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SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death (25. Nov. 2024)
After Adventure 2 Remake and Beyond a Steel Sky, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a third game project for Scala MM, which he has now submitted for the AmiGameJam 2024 instead of Beyond a Steel Sky: The Angel of Death is based o...

ADF-Blitzer 3.10 (24. Nov. 2024)
Andreas Gouder's program ADF-Blitzer for creating and writing back ADF images has been released in version 3.10. Besides smaller additions, it does now also support German language besides English. Further localizations are not intended. Download: adfb...

Tetris clone: "Tetra Zone" (22. Nov. 2024)
Around eight years ago, Wei-ju Wu published a seven-part series (plus additional episodes) on Amiga hardware programming in C on his YouTube channel. Now he is in the process of writing a Tetris clone called "Tetra Zone" for the AmiGameJam 2024, which imp...

Developer log: Shattering the Magicore 8-color limit (22. Nov. 2024)
In a recent blog entry on his game "Magicore Anomala" (amiga-news.de reported), which is currently in development, developer Dan Salvato explains why the background in the game uses eight colours or less - and how it is still possible to use Copper to cha...

Event: Videos from 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (20. Nov. 2024)
At the turn of the month the 25th Amiga Meeting North took place in Neumünster, Germany. Two videos now show the presentations of Michal Schulz about PiStorm and Emu68 and Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer about new hardware developments....

AROS: Odyssey browser 2.1 (64-bit) released (18. Nov. 2024)
Following the release of version 2.0 of the Odyssey browser for AROS 32-bit (amiga-news.de reported) and a preview of the 64-bit version, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has now released version 2.1 of the browser for AROS (64-bit), Windows and Linu...

Reimplementation of 'Frontier: Elite II'-Intros with browser playback v0.4 (18. Nov. 2024)
In mid-2021, we already reported on Mark Watson's project to recreate the graphics and music of the Frontier: Elite II intro in C and, in the process, to implement improved 3D models (e.g. planetary sky added to the intro) or support for 2 and 4 times the...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (17. Nov. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Ghouls n Ghosts (redubbed) The Amiga Never Dies (Entity Remix) ...

Do it yourself: Ripple IDE update (17. Nov. 2024)
Matt 'LIV2' Harlum's Ripple IDE is an IDE interface for Zorro II based Amiga models (Amiga 2000/3000/4000; amiga-news.de reported). Revision A3 adds a protection circuitry to resist damage when the card is installed the wrong way around....

Video: Installing a DoohicKEY keyboard controller into Checkmate keyboard case (17. Nov. 2024)
DoohicKEY is a keyboard controller replacement for the keyboards that have been most often used for the Amiga 500, those by Mitsumi (amiga-news.de reported). In the video at the title link 'Proteque-CBN' shows its installation into the Checkmate keyb...

Amiga emulator for the web: New features in vAmigaWeb (16. Nov. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The vAmiga-based emulator now offers the following new features: supports run ahead, which is an effective technique to reduce input lag. run ahead is an emulation tech...

Hardware hack: ODROID Linux/Android system in an A500 case (16. Nov. 2024)
In a detailed article, the author of the Amiga 500 USB Keyboard - Leonardo adapter describes how he installed an Android/Linux computer of the ODROID type in his old A500 case. ...

Case modding: Amiga 500 USB Keyboard - Leonardo (16. Nov. 2024)
"Amiga 500 Keyboard - Arduino Leonardo&" is an improved version of Amiga500-Keyboard, it transforms an Amiga 500 keyboard into an USB input device with the help of an Arduino Leonardo. Compared to its predecessor, it offers some new functions such as the ...

Report: My Experiences with the Amiga A1222+ (16. Nov. 2024)
Francis G. Loch develops tools such as PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4 in the C programming language. 20 years after purchasing a MicroA1 and after a long break from OS4, Loch bought an A1222+. In his experience report, he describes his impressions of the...

Internet radio: TuneFinder 1.1b (update) (15. Nov. 2024)
Marcin Spoczynski's TuneFinder enables users to search internet radio stations with various filter options. Results are displayed in a list with detailed station information, and the app includes options to save selections as either a complete PLS playlis...

Preview video: Star (Dust) Wars - Directors Cut (14. Nov. 2024)
Released in 2018, Star (Dust) Wars is a space shooter based on classic pseudo-3D shooters, which is also the first Amiga game from the ...

Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.3 (14. Nov. 2024)
For this year's AmiGameJam, 'pixelplop' is developing a successor to Simon Green's 1993 shareware game Extreme Violence, which now supports four players instead of just two. ...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.12 (14. Nov. 2024)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux that emulates the AmigaOS API and thus enables ports of Amiga applications to Linux or the development of applications that can be compiled for both AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS...

German Amiga Podcast: Issue 19 (13. Nov. 2024)
Issue 19 of the "German Amiga Podcasts" (GAP) reports from the Amiga-Meeting 2024, which celebrated its 25th anniversary....

News from former Amiga partner: QNX SDP 8 free for non-commercial use (update) (12. Nov. 2024)
The Amiga and the QNX real-time operating system have crossed paths twice in their long history: Amiga-owner Gateway 2000 commissioned QNX at the end of 1998 to develop the AmigaOS 5.0 (AmigaSE 1.0) operating system based on the QNX system, before the col...