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Hollwood application: Lyrics Jukebox (03. Oct. 2022)
Ralf Gruner has written Hollywood, a music player that was originally intended to be the basis for a built-in device for historical jukebox wallboxes. As the author writes, the program was originally only supposed to play music and text, and control ...

Linux: Otto Matic ported (03. Oct. 2022)
After Cro-Mag Rally, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has now compiled a second game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit), Otto Matic, which had just been ported to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). The developer has tested the game under the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linu...

Amega 32 adapter: Wireless Mega Drive gamepads are now supported (02. Oct. 2022)
The Amega 32 is an adapter for the AmigaCD 32 to use SEGA Mega Drive gamepads (DB9) with 6 or 3 buttons (amiga-news.de reported). Now Alinea Computer has updated the firmware of its Amega 32 adapter. Version 1.4.2 now also supports wireless Mega Drive ...

Tool: identify-library 40.1 (02. Oct. 2022)
At the end of last year, Richard Körber released the source code of his identify.library on GitHub. He also he took the opportunity to go through the source code again, reformatted it and translated the comments from German into English. The identify libr...

AROS Archives uploads until 01.10.2022 (02. Oct. 2022)
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to AROS Archives: dosbox.i386-aros.lha emu/com 2Mb Dosbox a PC Emulator wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 701kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade... sdlscav-145.4.i386-aros.zip gam/p...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.10.2022 (02. Oct. 2022)
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: Re2c_3.0.lha Development/GeekGadgets Scanner generator f. re... SSA-1_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion SSA-1_1.1.lha Willy_1.1.lha Emul...

Preview video: Shoot'em Up Hyperblaster (Inviyya 2) (02. Oct. 2022)
At the end of last year, we reported about Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann's announcement to write a successor for his shoot'em up 'Inviyya', released in spring 2021. Now he has published a new preview video of the Amiga 1200/Amiga 4000/CD32 version. As he ...

Linux: Cro-Mag Rally released (01. Oct. 2022)
Two days ago we reported about Roman 'kas1e' Kargin's port of the racing game Cro-Mag Rally for AmigaOS 4. In the process, he and the original developer also solved some big endian issues. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky could now compile the game for Linux P...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.4 (01. Oct. 2022)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

AmigaOS 4: Dungeon of Chess ported (30. Sep. 2022)
Four months ago 'MrsRina' had written a simple chess game "Dungeon of Chess" in SDL2 and OpenGL 3 (YouTube video). Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has adapted this to AmigaOS 4, added background music and made some small corrections. The source files are included an...

Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE (30. Sep. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

AmigaOS 4: Racing game Cro-Mag Rally ported (update) (29. Sep. 2022)
After his OpenGLES ports "Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast" and "Jedi Academy" (amiga-news.de reported), Roman 'kas1e' Kargin now has ported the racing game Cro-Mag Rally to AmigaOS 4 (YouTube video). The latest versions of OpenGLES2.library, Warp3D...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.1 (28. Sep. 2022)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today versions...

Editor: Lite XL 2.0.3r3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released (26. Sep. 2022)
At the end of last year, George 'walkereo' Sokianos released the first version v1.16.12.3 of his port of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported) for AmigaOS 4 and in June an update to version 2.0.3r2 which also included a port for MorphOS (amiga-new...

Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.583 for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS (26. Sep. 2022)
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now...

Emulator: vAmigaWeb v3.0 beta1 (25. Sep. 2022)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. With vAmigaWeb 3.0 a number of other CPUs are now implemented besides the 68000 CPU. So you can already run - without havi...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.09.2022 (25. Sep. 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 24.09.2022: 2022-09-22 new: Emetic Skimmer (Ki...

Amiga37: Information on exhibitors and its booths (update 5) (24. Sep. 2022)
There are still three weeks to go until Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach. For all those who were able to get hold of a ticket, we asked some exhibitors what visitors can expect at the respective booths, if there are any special events planned etc. AAA Tech...

Review: MorphOS audio player bePlayer 1.4 (23. Sep. 2022)
David Brunet has published a review of the MorphOS multi-format audio player bePlayer by French developer Bruno Peloille on his Obligement news page. The original article is in French, but machine translations are provided....

Harvey 'Harv' Laser (AmigaZone, Amiga Companion) passed away (22. Sep. 2022)
Harvey 'Harv' Laser was a US based Amiga journalist who published thousands of articles in various Amiga publications. He also established the commercial, Amiga-only online service 'AmigaZone' and maintained it for several decades. Laser passed away after...