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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4 (12. Oct. 2024)
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte ar...

Installing floppy disks on hard disk: JST 7.4 (11. Oct. 2024)
JST can be used to install disk-based games on hard disk using WHDLoad slaves. After a long break - our last news-item dates back to 2002 - the further development of this program, which was first released in 1996, has been resumed in 2017. Today's focus ...

Text editor extension: Motorola 68k assembler environment for Emacs (11. Oct. 2024)
For those who want to program with current versions of the text editor Emacs (Wikipedia) in assembler for the Amiga, there is an open source extension for it at the title link....

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (11. Oct. 2024)
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #3 under the title link as well as the correspo...

AVX instructions: An Amiga fan at Intel? (09. Oct. 2024)
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are an instruction set extension for x86 processors introduced by Intel. Arnaud Carré's blog article at the title link is specifically about the AVX-512 instruction set published in 2013. The vpternlogd instruction it cont...

Interview: Plaion Marketing Manager on licensing games for retro consoles (08. Oct. 2024)
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interview (‘Licensing is a complicated business’) with Simon Turner, Marketing Director UK and responsible for the global marketing of the retro division. He talks abo...

Platform game: 2tinycowboys for the Amiga 500 (update) (08. Oct. 2024)
2tinycowboys is a new game for the Amiga 500 that is designed for two players to compete against each other on a single screen in an arcade-platformer style. Compared to the PC and Android version, the Amiga version stays closer to the original vision of ...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.10 for Windows (07. Oct. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.10 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.20 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Read/Write: Fixed save template if destination folder (options) ...

Demoparty: Results of Deadline 2024 (07. Oct. 2024)
Last weekend, this year's edition of the demo party Deadline took place in Berlin (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga productions could rank in the various competitions. Desire won first place in the "Oldschool Demo" category with Inside the Machine. Sec...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V4.5 R112 for Windows 10/11 (update) (07. Oct. 2024)
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, G...

MOD player: rePlayer for Windows (07. Oct. 2024)
If you are looking for an MOD player for Windows (and other systems), you already have a good choice: in addition to NostalgicPlayer, there are the online players Pixeltune or Bassoontracker, for example. Now Arnaud Neny has released another alternat...

Arcade game: GoGoGo (07. Oct. 2024)
After Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch recently published a demo version of his game "Ami Robbo 2", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported), the next release is already following: in "GoGoGo" (YouTube video) you drive in a car scrolling si...

Aminet uploads until 05.10.2024 (06. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to Aminet: BeeBase-1.1.lha biz/dbase 8.4M MOS Programmable relational datab... amigassh.lha comm/net 108K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga italodi2co.zip demo/disk 773K...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.10.2024 (06. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: Pangomonium_2.1.lha Dependencies/Hollywood a plugin for Hollywood ... SDL_2.30.7_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL... ScummVM_2.8.1.lha...

Emu68: Imager Tool V1.0 released (04. Oct. 2024)
The Emu68 Imager is a utility for Windows 10/11 to allow PiStorm users to easily prepare an SD card with Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported) and a basic pre-configured AmigaOS 3.1, 3.2 or 3.2.2.1 installation, and will allow you to partition the card based on ...

Amiga Kit: Updates for A600GS (04. Oct. 2024)
Updates for the A600GS have been released in the last few days. Among other things, AmiStore purchases and downloads can now be displayed directly on the A600GS and downloaded to the work partition or USB sticks (screenshot). A new internal build of YAM 2...

Retro gaming: WHDLoad 19.0 (03. Oct. 2024)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 19.0 provides the following changes: fix: noncached io-operations are again supported to...

Game: Hyper Wings 1.0 (02. Oct. 2024)
Christian Geldmann's Hyper Wings is an Asteroids-like space shooter (video). Despite the version number 1.0, he still considers the game, which has various difficulty levels and is written in assembler, to be in beta status, which is why he is grateful fo...

Workbench clock and calendar: ScreenTime v1.6 now available (01. Oct. 2024)
ScreenTime, which has just been released in version 1.6, is a useful commodity for all Amigas from Kickstart 2.04 onwards. It displays the current time on the Workbench or any other PubScreen. ScreenTime opens a borderless window at the top of the screen ...