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Archive 08/2023

`25.Aug.2023`	Demo development: Amiga Scroller After an estimated 30 years of Amiga abstinence, Andreas Scholl is trying to remember his programming skills and has started to write a small demo. He has documented the current status with two YouTube videos: Amiga Scroller V0.001 and Amiga Scroller V0.02 (dr) [News message: 25. Aug. 2023, 11:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Aug.2023` Patreon	Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.3 / RetroAnimator (update) The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. According to the developer the Scorpion Engine 2023.3 is the fastest version to date, and among many smaller improvements, it features a handful of major upgrades: Support for the RetroAnimator animation toolkit for fluid animations. Support for CDTV/CD32 music on Amiga. Support for Column Scrolling on Mega Drive. Export to CDTV/CD32 ISO on Amiga. Export to DragonDrive cartridge on Mega Drive. There is also a new introduction video that briefly covers all of the tabs, as well as the differences between the Amiga and Mega Drive platforms. Update: (16:16, 25.08.23, dr) As Erik Hogan informs us, he has now also released the above-mentioned RetroAnimator on his Patreon website. RetroAnimator is a toolkit that can be used to create super fluid animations with minimal memory usage. It was previously only used in Engine 9000 (which was used to make MetroSiege), now it's available to Scorpion Engine developers as well (though it technically could be adapted to any engine as it uses a simple JSON data format). (dr) [News message: 25. Aug. 2023, 05:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2023` One Joyful Day (ANF)	Preview video: Real-time strategy game "AI Kills All Humans" "One Joyful Day" is a new Game Studio making games for Modern Amigas and PC. The first game is called "AI Kills All Humans" and is a tactical Real-time strategy game, in which you play as an AI, which due to a slight change in code, is sending robots to kill all humans. You however don't have direct control of your robots, but robots independently decide how to execute your commands, like a general telling troops to attack, but troops themselves decide how. Release is planned for the fourth quarter of 2023. The developer has already gained experience with earlier releases such as Help My Cat! (YouTube video), "Ducks Of Apocalypse" (YouTube video) or Hollywood with Designer Tutorial (part 1, part 2). "AI Kills All Humans" (Steam link) is also being written with Hollywood. Versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS are planned. There may also be a version for AmigaOS 3, but due to the requirements it will probably only be playable in emulation. (dr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2023, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2023`	LinuxJedi-Blog: Making Amiga IFF thumbnails work in Linux In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports how to correctly display thumbnails of Amiga IFF/ILBM files on Linux machines. (dr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2023, 13:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2023`	Video: Disk Backup Station In his latest video Robert Smith introduces his "Disk Backup Station" which he presented at the Kickstart 01. He will make or sell these for people, it's purely a one off, although there is the possibility that he may release all the design files for it in the future. The backup station can backup floppy disks to ADF or SCP and uses three greaseweazle boards to control three floppy drives, and the user interface is controlled bu a few arcade buttons connected to an Arduino. (dr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2023, 05:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2023`	Blog: "Rave" developer looks back at the beginnings of his computer passion In a very personal entry on his blog Rear Window, Rave developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka wrote about the beginnings of his passion for computers and its relevance for the present. (dr) [News message: 23. Aug. 2023, 05:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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