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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.7 (update) (02. Jun. 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 40.6 was released: SCSI-2 Emulation - Fixes compatibility with ACDPlay, OptyCDPlay, OS 3.9 PlayCD etc S...

Audio: Prelude Software Bundle V4.1 now available (28. May. 2024)
The updated software bundle (V4.1) for the Prelude sound card family (and derivatives) includes the prelude.library, the mixer and the MHI driver for the Amiblaster. The new features at a glance: As soon as any application opens the prelude.librar...

Crowdfunding for new card game Amiga Trumps (28. May. 2024)
Following the motto "Let's keep Amiga gaming alive... in card game form!", the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the new card game "Amiga Trumps" has been successfully launched. The funding goal of € 1,762 has already been reached, but the campaign wi...

AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.14r1 (27. May. 2024)
Im September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has n...

WHDLoad: New installers until 25.05.2024 (26. May. 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 25.05.2024: 2024-05-20 improved: Arcade Pool (...

Editor: Lite XL 2.1.4r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (24. May. 2024)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.4r1 of the Editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added Added the ability to open files and folders by drag 'n drop them on the LiteXL icon when this is on the...

Music tip: "Grogon - Hoppy Cardiocore" (23. May. 2024)
'no9' has been working in the audio sector for years and occasionally composes music for games. He also regularly publishes his own compositions on his YouTube channel, such as now the track "Grogon - Hoppy Cardiocore". He uses the "ProTracker 2" clone fo...

Beat 'em Up: Update of Final Fight Enhanced (21. May. 2024)
In late January, developer 'Prototron' released its improved version of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported). Now some small fixes, a new move and a new music track have been added. An overview of the changes: ...

Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team (20. May. 2024)
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported) for the Apollo V4 equipped with SAGA chipset. A preview video of the second beta version has now been published under the title link....

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.5.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (18. May. 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 ...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor v0.69 (17. May. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fend off an endless army of the undead (amiga-news.de reported). According to the author, the latest beta version is "a big leap forward"...

Managing ADF files: adflib V0.9.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (16. May. 2024)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported)...

Arcade port: King and Balloon V0.92 (16. May. 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 0.92 that has now been released fixes some graphics and sound effect problems and Fix spawn positio...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.3 (15. May. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.3 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. It fixes further reported bugs of the 8.x releases and includes updated linklibs. Also the Beacon API is supported now....

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.3) (11. May. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this further early demo version, the player's power has been upgraded...

Reverse Engineering: Dungeon crawler Bloodfest (11. May. 2024)
In relation to games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game in order to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, Petri Häkkinen, author of the dungeon crawler Bloodfest, had lost...

AmigaOS 4: Partitioning and formating the A1222 Plus SSD drive (09. May. 2024)
Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci has purchased an A1222 Plus in addition to his existing AmigaOS 4 hardware (MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000). In a first article he reported on the various parts that are included in his complete system. Now he explains how to partition an...

Developer log: Amiga Isometric #4 (09. May. 2024)
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de reported). After three further entries - Amiga Isometric #2, Amiga Isometric #3 and Amiga Isometric #3.5 - the ability to...

Demo: THE CURE V1.6 for AGA-Amigas (07. May. 2024)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen'-Demoparty 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). He continues to maintain this demo and has now released v...

Video: Test of a new MOD player for Amigas with low memory (06. May. 2024)
Musician, DJ and developer Ian 'h0ffman' Ford has published a video on YouTube in which he tests his new MOD player for Amigas with little memory, which is currently under development: it is based on Arnaud Carré's "Light Speed Player" (amiga-news.de repo...