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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.2 (09. Feb. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). It contains minor bug fixes and improvements as well as a comprehensive hint system in the game that does not spoil anyt...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch and Odyssey Web Browser (09. Feb. 2024)
Press release: This new version 20220318-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems introduces updates to a few libraries as well as multiple bugixes. If you are a developer, please take note of switch to new C library and update your SDK installation. The downlo...

Aracde classic: "Donkey Kong" (06. Feb. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. The game is running on a Amiga 500 (YouTube video)....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.02.06 (06. Feb. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.02.06: RP2040: Fix watc...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) (05. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Ho...

USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update) (05. Feb. 2024)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of test...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. Feb. 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...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX) (02. Feb. 2024)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on h...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (31. Jan. 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 ...

DIY: Firmware 1.02 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (31. Jan. 2024)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). The now available firmware 1.02 improves the SCSI emula...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga v2.5 (29. Jan. 2024)
After the release of the beta version a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), Dirk Hoffmann has now released the stable version 2.5 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS without any further changes. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is ma...

Amiga Kit: Price of A600GS games console set/OctaMED update (29. Jan. 2024)
As AmigaKit writes to us, the price of the games console has now been set at 119 euros. OctaMED v8 from A-EON Technology is to be bundled with the A600GS. In-house developers have added AHI support to the original 1996 source code for OctaMED. This is the...

Beat 'em up: Final Fight Enhanced (28. Jan. 2024)
'Prototron' has finished his improved implementation of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported), which can be downloaded in the accompanying text of the YouTube video. He expressly emphasises that this is a private projec...

AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.13r1 (25. Jan. 2024)
In 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...

Programming assistance: AmiBlitz 3 templates for RTG Amigas and Apollo V4 (25. Jan. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa wants to encourage more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and to this end offers templates for the RTG version of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB3_Templates". After he had already started to publish the source codes of some games w...

Preview video: "Trojan" for AGA-Amigas (25. Jan. 2024)
During our advent calendar campaign, especially in the article about Erik 'earok' Hogan, we already reported on a first preview video by 'Retro Passion' about his realisation of the game Trojan for AGA-Amigas with the game construction kit "Scorpion Engin...

Preview video: Platform game "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas (23. Jan. 2024)
A girl falls into a mysterious world armed with only her raincoat and umbrella while enduring constant attacks by strange, silhouetted creatures. The only way to return to her world is by collecting pieces to eventually assemble the raindrop portal... ...

Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer (22. Jan. 2024)
Following on from his video from August last year (amiga-news.de reported), Robert Smith shows the current status of the implementation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC floppy drives can be used to read and write Amiga floppies - for the FPGA Ami...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm 12.4 (21. Jan. 2024)
Since October, the workbench distribution AmiKit has also been available for the turbo boards PiStorm and PiStorm-lite (amiga-news.de reported), in which a Raspberry Pi mini-computer serves as a processor replacement. The "Winter Update" to version 12....

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update) (21. Jan. 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 ...