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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4 (04. Dec. 2022)
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...

Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World" (04. Dec. 2022)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video). Compared to the playable preview from the beginning ...

AROS distribution: AROS One 1.9 (x86) (04. Dec. 2022)
The distribution "AROS One", based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 1.9 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of November (04. Dec. 2022)
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link....

Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team (04. Dec. 2022)
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a re...

Mastodon client: Amidon in development (04. Dec. 2022)
After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, one or the other Amiga and retro enthusiast is thinking about either using the microblogging service only to a limited extent or, as for example announced by Jan Beta, leaving it altogether: either to set up ...

Puzzle game: Wood Block Puzzle (04. Dec. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' - known among others for his platform game Ami-Tower or the farming simulation Farmiga - has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic: In terms of design, the...

Advent Calendar: Door 3 - Joerg van de Loo (03. Dec. 2022)
For the third door of our advent calendar, developer Joerg van de Loo took a lot of time. His main Amiga-side project is the text editor BareED. Unlike other editors, BareED is a RAM-based and pixel-oriented (not character-oriented) text editor for the Am...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 1 (03. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor version rewor...

Advent Calendar: Door 2 - Daniel Jedlicka (02. Dec. 2022)
Behind the second door with the initials "DJ" of our advent calendar, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has prepared a story for us. The AmigaOS 4 developer is best known for his recently developed audio editor Rave, but he has been involved in AmigaOS 4 for much ...

CD32 adventure game: Wrong Way Back (01. Dec. 2022)
Richard Perrin is a former indie game developer who wrote, among other things, the science fiction adventure game The White Chamber (Wikipedia entry). In his spare time, he continues to develop adventures for retro systems. As he explains to us, he never ...

Advent Calendar: Door 1 - Achim Kern (01. Dec. 2022)
Our Advent Calendar is opened by Achim Kern, who is known for various Hollywood applications with his label KeHo Software. Besides various games like Balloons or Mars Tank Attack, he mainly dedicates himself to his SmartHome project for the automation of ...

Arcade-Action: Turbo Santa Deluxe Edition 2022, Highscore competition (01. Dec. 2022)
At the end of last year, Nivrig Games released the arcade action game "Turbo Santa" (YouTube video), which is based on Turbo Tomato he also wrote. Now he has released a Deluxe Edition 2022 of his Christmas game, which has been rebalanced and now also feat...

Platform game: Remake of "Boxx" using Scorpion Engine (30. Nov. 2022)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). He also tried to port the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engi...

WSL for Windows 10/11 generally available (29. Nov. 2022)
As Microsoft explains in a developer book entry, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 in the Microsoft Store, having previously held "Preview" status. This means that it is now easier for users and develop...

DIY: V2.2 of RGBtoHDMI adapter for Amiga 2000 (28. Nov. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings had summarized the development status regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter at the end of January 2022, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the Amiga-VideoSlot-RGBtoHDMI adapter for...

Platform game: Ami-Tower updated (28. Nov. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 for the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights. The still incomplete version we reported ab...

Platform game: Super Delivery Boy 2022.2 (28. Nov. 2022)
The mini-game "Super Delivery Boy" again has been updated (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Reduced loading times between Menu/Credits and Game/GameOver Added quit option in main menu Adf is now Workbench friendly   Added copper sky and snow fx...

AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub websites updated (28. Nov. 2022)
George 'walkero' Sokianos again has updated the script to correctly display GitHub websites with the browser Odyssey: Now you will find an URL under the assets of a release where nothing was visible....

Blog: ZZ9000 and ZZ9000AX in an Amiga 2000 (28. Nov. 2022)
As usual, Epsilon reports in detail and with numerous pictures about Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 graphics card and the ZZ9000AX sound card available for it in the latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World"....