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Commercial text adventure: Playable demo for 'Tristam Island' (01. Oct. 2020)
Tristam Island is a commercial text adventure which was developed for Infocom's virtual environment Z-Machine and therefore can be played on many different platforms. A demo version for the Amiga is available on Aminet. It offers about 90 minutes of fun&n...

Puzzle games: AstroBlox Revisited, Hansel and Gretel (01. Oct. 2020)
At the Polish retro event Decrunch 2020 two new puzzle games for the Amiga have been released. 'AstroBlox Revisited' (video, download site) is a Sokoban version respectively a deluxe version of an older Aminet release. Hansel and Gretel (video, download s...

Documentation: Viva Amiga - Extended Remix available on Vimeo (30. Sep. 2020)
Zach Weddington's crowd-funded documentation Viva Amiga published in 2017 now is available as "extended remix" on Vimeo. The play time was increased from 62 to 140 minutes. According to a fan other developers like Bil Herd and Andy Finkel and ingenieurs l...

Video interview: Thomas Hertzler ("The Great Giana Sisters", Blue Byte) (28. Sep. 2020)
The Youtube channel "Amigamer T.V." has interviewed Thomas Hertzler, who developed for Rainbow Arts the Amiga and Atari-ST versions of "The Great Giana Sisters". They talked about the history of the jump'n-run classic, Hertzler's work for Rainbow Arts as ...

OS4Depot uploads until 26.09.2020 (27. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 26.09.2020: gemimagedt.lha dat/ima 40kb 4.0 DataType for GEM image files arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.09.2020 (27. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 26.09.2020: AmiArcadia_26.8.lha A Signetics-based machines emulator. Celeste.lha Celeste classic port from PICO-8. MorphOS Port b... MultiMail_0.52.lha Mu...

Preview video: The legend of flaming sword (26. Sep. 2020)
'The Legend of Flaming Sowrd' is a jump'n run which is created with the construction kit RedPill. In Auguts a video was released which according to the developer shows an "early alpha state" of the game. ...

Interview: Manuel Fernández Higueras (FPGA computers Mistica FPGA16 and SiDi) (23. Sep. 2020)
The magazine 'Obligement' has published an interview with the Spanish hardware developer Manuel Fernández Higueras (English, French) who has designed the Amiga compatible FPGA computers 'Mistica FPGA16' and 'SiDi'. ...

AROS Archives uploads until 19.09.2020 (20. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been uploaded to AROS Archives until 19.09.2020: vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb Vim fpse-0.10.6-ax86.tar.gz emu/gam 749kb Playstation Emulator noiz2sa.i386-aros.zip gam/act 9Mb Abstract shooter,...

Audio recording: Speech of Jay Miner (19. Sep. 2020)
Bill Winters from the Youtube channel "Guru Meditation" has found an old audio recording in the garage of his father which includes a speech of Jay Miner at the "AmiExpo East Coast 1990" in Washington D.C. (USA). The "father of the Amiga" talked in detail...

Prototype of an unreleased jump'n run: Green Thang (18. Sep. 2020)
"Green Thang" (video) is a jump'n run game which has been started being developed for the Amiga in 1994. Due to a crashing market, later only a version for the Atari Jaguar was developed further but which only some time later was also dropped. The website...

Game developer Chris Földing (Jonathan, Stadt der Löwen) died (18. Sep. 2020)
Chris G. Földing (audio interview from 2019 (German)) was graphic artist and media designer who in cooperation with Markus Frisch in the 90s released several graphic adventures for Amiga and PC: Holiday Maker, Die Stadt der Löwen and Jonathan. Markus '...

Floppy emulator: Gotek competitor OpenFlops availalbe preassembled (17. Sep. 2020)
OpenFlops is a floppy emulator which in contrary to Gotek is under a free licence and according to the developer also offers several other advantages. The British shop Simulant now offers preassembled OpenFlops. ...

Demo game for Scorpion Engine: Jump'n Run "Monkey Ladd" (17. Sep. 2020)
The Jump'n Run "Monkey Lad" (video) is a clone of the Sega classic "Alex Kidd" developed with the Scorpion Engine. The project files of the game are available on Github. Download: monkeylad.adf (880 KB) ...

Self-made project: Using standard power supply for A500/A1200 (16. Sep. 2020)
Tobias "MastaTabs" Seiler's A500 Single Power and A1200 Single Power are adapter boards which replace the powersupply port of an Amiga. By the help of the board, the computers can be supplied with electricity using a standard 12-Volt power supply. As...

AMOS Professional AGA: Official alpha version 0.200911 (14. Sep. 2020)
A first inofficial version of Frédéric Cordier's AGA port of the BASIC development environment AMOS Professional - the source codes were released years ago - was released in May only available on Github. Now on the website of the project the first officia...

Podcast: Amiga-Users-Ireland interview with CS-Lab developers (13. Sep. 2020)
In the latest issue of their podcast, the Amiga Users Ireland have interviewed the developers of CS-Lab, well-known for the accelerator board Warp 1260 (amiga-news.de reported). ...

Aminet-Uploads until 12.09.2020 (13. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 12.09.2020: AmiBlitz3.lha dev/basic 11M 68k AmiBlitz 3.8 full distribution SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 25K 18 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli... F1GP2020Carset.lha ...

Development environment: AmiBlitz 3.8.0 (09. Sep. 2020)
The latest version of the programming language AmiBlitz provides several changes which are supposed to improve the compatibility of the compiled codes with Kickstart 1.x and m68000 processors. Additionally the development environment now should also bette...

Aminet uploads until 05.09.2020 (06. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 05.09.2020: Amix532.lha comm/amiex 998K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel... F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 8K 2020 Carset for F1GP grackle.lha game/edit ...