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AmigaRemix: Further files added (08. Oct. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Battle Squadron - Loose (Spatial Mix) Physical Presence (Spatial mix) ...

Forum: AROS-Exec preserved on AROSWorld (08. Oct. 2023)
After the closure of Ola '4pLaY' Jensen's forum AROS-Exec for health reasons, AROSWorld has preserved it read-only for posterity at the title link....

Music album: "Virtual Burnout" by LukHash (07. Oct. 2023)
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." In March we reported on his track Amiga, which is also i...

Detailed article: Connecting an Amiga to a modern display (07. Oct. 2023)
Developer Steffest, among other things author of the Amiga MOD tracker Bassoontracker and the web-based image editor DPaint.js, describes in a detailed article on the website of the Belgian Amiga Club the possibilities of running an old Amiga on a current...

Tutorial: Writing an Amiga GUI program in C (05. Oct. 2023)
Edwin van den Oosterkamp has already dedicated two books to programming on the Amiga: "Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction" is an introduction to programming the AmigaOS in C and assembler. The target group are programmers without Amiga experien...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.2.0 (04. Oct. 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). The new version 1.2.0 adds backwards compatibility to AmigaOS 3.9. Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (207 KB) ...

Event: Gameday#2 at Wolfsburg indoor swimming pool (Germany) (04. Oct. 2023)
After the premiere in March, where according to a video also the Amiga was represented in the retro area, the Gameday#2 will take place on October 22nd in the indoor swimming pool Wolfsburg. The retro area is already open from 10am. If you want to exhi...

Introduction: The AMOS game "The Gate" (in development) (03. Oct. 2023)
For quite some time now, we have been reporting on Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's projects such as the Hollywood GUI system HGUI or the Hollywood utility APPBuilder. After G.E.M.Z., the programmer has now again started writing a game, which he has given the p...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for September (01. Oct. 2023)
For the month of September 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link....

AmigaRemix: Further files added (01. Oct. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Scumm Bar Theme Live Performance The Great Bath Live Performance Details Shadow of the Beast (Plains 1) ...

AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.21 (Beta) (30. Sep. 2023)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006). The new beta ...

Announcement: Workbench distribution AmiKit for PiStorm/PiStorm-lite (30. Sep. 2023)
In addition to the existing versions for Raspberry Pi, Windows, Mac and Linux, the workbench distributions AmiKit will soon also be available for the PiStorm and PiStorm-lite (YouTube video). The hardware and software requirements can already be seen unde...

Platform game: Amiga port of Electro Man (30. Sep. 2023)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch - among other things, platform game Tony - is in the process of porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (YouTube-Video). FastRam...

Video tutorial: Advanced menu features in AMOS (29. Sep. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at some of the advanced menu features in AMOS, continuing a video tutorial from last year. The source files for the programme in this video can be down...

DIY: Firmware 1.01 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (28. Sep. 2023)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). With the current version 0.21 of the schematics, all co...

AMOS: Micke project to "Projects in the attic" added (28. Sep. 2023)
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the M...

Emu68 tip: Reducing the speed of the Raspberry Pi (27. Sep. 2023)
Timo Weirich is in the process of setting up a computer museum. He is also working on his Amiga 500, which is upgraded with a PiStorm. Now he has published a tip on how to reduce the speed so that old games (e.g. XJ220) run better or correctly: For s...

Video: Building a ReAmiga 1200, last episode (25. Sep. 2023)
We reported about the first and second and the third and fourth episode of the video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" which builds John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Now the final fifth part is available....

Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", Vol. 3 (24. Sep. 2023)
In 2021, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years", was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. Volume two, "Demoscene - The AGA Years", followed a year later and was dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996. Now the thi...

Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock (24. Sep. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like t...