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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...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto" (19. Jul. 2023)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes: Car...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS (19. Jul. 2023)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his se...

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31 (19. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.3...

AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38 (18. Jul. 2023)
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to pr...

Arcade port: Pengo released (17. Jul. 2023)
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees...

AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users (16. Jul. 2023)
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public. As he tells us, a lot of work went int...

WHDLoad: New installers until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 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 15.07.2023: 2023-07-11 improved: Killing Cloud...

Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.2 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux (14. Jul. 2023)
AmiKit has released version 12.2 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 is now supported and it has been updated to the latest version of the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux a...

Demoparty: Results of Pågadata 2023 (14. Jul. 2023)
At the beginning of July the Pågadata 2023 took place in Kvidinge, Sweden (amiga-news.de reported). At the demo competition held there, the following Amiga results were achieved: Amiga Demo Lubricator by The Electronic Knights (TEK) (YouTube video...

MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.2 (14. Jul. 2023)
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.2 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes DotFlag and RandomPixels....

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (14. Jul. 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...

Virtual Enemies: Devlog #2 - Registration, Network, Language-Support (14. Jul. 2023)
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published a second devlog: "It's time to give another interim report on the development status of "Virtual Enemies". So how does it looks like: Charact...

WHDLoad: New installers until 08.07.2023 (09. Jul. 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 08.07.2023: 2023-07-08 improved: Stunt Car Rac...

Hardware: Funding of Immortal Joysticks secured (09. Jul. 2023)
Crowd funding of the "Immortal Joysticks", that had been built on demand before (amiga-news.de reported), has been successful. In total more than 30,000 UKP could be collected....

AmigaOS 4: Script for adjusting Browservice usage by Odyssey (05. Jul. 2023)
In order to be able to visit more modern websites on AmigaOS 4 with the Odyssey web browser, Browservice can be used (amiga-news.de reported). However, it happens that lateral scroll bars constantly appear and disappear again. George Sokianos has ...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.2 (05. Jul. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" 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 imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Videos of the Kickstart 01 (03. Jul. 2023)
Last weekend, after a break of several years, an event for Amiga fans took place again in Great Britain with the Kickstart 01 (amiga-news.de reported). A short walk around of the event organised by Ravi Abbott (interview with amiga-news.de) was recorded b...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.14 (02. 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...