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A1200NG: New photos of the emulator-based mainboard (05. Feb. 2025)
At the title link AmigaKit has published further photos of its ARM- and emulator-based mainboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported). The latest and probably final revision of the hardware, which corresponds to the Amiga 1200 mainboard in terms of dimensions...

Spillhistorie: Interview with game designer Steve Meretzky (Infocom) (05. Feb. 2025)
For the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, Joachim Froholt, with the support of Hans Arne Jacobsen, conducted another interview - this time with Steve Meretzky, who designed various text adventures for Infocom, which were then also ported to the Amiga, such...

Review: Checkmate Retro Monitor (03. Feb. 2025)
The Kickstarter campaign initiated by Stephen Jones to fund his Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor was successfully completed at the end of 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). The Lyonsden Blog has now published a review in which, among other things, various conn...

Children's game: New demo version of "The Young Salzgitter Icefighter" (03. Feb. 2025)
New name, new level: the children's game originally called "The Young Icefighter" (amiga-news.de reported) has now been renamed "The Young SALZGITTER Icefighter", as the ice hockey club "Salzgitter Icefighters" has given permission to use the logo and nam...

AmigaOS 4: VideoVortex - GUI for searching and watching YouTube videos (02. Feb. 2025)
Video Vortex is a graphical user interface for YT.rexx for searching and viewing YouTube videos. YT.rexx is a script that provides direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. VideoVortex, on the other hand, saves the user the cumbersome and tedious ta...

Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban (02. Feb. 2025)
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video)...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.1.0 for Windows (31. Jan. 2025)
The image editor PyDPainter (new video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as eas...

Sound editor: ProTrekkr 2.8.1 for AROS and MorphOS (update) (31. Jan. 2025)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or...

Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.5 (27. Jan. 2025)
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language, and meanwhile he has gained some progress. He has now released version 0.1.5 with the following chang...

Strategy game: LightTheLEDs (27. Jan. 2025)
Rodrigo Vertulo, who previously published "Skinny Marley" (amiga-news.de reported), now wants to remind Amiga fans of their creative spirit with "LightTheLEDs" and offers an "electrifying challenge" with his new game, in which you have to connect batterie...

WHDLoad: New installers until 25.01.2025 (26. Jan. 2025)
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 25.01.2025: 2025-01-25 fixed: Ghost Battle (Th...

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive (26. Jan. 2025)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). In this January update, some level graphics were added for the game StarRay and, for comparison, t...

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.9 (26. Jan. 2025)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.9 was released: Driver Performance improvements Add support for AIDE Lideflash Add support ...

Video player: Amos Anim Player v2025 (24. Jan. 2025)
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). The latest ve...

Shoot 'em up: Sky Shapers available in a physical box edition (21. Jan. 2025)
Sky Shapers is a 50 FPS vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from the Norwegian development team ...

Flappy-Bird-clone: Happy Bat 1.2 (21. Jan. 2025)
The skill game "Happy Bat" has been developed by Carlos Zener for testing the high score function of the game development tool REDPILL (amiga-news.de reported). Happy Bat has now been updated to version 1.2, which features new graphics by Jordi Palome and...

Hyperion Entertainment: Press release regarding the new director (21. Jan. 2025)
As reported, Timothy De Groote has been appointed as the new director of Hyperion Entertainment. The following press release has been officially published by the company at the title link today. New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – Ne...

Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 5 and bonus level (20. Jan. 2025)
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now another bonus level and level 5 have been released....

AmigaOS 4: New port of the game engine OpenJazz for Jazz Jackrabbit (19. Jan. 2025)
OpenJazz is an engine that can be used to play the commercial Sonic clone Jazz Jackrabbit (the original files are required accordingly). It was ported for AmigaOS 4 back in 2012 already by Roman 'kas1e' Kargin. Since then, OpenJazz has undergone several a...

MorphOS: Jump'n Run SuperTux 0.6.3.1549 (17. Jan. 2025)
'BeWorld' has ported SuperTux, a classic, side-scrolling platform game in the style of the original Super Mario games, for MorphOS in its current version....