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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 169 - preview and excerpts (26. Jun. 2024)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 169 (July/August 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes several reviews - e.g. of Hollywood Designer 7.0 - and a special about power supplies for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200. ...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic" (26. Jun. 2024)
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a third demo has been released for ...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.3.0 (24. Jun. 2024)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.3.0 among others offers testcases and base index addressing: ...

Video: Building a disc cleaning station, part 1 (24. Jun. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has a special idea for the Kickstart event taking place next weekend: he wants to develop a station for cleaning floppy discs. Some floppy discs cannot be read because the magnetic material has become detached from the disc or a layer ...

Text adventure: "Adventure 2" v1.12 (24. Jun. 2024)
After "Adventure 1" (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has also updated his second text adventure (amiga-news.de reported): visible exits have been added to the room descriptions. Bugs had already been fixed and more verbs added in previous updates...

Text adventure: "Adventure 1" v0.9 (22. Jun. 2024)
At the beginning of January, 'grindercowboy' published his text adventure "Adventure 1" as a feasibility study (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has made a finished version of this game available, which is based on a short story he wrote about 30 years ago...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.17.1 (22. Jun. 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...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.0.5 for Windows (22. Jun. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.5 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Requires Greaseweazle 1.17 New disc formats: apple2.appledos.140, ...

Video: Modernising a standard A1200 (21. Jun. 2024)
In two videos, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he modernise a standard A1200 to some degree. In the first video, the following is installed: A1200.net case A1200.net keycaps OS 3.2 ROMs Internal CF card with OS 3.2 on it Real time c...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.30.4 Release Candidate 1 (21. Jun. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published a first release candidate of version 2.30.4 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is u...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.3 and 6.3.3 (preview) (20. Jun. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7 for Windows, Linux and macOS (20. Jun. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (new YouTube video). The new version offers improved Live Analyser, jump table support and reduced iter...

Petro Tyschtschenko: Brand representative for "Grundig" bicycles (19. Jun. 2024)
Like other traditional German brands, also "Grundig" is now used by other companies. For e-bikes, for example. Former Commodore Germany manager and Amiga Technologies managing director Petro Tyschtschenko is now promoting the latter as a brand representat...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.4 for Windows, Mac and Linux (19. Jun. 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...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.7 for all Amiga systems (17. Jun. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.7: some small cosmetical fixes were done improved tooltips ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.39 (17. Jun. 2024)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requ...

Twin-stick shooter: Cecconoid available (update) (16. Jun. 2024)
In addition to the boxed edition, starting to be available from tomorrow, the download version of Cecconoid is now also available at the title link. The game is "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the ...

Creating and reading disk images: Disk Jockey V3.4 for macOS (14. Jun. 2024)
At the end of March, we reported on Jean-Michel Durand's "Disk Jockey" (DJ), with which you can easily create and analyse (Disk-O-Matic) disc images for retro computers and emulators under macOS 10.13 to macOS 14. After version 3.0, he continued to work o...

Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.47 for Linux, macOS and Windows (13. Jun. 2024)
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, re...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...