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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 170 / raffle (08. Sep. 2024)
The English and German issue 170 (September/October 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue include...

Video tutorial: Using the AMOS command "Get bob" (07. Sep. 2024)
In another video in his series of tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to use the Get bob command to grab images from AMOS screen to use as Bobs in a program. This is an alternative to using the Object Editor built into AMO...

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.8 for Windows, Linux and macOS (06. Sep. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for the reverse engineering of Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It enables the disassembly and examination of binary files (YouTube video of version 0.8). Thanks to the major update to version 0.8, Aira Force now ...

Event: AmiWest 2024 (04. Sep. 2024)
This year's AmiWest in Sacramento will take place from October 25-27. As Bill 'tekmage' Borsari reports in the official event blog, there are almost 40 tables this year, and David Haynie, Trevor Dickinson, Bill Panagouleas and Doug Compton are named as we...

Logic game: Untangle v1.0 (04. Sep. 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 ...

New articles on Obligement website (03. Sep. 2024)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News for J...

Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator Action in development (03. Sep. 2024)
After Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre had collected all his previous arcade ports at the end of May and released them for the CD32, he is now working on an Amiga port of Galaga as well as a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action: as an agent, you...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (03. Sep. 2024)
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) 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 ...

Radio Paralax: Impressions of the Retro Area at gamescom 2024 (02. Sep. 2024)
A video compilation of all the exhibitors, slot machines, consoles, retro computers and showcases in the Retro Area in Hall 10.2 at gamescom 2024 in Cologne has been provided by Radio Paralax on YouTube under the title link. The video gives an impression ...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.4 and 6.3.4 (02. Sep. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

Aminet uploads until 31.08.2024 (01. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to Aminet: gasm80.lha dev/cross 70K 68k Generic assembler for Z80/6502 HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.3M ALL Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo... GISkyBallsAros.zip gam...

WHDLoad: New installers until 31.08.2024 (01. Sep. 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 31.08.2024: 2024-08-30 new: Sexy Droids (Magic...

Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man (31. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported)....

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update) (28. Aug. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute (28. Aug. 2024)
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on c...

Programming environment: MicroPython for the Amiga in development (27. Aug. 2024)
MicroPython Amiga is a fork of the MicroPython project that brings this programming environment to the classic Amiga (with at least AmigaOS 3.1). The project is still under development, but can already be compiled and used. Amiga-specific features: ...

AROS: First test version of Odyssey browser v2.0 (26. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of August, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released a first test version of the 64-bit browser Odyssey for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). In this next test version, the WebKit engine has been updated from August 2015 to February 201...

Hollywood: GUI plugin RapaGUI 2.2 (25. Aug. 2024)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.2. RapaGUI is one of the most popular Hollywood plugins as it can be used to create graphical user interfaces for a variety of systems (AmigaOS, Windows, macOS,...

AROS: Demo version of word processor Final Writer 7.1 (25. Aug. 2024)
Nine years after the initial announcements, the word processor Final Writer is now receiving its first update since 1997: The new rights holder Timothy "terminills" Deters is offering free demo versions for AROS-68K, AROS-x86-64 and AROS-x86 ABIv0 (...