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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.0.0 (08. Feb. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. After numerous beta versions, he has now released version 1.0.0....

Aracde classic: "Donkey Kong" (06. Feb. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. The game is running on a Amiga 500 (YouTube video)....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.02.06 (06. Feb. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.02.06: RP2040: Fix watc...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) (05. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Ho...

USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update) (05. Feb. 2024)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of test...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.34 (04. Feb. 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...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (04. Feb. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added: Emax/TRSI - Def.loration (Nightwolf 2024 remix) ...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. Feb. 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...

Blog: Limitations of the HAM mode explained on the Hamulet engine (02. Feb. 2024)
Recently, the developer of the game Hamulet - a demo version was included in issue 10 of the English-language Amiga magazine "WhatIFF?" - published a YouTube video that is intended to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept whether a puzzle or platform game cou...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX) (02. Feb. 2024)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on h...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January 2024 (02. Feb. 2024)
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. ...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.0 (01. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the Amiga conversion of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally published by Data East in 1986: the player controls an armed military vehicle and must make his way throu...

Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1 (01. Feb. 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. We asked the developer to tell us about the current stat...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (31. Jan. 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 ...

DIY: Firmware 1.02 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (31. Jan. 2024)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). The now available firmware 1.02 improves the SCSI emula...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga v2.5 (29. Jan. 2024)
After the release of the beta version a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), Dirk Hoffmann has now released the stable version 2.5 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS without any further changes. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is ma...

Amiga Kit: Price of A600GS games console set/OctaMED update (29. Jan. 2024)
As AmigaKit writes to us, the price of the games console has now been set at 119 euros. OctaMED v8 from A-EON Technology is to be bundled with the A600GS. In-house developers have added AHI support to the original 1996 source code for OctaMED. This is the...

Beat 'em up: Final Fight Enhanced (28. Jan. 2024)
'Prototron' has finished his improved implementation of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported), which can be downloaded in the accompanying text of the YouTube video. He expressly emphasises that this is a private projec...

Preview video: "The Lost Pixel" for AGA-Amigas (26. Jan. 2024)
"The Lost Pixel" will be a conversion of the game of the same name by bitmagine Studio for AGA-Amigas. The platformer will be created using the RedPill game construction kit and will offer the following features: 64 colours 4 colours background spri...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 154 (Italian/English) (25. Jan. 2024)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...