18.Mar.2025
Indie Retro News
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Speed Haste: MS-DOS racing game ported to the Amiga
The fun shareware racing game Speed Haste, originally developed by NoriaWorks for MS-DOS, has now been successfully ported to the Amiga by Szilard Biro. The game, which gained great popularity in the 90s, offers classic arcade action with Formula 1 and stock car racing, twelve different vehicles and eight different tracks.
The Amiga port requires powerful hardware and at least a 68040 or 68060 processor with FPU, as well as AGA or a graphics card and 4 MB of Fast RAM. The keyboard, joystick or CD32 pad can be used for control. Due to the game's shareware status, only a few tracks and vehicles are available; registration of the game is no longer possible. Nevertheless, it is worth taking a closer look at the game and giving it a few goes.
In addition to the Amiga port published on Aminet, you need three files (SPEED.CFG, RECORDS. LST, SPEEDH.JCL and CR.JCL) from the DOS version of Speed Haste, which have to be copied into the game directory on the Amiga. (nba)
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18.Mar.2025
Electric Black Sheep
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Game: New update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
The team at Electric Black Sheep has updated its space opera "Star Dust Wars – Director's Cut" on a technical level.
The animations have been reprocessed using a new method, which means they are the same size but in slightly better quality. The length of one level in the CD32 version has been shortened by 20%, bringing the ISO size down to under 1CD-700MB, but it is still not recommend to play it on real hardware because of the reading speed. A bug in the AMOS animation player is being fixed, so the problem that the size of a frame cannot exceed 32 KB has been resolved. Thanks to this and the new processing method, the size of the EHB version has been significantly reduced (from 1.63 GB to 1.23 GB)!
Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut ideally requires an Amiga 1200 with a hard disc, accelerator card and Fast RAM, and can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation. (nba)
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17.Mar.2025
Hacker News
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Blog: Amiga 600 - The Amiga no one wanted
Dave Farquhar is a computer security expert who runs the blog "Silicon Underground?" where he writes about computers that aren't usually in the spotlight.
In his latest blog post, he writes about the Amiga 600 and why it became a symbol of everything that was wrong with Commodore and the product line. (dr)
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17.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.8.7
Amiberry-lite is an Amiga emulator based on WinUAE 4.4 and, in contrast to its big brother Amiberry (amiga-news.de reported), is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 5.8.7 has been released here. (dr)
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17.Mar.2025
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Video: The AlgoMusic music program
AlgoMusic is a complex music program that randomly generates and plays a song from a series of algorithms in a techno/house style. In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the program, which was written by Thomas Schürger in 1995, and takes a look at his later work SoundHelix.
Finally, he provides information on the "state of the art" in artificially generated computer music. (dr)
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17.Mar.2025
Acneproduction
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Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: New playable demo of "BDTZ"
BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) is a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze of streets. Ammunition is scarce and shots attract more zombies (amiga-news.de reported).
The new demo version offers a new intro, improved graphics, a newly introduced female zombie character, new sound effects and minor bug fixes. You can choose from three levels and in order to play it, you need both adf files.
The game is still in development, but two playable demos have already been released in the last two weeks. BDTZ should run on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of RAM. (dr)
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16.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to Aminet:
AmigaTText-m68k-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.0M OS3 Shows GER Teletext Site...
AmigaTText-ppc-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.7M OS4 Shows GER Teletext Site...
AmigaTText-ppc-morphos.lha comm/misc 2.4M MOS Shows GER Teletext Site...
AmigaTText-ppc-warpup.lha comm/misc 2.3M WUP Shows GER Teletext Site...
amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga
anaiis.lha driver/oth 256K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas...
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 261K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 85K OS3 Massive / rMassstorage....
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 414K OS3 Driver for G3/G4 PCI ca...
Nightshade.adf game/actio 880K OS3 A game inspired by A.C....
AbsoluteZero.lha game/jump 1.4M OS3 AGA puzzle platformer g...
silhouette-threat-AGA-HD.lha game/jump 438K OS3 Level 1 of Platformer S...
speedhaste.lha game/race 318K OS3 Speed Haste / Circuit R...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine...
OkinawaTeaCer.lha mods/32bit 1.4M GEN 16bit 6ch Karate Kid 2 ...
OkinawaTeaCer.zip mods/8voic 32K GEN 16bit 6ch Karate Kid 2 ...
pfetch.lha util/moni 23K GEN Pretty fetch for MorphO...
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16.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 450kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lfi-png2amiga.lha gra/ico 224kb 4.1 convert PNG icons to Amiga icon ...
viivi.lha gra/vie 323kb 4.1 Picture viewer
afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
videovortex.lha vid/pla 5Mb 4.1 A frontend for YT to search/view...
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16.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Asylum_0.3.2.lha Games/Platform Port of Asylum
Stockfish-17.lha Games/Think Port of Stockfish 17
LoadModel_1.0.lha Graphics/3D Port of OpenGL LoadModel
cmark-gfm-0.29.0.gfm.1... Text/Convert Port of cmark-gfm
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16.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.03.2025
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 15.03.2025:
(snx)
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16.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives: New URL
Following conservation of the forum AROS-Exec, AROS Archives continued to be accessible via the domain aros-exec.org. Now that it has expired, also this file collection can be found via AROSWorld at the title link (as an alias for arosarchives.os4depot.net). (snx)
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16.Mar.2025
Howard Price (ANF)
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Amiga disassembler with emulator: Aira Force 0.9.2 (Windows, Linux, macOS & RPi)
By version 0.9.0 Howard Price released a major update of his disassembler Aira Force for Amiga programs under Windows/64-Bit, Windows/32-Bit, macOS, Linux/64-Bit an the Raspberry Pi. Version 0.9.2 (video) adds blitter fill mode, which is essential for many demos and games such as Another World and F/A-18 Interceptor. It also adds improved DMA debugging and fixes many compatibility issues.
Highlights of the new version:
- Blitter onedot line mode and fill mode = filled vector graphics
- Add DMA window and improve DMA overlay
- Emulator compatibility improvements
- Find hex bytes
- Fix watchpoints
(snx)
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15.Mar.2025
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Simon variant in the style of International Karate: International Kopicat Plus
"International Kopicat Plus" (video) is a variant of the classic electronic game Simon, which has been upgraded with animated graphics in the style of International Karate+. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2025
Paulee Bow (ANF)
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Rare sound cards: AD516 and One Stop Music Shop
In a short video, Paulee Bow presents the two rare sound cards "AD516" and "One Stop Music Shop" installed in his A3000. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.19 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.19 LTS (“long-term support”), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The X1000/X5000-specific changes are:
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2025
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Blog: Copyright and the Demo Scene
In a blog post, Carl Svensson takes a look at the demo scene and its relationship to copyright, including a foray into the history of the (Amiga) scene. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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14.Mar.2025
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Platformer: First demo version of Phantom Leap
HooGames 2017 is currently working on several projects: after a first preview video of a Zelda-like game (amiga-news.de reported), a first demo version of the platformer "Phantom Leap" (video) developed with the Scorpion Engine was released today: in typical Giana Sisters style, you make your way through initially four playable levels and try to "head out" and collect as many coins as possible. The game runs on any Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion. (dr)
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14.Mar.2025
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.0
Version 3.10.0 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, he has put a lot of effort into the stability of the overall package and fixed many bugs. The changes at a glance:
PED
- fixed problem when reloading source file with same file name but different paths
- fixed a gotoline bug, gotoline now displays the current line number instead of "0"
- fixed several mungwall hits reported by MuGuardianAngel
- rewrite of printing routines, source drawing ia now much faster
- rewrite of block selection routine
- killing a block selection will now join both lines enclosing the selection
- improved rendering of cursor
- removed support for italic remarks
- changed behaviour of "Save & Create executable": if the filenames are known, PED will not ask for them each time
- added wheelmouse support to sourcebrowser window
- added tooltip on file tab
- added symbols for debugging mode and tokenization mode in message line
- added feature if mouse click is done with LSHIFT, a block will be selected
REDDebugger
- fixed bug that did not show error messages in status area anymore
- fixed bug crashing on Kick 2.0 due to usage of HelpControl() that is only available with Kick2.1
- started to improve GUI by switching to gadtools for some windows
Compiler
- fixed "Could not allocate memeory" bug in CLI-mode
- fixed bug that corrupted the cli-structure of the shell in CLI-mode
- fixed bug that prevented upper case file extentions
- fixed an openlibrary call before adding local libs-directory to LIBS:-assign
- fixed several mungwall hits reported by MuGuardianAngel
- new feature for userlibs: if a lib is placed in that drawer that libnumber is already loaded, it will replace the already loaded blitzlib. That simplifies testing libchanges a lot
Blitzlibs
- disassembled RIPacklib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled RIFNSlib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled blitzoslib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled maxlenlib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled maxslib converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled lotanmemlib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled datalib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- improved example for RIFNSlib and recompiled lib to work again
- added example code for blitzoslib
- updated ptplayerlib to version 6.4 and updated example
- added warp3dlib and autodocs
other
- fixed icons to be shown nicely with every Workbench version
- fixed AB3FDConvert utility to work with current blitzlibs drawer structure
Download: Amiblitz3100.lha (11 MB) (dr)
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14.Mar.2025
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Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 2.21 (update)
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 2.2 - tagged as the "final release" by the author - offers the following new features:
- New weapon (gravity bomb): missile which creates a point of high gravity, which attracts only your opponent. Contact with that point recudes energy of your opponent.
- problems with the speed of the intro screen solved.
- extended main music tune
- A new nasty gimmick, which inverts left/right of your Joystick for a short time.
- Extended game intro
- Bugfixes
Hyper Wings has been optimised for the Amiga 500 (1 MB RAM, OCS), but also runs on all other Amigas.
Update: (14.03.2025, 22:10, dr)
Version 2.21 offers better performance and stability.
(dr)
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13.Mar.2025
mithrendal (E-Mail)
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Amiga emulator for the web: vAmigaWeb 4.0
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.0 and therefore also supports "Workspaces": these are resource packages that contain the complete Amiga configuration, installed ROMs, floppy disks and hard disks and, unlike the previous "Snapshot" format, are no longer tied to specific versions of vAmiga but will work with all future versions.
In the future, it is planned to export all created workspaces to a ZIP file and import such a file so that all created configurations can be easily backed up and shared with several devices. (cg)
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12.Mar.2025
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DiagROM 2.0 Alpha and (German) Tutorial for usage of the DiagROM
DiagROM is a diagnostic software that is burned into an EPROM by the user and then replaces the regular Kickstart ROM of an Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The alpha version 2.0 has now been released at the title link.
At the same time, Domingo Fivoli has published a two-part German tutorial for the previous version 1.3 on his blog. (snx)
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