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Advent Calendar: Door 14 - Erik Hogan (14. Dec. 2022)
Today's Advent calendar door belongs to the game developer Erik 'earok' Hogan. Of course, the game construction kit "Scorpion Engine", which we first reported on in April 2020 and which he developed and continues to develop, immediately comes to mind...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 8 of "WhatIFF?" published (14. Dec. 2022)
"WhatIFF?" is an English Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is primarily intended for users who want to work creatively with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue...

Debugging tool: PatchWork 1.1 (14. Dec. 2022)
In keeping with yesterday's Advent calendar door, Richard Körber has released version 1.1 of his debugging tool "PatchWork" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New TASKNAME option, which only reports hits caused by tasks with the given name. Note th...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 10 (13. Dec. 2022)
Press release: December 12, 2022 - Cloanto released today version 10 of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The new editions are the result of almost two years of developme...

Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.0.6 Alpha (11. Dec. 2022)
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. The early version 0.0.6 Alpha of the Amiga core mentioned in our last news item has now been released...

OS4Depot uploads until 10.12.2022 (11. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 10.12.2022 to OS4Depot: libpsem.lha dev/lib 176kb 4.0 POSIX semaphore implementation libwprintf.lha dev/lib 32kb 4.0 Wide char printf functions glsnoop.lha dev/uti 198kb...

WHDLoad: New installers until 10.12.2022 (11. Dec. 2022)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 10.12.2022: 2022-12-10 improved: Dragon Strike...

Video: Beth Richard disassembles an Amiga CD 1200 (English) (11. Dec. 2022)
The CD 1200, which was only produced in a few copies as a prototype, was not only to equip an Amiga 1200 with an external CD-ROM drive, but also to ensure compatibility with Commodore's game console Amiga CD³². In the video at the title ...

Advent Calendar: Door 11 - Alain Fontanin (11. Dec. 2022)
For the third Advent and the eleventh door, we asked Alain Fontanin for an anecdote. Alain and his text editor "Amiga Source Editor (2019)", of which he has recently released version 2.0, is on the one hand a wonderful example of how nostalgia and th...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 graphics driver development (11. Dec. 2022)
In his latest blog entry, developer Michal Schulz reports on the work he has started with the P96 VideoCore driver and in particular with the VPU (Vector Processing Unit). In a short Video he demonstrates the VideoCore driver for the P96 RTG subsyste...

Advent Calendar: Door 10 - Edgar Schwan (10. Dec. 2022)
We start the weekend with the tenth door and Edgar Schwan. Edgar has been developing his Unix environment for AmigaOS 4, called AmiCygnix (current version 1.6), tirelessly and with great dedication for many years: it is not an emulation, but all prog...

Dock: QDock V1.39 (10. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). In the update that has now been released, he has implemented various improvements: for example...

ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.8 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (09. Dec. 2022)
Chris Young has released version 1.8 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool ex...

Advent Calendar: Door 9 - Jérôme Senay (09. Dec. 2022)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay is the patron of our ninth advent calendar door. He is the manager of and programmer for Boing Attitude and a few days ago could celebrate the tenth anniversary of the quiz game AskMeUp at the beginning of December, which was fi...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 2 (08. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series (part 1) shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor vers...

Advent Calendar: Door 8 - Daniel Müßener (08. Dec. 2022)
For the 8th door of our Advent calendar, we were able to win Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener. Who would like to play "Battle Squadron" again? :) Originally developed by Cope-com in 1989, the game was re-released for AmigaOS 4 (and iOS, Android, Windows,...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 17 (08. Dec. 2022)
The seventeenth issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available as a digital version for about 5.20 Euros. The printed version of the Christmas issue (from 15 December) including shipping costs about 11.50 euros. The current issue contains t...

Advent Calendar: Door 7 - Christian Zigotzky (07. Dec. 2022)
Door 7 of our advent calendar is filled by Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky. You could almost say: he is the fairy godmother for everything to do with Linux on PPC Amigas. However, his "amiga-news.de career" began with the port of SuperTuxKart to AmigaOS ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.9.0 for Windows (06. Dec. 2022)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 1 (06. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by...