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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.16 (25. Jun. 2020)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as som...

Mario clone: Amigo the Fox (alpha version) (23. Jun. 2020)
Erik Hogan's platformer "Amigo The Fox" (video) originally was a port of the old clone of "Mario Brothers" for DOS. Meanwhile the game which was created with the construction kit Scorpion Engine has been reworked avoiding copyright disputes. The game curr...

Programming language: FreePascal 3.2.0 for all Amiga systems (22. Jun. 2020)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 3.2 of the programming language FreePascal for the Amiga. By releasing this version the Amiga integration has been completed. Versions are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS i386/ARM and MorphOS. Sackrow ...

HDMI converter: D520 firmware version 1.2 / Alternative HDMI-520 (21. Jun. 2020)
A firmware update for Thorsten Schubert's external HDMI converter D520 was released which has to be connected to the video port (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New: "Panic Mode". By pressing the button for some considerable time it is possible ...

Launcher: MacLikeDock 3.0 (21. Jun. 2020)
The launcher MacLikeDock imitates the look and the use of the Dock of Mac OS X (amiga-news.de reported) and has been updated this week. Information on changes of version 3.0 are not available. ...

Multiplayer via Internet: AmigaLive 0.983 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) (18. Jun. 2020)
AmigaLive is a "Netplay" client which uses the network support of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE providing multiplayer games via the Internet. Both players contact the AmigaLive server and then can play an Amiga game together or against each other as if they w...

Source codes of MUIMapparium and Leu released, development abandoned (17. Jun. 2020)
Marcus "ALB42" Sackrow has released the source code of some of his Amiga applications on Github, among others his spreadsheet Leu as well as the OpenStreetMap viewer MUIMapparium. In an entry in his blog Sackrow explained that he discontiniued developing ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.15 (13. Jun. 2020)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as som...

Graphics card: Firmware and driver update for ZZ9000 (12. Jun. 2020)
For his graphics card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported) Lukas F. Hartmann has released updates of the firmware and the driver. Version 1.6.2 among others offers improved stability and performance. Changes: Higher stability, esp. with 68060/Cybe...

Full version for download: Nicky 2 (12. Jun. 2020)
After the platform game Nicky Boom, now the successor released in 1993, "Nicky 2", can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. An ADF disk image as well as WHDLoad installer are available. ...

Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson (12. Jun. 2020)
After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell ...

Video: Hans de Ruiter about his stagnant laptop project (11. Jun. 2020)
For a long time there has not been any news about Hans de Ruiter's plans of creating a laptop case for the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). In a video now the developer, well-known for his RadeonHD graphics card drivers, spoke about this project: Acc...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #68 - AGABlaster (09. Jun. 2020)
In issue 68 of the videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the programs AGABlaster (amiga-news.de reported) and AGAConv written by Markus Schordan. AGAConv can convert video files into Commodore's CDXL video format and AGABlaster can then play th...

Tutorial: The game contruction kit "RedPill" (09. Jun. 2020)
Jens Henschel is working on a German tutorial on the game construction kit RedPill. According to the author text is still in a very early stage but is permanently reworked and completed, also based on the feedback of the RedPill developer Peris who in our...

Warp 560/Warp 1260: Firmware Pack 1.008 (08. Jun. 2020)
CS-Lab has released an update of the firmware for the 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes of 'Warp Firmware Pack 1.008': USB/HID keyboard support Composite USB devices support i.e. kbd/mouse receiver in a single USB device Dynamic SD card ...

Amigakit announced datatype system (04. Jun. 2020)
Last year the British retailer Amigakit acquired the rights to the AKDatatypes developed by Andreas Kleinert. In a discussion on amiga.org, Matthew Leaman gives insights into the current stage of development. He also explained that Amigakit is not only go...

CS-Lab: First Warp accelerator boards shipped to testers / Firmware 1.007 (31. May. 2020)
CS-Lab has shipped the first Warp accelerator boards to beta testers. After the Warp 1260 and the Warp 560 - both versions available for 499 Euro without a processor (amiga-news.de reported) - now a Warp 4060 is planned as well. Information...

File manager: MCAmiga 0.5 for all Amiga systems (update) (28. May. 2020)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager similar to Norton and Midnight Commander which additional to the mouse interface can be also completely controlled with the keyboard. MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x...

Arcade classic in 36 kilobytes: Tiny Galaga (27. May. 2020)
After Tiny Invaders, the demo group Abyss has released its second minimalistic clone of an arcade classic called "Tiny Galaga" (video) which is less than 40 kb. ...

AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser Netsurf 3.10 (26. May. 2020)
The web browser Netsurf - and also Chris Young's ReAction-based Amiga port (must not be confused with the SDL version) - is available as version 3.10 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4. Specific AmigaOS changes: Added Page Info icon and window....