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26.Dec.2024



Video: Porting a ZX Spectrum BASIC game to AMOS
In a 43-minute video, a Youtuber shows how he turns a type-in listing from an old ZX Spectrum magazine into an Amiga game written in AMOS. The AMOS source code and all other game assets are available for download. (cg)

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26.Dec.2024



Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.0
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS 11 or newer. After several beta versions, the final version 3.0 is now available. Compared to the beta releases, the emulation of the PCI extension Prometheus has been added and a bug when switching between PAL and NTSC has been fixed. (cg)

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26.Dec.2024



Christmas game: The Young Icefighter 0.1
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the 'Shoot'em Construction Kit'; the developer's eight-year-old son is responsible for most of the graphics. Three levels are playable in the pre-release version - but the balance is still being worked on and there is no sound yet. (cg)

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26.Dec.2024
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Crossfire II: Soundtrack released on Spotify/Apple Music
Just over 20 years after the release of the Amiga game Crossfire II, the soundtrack has now been released on Spotify and Apple Music. It contains both the in-game music by Timo Kloss and the background music for the video sequences by Markus Holler.

The music by Timo Kloss was composed on an Amiga 4000T with the Camouflage program and recorded via MIDI with external audio hardware. Unfortunately, only the 8-bit mono recordings still exist, so it sounds exactly the same now as it did in the game.

Markus Holler's music was composed on an Atari ST with Cubase and played back via MIDI. In the end, however, the audio was recorded again with an Amiga. Recordings in CD quality still exist here, which were used for the soundtrack that has now been released. Timo Kloss was not involved in the production of Markus Holler's tracks, the Spotify/Apple interface unfortunately implies otherwise.

Timo Kloss would like to thank the developers of the game (Thomas and Stefan Schulze from Dreamworlds) for the permission to officially publish the soundtrack. Incidentally, the game was also ported to Windows a few years ago and is available on Steam now. (cg)

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26.Dec.2024



Emulated Amiga: a review of the A600GS
In a detailed blog entry, Amiga user "Puni" describes his experiences with the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS. (cg)

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25.Dec.2024



AROS: Bounties planned for EFI adaptation
At the title link, Timothy 'terminills' Deters has started to create a list of bounty projects for AROS, which are currently being detailed and will then be published for donation and implementation. The aim of these bounties is to adapt AROS to the BIOS successor EFI. (snx)

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25.Dec.2024
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 165 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.

Amiga-related, the current issue is about Pumpkin, Fast Food 2 and Cyber Force. (snx)

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25.Dec.2024
AmiKit (ANF)


Workbench distribution: AmiKit 11 now freely available
Version 11 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows 7 or newer is now freely available with all of its updates until version 11.9. The current commercial version is 12.6. (snx)

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25.Dec.2024



AmigaOS 4: Mahjong games Lopan and Shisen-Seki
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has created two Mahjong games for AmigaOS 4, Lopan and Shisen-Seki. In a blog entry the author describes his motivation.

Download:
lopan.lha (536 KB)
shisen-seki.lha (36 MB) (snx)

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25.Dec.2024
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Video: Amigatronics interview with Trevor Dickinson
At the title link, Amigatronics has conducted an almost half-hour video interview with Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology, in which he talks about what he considers the most important events in the Amiga world in recent years, the current state of the platform and his expectations for the future. (snx)

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24.Dec.2024



Merry Christmas!
Dear Amiga friends,

as the festive season gets into full swing, we look back on the past year – a year full of nostalgia and creative projects in the Amiga world. From refreshing games and practical hardware to lively events, the Amiga has continued to inspire us in 2024.

Thank you for being part of this great community. We look forward to getting off to a flying start with you again in 2025 – with daily news, exciting projects and a never-ending enthusiasm for the Amiga!

We wish you a Merry Christmas full of colourful pixels, contemplative Paula sounds and a high-score chase or two with your family and friends. Merry Christmas!

Your team at amiga-news.de (nba)

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24.Dec.2024
GitHub


m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.12 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.12 fixes a bug in vasm console output on MacOS. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available. (nba)

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24.Dec.2024



Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with an integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The program offers full MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. About a year after the last update, ASM-Pro has now been brought up to version 1.21. The changes:

ADDITIONS
  1. ASM: Optional multi-line scroll (8 lines instead of only 1) to speed up assembly when output is verbose (e.g. large number of included files or print directives). Check Multiscroll in the assembler preferences.
  2. ASM: New integer operator: modulo // (e.g. 123//20 returns 3).
BUGFIXES
  1. ASM: REM/EREM block was not allowed in BSS sections.
  2. CMDLN: RB (read binary) causes a crash if begin address is unparsable.
  3. UI: Bevel box is slightly off for the top parameter groups in the environment preferences.
  4. CMDLN: @-prefixed dump commands incorrectly check for odd address and cpu version, causing a crash on 68000/010 systems.
  5. ASM: Directives and instructions in the first line of a REPT 0 block starting with either @ or A cause internal error.
  6. ASM: Incorrectly parsed number of bitplanes while including an IFF colormap causes memory list corruption.
  7. ASM: Whitespace lines in a macro could cause the Unexpected end of file error and consequent editor freeze.
(nba)

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24.Dec.2024



MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.0
Jacek ‘jacadcaps’ Piszczek has published version 9.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.5 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, several libraries (cURL, tasn, xml2, nghttp2) have been updated for this update. (nba)

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23.Dec.2024



Action game: Amiga Yoomp! released
In contrast to Marek Duda's realisation of the game Yoomph!, originally written for the Atari, which he called "Jump!" and which is written explicitly for AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported), Zbigniew Ross' aim was to see how the game could be made to run on an Amiga 500

Now he has published the result (video): an improved port of his C64 conversion that runs on OCS Amigas, but also on later models with faster processors and better graphics options. (dr)

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23.Dec.2024



Train simulator: Trans-Pennine Express
At the beginning of 2024, 'lifeschool' had already published a full-motion video (FMV) game with the racing game "Jari-Matti Rally" (amiga-news.de reported). Now he is following up with the train simulator "Trans-Pennine Express", a game based on the same principle (video of beta version 0.7). A 68030 processor (or faster) and 840 MB free space for the hard disc installation are recommended. (dr)

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23.Dec.2024
itch.io


Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 1.666
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in Assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 1.666 offers the following new features:
  • new space ships (the player can select between 5 different space ships now)
  • new background gfx
  • new tunes
  • When playing "best of five", each stage has its own background and tune now!
  • ESC : the escape key can now be used to abort a game
(dr)

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23.Dec.2024



Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga v3.0b3
Starting with version 2.6.1, developer Dirk Hoffmann made changes to the internal architecture of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS with the aim of porting the new emulator architecture of VirtualC64 v5.0 to vAmiga in order to enable features such as Run-Ahead (background article). Now he has released the second beta version of version. Changes compared to the second beta version:
  • vAmiga can parse SDL controller descriptions, thus supporting a much broader variety of gamepads now
  • Fixed a write-protection bug related to hard drives
  • Resuming the emulator in warp mode no longer unmutes audio
The minimum system requirement for its emulator is macOS 11.0. (dr)

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23.Dec.2024



Operating system-compliant Pac-Man conversion: 8./9. part of the video series
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on a conversion of the game Pac-Man that only uses operating system calls. Episodes eight and nine deal with the arrangement of sprites and blitter objects and show how Intuition menus are programmed. (dr)

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22.Dec.2024



Aminet uploads until 21.12.2024
The following files have been added until 21.12.2024 to Aminet:
vCPUComp_V2.0.lha              dev/cross   40K  OS3 GigatronTTL asm compile...                 
RescueLander.lha               game/actio  60K  OS3 Land on Earth, Moon or ...  
TheTunnel.lha                  game/misc   43M  OS3 The Tunnel RTG Game                      
BackdPattGener.lha             gfx/edit    61K  OS3 Create your own backdro...  
WhatIFF3.15.lha                mags/misc  7.0M  GEN What IFF? #3.15-Decembe...            
ReportPlus-OS4.lha             util/misc  874K  OS4 Multipurpose utility                     
ReportPlus.lha                 util/misc  693K  OS3 Multipurpose utility                     
ReportPlusMOS.lha              util/misc  804K  MOS Multipurpose utility                     
AIBB-mod-PiStorm32-3A+.lha     util/moni    1K  OS3 AIBB Module-A1200-PiSto...        
CPU-A.lha                      util/moni  480K  OS3 System Information Tool                  
madcomic2.lha                  util/wb     26K  OS3 GUI comedian and text r...            
(snx)

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22.Dec.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 21.12.2024
The following files have been added until 21.12.2024 to OS4Depot:
lua.lha                  dev/lib 1Mb   4.1 Lua is a powerful, efficient, li...
pcre2.lha                dev/lib 4Mb   4.1 PCRE2 (Perl-compatible regular e...
cppcheck.lha             dev/uti 4Mb   4.1 A static analysis tool for C/C++...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
catacombgl.lha           gam/fps 2Mb   4.1 A source port of Catacomb 3D and...
iconecta.lha             net/mis 3Mb   4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
unshield.lha             uti/arc 132kb 4.1 Tool and library to extract CAB ...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 874kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
ifarchive_dl.lha         uti/scr 5kb   4.1 Script to download (ScummVM) sup...
(snx)

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