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Operating system for the Amiga: Third alpha version of "Serena OS" (28. Dec. 2024)
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" (amiga-news.de reported) and released a th...

Plattformer: Rastan demo 0.33 (26. Dec. 2024)
Rastan was released to the Arcades in 1987 by Taito. Version 0.33 of the Amiga port being developed with Scorpion is now available, in which level 1-1 has been revised: The background images are more closely based on those of the arcade machine, there are...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.0 (26. Dec. 2024)
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS 11 or newer. After several beta versions, the final version 3.0 is now available. Compared to the beta releases, the emulation of the PCI extension Prometheus has been added and a bug when switching between PAL and NT...

Merry Christmas! (24. Dec. 2024)
Dear Amiga friends, as the festive season gets into full swing, we look back on the past year – a year full of nostalgia and creative projects in the Amiga world. From refreshing games and practical hardware to lively events, the Amiga has contin...

Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released (24. Dec. 2024)
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with an integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The program offers full MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. About a year after the last update, ASM-Pro has now been brought up to version 1.21. The chan...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.0 (24. Dec. 2024)
Jacek ‘jacadcaps’ Piszczek has published version 9.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.5 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, several libraries (cURL, tasn, xml2, nghttp2) have been updated ...

Action game: Amiga Yoomp! released (23. Dec. 2024)
In contrast to Marek Duda's realisation of the game Yoomph!, originally written for the Atari, which he called "Jump!" and which is written explicitly for AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported), Zbigniew Ross' aim was to see how the game could be made to run...

Train simulator: Trans-Pennine Express (23. Dec. 2024)
At the beginning of 2024, 'lifeschool' had already published a full-motion video (FMV) game with the racing game "Jari-Matti Rally" (amiga-news.de reported). Now he is following up with the train simulator "Trans-Pennine Express", a game based on the same...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga v3.0b3 (23. Dec. 2024)
Starting with version 2.6.1, developer Dirk Hoffmann made changes to the internal architecture of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS with the aim of porting the new emulator architecture of VirtualC64 v5.0 to vAmiga in order to enable features such as Ru...

Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.0.1 with MorphOS version (2nd update) (22. Dec. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong's chat software AmigaGPT is based on ChatGPT. Version 2.0.0 replaces ReAction by MUI 5 (with compatibility to MUI 3), is completely compatible to AmigaOS 3.1 now and exists now also natively for MorphOS. Furthermore the la...

Arcade game: Santatron 2024 1.04 (22. Dec. 2024)
John Girvin's arcade shooter Santatron, in which you have to save Christmas from commercial terror, fixes minor bugs in version 1.04 - including one that caused the game to hang. The programmer blames the Grinch....

Video: Preview of Worms DC 1.5 levels by Eric W. Schwartz (22. Dec. 2024)
The game "Worms: Director's Cut 1.5" will be released for its 30th anniversary. This update will also include six levels contributed by the well-known Amiga artist Eric W. Schwartz, which can be seen at the title link....

Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust! (20. Dec. 2024)
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. In it he gives an outlook on the numerous Amiga events already announced for the coming year, but also looks back on this year's Amiga meetings. He also anno...

Sokoban variant: Ami Robbo 2, Physical Edition (19. Dec. 2024)
A "Physical Edition" of the Sokoban variant Ami Robbo 2 (video) released in the summer is available from the Polish magazine "Komoda & Amiga plus". For 28 euros (including tax) you get a "sturdy", presumably unprinted box with a "sleeve" in the "Ami Robbo...

Boing Attitude interview with Oliver Roberts now in English (18. Dec. 2024)
The November issue of French "Boing Attitude" magazine contained an interview with Oliver Roberts (Warp-Datatypes, IBrowse, AmiSSL, AmigaOS 4). Now it is also available in English at the title link....

Christmas game: Santas Present Drop 4 (18. Dec. 2024)
Following three previous parts, Rob Smith continues his AMOS-programmed christmas games series with "Santas Present Drop 4". This time four leading elves of Santa's toy factory have been kidnapped and have to be rescued....

Game: Update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut (17. Dec. 2024)
The Electric Black Sheep team has submitted an update for the game "Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut" (amiga-news.de reported). The T-Fighters' collisions with obstacles were corrected and a bug in the menu was fixed. The keys F1 to F10 and 0 to 9 ca...

Game remake: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10 (16. Dec. 2024)
'pixelplop' is currently developing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, released by Simon Green in 1993, for this year's AmiGameJam. The new game supports four instead of just two players (a-news.de bamiga-news.de reported). In the current...

MOD player: rePlayer v0.16.8 for Windows (16. Dec. 2024)
The new version 0.16.8 of rePlayer, Arnaud Nenys' versatile audio player for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), offers Amiga fans and music enthusiasts a wealth of convenient features and some major updates. The tool, originally developed to play Amiga mus...

Windows/Linux/Mac OS: AmigaBASIC Music demo adapted for QB64-PE (15. Dec. 2024)
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder writes (translation): "Yesterday version 4.0.0 of the programming language QB64-PE (Phoenix Edition) was released [a QuickBASIC reimplementation for Windows, Linux and Mac OS; editor's note], on which, among others, I have be...