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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.16 (05. Feb. 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 ...

DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 7) (05. Feb. 2023)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describe...

Music album: "Amiga Collection" by Stamen (05. Feb. 2023)
'ST Arts' is an amateur musician from Finland who likes to compose melodic electronic music, mainly synthpop and space synth music with influences from the mod/demo scene. Thereby 'ST Arts' stands as a generic term for all his musical work, regardless of ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.8 (04. Feb. 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...

MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes 1.3 for MorphOS (02. Feb. 2023)
In January, Alfred Faust made available a MorphOS port of the MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes, which he maintains. A now released update was created with the support of Frank Mariak and Antoine Dubourg from the MorphOS team, it eliminates some critical bugs and...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.1 (31. Jan. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following c...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 142 (Italian/English) / Interview with the publisher (30. Jan. 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. Th...

Editor: Lite XL 2.1.1r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (29. Jan. 2023)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.0r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) and explained: "Today I released a new version of LiteXL for both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS 3. This includes the latest c...

Blog: Benchmarks for "Lightwave 3D 5" for several hardware configurations (29. Jan. 2023)
The developer George 'walkereo' Sokianos reports in his latest blog entry on Ko-fi about benchmarks and findings to be drawn from them for the 3D graphics software LightWave 3D, which is also available for AmigaOS 3 until the release. The following hardwa...

The Amiga as a musical instrument: Paulimba (29. Jan. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' or 'lft'. Last year he built "The Commodordion": an 8-bit accordion consisting mainly of ...

Aminet uploads until 28.01.2023 (29. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to Aminet: apccomm.lha comm/misc 205K 68k transfers files between Amiga... Forest.lha demo/ecs 120K 68k Forest demo for GERP2023/Sweden bin2iso_mos.lha di...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.01.2023 (29. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: LHArchiver_1.8.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int... bin2iso_1.1.lha Files/Convert bin2iso - Convert BIN f... Bugdom_1.3.3.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 28.01.2023 (29. Jan. 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 28.01.2023: 2023-01-22 new: Soul Crystal (Star...

3D action adventure: Bugdom for Linux and MorphOS (28. Jan. 2023)
After, among others, "Cro-Mag Rally" and "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier", another game originally published by Pangea Software has made it to Amiga platforms: Bugdom is described as "an incredibly diverse 3D action/adventure for the entire family". ...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.9 (28. Jan. 2023)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.7 (update) (28. Jan. 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...

Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.4 (28. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...

PiStorm32-lite: Availability (28. Jan. 2023)
Since one month the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga-News.de has looked around where you can currently and potentially purchase the Raspberry Pi-based accelerator card for the Ami...

Blog: Review of "Desert Dream" demo (27. Jan. 2023)
Microzeit is an independent publisher focusing on digital culture and computer history publishes books about the pioneering days of the game industry in the 80s from 8 to 16 bit. In their latest blog entry they take a look back at a classic of the demosce...

Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems (27. Jan. 2023)
Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and U...