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Retro Games: New Amiga "console" to be released in Q1 2025 (20. Aug. 2024)
Retro Games Ltd, developer of the THEA500 Mini, has published a new schedule for the presentation of new products (YouTube video), which shows that the release of the "New Full Size Amiga Console" has been postponed from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the ...

Computer history: User manual for the Amiga 300 (20. Aug. 2024)
A user manual dated November 1991 for the computer designed as the Amiga 300 but ultimately named the Amiga 600 has appeared on Archive.org, contributed by Randell Jesup. Photos of this scanned manual can be seen on the Commodore International Historical ...

Coding workshops: Amiga 500 programming at hardware level (20. Aug. 2024)
Michael Martin shares detailed insights into his experimental programming projects for the Amiga 500 on his Bumbershoot Software Blog. Over the past few weeks, he has created a small, coherent series of practical courses in English. He explores advanced t...

Classic remakes: Project X: Lightyears and X-OUT: Resurfaced (20. Aug. 2024)
A small glimpse over the edge of the plate: the popular Amiga games "Project X" and "X-Out" are to be re-released in updated versions for current gaming platforms, with the help of renowned artists in the gaming industry. "Project X: Lightyears" is t...

OS4Depot uploads until 17.08.2024 (18. Aug. 2024)
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator amigagpt.lha n...

WHDLoad: New installers until 17.08.2024 (18. 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 17.08.2024: 2024-08-15 fixed: Dyna Blaster (Hu...

AmigaOS 4: IntuitionBase updated (17. Aug. 2024)
George 'walkereo' Sokianos has extensively updated the IntuitionBase website, which provides an overview of AmigaOS 4 compatible software and hardware: it is now based on what he considers to be one of the best CMS available, Drupal 10, which makes the si...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor v14 (17. Aug. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This wil fix a bug in the game that affected all versions of the game. All users are recommended to install the update....

Operating system for the Amiga: Second alpha version of "Serena OS" (13. Aug. 2024)
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a second alpha version, which is ...

Online chiptune and music module player: Pixeltune (12. Aug. 2024)
Back in 2014, Tomás Pollak, a journalist, developer and musician, released a first version of Pixeltune: a web-based player for chiptune and video game music that builds on a large collection of music that has been carefully archived over the years and in...

Puzzle game: AmiBrixx v2.3 for all Amiga systems (12. Aug. 2024)
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert has released version 2.3 of his puzzle game AmiBrixx. The player's task is to eliminate the stones stacked on the board by clicking on groups of the same colour. In doing so, the tiles above fall down and form new groups. The game ends...

MorphOS: Continued GMail support by Iris questionable (11. Aug. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, author of the e-mail program Iris, reports in a forum post at title link, continued support for the American e-mail service GMail is questionable. Programs that are allowed to access this Google service are subject to certai...

Paper: Trackers - The Rise, Bloom and Later Developments of a Paradigm (11. Aug. 2024)
Markku Reunanen, a lecturer at Finland's Aalto University, has published a paper in English on tracker music programs at the title link, examining 60 trackers and interviewing six developers. As he summarizes, his findings would illustrate the close conne...

Arcade game: Holy Warrior (10. Aug. 2024)
Amiten Games has released the arcade game "Holy Warrior" (YouTube video), in which you have to defend yourself as a knight against skeletons and fallen soldiers in order to recover the six holy books. These books had been scattered and hidden by evil forc...

Developer log: Core functions of the game "The Gate" completed (10. Aug. 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 now describes the current status of his pr...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 18 (09. Aug. 2024)
The current issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" once again comprises 48 colour pages and is available in printed or digital form: Video games: RogueCraft, Tony - Montezuma's Gold, Temptations, King & Balloon, TankX, Ami HERO, Doom RPG, Fre...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.41 (08. Aug. 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 shows improved support of moving platforms) is compatible with AGA an...

Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback v1.0.2 (08. Aug. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has written DiskFlashback, a convenient software for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) that enables PC floppy drives to read and write image files such as ADFs (Amiga Disk Files) during operation. It also allows you to process real discs in Amiga...

Game: Heretic II (2024) to be released for high-performance 68k Amigas (06. Aug. 2024)
Press release: Brussels – August 05, 2024. Hyperion is excited to unveil a brand-new port of Heretic II (2024) developed by Steffen Häuser, tailored specifically for high-performance 68K Amiga systems. About Heretic II: Heretic II is ...

Book: German edition of "The Making of Prince of Persia" now available (06. Aug. 2024)
Jordan Mechner is an internationally renowned game designer whose best-known work is probably "Prince of Persia". Mechner recorded the creation of this global hit in his memoirs, which he wrote down during development and published in 2020 (amiga-news.de ...