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Platform game: NinjFeratu 1.0 (09. Dec. 2023)
After the demo version made available last year (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games has now released the full version of the platformer NinjFeratu (YouTube video). An Amiga with 1MB Chip-Ram and 512 KB Fast-RAM is required. The game currently costs 9.9...

Event: Kickstart 02, 29 to 30 June 2024 in Nottingham (UK) (07. Dec. 2023)
After the premiere this year (amiga-news.de reported), there will be another event for Amiga fans in the UK next year: Kickstart 02 will take place in Nottingham from 29 to 30 June 2024....

Intro competition: Nominations for the "Nano Awards 2024" (07. Dec. 2023)
The "Nano Awards 2024" intro competition will honour the best demo productions of 2023 at Lovebyte 2024 on 9 February 2024. The Amiga productions from the "Oldschool" category: Bitstream, by gigabates / Desire hypotrain, by Losso / AttentionWhore T...

Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team (06. Dec. 2023)
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link. Major changes in that version are: Tuning of Main Hourglass (...

Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS (04. Dec. 2023)
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sampl...

WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
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 02.12.2023: 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's ...

Amiga38: Video of PiStorm panel held by Michal Schulz (03. Dec. 2023)
At Amiga38 Michal Schulz gave a presentation about the Amiga extension PiStorm, which uses the minicomputer Raspberry Pi as an 68k emulator. You can find a video recording of it at the title link....

Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update) (03. Dec. 2023)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor (02. Dec. 2023)
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, w...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (02. Dec. 2023)
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 ...

AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7 (02. Dec. 2023)
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalst...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems (02. Dec. 2023)
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs i...

Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite (29. Nov. 2023)
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now pub...

Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59 (29. Nov. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes: Fixes: Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being displayed. Info window: Fix PSID so...

PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97 (28. Nov. 2023)
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the or...

Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24 (27. Nov. 2023)
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions....

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4 (27. Nov. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are ...

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4 (26. Nov. 2023)
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4: Encoding prob...

AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December (26. Nov. 2023)
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link: AREXX scripts in Core show no output...

Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023 (26. Nov. 2023)
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet: wla_dx_v10.6.lha dev/cross 8.8M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble... HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 873K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo... HWP_Plananarama.lha d...