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Video tour of the "ZZAP! Live 2024" (23. Aug. 2024)
Last Saturday, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) hosted the second "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by Fusion Retro Books, the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum (amiga-news.de reported). The YouTube channel "SpectrumNez" now shows the ex...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.19 (22. Aug. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.224 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (21. Aug. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

Platform game: Test version 4 of "Dr. Dangerous" (19. 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 4 offers the following changes: ...

Music tips for the start of the week (19. Aug. 2024)
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. Since our news item, she has published the following pieces: ...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor v14 (17. Aug. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This wil fix a bug in the game that affected all versions of the game. All users are recommended to install the update....

Operating system for the Amiga: Second alpha version of "Serena OS" (13. Aug. 2024)
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a second alpha version, which is ...

Puzzle game: AmiBrixx v2.3 for all Amiga systems (12. Aug. 2024)
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert has released version 2.3 of his puzzle game AmiBrixx. The player's task is to eliminate the stones stacked on the board by clicking on groups of the same colour. In doing so, the tiles above fall down and form new groups. The game ends...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.6.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (10. 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 ...

Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback v1.0.2 (08. Aug. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has written DiskFlashback, a convenient software for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) that enables PC floppy drives to read and write image files such as ADFs (Amiga Disk Files) during operation. It also allows you to process real discs in Amiga...

Book: German edition of "The Making of Prince of Persia" now available (06. Aug. 2024)
Jordan Mechner is an internationally renowned game designer whose best-known work is probably "Prince of Persia". Mechner recorded the creation of this global hit in his memoirs, which he wrote down during development and published in 2020 (amiga-news.de ...

Video: Image and music editing possible with the A600GS? (05. Aug. 2024)
YouTuber 'Proteque' took a look at the now available A600GS computer (amiga-news.de reported), particularly with regard to image and music editing. His conclusion: he has high hopes for the future and is happy to support the project, but currently it was ...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v3.7 R104 for Windows 10/11 (05. Aug. 2024)
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, ...

Tutorial: Setting up a cross-compiler for AmigaOS 4 (02. Aug. 2024)
Around three months ago, Hans De Ruiter announced a membership programme in which software and electronics tasks are to be discussed and solved (amiga-news.de reported). He has now launched this programme with Kea Campus and, as promised, has also set up ...

Platform game: Test version 3 of "Dr. Dangerous" (01. Aug. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (new YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 3 adds three more levels (9 ...

AROS: First public version of Odyssey browser (64-Bit) (01. Aug. 2024)
For the first time, the beta version of the 64-bit Odyssey browser is available for those who want to try it either hosted on AROS or directly on Windows 11 or Linux. Detailed instructions for installation on each of the supported platforms have been prep...

Crono 3: Creation of printable calendars (30. Jul. 2024)
Crono is a program for quickly and easily creating calendars for printing on an A4 or A3 page in portrait or landscape format. It allows you to create both annual and monthly calendars, with the option of building several months in one go. The design...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.30.5 Release Candidate 1 (28. Jul. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published a first release candidate of version 2.30.5 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is u...

AmigaOS 4: File manager "Dir Me Up" V4.00 (27. Jul. 2024)
Press release: Five years after its last update (amiga-news.de reported), the modern explorer for AmigaOS 4, Dir Me Up, is back in version 4... with more than 130 new features, optimizations and fixes! More than ever, it will be your faithful companion to...

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.37 (25. Jul. 2024)
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. ...