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Event: Guest list for the "ZZAP! Live 2024" in Kenilworth (England) (25. Jul. 2024)
On 17 August 2024, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) will host the second "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by Fusion Retro Books, the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, will take place (amiga-news.de reported). Only 100 tickets are still...

Game: Droid (24. Jul. 2024)
Droid is a run-and-gun platformer that appeared in 1992 as a cover disk of the Atari magazine "ST Format" and has now been ported to the Amiga (video). The version of the game released today, which is only available in PAL resolution, trades as versi...

Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project" (24. Jul. 2024)
In a new preview video (amiga-news.de reported), developer Maurice Doerr explains what he has been working on recently: optimising the engine and adapting the dialogues and selection options. Feedback on the interface or elements of the game is welcome....

Arcade port: King and Balloon V0.94 (23. Jul. 2024)
"King and Balloon" is an arcade conversion of the title King & Balloon, originally released by Namco in 1980 (amiga-news.de reported). The new beta version 0.94 that has now been released includes small bug fixes, enables joystick support (port 2) and add...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" V0.16.29 (22. Jul. 2024)
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git comp...

Accelerator board projekt: Revision 0.8 of Buffee boards (22. Jul. 2024)
The turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) has been rather quiet lately. Now Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the project, is back with a new blog entry. They can now devote themselves full-time to development again as they h...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.1 (19. Jul. 2024)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Adventure: Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" v2.1 (19. Jul. 2024)
Paul Golian began writing his graphic adventure Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" in 2000, interrupted work on it in 2002 and was only able to continue it last year when he retired (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 2.1 (YouTube tr...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.18 (19. Jul. 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...

Games database LemonAmiga back online after hacker attack (17. Jul. 2024)
The comprehensive games database LemonAmiga was the victim of a hacker attack last Sunday (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, the website is back online and fully usable. According to the operators of LemonAmiga, the hackers gained access to the ent...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.07.2024 (14. Jul. 2024)
The following files have been added until 13.07.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: sunny_0.5.lha Ambient/Utilities A commodity to makes th... ThunderSlash.lha Games/Shoot2D A nice shoot'em up by J... Wayfarer_8.9.lha ...

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7.5 for Windows, Linux and macOS (06. Jul. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (YouTube video). This update to version 0.7.5 mainly contains UI upgrades: DPI awareness, save/restor...

Retro Supplies: Updates of hardware projects (05. Jul. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings and his shop "Retro Supplies" visited the Kickstart 02 event in England last weekend and presented updates of his hardware projects: He has developed a new version of the RGBtoHDMI board for the Amiga 500, which enables p...

Video: Review of A600GS (05. Jul. 2024)
In a detailed video, the YouTube channel "Toohey's Tech & Gaming" presents the announced A600GS computer (amiga-news.de reported)....

AmigaOS 4: ignition OpenDocument addon V0.40, Excel addon V0.12 (04. Jul. 2024)
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.30 (amiga-news.de reported) Achim Pankalla has also updated two addons: The ods-addon enables tables to be loaded and saved in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among oth...

Event: Awards for unpublished productions at Passione Amiga Day 2024 (03. Jul. 2024)
This year's Passione Amiga Day will take place on September 15th (amiga-news.de reported). Participants will also be able to vote for the Passione Amiga Award for previously unreleased Amiga productions (including NG systems). The following categories ...

AmigaOS 4: Update for Heretic II (30. Jun. 2024)
Earlier this year the third person shooter Heretic II has been released for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). Now Steffen Häuser has published an update containing smaller improvements with regard to CD audio output as well as bugfixes. Det...

Game: Gorky 17 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) released (30. Jun. 2024)
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we have been appointed by Hyperion Entertainment as distributor of another game, Gorky 17 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k). Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game that combines strategy and RPG elements....

Print magazine: Retro Gamer with 4000 subscribers (German) (30. Jun. 2024)
The German print and PDF magazine Retro Gamer, which also contains articles on Amiga topics (amiga-news.de reported), should actually have been discontinued by its original publisher at the end of last year, but has since been published by Jörg Langer him...

Manual: Pandory500 on the THEA500 Mini (German) (30. Jun. 2024)
As reported, the alternative firmware "Pandory500" for the THEA500 Mini enables usage of emulators of other systems. At the title link 'Mingo' has published a German manual with several screenshots how to achieve this....