Category: Commodore Amiga
LAG 30 will be held on Saturday the 5th of January 2013 from 12 PM – 5 PM in the Welton Village Hall, Welton-by-Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. For location see http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/popiOrgVenue.asp?vid=64 Google Maps Post Code LN2 3LU,GB There is a bus stop outside which the buses leave from – to Lincoln use.Cost will be 4UKP approx. WiFi, Tea and Coffee included. Also, Please…
A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: Audacious, Agent Lux, ADOM, Sqrxz, Hurrican, KOG, Ami-Ingenious, Amiga Parachute, Cybergames, AmiSystemRestore, Zormanita, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Audio – OS4Depot. Workshop: Data processing with AmigaDOS (3), Mercurial (2), C-Workshop (16). Special: Classic Reflections 7 – NewTek, Caanoo (2). Others: Interview…
SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Smooth (Gaussian blur for brush). Definable keyboard short cuts. Path objects can now be added to projects. Experimental Text Tool. New brushes: Pencil, Hoops, Arrow and PinMan. And more export possibilities. Website: http://www.broad.ology.org.uk/amiga/sketchblock/index.htmlSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
Over at Codetapper’s Amiga Retro Site, Mr Codetapper has scored an interview with the legendary Marc Djan.Ocean France created some of the most polished coin-op conversions for the Amiga. Marc Djan was the head of Ocean France, and kindly answers some questions about the company including why so many of their games that were never released! You can read the full interview…
The AmigaPD web page had an interview with with Rob Hewitt. Rob is the developer of the Amiga game Timebomb. He also worked on the games JetHunt, Coagulus Pairs AGA, Hard Ammo, Skulldriller, Mr.Earth and A-Bomb. You can read the complete interview on the AmigaPD web page. The AmigaPD web page also had an interview with the Retroguru team. Retroguru…
You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: ACube Systems, A-EON Mousepad, Retromeeting Bochum and Wien, Amiga Magazine at Archive.org, A-EON new Radeon drivers, ACA-620 available, USB card Thylacine, Bill McEwen interview, Timebomb, AmiWest 2012, Aros for Sam 460, Amiga Meeting 2012, Scriba, Steamdraw, Grunch, Turbocard for A1200, Entwickler…
Over at Codetapper’s Amiga Retro Site, Mr Codetapper has scored an interview with the legendary Bobby Earl.Bobby Earl worked on 4 diverse Amiga games during the 1990s, writing the split screen Flip-it & Magnose: Water Carriers from Mars, the driving sections of Total Recall, designing and programming Hook for Ocean software, and worked on Amiga code for Dune 2 while working for…
Portacall Development released a the game Hex-A-Hop for AROS. Hex-a-Hop is a hexagonal tile-based puzzle game with one simple goal: destroy all green tiles! There are infinite undo’s and there is no time limit. You just have to find a way to destroy all the green tiles and step on a safe tile at the end. Website: http://serk118.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/hex-hop-for-aros.htmlSource: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl
– CDFS: Joliet CDs didn’t work and caused crashes. Directory listing worked but it was only possible to open non-existing files ;-)– CDFS: ACTION_DISK_INFO never returned no disk status.– Filesystem path selection and default RDB settings broke in b22.– FPU FINTRZ didn’t work correctly if input value was outside of signed 32-bit range. (Bug since the beginning?) Download: winuae_2500b23.zipSource: http://www.winuae.net
– “Generic” Amiga model incorrectly enabled A3000 DMAC emulation which caused most programs that require UAE Boot ROM in normal 0xF00000 area to crash. (Old bug, b20 adv.chipset caused it to appear much more commonly)– Disable ROM protection when switching JIT off on the fly.– Dragging standard HDF to Hardfiles panel sets correct default geometry.– Added logical cylinder value to…
