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Other => Ultimate Amiga Site News and Announcements => Topic started by: MadAngus on March 05, 2012, 12:57:46 PM

Title: News Brief #2
Post by: MadAngus on March 05, 2012, 12:57:46 PM
This weeks news brief :

Updates/Releases
FS-UAE and jAMOS

New Projects
dbODF

Other Business
AMOS Manuals Downloads and Weekly News Brief


Updates/Releases

FS-UAE : updated to Version 0.9.11beta3 (March 04, 2012)
FS-UAE Forum Board -> Here (http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/board,307.0.html)
Fixed a bug where large positive mouse movement became negative.
* Event information is written to Synchronization.log during net play (this file can be quite large) -cannot be disabled yet.
* Include slow memory in...
More Info -> Here (http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/topic,9472.msg43976.html#msg43976)

jAMOS : updated to Alpha 0.17 (February 28th 2012)
jAMOS Thread -> Here (http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/topic,9453)
- Added many maths and string functions.
- Added early support for Rainbows (high-level...
More Info -> Here (http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/topic,9453.msg43928.html#msg43928)
For download see the link in the first post.


New Projects
dbODF :
MadAngus has started a new project to provide online AMOS manuals.
More Info -> Here (http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/topic,9479.msg43984.html#msg43984)


Other Business
AMOS Manuals Download :
The AMOS Factory Landing Page -> Here (http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/page,16.html) provides Image-links to PDF downloads of some of the manuals. Users should know that you must be registered and logged in to download the PDF manuals.

News Brief :
The remit of the News Brief will will be to inform users of project updates/releases, new projects, generate interest in these projects by listing them in the news brief and highlight site related or other business that users should be aware of.

In general the News Brief will be posted weekly. If it is considered that there is not enough news to justify an update, the News Brief will be postponed until the following week.

I understand that Project Leads/Teams may not want their projects listed until they reach a certain stage. In that respect could Project Leads/Teams please drop a comment in the current News Brief indicating that the project is to be listed in the News Brief, or stop being listed if the project is taking a holiday.
Title: Re: News Brief #2
Post by: MadAngus on March 06, 2012, 10:23:27 AM
For future reference:

Please note the News Brief is for Ultimate Amiga news / projects and related projects present on the forums.

There will be additional sections in future News Briefs on an as and when needed basis. One example is the "Help Wanted Section", other Briefs can be added by request.

Here's a sample of what the help wanted section could contain.
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Project Help Wanted
The-Project-Name :
The-Project-Lead is looking for developers to work on coding the following areas of the game -
[Item-List of target code environments]
e.g.

Also required are concept artists, sprite artists and animators for the following graphics needs.
[Item-List of target graphic environments]
e.g.

Alternatively

Project Help Wanted
The-Project-Name :
The-Project-Lead is looking for developers and artists to work on the The-Project-Name. In particular, at this stage in development, game engine developers are wanted. Also, concept artists (pixel-art sprites) are needed for the game tiles and cut-scenes.

Those wishing to be involved in the development at it's various stages, as and when needed, please contact The-Project-Lead on the project thread [I'll provide Link to thread Here] or by pm, expressing your areas of interest and skill level.
Please read the thread first.
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End Sample

I may contact project leads directly to inquire about listing their projects.
Opinions / Ideas drop a comment in this news brief.