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New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2022)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2022 news News: The big...

Emulator: QEMU 7.1.0 released (01. Sep. 2022)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of month August (01. Sep. 2022)
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of August....

Self-made project: Parallel port to SPI adapter (01. Sep. 2022)
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. There exists m...

Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.7.0 (31. Aug. 2022)
Just a week ago we first reported about Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension of 'MickGyver', which provides support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). In the article the developer indicated to us that a merge of both extensions was ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.7 (31. Aug. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The firmware needed for this has been updated several times in the last ...

Platformer: Update for "Bomb Jack Beer Edition" available (30. Aug. 2022)
"Bomb Jack Beer Edition" was the first game written by Graeme 'McGeezer' Cowie in 2017/2018 and is a remake of Bomb Jack, developed by Tehkan in 1984. As the author writes, in addition to the original version, which is still available, there is also one w...

Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga available (29. Aug. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a new beta version (28.08.2022) was released. Changes: Full game time is 16 fiscal periods New start screen and main menu of...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.24.0 Release Candidate 1 (28. Aug. 2022)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki provides the first release candidate 1 for version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1, which should make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. ...

Apollo-Core: Pre-Release 2.16 for Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2 (28. Aug. 2022)
The Apollo core is an FPGA reimplementation of Motorola's m68k series. This update brings version 2 of the Vampire accelerator boards closer to version 4. Changes: ColorPort: fixes incorrect color display in certain games TEX: AMMX instruction for d...

OS4Depot uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to OS4Depot: libxslt.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 XSLT support for libxml2 arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... mednafen.lha emu/gam 8M...

AROS Archives uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to AROS Archives: antiryadgx.zip dev/uti 279Mb 2D/3D Game Engine pintorweb.lha gra/con 9Mb Handle your pictures to use on y... beebase-1.0.lha off/dat ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: SDL_2.24.0_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL2 : SD... Avengers_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action Avengers United Battle ... EvilDead_OpenBOR....

Programming assistance: "AB_Template" offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 (28. Aug. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23). The idea behind it is not to teach Ami...

Accelerator board: More information on replacement project of Buffee developers (28. Aug. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) addresses the topic of chip shortage and presents the currently pushed "clone projects" in a detailed article (amiga-news.de rep...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.4 (27. Aug. 2022)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday vers...

OpenGLES ports: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy (26. Aug. 2022)
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are the third and fourth part of a series of first and third person shooters set in the Star Wars universe. The source code of both games was released years ago, shortly afte...

Motorola68k emulation: WiFi development for Emu68 paused (25. Aug. 2022)
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website. At the beginning of May the developer had announced to start writing a WiFi drive...

Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of shoot 'em up "ACE" (23. Aug. 2022)
The Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported) runs until November 1, 2022. In a small series we present game projects that are currently being developed for this competition. So in the first article we presented the games "Deathmine" and "Capaci...