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Spillhistorie: Interview with game designer Steve Meretzky (Infocom) (05. Feb. 2025)
For the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, Joachim Froholt, with the support of Hans Arne Jacobsen, conducted another interview - this time with Steve Meretzky, who designed various text adventures for Infocom, which were then also ported to the Amiga, such...

Demoparty: Pågadata 2025 (1-3 August 2025) (04. Feb. 2025)
The Pågadata 2025 demoscene party will take place from 1 to 3 August 2025 in Teckomatorp in southern Sweden. Entry is free, but donations are welcome. Participants can stay overnight on site. The event is open to newcomers and veterans of the demo sc...

Managing system variables: GoVars 2.1 (update) (04. Feb. 2025)
GoVars, developed by Krzysztof Donat (bitplan), is an easy-to-use editor for Amiga environment variables, which is now available in version 2.0. This tool offers a user-friendly interface for managing those system variables in AmigaOS 3.x. The most i...

Review: Checkmate Retro Monitor (03. Feb. 2025)
The Kickstarter campaign initiated by Stephen Jones to fund his Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor was successfully completed at the end of 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). The Lyonsden Blog has now published a review in which, among other things, various conn...

OS4Depot uploads until 01.02.2025 (02. Feb. 2025)
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator gluae.lha e...

WHDLoad: New installers until 01.02.2025 (02. Feb. 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 01.02.2025: 2025-01-31 improved: Exodus 3010 (...

Music: Crowdfunding of the FastLoaders album "Amiga Rocks Harder" (02. Feb. 2025)
FastLoaders (Facebook) is a C64 and Amiga remix metal band from Bergen, Norway. As a sequel to their 2020 album, "Amiga Rocks", more than thirty soundtracks of classic Amiga games will be recorded as hard rock versions for "Amiga Rocks Harder". Money is n...

Event: AUGS meeting 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland) (02. Feb. 2025)
On the weekend of March 15/16, 2025, the next meeting of the Amiga Users Group Switzerland will take place for participants with hardware as well as visitors. Venue is the Hottingen Community Center, which is ten minutes by tram from Zurich main station....

AmigaOS 4: VideoVortex - GUI for searching and watching YouTube videos (02. Feb. 2025)
Video Vortex is a graphical user interface for YT.rexx for searching and viewing YouTube videos. YT.rexx is a script that provides direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. VideoVortex, on the other hand, saves the user the cumbersome and tedious ta...

Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban (02. Feb. 2025)
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video)...

Video: Booting from Amiga floppy disk with the A600GS (01. Feb. 2025)
In October, Amigakit released an update for its Linux-based Amiga emulator A600GS that enables the loading of real Amiga disks via DrawBridge. In a video, an A600GS user now demonstrates this exact function: His emulated Amiga 1200 boots from floppy disk ...

Printmagazin: issue 146 of Amiga Future can be read online (01. Feb. 2025)
The German and English issue 146 (September/October 2020) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine and a higher-resolution PDF versi...

Individual Computers: known customers can preorder ACA1240/1260 (01. Feb. 2025)
Press release: In recent years, the start of production and sales of the ACA1240/1260 had to be postponed again and again. Last week the time had finally come and we opened pre-orders. Not all of the card's features have been fully developed yet, which is...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.1.0 for Windows (31. Jan. 2025)
The image editor PyDPainter (new 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 eas...

Sound editor: ProTrekkr 2.8.1 for AROS and MorphOS (update) (31. Jan. 2025)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or...

Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero 1.1.1 (28. Jan. 2025)
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, the player has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (Video). Version 1.1.1 has just been released. Since the initial version 1.0 in summer 2023, new particles have b...

Demoparty: Lovebyte 2025 (15-16 February) (28. Jan. 2025)
On the weekend of 15-16 February 2025, the virtual demoparty "Lovebyte" will take place on Discord and Twitch - an event dedicated entirely to so-called sizecoding, i.e. programming with as few bytes as possible. Under this year's motto "Blind Date", all ...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (update) (27. Jan. 2025)
Just last week SDL 3 was officially released with version 3.20. As usual, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki is implementing the multimedia library for AmigaOS 4.1 and has now published a first release candidate which contains the following Amiga-specific changes:...

WHDLoad: New installers until 25.01.2025 (26. Jan. 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 25.01.2025: 2025-01-25 fixed: Ghost Battle (Th...

Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 3000/4000 (26. Jan. 2025)
KickSmash32, currently available in version 1.4, is a Kickstart ROM replacement module for the Amiga 3000 and 4000, which can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files....