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Platform game: "Dr. Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan" released (14. Sep. 2024)
After five test versions, hoogames has released its platformer "Dr Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan", inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous and created with the Scorpion Engine (YouTube video). In addition to the ADF and lha version, ...

Interview with Jim Sachs (13. Sep. 2024)
Following on from the double interview on Ports of Call conducted together with Hans Arne Jacobsen (amiga-news.de reported), Joachim Froholt has now spoken to Jim Sachs again for their Norwegian website “Spillhistorie” at the title link in ord...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.225 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (13. Sep. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (11. Sep. 2024)
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes ...

MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.34 (10. Sep. 2024)
Just under a week ago, Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released version 1.34 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. The changes in detail: Fixed a crash during update check on some configurations Fixed a crash when editing a message in a locally mapped f...

Amigaworld.de: Alternative riser cards for the A604n memory expansion (09. Sep. 2024)
Press release: AMIGAworld is pleased to announce the availability of two alternative riser cards for the A604n memory expansion for the Amiga 600 from Individual Computers (photo). These new riser cards are designed for WiFi (PicoWyfy) and USB (Su...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.42 (09. Sep. 2024)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video) is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finishe...

Developer log: First map of the game "The Gate" completed (09. Sep. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on his progress on Patreon, but ha...

Aminet uploads until 07.09.2024 (08. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 07.09.2024 to Aminet: Amidon_OS3.zip comm/net 1.8M 68k A Mastodon client for Amiga amigassh.lha comm/net 107K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga complex-cyboman6.zip demo/aga 36K 68k...

AROS Archives uploads until 07.09.2024 (08. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 07.09.2024 to AROS Archives: standardmagicwb.lha gra/ico 2Mb Collection of MagicWB Icons ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 07.09.2024 (08. Sep. 2024)
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 07.09.2024: 2024-09-07 improved: A320 Airbus: ...

Video: The year 2038 problem hits the Amiga - but not until 2046 (German) (08. Sep. 2024)
The world will end on January 19, 2038 - at least if relevant 32-bit systems are still using the "UNIX timestamp" format then to measure time by every second. Similar to the Bismarck quote about Mecklenburg, the end of the world will not take place on the...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.6 (08. Sep. 2024)
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is now available in version 12.6 for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, PiStorm and Raspberry Pi - but not for Vampire. Changes consist of updates of files and emulation; furthermore the Make060 command and two demos ha...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.6 (x86) (08. Sep. 2024)
The "AROS One" distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 is now available in version 2.6 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found. ...

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.8 for Windows, Linux and macOS (06. Sep. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for the reverse engineering of Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It enables the disassembly and examination of binary files (YouTube video of version 0.8). Thanks to the major update to version 0.8, Aira Force now ...

Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.4 (05. Sep. 2024)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's program AmiTranslate (video) is an interface for the translation service DeepL with additional PDF and UTF-8 text storage and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS. The new version 0.4 contai...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.17 (AmigaOS 3/4) (04. Sep. 2024)
Version 5.17 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.3.2 (3.9.2024) of OpenSSL. The changes in detail: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.3.2 (3....

Event: AmiWest 2024 (04. Sep. 2024)
This year's AmiWest in Sacramento will take place from October 25-27. As Bill 'tekmage' Borsari reports in the official event blog, there are almost 40 tables this year, and David Haynie, Trevor Dickinson, Bill Panagouleas and Doug Compton are named as we...

Logic game: Untangle v1.0 (04. Sep. 2024)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Worth a read: Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers (03. Sep. 2024)
In the blog post "Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers" on datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson describes the homely atmosphere when using old home computers. He emphasizes the simpler technology and ...