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Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress (20. Oct. 2024)
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or f...

Guides for AmigaOS 4 developers: Kea Campus videos about MUI (20. Oct. 2024)
As part of his membership program "Kea Campus" (amiga-news.de reported), Hans de Ruiter has now completed the videos on cross-compiling AmigaOS 4 programs and started a new series on creating user interfaces with MUI....

Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available. Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: it...

Reshoot Proxima 3: Tin box variant available (20. Oct. 2024)
To celebrate the first birthday of the shoot'em-up game "Reshoot Proxima 3", it can now alternatively be purchased in a metal box, limited to 55 copies and signed, at the title link - optionally also with a USB stick....

Logic game: Untangle V1.1 (20. Oct. 2024)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1) (19. Oct. 2024)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound. He ...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (18. Oct. 2024)
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #4 under the title li...

Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey? (18. Oct. 2024)
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' &#346...

Dungeon Crawler: Demo version of Halloween X released (update) (17. Oct. 2024)
After a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) Sami Vehmaa has now released a demo version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (new Twitch video). A fast AGA-Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required. Update: (06:17, 21.10.24, dr) Demovesion V1.04 is n...

AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.4.1 (17. Oct. 2024)
The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use. The now released version 3.4.1 (video) is ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.10.16 (17. Oct. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.10.16: Reset watchdog wh...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: ADFDiskBox v2 (16. Oct. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layer of the floppy regardless of the format used and stores as much information as possible in a so-called "flux level image" in supercard format (SCP), making it possible to read and write back copy-protec...

Demis Hassabis: Nobel prize winner with an Amiga background (Update) (15. Oct. 2024)
Demis Hassabis was recently honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, the development of AlphaGo, which was the first program to beat a professional Go player, and ...

File system: smbfs 2.22 published for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (15. Oct. 2024)
Olaf Barthel has released the new version 2.22 of the Samba file system smbfs for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x after a break of almost five years and four months of development (amiga-news.de reported about version 2.1). smbfs allows Amiga users to access Win...

Video: How the diskspare.device stores 984KB on a DD disc (14. Oct. 2024)
Robert Smith is currently working on an update of DiskFlashback (amiga-news.de reported) and is currently working on support for the diskspare.device (Aminet link), which is a supplement or replacement for the trackdisk.device, which can be used to format...

Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4 (12. Oct. 2024)
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. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte ar...

Preview video: First level of the game "The Gate" (12. Oct. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on his latest progress in a recent...

APEO - AMOS Professional Executable Optimizer (11. Oct. 2024)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's APEO, which he originally developed for his game "Ring around the World", patches the executable files generated by the AMOS Professional Compiler 2.0 to make them faster. The technical details are included in the manual....

Installing floppy disks on hard disk: JST 7.4 (11. Oct. 2024)
JST can be used to install disk-based games on hard disk using WHDLoad slaves. After a long break - our last news-item dates back to 2002 - the further development of this program, which was first released in 1996, has been resumed in 2017. Today's focus ...

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...