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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14 (16. Jun. 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 ...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (16. Jun. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the fifth level....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.06.13 (14. Jun. 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 2023.06.13: Fix CD-ROM leado...

CDXL tools: AGABlaster 0.9.92 and AGAConv 1.0.2 (13. Jun. 2023)
Markus Schordan's AGAConv is a CDXL video converter. It combines some existing tools to convert videos (MP4, etc.) into the CDXL format that can be played on an AGA Amiga with its AGABlaster or other CDXL players (amiga-news.de reported). Both tools have ...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.1.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (13. Jun. 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...

Crowdfunding for retro community "Amiga Global Alliance" canceled (12. Jun. 2023)
David Pleasance - ex-Commodore UK management, author of several Commodore books and regular guest at various Amiga events since 2015 - had launched a new project with his "Amiga Global Alliance" ("AGA") at the beginning of June, which was to be financed v...

Tool: identify-library 43.0 (12. Jun. 2023)
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added more expansions (and fixed a few typos). InstallIfy has new options ENV and GLOBAL, to store the result in an env variable. ...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 06/23 (12. Jun. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continues to work on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). His latest developer diary entry is about the implementation of an election system and a hapiness system: "I ...

Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 2 (12. Jun. 2023)
In the first part of his video series about the repair of an A590, Robert Smith dealt with the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In this second part, everything revolves around the hard disk....

OS4Depot uploads until 10.06.2023 (11. Jun. 2023)
The following files have been added until 10.06.2023 to OS4Depot: mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor bzip2_lib.lha lib/mis 155kb 4.0 Library for bz2 rnoxfer.lha net/ftp 4Mb 4.1 Graphical...

WHDLoad: New installers until 10.06.2023 (11. Jun. 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 10.06.2023: 2023-06-09 improved: Racter (Inrac...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.0 for Windows (10. Jun. 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...

Text adventure: Preorder of boxed edition of "Tristam Island" (09. Jun. 2023)
At the end of 2020, the commercial text adventure "Tristam Island" was released (amiga-news.de reported). At poly.play, the game can now be pre-ordered as a boxed edition for 35 euros. Content: 3.5" floppy disk Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18.5...

Videoplayer: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.08 (09. Jun. 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). To reduce the a...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.06.03 (09. Jun. 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 2023.06.03: Fix regression...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.13 (09. Jun. 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...

Crowdfunding: Chargeable retro community "Amiga Global Alliance (04. Jun. 2023)
David Pleasance - former Commodore UK management, author of several Commodore books and regular guest at various Amiga events since 2015 - has launched a new project: His "Amiga Global Alliance" ("AGA") is to become a retro community whose members will in...

Emulator: WinUAE 5.0.0 (02. Jun. 2023)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.0.0. Changes: Fully cycle-accurate unexpanded Amiga 500 emulation WinUAE 4.9.x/4.10.x bugs fixed AGA-only sprite buffer overflow that can cause random side-effects. CIA synchronize clock d...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.7 R84 for Windows 10/11 (update) (31. May. 2023)
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, ...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.1.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (31. May. 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...