31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Hired Guns (Awesome Megablast)
(snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Trademark protection: Cloanto withdraws opposition against Intellivision's Amico
After being forced by third party to defend the Amiga trademarks against Intellivision's "Amico" game console, Cloanto now filed a motion to withdraw their opposition at USPTO with prejudice, meaning that the opposition is replaced by a separate agreement between the parties, which prevails (PDF file).
On Twitter Amiga Corporation commented: "Amiga and Amico both mean friend. To stop any speculation: we had a productive exchange about coexistence, and concerns were resolved. Amiga wishes Intellivision all the best for its entertainment project." (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 127 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
Download pages:
Italian (Schlüssel: DrdBPIPM8WFERqI5_4EmunyBTL4LjwTmvKi1-PHVvIM)
English (Schlüssel: OyoO3QZtiOz4GzRYsb-gu3vjCTmZSm8oxE_pYjcniAg) (snx)
[News message: 31. Oct. 2021, 07:11] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2021
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.2
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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.
Regarding the major jump from the previous version 0.8.13 to the latest 0.9.1, we have asked the author for some additional information which he kindly provided:
"Version 0.9 is a big step forward in the game creator progress, not just for the number of features that have been added but because it makes game development easier than before which is why Redpill exists in the first place. For each level you can define the music to play, the transition effects, the background to use and a lot more things. Before you had to use some triggers to set up these values per level as they were set up only for the project. Adding and browsing objects and tiles is much easier with the shortcuts added in the screens, editing levels if faster now (YouTube video).
The performance has also improved as has the compatibility with 68000 cpus (older versions required a 68020). The audio engine now uses PHX library which means that you have music and sounds at the same time without using a 3 channels mod.The sprite layer support is much better now, supporting 16 colors layer (instead of 4 color) and setting it up in the background or the foreground of the screen (YouTube video). When running in AGA, games use 24bit color precission and gradients even if the game is ECS. There are many other fixes and improvements thanks to the feedback from users.
These are two YouTube example tutorials showing how to do some type of games, and how fast is to get results:
Currently some games are in developemnt:
A lot of effort has been put into this rekease, I hope the Amigans enjoy it".
Update: (04.11.21, 20:40, dr)
Meanwhile version 0.9.2 is available on Aminet which mainly fixes bugs. (dr)
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30.Oct.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.0
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
"I just released a new version of MediaVault for everyone to play with this weekend. With this version, a couple of new features arrived and a few fixes as well. With MediaVault v1.5.0 you will be able to mark online radio stations and podcasts as your favourite ones and have them listed in a separate list. This way you will be able to find and start listening to them much faster, without the need to search all the time for them.
To do that, above the play button, there is now a small yellow star with a plus sign, which you can use to add the radio station or podcast to the favourite list. This then changes to a star with a red minus sign, so to remove it from the favourite list. To enable those buttons you have first to find in the lists the one you want, select it and then the buttons will be enabled.
While we are on that, there is also one more button available, whenever you select a podcast episode, which can be found beside the little star, above the play button. By clicking on that when an episode is selected, the episode is added at the "Listen Later" list, under the Podcast section at the left sidebar. This way you can mark episodes you would like to listen to when you have more time.
If you already use the previous version, please use the self-update process, which you can find in the application menu. This can be used to update to the latest available version automatically, and before you do that, the whole changelog is shown.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making it better and better." (dr)
[News message: 30. Oct. 2021, 07:48] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2021
Polnisches Amiga Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Comparison of video players (Polish)
In a detailed article - Polish original bzw. automatic translation - the author 'MUFA' has reviewed the different video players available for AmigaOS 4: Tested with an AmigaOne X1000 equipped with a Radeon HD R9 270 graphics card and an AmigaOne X5000 equipped with a Radeon RX 560 graphics card. Test candidates has been on the one hand the free MPlayer and FFPlay as well as the two commercial players DvPlayer and Emotion. He also has include in his consideration the support of the Unified Video Decoder (UVD).
Verdict: As of now, he recommends Emotion for overall performance. He awards second place to MPlayer for the best player without UVD support as well as its exemplary stability and free availability. Only in third place he sees DvPlayer, whereby he points out that with Hans De Ruiter a proven expert is entrusted with the further development and he therefore expects a lot from future versions. (dr)
[News message: 30. Oct. 2021, 07:22] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2021
Commodore 64 Forum
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Text adventure: "Darkest Hour" released
Darkest Hour is an old-fashioned text adventure game, available for several platforms and also for AmigaOS 3.
Die Story: "Halloween is almost here, but something is happening that's much scarier than the annual haunted house at the fire hall. There are rumors of a vampire - a real one - attacking people at night. Of course most people think it's just silly; who wouldn't? But people are going missing, and others swear they've seen it. It's up to you to track down this vampire, stop it if possible. The question is, will you even survive the night?" (dr)
[News message: 29. Oct. 2021, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 18 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about sprites and tables. (dr)
[News message: 29. Oct. 2021, 06:55] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2021
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French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 2 available
Following the successful first issue of the French-language print magazine "Boing," Boing Attitude (known for the file manager Dir Me Up and the quiz game Word Me Up XXL, among others) has announced the release of the second issue.
The magazine is dedicated to Amiga in all its diversity (AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and Aros) and offers in the second issue among other things an exclusive interview with Romain Canonge, one of the co-founders of Amiga Dream magazine and a test of the game Athanor 2 including the interview with its author Eric Safar. Also included are tests of the games Wrong Way Driver, Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons and the multimedia application Mediavault. (dr)
[News message: 28. Oct. 2021, 09:44] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2021
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update v.012 for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes support for new mouse models. RysWheel driver has been given option to turn off the wheel driver operation (Stop option).
Added support for models:
- Logitech M-BT83
- Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse
- LogiLink ID0010
- Acer SM-9023
- Logitech RX 250
- Logitech RX 300
- A-EON MX 1000-4
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.12_beta.hex (Firmware, 123 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.12.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB) (dr)
[News message: 28. Oct. 2021, 07:00] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2021
reddit
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2.7 mainly offers HD floppy disk support. All this work has fed back into WinUAE meaning that WinUAE (and soon Amiberry) will also support real HD disks in real-time.
As he stated, "the official WinUAE will support this in v4.9 when it’s released via a plug-in (FloppyBridge) from my site. That plug-in gives you a few more options to increase speed."
Besides, it is possible to be placed on a waiting list: Smith sells his little board for USB Slimline disk drives for 25 British Pound plus shipping. The boards are fully compatible to Arduino Software (IDE) which enables future firmware updates.
All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license. (dr)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2021, 07:26] [Comments: 0]
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26.Oct.2021
AMIGAworld (Twitter)
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GitHub project: Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660'
On GitHub the developer 'shanshe' has started a project for the Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660' which is based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board as well as the Z-turn Board. In contrast to the A3660 (currently) only 060 CPU are supported. If Z-turn FPGA is not used, then you get a simple A3660. The only difference is that all A3660 PLDs are replaced by a XC95144XL-TQ144 CPLD. If you use a Z-turn FPGA, then you can add 128 MB of CPU RAM (more RAM, RTG, AHI, USB, SCSI are planned in the future). (dr)
[News message: 26. Oct. 2021, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2021
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MorphOS: QR-Code generator 'QRCodeLab'
MorphOS developer Frank Mariak has released a MUI tool called 'QRCodeLab' which can be used to easily create QR codes and afterwards copying them to the Clipboard or saving them as pictures. We have tested the tool using our Amiga-News website: Working!
As the author wrote, "currently, it only supported encoding to UTF8 and non of the other compressed formats like numeric and/or alphanumeric are supported to reduce the code size. It dynamically adjusts the QRCode version based on the length of string."
If you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement, please feel free to contact the author via mail. (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 2.1 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.1. This release contains several minor bug fixes and one major bug fix for the Amiga compatible platforms. Because of a major bug in the Amiga versions of RapaGUI 2.0, everybody should upgrade to RapaGUI 2.1. RapaGUI 2.1 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (dr)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2021, 06:36] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Reprint: 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium'
In 2014, the book 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In a reprint available from 22. November "over the course of some 420 pages, 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' showcases more than 140 of the biggest titles, bringing them vividly to life with a double-page screen grab or loading page. Each is accompanied by quotes and commentary from renowned Amiga artists, developers and publishers, including R.J. Mical, David Braben, Sid Meier, Ron Gilbert, Julian Eggebrecht, Tobias Richter, Dave Gibbons and many more. In this latest reprint of Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium, we’ve added a handful of new game reviews, as well as including a spread for Dune. Contributor entries now include their role in the game or profession, in line with more recent visual compendiums." (dr)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2021, 06:34] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 80K 68k Gemini protocol browser
FTPMount1.4_Fixed.lha comm/tcp 246K 68k Fixed Installer for FTPMount 1.4
AGAInside.lha demo/aga 26K 68k AGA Inside - legendary russia...
aqb-0.7.3.lha dev/basic 250K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
AMICUBE_NTSC.adf game/think 880K 68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
gipoker.lha game/wb 314K 68k Poker game
puzzleballs.lha game/wb 203K 68k PuzzleBalls game
skyballs.lha game/wb 198K 68k SkyBalls game
tressette.lha game/wb 334K 68k Tressette a Perdere card game
xiffview.tgz misc/unix 39K IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
siddump.lha mus/misc 73K MOS C64 music debug output utility
MMV8_2_PCM.lha mus/play 9K 68k MusicMaker V8 to PCM converter
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 202K 68k File indexing and search util...
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 331K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.16
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 160K WOS PNG image datatype V45.24
multimediatags.lha util/misc 11K MOS Dump meta data from sound fil...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 137K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
lvl.pointers.lha util/mouse 12K mouse pointer presets for RTG...
(snx)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2021, 08:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
hp_deskjet_cmyk.lha dev/exa 65kb 4.0 HP PCL printer driver example so...
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.0 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations a...
mediavault_script.lha net/mis 12kb 4.0 Choose player or download stream...
(snx)
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24.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Multimediatags.lha Audio/Misc Dump meta data from sou...
SIDDump_1.08.lha Audio/Misc C64 music debug output ...
Void-Feedback_11.lha Demoscene Music Disk for MorphOS
OpenTTD_1.12.0.lha Games/Strategy A clone of Transport Ty...
Pixy_1.0_alpharelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
QRCodeLab_0.8.lha Misc A simple MUI tool to cr...
WarpJPEGdt_45.16.lha System/Datatypes JFIF-JPEG datatype
WarpPNGdt_45.24.lha System/Datatypes PNG image datatype V45.22
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24.Oct.2021
Twitter (ANF)
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Amigaworld.de: Do-it-yourself Amiga 600/1200 CF-IDE adapter
At the title link Amigaworld.de published an - in revision D now also buffered - do-it-yourself CompactFlash to IDE adapter for the Amiga 600/1200 including an HD-LED fix and a second port for another drive. (snx)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2021, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2021
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Tech-Demo: Update for 'Street Fighter 2' game with Scorpion Engine
'Street Fighter 2' is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. The update for the playable demo version includes the following changes:
- Added (fake) character selection, (cursor moves and has some sounds)
- Improved palette for HUD, VS screen and win screen
- Added Ken walking towards Ryu if he's too far away (buggy)
- Added small knockback when Ken gets hit
- Added P1 score with correct font and KO sfx
(dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2021
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Countdown: C64 & Amiga game music remade as epic film scores
Running until Sunday, 24. October 00:39 CEST, a Kickstarter campaign tries to finance the C64 & Amiga game music album 'Epic Action Vol1' (amiga-news.de reported). So far 13.000 Euro from the required 23.000 Euro were payed. On our request a member of Prismatic Realms told that a failure of the financing also definitely mean the end for the project. But in any case the group will continue to develop retro games. (dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 08:14] [Comments: 0]
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