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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 7 (02. Sep. 2022)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.3 (02. Sep. 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...

Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.7.0 (31. Aug. 2022)
Just a week ago we first reported about Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension of 'MickGyver', which provides support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). In the article the developer indicated to us that a merge of both extensions was ...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.5 (31. Aug. 2022)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday vers...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.7 (31. Aug. 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). The firmware needed for this has been updated several times in the last ...

Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga available (29. Aug. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a new beta version (28.08.2022) was released. Changes: Full game time is 16 fiscal periods New start screen and main menu of...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.24.0 Release Candidate 1 (28. Aug. 2022)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki provides the first release candidate 1 for version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1, which should make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. ...

Accelerator board: More information on replacement project of Buffee developers (28. Aug. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) addresses the topic of chip shortage and presents the currently pushed "clone projects" in a detailed article (amiga-news.de rep...

Book: Volume 3 of "From Vultures to Vampires" announced (update) (27. Aug. 2022)
In a video message the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance announced that the book "From Vultures to Vampires" (amiga-news.de reported), which was originally divided into two volumes, will be extended by a third volume. As he explained, they...

OpenGLES ports: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy (26. Aug. 2022)
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are the third and fourth part of a series of first and third person shooters set in the Star Wars universe. The source code of both games was released years ago, shortly afte...

Turn-based space strategy: Imperium Terranum 2.820 (24. Aug. 2022)
The source code of the turn-based space strategy game Imperium Terranum 2 was ported from Pascal to C. 'fook42' continues to update and improve this port. After a longer break (amiga-news.de reported), now version 2.820 is available. Changes: Multipl...

Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of shoot 'em up "ACE" (23. Aug. 2022)
The Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported) runs until November 1, 2022. In a small series we present game projects that are currently being developed for this competition. So in the first article we presented the games "Deathmine" and "Capaci...

Preview video 3: Temptations port for CD32 (22. Aug. 2022)
The developer 'S0Y' is primarily dedicated to converting games to the Amiga platform using the game construction kit RedPill. After his Abu Simbel Profanation project, he has now begun the conversion of Temptations, a platform game originally published fo...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.6 (21. Aug. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.133 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (20. Aug. 2022)
Parallel to new 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 latest ker...

Preview video 5: Jump'n Run "L'Abbaye des Morts" (19. Aug. 2022)
The developer 'UltraNarwhal', among others Duckstroma, has released another recent recording of its in development extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (amiga-news.de reported). Like Duckstroma, the Jump'n Run is written with the Scorpion Engine....

Video review: BFG9060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000/4000 (19. Aug. 2022)
'Wrangler Amiga' tests in a YouTube video the accelerator board designed by Matthias Heinrichs for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T) (amiga-news.de reported)....

Editor: MUI-Vim V8.2.4424 for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS (18. Aug. 2022)
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the featu...

AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 6 (18. Aug. 2022)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas...