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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 2.2 (04. Feb. 2022)
At the beginning of October, developer 'jasonsbeer' had announced revision 2.0 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. Now he has released revision 2.2 on his GitHub website, which adds a TICK header with three option...

Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 (02. Feb. 2022)
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide repla...

AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3 (02. Feb. 2022)
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides...

Aracade game: Green Beret released (update) (31. Jan. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine. Basically, the game is not meant to be a 1:1 port. The player is much more "agile", as he can stab from ladders, for exampl). It ...

Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks (31. Jan. 2022)
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he...

Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released (29. Jan. 2022)
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today. Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in...

BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2 (28. Jan. 2022)
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). About the new version 0.8...

Hyperion blog apparently hacked by spammers (26. Jan. 2022)
At the end of 2010, Hyperion had introduced a "developer blog" to inform users about current events around AmigaOS 4. The last official contributions date back to 2017, from then technical director Costel Mincea. Then in November, The Ultimate Guide To On...

Platformer: Status update on 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' (24. Jan. 2022)
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes continues to work on his jump'n run Creeping Me Out: Hex Night, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. Following his Winter update, the developer reports in today's entry on how he's improving much of the current pro...

AROS: Update 6 of 68k distribution Aros Vision (23. Jan. 2022)
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision two times. New are some Shell commands, GUIs for searching, splitting and joining files, extended support for packers, two additional window-related commodities...

Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops (22. Jan. 2022)
The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the...

Game soundtrack: Jaguar XJ220 remix album released (21. Jan. 2022)
After his Turrican remix album, Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann has released the Jaguar XJ220 remix album today. The remixed soundtrack, taken from the Amiga game of the same name, can be purchased as a digital album for 2 Euros (or more)....

Shoot'em up: Fourht demo version of Jackal (20. Jan. 2022)
NeesoGames has released the fourth demo version of its game Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since third demo version: No loading times between the menu and briefin...

RESHOOT PROXIMA 3: Preview of Stage 1 (18. Jan. 2022)
In August last year we reported about a new preview video of the third part of the shoot'em up series RESHOOT PROXIMA 3, which is currently in development. Shortly before Christmas 'AmigaBill' invited the three developers of the game Richard Löwenstein, M...

Retro gaming: Ziggurat Interactive acquires the rights to Rainbow-Arts games (17. Jan. 2022)
Five years ago, Julian Eggebrecht, founder of the legendary development studio Factor 5, explained in interviews (German) that the games company had not only secured the name of the former German publisher Rainbow Arts from the THQ bankruptcy estate, but ...

Arcade ports: Demo version of 'Wonderboy', preview video of 'Final Fight' (17. Jan. 2022)
Wonderboy is to be an Amiga conversion of Sega's arcade classic of the same name. The Amiga version is created with the help of the Scorpion Engine. A now available first demo version, which is called alpha by the developer, runs smoothly from an Amiga 12...

Event: Amiga37 announced (16. Jan. 2022)
Markus Tillmann writes (translation): "After the 2015, 2017 and 2019 events in Neuss, the fourth major German Amiga event will take place in 2022 with Amiga37 Germany. Compared to previous years, however, it will no longer be held in the Rheinisches Lande...

Looking for demand: Zorro II/III graphics card with SAGA (16. Jan. 2022)
At the title link, in the forum of a1k.org, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team) is looking for interest in a graphics card based on the FPGA chipset of the Vampire turbo cards for Amigas with Zorro II or Zorro III slots. In prospect are the known SAGA graphics...

AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision (16. Jan. 2022)
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision four times. Besides a new version of the Hippo Player, a CD-ROM filesystem and further programs regarding CDs, CRC checksums, encoding and decoding, virus prote...

Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Debugging using the Visual Code Extension (15. Jan. 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 (...