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`10.Dec.2023`	Crowdfunding: "The Commodore Amiga 500 Story" At the title link, Nicola and Anthony Caulfield are collecting money to finance a documentary film about the Amiga 500, lasting more than two hours, which will initially only be made available to its backers in April. The campaign runs until thursday afternoon, and with 555 supporters so far, more than four times the required amount has already been raised. (snx) [News message: 10. Dec. 2023, 08:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2023`	X-Mas game: Turbo Santa 2023 Competition In December 2021, Nivrig Games released the arcade action game "Turbo Santa" (our review of the game) and organised a high score competition one year later. This year, you can once again compete with others and win prizes: the best high scores in Endless and Normal mode submitted between 1 and 24 December 2023 can choose one of the following prizes: Rogue Declan - Collector's Edition box (Amiga or CD32) Rogue Declan - Budget Edition box (Amiga or CD32) Amiga Addict T-Shirt (Amiga Addict Magazine) Amiga Christmas Decorations, Amiga Warranty Labels, and a Mouse Mat (Retro32) The remaining prizes will then again be offered to a random selection of players who have finished 2nd-10th until all prizes have been claimed. (dr) [News message: 07. Dec. 2023, 09:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2023`	40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal: An Amiga version was also planned In an article on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integrated development environment "Turbo Pascal", the author Blake Patterson found out that the Borland company had also announced an Amiga version, which never became reality. (dr) [News message: 07. Dec. 2023, 06:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Dec.2023`	Website lists Christmas games: "Amiga Christmas Tree" update To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit, 'Cammy' has set up its own website, which lists all Amiga games related to Christmas (amiga-news.de reported). So far, "Santa's Present Drop", "Santa's Present Drop 2" and "Santa Claus Christmas Season" have been added. She encourages Amiga users to report any missing games. (dr) [News message: 07. Dec. 2023, 06:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2023` ANF	Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link. Major changes in that version are: Tuning of Main Hourglass (divider for lesser important elements) Tuning of Main Refresh (disabled some fancy but costly effects) General cleanup of all individual element Hourglass & Refresh Moved all static UI elements to separate PiP layer Created “intelligent” refresh for UI so it refresh only when there are real Updates Dynamic Audio slot allocation for all Sounds incl. 2D stereo effect (volume + L/R panning) Deleted the complete Threaded Input routines (SDL) and recreated Input from scratch Replaced software blitted Mousepointer with hardware Amiga pointer (to be improved later) (snx) [News message: 06. Dec. 2023, 11:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Dec.2023` Puni (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx) [News message: 06. Dec. 2023, 11:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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