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Developer package: DevPack 1.1 (23. Jul. 2021)
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The first version was released at the end of October 2020. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does ...

A2000-Motherboard using the EATX standard: Revision 1.2 is production candidate (22. Jul. 2021)
After the developer 'jasonsbeer' has tested the prototpye of his rebuild of the A2000 motherboard called 'Amiga-2000-ATX', he has set revision 1.2 as production candidate. He wrote: "I am currently running a Supra Wordsync SCSI card, a Commodore A263...

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons: Game conversion technical details (21. Jul. 2021)
In his blog Cracking Stones one of the developers of the game Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (amiga-news.de reported) gives detailed information about how it was technically implemented So far four blog entries have been published: Part 1: Used ...

Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009 (18. Jul. 2021)
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by...

Amiga disks on PC: Pre-orders and name change for Smith's project (17. Jul. 2021)
Robert Smith has renamed his project for reading Amiga disks using a PC disk drive from 'Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer' to 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge). Besides, now it is possible to be placed on a waiting list: Smith sell...

A2000-Motherboard im E-ATX-Formfaktor: Tests des Amiga-2000-ATX-Prototypen (16. Jul. 2021)
After developer 'jasonsbeer' received the commissioned prototype of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', a few days ago, he is now testing it for functionality and possible bugs. He writes: "Over the last two day...

AmigaOS 4: Version 6.8 des Audio-Treibers für Intel HD Audio (15. Jul. 2021)
An update of the new AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 has been released (amiga-news.de reported) which includes the following changes: Output options added (ALL, Line, Front HP, S/PDIF) Added support for S/PDIF output (both RCA and optical) Added support fo...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program A-Copy (14. Jul. 2021)
A-Copy is a program that looks a lot like X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows. It requires the ADF drive hardware, which uses a Teensy USB Development Board as an adapter between PC and floppy drive....

Game Compilation: Ad Cosmos Ex Terra (12. Jul. 2021)
Ad Cosmos Ex Terra is a game compilation for A500 with one MB of RAM. The disc image, which can be downloaded for free or for a price to be determined by the customer, contains the titles 'Lumberjack', 'Pong 4b' and 'Jump Besi Jump' - the first two have b...

Teaser video: Jump'n Run 'Agonman' announced for August (12. Jul. 2021)
'Agonman' is a platform game created with the help of the RedPill development environment. A teaser video announces the release of the title for August. A 68020 and 2 MB of RAM are mentioned as the minimum requirements, while a 68030 and some Fast RAM are...

Puzzler 'Follix' for AGA Amigas released (12. Jul. 2021)
Recently he has updated his puzzle game ArtPazz, yesterday Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has announced the release of his AGA puzzle game Follix. He wrote: "I was 16 when I bought a stock Amiga 1200, in the fall of 1993, finally making the jump from my b...

A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Amiga-2000-ATX (11. Jul. 2021)
The developer 'jasonsbeer' continues to work on his project 'Amiga-2000-ATX' (amiga-news.de reported). 'Amiga-2000-ATX' is a replica of the A2000 motherboard which, unlike the original, uses the E-ATX form factor and thus fits into standard PC cases. Anot...

Event: Interface XXVIII in Kiel (Germany) on 07.08.2021 (11. Jul. 2021)
On saturday, August 7 2021, the retro computer event "Interface" is taking place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. Organised as usual by Vintage Computer Club (VCC), Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and Computer-Club Klausdorf (CCK), further infor...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.12 / Shot'em up in 33 Minutes (Video) (10. Jul. 2021)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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 ...

ALS 1.96/2.0: Screen overlay (09. Jul. 2021)
Recently Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua announced an AGA specialized version of his AMOS Layers system, which he has now released as version 2.0. He also updated the previous version supporting OCS and ECS. He writes: "As recently announced, here is ALS ...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Database entry for Amiga mark updated (09. Jul. 2021)
Already earlier this year, the "Amiga" trademark had been transferred to Amiga Corporation by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with regard to the USA (amiga-news.de reported). However, the USPTO trademarks database still had to be updated. This has be...

Platformer Game: Last demo version of 'Super Delivery Boy' (08. Jul. 2021)
A last demo version of the platformer game 'Super Delivery Boy' (Video) developed with the Scorpion Engine is available under the title link. According to the developer the "expected release date should be somewhere around winter 2021". A boxed edition ha...

Shoot'em Up: Use of the blitter in RESHOOT PROXIMA 3 (07. Jul. 2021)
Ex-"Amiga Joker"-editor Richard Löwenstein is still working intensively on his third shoot'em up. After RESHOOT and RESHOOT R, the title "RESHOOT PROXIMA 3" is currently being developed. The developer regularly informs about the latest progress on hi...

Apollo team: change in staff, new accelerator boards annouced (05. Jul. 2021)
As announced by Apollo team at the title link, Igor Majstorovic, developer of the Vampire accelerator boards, has left the group. On the other hand, Thomas Hirsch returned, the original developer of the former Natami project. The press release mentio...

ALS 1.95: Screen overlay (05. Jul. 2021)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has provided "ALS", the AMOS Layers System, a way to layer individual screens of AMOS Professional, specifying the order, colors and degree of translucency (video). The whole thing is written in AMOS and is therefore available as...