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Platformer: First demo version of Phantom Leap (14. Mar. 2025)
HooGames 2017 is currently working on several projects: after a first preview video of a Zelda-like game (amiga-news.de reported), a first demo version of the platformer "Phantom Leap" (video) developed with the Scorpion Engine was released today: in typi...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.0 (14. Mar. 2025)
Version 3.10.0 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, he has put a lot of effort into the stability of the overall package and fixed many bugs. The changes at a glance: PED fixed ...

DiagROM 2.0 Alpha and (German) Tutorial for usage of the DiagROM (12. Mar. 2025)
DiagROM is a diagnostic software that is burned into an EPROM by the user and then replaces the regular Kickstart ROM of an Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The alpha version 2.0 has now been released at the title link. At the same time, Domingo Fivoli ...

3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.106 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x (11. Mar. 2025)
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.106 since the last news upd...

Project introduction: Floppy disk reader for AmigaOS 4 (10. Mar. 2025)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has adapted Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (amiga-news.de reported) for reading Amiga floppy disks with the help of an Arduino board so that it can now also be used under AmigaOS 4 (GitHub project page). Above all, he had to...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 03/25 of "Ecliptic" (10. Mar. 2025)
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 fifth demo has been released for ...

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft 1.5 (10. Mar. 2025)
The Rogue-like game Roguecraft (video, amiga-news.de reported) has been updated to version 1.5, providing the following changes: There is now a Highscore screen. The high scores are saved when exiting the Highscore screen after Game Over or completi...

Logic game: Untangle V1.2 (07. Mar. 2025)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.9 (06. Mar. 2025)
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source c...

Linux: Kernel 6.12.17 LTS for X1000/X5000 (06. Mar. 2025)
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.17 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Newly added is the support for Renesas xHCI controllers with firmware, in return Kexec is ...

Photos and video of the special exhibition "40 years of Amiga" in Karlsruhe (02. Mar. 2025)
As reported, a special exhibition "40 years of Amiga" can be visited on Saturdays in Karlsruhe (Germany). An illustrated short report from the vernissage on January 10 can now be seen at the title link, and a video recording of Petro Tyschtschenko's speec...

Real-time strategy: First early demo version of "King Arthur's Campaign" (28. Feb. 2025)
After its train simulator "Trans-Pennine Express" (amiga-news.de reported), 'lifeschool' has started a new project: a real-time strategy game with some "Defender of the Crown" influences. The playing field in "King Arthur's Campaign" can be seen from a bi...

Run'n Gun: Demo update of "Operation Steel Rain" (28. Feb. 2025)
"Operation Steel Rain" is supposed to become a Run'n Gun for AGA Amigas, developed with the help of the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The updated demo version includes the following changes: Aiming control: Not exactly what I really wante...

Demo scene: Results of Boozedrome 2025 (26. Feb. 2025)
As reported, this year's Boozedrome music competition has been an online event. On the first three places are Megapussi - Myrskylinnun Hulluta, Gabbapappa - The New Generation Of Music and Furious - Party People, the video of all participants is available...

Frode Solheim is continuing to develop FS-UAE (25. Feb. 2025)
The Amiga emulator FS-UAE and its associated launcher is a platform-independent version of UAE for Windows, Mac OS X and numerous Linux and BSD variants. The last version of FS-UAE & Launcher, version 3.1.66, was released on 3 January 2022. Now Frode Solh...

Game for kids: Final demo version of "The Young Salzgitter Icefighter" (24. Feb. 2025)
After several preliminary demo versions and a new name (amiga-news.de reported), the final demo version of the children's game "The Young Salzgitter Icefighter" has now been released, in which the first two levels can be tested. The complete game with ...

Shoot'em Up: Demo update for "Rex and the Galactic Plague" (24. Feb. 2025)
"Rex and the Galactic Plague" (video) is a vertically scrolling shooter that the developer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before switching to the Scorpion Engine. After a preview video (amiga-news.de reported) and the f...

Video series: AmigaOS - A Project with Sina & Paddy (German, part 10) (24. Feb. 2025)
In a German video series, Paddy da Linco and the developer Sina explore the Amiga (...

Emulated Amiga: OctaMED 8 update for A600GS and A1200NG (24. Feb. 2025)
AmigaKit has released an update for the music tracker software OctaMED 8 for the Orange Pi based Amiga clone A600GS (amiga-news.de reported) and the ARM and emulator based mainboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported). The changes: The Open Recent Proje...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.0 (23. Feb. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann has released the final version 4.0 (amiga-news.de reported) of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS with the following changes: Enhancements: LZ4 snapshot compression Improved gamepad detection Fehlerbehebungen: ExtendedADF s...