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Real-time strategy: Command & Conquer is ported to the Amiga (06. Feb. 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. Now, as a contribution to the AmiGameJam, he has started to port the...

Apollo-Team: Apollo V2 Accelerators Support Statement (06. Feb. 2022)
Press release: Dear V2 users, Apollo V2-series have been an extremely successful and hugely loved Amiga accelerator since 2014. Vast amounts of Amiga’s were resurrected from a lonely existence in the attic by “Vampirising” with the ...

Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 (02. Feb. 2022)
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide repla...

AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3 (02. Feb. 2022)
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides...

Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released (29. Jan. 2022)
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today. Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in...

BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2 (28. Jan. 2022)
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). About the new version 0.8...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.1 (26. Jan. 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 ...

AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas' (24. Jan. 2022)
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support. With the help of PatchCompositeTags the ga...

Hollywood plugin: Iconic 1.0 released (23. Jan. 2022)
Press release:: In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for...

Graphics card: Presale of ZZ9000 for ninth batch (22. Jan. 2022)
In his online shop, Lukas F. Hartmann has updated the item describtion of the graphics card ZZ9000 which now says: "Parts for all cards sold so far (Batch 8) are in stock and production is in progress. We have reopened pre-sales for Batch 9 which we expec...

Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops (22. Jan. 2022)
The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the...

RESHOOT PROXIMA 3: Preview of Stage 1 (18. Jan. 2022)
In August last year we reported about a new preview video of the third part of the shoot'em up series RESHOOT PROXIMA 3, which is currently in development. Shortly before Christmas 'AmigaBill' invited the three developers of the game Richard Löwenstein, M...

Trevor Dickinson on: A1222+/Enhancer V2.x/From Vultures to Vampires Vol 2 (13. Jan. 2022)
In response to our inquiry, Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) provided a brief summary of the current status of some projects: A1222plus motherboard Hardware works as expected, including network and audio DVD drive support still problematic at the moment ...

AmigaOS 4: 'Lite XL' editor 1.16.12.7 (12. Jan. 2022)
At the end of last year, George Sokianos had announced with the release of version v1.16.12.3 that he had started porting the editor 'Lite XL', which originates from the Linux world (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he released the for the time being la...

Vertical shooter: Amiga port of 'Knightmare' released (update) (11. Jan. 2022)
The musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the final version of his amiga version of the game 'Metal Gear' last year (amiga-news.de reported). Also originally written for the MSX and published by Konami was the vertically scrolling shooter Knig...

Sokoban clone: Astro Blox Revisited downloadable for free (10. Jan. 2022)
Astro Blox Revisited, a variant of Sokoban and basically a 'deluxe' edition of Robert Szacki's Astro Blox, had been released in 2020 at the Polish retro event Decrunch 2020 as a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), which still had - according ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.01.2022 (09. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: WormWars_9.25.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ... ScummVM_2.5.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve... MCE_13.4.lha ...

Intro competition: Nominees of 'Nano Awards 2022' (09. Jan. 2022)
At the beginning of December, we reported on the intro competition The Nano Awards 2022. Now the nominations have been announced, without Amiga participation: Best Oldschool Tiny Intro Quarter Express, by ilmenit / agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL) Glees...

New preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous (08. Jan. 2022)
Already at the end of last year a new preview video of the remake of the game 'Rick Dangeous', developed by 'Z-Team', was released, which is registered as an entry for the current AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported). The new video features some cut scenes...

Preview video: 'Scourge of the Underkind' (06. Jan. 2022)
At the end of 2020, we reported for the last time about "Scourge of the Underkind", which was actually announced for 2021 and which sees itself as a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. On the project's Facebook page, there have been ...