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Demo: THE CURE version 1.4 for AGA Amigas (30. Apr. 2022)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has relea...

Apollo Team: Deluxe remake of Menace in development (28. Apr. 2022)
Already in August last year Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), announced the HD conversion of the Menace game for Vampire Amigas with an animated end boss on his homepage (amiga-news.de reporte...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New, experimental firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems (update) (28. Apr. 2022)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with connections beyond that (network, USB, SD cards), which can be pre-ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Now he provides an experimental, new firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems, which fixes ...

Event: Ticket sale for Amiga37 started (27. Apr. 2022)
On October 15 and 16, 2022 in Mönchengladbach (Germany) the Amiga37 will take place (amiga-news.de reported). Now the ticket sales have started. Tickets can be bought on a separate website (title link)....

Kickstart patch for using NTSC Agnus chips on PAL systems (25. Apr. 2022)
At the title link, 'Cathal' has published his project, with the help of which the NTSC version of the 2 MB Agnus custom chip can also be used for PAL systems. However, patching the Kickstart ROM file requires Windows. He writes about it: "In view of ...

Email client: YAM development discontinued (24. Apr. 2022)
The last Nightly Build is almost a year old: As the authors of the Amiga email client YAM now confirmed to us on request, the development has been stopped. The reasons for this are manifold: Basically it became more and more obvious over the years ...

RTG driver: P96 V3.3.0 released (23. Apr. 2022)
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.0 of his RTG driver P96 which among others offers "faster C2P/P2C (for CV3D even hardware-accelerated), new drivers for classic GFX cards like Retina Z2 (the very first one, don't confuse with...

Video test: A600/1200 CF2IDE adapter (23. Apr. 2022)
In his latest video, Chris Edwards tests the new A600/1200 CF2IDE adapter released by RetroRewind, which claims to be "the world's first and only CF2IDE adapter with buffering, which separates a total of 24 signals from the rest of the system." This imp...

Emulator: QEMU 7.0 released (22. Apr. 2022)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 4 (21. Apr. 2022)
Dirk Hoffmann released the fourth beta version of vAmiga 2.0, his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a bug which led to wrong geometry predictions for some HDFs (Adve...

Programming language: 'AMOS Professional Unity' project updates (21. Apr. 2022)
Almost exactly one year ago we reported last time about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's attempt to add new features to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional with 'AMOS Professional Unity'. In the meantime the project has been moved to a new website...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.99a (update) (20. Apr. 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...

Free hardware: Joystick adapter JoyDivision updated (18. Apr. 2022)
The USB adapter for classic joysticks by Stefan 'Develin' Blixth (amiga-news.de reported), which works without additional drivers, is now available in version 20220416. This one now also supports the minicomputer THEA500 Mini....

WHDLoad: New installers until 16.04.2022 (17. Apr. 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 16.04.2022: 2022-04-16 new: Megademo (Sargon) ...

Event: Amiga37 homepage online (17. Apr. 2022)
On 15/16 October 2022 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany (amiga-news.de reported). Now the corresponding homepage has been set up under the title link, but the list of participants is still empty and will be published bit by bit. Adva...

Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version (14. Apr. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schemat...

Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2 (13. Apr. 2022)
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a spe...

Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022 (12. Apr. 2022)
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("No...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.2 (09. Apr. 2022)
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-n...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 3 (update) (09. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the second beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a graphics bug caused by returning an erroneous value...