Software traps
Copper breakpoints and Copper watchpoints
Rudimentary callstack recording

The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.

Update: (11.04.2022, 06:28, dr)

Meanwhile beta version 3 was released.

Bug fixes:

Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash during startup on some machines
Drag and drop was broken for drives other than Df0 and Hd0

Enhancements:

Hard drive controller is now compatible with Kickstart 1.2
Status bar icon reports the initialisation state of the HD controller
New app icon

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07.Apr.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite) New maps for a classic Dungeon Crawler: Blackest Crypt
Raven's 1992 Dungeon Crawler Black Crypt just got five new dungeons developed by a fan of the game. The mission pack is called "Blackest Crypt", changes only the levels while the story stays the same and works with both a WHDLoad install and the disk version of the original game.

Direct download: BlackestCrypt010.lha (74 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)

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