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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2024 (27. Oct. 2024)
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 26.10.2024: 2024-10-24 fixed: Wiz'n'Liz (Psygn...

Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson (27. Oct. 2024)
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for...

Dungeon Crawler: Halloween X released (26. Oct. 2024)
After a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Sami Vehmaa has now released the full version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (neues Twitch video), which can currently be purchased for around 4.60 euros. A fast AGA Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required. ...

Emulator: Denise v2.4 (25. Oct. 2024)
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Numerous amiga-specific changes have been made since o...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 33 (22. Oct. 2024)
Issue 33 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team discusses the influence of the Amiga on virtual reality systems. This issue also...

Videogames studies: Experimental action game "Squarez" now available (22. Oct. 2024)
The recently released Squarez is a remake of the Flash game SQUARES 2 and was developed as part of the CHLudens research project (amiga-news.de reported). This abstract action game is controlled entirely by mouse and offers minimalist, rectangle-based gra...

Developer log: Creation of demo "New Art" (1st place at Deadline 2024) (22. Oct. 2024)
In a detailed article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, describes the creation of the demo New Art, which won first place in the "Three Dee" category (3D effect using red/cyan-coloured glasses) at this year's edition of De...

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
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 19.10.2024: 2024-10-13 fixed: Humans 3: Evolut...

Guides for AmigaOS 4 developers: Kea Campus videos about MUI (20. Oct. 2024)
As part of his membership program "Kea Campus" (amiga-news.de reported), Hans de Ruiter has now completed the videos on cross-compiling AmigaOS 4 programs and started a new series on creating user interfaces with MUI....

Logic game: Untangle V1.1 (20. Oct. 2024)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1) (19. Oct. 2024)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound. He ...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (18. Oct. 2024)
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #4 under the title li...

Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey? (18. Oct. 2024)
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' &#346...

Dungeon Crawler: Demo version of Halloween X released (update) (17. Oct. 2024)
After a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) Sami Vehmaa has now released a demo version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (new Twitch video). A fast AGA-Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required. Update: (06:17, 21.10.24, dr) Demovesion V1.04 is n...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.10.16 (17. Oct. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.10.16: Reset watchdog wh...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: ADFDiskBox v2 (16. Oct. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layer of the floppy regardless of the format used and stores as much information as possible in a so-called "flux level image" in supercard format (SCP), making it possible to read and write back copy-protec...

File system: smbfs 2.22 published for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (15. Oct. 2024)
Olaf Barthel has released the new version 2.22 of the Samba file system smbfs for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x after a break of almost five years and four months of development (amiga-news.de reported about version 2.1). smbfs allows Amiga users to access Win...

Video: How the diskspare.device stores 984KB on a DD disc (14. Oct. 2024)
Robert Smith is currently working on an update of DiskFlashback (amiga-news.de reported) and is currently working on support for the diskspare.device (Aminet link), which is a supplement or replacement for the trackdisk.device, which can be used to format...

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
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 12.10.2024: 2024-10-12 improved: Wiz'n'Liz (Ps...