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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" v0.34 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 (03. Sep. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has re...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.13 (02. Sep. 2022)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

Accelerator board: Buffee developers test TF1200 (02. Sep. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports that due to the existence of a TF1200 by Stephen Leary they are able to test Buffee on the Amiga 1200 as well. Already ...

AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 7 (02. Sep. 2022)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.3 (02. Sep. 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...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2022)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2022 news News: The big...

Newspaper: Guardian article with Amiga 500 picture (01. Sep. 2022)
In the Guardian article "Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop" published today, a picture of an Amiga 500 opens the report about Japan&#8217s Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, who after abolishing the fax now wants to banis...

Emulator: QEMU 7.1.0 released (01. Sep. 2022)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This...

THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V2 (01. Sep. 2022)
"Pandory500" is a "cross-loading" firmware for the THEA500 mini that allows many other emulators and programs to run (YouTube video). It is installed in the form of a WHDLOAD package and exploits a hidden feature of the Amiberry emulator to run native cod...

Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.7.0 (31. Aug. 2022)
Just a week ago we first reported about Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension of 'MickGyver', which provides support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). In the article the developer indicated to us that a merge of both extensions was ...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.5 (31. Aug. 2022)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday vers...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.7 (31. Aug. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The firmware needed for this has been updated several times in the last ...

Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga available (29. Aug. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a new beta version (28.08.2022) was released. Changes: Full game time is 16 fiscal periods New start screen and main menu of...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

Accelerator board: More information on replacement project of Buffee developers (28. Aug. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) addresses the topic of chip shortage and presents the currently pushed "clone projects" in a detailed article (amiga-news.de rep...

Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Last episode of Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial (27. Aug. 2022)
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (...

Book: Volume 3 of "From Vultures to Vampires" announced (update) (27. Aug. 2022)
In a video message the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance announced that the book "From Vultures to Vampires" (amiga-news.de reported), which was originally divided into two volumes, will be extended by a third volume. As he explained, they...

OpenGLES ports: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy (26. Aug. 2022)
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are the third and fourth part of a series of first and third person shooters set in the Star Wars universe. The source code of both games was released years ago, shortly afte...

Database: MUIBase is now BeeBase, version 1.0 available (26. Aug. 2022)
Steffen Gutmann has been maintaining a programmable relational database called MUIBase since 1998, most recently version 4.5 had been released in mid-July. Since the open source program is now available for various other platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)...

Motorola68k emulation: WiFi development for Emu68 paused (25. Aug. 2022)
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website. At the beginning of May the developer had announced to start writing a WiFi drive...