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French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 2 available (28. Oct. 2021)
Following the successful first issue of the French-language print magazine "Boing," Boing Attitude (known for the file manager Dir Me Up and the quiz game Word Me Up XXL, among others) has announced the release of the second issue. The magazine is dedi...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7 (27. Oct. 2021)
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2....

MorphOS: QR-Code generator 'QRCodeLab' (25. Oct. 2021)
MorphOS developer Frank Mariak has released a MUI tool called 'QRCodeLab' which can be used to easily create QR codes and afterwards copying them to the Clipboard or saving them as pictures. We have tested the tool using our Amiga-News website: Working! ...

Hollywood: RapaGUI 2.1 released (25. Oct. 2021)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.1. This release contains several minor bug fixes and one major bug fix for the Amiga compatible platforms. Because of ...

Reprint: 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' (25. Oct. 2021)
In 2014, the book 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In a reprint available from 22. November "over the course of some 420 pages, 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' showcases more than 140 of th...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.10.2021 (24. Oct. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to OS4Depot: hp_deskjet_cmyk.lha dev/exa 65kb 4.0 HP PCL printer driver example so... libopenssl.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.0 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS mediavault.lha ...

Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.12 (update) (21. Oct. 2021)
Thomas Winischhofer's 'MusicMaker V8' ('MMV8') is a sample-based music editor which the author started back in 1986 as hobby project. As the author wrote, "much later it published in France and the German speaking parts of Europe by Data Becker (V1.76) an...

New downloads at amigaland.de (20. Oct. 2021)
At amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt offers software that had been commercial before with the permission of the respective copyright owners. Latest additions include the soccer manager simulation Bundesliga Manager as well as the adventures Jonathan and Die K...

Event: Developers and presentations at Amiga-Meeting Nord 2021 (Germany) (20. Oct. 2021)
From November 5 to 7, 2021, the next Amiga-Meeting will take place in Neumünster, Germany. Everyone actively taking part with his own computer will receive keyfiles for Amiga Forever and C64 Forever sponsored by Mike Battilana of Cloanto. Besides 'Matze' ...

BASIC-Compiler: AQB 0.7.3 (20. Oct. 2021)
With his compiler AQB, which is oriented to Microsoft's AmigaBASIC or QuickBASIC, but not intended as a clone, the developer Guenter Bartsch has the intention to create a modern, clean, AmigaOS-compatible and future-proof BASIC, which is tailored to moder...

Review: Amiga python port of puzzle game 'Oil Worker' (20. Oct. 2021)
In mid-July, developer Janne Peräaho had begun a series of Python conversions with the game Space Invaders. He now continued this series with the game OilWorker originally published by Wil Alvarez in 2008 as implementation for AmigaOS 4.1. Thereby he opti...

Puzzle: Wheel of fortune game 'YAWoFFA' (18. Oct. 2021)
Developer 'zooperdan' today released his BlitzBasic-written implementation of the Wheel of Fortune game called 'YAWoFFA' (Yet Another Wheel of Fortune For Amiga). The principle should be familiar: Spin the wheel of fortune, choose a letter and try to solv...

AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.3 (update) (18. Oct. 2021)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. By releasing th...

OS4Depot uploads until 16.10.2021 (17. Oct. 2021)
The following files have been added until 16.10.2021 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... nmtm.lzx gam/adv 18Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game scummvm.lha gam/...

AmiWest: Announcements of A-EON/Amigakit (17. Oct. 2021)
Matthew Leaman (Amigakit, A-EON), Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), and Steven Solie (ExecSG) are not attending AmiWest in person, but will be talking about A-EON and Amigakit's projects and products in a live-streamed video conference. Most of the points address...

AmigaOS 4: Preview to Qt 6.2.0 (16. Oct. 2021)
In 2011, Alfkil Wennermark released a first native port of the C++ class library Qt 4.7 for AmigaOS 4. At the end of August on amigans.net, the author reported that he is about to port Qt6. Now he has uploaded a first preview of a text editor to OS4Dep...

Game announcement: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems (16. Oct. 2021)
Achim Kern is not only continuously working on his 'SmartHome' project for automating one's own four walls (amiga-news.de reported), but also uses the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood used for this purpose to develop games such as Mars T...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.8 (14. Oct. 2021)
Today, version 2.8 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released, consisting of several small optimisations. Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to ...

ComputerBase: 32-bit console Amiga CD³² & 16-bit CD player Philips CD-i (german) (12. Oct. 2021)
At the title link, german tech magazine ComputerBase compares Commodore's Amiga CD³² as Europe's first 32-bit game console with the CD-i, the 16-bit multimedia system that was introduced by Philips in 1991 and co-developed with Sony. The actual competi...

MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.5.0 (11. Oct. 2021)
Press release: Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing Sc...