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Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 2 (08. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series (part 1) shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor vers...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.2 (07. Dec. 2022)
After developer Dirk Hoffmann released the first beta version 2.2 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS in mid-November (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released the final version 2.2. Changes: Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash wh...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.9.0 for Windows (06. Dec. 2022)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 1 (06. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published version 2.24.0 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 is used by...

Advent Calendar: Door 6 - Matthias Böcker (06. Dec. 2022)
For St. Nicholas Day and the sixth door, Matthias 'UltraGelb' Böcker has something special for all MorphOS users: especially for our Advent calendar, he has written a wintry Screenblanker module. Already in the early days of amiga-news.de Matthias w...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.5 (06. Dec. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1.3 of the firmware was released today. Changes since 1.1.3: ...

Floppy emulator: GoFloppy (06. Dec. 2022)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already reported about his new floppy emulator project "GoFloppy" on Twitter some time ago (Tweet 1, Tweet 2) and now also found the time to report about it in more detail on his blog: the "GoFloppy" drive is a floppy driv...

Sokoban clone: LazSokoban for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (05. Dec. 2022)
During his work on the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for AROS, in April 2016, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow had also tested some third-party LCL applications to compile for AROS. One of these was the Sokoban clone LazSokoban, written by Ukrainian ...

Advent Calendar: Door 5 - David Brunet (05. Dec. 2022)
Our new Advent calendar week begins with the fifth door and David Brunet. David Brunet is inextricably linked to his French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. The long history of this magazine starts in the mid-1990s: inspired by Christian, a f...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4 (04. Dec. 2022)
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...

Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World" (04. Dec. 2022)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video). Compared to the playable preview from the beginning ...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 1 (03. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor version rewor...

Platform game: Remake of "Boxx" using Scorpion Engine (30. Nov. 2022)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). He also tried to port the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engi...

Platform game: Ami-Tower updated (28. Nov. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 for the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights. The still incomplete version we reported ab...

Platform game: Super Delivery Boy 2022.2 (28. Nov. 2022)
The mini-game "Super Delivery Boy" again has been updated (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Reduced loading times between Menu/Credits and Game/GameOver Added quit option in main menu Adf is now Workbench friendly   Added copper sky and snow fx...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.11.2022 (27. Nov. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: RNOInfoScreen_1.8.lha Audio/Players RNOInfoScreen works as ... RNOTunes_1.0.lha Audio/Players RNOTunes is a GUI based... MultiMeedio_1.4.l...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.11.2022 (27. Nov. 2022)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 26.11.2022: 2022-11-26 improved: Wonderboy (Ac...

Dock: QDock V1.27 (26. Nov. 2022)
At the end of October Sami Vehmaa had published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he constantly develops further (YouTube video). Since our last news item he has added a second row of icons and with the version V1....

Metacompiler: Portabl E r6b (25. Nov. 2022)
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. Another update fixes two bugs of ...

Video: Short tutorial for AMOS Pro (24. Nov. 2022)
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) the retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to create menus for an AMOS program....