30.Mar.2020
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.33
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey).
Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a donation from inside TAWS.
Version 0.33 provides the following changes:
- MagicMenu enhanced with:
- Background pattern
- Transparency effects
- Transparency level
- Transparency blur level (for Browser supporting the CSS attribute «backdrop-filter», in Firefox the variable «layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled» needs to be set to «true» in «about:config»)
Adjusted all AmiKit presets accordingly
- Nessy-Easter-Egg in «TAWS Early Preset Selection» and «Amiga Early Startup Control» for OS 3.9 (see www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_39.html to learn mire about this OS 3.9 Easter Egg)
- new icons for the TAWS drawer
- Menu: Dithering of the old style separator bar and inactive items is now pixel exact.
- Optimised «TAWS Early Preset Selection» and Kickstart screen for mobile devices
- Small improvements for viewing on mobile devices
- Added missing translations using DeepL
- Bugfixes:
- MS Edge: Fixed the Prefs windows layouts
- Internet Explorer / Odyssey & PayPal: works again (Bug since 0.32.1)
- Having icon borders activated, clicking on an icon label or directly next to an icon image did not work for icons having a label larger than its image.
- MagicMenu: fixed the preview for the combination of «Separator bar style: Gap» and «XEN»
- MagicMenu: adjusted some German texts
- MS Edge & TAWS Early Preset Selection: prevent MS Edge from blurring the Topaz font
- MS Edge & TAWS Early Preset Selection: fixed layout
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29.Mar.2020
English Amiga Board
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Puzzle game: Vegetables Deluxe available for free
In November 2019 Mike Richmond released the game 'Vegetables Deluxe' for the C64 which is a "match 3 game featuring all-new full colour hi-resolution graphics". Originally the commercial game did cost 5,40 ¤. Additional to the C64 version it includes also an Amiga port. The author now has made available the digital version for free download as a zip-file which includes the adf-file.
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29.Mar.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.03.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 28th, 2020:
AExplorer_Update.lha comm/net 103K 68k Cloanto Amiga Explorer Update
AmiFTPItaCat.lha comm/tcp 18K Italian catalog for AmiFTP v1...
DDNS_Check_v2.1.1b.we... comm/tcp 168K 68k retrieve public IP and web se...
NetInfoItaCat.lha comm/tcp 10K Italian catalog for NetInfo v...
redpillgamecreator.lha dev/misc 1.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
DiskSalvItaCat.lha disk/salv 44K Italian catalog for DiskSalv4...
BridgeStrike1_1_adf.zip game/shoot 1.1M 68k Bridge Strike game
ACentipede.lha game/wb 18K 68k Mini game made in ACE BASIC
ALight.lha game/wb 23K 68k Mini game made in ACE BASIC
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 110K 68k ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon1...
Harmless.lha mods/smpl 6.3M 8 bit samples from the Harmle...
Schlagerparty_1.0.lha mus/edit 514K MOS Mp3 encoder with GUI
SoundConvertItaCat.lha mus/edit 14K Italian catalog for SoundConv...
MMDepaCk.lha mus/misc 11K 68k Convert MMDC modules to MED M...
AmiKit_XE.png pix/wb 602K AmiKit XE: Modern Retro Amiga...
Morpheus_1.63b.lha text/dtp 2.1M MOS Word processor
BootPicture.lha util/boot 36K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
ExeDataTypeItaCat.lha util/dtype 10K Italian catalog for exe.datat...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 573K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 726K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ScoutItaCat.lha util/moni 52K Italian catalog for Scout v3.6
SCSIBenchItaCat.lha util/moni 10K Italian catalog for SCSIBench...
DockBot.lha util/wb 358K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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29.Mar.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.03.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 28th, 2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sshterm.lha net/mis 146kb 4.1 SSH client with builtin terminal...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 726kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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29.Mar.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 28.03.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 28th, 2020:
Morpheus_1.63b.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor with Uni...
ModExplorer_3.0.lha Audio/Players A module player by J?rg.
ArtBase.zip Misc ArtBase.zip
HotBorder_1.6.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie HotBorder is a commodit...
TwinDistress_1.1.0.lha Games/Think Tile-based puzzle game ...
DragonMemory_1.0.lha Games/Think A nice memory game usin...
AmiArcadia_26.32.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Schlagerparty_1.0.lha Audio/Encoder An Mp3 encoder with GUI
ReportPlus_7.71.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
WHDLOpener_1.3.lha Emulation E-UAE/WHDLoad integrati...
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29.Mar.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.03.2020
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 March 28th, 2020:
- 2020-03-26 new: L'Uomo Ragno (Simulmondo) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-03-25 new: Roger Rabbit In Hare Raising Havoc (Infogrames/Disney) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-03-24 improved: Harrier Combat Simulator (Mindscape) support for Strike Force Harrier added (Info)
- 2020-03-24 improved: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) music bugs fixed, imager corrected for NTSC release, quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
- 2020-03-24 new: Liverpool: The Computer Game (Grandslam) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2020-03-23 improved: Super Space Invaders (Taito/Domark) supports more versions, trainer added, skip introduction added (Info)
- 2020-03-23 improved: 4D Sports Boxing (Mindscape) really fixed music by waiting after dma sound stop (Info)
- 2020-03-22 improved: The Cartoons (Loriciel) highscore not saved if trainer used, new install script (Info)
- 2020-03-22 improved: Spaceball / Starball (Rainbow Arts) supports another version, removed SMC, new install script (Info)
- 2020-03-22 improved: Orbital Destroyer (Trojan) fixed crash on mouse use, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-22 fixed: Murders in Space (Infogrames) address error on 68000 removed (Info)
- 2020-03-22 improved: Aliex (Trojan) supports another version, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-22 improved: Kick Off 3 (Anco) support for AGA version added, install script updated to support save disk too (Info)
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29.Mar.2020
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.11
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Since our last news item about version 0.7.8, the following changes has made in versions 0.7.9, 0.7.10 and 0.7.11:
Version 0.7.11:
- RedPill Puzzle by Lemming880 updated with the final release.
- Lumberjack Platform game by Lemming880 updated to the last version.
- Sort by Z trigger has been fixed, thanks to amiman99.
- Exporting had some issues after the map optimization, this has been fixed.
- External text editor has been fixed too.
- Small optimization for games that use 16x16 tiles.
Version 0.7.10:
- When exporting games, the level files will be smaller if not all the map used,
or if the map is not used at all.
- In Game Setup, the text edit now supports an external project, configure it
using icon Tooltyper.
- New action trigger Follow Obj "target obj" "speed" that sets up the speeds of
the object to match the targetted object.
- New action trigger Go to "Var" Level to load the level specified in the
valiables "Var"
- New action triggers Input Active to enable and disable player input.
- New condition triggers Input Active to check if player input is enabled or
disabled.
- Improved checks on boolean values for trigger paramenters.
- Side check code back to older and slower but more robust implementation.
- In Objects screen now it is possible to go directly to one object.
- In Levels screen now it is possible to go directly to one level.
- When exiting the Editor and the Player the REDPILL fonts assignment is now
removed.
- Now it is possible to edit the background image of the level with the external
painting program.
- Tile on screen "i" condition trigger added to perform actions for each tile
"i" present on screen.
- Tile on map "i" condition trigger added to perform actions for each tile "i"
present on the level map.
- Move to Level trigger has been renamed to Go to Level.
- Fix for possible memory corruption problems when objects had negative
coordinates.
- Fixed issue with HUD bars and negative values.
- ex_mapenemies project has been added to teach the new triggers.
- Fixed issue when using Enemies collide with enemies option, cells not being
freed after enemy was destroyed.
Version 0.7.9:
- Noah game from Sensei-Sama included in the projets.
- Now you can use multiple spritesheets, still when slicing them some frames can
move or be overlapped. To be improved in future versions.
- REDPILL player now supports Version from AmigaOS and -version parameter
- Executable files now use Shrinkler 4.6.
- Now when using RPPlayer from cli if no parameter is given can get it from the
icon.
- Audio is restored (faulty in 7.8)
- Optimization: now non visible objects have animation logic deactivated.
- Optimization: less memory used when enemies collide option is not activated.
- Last opened projects logic improved.
- Adding support for number formatting in HUD, use 0s to specify the number of
digits to use.
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28.Mar.2020
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8-Bit Remake: R.E.R.O. (preview)
R.E.R.O. (video) is a remake of the classic Activision game H.E.R.O.. A preview featuring nine playable levels has been available for quite some time.
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28.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AnimWebConverter 4.0
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood tool for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS for converting IFF animations of the ANIM or YAFA format into animated GIF and PNG files. Changing the size also is possible. In version 4.0 a fullscreen mode as well as a PDF manual have been added. Additionally some bugs have been fixed.
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28.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF Magazine: REV'n'GE 108 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga games "Mickey’s 123’s", "Rolling Thunder", "Rotox" and the fractal rendering program "Scenery Animator 4".
Download sites:
English: Sendspace / MEGA
Italian: Sendspace / MEGA
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27.Mar.2020
Cloanto (ANF)
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Networking solution: Amiga Explorer 8
Press release: Cloanto, Amiga software developers since 1986, released today version 8 (8.0.1.0) of Amiga Explorer, the Amiga-PC networking software that first saw the light in 1997. New features include:
- Windows File Explorer Ribbon support
- New "AE" command line tool (type "AE Help" for options)
- Protocol extended to query server-side Amiga Explorer software and operating system details
- New changelog and early access update checking functionality
- Support for additional PC serial port speeds, also with manual entry of speed setting where possible
- Improved usability in Offline mode (namespace extension remains functional, exposes ReadMe.txt file)
- Improved Setup Wizard
- Worked around an issue whereby the serial Break command was not transmitted properly during initial setup through some USB serial interfaces
While remaining compatible with older versions, the namespace extension for Windows was rewritten from scratch to support the latest Windows 10 features, including the File Explorer Ribbon.
Previous versions of Amiga Explorer were capped at 128 kbit/sec on the Windows side, reflecting original UART APIs. This was not a limitation when used with original Amiga hardware, which had similar constraints. Nowadays however, inexpensive USB serial interfaces for PCs can be connected to Amiga third-party serial expansions, resulting in transmission speeds like 230.4 kbit/sec, 460.8 kbit/sec or even more. Amiga Explorer 8 introduces support for programmable baud rates, meaning that with a high-quality null-modem cable and the appropriate serial port hardware, speeds that are 5-10 times higher than before can be achieved.
Under the hood, additional changes including a cross-platform "core" feature set that also powers the new command line mode, were made to better support future extensions and improvements.
Upgrades are free to all Amiga Explorer and Amiga Forever Plus Edition customers. Amiga Explorer is also free to try under a shareware license. Registration is appreciated, but many features, including the new command line mode, are fully functional in trial mode.
Traditionally, updates to the Amiga (server) side of Amiga Explorer have also been made available via an "AExplorer_Update.lha" file on Aminet. This
file too has been refreshed. As the new Amiga version includes functionality to support updates originating from the Windows (client) side, Amiga-side
patch releases like this one could become less necessary in the future.
The full Amiga source code and the Windows "core" source code is available to a closed group on GitHub. Windows core features include the data exchange features and the command-line user interface, i.e. everything that is needed to implement, study or support the full protocol. The Windows namespace extension and its installer are not currently part of this set. The plan is to extend the open source availability once an improved version of the data exchange protocol reaches stable status. (cg)
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25.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 115 of Amiga Future online
Issue 115 (July/August 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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24.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Flashback 20/20 featuring Amiga 35 postponed until Spetember
The Dutch event "Amiga 35" in Hilversum, originally planned at the end of June and part of the bigger event "Flashback 20/20", will be postponed until 12./13. September due to the Corona pandemic. According to the organizers, "all tickets will remain valid for the new dates."
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22.Mar.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.03.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 21st, 2020:
ignition.lha biz/spread 6.3M OS4 a modern spreadsheet
AmiSpeedTest.lha comm/net 35K 68k Network speed test utility
FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K 68k Italian catalog for Facts v5.07
64tass.lha dev/cross 1.3M MOS Cross assembler targeting the...
x65.lha dev/cross 681K MOS 6502 Macro Assembler
radinfo.lha disk/misc 5K 68k Prints info about mounted RADs
RADManager.lha disk/misc 26K 68k Mmanager for RAD disks
sfsdoctor-1.2-src.lha disk/misc 294K The disk recovery and repair ...
SmartInfoItaCat.lha disk/misc 12K Italian catalog for SmartInfo...
Amiga_XP_x86.pdf docs/help 1.0M Minimal WinXP install for WinUAE
ICSItaCat.lha driver/oth 57K Italian catalog for ICS v2.03
Frontiera.lha game/strat 531K 68k Frontier alike game WIP for i...
ASnake.lha game/wb 18K 68k Mini game made in ACE BASIC
MazeGOAL.lha game/wb 25K 68k Labyrinth Game Of Artificial ...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 23M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals r...
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 747K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
mgba_mos.lha misc/emu 1.0M MOS Nintendo GameBoy Advance emul...
Batida.lha mods/smpl 11K Yukio IFF Samples
SoundBoxItaCat.lha mus/misc 23K Italian catalog for SoundBox ...
Morpheus_1.63.lha text/dtp 8.9M MOS Word processor
Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
BootPicture.lha util/boot 36K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 227K 68k Keep your time right
RSE-UTS.lha util/cli 336K 68k Package of tracker tools and ...
DiskMaster27ItaCat.lha util/dir 19K OS4 Italian catalog for DiskMaste...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 981K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
IdentifyLibraryItaCat... util/libs 28K Italian catalog for IdentifyL...
JpegLibraryItaCat.lha util/libs 9K Italian catalog for JpegLibra...
setcmd.lha util/shell 287K OS4 Switch between versions of so...
Mtimed.lha util/time 179K 68k Network time synchronization ...
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22.Mar.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.03.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 21st, 2020:
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 23Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
ignition.lha off/spr 6Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet
setcmd.lha uti/she 287kb 4.1 Easily switch between versions o...
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22.Mar.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 21.03.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 21st, 2020:
Morpheus_1.63.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor with Uni...
AmiSpeedTest_0.7.lha Network/Test Network speed test utility
xDMS_1.3.2.lha Files/Archive DMS disk image extractor
AThrust_0.83c2.lha Games/Shoot 2D MorphOS port of XThrust
FileTypes_Installer_1.... System/Ambient/FileTypes FileTypes scripts for M...
Wget_1.16.3.lha Network/Tools Popular commandline net...
AnimWebConverter_4.0.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
eduke32_src_20190829-8... Development/Sources EDuke32 is an awesome, ...
GenesisPlus_2.0b.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
mGBA_1.0b.lha Emulation Nintendo GameBoy Advanc...
FCEU_1.8b.lha Emulation FCEU emulates the class...
64tass_1.54.lha Development/Cross Turbo Assembler Macro.
x65_rev10.lha Development/Cross 6502 Macro Assembler
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22.Mar.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.03.2020
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 March 21st, 2020:
- 2020-03-21 improved: Paperboy (Atari) support for another version added (Info)
- 2020-03-21 improved: Marble Madness (Atari/Electronic Arts) fixed a crash (Info, Image)
- 2020-03-21 improved: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) fixed freezes and wrongly playing music, install script updated (Info)
- 2020-03-21 improved: Carthage (Psygnosis) button wait added, new install script (Info)
- 2020-03-20 improved: Colorado (Silmarils) supports another version, better AGA support, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-20 improved: Calephar (Future) uses less chip memory, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2020-03-20 improved: Builderland: The Story Of Melba (Loriciel) uses less chip memory, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-20 updated: Battle Storm (Titus) address error fixed, uses less memory, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-19 updated: Loom (Lucasfilm Games) fixed freezes and wrongly playing music (Info)
- 2020-03-19 improved: Legend Of Faerghail (reLINE) avoid crash on deleting a file, reduced os-swaps on saving, dialog text in english version fixed (Info)
- 2020-03-19 improved: Kult / Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess (Exxos/Infogrames) quitkey for 68000, uses less memory, solution and manual added (Info)
- 2020-03-19 improved: Bio Challenge (Delphine Software) trainer added, quitkey for 68000, 68020 restriction removed, uses less memory (Info)
- 2020-03-17 fixed: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) support for 1.6e version broke in last update, fixed (Info)
- 2020-03-17 fixed: Wacus The Detective (LK Avalon/Lazy Artists) avoid bad stack pointer message (Info)
- 2020-03-17 updated: Power Drift (Activision) stack relocated, SMC removed, uses less memory, quitkey on 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-17 new: Albedo (Myriad) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-03-17 updated: Wacus The Detective (LK Avalon/Lazy Artists) fixed stack pointer, new install script (Info)
- 2020-03-17 improved: Metal Masters (Incal Product/Infogrames) rewritten, access faults fixed, load/save to hd, fix ST color palette, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-17 improved: Magic Marble (Sphinx) stack problem fixed, quitkey on 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-17 improved: Bomber Bob (Idea) less memory used, button wait added, quitkey on 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-16 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) debug mode disabled (Info)
- 2020-03-16 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) debug code (red color on screen) removed, new generic decrypter, WHDLoad V17+ features really enabled now (Info)
- 2020-03-16 improved: LED Storm (Capcom/Software Creations) trainer added, highscores will be saved (Info)
- 2020-03-16 improved: Batman the Caped Crusader (Ocean) supports another version, trainer added, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-15 fixed: Winzer (Starbyte) wrong "long read from $dff006" patch corrected for some versions (Info)
- 2020-03-15 improved: Murders in Space (Infogrames) fixed ST color palette, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-15 improved: Full Metal Planete (Hi-Tec) fixed ST color palette, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-15 improved: Crazy Shot (Hitech/Loriciel) uses files now, quit key for 68000, new install script (Info)
- 2020-03-15 fixed: Altered Beast (Sega/Activision) black screen after game over with ButtonWait fixed (Info)
- 2020-03-15 fixed: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) patch is 68000 compatible now (random routine adapted) (Info)
- 2020-03-15 improved: OutRun Europe (U.S.Gold/Probe) trainer options added, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, timing fixed, new install script (Info)
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22.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Shadow of the Beast - Inside The Tree (Metal Tribute)
- Whispered Dreams (Whipped With Xur's Scepter)
- Wings of death - Stage 5 - Cold lands of doom and despair (MadmaX StyLE)
- Enigma - A Final Hyperbuss To Motala (ALPA Spaceninja Remix)
- Desert Dream (Jaenathan Big Room House Remix)
- Lotus Turbo challenge II - End Tune
- Project-X - Title Aknotronic
- Dyna Blaster ingame
- Crystal Hammer (2020 Remix)
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22.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core update Gold 2.12
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2.
Among other changes, version "Gold 2.12" provides new 15/16Bit-RTG modes, mouse improvements and an updated EmuTOS-ROM.
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22.Mar.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Tiny little Slug: Interview with the developer / new video
A week and a half ago, APC&TCP released the jump'n'run game "Tiny little Slug" written by André Zeps (amiga-news.de reported). This evening, on 22. March at 7 p.m. (German time), 'AmigaBill' will interview the developer in his video channel.
Additionally another video has been published. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2020
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Teaser video: Action adventure "Verge World Icarus Rising"
"Verge World" is an action adventure which for its 3D look uses the Voxel technique. The development is in a very early stage but some first pictures and screenshots are supposed to provide a first impression of the game.
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20.Mar.2020
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Review: Remakes of old "Mutation Software" releases
In February Adrian Cummings announced that he is going to republish the games Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun and Castle Kingdoms in order to develop new games for the Amiga afterwards. The first batch was released and according to the developer sold out within a few hours. Now a second batch is being produced.
Tony Aksnes has bought these remakes and has written a little review in his blog.
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20.Mar.2020
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Crowdfunding: Video documentation "Amiga 2020"
The project "Amiga 2020" has been successfully financed on Kickstarter. On the occassion of the 35th anniversary of the Amiga, the object is to reflect the current state of the Amiga scene. This will be done by documenting several events and interviews with members of the community, developers and publishers. "Amiga 2020" will be recorded by Steven Fletcher who in 2018 already filmed The Commodore Story.
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19.Mar.2020
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.0.3
Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE provides the new features made in WinUAE to a cross-platform UAE version for Windows, Mac OS X and several Linux and BSD versions. Version 3.0.3 fixed a crash when starting the Launcher in a KDE environment. This update only is relevant for Linux.
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17.Mar.2020
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Source text for Amiga-SNES cross assembler TAsm published
TAsm is a cross assembler which can create binaries for the SNES using the Amiga. In order to test the results on the console, a backup solution for Nintendo's hardware is required which can load games from disks. If a "Super Wildcard" is used, then the results of the assembler can be directly transfered to the destitaion device using a cable.
TAsm at least requires a 68020 processor as well as Kickstart 2.04 or higher. An executable, the source text (DEVPAC format) as well as a short documentation you can find on the website of the author under the title link.
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16.Mar.2020
Christopher Follett (E-Mail)
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Amigakit: 8-MB-RAM expansion for A1200
Amigakit offers a 8MB Fast RAM memory expansion for the Amiga 1200. Additional to the 8 MB Fast RAM the card provides a socket for installing a math coprocessor, "features a Real Time Clock header to install an optional Real Time Clock module" (availalbe for a special discount) as well as a second "second clockport header to give computer more expandability". The memory can be limited to 4 or 5,5 MB by using a "software patch added to startup-sequence" for using PCMCIA cards.
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15.Mar.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.03.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 14th, 2020:
FreeDBItaCat.lha comm/tcp 25K Italian catalog for FreeDB.li...
vbcc_bin_morphos.lha dev/c 2.5M MOS Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_target_m68k-amig... dev/c 650K ISO C compiler, M68k-AmigaOS ...
AmiSSL_in_E.lha dev/e 45K 68k AmiSSL Example and includes f...
DevilutionX.lha game/actio 2.2M 68k DevilutionX (Diablo engine)
RedpillPuzzle.adf game/think 880K 68k Redpill Puzzle (Bootable Disk)
RedpillPuzzleHD.lha game/think 160K 68k Redpill Puzzle (HD Install)
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.3M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.1M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.6M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
MetaViewItaCat.lha gfx/conv 20K Italian catalog for MetaView ...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 40K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 22M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals r...
cc1541.lha misc/emu 84K MOS Create Commodore 1541 floppy ...
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 747K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
HKvalhesamples.lha mods/smpl 1.5M HKvalhe's own 16-bit WAV samples
BootPicture.lha util/boot 35K 68k Show pictures+play a sound du...
DTPrefItaCat.lha util/dtype 12K Italian catalog for DTPref v4.0
IdentifyLibraryItaCat... util/libs 28K Italian catalog for IdentifyL...
TranslatorPrefsItaCat... util/sys 14K Italian catalog for Translato...
RandomBackdrop.lha util/wb 7.9M 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
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15.Mar.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.03.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 14th, 2020:
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
fractalnova.lha gra/mis 100kb 4.1 Calculates the Mandelbrot set us...
grimoriumpdf.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 PDF viewer written in Hollywood
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15.Mar.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.03.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until March 14th, 2020:
frogatto.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 253Mb Platform Gl
runaway.i386-aros.lha gam/chi 2Mb LCD game conversion remake
speeddreams-2.i386-aros.tgz gam/dri 6Mb racing game gl
speeddreams2-data1.tgz gam/dri 335Mb data file for speeddreams2 archi...
speeddreams2-data2.tgz gam/dri 479Mb data file for speeddreams2 archi...
speeddreams2-lib.i386-aro... gam/dri 5Mb lib data
pintorweb.i386-aros.lha gra/con 3Mb Handle your pictures to use on y...
icon_modexplorer.tgz gra/ico 3kb new icon for modexplorer apps
zunefig_drawer.tgz gra/ico 4kb drawer icon style ken's
thelastninja.tgz gra/mis 866kb Wallpaper of famous games
zuneview.i386-aros.zip gra/vie 833kb Picture viewer with advanced fea...
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15.Mar.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 14.03.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 14th, 2020:
cc1541_3.1.lha Emulation/Misc Create Commodore 1541 f...
Runaway_1.17.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
Rival_1.3rc2.lha Files/Tools Recursivelly compare an...
Littlecmsdev_3.0.lha Development/Library Little colormanagement ...
Littlecmsuser_3.0.lha System/Library/Misc Little colormanagement ...
SmokealotGrey.lha System/Ambient/Skins Smokealot Grey Ambient ...
Smokealot.lha System/Ambient/Skins Smokealot Ambient skin
DupFinderMUI_2.1.lha Files/Tools Finds even more duplica...
FlashPlayer_1.6.lha Multimedia Flash (SWF) format file...
PolyGlot_0.65.lha Communication a MSN Messenger client ...
YouTube_URL_Extractor_... Network/Web YouTube URL extractor.
InstallerLG_0.1.0a44.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
FCEU_1.8.lha Emulation FCEU emulates the class...
GrimoriumPDF_2.15.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
GenesisPlus_2.0.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Libfreetype_2.10.1.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFree...
iMacFanCtrl_0.2.lha System/Monitoring A simple fan control/te...
Flatpapillon_skin_1.3.lha System/Ambient/Skins FlatPapillon Skin for M...
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15.Mar.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.03.2020
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 March 14th, 2020:
- 2020-03-14 improved: Dune (Cryo) another english version supported (Info)
- 2020-03-14 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) uses files instead disk images, trainer added, palette fixed, access fault removed, new install script (Info)
- 2020-03-14 improved: OutRun Europe (U.S.Gold/Probe) support for another version added, memory requirements reduced to 512K chip, read from POTGO fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2020-03-12 improved: Shadow Sorcerer (TSR/SSI/US Gold) supports another version, works on 68000 now, uses less chip memory (Info)
- 2020-03-12 improved: Nebulus / Tower Toppler (Hewson) support for Tower Toppler added (Info)
- 2020-03-12 updated: Darius+ (The Edge/Taito) rewritten install, saves highscores, less memory needed (Info)
- 2020-03-12 improved: Player Manager (Anco) support for another version added (Info)
- 2020-03-10 improved: Nebulus / Tower Toppler (Hewson) fixed ST color palette (Info)
- 2020-03-10 improved: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm Games) reduced required chip memory (Info)
- 2020-03-10 fixed: Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner/Brøderbund) no more error if highscore file exists (Info)
- 2020-03-10 improved: Altered Beast (Sega/Activision) missing music bug in game fixed, new install script, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-03-09 improved: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) supports another version (Info)
- 2020-03-08 improved: Nitro Boost Challenge (Code Masters) support for another version added (Info)
- 2020-03-08 improved: Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner/Brøderbund) memory requirements reduced, highscore loading fixed (Info)
- 2020-03-08 improved: Phantasm (Scorpion) install script fixed, black mouse pointer fixed, icons added (Info)
- 2020-03-08 new: Exodus 3010 (Demonware) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-03-08 improved: Eliminator (Hewson) supports another version, imager updated, end screen fixed (Info)
- 2020-03-08 improved: Cosmo Ranger S.O.L. AD 2000 ( Turtle Byte) support another version (Info)
- 2020-03-08 improved: Circus Attractions (Golden Goblins) manual and icons added (Info)
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14.Mar.2020
Indie Retro News
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Preview videos: Shoot'em Up 'Boss Machine' (AGA)
'Boss Machine' is a horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Daniel Stephens (Code), Kevin Saunders (Graphics) and Lee Smith (Music) which will run on AGA Amigas. Some videos (1, 2) published on Youtube are supposed provide a first impression of the game but showing it at a very early stage.
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14.Mar.2020
Indie Retro News
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Horizontal scrolling Shoot'em Up: Inviyya Demo v2
Inviyya which is inspired by the clssic game R-Type requires an Amiga 500 and according to the developers "will feature 6 levels, couple of special weapons, 3 layer parallax scrolling and nice music and sfx". A commercial release on Poly.play is planned. The team now has released a second playable demo version (video).
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14.Mar.2020
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Arcade port: Tapper, version 1B
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic from 1983 with the same name. The curennt level of development the author describes as an "early developer version" but the game already is playable and the author asks for your feedback regarding functioning on different non-emulated hardware configurations.
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13.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta02
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. The changes of the last two releases:
- Added bunch of new and up2date user agents to "spoof as".
- Enabled WebP support
- WebKit revision number is now presented in AboutBox too
- Recompiled with more up2date 3d party libraries: libFreeType2 2.10.1, libXML2 2.9.10, libXSLT 1.1.34 and libWebP 1.0.3
- Source code with all amigaos4 specific changes and custom 3d party linker libraries are on GitHub now: https://github.com/kas1e/Odyssey/
- Recompiled Odyssey with GCC 8.3.0, previously it was 4.4.3
- Fixed dangling pointer issue with WebPreferences, which was responsible for the "Conf" directory string becoming random garbage (c) Hans de Ruiter
The issue was here for a long time, just with older GCC we were lucky enough to not step in.
- Fixed lame crash on exit happens when you use a beta of MUI and it brings you "expire" window.
- Application.library previously got v1 of the interface, but for some time it should be 2, fixed.
- Updated codesets.library to the latest one (6.21, 16 Jan 2018)
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt (https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem , 01 Jan 2020)
- Compiled with Curl 7.68.0, OpenSSL 1.1.1c & RTMP 2.4.
- actual build date and version in "about"
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11.Mar.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: "Tiny little Slug" available
At APC&TCP you can order "Tiny Little Slug" (video), a jump'n run game written by André Zeps, XplrA and Thomas Boisse. In this game you have to "climb like a snail on walls and ceilings to find the strawberry". Opponents cannot be harmed but have to be removed by different methods.
The game offers four different worlds, three different degrees of difficulty and three big end bosses. Highscores can be saved on disk or harddrive or in the NvRAM of the CD32 and on Internet.
Tiny Little Slug is available on CD, disk or as download archive. An Amiga 500 is required but the game also is compatible with accelerated Amigas and the CD32.
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08.Mar.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.03.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 7th, 2020:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 207K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
CDDBItaCat.lha comm/misc 10K Italian catalog for CDDB.libr...
NetPrinterItaCat.lha comm/tcp 14K Italian catalog for NetPrinter
PoenitentiamAgite.lha demo/intro 6K 68k An intro from Capacitor Party...
TheReturnOfTheCube.zip demo/intro 39K 68k An intro from Posadas 2018
jrm-bs75.lha demo/sound 956K 68k dA JoRMaS: Bonus Stage #75 (i...
jrm-hc74.lha demo/sound 1.3M 68k dA JoRMaS: Happy Carva #74 (i...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 20K 68k 15 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
AmiSSL_in_E.lha dev/e 45K 68k AmiSSL Example and includes f...
radinfo.lha disk/misc 4K 68k Prints info about mounted RADs
Frontiera.lha game/strat 173K 68k Frontier alike game WIP for i...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.3M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.1M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.6M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 39K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
PointRiderUIItaCat.lha gfx/show 9K OS4 Italian catalog for PointRide...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 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...
cc1541.lha misc/emu 84K MOS Create Commodore 1541 floppy ...
HKvalhesvoice.lha mods/smpl 451K 16-bit HKvalhes Voice WAVs
GSGuiItaCat.lha text/dtp 14K Italian catalog for GSGui v0.38
BootPicture.lha util/boot 35K 68k Show pictures/play a sound du...
AssignZItaCat.lha util/cdity 9K Italian catalog for AssignZ 2.10
RSE-UTS.lha util/cli 195K 68k Package of tracker tools and ...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 981K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
DevInfosItaCat.lha util/misc 12K Italian catalog for DevInfos ...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 110K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 143K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
RandomBackdrop.lha util/wb 7.9M 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 9K 68k 7 AmigaDOS scripts by Stefano...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.03.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 7th, 2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 121Mb 4.1 An Unix/X11 environment for Amig...
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 15Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 76Mb 4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 65Mb 4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 207kb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 7th, 2020:
Mercurial_2.8.2-1.lha Development/Tools Mercurial_2.8.2-1.lha
CVS_1.11.23.lha Development/Management Port of CVS, a revision...
CVS_1.12.11.lha Development/Management Port of CVS, a revision...
Flite_1.2.lha Audio/Misc Speech synthesis engine
ZGloom_0.2.0.lha Games/Shoot 3D ZGloom, A re-implementa...
BootClock_1.05.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
Tesseract_2.04.lha Office/OCR Port of high quality Op...
DOSBox_JIT-beta2.lha Emulation A DOS-emulator that use...
xad_rar.lha Files/Archive XAD (UnArc) client for ...
cc1541_3.1.lha Emulation/Misc Create Commodore 1541 f...
Runaway_1.17.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
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08.Mar.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.03.2020
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 March 7th, 2020:
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06.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Graphics board: Denise adapter for ZZ9000
Already since January under the title link a Denise adapter for Lukas F. Hartmann's graphics board ZZ9000 has been available (amiga-news.de reported).
The adapter ZZ9500CX transfers the digital video signal of the custom chips to the graphics board to get the functionality of a scandoubler on the Amiga 500 or any other Amiga without a video slot.
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06.Mar.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Video recordings of Bill McEwen at the ACE 2000
On 21. and 22. October 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, the Alternative Computer Expo took place (amiga-news.de reported). In addition to the show report, in 2012 three videos were published showing Bill McEwen from Amiga Inc. introducing his AmigaDE plans. This videos rarely have been watched.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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05.Mar.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printmagazin: Amiga Future, issue 143
The English and German issue 143 (March/April 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Topics include the fourth part of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 special ("The developers are dishing the dirt"), a workshop for synchronising partitions and a review of 'Insanity Fight Construction Set'. (cg)
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02.Mar.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.5
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programs has been compiled for AmigaOS 4. AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to an Unix installation.
In version 1.5 many problems have been solved but there are also new features like a new windows manager and new display drivers. The documentation now is available as PDF file.
New in AmiCygnix-Base:
- This release now includes a new Window Manager called "Dynamic Window
Manager" (dwm), recommended for use with programs launched from the
standalone scripts.
This window manager maximizes the main window of the program and does not
add frames to the windows. This avoids duplicate frames, as in a workbench
display and the use of the window manager Openbox.
- A total of seven new display drivers have been added to the package. All drivers that do not use Picasso96 require graphics.library V54!
- If a workbench display is iconized, the name of the icon now indicates the
program started in it, if it was started with a standalone script.
- The X server did not support special keys like "Page Up" or "Home" found on
a PC keyboard. Also the NumLock key was not supported. This has now been
implemented (thanks to Stefan Juhas for his hint!).
- Under certain circumstances, the X server could freeze the entire system
when starting or exiting. This particularly occurred in programs that were
started with a standalone script. All display drivers have been revised for
this and the problems should be resolved.
- Fixed some bugs in myX11Setup and myX11SetupLight.
- For some parts of the program, the Italian translation has been updated
or recreated.
- The display drivers xpicasso96clonewb and xpicasso96wb were revised for
better performance, especially on 32bit screens.
- The "lxpanel" desktop panel could crash under certain circumstances. Has
been fixed. Also thanks to Samir for the hint!
- The documentation in the "Docs" directory is now predominantly in PDF
format.
New in AmiCygnix-Tools:
- The start scripts have been adapted to the new windows manager.
- The documentation also now is available as PDF file.
Screenshots:
Download:
amicygnix-base.lha (121 MB)
amicygnix-tools.lha (76 MB)
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01.Mar.2020
Achim Pankalla (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignitionOS4 1.00
Achim Pankalla wrote: Under the title link version 1.00 of the spreadsheet "ignitionOS4" is available on the Sourceforge website. For more than ten years ignition has been open source and this is the sixth version of the AmigaOS-4 port.
This version no longer is calleds "beta" although it is not completely bug-free and a Grim Reaper might happen. Despite this many functions have been added and about 100 bugs/problems have been removed.
By releasing this version a new user-interface and menu layout has been introduced providing a modern look and of course meeting suggestions of the users. For example there now is an export/import menu and the dialog and the procedure of loading and saving was simpliefied. Of course still the user can create his own user-interface. The new icons were added as well.
This version has focused on the ARexx and DB functions. Many bugs have been fixed and some new functions added. Many thanks to Helmut Haake for revising the manual which now can be opened on every menu item, dialog and GUI element by using the Help key. For using the ODS import/export you still have to separately install the ign-addon-ods.
Many thanks also to all beta testers, bug reportes, translators and supporters! You can get further information in the ignitionOS4 forum on os4welt.de - or you can write an e-mail, also for providing any feedback.
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01.Mar.2020
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- January/February 2020 news
- Old articles from Joystick Hedbo 44 to 48HS:
- Review of Nil Dieu Vivant (Pharaoh)
- Review of Magic Marble
- Review of Continental Circus
- Report: Survey about Parisian microcomputer stores
- Review of Dogs Of War
- Review of Roller Coaster Rumbler
- Review of West Phaser
- News: The games expected for Christmas 1989
- Review of Dragon Spirit
- Interview with David Foster (Amiga game developer)
- Interview with Hans de Ruiter (AmigaOS 4 developer)
- Interview with Robert Jacob (director of Cinemaware)
- Review of GnGeoNG 0.8.1
- Review of MorphOS 3.12/3.13
- Review of AMIcast Player 1.3
- Hardware: Vampire V4 Standalone
- Point of view: Could a sufficient quantity of CD32 have prevented the sinking of Commodore?
- File: The history of MOS Technology
- File: Amiga Games List (update)
- Special quiz about the year 2019 on Amiga
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.02.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 29th, 2020:
FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 9K Italian catalog for Facts v5.07
AmiSSL_in_E.lha dev/e 46K 68k AmiSSL Example+includes conv....
file-mos.lha dev/gg 1.5M MOS Determine file type
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 95K 68k Align 3 tiles of the same col...
sdlquake-MOS-1.0.9.lha game/shoot 2.1M MOS sdlquake-MOS 1.0.9
Frontiera.lha game/strat 173K 68k Frontier alike game WIP for i...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.0M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.5M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
iff2bitplanes.lha gfx/conv 8K 68k IFF2Bitplanes conversion with...
Blackwater.lha mods/8voic 230K Blackwater 5ch Country Rock b...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 37K 68k Samples creation and saving
GSGuiItaCat.lha text/dtp 9K Italian catalog for GSGui v0.38
Morpheus_1.62.lha text/dtp 3.0M MOS Word processor
ExeDataTypeItaCat.lha util/dtype 8K Italian catalog for exe.datat...
lzip.lha util/pack 275K MOS Data (de)compressor like gzip...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.02.2020
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autodocviewer.lha dev/uti 125kb 4.1 AutoDoc viewer for OS4
dosbox.lha emu/com 3Mb 4.1 an x86 emulator
dosbox_ita.lha emu/com 79kb 4.0 Italian translation for DOSBox 0.74
pintorweb.lha gra/mis 3Mb 4.0 An easy program to handling pict...
vindentiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Picture Viewer written in Hollywood
fonttester.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.0 Tool to test the fonts installed...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.02.2020
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iconeditor.i386-aros.tgz gra/ico 1Mb Editor For Icons
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 29.02.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 29th, 2020:
VidentiumPicta_2.25.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
FontTester_1.05.lha Office/Show Font Tester
lzip_1.21.lha Files/Archive Data (de)compressor lik...
InvidiousDL_1.0.lha Network/Web A little script to down...
YouTube_URL_Extractor_... Network/Web YouTube URL extractor.
PintorWeb_3.0.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
WitchCleaner_1.06.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
File_5.38.lha Files/Tools Determine file type.
Axel_2.4.lha Network/Download HTTP/FTP download accel...
Aleph0ne_2005.01.18.lha Games/Shoot 3D Aleph0ne_2005.01.18.lha
vbcc_0.9g.lha Development/C A highly optimizing por...
Zaphod_1.3.lha Development/Tools Zaphod_1.3.lha
Chrysalis_3.13.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
vasmppc_std_1.8g.lha Development/ASM A portable and retarget...
vasmm68k_mot_1.8g.lha Development/ASM A portable and retarget...
SDLQuake_1.0.9.lha Games/Shoot 3D MorphOS Port of sdlquak...
Runaway_1.16.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.02.2020
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 29th, 2020:
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01.Mar.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.13
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.13 for MorphOS 3.13. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Updates:
- AmiSpeedTest 0.6
- AmiSSL 4.4
- FontTester 1.05
- GrimoriumPDF 2.10
- Hatari 2.2.1
- Iris beta71
- Leu 0.08
- MorphOS 3.13 ixemul hotfix
- RNOComics_1.5
- RNOEffects_1.3
- RNOTags_1.1
- RNOWidgets_1.4
- ScoutNG_1.5
- Screenshot screenbar 1.1
- ScummVM_2.1.1
- SDL2
- TopTasks_1.3
- Unrar_5.80
- VidentiumPicta_2.20
- WebRadio_1.11
- Wings Demo
Download: Chrysalis.iso (771 MB)
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29.Feb.2020
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Another FPGA-based CPU card in developement
Mike Stirling is building a FPGA-based accelerator board which will use the open source 68k core TG68 as CPU. The latest prototypes still use a FPGA developer board (Terasic DE0 Nano) which is connected to the CPU socket of the Amiga. Using self made boards will follow later.
In contrast to the well-known Vampire, here it will be focused on maximum compatibility. Additional to the fast processor and Fast-RAM, the current prototypes also can access SD cards. First of all the board is being developed for the Amiga 500 which is followed by versions for other Amiga models.
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28.Feb.2020
Indie Retro News
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Dungeon Crawler: Port of "Legacy" (2003) announced
Legacy is a classic Dungeon Crawler like Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder which was released in 2003 for different PDA platforms. Recently Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has released a limited demo version of an Amiga port (video of the intro) but also pointed out that it is unlikely that a full version will be available due to the legal status.
Obviously a publisher called Inked Pixel Software has addressed this situation and has announced via Indie Retro News that it is going to commercially distribute the full Amiga version.
A date for the release has not been set. The game requires a harddrive, Kickstart 3.1 and an AGA-Amiga with 4 MB Fast-RAM or an ECS-Amiga with 68020 processor and 6 MB RAM. Additional to a screen solution of 320x240, also a solution of 640x480 is supported which is meant for graphics card.
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27.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game announcement: "Super Metal Hero" (AGA)
For 2020 Double Sided Games has not only announced some C64 releases on its website but also an Amiga game: "Super Metal Hero" will be written by Michael Gibs and 'Tenshu' and "is a shooting action platformer with side scrolling combined with shoot'em up levels". Some screenshots are already available - the game is supposed to be available Q4 2020 and requires an AGA-Amiga with 68030 processor and 4 MB Fast-RAM.
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27.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 107 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga sports game "Super Ski II", the educational game "Rody & Mastico II" and the multimedia software "Scala IC400".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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26.Feb.2020
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Shoot'em Up: Preview video of RESHOOT PROXIMA 3
The former "Amiga Joker" editor Richard Löwenstein is working on his third shoot'em up game. After RESHOOT and RESHOOT R currently "RESHOOT PROXIMA 3" he is writing. A preview video was released a few weeks ago. On his Patreon website Löwenstein publishes updates and background information.
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26.Feb.2020
viddi (ANF)
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Your favourite song of Chris Hülsbeck for "Piano Collection II" wanted
There will be a second issue of Chris Hülsbeck's Piano Collection. The pianist Patrick Nevian is going to play them in his own style. You are invited to tell them your favourite some for the next album.
Update: (27.02.20, 21:30, cg)
Since he recieved enough suggestions already, Nevian has now created a Poll for letting users decide which 12 of the about 40 titles suggested should make it onto the final Album. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Feb.2020
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Amiga Future: Issue 114 available online
The English issue 114 (May/June 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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25.Feb.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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C65: Cloanto license for Mega65 project
The Mega65 project is going to make the C65 based on FPGA adding "some 21st century improvements" (like network and HDMI ports).
According to an announcement on Facebook since the Amiga30 in Neuss an "agreement has been in place" that "every MEGA65 computer will be bundled with the original C65 ROMs to ensure full C65 compatibility".
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25.Feb.2020
Indie Retro News
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Preview video: Doom clone for Amiga 500
KK/Altair is working on a Doom clone for an A500 equipped with 1 MB RAM which can ply real Doom-WAD files. In a video he demonstrates how he uses a Doom editor for creating a part of a level for his engine. Afterwards he tested it (from about 10:20) in an emulated Amiga 500.
The programmer has pointed out that his port has required some fundamental improvements which could cause cause problems, e.g. detecting possible collisions. Therefore levels have to be adapted to his engine and tested.
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25.Feb.2020
Lars "LarsB" Brämer (E-Mail)
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A1222: Production of "Early Adopter Edition" maybe starts in the third quarter
In the latest entry on his blog, Trevor Dickinson has focused on the negative aspects of the coronavirus outbreak with respect to A-EON and Amigakit: "Matthew Leaman informed me that, due to factory shutdowns, several of his new classic Amiga hardware products have not been shipped or are now greatly behind schedule. A-EON Technology's A1222 early Adopter development and release schedule has similarly been affected and Matthew thinks the delays could push production into the third quarter of this year."
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23.Feb.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.02.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 22nd, 2020:
jrm-bs75.lha demo/sound 154K 68k dA JoRMaS: Bonus Stage #75
GoADF.lha disk/misc 286K 68k AIO software to handle ADF/AD...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.0M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.5M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
hangon.lha mods/jorma 48K Hang-On by Vesuri (Arcade)
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mods/smpl 125K Some samples created by Sampl...
Deark.lha util/arc 2.4M MOS Extract data from various fil...
AmiSSL-4.4.lha util/libs 8.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
StartWin.lha util/wb 91K 68k bugged WB launch bar for clas...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.02.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 22nd, 2020:
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
kt_scripts.lha uti/scr 218kb 4.0 Helper scipts for Odyssey, Simpl...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 22.02.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until February 22nd, 2020:
nexuiz_classic.i386-aros.tgz aud 3Mb FPS Games Multiplayer, Singleplayer
runaway.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 2Mb LCD game conversion remake
leu_icons.lzx gra/ico 7kb leu ken's icon drawer
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 22.02.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 22nd, 2020:
AmiArcadia_26.3.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
AmiSSL_4.4_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiBlitz3_3.7.3.zip Development/AmiBlitz Amiblitz is the further...
CDPlayer_2.1.lha Audio/AudioCD CD Player for MorphOS a...
Runaway_1.15.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
CDPlayer_lib_ahi_52.7.lha System/Library/Audio Modern replacement for ...
Deark_1.5.4.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
MorphOS_3.13-ixemulhot... System/Update MorphOS_3.13-ixemulhotf...
ZGloom_0.1.0.lha Games/Shoot 3D ZGloom, A re-implementa...
Morpheus_1.62.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor with Uni...
VidentiumPicta_2.25.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
FontTester_1.05.lha Office/Show Font Tester
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.02.2020
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 22nd, 2020:
- 2020-02-21 new: Gotcha (Prestige) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-02-20 improved: Top Wrestling (Genias) 2 access faults fixed, icons added (Info)
- 2020-02-20 improved: Circus Attractions (Golden Goblins) stack moved to fast memory, less chip memory used, access fault fixed (Info)
- 2020-02-20 improved: Chubby Gristle (Grandslam/Teque) another version supported, new imager, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-02-20 new: Vindex (Turtle Byte) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2020-02-17 improved: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) missing music bug fixed, manual included (Info)
- 2020-02-17 new: Top Wrestling (Genias) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-02-17 fixed: Super Space Invaders (Taito/Domark) install script corrected (Info)
- 2020-02-17 improved: OsWALD Of The Ice Floes (Centaur) supports another version, access fault fixed, trainer added (Info)
- 2020-02-17 fixed: Metro-Cross (U.S. Gold) access fault removed (Info)
- 2020-02-17 improved: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) uses less chip memory, quitkey on 68000, some issues fixed (Info)
- 2020-02-17 improved: Gunship (Microprose) supports another version (Info)
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21.Feb.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.13: Hotfix for ixemul.library
The release of MorphOS 3.13 about two weeks ago detected a bug ixemul.library: By default a wrong FPU rounding mode was used. As the developers wrote, "the bug can manifest itself in various ways, one example is "tinny" audio output in various games" like the demo version of Wings Remastered.
The hotfix for the ixemul.library can be downloaded under the title link. After unarchiving it, simply copy it to the WBStartup drawer. If in future a bug fixed version of the ixemul.library will be released the hotfix would not affect it.
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20.Feb.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Role playing game SoulFu, diverse 3D games updated
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has ported the RPG 'SoulFu' to AmigaOS. It requires his updated EGL-Wrapper. Furthermore some older ports have been updated and adapted to the EGL-Wrapper which mostly improves the performance. Therefore it is possible to run the games in higher screen modes. The updated games are 'Pacman Arena', 'Pingus', 'Reborn to Castle Wolfenstein', 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein' and 'ZAZ'.
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20.Feb.2020
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AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.16 (beta)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video).
A new beta version now is available under the title link. According to the developer the update provides several improvements and bug fixes.
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20.Feb.2020
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Arcade game: AMiner 2020-2-20
AMiner (video) is a simple arcade game for one or two players which originally was developed for the game competetion Retrokomp under time pressure. Since the original release the author provides updates and is working on the game.
The latest update provides the following changes:
- 20.2.20
- Implemented office panel in commrade
- Bribes kinda work
- 20.2.18
- Fixed fall damage being too low
- Added portait selection in commrade office
- Added "Sorry" screen for low-spec Amigas
- Challenge checkpoints are now easier to drill
- 20.2.16
- Mietek will now remind you that plan is due soon
- Drilling through stone has constant difficulty of 10
- Better language selection gfx
- 20.2.15
- Time remaining is represented as 30 days
- You can drill through stone and stoney minerals
- Polish translation is working now
- 20.2.9
- One accolade now requires configurable number of plans to fulfill
- Drilling through minerals inside the stone should be harder now
- Teleporting gives now a chance to damage or destroy machine
- Changes in typesetting
- 20.2.6
- Fixed not being able to drill sometimes
- Detonating TNTs now decrease their count in inventory
- Fixed bricking controls when choosing nuke mode
- Fixed action button being frozen as pressed on starting game
- Modified audio handling, hopefully for the better
- Added rebuke/accolade counters
- Added teleport sound
- 20.2.4
- Changed mode selection controls to not requiring action button holding
- TNT-exploded minerals now are automatically collected
- Fixed counters not working on mode selection HUD panel
- Fixed order of TNT explosions
- 20.2.3
- Added commrade key press/release sounds
- Added TNT/explosion sound
- Added support for teleport sound
- 20.2.2
- Added mode selection: Short action button press is action, longer enters mode selection. Implemented teleport, tnt and drill modes
- Added buyable upgrades in shop
- Removed tnt/teleport access via debug buttons
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19.Feb.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 143 - preview and excerpts
A preview and extracts from issue 143 (March/April 2020) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features an interview with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes), reviews of 'Black Strawberry Cake', 'Black Dawn Rebirth' and 'Insanity Fight Construction Set' as well as the fourth part of the 'AmigaOS 3.1.4' special.
The Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought in full colour directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (cg)
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18.Feb.2020
Reddit (ANF)
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AmigaOS developer Darren Greenwald died
The former AmigaOS developer Darren Greenwald recently died. In 1990 Greenwald started to work for Commodore and after its decline he was hired by the American daughter company Scala. You can find a short summary of his career on reddit.com.
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18.Feb.2020
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ISA Power processor: OpenPower Foundation introduced open license model
In August the OpenPower Foundation had announced the release of the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of the POWER processors of IBM as open source. Now the license model was introduced: In future chip manufacturers are allowed to build and sell their own Power kernels under the free license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, CC BY 4.0) without having to pay license fees to the OpenPower Foundation. Two example implementations called "Microwatt" and "Chiselwatt" are also provided.
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17.Feb.2020
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Game project: New preview video of 'Scourge of the Underkind'
"Scourge of the Underkind" is a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed, is written in assembler and will offer 16 levels devided into four worlds. After a longer break - the first previews were released four years ago - now the developers are working on the game again. Today a new preview video has been released.
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