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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.3 (03. Dec. 2023)
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.3 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes a bug, where Amidon's Settings window would stop responding if opened on...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (03. Dec. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Apidya (Highscore) Urban Ferret (Afterburner Final Take Off) ...

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....

Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German) (03. Dec. 2023)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of t...

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 ...

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...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version) (02. Dec. 2023)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: ...

Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man (01. Dec. 2023)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level....

Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead (01. Dec. 2023)
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro. ...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (30. Nov. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level....

Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4 (29. Nov. 2023)
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards....

Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated (29. Nov. 2023)
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slo...

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...

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....

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...

Dock: QDock V2.07 (26. Nov. 2023)
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. ...