Games That Werent write:

An ambitious title from Palace Software, which was due for release on the failed CDTV platform. An interactive movie game, where scenes would feature proper actors.

Shortly after completing Demoniak, Palace Software were inspired from that title to go one step further to move away from text based interaction and move to a fully graphical experience. [...]
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The Amiga Future Archive DVD # 5 has now been released at the 5 August 2021.

These are professionally mastered discs, so they include a colour image printed onto the upper surface of the DVD9 disc which contains over 6 GB of data. Even though it might not be a problem in principle, please make sure that your optical drive can read DVD9 discs.

You will also require a PDF viewer that can read at least 1.5 of the PDF standard. [...]
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Andrzej Bugajny write:

Originally released by Akson Software game from 90', Astral for Amiga computers now was converted to Android platform. This mobile version was renamed to Astral Forever. New Astral has rearranged levels, improved game playability, added tons of sound effect and new music tracks which were not used in Amiga version due to limitation on floppy disks. The game consists of 9 big levels and has RPG elements you have to meet to finish a level.

If you want to experience retro gaming from Amiga on-the-go with Astral Forever on your Android device download the game from Google Play store for free. [...]
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A new version of AxRuntime is now available! AxRuntime lets developers compile their Amiga API-based applications as Linux programs.

The highlights of release v41.2 are:

1) AROS-Shell, an AmigaDOS-compatible Shell, is now available for you as a native Linux program. You can write DOS scripts and use shell commands to interact with Linux filesystem. [...]
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A few days ago issue 155 of the Amiga Future was published.

For everyone who overlooked the date, it would be a good time to order the magazine quickly.

Or maybe an annual subscription right away? Then you will always have the latest issue automatically delivered to your home and you don't have to go around [...]
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ham_convert released in the Version 1.8.5.

Changes:

* Atari 8-bit 5 colors/line conversion (available in cli mode as “atari8” or in DynamicHires when selecting 5 colors per line). Experimental, based on DynamicHires, saved as 8 color/line iff. [...]
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"This is VARTA - destroyer of worlds" is a joke that has been circulating for a number of years, often accompanied by a picture showing a leaking VARTA battery on an Amiga circuit board: https://vartabattery.wordpress.com/2019 ... of-worlds/

Just to be sure not to get the wrong picture here: VARTA certainly has nothing to do with the destruction of worlds, at least not intentionally. Unfortunately, time has an effect on old accumulators and batteries, which tend to leak and thus, unnoticed over a long period of time, can destroy conductors on a circuit board. It's so ugly, the Amiga is also affected, especially the Amiga 500+, the Amiga 2000, as well as some memory expansions with battery-buffered real-time clocks.

The problem, as well as the solution to it, has been known for a long time: replace the old battery with a holder for a CR2032 button cell and such a button cell. For those who like to use "clean" solutions here, Retro Ninja's Varta Replacer DIY project is now available. A small circuit board that brings together all the necessary components: https://github.com/RetroNynjah/Varta-Replacer

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News Source URL: https://vartabattery.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/this-is-varta-destroyer-of-worlds/

GrafX2, a SDL2 port by BeWorld, released in the Version 2.8 for MorphOS.

Changes:

- update to last GIT [...]
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vbcc-PosixLib released in the Version 3.0.

A library with POSIX, TCP/IP and other BSD/Unix functions for vbcc.

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/~frank/projects/

Admittedly, this message isn't really new and is only indirectly related to the Amiga. But it is, among other things, an attempt to point out historically interesting connections in a compact form.

BASIC is an abbreviation and stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. So it is a general purpose programming language for novice programmers. BASIC was developed at Dartmouth College (USA) by John G. Kemeny, Mary Kenneth Keller and Thomas E. Kurtz. In its early days, a BASIC script still worked with line numbers and jump commands, the GOTO command known in BASIC, but later the programming language developed into a structured programming language. The late 1970s and early 1980s, with the advent of 8-bit home computers, may well have been BASIC's heyday. Whether the Apple II, the Commodore C64, the Sinclair Z80, Z81 or ZX Spectrum, 8-bit Ataris like the XE and XL series and many other home computer systems, they all came with an integrated BASIC interpreter and made sure, often not only in children's rooms, that a new hobby has been emerged called programming or coding. Suddenly, the computer was not only affordable for almost everyone, it also became manageable for almost everyone. Computer magazines printed BASIC listings for typing and BASIC almost became something like a digital Lego building set. Back in the days almost everyone had contact with this programming language sooner or later.

Of course, the Amiga also got a BASIC interpreter, called AmigaBASIC, which was part of the operating system from AmigaOS 1.1 up to and including version 1.3 and was replaced by ARexx from AmigaOS 2.0 onwards. By the way, AmigaBASIC was the first BASIC interpreter that didn't need line numbers to run code. Previously, AmigaOS shipped with ABasiC from MetaComCo, a Bristol-based British software company. Behind AmigaBASIC, as behind most BASIC implementations at that time, was a company from Bellevue in the USA, which moved to Redmond in 1986. Yes, we are talking about Microsoft. That company brought the MS-DOS operating system onto the market in 1981, which of course was also equipped with a BASIC interpreter, the BASICA (Advanced BASIC). BASICA became GW-BASIC in 1983, which was finally replaced by QuickBASIC in 1991. However, what GW stands for has not yet been clarified beyond doubt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC#Name [...]
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News Source: opensource.com
News Source URL: https://opensource.com/article/21/6/freedos-gw-basic