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ReAnimate: 2024 Summer School on Retro Gaming History, Critic, and Development |
| Amigaworld.net News posted by tygre on 28-Mar-2024 1:51:40 (653 reads) |
Hi there!
Folks in Montréal are organising a Summer School on retro-development, with a special focus on the Amiga! 
"A summer school dedicated to retro gaming, which invites both humanities and engineering to provide unique insights on retro gaming, both theoretical and practical, and opportunities for cross-fertilization among research fields. Supported by the ACM SIGSOFT." 
Check it out!
Tygre
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Six days ago our server, and many others, were taken offline due to a data centre infrastructure problem. We are pleased to report that the AmigaKit.com website is back online taking orders! We would like to apologise for the unexpected event and any inconvenience caused. We would like to thank many of you for the kind words in messages over this time and your patience during this period.
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AmiWest 2024 "Get your game on!"
Join us in Sacramento California on October 25th, 26th and 27th for the 27th AmiWest show. This year our show theme will be "Get your game on!". Gaming has been a mainstay of the Amiga platform since before it's inception. The last few years have seen a resurgence in Amiga games and gaming across all platform flavors. This includes HW innovations A600GS, the latest modern retro releases , the latest game engines like Redpill , Hollywood, and Scorpion, with the latest tools like UniJoysticle.
AmiWest 2024 will be held October 25th to October 27th, at the Holiday Inn Express Cal Expo, 2224 Auburn Blvd.,Sacramento, California 95821, USA. Tell everyone you know and bring a friend to AmiWest
The show will be three days in 2024. In past years we used Thursday and Friday for the AmiWest on site DevCon. For 2024 we are going to change our format and shift the DevCon to a virtual event, more details will be provided in the coming months. For Friday, October 25th, the show will focus on long form presentations on leading hardware and software projects.
The AmiWest Organizing committee has begrudging decided that the email fad is not a flash in the pan and decided to implement a robust newsletter mail server. Please follow This link to sign up and show your support!
Watch amiwest.net for the latest updates and information.
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Hello,
Our hosting provider Server4you suffered what they called an "infrastructure incident" on March 21st. Water seems to have gotten into the room holding the batteries for the data center, which caused systematic failure which affected amongst other things, their routers, DNS subsystem and some of the machines they host.
It's taken them 5 days so far to recover from this incident and it's still ongoing but at least our network activity seems to have been restored. Our server was not directly affected by the outage, but network connectivity to it was however, so we dropped out 5 days ago and have been out ever since.
We apologise for this incident and the downtime, we have been looking into some sort of a future plan for the site involving a more modern virtualised hosting environment with a CMS which would be easier to maintain and keep running, but we're very understaffed and life keeps us busy with other things.
Kind regards
Sigurbjörn
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Alinea Computer becomes distributor for the next two Hyperion games |
| software OS4 posted by AmigaPapst on 18-Mar-2024 14:44:35 (1423 reads) |
We are pleased to announce that we as Alinea Computer will be the distributor of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope that we can continue to realize joint projects.
Our first game as a distribution partner will be Heretic II for AmigaOS 4.
This can be ordered under the link. Dealers should contact us directly as distributor.
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Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Pangomonium - The Ultimate Text Engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin only available for Hollywood 10. Pangomonium contains an ultramodern, state-of-the-art text engine that can be used to draw text in almost any language of the world. On top of that, it also supports advanced text features like fonts with colored glyphs. This finally makes it possible to write programs which support emojis on Amiga! Pangomonium is based on the established Pango and Cairo text and vector graphics libraries and also allows you to access the complete Pango and Cairo function set directly from Hollywood scripts. Of course, there is also a high-level interface which allows you to conveniently draw text without having to delve into Pango and Cairo programming. Pangomonium has been two years in the making and is now finally ready for release exclusively for Hollywood 10.0.
Here are just some of Pangomonium's impressive features:
- draw text in almost all languages of the world (including complex scripts and layouts such as bidirectional text, right-to-left layouts etc.)
- support for fonts that contain colored glyphs (finally enjoy those colorful emojis on Amiga!)
- exports two high-level and one low-level interface to Hollywood
- Hollywood scripts can access all Pango and Cairo APIs directly (over 500 functions!)
- seamless integration with Hollywood 10's new text interface makes it very easy to use Pangomonium
- the plugin can also replace Hollywood's inbuilt vector graphics engine
- extensive documentation in AmigaGuide, HTML, CHM and PDF (more than 300 PDF pages!)
- comes with over 30 ready-to-run example scripts
And the best of all: Pangomonium is provided free of charge for all existing Hollywood users. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts. Note that Hollywood 10 is strictly required by Pangomonium.
The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, macOS and Windows are provided.
This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business.
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We're proud to announce that pre-orders are now open for a very special issue of Amiga Addict magazine at: www.addict.media
ISSUE 28 - SHIPPING OUT FROM 21st MARCH 2024
Visit www.addict.media to pre-order or for more information. Long live Amiga!
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We've put online an interview published in the seventh issue of our magazine dedicated to the Amiga, BOING: Ján Zahurančík talks (in English) about his Amikit product line dedicated to emulation.
You can also read all our English/Spanish interviews published in BOING mag here.
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Cardiff, 9th March, 2024
Full News Release (click here)
AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system. The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.
The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics functions. It accelerates graphics rendering performance in applications.
AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system. It opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics Library for various purposes including faster rendering of windows, icons and backgrounds.
Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using it's powerful functions from their 68K application. It also offers an opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games with faster graphics rendering.
The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native ARM processor.
Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions so older applications that are not written to use the ARM Graphics Library can benefit.
AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+. These have been compiled for 68K to run on the A600GS, In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for extra performance.
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.
Additional Information about A600GS, AmiBench and it's components can be found on these websites:
A600GS: www.a600gs.com
AmiBench: wiki.amiga.org/amibench
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Amiga Future: New full versions online |
| News posted by AndreasM on 8-Mar-2024 15:37:54 (394 reads) |
The download area of the Amiga Future was updated today. So, you can now find the following full versions online:
- The Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival
- Jonathan
Reuploads:
- Brainstorm
- Burnout
- Bonanza Bros
- Breathless
- Blockhead
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Behind the Iron Gate
- Boulder Däsh
- Cytadela
- Cygnus 8
- Crystal Kindom Dizzy
- Crystal Dragon
- Cool Droc Twins
- Colossus Chess X
- Clockwiser
- Charon 5
- Castle Kingdoms
- Cabal
and many many more
https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/dlext/index
An overview of the recent uploads and changes to the download database of Amiga Future is also available from this link:
https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/dlext/latest
Of course we also want to be able to offer you many more full versions online, but to be able to achieve this, for you, we need your help, so ...
We are on the lookout for the Copyright holders for Amiga games and applications.
Do you know of any such person or can you actively help us in our search?
If so, then please contact us by email.
We are looking for extra support in order to revise the full versions download area of the Amiga Future webpage.
In particular, to check whether all those full versions formats (ADF, IPF, WHDLoad, AGA, CD releases, etc.) are complete.
In addition, a short description, in 2 sentences or less, about each of their system requirements and some screenshots need to be created.
If you want to help us, then please send us an email.
http://25.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
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