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Amiga Advent Calendar (01. Dec. 2024)
The Australian Moya 'Cammy' Jackie has started another Christmas campaign and presents an Amiga Advent Calendar at the title link. Behind each door is a game, mod, demo, artwork or piece of software contributed by the Amiga community. Further contribution...

Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.5 (Update) (30. Nov. 2024)
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 10.4 contains the following changes: The algorithm for f...

Amiga 500 keyboard as a USB device: Leonardo 1.2 (30. Nov. 2024)
"Amiga 500 Keyboard - Arduino Leonardo" is a further development of Amiga500-Keyboard, it transforms an Amiga 500 keyboard into a USB input device with the help of an Arduino Leonardo. Compared to its predecessor, it offers some new functions such as the ...

AmiGameJam: Numerous new games introduced (30. Nov. 2024)
The deadline for this year's edition of the AmiGameJam programming competition, which has the motto "The Sequel That Never Was", is just a few hours away: Participants are to develop a sequel to a classic Amiga game. A number of new titles have been prese...

Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 1.5 (29. Nov. 2024)
Christian Geldmann's “Hyper Wings” (Video) is a shooter developed in Assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 1.5 fixes some bugs and also features ...

Linux PPC removes support for CHRP (e.g. Pegasos) (28. Nov. 2024)
The maintainers of the PowerPC port of the Linux kernel are planning to remove support for CHRP ("Common Hardware Reference Platform") systems. The Pegasos/Pegasos 2 systems from bplan are among those affected. However, this change will have no effect on ...

Preview videos: Beat'em up "Last Battle 2" , Shoot'em Up "Galactic Plague" (28. Nov. 2024)
Two developers provide a first insight into the status of their projects developed with the Scorpion Engine by publishing videos showing some gameplay: Last Battle 2 is to be a beat'em up which sees itself as an unofficial successor to the Sega classic...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry V7.0.0-RC1 (28. Nov. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using ...

Videos: Quick clips from Amiga Alive on everyday questions (27. Nov. 2024)
With his "Quick clips", 'Amiga Alive' has started a video series on YouTube, whose short films are dedicated to everyday problems when working on the Amiga - for example, how to get AmigaAMP 3 running on AmigaOS 3.0 or how to translate an AMOS p...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 22 (26. Nov. 2024)
The new issue 22 (November 2024) of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" comes in a new design, the cover was illustrated by Simon Phipps (Rick Dangerous, Wolfchild, among others). The magazine is available in print or digital editions. The main topic of...

Puzzle game: Connect available for free (25. Nov. 2024)
Frank from the LogicalByte team writes: "Hello everyone, it's been over 2 years since we released Connect (amiga-news.de reported). During this time, we have received a lot of praise, which has made us very happy. The gaming community has also sent us sug...

Turn-based strategy: November-2024-Update for "Settle the World" (25. Nov. 2024)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his November update: "A new version of my Amiga game "Settle the World" is available. The "Quality of Life and Pathfinding Update - November 2024" contains mostly bug fixes and a completely revised pathfin...

ADF-Blitzer 3.10 (24. Nov. 2024)
Andreas Gouder's program ADF-Blitzer for creating and writing back ADF images has been released in version 3.10. Besides smaller additions, it does now also support German language besides English. Further localizations are not intended. Download: adfb...

Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.3 (23. Nov. 2024)
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system “OpenPCI” supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 10.3 eliminates problems when working with PCI br...

Event: Videos from 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (20. Nov. 2024)
At the turn of the month the 25th Amiga Meeting North took place in Neumünster, Germany. Two videos now show the presentations of Michal Schulz about PiStorm and Emu68 and Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer about new hardware developments....

Event: World of Commodore 2024 in Mississauga (Canada) (19. Nov. 2024)
On 30 November and 1 December 2024, the World of Commodore 2024 Amiga convention will be held in Mississauga, Canada (near Toronto). A variety of Commodore devices, from the Amiga and the C64 to the PET, will be on display at the event. Visitors will also...

Aminet uploads until 16.11.2024 (17. Nov. 2024)
The following files have been added until 16.11.2024 to Aminet: TuneFinder.lha comm/misc 57K 68k Search and display online rad... less-mos.lha dev/gg 1.1M 68k Viewer program similar to "more" xlink.lha d...

Amiga emulator for the web: New features in vAmigaWeb (16. Nov. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The vAmiga-based emulator now offers the following new features: supports run ahead, which is an effective technique to reduce input lag. run ahead is an emulation tech...

Case modding: Amiga 500 USB Keyboard - Leonardo (16. Nov. 2024)
"Amiga 500 Keyboard - Arduino Leonardo&" is an improved version of Amiga500-Keyboard, it transforms an Amiga 500 keyboard into an USB input device with the help of an Arduino Leonardo. Compared to its predecessor, it offers some new functions such as the ...

Report: My Experiences with the Amiga A1222+ (16. Nov. 2024)
Francis G. Loch develops tools such as PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4 in the C programming language. 20 years after purchasing a MicroA1 and after a long break from OS4, Loch bought an A1222+. In his experience report, he describes his impressions of the...