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Archive 11/2023

27.Nov.2023 Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions. (dr)

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27.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) 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. Changes of version 2023.4:

Improved copper rainbow support on Amiga, including being able to set any of the 256 colors and at 24 bit color depth
Support for VGM music on Mega Drive (XGM driver from SGDK)
Support for saving on Mega Drive (SRAM)
Ability to support more than 32 active actors at one time
Improved Cut/Paste/Undo/Redo functionality
Support for byte arrays - this will be expanded in future with word array support

In addition, Scorpion Engine now includes the previously exclusive Bullet Hell 2 (Amiga) and Real Time Scaling (Amiga/Mega Drive) demos. (dr)

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26.Nov.2023

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4:

Encoding problem is solved
Some languages removed
Fixed any icons can be moved via drag and drop on WB
Get Days and Months from locale
Added use or not abbreviations for days and months
Fixed the issue of color changes using system palette
Removed calibration setting for height of the window
Added 'Add to Pos Y of Text' button

Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.4.lha (59 KB) (dr)

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26.Nov.2023

AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:

AREXX scripts in Core show no output
UHCTools don't work as expected
Wanderer Rename: Cannot change size of letters in name without changing name
DiskInfo showing OFS instead of FAT
Wrong parsing of boot parameters in Prefs/Boot
Contrib LHA has issues when used from ZuneARC

(dr)

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26.Nov.2023

Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet:

wla_dx_v10.6.lha         dev/cross  8.8M  68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
HollywoodSP.lha          dev/hwood  873K      Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_Plananarama.lha      dev/hwood  461K  68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.8M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
character-sets.lha       docs/hyper 13K       IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
drally.lha               game/race  387K  68k Death Rally Amiga Port
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   54K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha    gfx/fract  35M   OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NightfallMID.lha         mods/midi  1K        MIDI GM Nightfall Piano Balla...
file.driver.lha          mus/misc   9K    68k CyberSound driver for file ou...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app   38K   68k Weather forecasting application
BootPicture.lha          util/boot  87K   68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
sysvars.lha              util/boot  16K   68k Put system information in env...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  1.8M  68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  659K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  771K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  830K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
incase.lha               util/shell 49K   68k Conditional execution of a sh...

(snx)

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26.Nov.2023

OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to OS4Depot:

amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 35Mb  4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
videntiumpicta.lha       gra/vie 2Mb   4.0 Videntium Picta is picture and a...
hwp_plananarama.lha      lib/hol 461kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
iconecta.lha             net/mis 2Mb   4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 830kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility

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26.Nov.2023

AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to AROS Archives:

hollywoodsp.lha              dev/mis 873kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
antiryagx.zip                dev/uti 359Mb Advanced 2D/3D Game Engine
videntiumpicta.lha           gra/vie 2Mb   Videntium Picta is picture and a...
iconecta.lha                 net     2Mb   A little and easy program to tes...

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26.Nov.2023

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:

Arexx.lha                 Dependencies              Library to activate Are...
libfreetype2_2.13.2.lha   Development/Library       LibFreetype 2.13.2 for ...
xad-7z_2.8.lha            Files/Archive             A client for xadmaster....
fheroes2_1.0.10.lha       Games/Strategy            fheroes2 is a recreatio...
VidentiumPicta_3.00.lha   Graphics/Tools            An image viewer  progra...
ReportPlus_8.44.lha       Misc                      A Multipurpose utility ...
YT_2.4.lha                Multimedia                YT.rexx is a script for...
Easy2Install_1.0b45.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
iConecta_5.10.lha         Network/Wifi              A little and easy progr...

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26.Nov.2023

WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:

2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Linel) supports another version, new install script, icons added (Info)
2023-11-25 improved: Campaign (Empire) supports another version (Info)
2023-11-21 improved: Hammerfist (Vivid Image) supports another version (Info)
2023-11-21 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) problem with "Super" animation on some machines fixed (Info)

(snx)

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26.Nov.2023 Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.

Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes. (dr)

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26.Nov.2023 Dock: QDock V2.07
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. (dr)

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26.Nov.2023
Scene World Podcast (ANF) Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Nov.2023
tuxcam@yahoo.it (ANF) PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues contains reviews of the motorcycle racing game 'Red Zone' and the recently released Amiga port of the old DOS game "Star Wars:Dark Forces". (cg)

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25.Nov.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher. (cg)

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25.Nov.2023
Darkage Software (ANF)

Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music by Allister Brimble. it is based on an Italian novel written by Carlo Pastore.

'C64 the Mysterious Cassette' is available in digital (9,99 Euro) or physical (29,99 Euro) editions. The latter features an USB stick containing the game as well as a DINA3 sized poster.

Note from staff: The publisher's website does not feature any screenshots or videos of the game, a demo version is not available either. Thanks to Jürgen 'Evillord68' Weiß for kindly providing the screenshots for this news item. (cg)

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25.Nov.2023 AROS: Irritating bug of the month November
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he then fixes. For the month of November, a bug that did not occur 14 years ago was fixed with 40% of the votes: Wanderer can now run CLI programmes with an argument again, so that it behaves like OS3.9. He has released an updated workbench.library V45.4 for this purpose. (dr)

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