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Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created (24. Apr. 2024)
At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the scree...
Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38 (23. Apr. 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 is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requ...
Arcade port: Phoenix500 (23. Apr. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has converted another arcade classic for the Amiga: Phoenix500 is a top-down space shooter (YouTube video) that has been remade for ECS Amigas....
Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2 (23. Apr. 2024)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available.
The game req...
Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168, preview and excerpts (22. Apr. 2024)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 168 (May/June 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content of this issue, which features four additional pages, includes interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham of ...
Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems (22. Apr. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6:
updated guide file
On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is ...
Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.0 and 6.3.0 (preview) (21. Apr. 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....
OS4Depot uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to OS4Depot:
wildmidi.lha aud/pla 32Mb 4.1 A simple software midi player
liba52.lha dev/lib 764kb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC...
libharfbuzz.lha dev/l...
AROS Archives uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
origami.i386-aros.zip dem/int 1Mb Origami Intro by Faemiyah Demogroup
thefulcrum.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 9Mb Demo from Matrix
libdumb.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 9...
WHDLoad: New installers until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 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 20.04.2024:
2024-04-14 improved: Turrican 3 (F...
Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Ami Sampler 0.7 (21. Apr. 2024)
As the name suggests, "Ami Sampler" is a VSTi 8-bit sampler that is intended to come close to its Amiga role models on other systems and thus combine this nostalgia with modern digital audio workstations. The range of functions therefore also includes rep...
RIPPLE IDE: Firmware update for Zorro 2 IDE interface (18. Apr. 2024)
Last week we informed you about the open source projects lide.device, a new IDE driver for the Amiga, and CIDER, an expansion card for the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Matt "LIV2" Harlum had developed RIPPLE IDE for his lide.device as a follow-up produc...
Turn-based strategy: Update introduces free elections in "Settle the World" (18. Apr. 2024)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel's latest update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" introduces free elections: In the game, the population of cities can now vote every few years on whether the player should remain in power. E...
Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.2) (17. Apr. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this third early demo version, the first level has now 27 screens, in...
Game: Quake 2 as download version for AmigaOS 4 available (17. Apr. 2024)
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to announce that it has taken over the distribution of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The first Amiga version of Quake 2 was released in 2002 by Hyperion Entertainment and has been continued and greatly imp...
Grind: Progress in development of a new Doom clone (16. Apr. 2024)
Grind is a first-person shooter (FPS) currently in development for the Amiga, which should even be able to run on small Amigas, appears extremely smooth in the preview videos shown and makes you want to try out more. The game is being developed with the s...
Amiga on the big stage: Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding at the BRIT Awards (16. Apr. 2024)
Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has been one of the driving forces in the world of electronic music for years. Back in 2017, the Scottish DJ revealed his enthusiasm for the Amiga and the music production of his albums on an Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). ...
Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm using a Wi-Fi driver (alpha version) (15. Apr. 2024)
Since October 2023, the AmiKit workbench distribution has also been available for the PiStorm and PiStorm-liteaccelerator boards (amiga-news.de reported), which use a Raspberry Pi minicomputer as a processor replacement. Emu68, the Motorola68K emulation d...
CLI command: sysvars V0.12 (15. Apr. 2024)
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical f...
Hollywood Designer 7.0 released (14. Apr. 2024)
Press release:20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood D...
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