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Preview video: Amiga port of Breakthru (05. Apr. 2023)
After the release of the Wonderboy port (amiga-news.de reported), 'acidbottle' now turns its attention to the next Amiga port of a game: Breakthru was released in 1986 by Data East and is a horizontal shoot'em up in which the player controls an armed mili...

Mastodon client: Amidon 1.0 (04. Apr. 2023)
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.0 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported. Requirements: AmigaOS 3.x AmiSSL 4 MUI 3.9 or newer The following MUI classes: Hy...

Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown (03. Apr. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown which are required to control a character on the screen using a jo...

Platform game: Video tutorial and download for AMOS game "Hop to the Top!" (03. Apr. 2023)
To mark the upcoming Easter, Robert Smith - we reported on his various projects such as DrawBridge - wanted to create a platform game in AMOS about rabbits and chocolate eggs that could be controlled with a joystick or keyboard. In his video tutorial...

Portable assembler: vasm V1.9c (31. Mar. 2023)
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9c. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS as well as TOS, MiNT and Windows are supported. Changes of version 1.9b and 1.9c: Fixed a rare expression evalulation bug. Previous version...

LookBehindYou is looking for authors for German book about AmigaOS 3.2 (30. Mar. 2023)
Publisher LookBehindYou is looking for further authors for a planned German AmigaOS 3.2 book (amiga-news.de reported). Applicants should be well acquainted with AmigaOS 3.2 and its updates and should enjoy writing. Payment will be based on the d...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.0 (x86) (30. Mar. 2023)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.0 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings. Beside...

AmigaOS 4: NVMe device driver for SSD (27. Mar. 2023)
Besides his audio driver for Intel HD Audio (amiga-news.de reported), Harald Kanning has now started developing a NVMe device driver for SSDs and has released the first version 53.1 under the title link. As the author explained, "is short for 'Non-Vo...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.1 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux (27. Mar. 2023)
About 10 days ago AmiKit released version 12.0 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a hotfix was made available with version 12.1, which among other things adds AmiSSL 5.8 and now enables an installation of AmigaOS 3...

OS4Depot uploads until 25.03.2023 (26. Mar. 2023)
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to OS4Depot: amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL petsciirobots.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 PETSCII Robots ported to SDL terri-fried.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Everyone ...

Website application: The virtual Hippoplayer (25. Mar. 2023)
It all started at the end of 2009, when Spot created aSCIIaRENa as a website for the ASCII scene, which underwent a complete relaunch in 2021 with the help of 'Burps', 'Nicomen', 'Phantasm' and 'Ziphoid'. Later came other ideas, they wanted to clone the...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.13 (25. Mar. 2023)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday, the new firmware version 1.13 was released, which mainly provid...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-2 (24. Mar. 2023)
In mid-February AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Today's second release contains some changes and bug fixes (release notes)....

Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon (24. Mar. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon, which he uses to load in graphics for buttons from an IFF fi...

Maze game: Cube V0.30 (23. Mar. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). He has updated to version...

Block-oriented copying: Device-Streams 2.2.1 (21. Mar. 2023)
At the beginning of October, Roc Vallès i Domènech had updated the Amiga tool "Device-Streams" for block-oriented copying, similar to UNIX command dd, which was originally developed and released by Christian E. Hopps in 1993 (amiga-news.de reported). Chan...

Shooter: New demo version of "Cyberpunk Alien City" (21. Mar. 2023)
"Cyberpunk Alien City" (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: the player must defend a city against attacking aliens (amiga-news.de reported). Now the demo version for OCS Amigas has been updated. According to Amiten Games a small demo of t...

Preview video: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (20. Mar. 2023)
Nivrig Games - among others Turbo Santa Deluxe Edition 2022 - have been working for some time on a twin-stick shooter which is also supposed to be a test game for the Twin-Stick controller developed by "Abstraction Games" (amiga-news.de reported). A new p...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v2.6.0 (19. Mar. 2023)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last message, the developer has improved the interactive docume...

AMOS Layers System 1.100 & 2.4 (19. Mar. 2023)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's "AMOS Layers System" (amiga-news.de reported) makes it possible to overlay several of its screens when programming under AMOS, specifying the order, colors and opaqueness. Since our last report, minor optimizations have been...