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`02.Feb.2026` Andrea Palmatè	AmigaOS 4: Version management Git 2.45 About two years ago, Rafał Zabdyr began developing a graphical user interface for the Git version control system for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Andrea Palmatè is now making a Git client available for AmigaOS 4 for the first time, in version 2.45. He provides detailed information about special features, limitations and tips in his blog post. (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2026, 18:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2026`	Rogue-like game: Roguecraft DX 1.8 In September 2024, Badger Punch Games released their rogue-like game "Roguecraft" (amiga-news.de reported). Licensed and distributed by Thalamus Digital, the game was later released as "Roguecraft DX" for PC and the Evercade handheld console, among others. This expanded version was ported back to the Amiga (video) and offers the following new features: There are now 15 levels to explore, compared to the original 10. Your journey now begins in The Wilderness, a new area outside the dungeon. There are 80 additional room variations and numerous visual improvements to the background tiles. Secret rooms are easier to discover with additional visual cues. New monsters await in the depths of the dungeon to challenge you, including Old Thang, Oogles and Bluethulhu. Snark and Skorpeeo monsters can now poison you. If you are poisoned a skull appears in the effect area. New types of potions have been added, including Invisibility, Regeneration, Confuse Monsters Treasure chests can now spawn Divine Intervention, a rare item that revives you once if you die. Upgrade gems now blink when spawning into a room, making them easier to see. The Rogue's Teleportation ability has been improved: it now teleports you close to a door, does not cost a turn to use, and activates a new Backstab ability. The Rogue has a new Backstab ability: after teleporting, Rogue has maximum class damage and very high chance to hit, for 4 turns. Some balance adjustments have been made: Camazotz no longer takes damage from spikes, acid and fire, and Sluggoth no longer takes damage from acid. A high score table allows you to track your top five scores, including the character you were playing, the level reached, and the potions that were in play. High scores for completed runs will have a star mark next to them. Achievements give you optional challenges to complete across all your runs. Some are obvious, others less so! There are several new music tracks, composed by Jogeir Liljedahl; you can hear them as you progress through the different levels of the dungeon. There are new sound effects to accompany the other new features. The title screen has new animations and the in-game background image has been improved. Player and monster animations have been upgraded. The Amiga version is available as "WHDLoad" and cannot be played from disk. The game requires at least 2 MB of chip RAM and 2 MB of other RAM. (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2026, 06:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2026`	Crowd funding: Open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator PicoIDE PicoIDE is designed to enable owners of classic computers to replace aging hard drives and CD-ROM drives with image files on SD cards. At its heart is a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, and the funding target has already been exceeded by a wide margin. (snx) [News message: 01. Feb. 2026, 08:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2026` Mark Junker (ANF)	Windows: "AmigaGuide Viewer" displays Guide, Autodoc, ILBM and Amiga icons Mark Junker has developed an AmigaGuide viewer for Windows that can display AmigaGuide, autodoc, IFF-ILBM, and Amiga icons (including Newicons). The author explains that the viewer supports "practically all features of the AmigaGuide format." (cg) [News message: 31. Jan. 2026, 22:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2026` amigabench.itch.io/boingtube (ANF)	BoingTube: YouTube on the Amiga BoingTube makes YouTube content available on classic Amiga systems, with an approach very similar to AmiTube: The project is aimed at AmigaOS 3.2 users and combines a native Amiga application with a server-based backend that runs on the local home network. The server handles all the complex tasks such as searching, metadata processing, and video transcoding, while it is controlled from AmigaOS either via an RxMUI-based user interface or via a fully IBrowse-compatible HTML front end. BoingTube supports global YouTube search, channel browsing, and video and playlist playback. Extensive metadata such as views, subscribers, thumbnails, and other information is also displayed. The server part is distributed as a Docker container and requires a 64-bit processor with 2 GB of RAM. The following setup is required on the Amiga side: AmigaOS 3.2 68040 + AGA or RTG (fast 68060/Vampire/PiStorm + RTG highly recommended) MUI 3.8 RxMUI TCP/IP stack (Roadshow, Miami, Genesis, etc.) fast ethernet connection nettools (curl, nc) mpega.library RiVA MPEG Video Player (included) 16/24bit RTG Workbench Screen for Window playback IBrowse 3.0 for HTML Frontend (cg) [News message: 31. Jan. 2026, 22:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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