30.Mar.2021
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Playable preview: Unfinished shooter 'Blork'
'Blork' was a horizontally-scrolling shoot'em-up game developed in the mid-nineties which was never finished. The project 'Games That Weren't' succeeded in finding a playable demo version of the game. You can watch a video there as well.
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30.Mar.2021
Christoph Fassbach (E-Mail)
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End user help wanted: VirusZ and xvs.library to become open source
Georg Wittmann (formerly Hörmann) plans to release the source codes of his projects VirusZ and xvs.library after 15 years of inactivity. Before that he wants to make sure that his anti-virus software runs on AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (m68k): Since he himself does not have most of the systems mentioned, he has written a short program that collects and outputs information about the current computer. He asks that as many users as possible with one of the mentioned operating systems run the program and send him the output by e-mail. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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29.Mar.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Plattformer: Erste spielbare Alpha von 'Super Delivery Boy'
The platformer previously known as Mr. Mochi's Delivery Service is now called 'Super Delivery Boy' (video). A current alpha version of the game developed with the Scorpion Engine can be downloaded from the developer's website, but it clearly warns about numerous bugs that are still present. (cg)
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29.Mar.2021
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Graphic designer Metin Seven about the history of Softeyes/Team Hoi
Metin Seven recounts his time as a graphic designer for various commercial Amiga games in a blog entry. Seven was part of the developer team "Softeyes", which later functioned as "Team Hoi". (cg) (Translation: bb)
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29.Mar.2021
hjoerg (ANF)
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Interview: ASCII artist Yop (Shrimps Design)
At the title link, Lars Sobiraj did an interview with the german ASCII artist 'Yop' of Shrimps Design. The 45 y.o. had been active since 1993 in the Amiga ASCII scene and recollects how much he did like to work with the text editor CygnusED back then. Today, however, he doesn't own an Amiga anymore and is rarely using an emulator even. (snx)
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28.Mar.2021
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Enhancer Software 2
Today, version 2 of the AmigaOS 4.1 extension package "Enhancer Software" by A-EON Technology has been released. Customers who have purchased the "Enhancer Software Graphics Update" before can download it for free using the "Updater" utility. According to customers, the full version is available in Amistore for about 120 USD.
New features include for example hardware-accelerated video decoding on Radeon Polaris graphic cards, an extension of the OpenGLES 2 library, preferences for the power settings of Radeon Southern Islands/Oland and Polaris cards, an archiver tool for the major kinds of compressed archives and additional datatypes.
New features:
- Video Acceleration Library has been added to support hardware video decoding on Radeon Polaris cards
- Warp3D Nova has been updated to support the new Video Acceleration library as well as many important improvements and bug fixes
- OpenGLES 2 library has been expanded with more functionality and bug fixes
- SensorMaster library: a new hardware Sensor API for the first time on next generation systems
- Power Prefs has been added to control the Power settings on Radeon Southern Islands/Oland and Polaris cards
- Archiver tool has been added offering compression and unarchiving on major compressed archives
- InfoWB commodity has been added providing volume information using PieChart Gadget and CRC32 information
- MultiViewer: now supports new Toolbar gadget class with many updates and fixes implemented
- MultiEdit: now supports new Toolbar gadget class with many updates and fixes implemented
- Notifications (Ringhio): now supports modern slide in notification animations with a new library of alert sounds added. Many bug fixes implemented
- Format: now displays volume capacity information using PieChart Gadget. Supports ListViewer, InfoData and ProgressBar gadget
- Updater and AmiSphereServer: overhaul/rewrite of many functions with many bug fixes
- Warp2D Library added
- AK-Datatypes added: GIF, IFF-ILBM, PNG, TIFF
- Sound Datatypes upgraded
- Brand new Datatypes library
Bug-fixed components:
- TuneNet
- AmiPDF
- Clock
- X-Dock
- Almost all of the Gadgets/Classes
Changes by category:
- Classes
- Anim Gadget v53.7 (updated)
- InfoData Class v53.3 (updated)
- InfoWindow Class v53.10 (updated)
- ListViewer Gadget v53.31 (updated)
- OptionButton Gadget v53.2 (updated)
- TickBox Gadget v53.13 (updated)
- ToolBar Gadget v53.6 (updated)
- Select Gadget v53.7 (updated)
- SliderBar Gadget v53.22 (updated)
- Commands
- AddDatatypes v54.5 (added)
- Assign v54.2 (added)
- Copy v54.5 (added)
- Dir v54.1 (added)
- List v54.6 (added)
- MakeDir v54.7 (added)
- Version v54.8 (added)
- Commodities
- Clipviewer v1.12 (updated)
- InfoWB v53.23 (added)
- Datatypes
- AK-GIF v54.14 (added)
- AK-ILBM v54.14 (added)
- AK-JFIF v54.15 (added)
- AK-PNG v54.15 (added)
- AK-TIFF v54.17 (added)
- MOD v54.3 (updated)
- MPEGA v54.10 (updated)
- Sound v54.10 (updated)
- WAV v54.10 (updated)
- Devices
- A1222 AHI sound driver v6.3 (added)
- A1222 ethernet device v1.2 (added)
- HDAudio AHI sound driver v6.23 (added)
- OxygenHD AHI sound driver v4.1 (added)
- USBADM8511 device v53.11 (added)
- X5000 ethernet device v52.6 (added)
- Kickstart
- RadeonHD v3.6 (updated)
- RadeonRX v2.4 (added)
- L
- SSH2-Handler v53.12 (added)
- Libraries
- Clipview Library v1.12 (updated)
- Codesets Library v6.21 (updated)
- Datatypes Library v54.11 (added)
- Filesysbox Library v54.8 (added)
- LZMA Library v53.7 (added)
- OGLES 2.0 library v3.1 (updated)
- RadeonRX Driver Video Library v1.4 (added)
- VA Library v1.4 (added)
- Warp2D Library v1.3 (added)
- Warp3D Nova Library v1.83 (updated)
- Warp3D Nova GCN Library v1.83 (updated)
- Warp3D Nova SI Library v1.83 (updated)
- Zip Library v53.12 (updated)
- Preferences
- AmiSphere Preferences v53.35 (updated)
- Notification Preferences v54.3 (updated)
- Sound Preferences v53.26 (updated)
- Time Preferences v53.21 (updated)
- System
- AmiSphereServer v53.38 (updated)
- Format v54.0 (updated)
- NotificationServer v54.3 (updated)
- Updater v53.73 (updated)
- Utilities
- AmiPDF v1.42 (updated)
- Archiver v53.17 (added)
- MultiEdit v2.9 (updated)
- MultiViewer v3.7 (updated)
- TuneNet v2.13 (updated)
- X-Dock updated to v2.43 (updated)
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28.Mar.2021
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Aminet uploads until 27.03.2021
The following files have been added until 27.03.2021 to Aminet:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 207K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
amigaXfer_1.0.0_win32... comm/misc 12M Transfer tools for Amiga on s...
ALS.lha dev/amos 543K 68k AMOS Layers System
wla_dx_v9.12.lha dev/cross 4.3M 68k 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
ADE.lha dev/gcc 20M 68k GCC based Amiga Development E...
BBlock0x.lha disk/misc 3K 68k Bootblock with beta Kickstart...
sative_mea.lha docs/misc 1.1M Sative Mea Ascii Art Collection
dMagnetic.lha game/text 340K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
DonkeyKong_Net_AROSx8... game/wb 3.4M x86 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_MOS.lha game/wb 3.4M MOS LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_OS3.lha game/wb 3.2M 68k LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_OS4.lha game/wb 3.8M OS4 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_WOS.lha game/wb 3.6M WOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.1M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.6M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
DungeonLoader.lha mods/misc 195K Dungeon Loader 4ch by HKvalhe
led-20210318.tar.gz text/edit 23K A powerful line-oriented text...
zapperng.lha util/cdity 59K MOS Change the behaviour of the z...
dintwm.lha util/wb 16K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
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28.Mar.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 27.03.2021
The following files have been added until 27.03.2021 to OS4Depot:
wildmidi.lha aud/pla 41Mb 4.1 A simple software midi player
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
dungeonrush.lha gam/mis 15Mb 4.1 A game inspired by Snake
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Videntium Picta is picture viewer
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28.Mar.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 27.03.2021
The following files have been added until 27.03.2021 to AROS Archives:
glaxium.i386-aros.zip gam/act 2Mb OpenGL shoot-em-up on a pathway ...
koules.i386-aros.zip gam/act 225kb Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
runaway.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 2Mb LCD game conversion remake
runaway_arosx86.lha gam/mis 2Mb LCD game conversion remake
thewidow.lha gam/mis 19Mb Game Terror Paranormal Adventure
ta3.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb OpenGL game. Swap blocks to matc...
powder.i386-aros.zip gam/rol 3Mb Graphical RPG with tutorial and ...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/con 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture viewer
openurl.i386-aros.lha net/mis 563kb Get that URL!
rnopublisher.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 4Mb PDF creator
led-20210318.tar.gz uti/tex 23kb A simple but powerful line-orien...
zapperng.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 65kb Change the behaviour of the zoom...
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28.Mar.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.03.2021
The following files have been added until 27.03.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Runaway_1.22.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
dMagnetic_0.30.lha Games/Text Interpreter for Magneti...
VidentiumPicta_2.40.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
pdf_test_pages.lha Office/Show Here are 4 pdf test pag...
ZapperNG_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... Change the behaviour of...
WebRadio-GreekRadioAdd... System/Ambient/Screenbar Greek Radio Pack Addon
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28.Mar.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.03.2021
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 27.03.2021:
- 2021-03-27 improved: R-Type 2 (Activision) SSP relocated, 68000 quitkey, trainer added, manual and icon added, new install script (Info)
- 2021-03-27 improved: Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3 - Great Board Games (Sierra) fixed low quality sound (Info)
- 2021-03-27 new: Dr. Cube's Magic Lands (Scienide) done by CFOU! (Info, Image)
- 2021-03-27 improved: Cool World (Ocean) chip memory requirement reduced (Info)
- 2021-03-27 new: Blork (Scienide) done by CFOU! (Info, Image)
- 2021-03-27 improved: Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley/Imageworks) uses less memory, trainer added, 68000 quitkey, manual and icon added, new install script (Info)
- 2021-03-27 improved: Australo Piticus Mechanicus (Hack+Slay Team) access fault fixed, intro skip, 68000 quitkey, new install script (Info)
- 2021-03-25 improved: Katakis (Factor 5) SMC removed, new icon and install script (Info, Image)
- 2021-03-24 updated: Hologon (The Electronic Knights) compatibility improved (Info, Image)
- 2021-03-24 improved: Ivanhoe (Ocean) time trainer fixed, blitwaits switchable, highscore saving added (Info)
- 2021-03-24 improved: Denaris (Factor 5) intro fixed, new icon and install script (Info)
- 2021-03-24 improved: Cool World (Ocean) uses fast memory, trainer added, highscore saving added, manual and icons added, new install script (Info)
- 2021-03-24 improved: Nitro (Psygnosis) RawDIC imager, manual included (Info, Image)
- 2021-03-23 new: Tom And Jerry (Magic Bytes) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2021-03-23 new: Tom And Jerry: Hunting High And Low (Magic Bytes) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2021-03-23 improved: Streetfighter (Capcom) supports another version (Info)
- 2021-03-23 improved: Gemini Wing (Sales Curve) 68000 quitkey, kickemu used, splash options added, new icon and install script (Info)
- 2021-03-22 fixed: Galactic Warrior Rats (Summit Software) incorrect keyboard patch (introduced in V1.2) fixed (Info)
- 2021-03-22 improved: Ivanhoe (Ocean) 68000 quitkey, trainer added, new icon and install script (Info)
- 2021-03-22 improved: 4D Sports Driving (Mindscape) fixed graphical errors and long delay on race ending (Info)
- 2021-03-21 fixed: Burning Rubber (Ocean) joystick problems fixed that were introduced with the last update, manual included (Info)
- 2021-03-21 updated: Midwinter (Rainbird) RawDIC imager, less OS swaps, save game handling changed to use real files, new install script (Info)
- 2021-03-21 improved: Streetfighter (Capcom) trainer added, supports another version, 68000 quitkey (Info)
- 2021-03-21 improved: Rock'n Roll (Rainbow Arts) uses less memory, trainer added (Info)
- 2021-03-21 improved: Hologon (The Electronic Knights) 68000 quitkey added, made 68000 compatible, less chip memory used (Info, Image)
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28.Mar.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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OnyxSoft: ZapperNG 1.2
ZapperNG by Stefan Blixth is an extended re-implementation of the MorphOS commodity Zapper by his former team fellow Adam Waldenberg. Unlike the original program, ZapperNG is also available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and AROS (the latter being a port by Eugene Sobolev). Now version 1.2 has been released.
The commodity modifies the ZipWindow() function of intuition.library, i.e. the behaviour of the "zoom" symbol in the upper right corner of a window. Instead of switching between two sizes of a window, it becomes extended to the full screen. Depending of the chosen parameter, the screen's title bar is either omitted or not. Further options enable a balanced scaling to all directions, avoiding the active window to put into front, defining a hotkey as alternative to clicking the zoom symbol, and cycling between windows by pressing Alt-Tab. (snx)
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27.Mar.2021
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Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #18 article online
After a 12-year break, the 18th issue of the disk mag 'Jurassic Pack', first published in 1995, was released in January. Editor Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj has now also published all articles on his tech news service tarnkappe.info. (cg)
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27.Mar.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview-Video: Shoot'em Up 'Boss Machine' (AGA)
Kevin Saunders' 'Boss Machine' is supposed to be a horizontally scrolling shooter for AGA computers. A new preview video shows various weapon systems. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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27.Mar.2021
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Assembler: "Light Speed Player", very fast MOD player routine
The "Light Speed Player" is, according to its own description, the "fastest MOD player ever". The routine written in Assembler is aimed at demo and game programmers who want to include background music in their works without losing significant CPU cycles. The efficiency of the player is achieved by a special file format into which the music pieces must be converted before playing. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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27.Mar.2021
Achim Pankalla (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Tabellenkalkulation ignitionOS4 1.10, Update des OpenDocument-Plugins
Achim Pankalla releases ignition 1.10: the eighth update of the spreadsheet. He is responsible since he took over the maintenance of the package in 2014. In this version, some "small issues" have been fixed or added, among other things. All cell attributes are now properly saved and it is possible to print directly to a PDF file.
The changes in detail:
- Error when saving attributes fixed
- English and German Catalog now contains many keyboard shortcuts
- Requester can now also handle keyboard shortcuts
- Error in print routine corrected
- PDF printing now possible via special print unit
- Possible grimreaper at splash-screen fixed
- British English no longer leads to language configuration hint
- New function mode
- Other small adjustments/corrections
Also the ods-addon was reworked to support the new functions. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others.
Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.34:
mode and pi() are now supported
Problem with some table names fixed
Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum at os4welt.de for further information and discussion. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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27.Mar.2021
OS4Depot
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AmigaOS 4: Image viewer Videntium Picta 2.4
Juan Carlos 'Templario' Herran Martin has released version 2.4 of his Hollywood application "Videntium Picta". Additional to diverse standard image formats like jpg, png, gif, lbm, bmp, tiff and pcx, the programm also can play animations like anim, ham6, ham8, movisetter, yafam, gif and apng.
Furthermore Videntium Picta offers simple image editing functions like mirroring, rotating or changing the size and can take screenshots.
In view of the fact that recently version 9 of Hollywood has been released, Juan Carlos asks his users to donate some money for purchasing the coresponding upgrade. Mainly he wants to find out if there is suffcient demand and desire for a further development of his applications. If those 49 Euro will be succesfully financed he hold out the propect of further updates and games.
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26.Mar.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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amigaXfer: Serial file transfer to the Amiga - without Amiga software
Roc Vallès' amigaXfer transfers single files or disk images via the serial cable to the Amiga. No additional software is required on the Amiga for the tool is using ther debugger included in the Kickstart-ROM for controlling the transfer from the main computer.
An exact description of how the tool works the author has given in his blog.
amigaXfer has been written in Python and uses the Wxwidgets system for the graphical user-interface. Complete Windows binaries can be found on Github. Users of different operating systems have to create an executable file for their own.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Mar.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: 68060 adapter for 68040 socket
Stefan Reinauer's 68040-to-68060 is an adapter board for allowing to use a 68060 processor in the socket of a 68040, provided the computer offers sufficient space.
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26.Mar.2021
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PDF magazin: REV'n'GE 120 (Italian/English)
Besides its original language, Italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The reviews of classic games compare their ports to different platforms available at that time.
From now on the magazine is presented on a new and seperate website. There you can read the latest magazine as well as all other ones in the original Italian as well as English version without having to download them. Currently only all Italian issues are available, the English-language edition has to be downloaded using a decryption key:
Issue 120 - Decryption key: kB85ymmZX5ePIiTEk_CehS8iGebPijERDDFgxCQixrA
The latest issue includes an article about the Amiga platform game "Magjca".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Mar.2021
ACube Systems
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ACube Systems: New Sam460cr production run
Press release: We would like to thank all our customers for their incredible support and overwhelming response to the availability of the new Sam460cr batch. They went out of stock in no time at all.
We are planning a new, bigger, production run but we need your help now! Production will be available on pre-order, asking just a small fee that will be discounted from the final price, so if you are interested, please write us now at info@acube-systems.com to place your order or request additional information.
Please note that we will sell just the board, not full systems.
All customers who already placed their order and were unlucky with the first batch will be contacted by us for confirmation. Please be patient because we really got many emails, but rest assured that we will reply to everyone!
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