05.Nov.2024
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Game: Hyper Wings 1.2
Christian Geldmann's Hyper Wings (amiga-news.de reported) is an Asteroids-like space shooter (video). The game, which is written in assembly and offers various levels of difficulty, is still in active development despite the version number 1.2. A "Best of 5" mode and sound options have now been added, and improvements have been made to the graphics and game engine.
Download: hyperwings_v1.20.adf (880 KB) (nba)
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05.Nov.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months.
- News for September/October 2024.
- Old articles from Génération 4 23 to 25: Review of Operation Stealth, Review of Wipe Out, File: Cabal, the movie, the video game, News: Disney turns to microcomputing, Review of Battlemaster, Reiew of Back To The Future Part 2, Review of Flood, File: Dick Tracy, the movie, the video game, Interview with Jim Walls, Review of Wings Of Fury, Review of Neuromancer, etc.
- Interview with Cyril Houzé (Dune AGA graphic designer).
- Interview with Steve Hammond (game designer from DMA Design).
- The best of Byte from February to August 1990.
- File: The "Who's who?" of Commodore and the Amiga.
- File: David Plummer's biography.
- File: Tracking routines in Graftgold's Amiga games.
- Tutorial: Installing Odyssey 64-bit on AROS as a Linux host.
- Tutorial: How to configure and use Synergy Server and Synergy Client on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: How to create a Kickstart diskette for the Amiga 1000 with WinUAE.
- DIY: Restoring two Amiga 4000s.
- Programming: Assembler - Programming a cracktro on the Amiga.
- Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 3, part 2, the sprites.
- Special quiz about the A600GS.
(nba)
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04.Nov.2024
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Cowboy/shootout game: Full version of Duel released
In "Duel", two cowboys (or a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the now finalised version (amiga-news.de reported) you can choose from 29 characters. (dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2"
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #5 under the title link, among others transparency effects are demonstrated. (dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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AROS: Review of October 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of October at the title link. (dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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Preview video: Danmaku #6
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime. Now that the complete, new development team is together - graphics: Holger Crome, music: Roland 'Triace' Voss, code: Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener - the original name of the game "Hyperborea" (amiga-news.de reported) has been discarded in order to finally decide on a common title. Until then, the Japanese name of the game genre for Bullet Hell, Danmaku, will be used as the working title. Changes to the sixth preview video:
- new WIP stage 1 background graphics: a preview of Crome's great level 1 artwork!
- new animated player ships: the original ship asset was bought from Matt and reworked by me to fit the palette restrictions.
- new explosions: same for the new explosions which have a lot more animation frames now.
- new spread-shot gfx: there was rightful criticism that it looked a bit too much like an ice-cream cone, so I threw it away and made a new one.
- new additional animated bonus stars: IMO the bonus stars were a bit too static, so I added a smaller animated variant.
- bonus star magnetism: it's just a much more satisfying game experience if you collect lots of bonus stars instead of missing most.
- new sparks on hit: when you hit an enemy there are procedural "sparks" now, for additional feedback and to make it more vivid.
- animated bullets (not really new but for the first time in a WIP video): it's no real bullet hell game without those famous rotating oval bullets ;)
- shadows for all floating enemies / player ships: I'm a big SWIV fan, so this was kind of mandatory ;)
- fresh set of enemy placeholders: no more BS :) The current placeholders' originals have either been bought from Matt or lent from a Dezaemon spritesheet before quickly being tweaked for the engine.
- title screen placeholder: the name "Hyperborea" is no more. And until we found a new one, I asked some AI to generate a title screen for a classic shmup named "Placeholder" using Japanese for the title...
Well, good enough for now (and better don't try to translate it ;) ).
- player ship / shot coloring configurable in main menu: was so quick and easy to add, so why not!
- shadows and sparks can be enabled / disabled in main menu: in case somebody doesn't like the eye candy.
- further really massive bullet code / memory optimizations: the more bullets the better, so...
- new bullet patterns: still rather simple because it's a WIP demo.
(dr)
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04.Nov.2024
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 24-02 (English/German)
The third issue of the diskmag “Amiga Rulez” is available simultaneously in German and English versions. For the first time, the current issue features game tests (Sensible Soccer) and a review of the best scene productions of 2023. (cg)
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03.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to Aminet:
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
MusicPort-AHI.lha driver/aud 7K 68k AHI driver for Trinity 1240/1...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 10K 2024 Carset for F1GP
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
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 8.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NAFCYI1991S2-B00.zip text/bfont 1.2M NAFCYI Summer 1991 (BMP Fonts)
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 2.3M OS4 A PDF generator
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 17M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
BaseConv.lha util/wb 66K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o...
(snx)
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03.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 9Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wipeout-re_fe.lha gam/dri 9Mb 4.1 WipeOut RE Fantômas Edition
wipeout-re_fe-data.zip gam/dri 137Mb 4.1 Datas for WipeOut RE Fantô...
a_little_remember_gam... gam/mis 8Mb 4.0 A Simon Says (Senso) like game
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
rvncd.lha net/ser 124kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
compression.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.1 A PDF generator
legadon.lha uti/tex 280kb 4.0 A simple ePub reader (Text only ...
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03.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
kmusicplayer.i386-aros.zip aud 11Mb kMusicPlayer is a visual music p...
rfxgen-aros.zip aud 796kb A simple and easy-to-use fx soun...
perl-5.7.2.x86_64-aros-v1... dev/lan 11Mb Perl 5.7.2 x86_64 ABIv11
lib_glfw_3_4.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 926kb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
lib_raylib5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 22Mb A simple and easy-to-use library...
libmad-0.15.1b.x86_64-aro... dev/lib 118kb Libmad
raygui.i386-aros.zip dev/mis 7Mb raygui is a simple and easy-to-u...
residualvm-0.3.1-1.x86_64... emu/mis 4Mb ResidualVM x86_64 abiv11
scummvm-1.9.0-1.x86_64-ar... emu/mis 17Mb ScummVM x86_64 abiv11
koala_seasons.i386-aros.zip gam/str 4Mb game compiled using raylib..
owb-2.0.i386-aros.zip net/bro 50Mb Odyssey Web Browser
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03.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
glib-2.0.lha Dependencies/Library/Misc A second experimental M...
ATasm_1.09.lha Development/Cross Mac65 compatible 6502 c...
libwebp-1.4.0.lha Development/Library WebP codec is a library...
glib-2.6.0.lha Development/Library Low-level core library ...
fluidsynth_2.4.0.lha Development/Library fluidsynth_2.4.0.lha
libFLAC-1.4.3.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFLAC...
SDL2-demo_1.0.lha Development/SDL2 Port of SDL2-demo
SDL2-Demokit_1.0.lha Development/SDL2 Port of Patater SDL2 de...
AmiArcadia_33.42.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Arinoid_1.0.lha Games/BrickBreaker Port of Arinoid
MCE_15.21.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenMoHAA_0.80.0.lha Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.80.0 for Mo...
Mutatris_1.3.0.lha Games/Think Port of Mutatris by Pap...
Untangle_1.1.lha Games/Think A logic puzzle, where t...
FFmpeg_6.1.2.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
Legadon_0.3.lha Office/Show A new simple ePub Reader
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03.Nov.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.11.2024
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 02.11.2024:
- 2024-10-31 updated: Pop-Up (Infogrames) manual included, publisher corrected (Info)
- 2024-10-29 new: Charly (Magic Soft) done by DJ Mike (Info)
(snx)
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03.Nov.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2024
As usual Robert Bernardo presents several videos of AmiWest again:
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02.Nov.2024
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Action adventure: October update for Castlevania AGA
Dante Mende has released another update to his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure “Castlevania”. He adjusted the moving platforms on level 2 to align with the floors in the level (so the player sprite don't appear with "feet sunk" in the floor if he just walks out of them). DJ Metune is now in charge of the music department, about half of the soundtrack is still currently finished. (cg)
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02.Nov.2024
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GUI for identify.library: Huh? 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's “Huh?” is a MUI-based graphical user interface for Richard 'Shred' Körber's identify.library, which can read built-in extensions and other properties of the system. (cg)
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01.Nov.2024
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.5.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).
In addition to updating important programme components, version 2.5.0 now makes it possible to have a question mark in the file name (to separate the file name and the standard sub-song) and to drag and drop a link to a module into the module list.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store, the ".NET Desktop Runtime V8" is required. (dr)
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31.Oct.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 9.2
To stem the proliferation of incompatible, vendor-specific software solutions for PCI extensions, Benjamin Vernoux introduced his “OpenPCI” system in 2003 and actively developed it further until 2007. However, the original OpenPCI was only a wrapper that continued to rely on the original, proprietary libraries of the respective hardware provider.
Thomas 'Thor' Richter (e.g. mmu.library, P96, ViNCEd...) tries to solve this problem by implementing the OpenPCI.library from scratch: his version no longer needs the original, hardware-specific driver systems but communicates directly with the hardware.
Thanks to compatibility with the original OpenPCI solution, existing drivers should continue to work with this newer system. On the hardware side, all known PCI bus boards are supported: GRex, Prometheus including its offspring Firestorm and Firebird as well as the various Mediator busboards from Elbox.
OpenPCI has been undergoing rapid development since the beginning of the summer, with three new versions being released in the last seven days alone. (cg)
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31.Oct.2024
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AmigaOS 4: DTP program Compression 0.4 (Beta)
Achim Pankalla's DTP program 'Compression' allows graphics and text to be placed on printed pages and generates PDF documents from them. New features in version 0.4:
- now catches another two error codes during PDF generation
- shows an error message when existing file can not be verwritten
- always shows only a sequence of 12 pages now, a chooser lets you select which 12 pages
- removed wrong status messages
- content display now refreshed when pages are added or removed
- removed style names from the font name
- added ToolType for default PDF directory
- corrected some problems of the GUI when using the DEL-key
- rewrote the font-handling to use TrueType informations
- better WYSIWYG
- sped up PDF generation again
(cg)
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31.Oct.2024
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Block diagram from 1991: the Amiga 5000
The “Commodore International Historical Society” regularly publishes official Commodore documents provided by former employees and other insiders. A block diagram from 1991 by Commodore engineer Dave Haynie shows a design for an “Amiga 5000” in which the CPU/RAM/ROM module is connected to the other system modules - including an “Amiga module” containing the AAA chipset, as well as a “Zorro bridge” - via a PCI bus. (cg)
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31.Oct.2024
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Jump'n Shoot: La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros
La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros (“The Night of the Little Ghosts”, video) is a Halloween-themed platform game. The title, written with Amiten's “AmiGen” engine (including NinjFeratu) runs on any ECS Amiga with at least one megabyte of memory. A user-defined fee must be paid for the download, but a free download is also possible. (cg)
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30.Oct.2024
deadwood (AROSWorld)
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AROS: Web browser Odyssey 2.0 for AROS 32-bit released
Following appropriate tests, version 2.0 of the Odyssey web browser for the 32-bit version of AROS has now been officially released (video). Yesterday's second update for this ABI v0 version of AROS is required.
New features of version 2.0 of the browser include in particular an updated WebKit engine based on the February 2019 version, the porting of the media player from Wayfarer 1.21 and SSE acceleration for media playback, so that YouTube can be used again. (snx)
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