13.Aug.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: A platform game with a footballer
Third_Knight / Czorny currently is working on a different kind of platform game: The player has to kick several bonus items or switcher with a football and then shoot it in a hole. A preview video shows the latest status of the engine. The game which has not a name yet will be created using the construction kit RedPill.
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13.Aug.2020
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Tiny Bobble - a complete new "Bubble Bobble" (beta)
Tiny Bobble (video) is being written by the developers of Tiny Invaders and Tiny Galaga and is supposed to become a "complete new Bubble Bobble arcade port for Amiga 500" instead of porting the Atari ST version to the Amiga done for the existing commercial version of the Amiga.
In contrast to the existing port of Bubble-Bobble, Tiny Bobble will have the following features:
- 50 fps (instead of 25fps)
- 32 colors (instead of 16)
- 150 items (instead of 40?)
- Original screen height of 224 pixel (was only 200 pixel)
- Almost all sprite animations (had only ~20% of animations)
- Progress Screen (was not available), Big Enemies every 16th level (was not available), Player Two Join animation (was not available)
- Single file (needed a disk)
- Animated Extend screen (was not animated)
- Animated Boss fight (was a still image)
- Multiple endings (had only one ending)
The beta version which was now released is complete but might include bugs. The author has pointed out that during high activity or in the two player mode on an Amiga 500 maybe the game slows down. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2020
Vinnny (ANF)
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Reprint: The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels
Three years ago Chris Wilkins published the book "The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels" based on a crowdfunding campaign (amiga-news.de reported). Since one year and a half the book is sold out, therefore the book is supposed to be reprinted.
Under the title link meanwhile this project was successfully financed. Additionally the book also can be purchased as PDF file.
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11.Aug.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 122 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 122 (September/Oktober 2016) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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10.Aug.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Apollo team launched AROS-based operating system project
First the developer team of the Apollo-FPGA-Core used in the Vampire products did choose AROS as official operating system. After having had some problems with the free AmigaOS clone, the Kickstart-ROMs officially licenced from Cloanto were used. From around Apollo is also the Workbench distribution Coffin OS which includes illegal copies.
Obviously they now are going to tackle the problem at source: In a Activity Report it is told that on Github a Fork of AROS has been established - their "goal is to improve AROS 68k support and level up its compatibility with AmigaOS3 to the best state possible".
A logo already has been published on Github which also tells the name of the new fork of AROS: "Apollo OS". The code itself obviously has not been changed a lot although there is a first alpha version of the new system (download site).
Update: (11.08.2020, 16:15, cg)
The Apollo OS download was hosted by a one-click hoster. Apparently, the number of allowed downloads was limited and the Alpha release of the operating system is no longer available anymore. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Aug.2020
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Aminet uploads until 08.08.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 08.08.2020:
Amix531.lha comm/amiex 998K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
Yip_cover.lha demo/intro 140K 68k Yip cover intro (Revision 2020)
encore_morphilia.lha demo/misc 47M MOS Morphilia by Encore - demo fo...
encore_morphobia.lha demo/misc 40M MOS Morphobia by Encore - demo fo...
encore_morphoza.lha demo/misc 36M MOS Morphoza by Encore - demo for...
Void-Dreams33.zip demo/misc 637K 68k Demopack with stuff from summ...
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
WormWars.lha game/actio 859K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 686K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 932K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 7K 2020 Carset for F1GP
DRC.lha game/edit 500K MOS DAAD Reborn Compiler Frontend
unPAWs.lha game/edit 164K MOS PAWs/Quill database decompiler
ZDOOM_AGA.lha game/shoot 846K 68k Amiga port of ZDOOM
ZDOOM_RTG.lha game/shoot 506K 68k Amiga port of ZDOOM
Sumeria.lha game/text 155K OS4 Sumeria is classic economic game
wbpong.lha game/wb 6K 68k A simple pong game running in...
Sketch_de.lha gfx/edit 2K Unofficial German catalog for...
SilkRAW_AROS.lha gfx/misc 1.9M x86 GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
SilkRAW_MorphOS.lha gfx/misc 2.4M MOS GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
SilkRAW_OS4.lha gfx/misc 2.3M OS4 GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.0M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Youaresomeone.lha mods/8voic 163K 16ch Synth Pop Ballad by HKvalhe
MusicDesignStudio_1.1... mus/edit 38M MOS Music designer / composer
Deark.lha util/arc 2.5M MOS Extracting data from various ...
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.6M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
BelarusMOS.lha util/sys 1K Belarus country for MorphOS
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 120K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 153K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
KosovoMOS.lha util/sys 1K Kosovo country for MorphOS an...
newmeter.lha util/wb 15K 68k Show free RAM and storage as ...
rinfo.lha util/wb 6K 68k Create icons for folders miss...
WebRadio_sbar.lha util/wb 93K MOS A sbar plugin to listen to We...
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09.Aug.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.08.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 08.08.2020:
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
sdlpop.lha gam/adv 2Mb 4.1 Open-source port of Prince of Pe...
sumeria.lha gam/mis 155kb 4.0 Classic economic game about Hamm...
silkraw.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
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09.Aug.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.08.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 08.08.2020:
Deark_1.5.5.lha Extracting data from various file formats.
DRC_0.14.lha DAAD Reborn Compiler Frontend
ENCORE_Morphilia_1.1.0... MORPHILIA by ENCORE
ENCORE_Morphobia_1.1.0... MORPHOBIA by ENCORE
ENCORE_Morphoza_1.1.0.lha Demo by Encore released at Decrunch 2017 (Wrocla...
MCAmiga_0.9.lha MyCommander for Amiga
MultiMeedio_1.3.lha A script to control many media players by jPV^RNO.
MusicDesignStudio_1.10... A program to create and mix up to 20 audio tracks
SilkRAW_1.2.lha GUI for Dave Coffin's program dcRAW
unPAWs_2.1.lha PAWs/Quill database decompiler
Webradio_2.1.lha A sbar plugin to listen to WebRadios.
WormWars_9.23.lha Advanced snake game by James Jacobs.
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09.Aug.2020
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WHDLoad uploads until 08.08.2020
The following package has been added to WHDLoad until 08.08.2020:
- 2020-08-02 improved: Wizkid (Sensible Software) support for Happy birthday intro added, sound fixed (Info)
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08.Aug.2020
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Announcement: Tiny Bobble - a better 'Bubble Bobble' port
Tiny Bobble is done by the people who released Tiny Invaders und Tiny Galaga and is an attempt to create a port of the Arcade classic Bubble Bobble that is optimized for the Amiga 500 - instead of just porting the existing Atari ST version, as Firebird did with their commercial 1989 release.
'Tiny Bobble' is said to feature the following improvements over the original
Amiga game:
- 50 fps (instead of 25fps)
- 32 colors (instead of 16)
- 150 items (instead of 40?)
- Original screen height of 224 pixel (was only 200 pixel)
- Almost all sprite animations (had only ~20% of animations)
- Progress Screen (was not available)
- Animated Extend screen (was not animated)
- Big Score images (was not available)
- Single file (needed a disk)
- Animated intro (no bubbles were available)
- Animated Boss fight (was a still image)
- Multiple endings (hand only one ending)
The release of Tiny Bobble is planned for this month. (cg)
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08.Aug.2020
Generation Amiga (Website)
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 3.2-beta1
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based boards (like the Raspberry Pi, ASUS Tinkerboard, Odroid XU4, etc) that also offers a few unique features developed only for Amiberry, such as the WHDLoad booter and support for RetroArch controller mapping. The changes in version 3.2-beta1 are listed in the Changelog. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Aug.2020
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Spray paint cans in the colors of classic computer models
retrohax.net is selling spray paint cans matching the coloring of various classic computer models. So far, the colors "C64C", "Amiga 500" and "Atari ST/XE" are available, more options are said to follow. In a Blog post, the supplier of these cans explains his personal approach to spray painting old computer cases. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Aug.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Commercial Workbench distribution: Amikit XE for Vampire
Version 11 ("XE") of the commercial Workbench distribution Amikit is now also available in a dedicated 'Vampire edition'. The distribution is described as "fully compatible with the Vampire V2 core". But since the V4 core is still in active development, the Amikit developer points out there might be the occasional "weird behaviour or crash" on that version of the Vampire.
As usual, Amikit customers have to retrieve Kickstart ROM images, Workbench disks or CDs and a copy of the 'Picasso96' RTG system separately. At 50 Euros, the Vampire edition of Amikit is 20 Euros more expensive that the traditional version for emulator users on Windows, Mac OS or Linux. A CF card with Amikit 'Vampire Edition' preinstalled is available for 80 Euros. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Aug.2020
Andreas (E-Mail)
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Elektronic music: Creating Jungle/Hardcore tracks using a A1200 (video)
British producer and label owner Pete Cannon started his career in the electronic music business by creating tracks using Octamed 4 on an Amiga 1200. In a detailed demonstration for the Youtube channel "Sound on Sound", he shows how to use his A1200 - freshly dug out from his parents' shed - to create a Jungle track. The one difference being he's no longer using low quality samples generated using his Amiga or loaded from disk, instead he's controlling professional sample equipment from back in the day using MIDI. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Aug.2020
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APC&TCP: Delays due to flooding
Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP, Amiga Future) is apparently hit by the floods that appeared in parts of southern Germany in the last few days. He points out that there will be delays in fulfilling orders and replying to inquiries in the next few days. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Aug.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Mount disk images on Workbench: GoADF! 3.0
The Shareware (7 Euro) utility "GoADF!" mounts floppy disk images on Workbench. Changes in version 3.0:
- from now GoADF can be localized with the locale.library, included catalogs:
- italian (by Samir Hawamdeh)
- spanish (by Ignacio Gully)
- french (by Mickael 'BatteMan' Pernot)
- greek (by Nikos Pagonis)
- russian (by Mikhail Malyshev)
- finnish (by Joona Palaste)
- german (by Frank Brandis)
- czech (by Predseda)
- norwegian (by Kolbjorn Barmen)
- danish (by Michael Englyst)
- dutch (by Folkert de Gans)
- polish (AmigaPL by Krzysztof Donat)
- polish (ISO-8859-2, conversion from AmigaPL by Mandi)
- new original device goadf.device included:
- full support for 68000
- HD ADFs now can be mounted
- 4 virtual drives can be additional enabled
- appwindow enabled (disk images can be dragged into GoADF window)
- GoADF! can be minimalized
- new module to create new (empty) disk images
- requesters with asl.library (no reqtools needed)
- support for RAD disk (images can be written to RAD: )
- new configuration options, like 'Do not show splash at startup' and others
- GUI and procedures fixes for NG systems
- new icons
- several bug-fixes
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04.Aug.2020
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MorphOS celebrates 20 year anniversary
André Siegel from the MorphOS team reminds us in a morph.zone announcement, that the PowerPC based clone of AmigaOS has been available to the public for 20 years now: on August 2nd, 2000, the team initiated public Betatests. At that time, the target hardware was still an Amiga 1200, 3000 or 4000 with a PowerPC expansion from Phase 5 - the 'Pegasos' was first mentioned in December 2000. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Aug.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.10
Dirk Hoffmann's 'vAmiga' is a new, "user friendly" (quoting the developer) Amiga emulator that emulates a A500, A1000 or A2000 computer. Changes since our last news item:
- Added support for .zip and .gz files.
- The VERTB interrupt fired one cycle too late (Pygmy Projects - Extension demo)
- ECS Agnus failed if bitplane DMA was enabled in the middle of a raster line (Ghosttown - SushiBoyz).
- Denise is emulated correctly now if both the HAM bit and the DPF bit are set.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused disk DMA to be switched on too early.
- Fixed a bug in the TOD clock initialization code (Blast From The Past).
- Registers JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT returned wrong values if no mouse was connected.
- The CHK instruction didn’t work correctly with negative bounds.
- Fixed the operand write order of the CLR instruction.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the Copper to write into BPLxDAT.
- Added support for the Ricoh real-time clock.
- Added support for the ADZ and DMS file formats.
- vAmiga can load some encrypted Cloanto Roms now (a rom.key file is required).
- Fixed a bug which made it impossible to load snapshots if no default Rom was specified.
- Fixed a timing issue affecting shift instructions in byte addressing mode.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed bitplane DMA to happen even if DDFSTRT was never hit.
- Writes to pointer registers may be dropped if DMA is in progress (Plasma Force - New stuff).
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03.Aug.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade game: Atarenium Falcon (demo)
In 'Atarenium Falcon' (Video) the player has to collect pieces of coal and other items lying around in the screen-sized levels and then head for the exit. The early demo version that has been made available now does not seem to feature any enemies other than the static meteorites that should be avoided. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Aug.2020
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Aminet uploads until 01.08.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 01.08.2020:
Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 6.8M x86 Generator of printable calendars
Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 6.7M MOS Generator of printable calendars
Crono_OS4.lha biz/misc 7.4M OS4 Generator of printable calendars
NoIDE13.lha disk/misc 16K 68k Disable IDE interface on OS3....
FrenchCanadianKeymap.lha driver/inp 2K Keymap for French Canadian ke...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 7K 2020 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 2.8M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.2M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.3M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
EXULT_RTG.lha game/role 49M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (EXULT)
FreeSynd_RTG.lha game/strat 3.4M 68k Amiga port of Syndicate (Free...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 41K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.5M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
Rambo4Theme.lha mods/misc 34K 4ch Rambo 4 Theme by HKvalhe
MusicDesignStudio_1.0... mus/edit 37M MOS Music designer / composer
AmigaAMP3.lha mus/play 1.8M OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 347K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
RNOPublisher.lha text/dtp 7.8M MOS PDF creator
RNOPublisher_68k-RTG.lha text/dtp 7.2M 68k PDF creator
RNOPublisher_AROS.lha text/dtp 4.3M x86 PDF creator
RNOPublisher_OS4.lha text/dtp 8.3M OS4 PDF creator
RNOPublisher_WOS-RTG.lha text/dtp 7.5M WOS PDF creator
aiostreams.lha util/batch 263K MOS Stream video from major onlin...
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 2K 68k CopyMem which autoselects bes...
ltx-cb10.lha util/boot 4K 68k CBoot v1.0 - Ultimate boot se...
NoMoreDiv0.lha util/boot 2K 68k No more Division by Zero
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 592K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 700K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 751K OS4 Multipurpose utility
InstallerLG.src.lha util/sys 1.5M Commodore Installer replacement
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02.Aug.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.08.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 01.08.2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
crono.lha gra/mis 7Mb 4.1 Generator of printable calendars
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 126Mb 4.1 An Unix/X11 environment for Amig...
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 18Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 91Mb 4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 65Mb 4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
rnopublisher.lha off/dtp 8Mb 4.0 PDF creator
reportplus.lha uti/mis 751kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 263kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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