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Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project" (24. Jul. 2024)
In a new preview video (amiga-news.de reported), developer Maurice Doerr explains what he has been working on recently: optimising the engine and adapting the dialogues and selection options. Feedback on the interface or elements of the game is welcome....

Time travel at gamescom 2024: Retro Area invites you to play games and reminisce (23. Jul. 2024)
There is one thing that cannot be missed at gamescom 2024, which takes place in Cologne from 21 to 25 August 2024: the popular Retro Area! In Hall 10.2, visitors will embark on a nostalgic journey through 50 years of video game history. Numerous exhi...

Hollywood plugin: Extended SVG support in Pangomonium 2.0 (21. Jul. 2024)
Pangomonium is a plugin for Hollywood that offers a modern text and graphics engine with extensive features, including support for exotic fonts and coloured emojis. In the recently released version 2.0, Pangomonium now also supports SVG image files. ...

Aminet uploads until 20.07.2024 (21. Jul. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.07.2024 to Aminet: CVBasic.lha dev/cross 265K 68k BASIC compiler for Colecovision gasm80.lha dev/cross 57K 68k Generic Z80 assembler REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5....

Image converter: Lazzy Image Viewer v0.71 for Windows (20. Jul. 2024)
In 2010, 'PascalVault' started to create a website that allows you to quickly convert old image formats into new ones. It was written in PHP but unfortunately "terribly slow", as he writes to us. He is now in the process of porting the code to Pascal u...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.1 (19. Jul. 2024)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.6 for Windows (19. Jul. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.6 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools v1.18 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Requires Greaseweazle 1.18 New image format: NS Dos Northsta...

MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.28 (18. Jul. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.28 of his e-mail program Iris for MorphOS. Changes include improvements in the insertion of links and graphics as well as speed improvements in the synchronization of local folders and file selection opera...

Demoscene: TRISTAR + TSA and DevLab-TSA makerspace archive has been launched (16. Jul. 2024)
The members of the former demoscene group ‘TRISTAR’ have put an archive online that contains extensive material from the period 1987 to 2012, including demos (for C64, PC and Amiga), music and graphics documenting the creative history of the g...

Programming: IDE Codecraft 1.15 (14. Jul. 2024)
Camilla Boemann's Codecraft is an integrated development environment (IDE). It was tested with SAS/C and E, but should also support other programming languages. The IDE is free of charge, but requires at least AmigaOS 3.2.2 as it is an extension of t...

Print magazine: "VD aktuell" 04 (13. Jul. 2024)
Press release: Summer fun with the retro gaming illustrated magazine on 64 full-color pages! It's getting hot outside, time for some cool, easily digestible retro snacks! In the new issue of german VD aktuell, we take an intimate look at the relationsh...

Test: Audio playback on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus (10. Jul. 2024)
Due to its incompatible FPU, the use of AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus is subject to restrictions, which also affect popular audio playback programs such as AmigaAMP. 'Ktadd' has tested a few of them at the title link. AmigaAMP requi...

Developer's diary: Dune II - The Building of A Remaster (09. Jul. 2024)
Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II, has set himself the goal of developing a remake for the Amiga that largely eliminates the limitations of the original release compared to the DOS o...

Rogue-Like "Roguecraft". Preview video, boxed edition can be pre-ordered (09. Jul. 2024)
The 'Roguelike' Roguecraft, a revised port of the C64 title Rogue 64 from the same developer, is to be released in September in digital and physical editions. Pre-orders for the boxed edition will be accepted until the end of the month. Torque' shows the ...

Multiple-choice adventure: Ninja Carnage (09. Jul. 2024)
In "Ninja Carnage", the player controls a constantly cursing ninja who has to execute a Yakuza boss. The game mechanics are described by the developer as "Die & Retry": decisions have to be made constantly, wrong decisions lead to one of 128 different dea...

Free/Libre hardware: SMD2000 "Bushfire", an A2000 in Mini-DTX form factor (09. Jul. 2024)
SMD2000 "Bushfire" is a version of the A2000 motherboard in mini-DTX format (170 mm × 203 mm). The computer has a modular design: In order to be able to work with different Agnus revisions, the Agnus and chip RAM are located on a separate daughterboard. T...

The Grid: A new Tron-clone for up to 10 players (07. Jul. 2024)
Today, LogicalByte launched the game The Grid. This is a Tron clone with support for up to ten players simultaneously. The requirement for this number of players is an OctaPlayer adapter from Alinea Computer, which is currently still under development and...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 169 (06. Jul. 2024)
The English and German issue 169 (July/August 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes a sp...

Synth-Pop mit Amiga-Beteiligung: "Bleakwave" von Vogue Renege (04. Jul. 2024)
Amiga musician Paulee Alex Bow has released an EP called "Bleakwave" under the artist name 'Vogue Renege'. The songs can be purchased on Bandcamp, a CD version can be ordered from the author by e-mail. As Bow tells us, a whole series of Amiga computers...

AmigaOS 4: ignition OpenDocument addon V0.40, Excel addon V0.12 (04. Jul. 2024)
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.30 (amiga-news.de reported) Achim Pankalla has also updated two addons: The ods-addon enables tables to be loaded and saved in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among oth...