21.Oct.2024
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Developer log: Amiga Game Scripting Languages
In a recent developer diary entry, Nivrig Games discusses The Bitmap Brothers' own scripting language called "Adventure Creation Language" (ACL) used in the game Cadaver and possible alternatives. This is completed in a second entry. (dr)
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20.Oct.2024
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Aminet uploads until 19.10.2024
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to Aminet:
8VoicesDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k 8 Voices Demo
MiniDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k Trackloader Amiga Demo
MiniDemo.png demo/disk 8K 68k Trackloader Amiga Demo
ZeroBoys-Alf.adf demo/disk 880K 68k Alf Demo by The Zero Boys
Tesko-MMMK.zip demo/intro 57K 68k Mario Meets Mortal Kombat
spb-ir1.lha demo/mag 400K 68k Irregular Review #1 Aug 2016
spb-ir2.zip demo/mag 530K 68k Irregular Review #2 Oct 2016
spb-ir3.zip demo/mag 497K 68k Irregular Review #3 Sep 2017
spb-ir4.lha demo/mag 517K 68k Irregular Review #4 Dec 2017
spb-lysb.lha demo/misc 95K 68k Solskogen Invitation 2020
bogogui_098.lha dev/src 46K 68k C example on writing ReAction...
FFT_All_Math_py.zip dev/src 127K 68k Recursive FFT_All_Math.py.
HalloweenX_Demo.lha game/demo 655K 68k HalloweenX AGA Game, Demo
PolyNova3D.lha gfx/3d 740K 68k Amiga port of PolyNova3D
TMSColor.lha gfx/conv 91K 68k Converter from BMP to TMS9928...
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...
CardTrickEVD-SS-3.11.lha misc/emu 1K 68k CardTrickEVD for ShapeShifter...
PippinEVD-11.lha misc/emu 1K 68k PippinEVD for ShapeShifter 3.11
pOS-w64.zip misc/emu 25M WinUAE-Launcher and more
Stickers_Renew_Remast... pix/illu 167M 174 disks and CD labels for 5...
pOS_w64.jpg pix/misc 921K WinUAE-Launcher Screenshot
sysvars.lha util/boot 18K 68k Put system information in env...
dissect16.lha util/cli 5K 68k CLI utility to bytewise 16bit
dissect8.lha util/cli 6K 68k little CLI utility to bytewis...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 17M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
ResetLever.lha util/wb 218K 68k Reset your Amiga with ResetLever
(snx)
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20.Oct.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.10.2024
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to OS4Depot:
musepack_libs.lha aud/mis 103kb 4.1 Contains libmpcdec, libreplaygai...
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 260kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 255kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 215kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 9Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
(snx)
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20.Oct.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.10.2024
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3.lha Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
Pac-Man_1.1.lha Games/Action Port of Pac-Man
DonkeyKong_1.0.lha Games/Platform Port of DonkeyKong
WaterCloset_1.0.1.lha Games/Platform Port of WaterCloset
BurgerSpace_1.10.0.lha Games/Platform Port of SpaceBurger
Taradino_1.1.3.lha Games/Shoot3D SDL2 port of Rise of th...
1oom_1.11.0.lha Games/Strategy 1oom is a Master of Ori...
(snx)
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20.Oct.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2024
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 19.10.2024:
(snx)
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20.Oct.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Flashback, Main Menu Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Heatbeats Bubblegum (nightwolf 2024 remix)
- Firehawk Take Off (Ambient Chopper Mix)
- Darkseed Halloween
(snx)
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20.Oct.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Future versions of Wayfarer without updated WebKit/GTK engine
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has told at the title link, future versions of his web browser Wayfarer will stay with the current version 2.46 of the WebKit/GTK browser engine. Already porting this one would have taken several weeks. Since the WebKit developers removed the Legacy/Win/Cairo target and its dependencies, which Wayfarer requires, and started to use Skia, further MorphOS ports of the engine wouldn't be feasible anymore.
Apart from this, contemporary websites would also increasingly require more performance than the ageing G4 and G5 hardware can offer. For the time being, however, the existing WebKit core would be modern enough to continue to display the pages that can be displayed so far - probably even for several years to come. Until then, he tends to set up a hosted browsing service under Linux or Mac OS, which then generates the Wayfarer pages externally. Accordingly, the next version of his browser will already offer the option of either displaying the web pages locally or having them generated externally using CEF. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
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Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or from selected retailers: Amiga on the Lake (USA), RetroPassion (UK) and Retro 8bit Shop (Netherlands).
In addition, a French version is now also in the works on the initiative of the Swiss retailer Relec. "AmigaOS 3.2 le Manuel" will be available in three versions: as a book for 35 Swiss Francs, digitally for 20 and both combined for 50. Potential buyers are advised to express their interest using a corresponding form.
Meanwhile, the original German edition has been updated in its digital version. This includes additions and corrections. Registered customers can download the PDF file again via their account at the publisher. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
Amigans / User spotUP (ANF)
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Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5 for the 30th anniversary
Next year, the legendary game Worms celebrates its 30th birthday. To mark the occasion, its programmer Andy Davidson is planning a free new edition for the Amiga. To this end, demo groups around the world are invited to contribute new levels with their own names.
A level template is available on request. The levels must have a size of 960 x 350 pixels and be sent in by New Year's Eve. Specifications for the 16-color palette: 00 - black or dark color (transparent), 01 - white or near white, 02 - pink, 03 - any color, 04 - lighter shade of 03, 05 - any color, 06 - lighter shade of 05, 07-15 - any colors. Layers: Either one image for a conventional Worms level or two images for a two-layer level, consisting of foreground and background with the same color palette. The background - to be kept darker - is shown where the foreground is transparent or the foreground is destroyed in the course of the game. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Guides for AmigaOS 4 developers: Kea Campus videos about MUI
As part of his membership program "Kea Campus" (amiga-news.de reported), Hans de Ruiter has now completed the videos on cross-compiling AmigaOS 4 programs and started a new series on creating user interfaces with MUI. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
ANF
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Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office.
However, this only lasted for about five months, as Electronic Arts successfully appealed against it. Despite the high picture quality made possible by the Amiga 500, the depiction of brutality (video) would not have reached the intensity of violence required for the index.
For this reason, during the reassessment the responsible committee came to the conclusion that also children and young people could maintain the necessary distance from the gameplay, which would be in part also imaginative and funny. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available.
Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: its website went online for the first time on September 9, 1999. What was initially intended as a source of information for the print magazine has since continued to grow with the news section, over 100 online readable issues of the magazine, 7,000 German and 2,000 English test reports, workshops, specials, etc. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Reshoot Proxima 3: Tin box variant available
To celebrate the first birthday of the shoot'em-up game "Reshoot Proxima 3", it can now alternatively be purchased in a metal box, limited to 55 copies and signed, at the title link - optionally also with a USB stick. (snx)
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20.Oct.2024
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Logic game: Untangle V1.1
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so that no line intersects another (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.1 with the following changes:
- Fixed a bug of freeing a memory block twice at game end.
- Added the game ending displaying total number of moves and time spent.
- Added 25 more levels, now the game has 175 levels.
The game runs in a Workbench window, an Amiga with any processor and Kickstart/Workbench 3.0 or higher are required.
Download: untangle-1.1.lha (32 Kb) (dr)
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19.Oct.2024
Reddit
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Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound.
He also wants to design the game so that it will run on any Amiga, from an Amiga 1000 with 256 KB Ram and KickStart 1.1 to the fastest Amiga with 3.x. (dr)
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18.Oct.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 #4 under the title link, the author shows his work on the new theme "Forest". (dr)
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18.Oct.2024
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Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey?
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz describes various ways in which the upcoming 64-bit version Odyssey 2.0 can execute JavaScript code and what impact this has on performance. Some of the results are quite interesting and come very close to today's (October 2024) Firefox performance. This is all the more surprising given that the WebKit engine Odyssey 2.0 was released in February 2019. (dr)
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17.Oct.2024
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Dungeon Crawler: Demo version of Halloween X released (update)
After a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) Sami Vehmaa has now released a demo version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (new Twitch video). A fast AGA-Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required.
Update: (06:17, 21.10.24, dr)
Demovesion V1.04 is now available. Since the first version, numerous bugs have been fixed, the "M" key can now be used to switch the music on and off and the CPU load should now be lower. (dr)
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17.Oct.2024
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AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.4.1
The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use.
The now released version 3.4.1 (video) is based on the current ABIv0 backport and also contains updated libraries and programmes, additional included software and bug fixes. (snx)
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17.Oct.2024
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Cowboy/shootout game: Demo version of Duel
In "Duel", two cowboys (or so far a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the finalised version, you will be able to choose from over 20 characters and the weather will influence the battle. (snx)
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17.Oct.2024
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.55
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Version 2.55 has now been released with the following changes:
- Fixed an error in the main list helphint where the date of the update was not shown correctly.
- Made some changes to the routines that handle the Ignore Manager, and saving the list back to
disk. An apparent crash appeared to be located there, although it was unreproducible here.
- Fixed a memory leak that occurred each time a scan was started.
- Reworked the "Abort" logic. It is no longer possible to abort the scan, but aborting updating
works as originally expected. Whether this fixes the unreproducible crashes or not remains to
be seen.
- Following a successfull login, users were complaining the details were not saved. The call to
save the details was commented out. No idea why, or how long it's been like that, but it should
work as expected again!
- Added support for double-clicking items to expand them in the Path Manager.
- Changed the way the notifications are handled when the preferences change.
- Prefs_Updates 53.19: Prefs change notifications are now handled differently to suit the new mechanism.
(dr)
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