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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.31 (22. Feb. 2022)
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.31 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote: "I'm pleased to announce that the first ZitaFTP Server update for 2022 is finally here! As usual, there are bug fixes and improvements. The big new feature is ...

ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards announced / Pre-order campaign (15. Feb. 2022)
Press release: After many months, we are so happy to announce we are very close to a production start for a new batch of Sam460 boards. Well, these will not be Sam460 but Sam460LE, i.e. Limited Edition. Due to the pandemic time and huge delays in deli...

Dungeon Crawler: playable demo version of 'Black Dawn Technomage' (AGA) (12. Feb. 2022)
'Black Dawn: Technomage' (Video) is the sequel to Black Dawn Rebirth and developed by the same team. The game was initially announced as Black Dawn Rogue and is the first title in the Black Dawn series requiring AGA. A playable demo has been released a fe...

Word processing: FinalWriter update status (11. Feb. 2022)
Just about a year ago, we last reported on the update for Finalwriter first announced by new rights owner Timothy "Terminills" Deters in 2015. Yesterday, the developer briefly outlined the current status on Amigans and MorphZone respectively: Accordi...

RTG driver: P96 V3.2.3 released (09. Feb. 2022)
At the beginning of January, Individual Computers had updated its graphics card driver P96 to version 3.2.2. Not on the official homepage, but in the support forum, Jens Schönfeld announced that he had uploaded version 3.2.3 with the following changes: ...

A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 2.2 (04. Feb. 2022)
At the beginning of October, developer 'jasonsbeer' had announced revision 2.0 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. Now he has released revision 2.2 on his GitHub website, which adds a TICK header with three option...

Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas (30. Jan. 2022)
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022....

Overview: Bulletin board system of demo scene (19. Jan. 2022)
Demozoo is a website dedicated to collecting and organizing the history of the demoscene. As the maintainers now announced, it was already started some time ago to catalog Bulletin board systems (BBS) with scene reference. The result is a list of over 750...

Retro gaming: Ziggurat Interactive acquires the rights to Rainbow-Arts games (17. Jan. 2022)
Five years ago, Julian Eggebrecht, founder of the legendary development studio Factor 5, explained in interviews (German) that the games company had not only secured the name of the former German publisher Rainbow Arts from the THQ bankruptcy estate, but ...

Event: Amiga37 announced (16. Jan. 2022)
Markus Tillmann writes (translation): "After the 2015, 2017 and 2019 events in Neuss, the fourth major German Amiga event will take place in 2022 with Amiga37 Germany. Compared to previous years, however, it will no longer be held in the Rheinisches Lande...

AmigaOS 4: 'Lite XL' editor 1.16.12.7 (12. Jan. 2022)
At the end of last year, George Sokianos had announced with the release of version v1.16.12.3 that he had started porting the editor 'Lite XL', which originates from the Linux world (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he released the for the time being la...

Intro competition: Nominees of 'Nano Awards 2022' (09. Jan. 2022)
At the beginning of December, we reported on the intro competition The Nano Awards 2022. Now the nominations have been announced, without Amiga participation: Best Oldschool Tiny Intro Quarter Express, by ilmenit / agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL) Glees...

Preview video: 'Scourge of the Underkind' (06. Jan. 2022)
At the end of 2020, we reported for the last time about "Scourge of the Underkind", which was actually announced for 2021 and which sees itself as a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. On the project's Facebook page, there have been ...

AmigaOS 4: First public version of editor 'Lite XL' released (30. Dec. 2021)
Recently George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had announced that he is going to port the Linux editor Lite XL. Now he has released the first public version v1.16.12.3 of his port. According to the author "LiteX...

THEA500 Mini: Interview with Paul Andrews (29. Dec. 2021)
The Blog BlitterWolf has published an interview with Paul Andrews, the managing director of RetroGames which is about the announced THEA500 Mini. Among other things, a "full sized version" is promised with the 'THEA500' if sales are satisfactory, similar ...

Action game: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems (28. Dec. 2021)
In mid-October we reported, that Achim Kern (among others 'SmartHome') and Mars Tank Attack) had announced an action game called 'Balloons' which now is available for all Amiga systems. It is a remake written in Hollywood 9 of the original Balloons game w...

Announcement: UniTHOR - A new joystick for Amigas and modern devices (26. Dec. 2021)
Uni-Joy LLC, based in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, has announced a new joystick at the title link, weighing half a kilogram and promised to consist of durable microswitches. So far just existing as a 3D-printed prototype, there will be two variants of...

Arcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" erhältlich (21. Dec. 2021)
"PETSCII Robots" by well-known Texan Youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video). The Amiga version (video) developed by Vesa Halttunen and...

AmigaOS 4: Port of editor 'Lite XL' announced (20. Dec. 2021)
George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, has announced that he has started porting the editor Lite XL, which originated in the Linux world. About his motivation and the current development status he wrote the following: "Recen...

AmigaOS 4.1: Warp3D backward compatibility with 'NovaBridge' (19. Dec. 2021)
At this year's AmiWest it was announced that Hans De Ruiter is working on NovaBridge: This driver should allow all 3D applications written under the old Warp3D and MiniGL to work on modern graphics cards like Radeon RX and Radeon HD. As the author explain...