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Amiga Kit: Super Skidmarks now pre-installed on the A600GS (13. Aug. 2024)
The classic Amiga racing game "Super Skidmarks", developed by Chris Blackbourn, will now be pre-installed on the new A600GS from AmigaKit. Users who already own the A600GS system can add the game to the game menu via a free update. Skidmarks was firs...

Print magazine: Issue 144 of Amiga Future readable online (13. Aug. 2024)
The German and English issue 144 (May/June 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 as well as a higher resolution PDF version...

Operating system for the Amiga: Second alpha version of "Serena OS" (13. Aug. 2024)
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a second alpha version, which is ...

Online chiptune and music module player: Pixeltune (12. Aug. 2024)
Back in 2014, Tomás Pollak, a journalist, developer and musician, released a first version of Pixeltune: a web-based player for chiptune and video game music that builds on a large collection of music that has been carefully archived over the years and in...

Aminet uploads until 10.08.2024 (11. Aug. 2024)
THe following files have been added until 10.08.2024 to Aminet: mandel_and_julia.lha dev/amos 7K mandelbrot and julia REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.7M 68k Game Creator with AGA support WhatIFF3.14.lha mags/misc 3.7M ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 10.08.2024 (11. Aug. 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 10.08.2024: 2024-08-07 fixed: A320 Airbus (Tha...

MorphOS: Continued GMail support by Iris questionable (11. Aug. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, author of the e-mail program Iris, reports in a forum post at title link, continued support for the American e-mail service GMail is questionable. Programs that are allowed to access this Google service are subject to certai...

Team Hoi: Old sketches of the game Hoi and collection of magazine reports (11. Aug. 2024)
Metin Seven from the Dutch game development group Team Hoi has collected on Archive.org old computer magazine reports on their Amiga and PC games published between 1988 and 1997. Two years ago, he also published five ballpoint pen sketches of the 1992 gam...

Arcade game: Holy Warrior (10. Aug. 2024)
Amiten Games has released the arcade game "Holy Warrior" (YouTube video), in which you have to defend yourself as a knight against skeletons and fallen soldiers in order to recover the six holy books. These books had been scattered and hidden by evil forc...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.6.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (10. Aug. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 18 (09. Aug. 2024)
The current issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" once again comprises 48 colour pages and is available in printed or digital form: Video games: RogueCraft, Tony - Montezuma's Gold, Temptations, King & Balloon, TankX, Ami HERO, Doom RPG, Fre...

Event: 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (09. Aug. 2024)
From October 31 till November 3 the 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord will take place in Neumünster, Germany. Details can be found at the title link or in our German news-item....

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.41 (08. Aug. 2024)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video shows improved support of moving platforms) is compatible with AGA an...

Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback v1.0.2 (08. Aug. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has written DiskFlashback, a convenient software for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) that enables PC floppy drives to read and write image files such as ADFs (Amiga Disk Files) during operation. It also allows you to process real discs in Amiga...

Workbench distribution: New Raspberry Pi installer for AmiKit (07. Aug. 2024)
Ján Zahurančík's workbench distribution AmiKit now includes a new, Debian-based installer for the Raspberry Pi. It adapts to the actual Raspberry Pi device used, be it model 5, 400 or 4. Features of the distribution include: Perform...

Game: Heretic II (2024) to be released for high-performance 68k Amigas (06. Aug. 2024)
Press release: Brussels – August 05, 2024. Hyperion is excited to unveil a brand-new port of Heretic II (2024) developed by Steffen Häuser, tailored specifically for high-performance 68K Amiga systems. About Heretic II: Heretic II is ...

Book: German edition of "The Making of Prince of Persia" now available (06. Aug. 2024)
Jordan Mechner is an internationally renowned game designer whose best-known work is probably "Prince of Persia". Mechner recorded the creation of this global hit in his memoirs, which he wrote down during development and published in 2020 (amiga-news.de ...

Blog: The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (06. Aug. 2024)
The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article entitled "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art" on his website datagubbe.se. In it, he discusses how CRTs smoothed out the hard edges and block structures of old video...

Gimmick: Humourful assessment of a GitHub account (05. Aug. 2024)
To "roast" someone means to mock and belittle them in a humorous way and is usually meant in a nice way. This tradition became particularly popular in the USA through the "Dean Martin Show" (see Wikipedia article). The user 'codenoid' has now applied this...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v3.7 R104 for Windows 10/11 (05. Aug. 2024)
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, ...