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Aminet uploads until 09.04.2022 (11. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to Aminet: Ghetto_Crew.lha demo/ecs 331K 68k Ocean Floor demo for GERP2022... void-dreams37.zip demo/misc 537K 68k Demopack - April 2022 F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.04.2022 (11. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: MirrorCopy_2.5.lha Files/Tools A clone of MirrorCopy b... Symmetrix_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Screen Blanker for MorphOS Uptime_1.5a.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 09.04.2022 (11. 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 09.04.2022: 2022-04-09 improved: SAS Combat Si...

Prototype: A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga or PC (10. Apr. 2022)
An Amiga fan from England is working on a metall case inspired by the PET/CBM series from Commodore. Thanks to different backplates, the "A-Pet" will be able to house a generic PC motherboard or various Amiga models. While the proportions will be similar,...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 3 (update) (09. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the second beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a graphics bug caused by returning an erroneous value...

Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The AGA Years' near completion (08. Apr. 2022)
About a year ago, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years', was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. The second part, 'Demoscene - The AGA Years', which is dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996, has also been crow...

Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #19, last issue for now (08. Apr. 2022)
After a 12-year break, the 18th issue of the English-language diskmag 'Jurassic Pack', first published in 1995, was released in January 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Editor Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj has now published the 19th issue and announces in the edito...

Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development (07. Apr. 2022)
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately...

New maps for a classic Dungeon Crawler: Blackest Crypt (07. Apr. 2022)
Raven's 1992 Dungeon Crawler Black Crypt just got five new dungeons developed by a fan of the game. The mission pack is called "Blackest Crypt", changes only the levels while the story stays the same and works with both a WHDLoad install and the disk vers...

Print magazine: issue 135 of Amiga Future readable free of charge (07. Apr. 2022)
The German and Englisch editions of 'Amiga Future' issue 135 (November/December 2018) can now be read for free on the magazine's website. Remainders of the physical issue as well as PDF files at a higher resolution are available from the publisher....

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series (06. Apr. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files,...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2 (06. Apr. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as w...

MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0 (04. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL require...

AmiGameJam 2022: The winners (04. Apr. 2022)
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen: 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez. 2nd place: Jean-François Fab...

Video: All about MiSTer FPGA (03. Apr. 2022)
The YouTube channel 'My Life in Gaming' has published a video that goes into detail about the MiSTer FPGA board: what is needed, how to set it up, which consoles, computers, handhelds or arcade cores are supported. Supposedly worth watching even for long-...

Chris Hülsbeck songs: Album "Piano Collection II" released (03. Apr. 2022)
Patrick Nevian is a hobby programmer responsible for games like Ambermoon Arcade or the 'Tales of Gorluth' series. He first combined his hobby and his profession as a music producer and pianist in 2008, when he interpreted songs from various Amiga games o...

WHDLoad: New installers until 02.04.2022 (03. 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 02.04.2022: 2022-04-01 updated: Second Samurai...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10 (02. Apr. 2022)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday the new firmware version 1.10 was released providing the fol...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.0 (02. 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....

Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 Update 3 (31. Mar. 2022)
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb is based on vAmiga for Mac OS and runs in the web-browser and as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on mobile devices, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). Despite the rather small update suggested by its version number, it...