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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4 (27. Nov. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) 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 ...

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4 (26. Nov. 2023)
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4: Encoding prob...

AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December (26. Nov. 2023)
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link: AREXX scripts in Core show no output...

Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2 (26. Nov. 2023)
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators. Additional to som...

AROS: Irritating bug of the month November (25. Nov. 2023)
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he the...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2 (24. Nov. 2023)
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...

Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action" (23. Nov. 2023)
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows: Working on the first tileset...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update) (22. Nov. 2023)
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). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally describ...

Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels (22. Nov. 2023)
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS ...

Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C) (22. Nov. 2023)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview vide...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.3 for Windows (19. Nov. 2023)
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.3. Changes: Read: Fixed reported issue #3: f...

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.3 (19. Nov. 2023)
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in ver...

Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.1 released (19. Nov. 2023)
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, is proud to announce that version 2.1 of Plananarama has just been released. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphic...

Platform game: Demo version of Abbey(s) of the Dead (17. Nov. 2023)
The developer 'UltraNarwhal' has published a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported) and which he is realising with the Scorpion Engine. The full version is due to be relea...

Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter for Aseprite (16. Nov. 2023)
Aseprite is an image editor that is primarily intended for drawing and animating pixel graphics for games. However, as already mentioned in our article about the dungeon crawler "The CTHUHLU Project", it is not possible to export graphics in IFF/ILBM form...

Reverse Engineering: Task Force (15. Nov. 2023)
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, the website Tetracorp has analysed Task Force, a Freeware game released 1994 ...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (14. Nov. 2023)
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 ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.1.0 for Windows (13. Nov. 2023)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.10.16 (12. Nov. 2023)
Rafał Zabdyr has released a second beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x a...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.10 (alpha version) (12. Nov. 2023)
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles is in the process of writing a remake of ClassMate called "ReBuild", which should make it possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. When asked about the motivation behind this project,...