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Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 (02. Feb. 2022)
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide repla...

AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3 (02. Feb. 2022)
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9 (01. Feb. 2022)
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows: Enhancements: The hardware config panel has been split into a separate chi...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January (01. Feb. 2022)
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January....

AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories (01. Feb. 2022)
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. Changes sin...

Aracade game: Green Beret released (update) (31. Jan. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine. Basically, the game is not meant to be a 1:1 port. The player is much more "agile", as he can stab from ladders, for exampl). It ...

Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks (31. Jan. 2022)
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he...

OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022 (30. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot: dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc... reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4....

AmiTube 0.8: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (29. Jan. 2022)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video). Today version 0.8 has been released which provides an improved download speed and a lot of...

Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released (29. Jan. 2022)
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today. Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in...

BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2 (28. Jan. 2022)
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). About the new version 0.8...

Tetris variant: Drag & Drop (27. Jan. 2022)
'Drag & Drop' (Video) is a Tetris variant where blocks aren't falling down from the top of the screen, instead the player has to put them on on the playfield using Drag'Drop himself. The game can be downloaded for free, it is possible to pay a user-de...

Hyperion blog apparently hacked by spammers (26. Jan. 2022)
At the end of 2010, Hyperion had introduced a "developer blog" to inform users about current events around AmigaOS 4. The last official contributions date back to 2017, from then technical director Costel Mincea. Then in November, The Ultimate Guide To On...

AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas' (24. Jan. 2022)
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support. With the help of PatchCompositeTags the ga...

Platformer: Status update on 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' (24. Jan. 2022)
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes continues to work on his jump'n run Creeping Me Out: Hex Night, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. Following his Winter update, the developer reports in today's entry on how he's improving much of the current pro...

Hollywood plugin: Iconic 1.0 released (23. Jan. 2022)
Press release:: In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for...

AROS: Update 6 of 68k distribution Aros Vision (23. Jan. 2022)
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision two times. New are some Shell commands, GUIs for searching, splitting and joining files, extended support for packers, two additional window-related commodities...

OS4Depot uploads until 22.01.2022 (23. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to OS4Depot: profyler.lha dev/deb 1Mb 4.1 Software performance profiler exodus_patch.lha gam/str 70kb 4.0 Exodus: The Last War patch to fi... deark.lha uti/a...

WHDLoad: New installers until 22.01.2022 (23. Jan. 2022)
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 22.01.2022: 2022-01-18 improved: Logo (Starbyt...

Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops (22. Jan. 2022)
The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the...