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Videos: Trailer of The Settlers II for Amiga & Interview with Steffen Häuser (21. Sep. 2025)
In just under a month, on October 18, 2025, "The Settlers II - Gold Edition" will be released for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). A trailer has now been published by the publisher Look Behind You at the title link. In addition, Paddy da Linco talks...

Real Time Strategy: Settlers II - Gold Edition can be preordered (12. Aug. 2025)
Press release: Two legends finally unite - The Settlers II conquers the Amiga Düsseldorf, August 12, 2025 After almost 30 years, The Settlers II will finally be available on the Amiga starting October 18, 2025! Officially licensed by Ubisoft Entertai...

Retro Area at gamescom 2025: A travel back in time (05. Aug. 2025)
gamescom 2025, the world's largest video game trade fair, will take place in Cologne from August 20 to 24, 2025. A centerpiece of the event is the traditional Retro & Family Area, where retro fans will get their money's worth. The Retro Area in Hall 10.2 ...

Exhibitors announced for amiga40 (25. Jul. 2025)
The list of exhibitors featuring some big names has now been published for amiga40, which will take place on October 18 and 19, 2025, in Mönchengladbach: 7A3/7thSignAMIKITindividual ComputersACubeA-EON Technology (AAA)Aged Code StudioAlinea ComputerAme...

New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, FPGA (Update 3) (30. Apr. 2025)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presented a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Some time later, Kanning himself started posting in our comments section and supplied a pretty extens...

Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer" (07. Apr. 2025)
"Last Minute Creations", a Polish group of Amiga game developers (e.g. GermZ or Chaos Arena), spent more than six years working on their mining strategy game "Aminer": set in the Soviet era, the aim is to fulfil the planned economic extraction plans and m...

Obligement: Interview with Simon Neumann (Alinea Computer) (05. Feb. 2025)
At the title link, David Brunet has conducted an interview for Obligement with the graduate engineer Simon Neumann, managing partner of the Amiga dealer Alinea Computer and partner of the publisher Look Behind You. In it, he reports that he is able to ...

amiga-news.de: A half-year review (30. Dec. 2024)
Every website lives from the interest of its users. We therefore wanted to know which news trigger particular interest and what the general situation is regarding visits to one of the best-known German-language sites about the Amiga. In the following, our...

Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress (20. Oct. 2024)
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or f...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 170 / raffle (08. Sep. 2024)
The English and German issue 170 (September/October 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue include...

Platform game: Test version 4 of "Dr. Dangerous" (19. Aug. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 4 offers the following changes: ...

Time travel at gamescom 2024: Retro Area invites you to play games and reminisce (23. Jul. 2024)
There is one thing that cannot be missed at gamescom 2024, which takes place in Cologne from 21 to 25 August 2024: the popular Retro Area! In Hall 10.2, visitors will embark on a nostalgic journey through 50 years of video game history. Numerous exhi...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...

Open source projects: IDE driver lide.device and CDTV extension CIDER (13. Apr. 2024)
The Amiga community is full of projects that initially go largely unnoticed despite their innovative power. The "lide.device" along with the so-called "CIDER" board were both developed by New Zealander Matt "LIV2" Harlum. Just about a year ago, in Janu...

On our own behalf: Changes to the team, Nico Barbat returns (13. Mar. 2024)
Nico Barbat, a long-time demoscene member and well-known Amiga journalist, joined the amiga-news.de team back in 2000. Initially taking care of the job exchange Free Amiga Jobs, he intensified the cooperation between the print magazine "Amiga Plus", for w...

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...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch (German) (10. Dec. 2023)
As reported, publisher Look Behind You is working on an AmigaOS 3.2 book, printed in German. It will be available on February 20, 2024 and has 512 pages. Details can be found in our german news-item....

Event: Retro Area at Gamescom 2023 with Amiga celebrities (20. Aug. 2023)
This week, from August 23 till 27 (opening for the public on thursday), world's greatest computer games event, Gamescom, takes place in Cologne, Germany, again. Part of it is a Retro Area, and also Amiga celebrities like Turrican developers Factor 5,...

Event: Look Behind You and Gameplan at the Level Up in Salzburg (Austria) (25. Jun. 2023)
In addition to Amiga Future, the two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will also participate at Level Up in Austria for the first time this year. Below you can read the translation of their official press release: "Level Up is th...

Event: Information on the Amiga38 (15. May. 2023)
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events -...