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Creating and reading disk images: Disk Jockey V3.4 for macOS (14. Jun. 2024)
At the end of March, we reported on Jean-Michel Durand's "Disk Jockey" (DJ), with which you can easily create and analyse (Disk-O-Matic) disc images for retro computers and emulators under macOS 10.13 to macOS 14. After version 3.0, he continued to work o...

Individual Computers: Features of Indivision ECS V4 (14. Jun. 2024)
V4 of the Indivision ECS flickerfixer and scandoubler developed by Individual Computers will be available in limited quantities from 15 July. The previous version V3 is sold out. In a forum post, developer Jens Schönfeld explains new functions and details...

Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.47 for Linux, macOS and Windows (13. Jun. 2024)
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, re...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...

Developer log: Weapons for the strategy game "Ecliptic" (12. Jun. 2024)
At the beginning of April, a new demo version of the strategy game "Ecliptic", which is currently under development, was released (amiga-news.de reported). In another detailed developer diary, the author now writes about some of the weapons that can be us...

Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback V1.0.1.0 (11. Jun. 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...

Action-Adventure: 2nd June update of "Castlevania AGA" (09. Jun. 2024)
Dante Mendes has released another June update (amiga-news.de reported) for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula", which fixes some problems: a problem with screen transitions after a continu...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.00 (09. Jun. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's current project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released versi...

Game: Ami-H.E.R.O. 1.1 (09. Jun. 2024)
"Ami-H.E.R.O.", inspired by the Atari 2600 game H.E.R.O., (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in version 1.1. New features include updated graphics and a pause function....

Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" V0.3C (08. Jun. 2024)
Besides some other projects like "Deathmine" or "Pumpman", 'PixelPlop' is about to port a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never published to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The second preview video shows the following changes: Rewrote/red...

Platformer: Release of "Tony Montezuma's Gold" (07. Jun. 2024)
Monochrome Productions has published the Amiga game ‘Tony Montezuma's Gold’ (amiga-news.de reported). This new platform game lets players take on the role of Polish explorer and film-maker Tony Halik (1921-1998), whose adventures spanned conti...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.2.0 (06. Jun. 2024)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.2.0 among others offers a memory region viewer: Added memo...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.218 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (06. Jun. 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...

Video: Gameplay of recent update of Doom clone "Grind" (06. Jun. 2024)
In mid-April, we reported on the progress made in the development of the Doom clone "Grind". Now the YouTube channel "Amiga Factory" has published a gameplay showing these improvements and further developments....

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.3 for Windows, Linux and macOS (05. Jun. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video). The new version now supports unlimited hunks. In addition, the author has spent some...

AmigaOS 4: Using a Logitech K400 Plus Keyboard with the A1222 Plus (04. Jun. 2024)
Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci has purchased an A1222 Plus in addition to his existing AmigaOS 4 hardware (MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000) and reports on his experiences in a blog (amiga-news.de reported). In the current entry he describes the challenge and possible so...

Video: Scorpion Engine game of a user (03. Jun. 2024)
We recently reported on various ways of familiarising yourself with the Scorpion Engine game construction kit using tutorials. Now the user 'M1CK' has published a short video that shows how someone like him, who has no programming experience, can use it t...

Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS (02. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported). Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer. Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amig...

Action adventure: June update of "Castlevania AGA" (02. Jun. 2024)
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This now features a "proper" Simon Belmont, who was created especially for this version. Th...

Amiga-Emulator: Activity monitors and DMA bus visualisation for vAmigaWeb (02. Jun. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has added an activity or load display for the individual Amiga chips Blitter, Copp...