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Demoparty: Lovebyte 2023 / Call to Amiga programmers (10. Feb. 2023)
From 8pm tonight until Sunday, the Lovebyte Demoparty 2023 will take place on Discord and Twitch, where there will again be intro competitions in various categories. However, until just before the closing date, not a single Amiga demo has been submitted f...

Programming contest: 12th Edition of BASIC 10Liner Contest (09. Feb. 2023)
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some...

HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.14.4.1 (08. Feb. 2023)
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, launched in 2006, is basically available in two versions: with SD card port with USB port There is also s...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.7 (AmigaOS 3/4) (08. Feb. 2023)
Version 5.7 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.0.8, with updated root certificates and some improvements. The changes in detail: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility wit...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.00 (06. Feb. 2023)
In October 2022 Sami Vehmaa had released a first version 0.60 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 1.0 has been released with four more GUI variants and an integrated volume control including va...

Text adventure: Developer log to "Pacuvia the Sheep" (06. Feb. 2023)
In a recent developer log entry, Domenico 'Diduz' Misciagna, author of the text adventure "The Daring Rescue of Pacuvia the Sheep" (amiga-news.de reported), explains which problems and peculiarities he encountered when creating the Amiga version in AMOS P...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023 (05. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: NewRulesForTools.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes NewRulesForTools.lha CatalogTranslation.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes CatalogTranslation.lha BarsnPipes_1.3.lha A...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.16 (05. Feb. 2023)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 7) (05. Feb. 2023)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describe...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (04. Feb. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is continuing to work on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video, he now gives a taste of the second level of the game....

Tech demo of an arcade game: RemGame (03. Feb. 2023)
'RemGame' (video) is the author's first C/ASM project on the Amiga. He describes it as a "tech demo", and he has yet to come up with a game design to go with it. RemGame uses a sprite multiplexer and can thus display up to 104 moving sprites. The colours ...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.1 (31. Jan. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following c...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 142 (Italian/English) / Interview with the publisher (30. Jan. 2023)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Th...

Editor: Lite XL 2.1.1r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (29. Jan. 2023)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.0r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) and explained: "Today I released a new version of LiteXL for both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS 3. This includes the latest c...

AmigaOS 4: Version 6.11 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio (29. Jan. 2023)
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. With the update ...

Blog: Benchmarks for "Lightwave 3D 5" for several hardware configurations (29. Jan. 2023)
The developer George 'walkereo' Sokianos reports in his latest blog entry on Ko-fi about benchmarks and findings to be drawn from them for the 3D graphics software LightWave 3D, which is also available for AmigaOS 3 until the release. The following hardwa...

The Amiga as a musical instrument: Paulimba (29. Jan. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' or 'lft'. Last year he built "The Commodordion": an 8-bit accordion consisting mainly of ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.01.2023 (29. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: LHArchiver_1.8.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int... bin2iso_1.1.lha Files/Convert bin2iso - Convert BIN f... Bugdom_1.3.3.lha ...

3D action adventure: Bugdom for Linux and MorphOS (28. Jan. 2023)
After, among others, "Cro-Mag Rally" and "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier", another game originally published by Pangea Software has made it to Amiga platforms: Bugdom is described as "an incredibly diverse 3D action/adventure for the entire family". ...

Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.4 (28. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...