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History: Commodore's hardware plans (11. Mar. 2022)
The Commodore International Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history of Commodore International. Recently, they published photos provided by Robert Miranda on their Twitter channel, which once again show the planned further development of...

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' officially licensed by Amiga Corporation (09. Mar. 2022)
Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore Mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although there are still 18 days left to reach the funding goal of 78,000 Euros, almost 74,000 Euro...

Shadow puppet conversion: 'Bad Apple' (08. Mar. 2022)
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known for the in-development fantasy shooter Project Quest among others, has released an update to their 'Bad Apple' AMOS conversion. 'Bad Apple!!' is originally a nearly one and a half minute music track by Japanese game...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (06. Mar. 2022)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Troddlers Main theme - Live performance Obliterator - Live Performance Wrath of the Demon Title ...

AmigaOS 4: Status update on audio editor 'Rave', part 3 (05. Mar. 2022)
In mid-April 2021, developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka first reported on the current development status of his audio editor "Rave" in his blog Rear Window. In the second part of his developer diary he told about further progress in the sample editing featu...

THEA500 Mini: Mini Joypad and Mini Mouse separately available (05. Mar. 2022)
Besides the possibility to get a new Commodore Maus 1352 by participating in the 'Tank Mouse' Kickstarter campaign (wireless), which was announced a few days ago, you can now also pre-order the 2-button USB mouse and 8-button USB gamepad (each with cable)...

AmigaOS 4: Bugfixed Hollywood plugin hURL 1.2 (03. Mar. 2022)
In mid-November last year hURL 1.2 was released, the multiprotocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood with SSL support. As Andreas Falkenhahn reports in the Hollywood forum, the version for AmigaOS 4 had some debug outout, so he asks to download the plugi...

AROS: Shell command for AxRuntime (03. Mar. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "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 we...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 0.39 / Firmware 1.1 (02. Mar. 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 article on Obligement website (02. Mar. 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. January/February 2022 news. Old ar...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1 (01. Mar. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Video: Amiga game classics under AmigaOS 4 (28. Feb. 2022)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin shows in his latest YouTube video how some old great Amiga classic games (released around the 2000s) work natively (without UAE, but with Petunia) under today's AmigaOS4 and on today's AmigaOS4 hardware. This test was done with his be...

Arcade port: 'Scramble 500' released (26. Feb. 2022)
A few days ago we already reported about Jean-François Fabre's new project: the port of the shoot'em-up classic Scramble (video). Now the developer has released his game (adf file) on itch.io. Since, as he explained to us, he was able to fix the last bugs...

French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 3 (26. Feb. 2022)
'Boing' is a French print magazine published by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL). The third issue has 52 pages in A4 format and includes a report from AmiWest, a review of the use of the Amiga in video production and tests of 'The Shadow...

Kickstarter campaign: Bluetooth remake of Amiga mouse (25. Feb. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis has started a Kickstarter campaign for a wireless remaking of the Commodore Maus 1352. His 'Tank Mouse' is outwardly based on the original, but incorporates modern technology: the Tank Mouse is a wireless optical mouse that...

Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Maria Renard's Revenge', Beat'em Up 'Double Dragon' (25. Feb. 2022)
'Maria Renard's Revenge' (Video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania, is developed using the Scorpion Engine. It comes from the same team that has announced a remake of 'Rick Dangerous' recently. The Beat'em Up 'Double Dragon' (Video) is also done ...

Playable prototype: Castlevania clone 'Akumajou Dracula' (AGA) (24. Feb. 2022)
'Akumajou Dracula' (Video) is going to be a port of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania. The game is developed using the Scorpion Engine, a newly released prototype contains the entire first world right up to the end of level boss....

Aracade game: 'Green Beret' update (23. Feb. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The recent update provides the following changes: Added the missing songs (Stage clear cut scene, an...

Preview video 26: Souverän Soccer (23. Feb. 2022)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). According to the developer, "the game still runs on a standard A1200 without turbo card and...

Arcade conversions: Amidar500 and MsPacman 500, Preview video of Scramble 500 (21. Feb. 2022)
After his Pacman port released in September, Jean-François Fabre seems to have taken a liking to the conversion of old Aracde games: In the meantime, with Amidar500 (video) and MsPacman 500 (video) further Amiga versions of Pacman clones from the early ei...