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Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 3 and 4 (24. Jul. 2023)
In the first part of his video series on repairing an A590, Robert Smith looked at the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM, the second partsecond part is all about the hard disk. In the third part (YouTube video) of the series, a Blue SCSI V2...

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.32 (24. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. A few days ago, we reported on the demo version of the Amiga port which is currently in development. The demo now was updated to version 0.32. Changes: Fixed: Jumping, swinging and then trying...

LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor (24. Jul. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000....

AmigaRemix: Further files added (23. Jul. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Venus the Flytrap Arabian Nights - Egyptian Style Intro STAG 2 Details Hoi intro remix ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15 / Firmware 1.4 (23. Jul. 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...

Event: Proposals wanted for the Community Award of the Amiga38 (23. Jul. 2023)
On October 6/7 the Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). During this event the recipients of the "Community Award" will be voted again - this time divided into the three categories Hardware, Software/Games and Other. Sugg...

Game Jonathan: Research in "Kronstadt" mentioned by Memminger Zeitung (German) (23. Jul. 2023)
In 2018/19 Markus Steffan went on a search for clues in "Kronstadt", the city of the game Jonathan (German Wikipedia entry), which is based on the city of Memmingen (Germany) and was released in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported in German)...

Platform game: Early version of "Jack In The Pit" (23. Jul. 2023)
For the AmiGameJam 2022 and the KiwiJam 2023, "Jack In The Pit" was written in 48 hours (YouTube video): the platform game "combines a short length with a sharply increasing difficulty curve. It also features a wide variety of vertical parallax effects to...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1 (22. Jul. 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). Changes: Now supports characters from Western languages other than English Blank responses from OpenAI no lon...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23 (21. Jul. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian w...

Video tutorial: Blitz Basic (20. Jul. 2023)
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more"....

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1 (20. Jul. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Added Now the Genre list is populated from the iga...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS (19. Jul. 2023)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his se...

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31 (19. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.3...

AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86 (18. Jul. 2023)
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item: Recognises a transaction as existing if there are many spaces in a row in the reas...

AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38 (18. Jul. 2023)
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to pr...

Arcade port: Pengo released (17. Jul. 2023)
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees...

AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users (16. Jul. 2023)
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public. As he tells us, a lot of work went int...

Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued (16. Jul. 2023)
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his...

Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...