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AmigaOS 4: Current hardware availability (17. Jun. 2023)
After ACube Systems recently delivered the last boards to pre-orderers, including shops (amiga-news.de reported), we asked the relevant Amiga shops if they had them on sale: Alinea Computer offers a Sam460LE complete system for 1299 euros (plus shipp...

Preview video: Action puzzle game "Old Towers" (17. Jun. 2023)
Already in 2020, "Amiga Retro Development" had begun to port the action puzzle game Old Towers from the Sega Mega Drive to the Amiga. The aim of the game is to dash across walls and ceilings, collecting all the coins and finding the way to the exit, past ...

Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14 (16. Jun. 2023)
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). In the current ...

Event: Retrobörse Oberhausen (Germany) on June 17, 2023 (15. Jun. 2023)
For friends of classic video games and home computers, the next Retro-Börse will take place at the Altenberg Center in Oberhausen on June 17, 2023....

Background: Influence of the cache on PowerPC CPU (Czech) (15. Jun. 2023)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time she looks at how big the influence of cache is on the speed of PowerPC CPUs, here in particular the G3 to G5 processors. The starting point for the articl...

Demoparty: Flashparty 2023 in Argentinia (15. Jun. 2023)
On 28 October, Flashparty 2023 will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The demo party consists of two events: from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the demo competition will take place at the San Martin Cultural Center with free admission, while tickets must be purc...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.1 (14. Jun. 2023)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

AmigaOS 4: CPU profiler "Tequila" 1.1 (14. Jun. 2023)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki's "Tequila" is a simple CPU profiler that samples currently running tasks (screenshot). Changes of version 1.1: Add custom rendering. Add locale support. Add Finnish and Italian catalogs. Display task switches / second. ...

Crowdfunding for retro community "Amiga Global Alliance" canceled (12. Jun. 2023)
David Pleasance - ex-Commodore UK management, author of several Commodore books and regular guest at various Amiga events since 2015 - had launched a new project with his "Amiga Global Alliance" ("AGA") at the beginning of June, which was to be financed v...

Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" in development (12. Jun. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa - among other things, start bar QDock or maze game Cube - has started a new game project: "The Oregon Trail" (YouTube video of a live presentation) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game. The goal is to survive the 2040-mile east-we...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 06/23 (12. Jun. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continues to work on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). His latest developer diary entry is about the implementation of an election system and a hapiness system: "I ...

Video tutorial: Working with sprites in AMOS (12. 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 load them from an image bank file (.abk) and how to use the channel or move command to be ab...

WinUAE: Update of German localization (11. Jun. 2023)
WinUAE users BlackByte and Bernardi independently from each other created a German translation of the text strings in the Amiga emulator WinUAE 5.0....

Video: Amiga Laptop with LEGO case (11. Jun. 2023)
Ravi Abbott and Howard from Dubious Engineering started a tinkering project four years ago to build an Amiga 600 laptop as cheaply as possible (YouTube playlist). With the video published yesterday, the project comes to an end and has received a LEGO case...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.06.2023 (11. Jun. 2023)
The following files have been added until 10.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Nanosaur2_2.1.0.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Nanos... Bugdom_1.3.3.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Bugdo... MightyMike_3.0.2....

WHDLoad: New installers until 10.06.2023 (11. 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 10.06.2023: 2023-06-09 improved: Racter (Inrac...

ACube Systems: Delivery of all pre-ordered Sam460LE boards (11. Jun. 2023)
Press release: Dear valued Customers, we are pleased to announce that all preordered Sam460LE boards have been shipped after extensive testing and preparation. We sincerely hope that our customers will enjoy using this latest Sam460 board, and we would...

Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.1 (10. Jun. 2023)
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.1 has now been published of the Amiga Core. Changes: Created a Settings file for the Po...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.0 for Windows (10. Jun. 2023)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

Text adventure: Preorder of boxed edition of "Tristam Island" (09. Jun. 2023)
At the end of 2020, the commercial text adventure "Tristam Island" was released (amiga-news.de reported). At poly.play, the game can now be pre-ordered as a boxed edition for 35 euros. Content: 3.5" floppy disk Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18.5...