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New articles on Obligement website (03. Sep. 2024)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News for J...

Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator Action in development (03. Sep. 2024)
After Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre had collected all his previous arcade ports at the end of May and released them for the CD32, he is now working on an Amiga port of Galaga as well as a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action: as an agent, you...

Scala MM conversion: Adventure 2 Remake (03. Sep. 2024)
In preparation for the AmiGameJam 2024, 'grindercowboy' has brought an old classic back to life: he has realised his second text adventure "Adventure 2" using Scala MM, a software for presentations, lectures and video captions. His first version only r...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert v1.5 (03. Sep. 2024)
After Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), he has now also released an Amiga port of the second part, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, which is also intended...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (03. Sep. 2024)
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) 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 ...

Scene World Podcast Episode #196 - Metro Siege (01. Sep. 2024)
In the 196th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team working on the game "Metro Siege", which is intended to run on a vanilla Amiga 500 and to be played online with multiple players - the...

Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man (31. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported)....

Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update) (31. Aug. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Video: AmiKit 12 on a Raspberry Pi 5 (30. Aug. 2024)
Under the title link, Amiga Bill talks to AmiKit developer Ján Zahurančík about his workbench distribution AmiKit 12 and shows how it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. He also gives tips and tricks and talks about the development of the distribution....

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8 (30. Aug. 2024)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released: Bug fixes Performance improvements Speed up initialization on 68000 systems Lidefl...

Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2 (29. Aug. 2024)
pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the...

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update) (28. Aug. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute (28. Aug. 2024)
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on c...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb supports EmuTOS (28. Aug. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or rather a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for Mac OS. Besides the AROS ROM, since August 18 also the Atari-TOS-compatible EmuTOS has been added as a selectable ...

AROS: First test version of Odyssey browser v2.0 (26. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of August, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released a first test version of the 64-bit browser Odyssey for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). In this next test version, the WebKit engine has been updated from August 2015 to February 201...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.8 for Windows (25. Aug. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.7 and 5.0.8 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools V1.19 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Requires Greaseweazle 1.19 New image format: T98-N...

Platform game: Test version 5 of "Dr. Dangerous" (25. Aug. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 5 offers the following changes: ...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (25. Aug. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Full Contact Intro Tyros Edition Planets live performance ...

Video: AmiGameJam candidate Anguish as spiritual successor of Agony (25. Aug. 2024)
Topic of this year's AmiGameJam, which runs until December 1, are sequels to Amiga games from the old days. With a video of the current state of development, Adrian Browne presents his candidate "Anguish" at the title link, which is to continue the g...