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Modern text engine for Hollywood: Pangomonium 1.0 supports Emojis (18. Mar. 2024)
Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new plugin for Hollywood: Pangomonium - the ultimate text engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin to require Hol...

Alinea Computer will take over distribution of the next two Hyperion games (18. Mar. 2024)
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we, as Alinea Computer, will take over the distribution of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope to continue it to realize further projects. Our...

Event: AmiWest 2024 (25.-27. October in Sacramento, USA) (11. Mar. 2024)
The organisers have announced that the 27th AmiWest show will take place as usual at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from 25 to 27 October 2024. Further information will be published in near future....

Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer (09. Mar. 2024)
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K appli...

Book: "AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch" available, English version announced (22. Feb. 2024)
The German book "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" ("AmigaOS 3.2 - The Reference Manual") has been published by Look Behind You. It has 512 pages and is available both as a hardcover book and as a PDF file. The official press release can be found in our...

Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune' (22. Feb. 2024)
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended t...

Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS (10. Feb. 2024)
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developi...

Demoparty: Revision 2024 (Germany, 29.03.-01.04.) (20. Jan. 2024)
Traditionally, the Revision demoparty will once again take place on the Easter weekend from 29 March to 1 April in Saarbrücken (Germany). The organisers will announce further information in the coming weeks....

Recovered: Early music programs "Computer Composer" and "Magic Harp" (03. Jan. 2024)
Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences also manages a curated collection of software believed to be lost by Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen. The collection comprises ten games, demos and experiments on artifi...

CS-Lab: Accelerator board Warp 4060 in progress (19. Dec. 2023)
As CS-Lab writes in a short entry under the title link, the Warp 4060 turbo card, which was actually announced for 2022, is still in progress: a few bugs still need to be fixed from the first prototype....

Hollywood plugins: APNG 1.3 and Plananarama 2.2 released (10. Dec. 2023)
Press release: This is to announce that bug-fix updates for the APNG and Plananarama plugins for Hollywood have just been released. The APNG plugin for Hollywood adds support for loading and saving PNG animations and Plananarama is a plugin that enables H...

40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal: An Amiga version was also planned (07. Dec. 2023)
In an article on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integrated development environment "Turbo Pascal", the author Blake Patterson found out that the Borland company had also announced an Amiga version, which never became reality....

Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.1 released (19. Nov. 2023)
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, is proud to announce that version 2.1 of Plananarama has just been released. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphic...

APC&TCP: Boxed version of Boxx 4 released (07. Nov. 2023)
Press release: APC&TCP is pleased to announce that the boxed version of Boxx 4 online shop is available today. About Boxx 4: Once upon a time, in a distant land, there lived a little box-like creature named Cubo. Cubo was a happy-go-lucky creatur...

THEA500 Maxi: Release planned in the 4th quarter of 2024 (04. Nov. 2023)
In a YouTube video under the title link, Retro Games Ltd. not only summarises the past development phase 1, which also included the release of the THEA500 Mini 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), but also announces the release of the "New Full Size Amiga Conso...

Rogue-like: Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge (28. Oct. 2023)
As announced a few days ago, Robert Smith has released his game "Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge", as a follow-up to his Easter game "Hop to the Top!". ...

USB-C power supply: PowerShark to come in 2023 (26. Oct. 2023)
At the beginning of April, we reported on the announcement of the "PowerShark": a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200. As the developers now inform us in a short status update, the originally envisaged release target (3...

Preview video: Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge (23. Oct. 2023)
Following on from his Easter game Hop to the Top!, Rob Smith has announced the sequel Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge for Halloween, for which he has already set up a separate website....

Preview video: "New Bubble Story" coming 2024 (21. Oct. 2023)
"New Bubble Story" (video preview of level 16), a clone of the Accolade classic Bubble Ghost, was to be released in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). In a small preview video, Alain Treesong now not only presents the more or less final version of the game me...

Amiga-compatible mainboard: Denise (20. Oct. 2023)
For about 90 Euro the Amiga-compatible mainboard "Denise" from the Swedish developer Enterlogic should be available in principle, plus e.g. 14 Euro shipping costs to Germany - but currently it is listed as sold out since the end of June, a new b...