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Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein (26. Nov. 2023)
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3....

Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette (25. Nov. 2023)
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2 (24. Nov. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action" (23. Nov. 2023)
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows: Working on the first tileset...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update) (22. Nov. 2023)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally describ...

Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels (22. Nov. 2023)
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS ...

Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C) (22. Nov. 2023)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview vide...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.3 for Windows (19. Nov. 2023)
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.3. Changes: Read: Fixed reported issue #3: f...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.4 (19. Nov. 2023)
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....

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.3 (19. Nov. 2023)
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in ver...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.29 (19. Nov. 2023)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, 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...

Platform game: Demo version of Abbey(s) of the Dead (17. Nov. 2023)
The developer 'UltraNarwhal' has published a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported) and which he is realising with the Scorpion Engine. The full version is due to be relea...

Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter for Aseprite (16. Nov. 2023)
Aseprite is an image editor that is primarily intended for drawing and animating pixel graphics for games. However, as already mentioned in our article about the dungeon crawler "The CTHUHLU Project", it is not possible to export graphics in IFF/ILBM form...

Reverse Engineering: Task Force (15. Nov. 2023)
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, the website Tetracorp has analysed Task Force, a Freeware game released 1994 ...

Alinea Computer: New products and firmware updates (14. Nov. 2023)
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products: Joyport Power-Adapter (power thief) With the Joyport Power-Adapter (power thief), external 5V devices can be operated via the Amiga. The joystick port of the Amiga is looped through. A US...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (14. Nov. 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 ...

Tool: AssetBundleManager V0.3 (14. Nov. 2023)
Asset bundles are content such as textures, scripts or scenes that are saved separately from a main game or application and loaded when required. This minimises the number of resources to be loaded at startup. Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written "AssetBu...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.1.0 for Windows (13. Nov. 2023)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.10.16 (12. Nov. 2023)
Rafał Zabdyr has released a second beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x a...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (12. Nov. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Enigma-Goria A Prehistoric Tale ...