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Demoparty: Results of Evoke 2024 (24. Aug. 2024)
Last weekend this year's Evoke demoparty took place. In the competition "Alternative Platforms" the following Amiga productions ranked the following places: 4th place: Konrad Zuses Plankalkül by The Electronic Knights 6th place: Evokaetion by The El...

Shoot'em Up: Demo version of QuasaurusX (23. Aug. 2024)
After "Holy Warrior" (amiga-news.de reported), the latest project from Amiten Games is the shoot'em up "QuasaurusX", a demo version of which has now been released (YouTube video). The player has the task of defending the X-19 sector, which is threatened b...

Text adventure: "Adventure 3" V1.01 (23. Aug. 2024)
For the third and last part of his text adventure series (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has released a small update that fixes a bug with the rope. However, this means that the hammer in the rubbish bin no longer exists because the developer ha...

Video tour of the "ZZAP! Live 2024" (23. Aug. 2024)
Last Saturday, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) hosted the second "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by Fusion Retro Books, the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum (amiga-news.de reported). The YouTube channel "SpectrumNez" now shows the ex...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.19 (22. Aug. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.224 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (21. Aug. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

Platform game: Test version 4 of "Dr. Dangerous" (19. 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 4 offers the following changes: ...

Music tips for the start of the week (19. Aug. 2024)
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. Since our news item, she has published the following pieces: ...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (18. Aug. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added: Jester Medley ...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor v14 (17. Aug. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This wil fix a bug in the game that affected all versions of the game. All users are recommended to install the update....

Adventure: "Geo's Quest" box set (14. Aug. 2024)
Paul Golian's graphic adventures Geo's Quest 2 - In Search of Queen Lorraine and Geo's Quest 3 - Gateway to Nowhere can now be purchased as a box set for 22 euros plus 18 euros shipping to Europe. The colour-printed box and glossy sleeve contain: CD ...

Operating system for the Amiga: Second alpha version of "Serena OS" (13. Aug. 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" and released a second alpha version, which is ...

Puzzle game: AmiBrixx v2.3 for all Amiga systems (12. Aug. 2024)
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert has released version 2.3 of his puzzle game AmiBrixx. The player's task is to eliminate the stones stacked on the board by clicking on groups of the same colour. In doing so, the tiles above fall down and form new groups. The game ends...

MorphOS: Continued GMail support by Iris questionable (11. Aug. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, author of the e-mail program Iris, reports in a forum post at title link, continued support for the American e-mail service GMail is questionable. Programs that are allowed to access this Google service are subject to certai...

Team Hoi: Old sketches of the game Hoi and collection of magazine reports (11. Aug. 2024)
Metin Seven from the Dutch game development group Team Hoi has collected on Archive.org old computer magazine reports on their Amiga and PC games published between 1988 and 1997. Two years ago, he also published five ballpoint pen sketches of the 1992 gam...

Developer log: Core functions of the game "The Gate" completed (10. Aug. 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 now describes the current status of his pr...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.6.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (10. 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 ...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 18 (09. Aug. 2024)
The current issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" once again comprises 48 colour pages and is available in printed or digital form: Video games: RogueCraft, Tony - Montezuma's Gold, Temptations, King & Balloon, TankX, Ami HERO, Doom RPG, Fre...

Event: 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (09. Aug. 2024)
From October 31 till November 3 the 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord will take place in Neumünster, Germany. Details can be found at the title link or in our German news-item....

Text adventure: "Adventure 3" (09. Aug. 2024)
After "Adventure 1" and "Adventure 2", 'grindercowboy' has now released the third and final part of his text adventure series. "Adventure 3" is inspired by "The Hobbit", among other things: the task is to find the three rings of power and destroy them....