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Archive 08/2023

`22.Aug.2023` itch.io	Rogue-like game: Roguecraft V0.4.3 In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). At the beginning of August a demo version was released for the AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). Now a first update is available which among others fixes some bugs. The developers wrote: "We have fixed issue with the game turning real-time when you tap the fire-button. We have added an instructions screen, and an (currently empty) Achievements screen. The spikes now work in the game. Be careful! The player now moves smoothly when there are not monsters in the room, to make backtracking less tedious. We have also fixed some graphical glitches, and random memory writes that would corrupt the music. Hopefully this is good now, or at least a lot better! There are other changes you will just have to find out yourselves. Have fun finding them! We also want to say THANK YOU for all the awesome feedback and suggestions from all of you playing our game. It is so lovely so see the community embracing this hobby project, and want to help us make this a great game!" (dr) [News message: 22. Aug. 2023, 21:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Aug.2023`	Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 2 In the second part of a richly illustrated series of articles (amiga-news.de reported), "Epsilon's World" describes how he equips his Amiga 4000T with, among other things, a scanner, IDE CD drive and the applications AmiTube and AGABlaster. (dr) [News message: 22. Aug. 2023, 05:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2023`	Point'n click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.05b The photo point'n click adventure Holiday (YouTube video) is also a contribution to the AmiGameJam (you can still cast your vote today only!). The player arrives in a Spanish resort in 1988 and has the task of surviving the next 11 days. To do this, you move through the town by means of photographs and must use three special items that offer protection from the sun. A few screens contain instant death scenarios. (dr) [News message: 21. Aug. 2023, 05:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2023`	Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version) After Croaker, RANA and Megafrog, Frogger is the fourth recent attempt to adapt the classic game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river, for the Amiga. Frogger (YouTube video) is to be a 1:1 conversion of the Konam game and is written in assembler, based on the original Z80 code. (dr) [News message: 21. Aug. 2023, 05:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023`	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.24 RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. The new version 0.9.24 provides the following changes: Added support for 64 global variables, it was 32. In the exported game only the used variables will be allocated, potentially saving some memory. Fix in the tile animations that was causing the exported games using them to run very slowly. Simplified handling of reading exporting projects. Fixes and implementations related to custom fonts usage in HUD and in triggers. Exact values for friction and weight can now be set up and displayed. Trigger help routines have been improved. More triggers have been documented in the in-editor help. Optimizations in the main loop of the game. Optimizations in the tile comparison triggers. Optimizations in the player input triggers. Optimizations in the render code. Some memory was wasted when changing the current mod being played, this has been optimized. Some unused code has been removed. Fixed a bug in Absolute Zero project when going back to menu and starting a stage again. (dr) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 21:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023` Look Behind You (ANF)	Event: Retro Area at Gamescom 2023 with Amiga celebrities This week, from August 23 till 27 (opening for the public on thursday), world's greatest computer games event, Gamescom, takes place in Cologne, Germany, again. Part of it is a Retro Area, and also Amiga celebrities like Turrican developers Factor 5, composer Chris Hülsbeck and former Commodore managers Petro Tyschtschenko and David Pleasance will visit the show, with the latter presenting his books at the joint booth of the publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan. Further details about the Retro Area at Gamescom 23 can be found at the title link as well as in our german news-item. (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 19:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023`	Aminet uploads until 19.08.2023 The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to Aminet: sylpheed.lha comm/mail 22M OS4 Sylpheed e-mail for AmiCygnix... sylpheed-src.lha comm/mail 1.8M Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for... WhatMightHaveBeen.lha demo/aga 117K 68k Demo for DSP3210 chips asm3210.lha dev/asm 153K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c... 7800basic.lha dev/cross 4.4M MOS BASIC-like language for Atari... beebasm.lha dev/cross 708K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl... HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 822K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.5M 68k Game Creator with AGA support P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 83K 68k P96 Preferences Editor RescueLander.lha game/actio 59K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t... TONY.adf game/demo 880K 68k TONY playable demo labyrinth64.lha game/misc 137K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L... gfx2crtc.lha gfx/conv 51K MOS Convert gfx to Amstrad CPC fo... mandel_dsp.lha gfx/fract 21K 68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3... AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands AlwaysTogether.lha mods/8voic 1.9M 16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Tribute by... AlwaysTogetherTuned.lha mods/8voic 1.9M 16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Finetuned ... PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 4.9M MOS convert PDF to JPG LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind... (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023`	OS4Depot uploads until 19.08.2023 The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to OS4Depot: libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab... libx264.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator blackjuan.lha gam/car 5Mb 4.0 Blackjack clone sieteymedida.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 The Siete y Media card game. sylpheed.lha net/ema 22Mb 4.1 E-mail client for AmiCygnix with... sylpheed-src.lha net/ema 2Mb 4.1 Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for Am... mediathek.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.0 Downloading Movies from differen... set_get_ts.lha uti/scr 25kb 4.0 obtain time in scripts (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023`	AROS Archives uploads until 19.08.2023 The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to AROS Archives: blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb Blackjack clone sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game. (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.08.2023 The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: PowerSDL_16.2.lha Dependencies/SDL PowerSDL.library 16.2 (... beebasm_1.10.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr... 7800basic_0.28.lha Development/Cross A BASIC-like language f... AmiArcadia_30.02.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... Barkanoid2_demo.lha Games/BrickBreaker Demo of a commercial game Siete-y-Media_1.10.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca... Blackjuan_1.10.lha Games/Card Blackjuan Poker Card Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha Games/Platform A Jump'n'Run game. fheroes2_1.0.7.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio... gfx2crtc_0.3.1.lha Graphics/Convert Convert gfx to Amstrad ... Wayfarer_6.1.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ... Iris_1.16.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email... TinyGL-Update-2023-08-... MorphOS-update Ninth public MorphOS Ti... Easy2Install_1.0b30.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do... LilCalendar_2.6.lha Office/Organizer Versatile calender and ... (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023`	WHDLoad: New installers until 19.08.2023 Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 19.08.2023: 2023-08-17 improved: 3D-Net Analyzer (aka D.O.C. Demo 2) (Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Crackings) interrupt problems on slow machines fixed (Info, Image) 2023-08-16 improved: Animotion (Phenomena) interrupt problems on slow machines fixed (Info, Image) 2023-08-14 improved: Book of Songs (Complex) patch works on 68000 machines now, delay in keyboard interrupt fixed (Info) 2023-08-14 improved: Gettysburg (ARC) supports another version (Info) (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023` AUGS - Alisha Stutz (ANF)	Event: Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich (Switzerland) with David Pleasance On November 11 and 12, 2023 the Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, takes place. Guest of honor on invitation by Amiga User Group Switzerland (AUGS) will be David Pleasance, who has been General Manager of Commodore Electronics LTD in Basel, Switzerland, from 1990 until 1992. Further details on the event can be found at the title link or in our german news-item. (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	Hollywood: German translations of the manuals of the ZIP and XML plugins Andreas Falkenhahn writes: "Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have been busy again and translated the manuals of the ZIP plugin 1.2 and the XML plugin 2.0 for Hollywood into German. Both are available for download at the title link. Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system the translations are not only available as PDF files but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format." (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023` Welt (ANF)	Welt.de: Short article about "Commodore-Amiga - Legendary girl-friend" (German) At the title link, Martin Klemrath, Managing Editor History, has published for "Welt.de" a short article in German about the "iconic computer" Amiga. (snx) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 08:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2023` Rene Engel (Mail)	Emulation: Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU In mid-April Amiga-News.de had published Rene Engel's updated installation guide of AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8.1. Since then numerous attempts have been made to improve the emulation and simplify the installation. Rene Engel has kindly summarised the efforts for us and published a correspondingly updated and simplified installation guide in the forum (German): "The QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan, who mainly concentrates on the Amiga operating systems MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.1 by means of Qmiga, has written an alternative boot loader for the Pegasos-2 emulation, which he himself calls BBoot. This bootloader simplifies Pegasos-2 installation many times over (YouTube video). The modification of the Pegasos-2-Install-ISO and Pegasos2.Rom are no longer necessary. AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 is also no longer needed, as A-Cube has made the Silicon Motion chip required for the emulation freely available on OS4Depot. The new driver can now display resolutions up to 1920x1080, the limitation to 16 bit remains for the time being. With the new boot loader, up to 2048 MB memory allocation is now possible under the QEMU Pegasos 2 emulation. The boot process has accelerated again with the new boot loader. They are currently working on an AmigaOne emulation, which already works to a limited extent." (dr) [News message: 20. Aug. 2023, 07:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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