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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...

Interview: Ravi Abbott (Kickstart - UK Amiga Expo, The Retro Hour) (19. Mar. 2023)
Ravi Abbott is known for his various documentaries and videos such as "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" or Amiga Computer Buyers Guide 2022, runs the podcast The Retro Hour together with Dan Wood, writes for the Amiga Addict, is a DJ and has as his latest...

Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" (18. Mar. 2023)
After his game Capacitor's Revenge (amiga-news.de reported), 'PixelPlop' is now porting a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never released to the Amiga. The video shows a first state of the game, which is written in C....

Mastodon client: Video presentation to Amidon development status (17. Mar. 2023)
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, is developing a Mastodon client for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). During the last meeting of the Commodore Users Europe he has presented the latest development status of Amidon. Cu...

AROS: Devlogs to AmiFox (17. Mar. 2023)
About a week ago we reported that Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow is also working on an AROS version of his browser AmiFox in addition to AmigaOS 3. In two new blog entries he now reports about the further development: thanks to a new version of the AmiSSL library...

Hollywood: Parallel Realities SDL2 Tutorials (16. Mar. 2023)
The SDL2 tutorials of Parallel Realities demonstrate how to program different game types with SDL2 (e.g. Shoot'em'up, Jump'n'run etc.) Hollywood user Dwayne Jarvis has now ported these tutorials for the RebelSDL plugin for Hollywood. The video linked unde...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 9 of "WhatIFF?" published (16. Mar. 2023)
"WhatIFF?" is an English Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is primarily intended for users who want to work creatively with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue...

m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.1 for Visual Studio Code (16. Mar. 2023)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Today Paul Raingeard has released version 1.8.1 which now mark binaries as executable on macOS again and thus fixes a bug...

Amiga emulator: vAmiga.net (15. Mar. 2023)
In 2019, developer Dirk Hoffmann started to develop vAmiga, a new, user-friendly Amiga emulator for MacOS machines that emulates an A500, A1000 or A2000. This is available in the current version 2.3. Based on this, two WebAssembly implementations were cre...

AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.7r2 (13. Mar. 2023)
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is a Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation, but all programs are compiled natively for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to that of a Unix installation. ...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - support for real mouse on iPad (13. Mar. 2023)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. Just a week ago, the developer 'mithrendal' had updated his emulator - we reported yesterday - to now add another feature: ...

Crowdfunding: Book "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" funded (12. Mar. 2023)
Microzeit from Germany and Editions64K from France are going to publish "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars", a book that is supposed to illuminate the competition for the number 1 home computer between the Amiga and the Atari ST in the mid and late 1980s (amiga-new...

Hollywood X: Add-ons released (12. Mar. 2023)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood X. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood porta...

PiStorm32-lite: Assembly instructions of CM4 adapter published (12. Mar. 2023)
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga via an adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The lite version is supposed to take into account the current difficult situation in ...

AROS: Web browser AmiFox in development (12. Mar. 2023)
AmiFox is a kind of web browser which outsources the actual rendering via WRP (Web Rendering Proxy), so that the finished rendering is sent back to the Amiga just as an image (amiga-news.de reported). Now there have been single enquiries as to whether a c...

DIY: Parallel port to SPI adapter, SD card driver 2.2 (11. Mar. 2023)
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible (amiga-news.de repor...

Preview video: Final Fight Enhanced (10. Mar. 2023)
More than a year ago, 'Prototron' had published a first preview video of his improved implementation of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported). Now that he has almost completely rewritten the game code, he published a ne...

MorphOS: Real-time strategy game Vanilla Conquer V1.0 (TinyGL-Version) (09. Mar. 2023)
After Bruno "BeWorld" Peloille's SDL implementation of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, which has the open-source name "Vanilla Conquer" and is based on Artur Jarosik's release for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de ...

AmigaOS 4: Public beta version 1.55 of "Doom 3" port (09. Mar. 2023)
At the beginning of July last year (amiga-news.de reported) Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel released a first, non-public beta version of Dhewm3 for AmigaOS 4.1 - a Doom port based on the Doom 3 GPL source code. He has further optimised this so that the game can n...

AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 9 (08. Mar. 2023)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas...