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Video: Installing and assembling extensions for MiSTer Pi (08. Feb. 2025)
The Mister Pi is an FPGA-based Amiga clone (extensive review) and aims to be a cheaper alternative to the older MiSTer hardware. In a video, a user demonstrates the assembly of the official Mister Pi case and also equips his Amiga clone with a new interna...

A1200NG: New photos of the emulator-based mainboard (05. Feb. 2025)
At the title link AmigaKit has published further photos of its ARM- and emulator-based mainboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported). The latest and probably final revision of the hardware, which corresponds to the Amiga 1200 mainboard in terms of dimensions...

Obligement: Interview with Simon Neumann (Alinea Computer) (05. Feb. 2025)
At the title link, David Brunet has conducted an interview for Obligement with the graduate engineer Simon Neumann, managing partner of the Amiga dealer Alinea Computer and partner of the publisher Look Behind You. In it, he reports that he is able to ...

Spillhistorie: Interview with game designer Steve Meretzky (Infocom) (05. Feb. 2025)
For the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, Joachim Froholt, with the support of Hans Arne Jacobsen, conducted another interview - this time with Steve Meretzky, who designed various text adventures for Infocom, which were then also ported to the Amiga, such...

Review: Checkmate Retro Monitor (03. Feb. 2025)
The Kickstarter campaign initiated by Stephen Jones to fund his Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor was successfully completed at the end of 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). The Lyonsden Blog has now published a review in which, among other things, various conn...

Children's game: New demo version of "The Young Salzgitter Icefighter" (03. Feb. 2025)
New name, new level: the children's game originally called "The Young Icefighter" (amiga-news.de reported) has now been renamed "The Young SALZGITTER Icefighter", as the ice hockey club "Salzgitter Icefighters" has given permission to use the logo and nam...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (02. Feb. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added: Super Twintris (8mix) Flashback - Ending theme ...

AmigaOS 4: VideoVortex - GUI for searching and watching YouTube videos (02. Feb. 2025)
Video Vortex is a graphical user interface for YT.rexx for searching and viewing YouTube videos. YT.rexx is a script that provides direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. VideoVortex, on the other hand, saves the user the cumbersome and tedious ta...

Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban (02. Feb. 2025)
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video)...

Video: Booting from Amiga floppy disk with the A600GS (01. Feb. 2025)
In October, Amigakit released an update for its Linux-based Amiga emulator A600GS that enables the loading of real Amiga disks via DrawBridge. In a video, an A600GS user now demonstrates this exact function: His emulated Amiga 1200 boots from floppy disk ...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.1.0 for Windows (31. Jan. 2025)
The image editor PyDPainter (new video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as eas...

Video: PiStorm68K - Dual 68000 CPU & PiStorm with Physical Switch Demo (update) (29. Jan. 2025)
The PiStorm68k can accommodate any Raspberry Pi of the generations 3 and 4, and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. Using a simple switch, it is possible to switch between the ...

Announcement: New issue of German print magazine Amiga Joker in October 2025 (29. Jan. 2025)
After the revivals of 2017 and 2019, another special issue of the German print magazine "Amiga Joker" is going to be published in October. They are still looking for letters to the editor, picture contributions for the gallery and a few articles. Interest...

Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero 1.1.1 (28. Jan. 2025)
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, the player has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (Video). Version 1.1.1 has just been released. Since the initial version 1.0 in summer 2023, new particles have b...

Amiga-500-Guide: Version 2 of the manual for (re-) beginners (German) (27. Jan. 2025)
Last year Patrick Schwedt wrote a German PDF file with all kinds of tips for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or are starting to use it again after a long time. Version 2 is now available on Aminet, which has been expanded and no...

Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.5 (27. Jan. 2025)
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language, and meanwhile he has gained some progress. He has now released version 0.1.5 with the following chang...

Strategy game: LightTheLEDs (27. Jan. 2025)
Rodrigo Vertulo, who previously published "Skinny Marley" (amiga-news.de reported), now wants to remind Amiga fans of their creative spirit with "LightTheLEDs" and offers an "electrifying challenge" with his new game, in which you have to connect batterie...

Music competition: Winter edition of the Boozedrome (26. Jan. 2025)
On February 22nd, the next Boozedrome will not take place on location in Helsinki, but this time purely on YouTube. Music modules of a maximum length of three minutes and a maximum size of 2 MB that can be played by HippoPlayer 2.45 without additiona...

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive (26. Jan. 2025)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). In this January update, some level graphics were added for the game StarRay and, for comparison, t...

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.9 (26. Jan. 2025)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.9 was released: Driver Performance improvements Add support for AIDE Lideflash Add support ...