11.Feb.2020
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.2 (gaming update)
Press release: Today's update brings a number of legendary games to your AmiKit! One of them is premiering on Amiga, actually. It's an action role-playing hack and slash game called Diablo (shareware). Yes, that's right! And you can play it in a window on your Workbench too!
The same with Dune II - you can play it in a window thanks to OpenDUNE port which enhances the original version as well (note that you need the original 1.07eu game files). We've also included a DOS emulator called DOSBox with several shareware games pre-installed like Prince of Persia 1 & 2, Wolfenstein3D and SuperMario. Nice, right? If you have kids, they will love Elfie the Unicorn! We've also included a special easy peasy version for them :-)
The update also contains a handful of important software updates and fixes. Enjoy! The complete changelog. (snx)
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11.Feb.2020
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Settlement discussions between Cloanto and Hyperion aborted
As amiga-news.de has been told by several sources, the settlement discussions between Cloanto and Hyperion regarding a settlement agreement have been aborted without tangible results last week. As far as we know, the next step to avoid a lengthy and costly trial would be mediation involving a neutral mediator - but we don't know if both parties are actually working towards that option right now. (cg)
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11.Feb.2020
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Leu 0.08: Opening Excel and ODS files
Version 0.08 of Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's FreePascal program for loading and editing Excel- (xlsx), Open- and LibreOffice- (ods) as well as TurboCalc- (tcd) and ASCII files (csv), called Leu, has been released for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (ARM, x86, x64).
Regarding the chnages the author wrote: "Implemented basic sorting and search function including replace, very basic but working, also the sorting close to the LibreOffice sorting, multi key sorting (up to 3 but in principle could make more, but is more than 3 really useful?)."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2020
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Advance booking: Flashback 20/20 featuring Amiga 35 (Netherlands)
It has been announced that in 2020 again there will be an Amiga event in the Netherlands. Meanwhile information are available on the planned concept. Additionally advance booking has been started for a few days. The "Amiga 35" (27. and 28. June, Hilversum) will be embedded in a major event called "Flashback 20/20".
Flashback 20/20 is going to celebrate computer systems of the 80s and 90s, arcade and flipper machines will be presented as well. Additionally a major 35th anniversary party is planned. Among others speakers will be Dave Haynie, RJ Mical as well as game developers like Annie and David Fox (Lucasfilm) or Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry) and famous Youtuber like "The 8-bit guy" or "Modern Vintage Gamer".
A day ticket is available for 35 Euro, an entrance pass for both days costs 60 Euro. You can also reserve a "VIP Event" which is available for 100 to 350 Euro.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2020
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Commercial puzzle game: MATCHIC Collector's Edition (Update)
In the puzzle game MATCHIC you have to place tokens of the same colour next to each other to make them disappear. The game was already commercially released in 1991 but only available only for a short time due to the bankruptcy of the publisher. The British publisher Psytronik is going to relaunch the game in a big box.
The box contains the following items:
- MATCHIC game on 3.5" disk presented with a vinyl disk label.
- A3 game artwork poster.
- Glossy instruction manual.
- Glossy art card.
- Badges.
- Stickers.
- Keyring.
The game will be delivered in March. Everyone who pays in advance will get a discount of 10 percent on the selling price of about 47 Euro.
Update: (16.02.20, 00:00, cg)
In addition to the Collector's Edition, there's also a Premium+ Edition (disk and booklet in a plastic case with a professionally printed inlay for 13 GBP or 15.70 EUR) as well as a Budget Edition (just disk and booklet for 6.30 GBP or 7.60 EURO) available. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2020
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Demo source code: "Sax Offender" (Planet Jazz)
The programmer of the scene demo Sax Offender has released the assembler source code of it on Github.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SSHTerm 1.2
Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom has released version 1.2 of an Amiga spezific SSH solution called SSHTerm.
It requires AmiSSL 4.3.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Specifying the KEYFILE argument now implies that public key authentication should be used instead of any other method (same as in ssh2-handler).
- Now uses an offscreen buffer for text rendering which should speed up anti-aliased text rendering on most platforms.
- Increased read and write buffers in main loop from 256 to 1024 bytes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 8th, 2020:
MechSink_V9.9.lha comm/misc 223K 68k Mechassault and Sink! full ve...
bgdbserver.lha dev/debug 37K 68k A gdbserver for remote debugg...
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...
LastCowboy.lha mods/misc 74K Last Cowboy 4ch Country Blues
led-20200202.tgz text/edit 14K A simple line-oriented text e...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 110K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 142K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
DockBot.lha util/wb 341K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 8th, 2020:
libopus.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 codec for interactive speech and...
libopusenc.lha dev/lib 304kb 4.0 provide a high-level API for enc...
libopusfile.lha dev/lib 368kb 4.0 an API for decoding and seeking ...
libsdl2_sound.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 abstract soundfile decoder
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
dosbox_ita.lha emu/com 78kb 4.0 Italian translation for DOSBox 0.74
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
atomicbomberman_compo... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
atomicbomberman_warp3... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
vindentiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Picture Viewer written in Hollywood
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until February 8th, 2020:
atomicbomberman.i386-aros... gam/act 1Mb Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
chromium.i386-aros.rar gam/act 3Mb Chromium port
criticalmass.i386-aros.rar gam/act 4Mb Critical Mass port
frogatto.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 189Mb Platform Gl
pentagram.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 3Mb Ultima VIII engine
beleagueredcastle.i386-ar... gam/boa 3Mb solitaire card game
bingo.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 6Mb Bingo Machine
speeddreams2.i386-aros.tgz gam/dri 178Mb racing game gl
supermodel3.i386-aros.tgz gam/dri 1Mb engine for sega car games
d1x-rebirth.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 2Mb Descent Engine
d2x-rebirth.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 2Mb Descent II engine
odamex.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 6Mb open source engine for doom, doo...
openjk-ja.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 5Mb Jedy Accademy Port Open Source E...
openjk-jo.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 2Mb Jedy Outcast Port Open Source En...
stvoyhm.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 1Mb Elite Force Holomatch "Mult...
jumpman.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 886kb OpenGL platform game with rotation.
soulride.i386-aros.lha gam/spo 15Mb soulraide opensource snowboard s...
ufoai-2.3.1-data.tar gam/str 508Mb ufoai data files
amicloud_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
harmonyplayer_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
lilcalendar_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
openbor_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
fonttester.i386-aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb test the fonts installed in your...
vp.i386-aros.lha gra/vie 2Mb Picture Viewer
pgp5.i386-aros.tgz uti/arc 222kb PGP With Gui
unrar.i386-aros.lha uti/arc 2Mb Unpack RAR files
led-20200202.tar.gz uti/tex 14kb A simple line-oriented text editor.
figlet.i386-aros.zip uti/tex 210kb Creates large text from ordinary...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 8th, 2020:
AtomicBomberMan_1.2.lha Games/Action A fan rewrite of the Wi...
MorphOS_1.4.5_PowerUp.lha ISO Old version of MorphOS.
LosChinos_3.41.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
VidentiumPicta_2.20.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
AmiArcadia_26.2.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
bchunk_1.2.2.lha Files/Convert CD image conv. from bin...
eDuke32_20190829-8064.lha Games/Shoot 3D EDuke32 is an awesome, ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.02.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 8th, 2020:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2020
viddi (ANF)
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Game soundtrack: Tales Of Gorluth 1 & 2 on Amazon, Google Play and iTunes
The soundtrack of Patrick Nevian's commercial RPGs "Tales of Gorluth 1" and "Tales of Gorluth 2" now can be separately purchased on Amazon, Google Play or iTunes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Feb. 2020, 23:58] [Comments: 0]
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08.Feb.2020
#amigazeux (ANF)
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Screenshot screenbar-plugin 1.1
Screenshot.sbar for Ambient written by #amigazeux can save screenshots and offers a lot of options - e.g. the tool "can grab windows, entire screens or just a freely selectable portion of the screen", "can grab the mouse pointer too" and "can superimpose an editable text over taken screenshots".
Changes in version 1.1:
- Fixed a serious bug that freed hotkeys twice and led to crashes when changing f.e. the MUI theme.
- Images are saved using Reggae now, so screenshots can be saved in either PNG, JPEG, TIFF, IFF, IFFDEEP, SunRaster and RAW.
- Added %x keyword which gets replaced by the suffix of the set image format (without the dot) for building the filename of a screenshot.
- Added a corresponding menu item to "Quick Options" menu to select the image format for saving.
- Added flat icons for Prefs and title bar to distribution. They can be found in Copy_To_Sys/Data/Screenbar/Screenshot.
- Added an option to resize a taken screenshots using selectable image filters.
- Will not block the audio hardware any longer in case some other program needs exclusive access to it.
- AHI-Unit for playing sound is now configurable.
- The iris effect will center on the selected grab area/window now.
- Opacity of grabbed mouse-pointer is setable now.
- Success/Error window now has a title.
- Displays the dimension of the screen in "Grab Screen" menu item for the screen.
- Displays positions and dimensions of windows in the corresponding menu for windows of a screen.
- TestPaint: Fixed a bug in Dot tool that only drew the first mouse down event.
- TestPaint: Added image loading/saving/resizing.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Feb.2020
MorphOS Team (ANF)
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.13
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.13. This new version offers more sophisticated text rendering including new font hinting and anti-aliasing modes to choose from. These include subpixel anti-aliasing for sharper and more detailed text on most LCD displays for any applications that allow text output via TTEngine. For those interested in testing this new feature, go to the Fonts section of System Preferences, enable "LCD" anti-aliasing, save your changes and then reboot. Next, run our integrated development environment Flow Studio, go to Editor Settings and switch on TTEngine mode.
In addition to general stability, performance, and security improvements, MorphOS 3.13 also brings important bug fixes for Pegasos I, Pegasos II, and Sam 460 systems as well as a driver for the on-board Gigabit ethernet controller found on A-EON P50x0 mainboards. For owners of Apple PowerMac7.x computers, there is a new shell tool for controlling the fan speed along with inspecting fan status and system sensor temperatures on these systems.
Existing users who have kept the built-in 'Default' choice for window skins will notice an altered appearance after upgrading. Anybody who prefers the previous look is advised to switch from "Default" to "Ferox" in the Screens section of System Preferences. Likewise, if your window skin was changed and you would like the rest of the user interface to look similar, please open MUI Preferences, click on the Settings button and choose the "Origo" theme. Please note that this step may overwrite personalized settings unless you choose to save them as a custom theme beforehand.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.13 is available for download in our files section.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2020
Ursprung Facebook (ANF)
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French webshop Amedia sells personalized WHDLoad keyfiles
Amedia sells keyfiles for WHDLoad. The WHDLoad system has been freeware for four years and does not require any keyfile - the Amedia keyfiles obviously are personalized having the name of the customer in the WHDLoad requester.
We have asked Bernd Jahn if the offer is valid which he confirmed. Requesting if there has not been any option for donating money he points out to the official donation site of WHDLoad, which is not promoted.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2020, 00:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2020
nördli (ANF)
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Amiga comeback: Game developer and mailorder publisher 'Mutation Software'
The programmer Adrian Cummings is going to reactivate his old label 'Mutation Software' which in the 90ies he used to release and sell some games for the Amiga and PC. Now new editions of three former games are planned.
Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun and Castle Kingdoms will be available again in spring - all of them in a box in a limited edition inclusive an autograph of the developer. For autumn a new platform game "Wiz" has been announced.
At the beginning of the year Cummings has released the assembler sourcecode of his game Cyberpunks originally published by Core Design as well as an archive with several graphics. Due to a hard disk failure the source code is slightly damaged at two points. Besides some informationen on level data are missing.
Downloads:
CyberPunks_src.zip (100 KB)
MutationGfxDump.zip (1 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Feb.2020
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Working with adf images: GoADF! 2.2
The shareware programm (7 Euro) "GoADF!" can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. New in version 2.2:
- a new Antivirus module - now GoADF! will detect any virus hidden in the image bootblock that is in the XVS library database.
- added full support for HFE files, now you can create images for your HxC Floppy Emulator.
- A lot of patches, improvements and optimizations, like when you create a new image from diskette, GoADF! now can use the name of the source volume as default filename and checks if the file extension '.adf' is present, if not it automatically append.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 06. Feb. 2020, 00:37] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2020
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New demo version of Wings Remastered for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS
In autumn of 2015 the rights holder Cinemaware Retro announced an Amiga port of its Wings remake "Wings Remastered". A first playable preview was released in November of 2015. As a condition for completing the game was to get sufficient preorders (55 Euro) - approximately about 300 preorders were placed. After releasing a pre-version of the game at the Amiga 32 in 2017, nothing has happened about Wings Remastered.
What about Cinemaware Retro at all? The appearances in the social media have not been maintained, several paid orders of the "Collector's Editions" of 'Defender of the Crown' and 'Rocket Ranger' have been only delivered after the process was outsourced to another shop.
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener, who was originally in charge of writing the Amiga port, is occasionally working on the game. About a year ago a short status report was published. In a post on amigans.net he now has announced the release of new demo versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (x86).
The developer who according to his own statement has not been paid at all is asking for your patience. He is going to complete the game in any case even if there will be problems regarding the payment because he has invested so much work in the project. His motivation is low because the mount of work is much higher than expected and he is also working on other projects.
Direct download:
Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D (95 MB)
Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D Tabor SPE (95 MB)
Wings Demo AOS4 MiniGL for MiniGL4GL4ES (95 MB)
Wings Demo MorphOS (95 MB)
Wings Demo AROS x86 (94 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Feb.2020
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Review of "Black Dawn Rebirth"
The blog "Amiga Guru" has published a little review of the commercial Dungeon Crawler "Black Dawn Rebirth" released at the end of October.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Feb. 2020, 00:06] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2020
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Full version for download: Iron Tracker
The Amiga Future website offers disk images and WHDLoad installers of the racing game Iron Trackers released in 1989 for free download.
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