27.Feb.2019
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Mini games: Dino Run and MeMo
Two little games have been released: "Dino Run" is a clone of a mini game contained in Google Chrome in which you make a dinosaur jump over barriers using the SPACE key. Writing this BlitzBasic game the author was going to get used to program sprites on the Amiga. The game MeMo is inspired by the card game "Memory".
Download links for Dino Run
Diskimage: dino.adf.zip (176 KB)
HD version: Dinorun.lha (37 KB)
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26.Feb.2019
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Pseudo 3D: Space shooter Star (Dust) Wars 1.3D
"Star (Dust) Wars" (video) is a space shooter similar to classic pseudo 3D shooter which should run on all Amiga models equipped with at least one megabyte ChipRAM and Kickstart 1.3.
The archive contains four different versions of the game: Additional to the version with bitmap graphics there is one with monochromatic or colourful vectors. And if you have appropriate 3D glasses you can even play the game with the anaglyph 3D effect.
Download: sw_game_v1.zip (2,3 MB)
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2019, 01:06] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2019
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SketchBlock Pro 3.2
For the commercial graphic program SketchBlock written by Andy Broad in A-EONs Amistore a free update of the "pro" edition for registered users is available. Customers of the "lite" edition can purchase SketchBlock Pro 3.2 for a reduced price.
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25.Feb.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 95
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") compares and reviews games on vintage computers. This time the latest release obviously only is available in English.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Rick Dangerous 2", "Sensible Golf", "Street Fighter II" and the Italian multimedia encyclopedia "Enciclopedia Elettronica Grolier".
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2019, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Hans de Ruiter (W3D Nova, Radeon drivers)
On amigans.net an interview with Hans de Ruiter has been published who on behalf of A-EON develops video card drivers and systems for AmigaOS 4.
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25.Feb.2019
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Full version for download: L' Art De La Guerre
On the website of the Amiga Future the full version of the strategy game "L' Art De La Guerre" (in French and Spain) released in 1990 is available for free.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2019, 23:48] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.02.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 23rd, 2019:
NetPrinterItaCat.lha comm/tcp 11K Italian catalog for NetPrinte...
PLATOTermAmiga.adf comm/term 880K 68k Terminal program to access PL...
embed_private_strings... dev/gcc 4K 68k Private strings in C code, gc...
Interplay_Sourcecode.zip disk/cdrom 457K Interplay - Source Code
Exult_AGA.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga AGA port of Exult
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga RTG port of Exult
AmiSpear_AGA.lha game/shoot 3.7M 68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiWolf_AGA.lha game/shoot 3.8M 68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_ECS.lha game/shoot 3.8M 68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_RTG.lha game/shoot 3.8M 68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
duke3d_wrangler.lha game/shoot 1.0M WOS Duke Nukem 3D for AmigaOS3 + ...
Stratagus.lha game/strat 23M WOS Realtime strategy game engine
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DOSBox_AGA.lha misc/emu 1.9M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.9M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
DiskMaster27ItaCat.lha util/dir 10K Italian catalog for DiskMaste...
AmiSSL-4.3.lha util/libs 6.4M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
DiskMaster27ItaCat.lha util/libs 10K Italian catalog for DiskMaste...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 37K 68k A graphical file compare / di...
SysSpeedItaCat.lha util/moni 11K Italian catalog for SysSpeed ...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 98K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 129K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.src.lha util/sys 2.1M Commodore Installer replacement
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 34K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
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24.Feb.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.02.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 23rd, 2019:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
smurfen-game.lha gam/pla 6Mb 4.0 Game demo
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amissl.lha lib/mis 6Mb 4.0 AmiSSL Open Source Team
dtfpclient.zip net/ftp 20Mb 4.0 little TFTP client
dcsta-tester.zip net/mis 15Mb 4.0 CSTA-tester
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
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24.Feb.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 23.02.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 23rd, 2019:
Shorten_3.6.1.lha Audio/Encoder A popular losless audio...
Universe-NoSyncIsBack.lha Demoscene Demo released at IGDRP2...
MUIColorizer_0.8-src.lha Development/Sources MUIColorizer_0.8-src.lha
Vim_8.1.932-src.lha Development/Sources A highly configurable t...
Iris_beta49.lha Email New email client suppor...
JumpNBump_1.51.lha Games/Platform This is a game for the ...
OpenSyobonAction.lha Games/Platform Syobon Action, a Mario ...
MUIColorizer_1.1.lha Graphics/Tools A simple tools to chang...
iConecta_3.10.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy tool ...
PerCIMan_0.4.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con...
Screenshot8.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
InstallerLG_0.1.0a34.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
Vim_8.1.932.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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24.Feb.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.02.2019
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 23rd, 2019:
- 2019-02-24 improved: Battle Squadron (Innerprise) joystick 3rd button supported, CUSTOM3=1 to detect automatically if a joystick/pad or mouse is connected, CUSTOM4=1 to skip the blitter wait patch (Info, Image)
- 2019-02-17 new: Drugstore (Abyss) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2019-02-17 fixed: Project X (Team 17) install script fixed (Info)
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23.Feb.2019
The Digital Cat (ANF)
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Assembler tutorial: 7. and 8. part of "Exploring the Amiga"
In his English-language article series "Exploring the Amiga" the developer describes his first experiences of programming an Amiga in assembler. Part 7 again is about initialising the Free Memory Pools, part 8 describes how to install libraries in the list of the system libraries. Besides, a complete jump table of Exec is given and conditions and branches in the Motorola instruction set are explained.
Exploring the Amiga - Part 7
- The complete Exec vector table
- The memory list header
- Adding free memory to the system list
- AddMemList internals
Exploring the Amiga - Part 8
- Branching
- Enqueue
- Remove
- AddLibrary
- Manual decompilation
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19.Feb.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 137 - preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 137 (March/April 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a preview to the "Amiga 34" and a report about the AmiWest.
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18.Feb.2019
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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3D print: Several printed replacement parts for Amiga computers
On 3dpintserviceshop.com several replacement parts for Amiga computers are offered, e.g. the front-cover of a Commodore-1084s monitor, "Trapdoors" for the A1200 or a power button of an A4000. The parts are printed by the Dutch shop using a 3d printer and are available for 5 to 20 Euro.
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18.Feb.2019
Mike Battilana (E-Mail)
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Picasso96: Cloanto replies Jens Schönfeld's allegations
For years (German), first Thomas Richter - who is now working on Jens Schönfeld's commercial P96 distribution - and later Jens Schönfeld himself have criticized Cloanto's distribution of Picasso96 as part of Amiga Forever. In a 2001 press release, Cloanto had announced that the company licenced P96 from its original authors Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt for use in the Amiga Forever distribution.
Jens Schönfeld denies that, recently he attacked the Italian company in a press release and claimed (German) in a discussion on amiga-news.de that he had only seen "blackened account statements and vague e-mails" as evidence for the alleged licence to Cloanto.
Apparently, Cloanto now released these exact emails and a transfer receipt to the public. The old Picasso announcement on the company's website has been supplemented with a small note and a PDF document.
The PDF contains two e-mails which are apparently part of a longer conversation between Mike Battilana (Cloanto) and Alexander Kneer (Picasso96).
Basically, Battilana is having Kneer confirm various details of the license agreement. The core points the two are addressing, seem to be the following items:
- Battilana suggests the following copyright notice: "Amiga Forever includes a licensed copy of the Picasso96 software. This means that no additional shareware fees are due for this copy of the software, which is licensed for use only in the Amiga Forever emulation environment, and without upgrade privileges." Alexander Kneers reply to the suggestion: "Perfect."
- Battilana asks: "Do you think we need a contract, or is our exchange of email sufficient? For me it is enough, if you confirm so." Kneer answers: "Sufficient for me."
- Battilana then summarizes older agreements that are not part of the mails included in the PDF: "The fee for using Picasso96 in Amiga Forever as agreed, in place of the current shareware status, would be DM 2000.00 (in addition to past shareware contributions). If you could confirm that the data I used one year ago is still OK, I will wire it there." Kneer: "Nothing has changed. ;-)"
The last item in the PDF is a scan of a transfer receipt: On December 4th, 2001 Cloanto Italia SRL transfered 1022,58 Euro (i.e. 2000 DM) to an account at the Sparkasse Ulm. Recipient: Abt&Kneer GbR. Reason for payment: "Picasso96".
Approached by amiga-news.de, Jens Schönfeld did not question the authenticity of the mails published by Cloanto, but states that these mails have been "taken out ouf context" to make people "draw wrong conclusions". He didn't want to elaborate any further, stating that both parties' lawyers were currently working on this issue. (cg)
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18.Feb.2019
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 1.0
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 1.0:
- Game/demo AutoSwap-disks feature
- No manual disk swapping, at all!
- Requires patching of host software titles
- Amiga titles so far (github:keirf/FF_AutoSwap):
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- FF.CFG: New OLED display-type sib-option "-narrower"
- 16-character-wide display (c.w. "-narrow" 18-char-wide)
- PC98: Direct support for HDM image files
- HxC Compat: Small fixes to Amiga file selector
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18.Feb.2019
viddi (ANF)
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Action-RPG: Playable demo of Tales of Gorluth III
For the third and last part of Patrick Nevian's action RPG "Tales of Gorluth" announced for for the end of this year a first playable preview is available. The author has pointed out that it is a very early version and a lot of details have to be solved, e.g. dialogues which can be skipped and further animations. But the demo would give a very good impression of start of the game.
Download: TOGIII-DEMO.zip (1 MB)
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