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Sokoban clone: LazSokoban for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (05. Dec. 2022)
During his work on the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for AROS, in April 2016, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow had also tested some third-party LCL applications to compile for AROS. One of these was the Sokoban clone LazSokoban, written by Ukrainian ...

Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 2.0 (04. Dec. 2022)
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 2...

Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World" (04. Dec. 2022)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video). Compared to the playable preview from the beginning ...

Aminet uploads until 03.12.2022 (04. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to Aminet: apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga... brainfuck.lha dev/lang 1K ...

AROS Archives uploads until 03.12.2022 (04. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to AROS Archives: portable.lha dev/lan 13Mb E Compiler aros_one_x86.zip uti/mis 232b Aros One x86 ...

Analogue Pocket: Video shows Amiga core under development (04. Dec. 2022)
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. According to a video at the title link, 'Ultra FP64' is working on the adaptation of an Amiga 500 cor...

Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team (04. Dec. 2022)
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a re...

Mastodon client: Amidon in development (04. Dec. 2022)
After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, one or the other Amiga and retro enthusiast is thinking about either using the microblogging service only to a limited extent or, as for example announced by Jan Beta, leaving it altogether: either to set up ...

Puzzle game: Wood Block Puzzle (04. Dec. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' - known among others for his platform game Ami-Tower or the farming simulation Farmiga - has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic: In terms of design, the...

Advent Calendar: Door 3 - Joerg van de Loo (03. Dec. 2022)
For the third door of our advent calendar, developer Joerg van de Loo took a lot of time. His main Amiga-side project is the text editor BareED. Unlike other editors, BareED is a RAM-based and pixel-oriented (not character-oriented) text editor for the Am...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 1 (03. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor version rewor...

Advent Calendar: Door 2 - Daniel Jedlicka (02. Dec. 2022)
Behind the second door with the initials "DJ" of our advent calendar, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has prepared a story for us. The AmigaOS 4 developer is best known for his recently developed audio editor Rave, but he has been involved in AmigaOS 4 for much ...

CD32 adventure game: Wrong Way Back (01. Dec. 2022)
Richard Perrin is a former indie game developer who wrote, among other things, the science fiction adventure game The White Chamber (Wikipedia entry). In his spare time, he continues to develop adventures for retro systems. As he explains to us, he never ...

Arcade-Action: Turbo Santa Deluxe Edition 2022, Highscore competition (01. Dec. 2022)
At the end of last year, Nivrig Games released the arcade action game "Turbo Santa" (YouTube video), which is based on Turbo Tomato he also wrote. Now he has released a Deluxe Edition 2022 of his Christmas game, which has been rebalanced and now also feat...

Platform game: Remake of "Boxx" using Scorpion Engine (30. Nov. 2022)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). He also tried to port the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engi...

WSL for Windows 10/11 generally available (29. Nov. 2022)
As Microsoft explains in a developer book entry, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 in the Microsoft Store, having previously held "Preview" status. This means that it is now easier for users and develop...

DIY: V2.2 of RGBtoHDMI adapter for Amiga 2000 (28. Nov. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings had summarized the development status regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter at the end of January 2022, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the Amiga-VideoSlot-RGBtoHDMI adapter for...

Platform game: Ami-Tower updated (28. Nov. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 for the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights. The still incomplete version we reported ab...

Announcement: The Amiga-News.de Advent Calendar 2022 (27. Nov. 2022)
Dear readers, each of us probably associates something different with the Advent season: for some, it starts as early as September, since from then on you can stock up on gingerbread and speculoos. Another may look forward to the Christmas markets. In rec...

Aminet uploads until 26.11.2022 (27. Nov. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.11.2022 to Aminet: AExplorer_Update.lha comm/net 131K 68k Cloanto Amiga Explorer Update wla_dx_v10.4.lha dev/cross 7.0M 68k WLA DX - 8-bit CPU Cross Macr... PortablE.lha dev/...