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New articles on Obligement website (03. Sep. 2024)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News for J...

Scala MM conversion: Adventure 2 Remake (03. Sep. 2024)
In preparation for the AmiGameJam 2024, 'grindercowboy' has brought an old classic back to life: he has realised his second text adventure "Adventure 2" using Scala MM, a software for presentations, lectures and video captions. His first version only r...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (03. 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 ...

Radio Paralax: Impressions of the Retro Area at gamescom 2024 (02. Sep. 2024)
A video compilation of all the exhibitors, slot machines, consoles, retro computers and showcases in the Retro Area in Hall 10.2 at gamescom 2024 in Cologne has been provided by Radio Paralax on YouTube under the title link. The video gives an impression ...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.4 and 6.3.4 (02. Sep. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1 (29. Aug. 2024)
In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer soft...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update) (28. Aug. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute (28. Aug. 2024)
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on c...

Programming environment: MicroPython for the Amiga in development (27. Aug. 2024)
MicroPython Amiga is a fork of the MicroPython project that brings this programming environment to the classic Amiga (with at least AmigaOS 3.1). The project is still under development, but can already be compiled and used. Amiga-specific features: ...

AROS: First test version of Odyssey browser v2.0 (26. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of August, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released a first test version of the 64-bit browser Odyssey for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). In this next test version, the WebKit engine has been updated from August 2015 to February 201...

AROS: Full version of word processor Final Writer 7.1 (26. Aug. 2024)
Following yesterday's release of demo versions for the first update of the Final Writer word processor since 1997, the full versions are now also available for the following systems for the equivalent of approx. 45 euros each: AROS-68K (23.7 MB, Engl...

AROS: Demo version of word processor Final Writer 7.1 (25. Aug. 2024)
Nine years after the initial announcements, the word processor Final Writer is now receiving its first update since 1997: The new rights holder Timothy "terminills" Deters is offering free demo versions for AROS-68K, AROS-x86-64 and AROS-x86 ABIv0 (...

OS4Depot uploads until 24.08.2024 (25. Aug. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.08.2024 to OS4Depot: spotless.lha dev/deb 668kb 4.1 Your favorite debugging tool arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... baphometscreensaver.lha uti/mi...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.08.2024 (25. Aug. 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 24.08.2024: 2024-08-22 fixed: Test Drive 2 (Bl...

Demoparty: Deadline 2024 (Berlin, 4.10.-6.10.) (24. Aug. 2024)
The tenth anniversary edition of the Deadline Demo Party will take place from October 4-6 in Berlin and will feature classic demoscene competitions, seminars, fun competitions, retro computing, DJs and live sets and much more. Amiga entries can be submitt...

Demoparty: Results of Evoke 2024 (24. Aug. 2024)
Last weekend this year's Evoke demoparty took place. In the competition "Alternative Platforms" the following Amiga productions ranked the following places: 4th place: Konrad Zuses Plankalkül by The Electronic Knights 6th place: Evokaetion by The El...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.224 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (21. Aug. 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...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.11 (20. Aug. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released versions 8.10 and 8.11 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS in quick succession, which is now based on the latest, stable WebKitGTK version 2.44.3. In addition, a rare crash when pressing the back/forward buttons...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor V2.04 (update) (20. Aug. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead. In addition to many new features and improvements, the jump to version 2.00 has al...