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Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator playable (09. Sep. 2024)
In addition to an Amiga port of Galaga, Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre is also working on a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action (amiga-news.de reported). The video now published under the title link shows that, apart from a few graphic errors...

Video: The year 2038 problem hits the Amiga - but not until 2046 (German) (08. Sep. 2024)
The world will end on January 19, 2038 - at least if relevant 32-bit systems are still using the "UNIX timestamp" format then to measure time by every second. Similar to the Bismarck quote about Mecklenburg, the end of the world will not take place on the...

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.8 for Windows, Linux and macOS (06. Sep. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for the reverse engineering of Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It enables the disassembly and examination of binary files (YouTube video of version 0.8). Thanks to the major update to version 0.8, Aira Force now ...

Emulator: QEMU 9.1.0 (update) (04. Sep. 2024)
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This suppor...

Logic game: Untangle v1.0 (04. Sep. 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 ...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert v1.5 (03. Sep. 2024)
After Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), he has now also released an Amiga port of the second part, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, which is also intended...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (03. Sep. 2024)
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) 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 ...

Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man (31. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported)....

Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update) (31. Aug. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8 (30. Aug. 2024)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released: Bug fixes Performance improvements Speed up initialization on 68000 systems Lidefl...

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update) (28. Aug. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute (28. Aug. 2024)
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on c...

Programming environment: MicroPython for the Amiga in development (27. Aug. 2024)
MicroPython Amiga is a fork of the MicroPython project that brings this programming environment to the classic Amiga (with at least AmigaOS 3.1). The project is still under development, but can already be compiled and used. Amiga-specific features: ...

AROS: First test version of Odyssey browser v2.0 (26. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of August, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released a first test version of the 64-bit browser Odyssey for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). In this next test version, the WebKit engine has been updated from August 2015 to February 201...

Platform game: Test version 5 of "Dr. Dangerous" (25. Aug. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 5 offers the following changes: ...

Logic game: Untangle V0.5 (25. Aug. 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 ...

Demoparty: Results of Evoke 2024 (24. Aug. 2024)
Last weekend this year's Evoke demoparty took place. In the competition "Alternative Platforms" the following Amiga productions ranked the following places: 4th place: Konrad Zuses Plankalkül by The Electronic Knights 6th place: Evokaetion by The El...

Shoot'em Up: Demo version of QuasaurusX (23. Aug. 2024)
After "Holy Warrior" (amiga-news.de reported), the latest project from Amiten Games is the shoot'em up "QuasaurusX", a demo version of which has now been released (YouTube video). The player has the task of defending the X-19 sector, which is threatened b...

Text adventure: "Adventure 3" V1.01 (23. Aug. 2024)
For the third and last part of his text adventure series (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has released a small update that fixes a bug with the rope. However, this means that the hammer in the rubbish bin no longer exists because the developer ha...