25.Jun.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to AROS Archives:
whatiff2.10.lha doc/mis 1Mb Magazine on AmigaGuide "Jun...
eaqne1.lzx gam/adv 18Mb Adventure detectives, crimes an...
easyrpg.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 4Mb play games created with RPG Make...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 53kb A FUSE compatible file system layer
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha net/sam 82kb SMB2/3 file system client
(snx)
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25.Jun.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.28.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies All Libraries SDL : SDL...
AmiArcadia_29.41.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
REminiscence_0.5.1.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
EAQNE-1_2.0.lha Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
NetFS_3.2.lha Network/Filesystem Network File System for...
Easy2Install_1.0b16.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
(snx)
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25.Jun.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.06.2023
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 24.06.2023:
(snx)
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25.Jun.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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Event: Look Behind You and Gameplan at the Level Up in Salzburg (Austria)
In addition to Amiga Future, the two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will also participate at Level Up in Austria for the first time this year. Below you can read the translation of their official press release:
"Level Up is the first Austrian gaming and eSports festival that brings together recreational gamers, professionals, gaming fans, as well as creators and stars of the scene in an experiential atmosphere to experience new trends and celebrate their shared passion. But retro computing will not be neglected either: in a separate retro area, those interested can experience historic computers live.
The two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will be taking part in Level Up for the first time this year. At the joint booth, the two publishers, who focus on video game culture and retro technology, will offer their complete book program, including 'Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972-2022', 'Die Geheimnisse von Monkey Island', 'Atari: Kunst und Design der Videospiele' und 'Die Kunst von Assassin's Creed Valhalla'. Publishers Winnie Forster (Gameplan) and Nico Barbat (LBY) will be on hand throughout.
Visitors will also be able to play through the adventure game 'The Secret of Monkey Island' on an Amiga 1000 at the joint booth of LBY and Gameplan. A special exhibit will be the rare Vectrex game console, released in 1982, which visitors will also be able to try out for themselves. Revolutionary at the time, the device from General Consumer Electronics features a built-in vector screen and is often referred to as the first 'truly portable' game console.
There's something for everyone at Level Up, whether you're a hobby gamer, eSports pro, cosplayer, retro fan, indie aficionado, card gamer, tabletop player or game-loving family. Particularly successful program items from previous years will be back this year. Among others, the Level Up Icarace World Championships, the high-class Rocket League tournament Morekats Mayhem #4, cosplay action in cooperation with Animix, tabletop and card gaming in cooperation with Gamers Finest Salzburg and CardArena, a drone championship, as well as a charity stream to raise money for charity. There will also be a separate FSK16+ area, where players and orgs will battle it out in tournaments without youth clearance.
Level Up will take place from July 1 to 2, 2023 at the Messezentrum Salzburg. Tickets are available in advance and at the box office. To ensure that this year's event is once again a pleasure for the whole family, visitors under 16 pay a reduced price, while children under 12 attend the event completely free of charge." (snx)
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24.Jun.2023
Twitter
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Game announcement: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero"
After Nivrig Games had already published some preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), the official game announcement now followed with the opening of the itch.io project site: the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (latest YouTube video) will be released this summer and can be played at the Kickstart taking place next weekend in England.
The plot: "The wizards have been at it again, and this time they've accidentally opened Hellgates under the castle! Now it's up to you, brave brave Sir Declan, to search each procedurally generated castle dungeon and find enough magical shards to access and close its gate.
Armed with a magical Caster Sword, potions you find, and perhaps the occasional legendary charm, Sir Declan must fight demons that escaped from the gate, avoid traps, and collect treasures to trade for battle enhancements, before finally facing the Hellgates themselves." Features:
- 50fps 2D hell-blasting action
- Billions of procedurally generated dungeons
- Multiple control schemes,
- including new Abstraction Games twin-stick controller
- Online high score table
- Many enemies and traps to defeat
- Upgrades to unlock as you progress
- Legendary artefacts to recover
- Hapless villagers to save
An Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip RAM and 512 KB other RAM are required. (dr)
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24.Jun.2023
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Text comparison tool: ADiffView 2.4
ADiffView compares two ASCII text files and displays the differences graphically. The diff engine uses Eugene Myers' diff algorithm. After Uwe Rosner had already published version 2.4 for MorphOS in May, this version is now also available for AmigaOS 3 (direct download, 134 KB). Changes:
- Behavior: When ADiffView opens its own screen it is now a public screen named ADIFFVIEW.1. This number is incremented for each instance. The name of the screen where ADiffView is actually running is displayed in the About requester.
- Behavior: On AmigaOS 3.1.4 and newer when ADiffView opens its own screen the new off-screen dragging mode is enabled. This allows windows to be dragged beyond the screen borders.
- Behavior: Added (ToolType / CLI) argument EDITORONPUBSCREEN. When this is set and the editor (see EDITOR argument) supports a PUBSCREEN argument it will be opened on the ADiffView screen. The default editor C:Ed doest't support it, but OS3.1.4+ Tools/TextEdit does.
- Behavior: The editor is now started asynchronously.
- Fixed user interface and selection glitches that occurred when different screen or window title bar heights were set in OS3.1.4.+ Prefs/IControl.
- Built with the OS3.2 NDK.
(dr)
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23.Jun.2023
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MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software.
This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes:
- added looping for DOS .prf music
- changed audio mixer to stereo
- updated timings for cutscenes
(dr)
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23.Jun.2023
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed, a new logo and some new extensions and themes have been added.
Download: sealion-32.2.1-linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (54 MB) (dr)
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23.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
- Add USB Gamepad mapping.
- Disable SDL_FRAMEBUFFER_ACCELERATION only if user hasn't overridden it.
Download: SDL2.lha (6,8 MB) (dr)
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23.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update)
The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color again, is memory-efficient but slow for individual changes and, with the advent of 3D graphics and fast memory on graphics cards, has fallen behind the chunky display of PCs and Macs.
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach described in detail in the documentation in the archive at the title link to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all.
Videos at the title link demonstrate the effects made possible by the fact that chunky-like each dot on the screen is defined by its own byte in Chip RAM. Among the examples included there is also one showing how to use a PED81C display in AMOS programs.
Update: (09:22, 25.06.23, snx)
Mistake corrected regarding bitplane scrolling. (snx)
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22.Jun.2023
Twitter
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Book project: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" can be pre-ordered
In March 2023, the book project "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the book can be pre-ordered at a currently reduced price of 40 euros (instead of 44.90 euros) plus shipping. (dr)
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22.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to have fallen short of expectations -, the other one with BitbeamCannon about the game "Metro Siege", which has been announced for four years now and for which still no completion date is foreseeable due to limited spare time. (snx)
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22.Jun.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes:
Fixes:
- Starting with command line "HiP "
or with a "Startup" playlist and with random play mode always played the
first entry, not a random entry, fixed this.
- Fix search view sometimes not showing the last two list items.
- Increased the maximum width of the window, so it can be resized wider
than before.
- Loading with "XFDmaster library" was fixed already in the previous
version but I forgot to mention it in the last changelist.
- PlaySid on kickstart 1.3: playing PSIDs on kick 1.3 could
crash previously. There is now a fixed kick 1.3 specific playsid.library
included, which is the latest official original version with some kick 1.3
specific fixes. Use the other included library for newer kickstarts.
- AHI: Improved SBLive compatibility when stopping playback.
New features:
- A new prefs option "Prefs/Play-1/Position slider" enables a
slider in the main window which can be used to select the playing
position. This works for the most common module types supporting
pattern skipping. It also enables seeking locally played
MP3 files.
- Updated 8bitbubsy's xmaplay060 from version v0.41 to v0.46.
(dr)
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22.Jun.2023
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Icon-Library 46.4.577
In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icons into PNG format and optionally scale them with the help of ImageConverter. (dr)
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22.Jun.2023
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Video: RTG screen mode with Amiga 1200 and Indivision AGA MK3
In its latest video, the YouTube channel "Hold and Modify" shows how to achieve a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with an Amiga 1200 without a graphics card but equipped with an Indivision AGA MK3. (dr)
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22.Jun.2023
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Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200
About three years ago, revision 1.5 of John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 was released. In a two-part video (part 1, part 2), the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" creates this clone. (dr)
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21.Jun.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 14
The 14th issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics:
- Video Games: CyberPunks 2, Tapper, Poker Nights: Tropical Heat, KalleKloakk, Chopper Duel, Tenebra 2, Galaxian500, The Ninja Zombie Killer
- Articles: What will happen to our Amigas?
- Tech: Invasion of the Replicants
- Tech: Amiga GCC, first steps
- Blender course, part 6
- Hardware: DueOttoSei
- Interviews with: David Rowe and Jerr O'Carroll
- And also: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, New Talents, Mailbox
- Coverdisk: Playable demo of Super Metal Hero (A1200 and CD³² version)
(snx)
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19.Jun.2023
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.1 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2.0.1 mainly fixes bugs of the previous version:
- Made Future Composer player more robust for empty modules.
- If you have set up Windows to use more than 2 channels, NostalgicPlayer crashed when trying to play a module. Big thanks to Robert Konrad (RobDangerous) for the fix.
- If the very first line is selected in the module list, then the page-down key didn't work.
- In some rare situations the Piano visualizer crashes when fast-forwarding with an invalid argument error.
- Some mp3 files was not recognized as so.
- Fixed different bugs when double-clicking a file to open it in NostalgicPlayer.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)
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19.Jun.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
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Video: "Browservice" under Linux and AmigaOS 4
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, explains in a video along with the accompanying video description how to set up Browservice - a web "proxy" server that allows surfing the internet on historical browsers - under Linux in order to then be able to use it with the Odyssey browser under AmigaOS 4. Comparable to AmiFox for AmigaOS 3 or AROS, Browservice converts the browser view window into images, which are then displayed by a JavaScript application on the client browser. (dr)
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18.Jun.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Support by editors SciTE and Notepad++ (Update)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: The popular editors SciTE and Notepad++ now also support Hollywood by default.
SciTE supports Hollywood beginning with version 5.3.6 and Notepad++ supports Hollywood beginning with version 8.5.2. SciTE is especially interesting for Linux and macOS users, since on these platforms no Hollywood IDE is available.
Update: (16:50, 19.06.23, snx)
Our reader Michael Jurisch rectifies: By his Hollywood extension for Visual Studio Code there is an alternative editor available for Linux and macOS. (snx)
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