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Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development (07. Apr. 2022)
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series (06. Apr. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files,...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98 (06. Apr. 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. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Co...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2 (06. Apr. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as w...

AmiGameJam 2022: The winners (04. Apr. 2022)
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen: 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez. 2nd place: Jean-François Fab...

Overview: The world of non-C operating systems (03. Apr. 2022)
As an online portal, The Register provides news and analysis from the world of technology companies. In a recent article, the authors explore the question of what current commercial operating systems exist that were written before C was invented or that d...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.1 (03. Apr. 2022)
A week ago, version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Now version 3.9.1 fixes some bugs: fixed crash when no source was loaded by default fixed crash when trying to open a second instance of AB3 with "clone wb"-option fixed E...

Chris Hülsbeck songs: Album "Piano Collection II" released (03. Apr. 2022)
Patrick Nevian is a hobby programmer responsible for games like Ambermoon Arcade or the 'Tales of Gorluth' series. He first combined his hobby and his profession as a music producer and pianist in 2008, when he interpreted songs from various Amiga games o...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10 (02. Apr. 2022)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday the new firmware version 1.10 was released providing the fol...

Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 Update 3 (31. Mar. 2022)
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb is based on vAmiga for Mac OS and runs in the web-browser and as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on mobile devices, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). Despite the rather small update suggested by its version number, it...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.1 (31. Mar. 2022)
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak has now written 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle. This is cur...

Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress ITX (30. Mar. 2022)
Recently we reported about an expansion for mounting the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 1200 case, called MiSTress 1200. Now there is also a conversion kit, MiSTress ITX, for mounting the MiSTer FPGA into an ITX/Micro ITX PC case. The MiSTress...

Sound module: First batch of ZZ9000AX is delivered (29. Mar. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday it was announced that the first batch is shipping now, which was originally planned for January already. Interested users who order no...

Analysis: PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world (Czech) (29. Mar. 2022)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex or the Pegasos I. Now she takes Amiga users on a discourse about the PPC architecture used in Amiga...

Blog: Installation of AmiKit on Windows/macOS and Raspberry Pi (28. Mar. 2022)
The blog Epsilon's World shows in its latest entry how to install the recently released AmiKit XE 11.6.1 on Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. In a previous article the author already described how to install AmiKit XE 11.5 on a Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi 400....

MorphOS: Web-browser Wayfarer 3.2 (27. Mar. 2022)
By version 3.2 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web-browser Wayfarer, support of WOFF/WOFF2 fonts has been implemented and, besides fixes of a few minor quirks, the support of ligatures has been improved. Wayfarer requires MorphOS 3.16 and at least 1&...

ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.5 (27. Mar. 2022)
In the course of reporting on updates of various tools from Unsatisfactory Software, we had also mentioned Avalanche for the first time, a graphical user interface created with ReAction for the unarchiving tool XAD. Now Chris Young has released version 1....

Amiga Addict available from newsagents in England, Irland, USA, Australia soon (26. Mar. 2022)
Print magazine Amiga Addict is anouncing on Twitter that the English publication will soon be available from more than 300 newsagents in the United Kingdom as well as in selected stores in the USA, Irland, and Australia. The current 11th issue featur...

THEA500 Mini: 'Citadel' and user manual available (26. Mar. 2022)
Starting April 08, interested users can purchase the THEA500 Mini (in North America only on May 31). If you want to shorten the time until then, you can already study the user manual. Furthermore, the first game of the Bonus USB Games Pack has been rel...

A-EON confirms lack of an AmigaOS 4 license (25. Mar. 2022)
A few days ago, Alinea announced that the X5000 was back in stock. Their listing of a complete system includes a digital copy of AmigaOS 4, but according to a former Hyperion manager, A-EON no longer has a valid AmigaOS 4 license - which br...