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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2024 (27. Oct. 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 26.10.2024: 2024-10-24 fixed: Wiz'n'Liz (Psygn...

Do it yourself: Video adapter Spite Sprite and mouse adapter Toxoplasma Gondii (27. Oct. 2024)
Spite Sprite is an Amiga RGB to composite/S-Video adapter, while Toxoplasma gondii is not just a parasite that also infects mice as an intermediate host, but in this case an adapter that converts the analog signals from PC mice into digital signals for th...

Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson (27. Oct. 2024)
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 171 - preview and excerpts (27. Oct. 2024)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 171 (November/December 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes interviews with Simon Phipps, Carlo Pastore and Achim Pankalla, several reviews, e.g. of ignition and X-bEnCh, and vario...

Emulator: Denise v2.4 (25. Oct. 2024)
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Numerous amiga-specific changes have been made since o...

Arananet: Accelerator Trinity 1240-60 can be pre-ordered (24. Oct. 2024)
After four years of development and extensive testing, "best accelerator ever built for the Amiga A1200" has been finalised. The Trinity 1240-60 supports 68040-68060 CPUs and is compatible with all A1200 revisions. According to the developer, great care h...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.21 (23. Oct. 2024)
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...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 33 (22. Oct. 2024)
Issue 33 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 discusses the influence of the Amiga on virtual reality systems. This issue also...

Videogames studies: Experimental action game "Squarez" now available (22. Oct. 2024)
The recently released Squarez is a remake of the Flash game SQUARES 2 and was developed as part of the CHLudens research project (amiga-news.de reported). This abstract action game is controlled entirely by mouse and offers minimalist, rectangle-based gra...

Aminet uploads until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to Aminet: 8VoicesDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k 8 Voices Demo MiniDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k Trackloader Amiga Demo MiniDemo.png demo/disk 8K 68k Trackload...

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 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 19.10.2024: 2024-10-13 fixed: Humans 3: Evolut...

MorphOS: Future versions of Wayfarer without updated WebKit/GTK engine (20. Oct. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has told at the title link, future versions of his web browser Wayfarer will stay with the current version 2.46 of the WebKit/GTK browser engine. Already porting this one would have taken several weeks. Since the WebKit devel...

Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress (20. Oct. 2024)
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or f...

Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5 for the 30th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
Next year, the legendary game Worms celebrates its 30th birthday. To mark the occasion, its programmer Andy Davidson is planning a free new edition for the Amiga. To this end, demo groups around the world are invited to contribute new levels with their ow...

Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany (20. Oct. 2024)
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office. However,...

Logic game: Untangle V1.1 (20. Oct. 2024)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1) (19. Oct. 2024)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound. He ...

Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey? (18. Oct. 2024)
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' &#346...

Cowboy/shootout game: Demo version of Duel (17. Oct. 2024)
In "Duel", two cowboys (or so far a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the finalised version, you will be able to choose from over 20 characters and the weather wi...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...