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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.8 (01. Jun. 2022)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.8 provides the following changes:
fix: new created files in sub directories which are...
Competition: 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' started (01. Jun. 2022)
Today indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: until September 1st 2022 Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic (amiga-news....
AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20180423-1 (31. May. 2022)
The AROS developer 'deadwood' has released a new version of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). The main feature is the migration from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 6.3.0. The detailed changelog is available under the title link....
Email client: YAM support for AmiSSL 5 in progress (30. May. 2022)
About a month ago we reported that the development of the Amiga email client YAM was discontinued by the previous developer team. Since YAM is an open source project, however, there is the possibility for every interested developer to create an own fork a...
Workbench distribution: AmiKit survey on additional platforms (29. May. 2022)
The Workbench distribution 'AmiKit' is currently available for the target systems Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Vampire V2 (amiga-news.de reported). In a current poll on Twitter the developer wants to know if more systems should be supported and...
Accelerator board project: 'Buffee' supports Big Endian (26. May. 2022)
In her latest blog entry Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the accelerator board 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) takes up the topic of Endianness and refutes the thesis that the AM335x processor installed on the Buffee did not support Big Endi...
Puzzle game: Demo version of 'Spheroid' released (26. May. 2022)
About a month ago we were already allowed to test the puzzle game 'Spheroid' written by Andrew Vaisey in Blitz Basic, where you move a metal ball through a maze of tiles to reach the exit within the given time and the maximum allowed number of moves. Diff...
Arcade game 'Jump!': Demo version 1.10 available (25. May. 2022)
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a second demo version (amiga-news.de reported) whic...
Linux: Kernel 5.18 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (25. May. 2022)
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 5.18, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum.
Additionally, he has compiled ve...
Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Update on Kipper2k project (24. May. 2022)
After an abundant year, the American dealer 'Amiga On The Lake' has published new information about the status of the Kipper2k replacement keyboards for the Amiga 500 and 2000 (amiga-news.de reported):
All pre-orders would be expected to be fulfilled...
Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.3 (22. May. 2022)
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract vertical shoot'em up 'SkillGrid' (amiga-news.de reported).
Additional to several improvements, version 1.3 offers a new weapon (YouTube video) and for AmigaCD32...
WHDLoad: New installers until 21.05.2022 (22. May. 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 21.05.2022:
2022-05-20 improved: Shuttle (Vekt...
Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2 (21. May. 2022)
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the f...
Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers (21. May. 2022)
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one i...
Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01 (21. May. 2022)
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive...
Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project (19. May. 2022)
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project:
With the first entry he opens his deve...
Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again (18. May. 2022)
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the sourc...
Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' update (17. May. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short status update, the developer writes that he is in the process of updating the m...
Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released (16. May. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...
Hollywood Designer 6.0 released (16. May. 2022)
Press release: To celebrate Hollywood's 20th anniversary this year, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with another massive release: This time we are proud to present the brand-new version 6.0 of our famous...
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