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Video talk: "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" (28. Jun. 2023)
On 15 and 16 June, the "ICE Conference 2023" took place, dedicated to 3D environments in the most diverse fields of application. Part of the event was the video talk "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" held by Dr. Andre 'kudr...

Game: Cypherpunk adventure Night/Shift (27. Jun. 2023)
Night/Shift by Eclectic Imaginations is an Amiga-exclusive exploration game with Hi-Res HAM8 graphics. The game runs on any Amiga with an AGA chipset and can be downloaded for free at the title link. Set in Boston in 2039, this cypherpunk adventure gam...

Management of ADF files: adflib V0.8.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (27. Jun. 2023)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format. Besides Volker Schwaber...

Demoparty: Posadas 2023 (Spain) (26. Jun. 2023)
From 30 June to 2 July, this year's edition of the Posadas demoparty will take place in Posadas, Spain. As the Spanish graphic designer José A. 'jojo073' Gonzáles tells us - the French magazine BOING interviewed him in its fifth issue and has now publishe...

Video-Tutorial: Animation and collision detection of sprites in AMOS (26. Jun. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, and following on from his last video on sprites, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to control the animation of sprites and how to detect collisions between them....

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 147 (Italian/English) (25. Jun. 2023)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

Aminet uploads until 24.06.2023 (25. Jun. 2023)
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to Aminet: NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 620K 68k Remote filesystem & AREXX bet... PED81C.lha dev/amos 612K 68k "Native" chunky screens system wla_dx_v10.5.lha dev...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.06.2023 (25. Jun. 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 24.06.2023: 2023-06-23 improved: Art Of Chess,...

Event: Look Behind You and Gameplan at the Level Up in Salzburg (Austria) (25. Jun. 2023)
In addition to Amiga Future, the two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will also participate at Level Up in Austria for the first time this year. Below you can read the translation of their official press release: "Level Up is th...

Game announcement: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (24. Jun. 2023)
After Nivrig Games had already published some preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), the official game announcement now followed with the opening of the itch.io project site: the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (latest YouTube video) will be rel...

MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1 (23. Jun. 2023)
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software. This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes: added looping ...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1 (23. Jun. 2023)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open so...

amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon (22. Jun. 2023)
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to hav...

Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58 (22. Jun. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes: Fixes: Starting with command line "HiP " or with a "Startup" playlist and with random play mode always played the first...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts (19. Jun. 2023)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports. Amiga Future magazine is available a...

WHDLoad: New installers until 17.06.2023 (18. Jun. 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 17.06.2023: 2023-06-17 fixed: Back To The Futu...

Start bar: WBDock2 2.874 (18. Jun. 2023)
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.874. The changes of the program for AmigaOS 3.1 or higher include "autohide" mode now moving the dock above all other windows and appearing only when the mouse ...

Shell extension: GoShell 4.0 (18. Jun. 2023)
GoShell is a free and simple tool for opening a shell terminal in full screen mode on a separate screen (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in the now released version 4.0 of the tool developed by Krzysztof Donat: added locale support for GoShell confi...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.0 (17. Jun. 2023)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (screenshot). Features: AmigaGPT uses the GPT-4 architecture developed by OpenAI to generate coherent, context-aware responses to your i...

SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.7 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (17. Jun. 2023)
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsm...