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Music album: "Virtual Burnout" by LukHash (07. Oct. 2023)
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." In March we reported on his track Amiga, which is also i...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.2.0 (04. Oct. 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). The new version 1.2.0 adds backwards compatibility to AmigaOS 3.9. Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (207 KB) ...

AmigaOS 4: Touch Device 0.12 (04. Oct. 2023)
The Touch Device makes it possible under AmigaOS 4.1 to also use the touch function of touchscreens - a list of supported models can be found at the title link. Ports for MorphOS and AROS are planned. Version 0.12 now also includes a HID touc...

WHDLoad: New installers until 30.09.2023 (01. Oct. 2023)
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 30.09.2023: 2023-09-24 improved: Bismarck (PSS...

DIY: Firmware 1.01 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (28. Sep. 2023)
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). With the current version 0.21 of the schematics, all co...

AMOS: Micke project to "Projects in the attic" added (28. Sep. 2023)
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the M...

Emu68 tip: Reducing the speed of the Raspberry Pi (27. Sep. 2023)
Timo Weirich is in the process of setting up a computer museum. He is also working on his Amiga 500, which is upgraded with a PiStorm. Now he has published a tip on how to reduce the speed so that old games (e.g. XJ220) run better or correctly: For s...

Video: Building a ReAmiga 1200, last episode (25. Sep. 2023)
We reported about the first and second and the third and fourth episode of the video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" which builds John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Now the final fifth part is available....

Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer (24. Sep. 2023)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga: Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered o...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate (22. Sep. 2023)
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Change...

Video: Repairing an A590, part 5 (20. Sep. 2023)
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk....

Competition: Winners of AmiGameJam 2022 (18. Sep. 2023)
During a live show on Twitch, the winners of the AmiGameJam were announced (amiga-news.de reported): 1st place: Rogue Declan Zero 2nd place: Rastan 3rd place: Roguecraft ...

AmigaOS 4: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1 (Flashback) (17. Sep. 2023)
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software. This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. After the MorphOS version provided by Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille, George 'walke...

Blog: "Vintage is the New Old" returns under new domain (17. Sep. 2023)
In mid-July we reported on the discontinuation of the blog "Vintage is the New Old". This will continue to exist under the old address, new content will be offered from now on under new stuff and without the involvement of the previous operator at https:/...

Demoparty: Results of the Nordlicht 2023 (16. Sep. 2023)
Last weekend the Nordlicht-Demoparty 2023 took place in Bremen (amiga-news.de reported). Now the results are available on Pouet and three Amiga productions also made it into the rankings: in the "512 Byte Compo" AttentionWhore took third place with hypotr...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.4 (12. Sep. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.4 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Changed: Now after the repository scans, any item tha...

Souverän Soccer: Preview to the game box (11. Sep. 2023)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). In his 33rd preview video he has presented the planned game box....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.09.06 (11. Sep. 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). Changes of version 2023.09.06: README: use trun...

Do it yourself: Adapter board A314 for internal Raspberry Pi, version 1.2 (06. Sep. 2023)
The A314 is an FPGA-based adapter board by Niklas Ekström, which can be used to connect a Raspberry Pi in the expansion slot of the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported), which among other things also allows the use of its network connection. In the ...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (05. Sep. 2023)
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as...