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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7 (17. Feb. 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....

Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards (17. Feb. 2024)
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place fro...

Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU (17. Feb. 2024)
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies ...

Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version) (16. Feb. 2024)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bu...

Tool: EmptyADF 1.0 (16. Feb. 2024)
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzyszt...

Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid (16. Feb. 2024)
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate d...

Video tutorial: "Screen Copy" command in AMOS (14. Feb. 2024)
Following on from his last video about screen commands, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the screen commands "Screen Copy", "Screen Hide" and "Screen Show" in another part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro. As always, the source file for t...

Platformer: Playable demo of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA Amigas (14. Feb. 2024)
Three weeks ago, we introduced the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is developing together with his daughter for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Now he has released a playable demo version of the first level (YouTube video)....

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2 (13. Feb. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 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 i...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86) (13. Feb. 2024)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings ...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb V2.6 (13. Feb. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. In this update mainly file usage was improved. Changes: import previously unmountable files on a disk (DD/HD 880KB/1.76...

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1) (13. Feb. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) hav...

Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories: 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschoo...

Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music (12. Feb. 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. She has recently published the following songs: Ultima IV:...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1 (11. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now...

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update) (11. Feb. 2024)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MID...

Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit) (10. Feb. 2024)
The podcast The Retro Hour spoke to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit, about his latest project, the A600GS gaming computer, among other things....

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (10. Feb. 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...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.2 (09. Feb. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). It contains minor bug fixes and improvements as well as a comprehensive hint system in the game that does not spoil anyt...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb runs on Apple Vision Pro (09. Feb. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. In a blog entry, the developer 'mithendal' has now published images that show that and how his emulator works with the Apple...