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Amiga show: "Amiga 40" on October 18 and 19, 2025 (22. Dec. 2024)
As announced by the organizers at a1k.org (registration required, German), the next edition of “Amiga xx” will take place on 18 and 19 October 2025 at Kunstwerk - das rote Krokodil in Mönchengladbach-Wickrath, admission is from 10 a.m. each da...

Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust! (20. Dec. 2024)
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. In it he gives an outlook on the numerous Amiga events already announced for the coming year, but also looks back on this year's Amiga meetings. He also anno...

Game remake: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10 (16. Dec. 2024)
'pixelplop' is currently developing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, released by Simon Green in 1993, for this year's AmiGameJam. The new game supports four instead of just two players (a-news.de bamiga-news.de reported). In the current...

Mark Sibly (Blitz Basic) passes away (14. Dec. 2024)
Acid Software (u.a. Skidmarks, Guardian) announced on Facebook that Mark Sibly, the father of the Blitz Basic programming language, passed away earlier this month. Apparently, the New Zealander had been struggling with a number of health problems in recen...

Announcement: Amiga 40th Anniversary Event in Silicon Valley (10. Dec. 2024)
A major event will be held in Silicon Valley in July 2025 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Amiga. Organised by the team behind the Amiga30th event, the event invites Amiga fans from around the world to celebrate the history and legacy of the Amiga...

Event: Video announcing Amiga40 (German) (08. Dec. 2024)
As announced via a German video at the title link, the "Amiga40" event will take place from October 17 to 19, 2025, again at the "Kunstwerk" in Mönchengladbach (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). While the program is still being worked out, it is at least ...

Web tool: Worms DC Asset Editor (07. Dec. 2024)
Alexander Groupe's Worms DC Asset Editor is a web-based replacement for the "WormPrefs" tool from Worms: Director's Cut. The tool was inspired by the announced update for Worms DC, which will soon celebrate it's 30th birthday. The Asset Editor can now ...

Event: Announcement of date for Classic Computing 2025 (Germany) (27. Nov. 2024)
Next year Classic Computing event will take place again in September, from 11th to 14th of that month. After Baden-Württemberg, it will then be held in Bavaria, in the Freiheitshalle Hof. The annual "Classic Computing" is organized by the "Verein zum E...

Documentary: The Making of Worms (1995) (29. Oct. 2024)
The documentary "The Making of Worms (1995)" on YouTube provides a comprehensive insight into the creation of the cult game Worms by Team 17. The one-hour film shows the history of the game, starting with developer Andy Davidson's idea and ending with its...

News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced (27. Oct. 2024)
At AmiWest, which took place this weekend in Sacramento (USA), Steven Solie and Trevor Dickinson were again present to give presentations and answer questions about AmigaOS 4 related products. Just like last year, no Hyperion representative was atte...

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...

Tutorials for AmigaOS 4: Setting up an IDE, transferring software (26. Sep. 2024)
With Kea Campus, Hans De Ruiter has started a membership programme in which software and electronics tasks are to be discussed and solved (amiga-news.de reported). As announced, he has also set up an Amiga corner on YouTube, in which instructions etc. are...

Event: Saku 2024 on 22nd September in Oulu (Finland) (16. Sep. 2024)
Press release: Finnish Amiga Users Group is happy to announce the return of the Saku events! Started in 1997, Saku is the longest running Amiga show in Finland. We will hold our Saku 2024 event in Oulu, Finland on Sunday, September 22nd. The event wi...

Amigaworld.de: Alternative riser cards for the A604n memory expansion (09. Sep. 2024)
Press release: AMIGAworld is pleased to announce the availability of two alternative riser cards for the A604n memory expansion for the Amiga 600 from Individual Computers (photo). These new riser cards are designed for WiFi (PicoWyfy) and USB (Su...

Hollywood: GUI plugin RapaGUI 2.2 (25. Aug. 2024)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.2. RapaGUI is one of the most popular Hollywood plugins as it can be used to create graphical user interfaces for a variety of systems (AmigaOS, Windows, macOS,...

AROS: Demo version of word processor Final Writer 7.1 (25. Aug. 2024)
Nine years after the initial announcements, the word processor Final Writer is now receiving its first update since 1997: The new rights holder Timothy "terminills" Deters is offering free demo versions for AROS-68K, AROS-x86-64 and AROS-x86 ABIv0 (...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor V2.04 (update) (20. Aug. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead. In addition to many new features and improvements, the jump to version 2.00 has al...

Retro Games: New Amiga "console" to be released in Q1 2025 (20. Aug. 2024)
Retro Games Ltd, developer of the THEA500 Mini, has published a new schedule for the presentation of new products (YouTube video), which shows that the release of the "New Full Size Amiga Console" has been postponed from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the ...

Amiga Kit: Super Skidmarks now pre-installed on the A600GS (13. Aug. 2024)
The classic Amiga racing game "Super Skidmarks", developed by Chris Blackbourn, will now be pre-installed on the new A600GS from AmigaKit. Users who already own the A600GS system can add the game to the game menu via a free update. Skidmarks was firs...

Game announcement: Video about "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" (update) (04. Aug. 2024)
Adrian Cummings (Mutation Software) has published a short video at the title link on the current state of development of his game "Dungeonette - The New Adventure", which is announced to be released at the end of the year for AGA Amigas including the Amig...