23.Jan.2015
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Game developer received warning for Backbone game with smurf characters
On January 1st, Mikael 'Hipoonios' Persson did release his game Smurf Rescue created with Backbone under a Freeware licence. Five days ago he received an e-Mail from the law office Gevers, which in behalf of the rightholder of the smurfs named Studio Peyo requested to immediately shut down the website and to pay 500 Euro of lawyer’s fees. A three days deadline was set. Otherwise further steps will be taken.
According to Persson he does not check his e-mails on regular basis. Therefore he got the claim - sent to the mail account specified as contact address for the domain hipooniosamigasite.org - after the expiration of the deadline. Meanwhile he also received a letter which included a claim of 2000 Euro. Persson has published screenshots of parts of his e-mail traffic as well as of the admission of guilt which he is supposed to sign:
Persson's version of the details is extremely fragmentary. Currently it is not possible to reconstruct the complete communication between him and the law office Gevers. If his version of the details will be confirmed, at least according to German law the questionable warning may be legally skilful - although it suggests that the law office might use warnings as business model.
Because recently several Amiga games have been offered or announced which use Intellectual Property of big media companies ("Danger Mouse", "Evil Minions"), the developers as a precaution should reconsider it - there is not any kind of legal protection for non-commercial products. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Jan.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Hu-Go! 1.4
Hu-Go! emulates the games console TurboGrafx-16. The version for MorphOS was ported by Kelly Samel and now is available as version 1.4. Under the title link you can find the list of changes.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2015, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON purchased ImageFX from Woodall Design LLC
On the website of A-EON, the press release still is not available, but the company's Twitter account has already announced it: A-EON has purchased source code and development rights for ImageFX and Cinemorph from Woodall Design LLC.
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22.Jan.2015
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.25dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released.
Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.25dev:
- New option sound_card = toccata
- Added several joystick configs [johanpalmqvist]
- Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b1
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.25dev:
- Fixed problem locating translation files in some cases
- Reverted to preferring QT4 for now
- Added several joystick configs [johanpalmqvist]
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22.Jan.2015
amiga68k.de (Webseite)
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Demos of games: "Jet Hunt" and "The Mummy"
During the last days two new demos of games have been released: "Jet Hunt" written by Rob Hewitt is a clone of the classic H.E.R.O.. In "The Mummy", which was written with the games editor Backbone, you have to collect treasures and avoid mummies.
Download:
jhdemo.adf (880 KB)
the mummy0.2.lha (426 KB)
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21.Jan.2015
a1k.org (ANF)
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Event: "Amiga 30 Years" in Amsterdam (27.06.2015)
In 2015 the Amiga celebrates its 30th anniversary. Initially an anniversary celebration was planned in the Heinz Nixdorf Forum, in Paderborn (Germany) which was supposed to be take place simultaneously with a similar event in USA. But Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) and his team have very little free time so the planning is not in an advanced stage.
For an event on June 27th in Amsterdam, a team of Dutch Amiga users have invited notable guests: Dave Haynie, David Pleasance (Commodore UK) as well as some former games developers (Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, Franck Sauer) have been announced.
The Kryoflux team will also attend the event and create disk images of disks brought along for free. Additionally there will be an exhibition as well as further interesting surprises which will be announced during the next weeks and months.
The team of the PPC-extension Ultimate PPC will be there as well and present its hardware - still it is not clear, what will be presented: On the website of the event it was written "the brand new Amiga expansion card released by its creators" while a post in a forum offers the prospect: "Talk to the developers, look at the card, touch it, smell it."
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20.Jan.2015
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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AmigaoS 4: Audio-Player AmigaAMP 3.16
Thomas Wenzel wrote: Finally I've managed to release a new version with all the bugfixes I've done so far. Not much new functionality, so this is mainly a maintenance release once again.
- Fixed rejecting unsupported AAC streams.
- Fixed rejecting damaged MP3 files which contain HTML code instead of audio data.
- ReAction: Added mute button, fixed menu deallocation bug.
- Fixed restarting playback when selecting "Play" from the menu.
- Fixed screen title of main-, equalizer- and playlist-window.
- Dynamically enabling/disabling Prev/Next menu items.
- Added ReAction Equalizer.
- Added "Previous"/"Next" menu entries.
- Improved playlist keyboard navigation.
- Fixed handling of UTF-8 strings in shoutcast header.
- Implemented workaround for ID3v2 tags which are marked to be ISO-8859-1 but are in fact ISO-8859-5 or similar.
- Fixed long string leftover bug in tag reading routine.
- Fixed UTF-8 support for reading OGG files.
- Fixed scanning of stream length (=-1) from M3U files.
- Fixed truncated genre display for shoutcast streams.
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18.Jan.2015
Giana's Return Homepage (ANF)
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AROS: Giana's Return 1.10
After AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, Yannick Erb has helped the Retroguru-team to release Giana's Return also for AROS in the latest version 1.10. If this version does not have major bugs, this is supposed to be the last update.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2015, 14:10] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.01.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 17th, 2015:
toram.i386-aros.zip comm/tcp 1.0M x86 Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-morphos.lha comm/tcp 1.3M MOS Remote GUI for Transmission
sgit.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
diskimage.m68k-aos.ta... disk/misc 173K 68k Disk image device (adf,dms,ip...
diskimage_device.lha disk/misc 469K OS4 Disk image device (adf,dms,ip...
WormWars.lha game/actio 788K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
Saga.lha game/board 389K 68k Conversion of TSR boardgame
SagaMOS.lha game/board 424K MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 501K OS4 Conversion of TSR boardgame
Maxwell.lha game/jump 250K 68k Demo of Dizzy-style adventure
HHexen.lha game/shoot 907K 68k port of HHexen (GL and RTG v...
Columnar.lha game/wb 29K 68k Columnar, or... The fall is r...
KouQuad.lha game/wb 32K 68k Rotate Quads so same colour t...
TurnAbout.lha game/wb 30K 68k Move the empty space on all p...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
P6112.lha mus/misc 338K 68k The Player playroutine, E1x/E...
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 39K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
dtconvert.lha util/conv 43K OS4 File format conversion using ...
cAMIra.lha util/misc 168K 68k simple webcam software using ...
devinfos.lha util/misc 646K OS4 Shows infos about a device an...
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18.Jan.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.01.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 17th, 2015:
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
diskimage_device.lha dri/sto 469kb 4.1 Disk image device (adf,dms,ipf,i...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
saga.lha gam/boa 556kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
rcube.lha gra/mis 16kb 4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
blackhole_bl.lha gra/scr 15kb 4.1 Blackhole blanker
cubes_bl.lha gra/scr 22kb 4.1 Cubes blanker
dawafire_bl.lha gra/scr 25kb 4.1 DawaFire blanker
flamme_bl.lha gra/scr 22kb 4.1 Flamme blanker
flyingtoasters_bl.lha gra/scr 33kb 4.1 Flying Toasters blanker
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 45kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
dtconvert.lha uti/fil 43kb 4.1 File format conversion using dat...
snoopy.lha uti/fil 90kb 4.1 SnoopDos like utility for OS4
evenmore.lha uti/tex 502kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
liveforit-mplayer.lha vid/pla 15Mb 4.1 Mplayer optimized for Radeon HD
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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18.Jan.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.01.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until January 17th, 2015:
toram.i386-aros.zip net/p2p 1Mb Remote GUI for Transmission
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18.Jan.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 17.01.2015
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Files until January 17th, 2015:
OpenXcom 1.0 gam/str 5950 Open clone of "UFO - Enemy ...
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18.Jan.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 17.01.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installer has been added until January 17th, 2015:
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18.Jan.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Internet via parallel port: plipbox 0.6
Christian 'lallafa' Vogelgsang's plipbox helps low-end classic Amigas connecting to a network. Linked to the parallel port, the Arduino-based adapter provides a connection to the Ethernet-port of the Arduino board. The magPLIP-protocol is used.
In version 0.6 a new parallel burst transfer mode was added which "really improves the I/O speed on this Amiga port". You can find some performance numbers of this mode under the title link.
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18.Jan.2015
Amiga68k.de (Webseite)
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Playable demo version: Parallel Worlds 2
F.J. Avicedo Martin (Amiten Software) has released a playble demo version of version 2 of the game "Parallel Worlds" (screenshot) which reminds of Golden-Axe.
The demo includes two levels and requires a 68030-processor with 50 MHz, 2 MB RAM and 10 MB free space on harddrive. For users of WinUAE it is recommended to enable the option "immediate Blitter".
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17.Jan.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Updated list of Amiga Games
The "Amiga Games List" of the magazine Obligement has been complemented with other 1000 entries and now includes 12235 games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters subdivided into the categories as follows:
- 11126 games
- 895 extensions and data disks
- 141 game and level editors
- 73 interpreters
According to them, it is the most extensive collection of its kind on Internet.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jan.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Announcement: Sqrxz 3 as collector's edition in a box
After Sqrxz and Sqrxz 2, Frank "phx" Wille has now ported the third part of the Jump'n Run series to the Amiga. Due to the experiences with his own game Solid Gold, Sqrxz' engine was completely rewritten: it now runs with 50 instead of 25 frames per second and in contrast to the Windows and Linux version now also offers level passwords.
Both predecessors are being converted to the new engine aswell, additionally a port of the fourth episode is in progress. The games will be released in a limited collector's edition with profesionally printed disks and a traditional game box. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop Update 2.0.2
Version 2.0.2 provides diverse updated files. Additionally Directory Opus now was configured for using WMV-files and the script "YouTubeCenter" was added to OWB:
- AROS core system files from Jan 6, 2015
- Updated Protrekkr to latest version
- Updated HarmonyPlayer to latest version
- DOpus 5 can now open Windows Media File with MPlayer correctly
- Added YouTubeCenter to OWB scripts
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14.Jan.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Hardware development: External disk drive for Amigas planned
The Polish company Sakura IT is developing a new external disk drive. A prototype of the platine already has been finished. The disk drive will have the following features:
- Fully compatible with 880kB DD Amiga floppy disks; reads and writes NDOS disks
- Compatible with all Amiga systems featuring external floppy drive connector
- Fetuares new, guaranteed floppy mechanism
- Also available without the floppy drive mechanism for installation of floppy emulators like Gotek
- Free hardware (licence: Creative Commons BY-SA)
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14.Jan.2015
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Playable preview: Evil Minions
"Evil Minions" (Youtube video) is a platformer game created with Backbone about "Minions" well-known from the computer-animated comedy film Despicable Me.
Download: minions0.3.lha (164 KB)
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[News message: 14. Jan. 2015, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jan.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: OpenXcom 1.0 / Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe 1.5.0-beta1
Paweł 'Stefkos' Stefański has updated his MorphOS-port of OpenXcom. It is an open-sorce clone of the Microprose game UFO: Enemy Unknown based on SDL. Additionally the original files of X-COM: UFO Defense are required.
Paweł Stefański also has updated Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD). The open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" ofers many extensions - among others network support, individual graphic sets and ranslations.
Download:
openxcom.lha (6 MB)
openttd-1.5.0-beta1.lha (11 MB)
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