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Module packer: ptvpack 1.2 (Windows/AmigaOS) (27. Mar. 2025)
PtvPack is a packer for Noise-/Pro- and Fasttracker modules ("mods"), which is aimed at Vampire-based systems: Up to twelve channels with up to five octaves are supported. The packer is available as a command line tool for Windows and AmigaOS and there is...

Puzzle game: Level-Editor for Pjusk (25. Mar. 2025)
An official level editor has now been released for the recently published game Pjusk (amiga-news.de reported, video). The game, in which players have to find their way through a maze strategically, has thus gained a new creative component. Developer ...

A1200NG: New blog and release date (25. Mar. 2025)
The British developer and distributor AmigaKit has set up a new blog for the announced ARM-based motherboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported) to provide information about the product. The motherboard was originally scheduled to be available in the fi...

Aminet uploads until 22.03.2025 (23. Mar. 2025)
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to Aminet: Butterfly2.lha dev/c 5.2M MOS Music and drawing in C ... F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 7K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP M...

Retro Games: new Amiga 'console' delayed, will be called "THE A1200" (20. Mar. 2025)
Press release: As everyone knows, it has long been our intention to release a full-size sequel to THE A500 mini in Q1 of 2025. Despite the best efforts of our team and partners, this will sadly not be possible within that timeline. Unfortunately, the...

Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.09 / Boxed version / Review (19. Mar. 2025)
Amiga Yoomp! is the conversion of an Atari 8-bit title from 2007. Version 1.09 has now been released, which adds a music mode menu so that additional music tracks can be selected. Collectors can also purchase the game in a box from the Polish Komoda & ...

Game: New update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut (18. Mar. 2025)
The team at Electric Black Sheep has updated its space opera "Star Dust Wars – Director's Cut" on a technical level. The animations have been reprocessed using a new method, which means they are the same size but in slightly better quality. The...

Blog: Amiga 600 - The Amiga no one wanted (17. Mar. 2025)
Dave Farquhar is a computer security expert who runs the blog "Silicon Underground?" where he writes about computers that aren't usually in the spotlight. In his latest blog post, he writes about the Amiga 600 and why it became a symbol of everything t...

Aminet uploads until 15.03.2025 (16. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to Aminet: AmigaTText-m68k-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.0M OS3 Shows GER Teletext Site... AmigaTText-ppc-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.7M OS4 Shows GER Teletext Site... AmigaTText-ppc-morph...

DiagROM 2.0 Alpha and (German) Tutorial for usage of the DiagROM (12. Mar. 2025)
DiagROM is a diagnostic software that is burned into an EPROM by the user and then replaces the regular Kickstart ROM of an Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The alpha version 2.0 has now been released at the title link. At the same time, Domingo Fivoli ...

Music tips (10. Mar. 2025)
To kick off the new week, we would like to present our readers with a few music tips: The Swedish software and hardware developer 'mbitsnbites', who for example has published SoundBox, a synth music tracker and editor written in HTML5 for creating mu...

Project introduction: Floppy disk reader for AmigaOS 4 (10. Mar. 2025)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has adapted Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (amiga-news.de reported) for reading Amiga floppy disks with the help of an Arduino board so that it can now also be used under AmigaOS 4 (GitHub project page). Above all, he had to...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 03/25 of "Ecliptic" (10. Mar. 2025)
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a fifth demo has been released for ...

Aminet uploads until 08.03.2025 (09. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga HHH-AmTechLQ.adf demo/sound 880K OS3 Borschtsch - Amerikansk... REDPILLGam...

Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Command line programs Amiga-Tools 1.0 (09. Mar. 2025)
At the title link Robert 'Pyrdacor' Schneckenhaus has provided "Amiga-Tools" for current computer systems. Specifically, these are two command line commands for Windows, Linux or Mac OS; a user interface is planned. They can be used to create, modify...

Video: Doom clone Grind 0.6 (09. Mar. 2025)
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The level "DevArena" shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new opponents and functions and actually serves as a stress tes...

Flip screen platformer: Trapped in the Tomb, also as a Boxed Edition (08. Mar. 2025)
"Trapped in the Tomb" (video) is a flip-screen platformer in which the items to be collected and the player's starting position are chosen randomly each time the game is started. The game runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM and at least Kickstart 1...

Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West (06. Mar. 2025)
The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical...

AmigaOS 4: GemRB RPG package 0.8.8 (05. Mar. 2025)
Press release (translation): Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are very pleased to present the GemRB RPG package version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and the easy installation. GemRB makes it possible to play...

Podcast: Amiga's Lost Future - The Secrets Commodore Never Told You (05. Mar. 2025)
The latest episode of the Binary Beats podcast looks at Commodore's unreleased projects such as the AAA chipset, Hombre and other failed innovations....