10.Jan.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Special offer to celebrate 2018
Press release: To celebrate the new year Airsoft Softwair are now officially the hardest DISCOUNTING men in code business because for a short time only Hollywood is now available for each platform individually for just half the price. This offer is very interesting for people who only want the Amiga version of Hollywood, for example. They can now buy Hollywood just for the Amiga platform (which includes native versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, and WarpOS) for just 49 euros instead of 99 euros which is a saving of 50%! The same is true for people who only want the Linux, Mac OS, or Windows version of Hollywood. Single-platform licenses are now only 49 euros for a short time! People who want Hollywood for all platforms can still buy the all-round version for all platforms for 99 euros of course.
Note that the single-platform versions of Hollywood still support compiling for all platforms supported by Hollywood, so even if you only buy Hollywood for Amiga, you can still compile for all other platforms including Linux, Mac OS, and Windows as well!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 130
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 130 (January/February 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a review of "Schütze Mike and the Treasures of the Inkas" and an interview with editor Andreas Magerl on the occasion of the magazine's 20th birthday.
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09.Jan.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Trademarks: Amiga Inc. renewed Europe registration of "Amiga"
In respect of the dispute about different trademarks (amiga-news.de reported), in Europe today the registration of the trademark "Amiga" has been renewed by Amiga Inc. at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for another ten years.
Before other parties had registered interest in case Amiga Inc. would have not renewed the trademarks.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2018
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiModRadio 0.9991
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. Version 0.9991 provides bug fixes and the option to specify a limit for the size of files to be downloaded.
There is also a bugtracker for reporting bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 6th, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.0b6.lha comm/tcp 1.7M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
TSBTrainerMenu.lha dev/src 10K The Special Brothers Trainer ...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 28K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MMULib.lha util/libs 717K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 6th, 2018:
amos2ascii.lha dev/lan 62kb 4.1 Convert AMOS token files to ASCII
oo.lha dev/lib 857kb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
services.lha net/mis 62kb 4.0 Enable and disable servers quick
extraversion.lha uti/she 8kb 4.1 Finds the extra version number (...
mplayer-mickjt.lha vid/pla 28Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...
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07.Jan.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 06.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until January 6th, 2018:
Simplemail_0.44.lha Email E-mail client
ScummVM_2.0.0_beta.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
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07.Jan.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.01.2018
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 January 6th, 2018:
- 2018-01-05 updated: 242 (Fairlight/Virtual Dreams) patch redone, keyboard problems fixed, patch works with 512k chip and 512k other mem now, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2018-01-05 improved: Megademo (Deathstar) freezing problems fixed, graphics problems fixed, byte write to ADKCON fixed, copperlist problems fixed, more Bplcon0 color bit fixes, problems with scroller in greetings part (caused by a wrong blitter wait) fixed, end part adapted to replay tune correctly also on machines with slow chip ram access, ButtonWait support for loader part added (Info)
- 2018-01-03 fixed: Global Gladiators (Virgin) fixed level 6 interrupt lockup on checkered screen (Info)
- 2018-01-02 improved: Xenon 2 (Bitmap Brothers) splash window buttons added (Info)
- 2018-01-02 improved: Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx) reduced fastmem requirements (Info)
- 2018-01-01 improved: Archipelagos (Astral Software) imager adapted to save data for level 1 too (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2018
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:
- Gods - Into the Wonderful
- Wings of Death - Level 2
- Stardust Memories (MDK remix)
- Arcane (Remix)
- Memorial Theme (Before and After)
- Cousin's Song (Megaforce)
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06.Jan.2018
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Rare prototype: Commodore Amiga CD 1200
The CD 1200 not only should provide an external CD-ROM drive for the A1200, but also compatibility with Commodore's game console CD32. The drive would have been connected with a plug-in card for the trapdoor slot of the A1200 which among others had contained the CD32 chip "Akiko".
One of the rare prototypes for the CD1200 obviously was found in an old barn and was given to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester (amiga-news.de reported). The staff member Andy Spencer has introduced the prototype in a Youtube interview with the "Centre for Computing History".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2018, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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05.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Italian version of Flight of Amazon Queen
After the release of a German version of the adventure game, now an Italian translation is available as well. Again the texts of the DOS version have been translated and revised. Additionally texts in pictures have been translated into Italian as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2018, 23:14] [Comments: 0]
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05.Jan.2018
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AMOS author talks about his past fee
In the Facebook group "AMOS Professional" Francois Lionet, author of STOS/AMOS for Atari ST and Amiga, talked about the fee which he got for his package.
Francois Lionet's statement:
I did make good money... During STOS, around 60.000 ¤ / year ( I convert Francs to Euros directly, as today in France things cost the same in Euros than what they used to in Francs at that time)...
STOS and AMOS 1.3 raised that to around 100.000 on the first year and lower the next year with STOS sales declining... But my best year was AMOS Professional.... Initial sales were fantastic as many people were waiting for it in UK and rushed to buy it... Could not believe my eyes when I saw a check of more than 150.000¤... it payed for a large part of our house... and cool holidays! This is a lot of course, not enough to buy a Porsche! (would not have anyway)
Europress was very happy to see me each time I came to Manchester... My royalties were 15%, a simple multiplication will give you how much cash they made, so yeah they were happy! And me too each time I came to see them, Richard and all the team...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jan.2018
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Wireless joysticks for retro computers
On Gizhub, "t33bu" has published documents for making "make a wireless mouse/joystick for Amiga500 retro computer". This solution is based on the radio moduls of the XBee series and can be used with any Atari/Commodore compatible joystick.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2018, 22:59] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jan.2018
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Party game: Highway Sprint (alpha version)
In "Highway Spint" (video) four human or computer controlled players try to survive on a highway bristled with obstacles. On AGA computers a wider range of colours is used and the game runs without "frame skips". Up to four joysticks are supported but it is also possible that two players use the keyboard and the other two share a CD32 joypad.
The author descibes Highway Sprint as "prototype". It is still not clear if the game will be developed further.
Download: HighwaySprint.zip
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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