AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 update released
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA show their commitment to AmigaOS: Today an update for AmigaOS 3.1.4 has been released, fixing some bugs, and adding some new features.
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Games galore: Reshoot R, Rygar, BioJet, Pong 4K, AirTaxi - and Trap Runner sourcecode
It very much looks like 2019 will surpass many previous years in number of new games released for the Amiga. In fact it becomes pretty hard to keep up with all the new developments.
SkillGrid - new vertical shoot'em up game for Amiga!
Amiga games developers are pretty active these days - here's the latest release in Amiga shoot'em up games. And it's an impressive one.
"SkillGrid" is a new vertical shoot 'em up for AGA Amigas by Simone "RETREAM" Bevilacqua, who by the way is also responsible for the excellent BOH and Huenison games, among others, and has created a little gaming universe made of his creations.
GoADF! - advanced ADF utility
Krzysztof "Bitplan" Donat from Poland has just released a nice tool to handle your ADF files, and do a bit more.
GoADF! is more than just your average ADF disk writing tool. It shows information about your ADF files, like filesystem type, used/free space on disk, and more, it can extract individual files from an ADF, it can mount ADFs as a logical drive to AmigaOS, of course it can write your ADF files to floppy disk, and it does a couple of other useful things.
New facebook group for BlitzBasic/AmiBlitz coders
Yes, indeed, there used to be no facebook group specifically for Amiga BlitzBasic/AmiBlitz coders. This situation has just changed.
"Shogo: Mobile Armor Division" available as digital download
Oh, that's a nice one: "Shogo: Mobile Armor Division", one of the best FPS games ever for the Amiga, originally released in 2001 (for the Amiga) can now be purchased as digital download.
Support the APECAT
An interesting little project by Norwegian developer Stian Søreng, the APECAT - short for "Amiga Processor Expansion Card for Application Transfer" - aims to enable you to upload data directly to your Amiga's memory.
71 new links in the AMIGA alive Web Directory
Another update to the AMIGA alive Web Directory - 71 links added, now 410 websites listed!
We also have a new section "Usergroups".
If you're looking for something specific, make sure to check the "Misc / Mixed" section, as some websites cover multiple different subjects, e.g. software authors may have created very different applications.
Does Muse's "Algorithm" steal from "The Last Ninja - Wilderness"?
Retro is hip. Calvin Harris and many other contemporary musicians openly state the influence the nowadays called "retro-scene" had and has on their work. Do Muse owe more than just a bit to "The Last Ninja"?
Microbotics/Paravision M1230XA page update
The "Microbotics MBX1230XA accelerator information" page has received a few updates/errata:
https://amigaalive.blogspot.com/p/microbotics-paravision-m1230xa.html