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Preview video: Single screen platform game "Chicken Chaser" (03. Jul. 2020)
"Chicken Chaser" is a single screen platform game being created with the construktion kit RedPill. A new video on Youtube shows the latest stage of development. ...

Company history: Commodore's involvement in a financial scandal in 1965 (01. Jul. 2020)
Many users know that Jack Tramiel's company Commodore was experiencing financial difficulties back in the 60s and could only continue existing by the help of Irving Gould. That those financial difficulties are related to a financial scandal some users mig...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Jul. 2020)
The articles below have been added to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. May/June 2020 news News: The A...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine (30. Jun. 2020)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop game running on an A500 with a screen rate of 50 Hz. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled. For sounds, music...

Preview video: Action and role play game "EON" (AGA) (29. Jun. 2020)
Since 2014 the game "EON" has been developed using a Construction Kit for Windows featuring action and role play elements which now is supposed to be ported to AGA Amigas. In a preview video the developers has given some insights into the current stage of...

Amigakit: Zorro-II-RAM card ZORRAM A2000 (29. Jun. 2020)
The ZORRAM - must not be confused with the Zorro-III-RAM card by the same producer introduced 2010 - is a memory expansion for a Zorro-II slot of the A2000. Using the jumper you can select between 0, 5,5 or 8 megabyte memory. The card supports a...

MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 27.06.2020 (28. Jun. 2020)
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 27th, 2020: Acuario_2020.lha A screen saver with mermaids written with Hollyw... breaker_2.1.lha Breaker 2.1 port by ACE - Need PowerSDL EasyRPG_Player_0.6.2....

Replica of AGA-Amiga in development: Akiko32 (28. Jun. 2020)
According to the developers of the Akiko32 board, the final development stage has began. If it is completed - shipping the prototypes is supposed to start in in July - the release of the documents of the board for non-commercial purposes is planned. Ad...

Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.10 (SDL version), update (27. Jun. 2020)
There are two different versions of the browser NetSurf, which both (review) are constantly developed: Chris Young's ReAction-based version recently has been updated to version 3.10. Now Artur Jarosik also updated his port of Netsurf which is based on SD...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.16 (25. Jun. 2020)
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as som...

Mario clone: Amigo the Fox (alpha version) (23. Jun. 2020)
Erik Hogan's platformer "Amigo The Fox" (video) originally was a port of the old clone of "Mario Brothers" for DOS. Meanwhile the game which was created with the construction kit Scorpion Engine has been reworked avoiding copyright disputes. The game curr...

Programming language: FreePascal 3.2.0 for all Amiga systems (22. Jun. 2020)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 3.2 of the programming language FreePascal for the Amiga. By releasing this version the Amiga integration has been completed. Versions are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS i386/ARM and MorphOS. Sackrow ...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.06.2020 (21. Jun. 2020)
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 20th, 2020: ugtablet.lha dri/inp 145kb 4.1 Driver for UGTABLET based tablet... nexuiz.lha gam/fps 21Mb 4.0 Fast paced 3D deathmatch game rftg.zip ...

HDMI converter: D520 firmware version 1.2 / Alternative HDMI-520 (21. Jun. 2020)
A firmware update for Thorsten Schubert's external HDMI converter D520 was released which has to be connected to the video port (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New: "Panic Mode". By pressing the button for some considerable time it is possible ...

New keyboard membranes for A500, A1200 and A600 (19. Jun. 2020)
The Polish user Marcin Weglewski has created new keyboard membranes for the Amiga keyboard computers which replace a defective membrane or a membrane with defective foil connector. Both versions  - one for A500 and A1200, the other for the A600 ...

AmiWest 2020: 25. and 25. October in Sacramento (California) (19. Jun. 2020)
According to the organizers, the "local conditions here have stabilized" and the hotel which has been used by the AmiWest event every year also is open again. Therefore it was decided to organize an AmiWest this year. Due to the restrictions in tourism, o...

Multiplayer via Internet: AmigaLive 0.983 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) (18. Jun. 2020)
AmigaLive is a "Netplay" client which uses the network support of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE providing multiplayer games via the Internet. Both players contact the AmigaLive server and then can play an Amiga game together or against each other as if they w...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.7.4 (18. Jun. 2020)
The latest version of the programming language AmiBlitz only contains changes in the integrated development environment which is included in AmiBlitz: added new tooltype "CURSORSTYLE" with styles "block", "line" and "underline" added new tooltype / ...

Source codes of MUIMapparium and Leu released, development abandoned (17. Jun. 2020)
Marcus "ALB42" Sackrow has released the source code of some of his Amiga applications on Github, among others his spreadsheet Leu as well as the OpenStreetMap viewer MUIMapparium. In an entry in his blog Sackrow explained that he discontiniued developing ...

Arcade games: Bad Ninjas, Blain Home, Lord Vader, Super Capacitor (15. Jun. 2020)
José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Retro Wars, Mini Zorro, Mini Swat) is a very active graphic artist who in co-operation with different developers and using different Game Construction Kits like Backbone or GRAC creates little games distributing them half-...