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Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS (10. Feb. 2024)
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developi...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch and Odyssey Web Browser (09. Feb. 2024)
Press release: This new version 20220318-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems introduces updates to a few libraries as well as multiple bugixes. If you are a developer, please take note of switch to new C library and update your SDK installation. The downlo...

Font: Topaz as TrueType font (08. Feb. 2024)
When the Amiga 500 was launched in 1987, it had a complete graphical user interface, the Workbench. Many of the resources required for Workbench were stored in ROM, including the default user interface font, a monospaced, 8x8px font called Topaz. It's hig...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS (06. Feb. 2024)
John Bintz has been a software developer for over 20 years and runs the website The Industrious Rabbit. Originally to share his experiences as a developer with others, but more recently to explore some of the more unusual areas of technology and find ways...

Video tutorial: Screen commands in AMOS (06. Feb. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the commands available for using screens in AMOS programs. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) (05. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Ho...

Aminet uploads until 03.02.2024 (04. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to Aminet: strangeMOS.lha comm/www 779K MOS strange' is strange json.hollywood.lha dev/hwood 6K JSON en- and decoder for Holl... MCE.lha game/edit 4.0...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. Feb. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX) (02. Feb. 2024)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on h...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.0 (01. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the Amiga conversion of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally published by Data East in 1986: the player controls an armed military vehicle and must make his way throu...

Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1 (01. Feb. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. We asked the developer to tell us about the current stat...

Aminet uploads until 27.01.2024 (30. Jan. 2024)
The following files have been added until 27.01.2024 to Aminet: Glitch.lha demo/ecs 228K 68k Glitch demo for GERP2024/Sweden shading.lha dev/amos 7K Phong and Gouraud shading REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc ...

AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.13r1 (25. Jan. 2024)
In September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has n...

Image editing: RNOEffects 2.0 for all Amiga systems (22. Jan. 2024)
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from its family of RNO applications to version 2.0. RNOEffects is a simple image editing programme with a focus on batch conversion options and alpha channel-based effects. Highlights of the update include the pi...

Aminet uploads until 20.01.2024 (21. Jan. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.01.2024 to Aminet: tekstura_4_points.lha dev/amos 57K 4 point texture mapping GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.4M MOS Graphical frontend for git woof.lha game/actio 21M ...

Event: Retro Dreams 2024 in Thuringia (Germany) (21. Jan. 2024)
The first "Retro Dreams" retro computer meeting will take place on May 11, 2024 from 10 a.m. in the village community center ("Dorfgemeinschaftshaus") Hesserode (Dorfstraße 7, 99734 Nordhausen, Germany). Entry without hardware is free - with hardware, the...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.5 for all Amiga systems (16. Jan. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.5: rearranged GUI to make it more intuitive melted the targe...

ACube Systems: Guides for Radeon driver and USB/SD boot on Sam4x0 (16. Jan. 2024)
Press release: Dear valued customers, We have received numerous inquiries regarding the appropriate Radeon driver to use and how to go about it. We understand that using AmigaOS 4.1 can be a bit challenging in this regard, so we would like to provide y...

Blog: Mingo's Commodore Page" becomes "Mingo's Commodore Blog" (14. Jan. 2024)
Domingo has been running his "Mingo's Commodore Page" for almost two decades and has published numerous instructions, information and tips there. Now he has moved to Google's blogger service at a new address and has already published a new tutorial for Am...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 v1.0 Release Candidate 3 (14. Jan. 2024)
Developer Michal Schulz has released Release Candidate 3 of version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 Release Candidate 3 is the last release cand...