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AmigaRemix: Further file added (29. May. 2022)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added: Cream Of The Earth ...

Background: MorphOS running on a Mac Mini G4 (Czech) (26. May. 2022)
Martina Hřebcová is well-known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, the Pegasos I or the PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world. Recently she got a Mac Mini G4 from a colleague...

Accelerator board project: 'Buffee' supports Big Endian (26. May. 2022)
In her latest blog entry Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the accelerator board 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) takes up the topic of Endianness and refutes the thesis that the AM335x processor installed on the Buffee did not support Big Endi...

Puzzle game: Demo version of 'Spheroid' released (26. May. 2022)
About a month ago we were already allowed to test the puzzle game 'Spheroid' written by Andrew Vaisey in Blitz Basic, where you move a metal ball through a maze of tiles to reach the exit within the given time and the maximum allowed number of moves. Diff...

Arcade game 'Jump!': Demo version 1.10 available (25. May. 2022)
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a second demo version (amiga-news.de reported) whic...

Linux: Kernel 5.18 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (25. May. 2022)
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 5.18, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. Additionally, he has compiled ve...

Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Update on Kipper2k project (24. May. 2022)
After an abundant year, the American dealer 'Amiga On The Lake' has published new information about the status of the Kipper2k replacement keyboards for the Amiga 500 and 2000 (amiga-news.de reported): All pre-orders would be expected to be fulfilled...

Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.3 (22. May. 2022)
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract vertical shoot'em up 'SkillGrid' (amiga-news.de reported). Additional to several improvements, version 1.3 offers a new weapon (YouTube video) and for AmigaCD32...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (22. May. 2022)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added: Red Sector Theme (Spacemix) ...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2 (21. May. 2022)
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the f...

Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers (21. May. 2022)
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one i...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01 (21. May. 2022)
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive...

Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project (19. May. 2022)
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project: With the first entry he opens his deve...

Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again (18. May. 2022)
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the sourc...

Video tutorial: Blitz Basic (18. May. 2022)
The Irish Amiga user 'Daedalus2097' has started a tutorial series about Blitz Basic on Twitch. So far there have been two live streams, which you can watch again in retrospect at your leisure: part 1, part 2. AmiBlitz 3 was used as development environment...

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' update (17. May. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). In a short status update, the developer writes that he is in the process of updating the m...

Video tutorial: Bars & Pipes Professional (17. May. 2022)
As the user 'Ricebug' reports in the Amiga Love forum, he has been using Bars & Pipes Professional for many years (see also our article about BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE). He would like to share his experiences with it and has started a correspondin...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released (16. May. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Aracade game: 'Green Beret' May update (16. May. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam. In the May update, the "timeout jet" was also added to the Amiga port, which now no longer allo...

Video review: LAZARUSTORM for PiStorm (16. May. 2022)
In his latest video, Jan Beta has tested the LAZARUSTORM adapter for PiStorm: By the help of this adapter it is possible to externally use a PiStorm accelerator board without having to remove the internal CPU of the Amiga 500....