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Speed Haste: MS-DOS racing game ported to the Amiga (18. Mar. 2025)
The fun shareware racing game Speed Haste, originally developed by NoriaWorks for MS-DOS, has now been successfully ported to the Amiga by Szilard Biro. The game, which gained great popularity in the 90s, offers classic arcade action with Formula 1 and st...

Game: New update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut (18. Mar. 2025)
The team at Electric Black Sheep has updated its space opera "Star Dust Wars – Director's Cut" on a technical level. The animations have been reprocessed using a new method, which means they are the same size but in slightly better quality. The...

Video: The AlgoMusic music program (17. Mar. 2025)
AlgoMusic is a complex music program that randomly generates and plays a song from a series of algorithms in a techno/house style. In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the program, which was written by Thomas Schürger in 1995, and takes a look at hi...

Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: New playable demo of "BDTZ" (17. Mar. 2025)
BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) is a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze of streets. Ammunition is scarce and shots attract more zombies (amiga-news.de reported). ...

Aminet uploads until 15.03.2025 (16. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to Aminet: AmigaTText-m68k-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.0M OS3 Shows GER Teletext Site... AmigaTText-ppc-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.7M OS4 Shows GER Teletext Site... AmigaTText-ppc-morph...

OS4Depot uploads until 15.03.2025 (16. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to OS4Depot: seq.lha aud/mis 450kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator lfi-png2amiga.lha gra/ico 224kb 4.1 conv...

WHDLoad: New installers until 15.03.2025 (16. Mar. 2025)
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 15.03.2025: 2025-03-11 updated: Uridium 2 (Gra...

Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 2.21 (update) (14. Mar. 2025)
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 2.2 - tagged as the "final release" by the author ...

AmigaOS 4: Review of the SiI3112 PCI SATA card from Rabbit Hole (12. Mar. 2025)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has published a review of the SATA PCI card from Rabbit Hole under AmigaOS 4 at the title link at IntuitionBase. The card is based on the SiI3112 chip from Silicon Image....

3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.106 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x (11. Mar. 2025)
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.106 since the last news upd...

Music tips (10. Mar. 2025)
To kick off the new week, we would like to present our readers with a few music tips: The Swedish software and hardware developer 'mbitsnbites', who for example has published SoundBox, a synth music tracker and editor written in HTML5 for creating mu...

Aminet uploads until 08.03.2025 (09. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga HHH-AmTechLQ.adf demo/sound 880K OS3 Borschtsch - Amerikansk... REDPILLGam...

Flip screen platformer: Trapped in the Tomb, also as a Boxed Edition (08. Mar. 2025)
"Trapped in the Tomb" (video) is a flip-screen platformer in which the items to be collected and the player's starting position are chosen randomly each time the game is started. The game runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM and at least Kickstart 1...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.8 (08. Mar. 2025)
Version 12.8 of the Workbench distribution "Amikit" is available to all registered users free of charge. The software collection has been expanded to include the Jump'n Run "Absolute Zero" and the "World Construction Set" as well as a utility that enables...

Hardware project: Bluetooth-based Kickstart switch "AmigaBlueKick" (08. Mar. 2025)
"AmigaBlueKick" is a Kickstart switch that does not require any soldering work on the motherboard or a mechanical switch: Switching between the different Kickstart ROMs is done via Bluetooth. To do this, a ready-made ESP32S3 or ESP32C3 Wifi/Bluetooth modu...

Logic game: Untangle V1.2 (07. Mar. 2025)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.9 (06. Mar. 2025)
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source c...

Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West (06. Mar. 2025)
The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical...

Antivirus software: xvs.library version 33.48 (06. Mar. 2025)
Georg Wittmann provides version 33.48 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Changes since the last release: Fixed recognition of 'Disk-Doktors' and 'Suicide Machine' boot viruses to avoid false alarms with harmless bootblocks. The new pa...

Multiplatform emulator: Clock Signal 2025-03-05 (macOS, Linux) (06. Mar. 2025)
Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to vario...