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Music: Crowdfunding of the FastLoaders album "Amiga Rocks Harder" (02. Feb. 2025)
FastLoaders (Facebook) is a C64 and Amiga remix metal band from Bergen, Norway. As a sequel to their 2020 album, "Amiga Rocks", more than thirty soundtracks of classic Amiga games will be recorded as hard rock versions for "Amiga Rocks Harder". Money is n...

Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban (02. Feb. 2025)
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video)...

Video: Booting from Amiga floppy disk with the A600GS (01. Feb. 2025)
In October, Amigakit released an update for its Linux-based Amiga emulator A600GS that enables the loading of real Amiga disks via DrawBridge. In a video, an A600GS user now demonstrates this exact function: His emulated Amiga 1200 boots from floppy disk ...

Individual Computers: known customers can preorder ACA1240/1260 (01. Feb. 2025)
Press release: In recent years, the start of production and sales of the ACA1240/1260 had to be postponed again and again. Last week the time had finally come and we opened pre-orders. Not all of the card's features have been fully developed yet, which is...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.1.0 for Windows (31. Jan. 2025)
The image editor PyDPainter (new video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as eas...

Sound editor: ProTrekkr 2.8.1 for AROS and MorphOS (update) (31. Jan. 2025)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or...

Video: PiStorm68K - Dual 68000 CPU & PiStorm with Physical Switch Demo (update) (29. Jan. 2025)
The PiStorm68k can accommodate any Raspberry Pi of the generations 3 and 4, and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. Using a simple switch, it is possible to switch between the ...

Announcement: New issue of German print magazine Amiga Joker in October 2025 (29. Jan. 2025)
After the revivals of 2017 and 2019, another special issue of the German print magazine "Amiga Joker" is going to be published in October. They are still looking for letters to the editor, picture contributions for the gallery and a few articles. Interest...

Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero 1.1.1 (28. Jan. 2025)
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, the player has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (Video). Version 1.1.1 has just been released. Since the initial version 1.0 in summer 2023, new particles have b...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Darkland (28. Jan. 2025)
"Darkland" was an advanced action role-playing game developed by New Deal Productions in the early 1990s. The game was intended for the Amiga, but never reached commercial release. Thanks to the website "Games That Weren't", which specialises in unre...

Demoparty: Lovebyte 2025 (15-16 February) (28. Jan. 2025)
On the weekend of 15-16 February 2025, the virtual demoparty "Lovebyte" will take place on Discord and Twitch - an event dedicated entirely to so-called sizecoding, i.e. programming with as few bytes as possible. Under this year's motto "Blind Date", all ...

Video: Interview with "Ports of Call" developer Rolf-Dieter Klein (28. Jan. 2025)
Rolf-Dieter Klein set new benchmarks for manager simulations with "Ports of Call", developed by him and Martin Ulrich and released in 1987 under the Aegis label. In the YouTube video interview with Magisthans Spielekiste, Klein provides insights into the ...

AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.8.0 (27. Jan. 2025)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (update) (27. Jan. 2025)
Just last week SDL 3 was officially released with version 3.20. As usual, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki is implementing the multimedia library for AmigaOS 4.1 and has now published a first release candidate which contains the following Amiga-specific changes:...

Amiga-500-Guide: Version 2 of the manual for (re-) beginners (German) (27. Jan. 2025)
Last year Patrick Schwedt wrote a German PDF file with all kinds of tips for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or are starting to use it again after a long time. Version 2 is now available on Aminet, which has been expanded and no...

OS4Depot uploads until 25.01.2025 (26. Jan. 2025)
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to OS4Depot: aos-amigagpt-icons.lha gra/ico 574kb 4.1 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons for Amig... perciman.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Person Contact and Information M... ...

Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.3 (update) (26. Jan. 2025)
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC fr...

Audio playback: Interview on the occasion of version 1.0 of AmiModRadio (22. Jan. 2025)
Shortly before Christmas - after years of almost asymptotically approaching this version number - AmiModRadio 1.0 was released. Reason enough for us to ask its programmer 'Tygre' for an interview. About the program: AmiModRadio accesses the more than t...

Shoot 'em up: Sky Shapers available in a physical box edition (21. Jan. 2025)
Sky Shapers is a 50 FPS vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from the Norwegian development team ...

Hyperion Entertainment: Press release regarding the new director (21. Jan. 2025)
As reported, Timothy De Groote has been appointed as the new director of Hyperion Entertainment. The following press release has been officially published by the company at the title link today. New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – Ne...