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Preview videos: Beat'em up "Last Battle 2" , Shoot'em Up "Galactic Plague" (28. Nov. 2024)
Two developers provide a first insight into the status of their projects developed with the Scorpion Engine by publishing videos showing some gameplay: Last Battle 2 is to be a beat'em up which sees itself as an unofficial successor to the Sega classic...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry V7.0.0-RC1 (28. Nov. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using ...

Ambermoon: How fingerprinting identified a press leak (27. Nov. 2024)
On the occasion of the widest possible release of the Ambermoon source code last year, its lead programmer Jurie Horneman also wrote a text about how he managed to identify through fingerprinting a fairly well-known journalist who had passed on the game i...

Videos: Quick clips from Amiga Alive on everyday questions (27. Nov. 2024)
With his "Quick clips", 'Amiga Alive' has started a video series on YouTube, whose short films are dedicated to everyday problems when working on the Amiga - for example, how to get AmigaAMP 3 running on AmigaOS 3.0 or how to translate an AMOS p...

Music album with old OctaMED Soundstudio tracks released on Spotify (27. Nov. 2024)
Timo Kloss, the developer of Ermentrud and Horny, among others, used an emulator to go through his old OctaMED Soundstudio projects, slightly reworked the best ones, exported them in higher quality and put them together as a new album. The result is no...

Event: Announcement of date for Classic Computing 2025 (Germany) (27. Nov. 2024)
Next year Classic Computing event will take place again in September, from 11th to 14th of that month. After Baden-Württemberg, it will then be held in Bavaria, in the Freiheitshalle Hof. The annual "Classic Computing" is organized by the "Verein zum E...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 34 (26. Nov. 2024)
Issue 34 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team is looking for a suitable Christmas present and sheds light on current FPGA systems, ...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 22 (26. Nov. 2024)
The new issue 22 (November 2024) of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" comes in a new design, the cover was illustrated by Simon Phipps (Rick Dangerous, Wolfchild, among others). The magazine is available in print or digital editions. The main topic of...

Puzzle game: Connect available for free (25. Nov. 2024)
Frank from the LogicalByte team writes: "Hello everyone, it's been over 2 years since we released Connect (amiga-news.de reported). During this time, we have received a lot of praise, which has made us very happy. The gaming community has also sent us sug...

Turn-based strategy: November-2024-Update for "Settle the World" (25. Nov. 2024)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his November update: "A new version of my Amiga game "Settle the World" is available. The "Quality of Life and Pathfinding Update - November 2024" contains mostly bug fixes and a completely revised pathfin...

WHD-Load: New installers until 23.11.2024 (24. Nov. 2024)
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 23.11.2024: 2024-11-20 improved: Predator 2 (K...

Tetris clone: "Tetra Zone" (22. Nov. 2024)
Around eight years ago, Wei-ju Wu published a seven-part series (plus additional episodes) on Amiga hardware programming in C on his YouTube channel. Now he is in the process of writing a Tetris clone called "Tetra Zone" for the AmiGameJam 2024, which imp...

Event: Videos from 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (20. Nov. 2024)
At the turn of the month the 25th Amiga Meeting North took place in Neumünster, Germany. Two videos now show the presentations of Michal Schulz about PiStorm and Emu68 and Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer about new hardware developments....

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive (20. Nov. 2024)
Four images from Island Graphics from 1985 have now been added to the collection of early Amiga graphics. Three of them show ballerinas. They were based on paintings by the French painter Edgar Degas, which were transferred to the Amiga as a background im...

Event: World of Commodore 2024 in Mississauga (Canada) (19. Nov. 2024)
On 30 November and 1 December 2024, the World of Commodore 2024 Amiga convention will be held in Mississauga, Canada (near Toronto). A variety of Commodore devices, from the Amiga and the C64 to the PET, will be on display at the event. Visitors will also...

ADF-Tool: ADF-Blitzer 3.0 has been published (19. Nov. 2024)
More than two decades after the last version 2.20, Andreas Gouders has released version 3.0 of his ‘ADF Blitzer’. The tool can be used to convert floppy disks in drives DF0: to DF3: into an ADF file or to write ADF files back to floppy disks. ...

Reimplementation of 'Frontier: Elite II'-Intros with browser playback v0.4 (18. Nov. 2024)
In mid-2021, we already reported on Mark Watson's project to recreate the graphics and music of the Frontier: Elite II intro in C and, in the process, to implement improved 3D models (e.g. planetary sky added to the intro) or support for 2 and 4 times the...

Amiga emulator for the web: New features in vAmigaWeb (16. Nov. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The vAmiga-based emulator now offers the following new features: supports run ahead, which is an effective technique to reduce input lag. run ahead is an emulation tech...

Feasibility study: Image display without working memory (16. Nov. 2024)
With his feasibility study “Amiga CPU Blit Read-Only”, 'nicodex' shows how to display an image on the Amiga without write access to the main memory. The latest version shows a four-color BoingBall animation in front of a rainbow background tha...

Report: My Experiences with the Amiga A1222+ (16. Nov. 2024)
Francis G. Loch develops tools such as PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4 in the C programming language. 20 years after purchasing a MicroA1 and after a long break from OS4, Loch bought an A1222+. In his experience report, he describes his impressions of the...