28.Nov.2024
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Preview videos: Beat'em up "Last Battle 2" , Shoot'em Up "Galactic Plague"
Two developers provide a first insight into the status of their projects developed with the Scorpion Engine by publishing videos showing some gameplay:
Last Battle 2 is to be a beat'em up which sees itself as an unofficial successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which was also ported to the Amiga.
Galactic Plague is a vertically scrolling shooter that the designer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before deciding to use a more modern platform due to its limitations and instability. (cg)
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28.Nov.2024
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Interview: The story of Twintris
The blog “Spillhistory” spoke to programmer Svein Berge about his Tetris clone Twintris, which was first published by Digital Marketing in 1990 and then distributed on various magazine disks in 1991. (cg)
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28.Nov.2024
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry V7.0.0-RC1
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch and is used, for example, in the AmiKit workbench distribution for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. A modified version of Amiberry is also the basis for the THEA500 Mini.
The current release candidate ("RC") of version 7.0.0 is not recommended for weaker systems, for which an update of "Amiberry-Lite" will be provided shortly. The changes in detail:
- Amiberry is now delivered as a package, instead of just an archive with binaries. This also means that you don't have to manually install the dependencies, before you can run it (the package will take care of that for you automatically). For Debian or Ubuntu based systems there's a .DEB package, for Fedora there's RPM and for macOS users, there are DMG images that can be used. You can now install Amiberry by downloading the archive, extracting it, and doing something like sudo apt install ./amiberry-XYZ.deb (for DEB). Upgrading to a newer version becomes as simple as installing it on top again. Uninstalling it is simple as well (sudo apt remove amiberry) and it will clean up the dependencies after it. Check the main README for instructions per platform.
- The directory structure handling has changed. Amiberry will not install itself into standard locations, placing shared libraries where they are expected in the system, and will use the user's HOME folder to create an Amiberry directory, if it doesn't exist. That will contain the user-configurable stuff, like directories for Floppy images, Harddrives, Configurations etc. Meanwhile, internal directories are placed elsewhere, to reduce clutter. Check the Wiki for more details: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry/wiki/Amiberry-directories
- The MacOS binaries are finally signed with an Apple-recognized developer certificate, and they are notarized. This means you no longer have to manually bypass the system's security, to allow it to run. You can just drag and drop it to your Applications and start it up like any other downloaded App. You'll only get a warning that this was downloaded from the Internet, as expected.
Hi-DPI support has been added, so if you're running this on Linux with scaling enabled, or macOS Retina displays, things should look better now.Integer scaling has been added and improved. Check the wiki for more details on this as well.Serial port support has been fixed, as it was broken for some versions now.GUI Themes have been implemented, so you can now customize the color scheme.The whole list of Expansions from WinUAE have been implemented, including PPC, PCI, DSP, custom graphics cards, network cards, SCSI controllers, etc. The Expansion panel was refactored significantly, but the functionality is trying to match the same one from WinUAE, to make things easier between the two emulators.
(cg)
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28.Nov.2024
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Windows: py-guide-viewer displays AmigaGuide documents
py-guide-viewer is an extended AmigaGuide viewer written in Python. The program is compiled for Windows, it also offers some features that the Amiga originals do not offer: Images, sounds and pieces of music - in modern file formats - can be embedded in the text file using UUencode and displayed or played within the guide pages. The py-guide-viewer also supports emojis, the text-based original symbols are replaced by small graphics. (cg)
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27.Nov.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Ambermoon: How fingerprinting identified a press leak
On the occasion of the widest possible release of the Ambermoon source code last year, its lead programmer Jurie Horneman also wrote a text about how he managed to identify through fingerprinting a fairly well-known journalist who had passed on the game in 1993 - and forgot to publish this article.
Now he has made up for this at the title link. When he confronted the journalist at the time by a phone call, he would have been very apologetic. His new intern must have leaked it and so on. In any case, Jurie Horneman writes in his final sentence, the game received a good rating. (snx)
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27.Nov.2024
Discord (ANF)
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AmiGameJam candidate: Battle Squadron 2
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. The 'Bitwise Brains' team have published their idea of a sequel to Battle Squadron at the title link. (snx)
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27.Nov.2024
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Videos: Quick clips from Amiga Alive on everyday questions
With his "Quick clips", 'Amiga Alive' has started a video series on YouTube, whose short films are dedicated to everyday problems when working on the Amiga - for example, how to get AmigaAMP 3 running on AmigaOS 3.0 or how to translate an AMOS program to C. (snx)
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27.Nov.2024
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Music album with old OctaMED Soundstudio tracks released on Spotify
Timo Kloss, the developer of Ermentrud and Horny, among others, used an emulator to go through his old OctaMED Soundstudio projects, slightly reworked the best ones, exported them in higher quality and put them together as a new album.
The result is now available on Spotify and other providers under the name “1997_99”. According to him, the musical style moves freely between medieval and techno. (snx)
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27.Nov.2024
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Event: Announcement of date for Classic Computing 2025 (Germany)
Next year Classic Computing event will take place again in September, from 11th to 14th of that month. After Baden-Württemberg, it will then be held in Bavaria, in the Freiheitshalle Hof.
The annual "Classic Computing" is organized by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V." and is one of the largest retrocomputer events in Germany. (snx)
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26.Nov.2024
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 34
Issue 34 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team is looking for a suitable Christmas present and sheds light on current FPGA systems, including the Minimig and MISTer models.
This issue also contains reviews of the new games Holy Warrior, Sky Shapers and The Lost Pixel and the classic games Arcade Pool and Nick Faldo's Golf, an interview with Bitmap Brothers artist Dan Malone, a festive CD32 corner with AmigaJay's Christmas Crackers collection, Christmas HAM with Digi-Paint, a screenshot quiz and much more.
Amiga Addict is published every six weeks and is available as a single issue or by subscription, in either printed or PDF format. (nba)
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26.Nov.2024
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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 22
The new issue 22 (November 2024) of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" comes in a new design, the cover was illustrated by Simon Phipps (Rick Dangerous, Wolfchild, among others). The magazine is available in print or digital editions. The main topic of the issue is video games.
- Video-Games: 2 Tiny Cowboys, Absolute 0, Crysis, GoGoGo, Hammurabi, Phoenix 500, Pumpkin, Shadowmage, Squarez, Tale of Evil, The Lost Pixels, The Tower of Evil, Tiny Pixel.
- Previews: Worms TDC 1.5, Deathrace.
- Tech: Amiga and WLAN, BeeBase.
- Report: Passione Amiga Day 2024
- Exclusive interviews: Simon Phipps and Andy Davidson.
- And also: Game- and Tech-News, Demoscene, readers' letters and much more
Passione Amiga 22 can be ordered from the publisher's webshop as a single issue or by subscription as of November 8, 2024. A Kindle version can be purchased from Amazon. (nba)
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26.Nov.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 164 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE! ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both the Italian original and an English translation (right-hand side). The current issue 163 also contains three reviews of Amiga titles: the beat'em'up "Beastlord", the Arkanoid-clone "Crystal Dragon" and the platform-game "The Lost Pixel". (nba)
[News message: 26. Nov. 2024, 10:50] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.30.9_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL...
MCE_15.22.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenMoHAA_0.80.0-alpha... Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.80.0 for Mo...
Atomiks_1.0.4.1.lha Games/Think Port of Atomiks
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25.Nov.2024
itch.io
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Puzzle game: Connect available for free
Frank from the LogicalByte team writes: "Hello everyone, it's been over 2 years since we released Connect (amiga-news.de reported). During this time, we have received a lot of praise, which has made us very happy. The gaming community has also sent us suggestions for improvements, which we have implemented as long as they fit into the concept and the game technically allowed it. As expected, the box version sold well and sales of the digital version were also satisfactory. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support!
Nevertheless, it is time to take the next step and we have decided to offer this game for free. With this we would like to offer the other players of this world the opportunity to spend great hours with this game on the Amiga. Remaining copies of the box version are still available at Alinea Computer." (dr)
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25.Nov.2024
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SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death
After Adventure 2 Remake and Beyond a Steel Sky, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a third game project for Scala MM, which he has now submitted for the AmiGameJam 2024 instead of Beyond a Steel Sky: The Angel of Death is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game published by Sierra in 1987, but with different roles. As Jessie Bains, you try to take control of the drug trade in the town of Lytton.
The game is still in development: sound and music are missing and the graphics are only placeholder graphics. The story is also only 20 to 30% complete. AmigaOS 3.x and the Scala-MM-Player are required. (dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2024, 06:53] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2024
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel
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Turn-based strategy: November-2024-Update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his November update: "A new version of my Amiga game "Settle the World" is available.
The "Quality of Life and Pathfinding Update - November 2024" contains mostly bug fixes and a completely revised pathfinding.
n the last few months I've changed my real-life job, otherwise I would have lost my job. This job is very demanding and I can no longer manage to work four or more hours a day on "Settle the World". Development will definitely continue, but at a slower pace than last year. As always, you can download the latest version of the game free of charge from my project page. You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the corresponding developer diary for the update.
I would be very pleased to receive feedback and constructive criticism." (dr)
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24.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to Aminet:
AmiSpeedTest.lha comm/net 77K 68k Network speed test utility
xdump.lha dev/misc 538K 68k Four AmigaDOS binary file ana...
DiskCopier10a.lha disk/bakup 60K 68k A 2024 floppy disk copier
adfblitzer.lha disk/misc 33K 68k handle ADF files - English an...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 2.5.1 (...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 10M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
IMP_GI.lha pix/icon 4K GlowIcon for IMP
NAFCYI1991S3-B02.zip text/bfont 1.0M NAFCYI Fall 1991 (BMP Fonts)
Trinity.lha util/misc 33K 68k Trinity Tools
UHCTools.lha util/misc 53K ALL UHC Tools installer
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mgba.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 GB/GBC/GBA Emulator
iff-converter.lha gra/con 1Mb 4.0 Convert images into raw format.
uhctools.lha uti/mis 53kb 4.0 UHC Tools installer
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
uhctools.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 53kb A collection of programs and scr...
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
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WHD-Load: New installers until 23.11.2024
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 23.11.2024:
- 2024-11-20 improved: Predator 2 (Konami) second version supported, game bugs fixed, frame rate limiter, trainers, 68000 quit key (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Wonderdog (Core Design) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Oscar (Flair Software) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 fixed: Neuromancer (Interplay) SMC fix wasn't correct (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Mega-Typhoon (Bernhardt Braun/Nordlicht Edv.) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Liquid Kids (Ocean) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Jim Power (Loriciel) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: The Immortal (Electronic Arts) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info, Image)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-18 improved: Zyconix (Accolade) fixed problems on 68040 (Info)
- 2024-11-17 fixed: Neuromancer (Interplay) crash in self modifying code patch fixed (Info)
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
GitHub
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Do it yourself: Amiga adapter RiskyKVM for keyboard-video-mouse switches
RiskyKVM is intended as an Amiga adapter for keyboard-video-mouse switches, but can also be used as a USB to DB9 and Amiga keyboard interface. (snx)
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