amiga-news.de - Archive

Archive 12/2023

`27.Dec.2023` Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)	Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port) In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 08:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	AROS: Review of December 2023 In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 08:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023` Nicola Morocutti (ANF)	Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17 The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics: Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Rally, Emerald Caves, Rally Cross, Project Quest, Super Bagman, Hop to the top: Bunny’s Revenge Reviews: IBrowse 3.0, zTools Interview: A man called CLOANTO Hardware: Greaseweazle and Waffle Amiga GCC – Not only Amiga… Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, Back Chat (snx) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 08:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023` Seiya (ANF)	PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (Italian/English) Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games. Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500. (snx) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 08:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023`	8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26 Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Changes: improves support for Apple II NIB images; thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues; resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise; resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga; resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe; thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive. (dr) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 07:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023`	Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video) (dr) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 07:20] [Comments: 1 - 29. Dec. 2023, 07:14] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Dec.2023`	Christmas game: Deck the Drones 'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones. (dr) [News message: 27. Dec. 2023, 06:48] [Comments: 1 - 29. Dec. 2023, 07:14] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Dec.2023`	AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2 A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements. (dr) [News message: 26. Dec. 2023, 07:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Dec.2023`	AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1 Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström. (dr) [News message: 26. Dec. 2023, 07:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Dec.2023` Balaton	Emulator: QEMU 8.2.0 released QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. As already reported at the beginning of December, the now released QEMU version 8.2.0 also supports AmigaOne emulation via its BBoot bootloader. In addition, the Pegasos 2 emulation now supports the audiodev property (PowerPC changes). For Windows 64 Bit a compiled binary was made available on Christmas Eve. (dr) [News message: 25. Dec. 2023, 22:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Dec.2023`	Trevor's Blog: Christmas Present Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" for Christmas. In it he reports on the Amiga trade fairs he attended, AmigaKit's A600GS project and also mentions once again the "AAA Technology" alliance formed by ACube Systems, A-EON Technology and Amedia Computer, which is to deliver the long-awaited A1222 Plus. The A1222 Plus comes with updated ExecSG and uBoot firmware from Steven Solie. Also included in the A1222 Plus package is a new version of DvPlayer (v54.11) that supports A-EON's video acceleration library, enabling smooth playback with clear DMA power audio. (dr) [News message: 25. Dec. 2023, 22:27] [Comments: 2 - 27. Dec. 2023, 18:52] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Dec.2023`	Demo: "Castlevania AGA" with stages 16-18 Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This adds stages 16 to 18, which now include the fight against Dracula, the final boss, in the clock tower. (dr) [News message: 25. Dec. 2023, 22:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Dec.2023`	Christmas game: Merry Xmas (beta version 0.2) Scorpion Engine developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of a fast-paced puzzle platformer game that he created almost entirely in a 16-hour period on Christmas Eve 2023. The graphics are from the Holiday Expansion Set. (dr) [News message: 25. Dec. 2023, 22:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Dec.2023`	Preview video: Hyperborea Resurrected Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos): back then, he began developing a new shoot 'em up called "Hyperborea" with graphic designer Torben Bakager Larsen, who was also responsible for Battle Squadron, among other things. Everything from the original prototype code was discarded, started from scratch and only some auxiliary functions from Souverän Soccer were adopted. Technically, the game is as good as finished and has the following features: 304 x 256 PAL @ 50 fps (almost always ;) ) vertical scroller with additional horizontal scrolling (384 pixel wide levels) 1p and 2p simultan mode 100% flicker free bullets and enemies tons of bullets TTorben Bakager Larsen is back on board, the strict colour restrictions of the old version have been removed. The game is mostly developed in C++ and about 10% in ASM. The video shows the current test level with some enemies and many, many bullets on an A1200 with deactivated turbo card / FastRam. (dr) [News message: 25. Dec. 2023, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

<- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ->