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Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon v0.6 (31. Jul. 2023)
In May, 'PixelPlop' had started to develop his entry for the AmiGameJam 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). Just in time before the deadline he has now published a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). If there is...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15.1 (31. Jul. 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...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.06 (30. Jul. 2023)
At the beginning of February, Sami Vehmaa had released 1.00 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Since then he has made minor improvements and bug fixes. The changes: removed case sensitivity in file n...

Video player: Amos Anim Player v2023.07.30 (30. Jul. 2023)
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). In the current ...

Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania" (Amiten Games) (30. Jul. 2023)
After Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan had already taken on the Scorpion Engine demo Gothic Vania and released his own demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games is now making the same attempt (YouTube video) as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022....

LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000, part 3 and 4 (28. Jul. 2023)
After the first two blog entries about the restoration of an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA (amiga-news.de reported), Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings continues this series with part three and part four, in which he describes various cleaning efforts and upgr...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.2 (28. Jul. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.2 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Fixed Fixed the menus in MorphOS that were broken ...

Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 1 (27. Jul. 2023)
After finishing his short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has started a new video tutorial series with this first part, which aims to show in a bit more detail how to program a simple tool for creating a...

Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.76 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 (27. Jul. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported). In version 0.76 he ...

Arcade port: Wonderboy V1.2 (26. Jul. 2023)
Wonderboy is an Amiga port of the first part of the Wonder Boy saga, of which only the sequel Wonderboy in Monsterland was available for the Amiga so far (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our news item about version 1.0: Tweaks to bosses, impro...

MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.3 (26. Jul. 2023)
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.3 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes MysticLines. It is based on June Tate-Gans live stream tutorial in QBasic....

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.32 (24. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. A few days ago, we reported on the demo version of the Amiga port which is currently in development. The demo now was updated to version 0.32. Changes: Fixed: Jumping, swinging and then trying...

LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor (24. Jul. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000....

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15 / Firmware 1.4 (23. Jul. 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...

Event: Proposals wanted for the Community Award of the Amiga38 (23. Jul. 2023)
On October 6/7 the Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). During this event the recipients of the "Community Award" will be voted again - this time divided into the three categories Hardware, Software/Games and Other. Sugg...

Game Jonathan: Research in "Kronstadt" mentioned by Memminger Zeitung (German) (23. Jul. 2023)
In 2018/19 Markus Steffan went on a search for clues in "Kronstadt", the city of the game Jonathan (German Wikipedia entry), which is based on the city of Memmingen (Germany) and was released in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported in German)...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1 (22. Jul. 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). Changes: Now supports characters from Western languages other than English Blank responses from OpenAI no lon...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23 (21. Jul. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian w...

Video tutorial: Blitz Basic (20. Jul. 2023)
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more"....

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1 (20. Jul. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Added Now the Genre list is populated from the iga...