• Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 86 - Part 7

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Sun Apr 12 11:47:56 2015
    rake disks. The
    simulation features a simple damage
    model, collisions, tire and wheel
    properties (springs, dampers,
    stiffness,), aerodynamics (ground
    effect, spoilers,) and much more. The
    game play allows different types of
    races from the simple practice
    session up to the championship. Enjoy
    racing against your friends in the
    split screen mode with up to four
    human players.

    TORCS was initially created by Eric
    Espié and Christophe Guionneau;
    substantial parts have been added by
    other contributors. The project is
    currently headed by Bernhard Wymann.
    The TORCS source code is licensed
    under the terms of the GNU General
    Public License (GPL 2), most of the
    artwork is licensed under the Free
    Art License.

    www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=s
    howfile&file=game/driving/torcs.lha

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    RENEGADES 2104
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    Wayne Ashworth has released a new
    updated version of Renegades. The
    game is a clone of the game Alien
    Breed, but it is played with two
    players. Changes in this version: New
    title screen and music (Mark Becker).
    Improvements for character selection
    and character statistics. New
    tile-set, folders, blocking doors,
    not real walls, random pick-ups.

    wayneashworthart.com/Amiga.html

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    TILEWORLD - AROS
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    TileWorld is a free clone of Chip's
    Challenge, a puzzle/logic game where
    the aim is to collect computer chips
    and solve puzzles. This version
    includes the freely distributable
    content, but using chips.dat file
    from the original game (if you have
    it) allows the play of the original
    levels. This is not required to play
    TileWorld.

    archives.aros-exec.org/?function=show
    file&file=game/puzzle/tileworld.i386-
    aros.zip

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    GUIDEMAKER
    *************************************

    Guide Maker is a program for the
    Amiga that allows context-sensitive
    help documents for Amiga to create
    programs. New in this version:
    Improvements to the user interface,
    more program display settings.
    Documentation updates and some bugs
    have been fixed.

    aminet.net/package/text/hyper/GuideMa
    ker

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    THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN STORY OF THE
    AMIGA 2000
    *************************************

    Glen Van Den Biggelaar has written an
    article about the Commodore Amiga
    2000.

    He documents the different models and
    the add-on cards for the A2000, and
    also talks about Video Toaster and
    the use of Amigas at NASA.

    amigalounge.com/b271.html

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    GOATLIZARD DX
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    Andrew Gillen released an update for
    the game, the Incredible Adventures
    of Moebius Goat Lizard. In the game
    you have to collect the alien
    creatures and stay away from the
    bombs. Changes in the updated version
    include: In-game music, more enemies,
    enhancements for 2-player game, and a
    modified game in which you can create
    your own screens.

    blackjet.co.uk/amiga.php?redir=Goatli
    zard-DX

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    ADTWIN
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    ADTWin is a free tool for writing
    Amiga disks from a PC. It requires a
    PC with a parallel port running
    Windows XP (later 32bit versions of
    Windows might work as well) and a
    floppy drive that is connected to the
    PC's parallel port by a self-made
    cable .The disk content has to be
    provided in the form of an Amiga Disk
    File. Only the original
    double-density disk format (for 880kB
    disks as used solely on all Amiga
    models from Amiga 500 to Amiga 3000)
    is supported (though HD disks can be
    used). The write process is about as
    fast as on the original Amiga (~40s
    per disk using appropriate PC
    hardware). It is not possible to read
    disks.

    The main use case of ADTWin might be
    to get Amiga software (that is
    available on your PC by means of an
    ADF) running on an original
    old-school Amiga (e.g. the Amiga 500)
    that has no other means (like USB,
    CDROM, Ethernet, PCMCIA) but its
    floppy drive to exchange data with
    the rest of the world.

    m1web.de/ADTWin/

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    SPIDERCAVE
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    Achim Kern has released a new game
    for the Amiga.

    SpiderCave - Written with Hollywood5
    and available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k)
    AmigaOS 4 (PPC) AROS (i386) Mac OS X
    (i386)* Mac OS X (PPC) MorphOS (PPC)
    WarpOS (m68k/PPC) Windows (i386)
    Linux, Android, IPad2

    The goal of this little computer game
    is building ladders and collecting
    yellow spider eggs.

    Our hero must build long ladders with
    help of a space ship from a working
    platform to reach the spider nets.
    This is very dangerous because the
    mother spiders will drop blue eggs
    with green acid gas to destroy your
    ship and ladders. The game becomes
    more difficult level by level - round
    by round. Watch for bonus, extra
    life, weapons, secrets, and much more
    to discover on your way fighting
    through the cave. You can save the
    level codes if you reach the higher
    levels.

    www.keho-software.com/spidercave_holl
    ywood.html

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    SMOKIN' GUNS - AMIGAOS4
    *************************************

    Smokin 'Guns is a first-person
    perspective shooter set in the Old
    West the game includes weapons that
    have been created historically
    correct according to Firepower,
    shooting speed, reload time, etc.

    Requirements: AmigaOS 4.1 system with
    a 3D Card (128MB VRAM min) and Warp3D
    support (will not work with WaZp3D).
    At least 1GB of RAM is needed to play
    the game. LibboostyGFX version 1.x.x.
    must be installed.

    DOWNLOAD

    os4depot.net/share/development/librar
    y/graphics/libboostygfx.lha

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    BOXX
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    Lemming880 has created a new platform
    game for the Amiga using Backbone.
    You will need an Amiga A1200 or
    faster, but the game can play on an
    A500, albeit with a lower frame rate.
    In the game you must collect all the
    coins, kill the enemy and destroy the
    final boss!

    aminet.net/package/game/jump/Boxx

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    DISK IMAGE DEVICE - AMIGAOS 4
    *************************************

    This is a from scratch development
    for AmigaOS4.x that aims to be an
    improved version of Thore
    Boeckelmann's diskimage.device for
    AOS3.x.

    Thore's DiskImageCtrl program doesn't
    work with this device for this
    reason. This should not be a problem
    however as there is now (as of v52.2)
    a ReAction GUI that provides the same
    functionality as this program and
    more.

    Some new features of this device are:
    no hardcoded limit on the amount of
    useable device units, large file
    support, CD audio tracks and support
    for many more disk image formats
    through an extensible plugin
    interface.

    After installing a new version of
    diskimage.device you should always
    perform a soft reboot as this is the
    only way to make sure that the new
    device version has been loaded.
    DiskImageGUI tries to be within
    reason backwards-compatible with
    older device versions, but this might
    not always be perfect, so it's not
    recommended to use a newer
    DiskImageGUI with an older device
    version (or vice versa).

    REQUIREMENTS:

    * AmigaOS >= 4.1

    * capsimage.device (IPF plugin) -
    softpres.org

    * z.library >= 52.1 (CSO, DAA, DAX,
    DMG, ISZ, UIF and VMDK plugins) -
    aminet.net/util/libs/z_library.lha

    * bzip2.library >= 53.1 (DMG and ISZ
    plugins) - included with MUI 4.0

    * expat.library >= 4.1 (DMG plugin) -
    os4depot.net/share/development/libr
    ary/misc/expat-ppc.lha

    * mpg123.library >= 52.1 (MP3 audio
    tracks) - os4depot.net/share/librar
    y/

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