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Game announcement: Andrew Vaisey's puzzle game 'Spheroid (25. Apr. 2022)
Andrew Vaisey is a very versatile and busy developer who describes himself as an "8/16bit graphician, musician & coder", but has always had a connection to the Amiga as well. He has been creatively active in graphics and music on the C64 since the 1980s. ...

Hollywood 9.1 released (24. Apr. 2022)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 9.1. This is a maintenance release which contains mostly bug fixes amid a few new features. It is available free of...

Email client: YAM development discontinued (24. Apr. 2022)
The last Nightly Build is almost a year old: As the authors of the Amiga email client YAM now confirmed to us on request, the development has been stopped. The reasons for this are manifold: Basically it became more and more obvious over the years ...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.04.2022 (24. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 23.04.2022 to OS4Depot: vlink.lha dev/cro 174kb 4.0 A portable linker, written in AN... arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... silkraw.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 23.04.2022 (24. Apr. 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 23.04.2022: 2022-04-23 fixed: Chaos In Androme...

RTG driver: P96 V3.3.0 released (23. Apr. 2022)
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.0 of his RTG driver P96 which among others offers "faster C2P/P2C (for CV3D even hardware-accelerated), new drivers for classic GFX cards like Retina Z2 (the very first one, don't confuse with...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 4 (21. Apr. 2022)
Dirk Hoffmann released the fourth beta version of vAmiga 2.0, his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a bug which led to wrong geometry predictions for some HDFs (Adve...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.99a (update) (20. Apr. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.1 (19. Apr. 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....

First teaser video: Arcade shooter 'Mision La Luna' (19. Apr. 2022)
José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (among others 1987 Rescue in Berlin, Furtum Sacrum) is a very active graphic designer who has been creating smaller games under the Iron Gate label for years with the help of various game construction kits like Backbone or GRAC....

Videos: Running Apple Macintosh 6 software on an Amiga using 'A-Max' (18. Apr. 2022)
Almost at the same time, two videos were released, dealing with the use of the 'Apple Macintosh 6' operating system on an Amiga: In the late 80s, early 90s ReadySoft released their combination of software and hardware, called 'A-Max' and 'A-Max II' respec...

OS4Depot uploads until 16.04.2022 (17. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor ...

Open Source 3D printer: SLS4All (17. Apr. 2022)
Every now and then we report on do-it-yourself projects such as making your own joystick using a 3D printer. Not bad, you might say, but what's the point if I don't have a 3D printer? Especially not one that is even remotely affordable! While not amiga...

Jump'n Run: second playable demo of 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' (16. Apr. 2022)
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes provides another demo version of his jump'n run 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', created with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. According to the developer, this second preview "adds a lot of improvements since the last time (no...

Hardware hack: A fifth audio channel for the Amiga (16. Apr. 2022)
In an older blog entry, which can only be found in the web archive, a Norwegian describes how he uses the FBAS signal of his Amiga to output a fifth audio channel in addition to the four existing (stereo) channels. He uses the fact that bright and dark pi...

Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version (14. Apr. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schemat...

Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022 (12. Apr. 2022)
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("No...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Scandoubler announcement: 'Medusa' converts video signals to VGA/DVI (11. Apr. 2022)
The scandoubler Medusa accepts a composite, S-Video or RGB signal and converts it into proper VGA output, which is also converted into a digital signal available via a DVI-I connector. There is also an option to digitize an analog audio signal, combine it...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.8 with WHDLoad support (11. Apr. 2022)
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 ...