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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.05.16 (17. May. 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). Not much RAM is needed, as the anim frames ...

Reverse Engineering: Speedball 2 (17. May. 2023)
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works. A GitHub page provides software tips and learning materials for interested developers. In this case, Simon Frankau h...

Strategy game: "Virtual Enemies" in development (16. May. 2023)
LogicalByte, the developer of the logic game Connect, yesterday introduced the next game for the Amiga 500 (and higher). The title is "Virtual Enemies". The player lives in an alternative timeline in the 80s. The earth is already suffering enormously...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.3 (update) (16. May. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS 3.18 which is required. This version fixes high CPU load with github.com, updates easylist adblock data and introduces a user script to remove some youtube gradien...

Event: Information on the Amiga38 (15. May. 2023)
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events -...

Aminet uploads until 13.05.2023 (14. May. 2023)
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to Aminet: msInternetStatus.lha comm/net 38K 68k Internet status monitor (+src) shellcolors.lha dev/c 11K 68k code colored text lines in C less-mos.lha dev/gg ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 13.05.2023 (14. May. 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 13.05.2023: 2023-05-13 improved: Dark Castle (...

Video: The History of Cursor Keys (14. May. 2023)
In this video, the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Guy" takes a look at the history of the cursor keys, which nowadays are mostly arranged in the shape of an inverted "T": The index, middle and ring fingers can remain on the keyboard and the middle finger can ...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.0 (13. May. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. As the author explained in his latest blog entry on ko-fi, he is...

Operating system: MorphOS 3.18 released (13. May. 2023)
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.12 (12. May. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.0 (11. May. 2023)
At the beginning of last year, developer 'jasonsbeer' had released revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. After a test phase he has now published the source code of revision 3.0 with the following ch...

Skill game: "Kalle Kloakk" released (10. May. 2023)
In mid-February we reported that Kåre 'Docster' Johansen was porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga. Today he has released the finished game, which consists of eight levels. Docster' has been a member of the C64 demo group Meg...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v2.9.0 (09. May. 2023)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our last news item: Improved documentation Added si...

Preview video: Platformer "SUPERMiniJu" (09. May. 2023)
Yoz Montana has published a preview video of a new platform game developed with the Game Construction Kit RedPill: The goal is to cut grass and flowers to collect bonus points and free the rabbit sitting in a cage in each level....

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.19 (08. May. 2023)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, 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 ...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.0.10 for Windows, Linux and macOS (08. May. 2023)
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as...

Amiga Documents: Evidence of irregularities / Statement by Mike Battilana (07. May. 2023)
On the Twitter account "Amiga Documents" further documents concerning the parties in litigation Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Corporation have been published. Among them is especially the proof (PDF file) of financial irregularities at the or...

Aminet uploads until 06.05.2023 (07. May. 2023)
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to Aminet: HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 807K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo... HWP_hURL.lha dev/hwood 4.3M ALL The multi-protocol data trans... bwbasic320.lha d...

WHDLoad: New installers until 06.05.2023 (07. May. 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 06.05.2023: 2023-05-06 fixed: CyberPunks 2 (Mu...