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Video tutorial: Creating a vertical scrolling demo with Scorpion Engine (30. Aug. 2023)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has posted on YouTube a recording of a Twich stream showing how to create a vertically scrolling demo from scratch on the Amiga (and Sega Mega Drive) using the Scorpion Engine. As the developer explains, the Amiga has no native suppo...

Video tutorial: The Blitz Basic tool "Drawer Helper" (30. Aug. 2023)
Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley has streamed another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial on Twitch (amiga-news.de reported) and made it available on YouTube: this time he dedicates himself to his second contribution to the Amiga Tool Jam after Closer, the tool "D...

Event: Developers and shops at Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (29. Aug. 2023)
Thorsten Mampel, president of the Amiga club Hamburg, writes: "Besides Matthias Goldisch from 'HobbyRaum - Ihr Retropartner' we are happy that Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer has announced his appearance and will also set up his store at the Amiga-Meet...

Event: Further informationen on AmiWest 2023 (28. Aug. 2023)
From 12 to 15 October 2023, AmiWest 2023 will take place in Sacramento, California. Now the organisers have published further information: "The AmiWest 2023 is coming fast! Going strong since 1998, this year will be the 26th year of the longest-runni...

Platform game: Updated demo version of "Super Delivery Boy" (27. Aug. 2023)
Two years ago, NeesoGames published the last demo version of "Super Delivery Boy" (amiga-news.de reported). As the developers report, the development of the game has progressed continuously despite the lack of public updates (YouTube video). What has chan...

Puzzle game: Connect V1.4 (27. Aug. 2023)
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Developer Frank Röger has written about the now released version 1.4: "Hel...

Turn-based strategy game: Farm update for "Settle the World" (27. Aug. 2023)
After several developer diaries in which he describes his programming progress, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has published a farm update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World". He writes about it: "This update is also ju...

Arcade port: Karate Champ (27. Aug. 2023)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre's latest project is the Amiga port of the 1984 Karate Champ developed by Technos Japan and published by Data East. The Amiga port runs all Amigas with 2MB RAM (YouTube video)....

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.08.2023 (27. Aug. 2023)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 26.08.2023: 2023-08-24 improved: Pacman 87 (St...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 164 - preview and excerpts (27. Aug. 2023)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 164 (September/October 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes an interview with Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) as well as previews of Castlevania AGA, Hamulet and Bulbmaster. ...

Motorola68k emulation: Beta version 2.1 of Emu68 (V0.16) (26. Aug. 2023)
Developer Michal Schulz has released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite which fixes bugs of the previous version and introduces many important improvements. Changes: ...

Adventure: Demo version of "Mission2Mars" v1.00 (26. Aug. 2023)
After "The Oregon Trail", Sami Vehmaa has released another text-based adventure game for AmigaOS 3, which, however, is only suitable for emulation environments due to its high requirements (250 MIPS): in "Mission2Mars" (YouTube video), a crew of five is o...

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft V0.4.3 (22. Aug. 2023)
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). At the beginning of August a demo version was released for the AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). Now a ...

Mediathek V0.3 for all Amiga systems (22. Aug. 2023)
In early August, we presented Jörg Renkert's Hollywood implementation of the MediathekView program for Amiga systems. Five days ago he updated to version 0.3. It would have been quick to write a report about it, but we wanted to test the program in more d...

Point'n click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.05b (21. Aug. 2023)
The photo point'n click adventure Holiday (YouTube video) is also a contribution to the AmiGameJam (you can still cast your vote today only!). The player arrives in a Spanish resort in 1988 and has the task of surviving the next 11 days. To do this, yo...

Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version) (21. Aug. 2023)
After Croaker, RANA and Megafrog, Frogger is the fourth recent attempt to adapt the classic game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river, for the Amiga. Frogger ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.24 (20. Aug. 2023)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the...

Event: Retro Area at Gamescom 2023 with Amiga celebrities (20. Aug. 2023)
This week, from August 23 till 27 (opening for the public on thursday), world's greatest computer games event, Gamescom, takes place in Cologne, Germany, again. Part of it is a Retro Area, and also Amiga celebrities like Turrican developers Factor 5,...

Aminet uploads until 19.08.2023 (20. Aug. 2023)
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to Aminet: sylpheed.lha comm/mail 22M OS4 Sylpheed e-mail for AmiCygnix... sylpheed-src.lha comm/mail 1.8M Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for... WhatMightHaveBeen.lha d...

OS4Depot uploads until 19.08.2023 (20. Aug. 2023)
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to OS4Depot: libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab... libx264.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi... amiarcadia.lha ...