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Emulator: QEMU 9.0.0 released (25. Apr. 2024)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU ...

AmigaOS 4: Mini review of Heretic 2 (24. Apr. 2024)
The adaptation of the third-person shooter "Heretic 2", originally released in 1998 for the PC and two years later also for the Amiga, to AmigaOS 4, which was released this year, was subjected to a short review by Pavel 'pavlor' Dohnal at the ti...

Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created (24. Apr. 2024)
At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the scree...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38 (23. Apr. 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 is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows (22. Apr. 2024)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems (22. Apr. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6: updated guide file On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is ...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.0 and 6.3.0 (preview) (21. Apr. 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....

AROS Archives uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to AROS Archives: origami.i386-aros.zip dem/int 1Mb Origami Intro by Faemiyah Demogroup thefulcrum.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 9Mb Demo from Matrix libdumb.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 9...

WHDLoad: New installers until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 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 20.04.2024: 2024-04-14 improved: Turrican 3 (F...

Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Ami Sampler 0.7 (21. Apr. 2024)
As the name suggests, "Ami Sampler" is a VSTi 8-bit sampler that is intended to come close to its Amiga role models on other systems and thus combine this nostalgia with modern digital audio workstations. The range of functions therefore also includes rep...

AmigaOS 4: cURL V8.7.1 (19. Apr. 2024)
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs, reported at the end of March in his blog about the release of versions 8.7.0 and 8.7.1. 'MickJT' has now ported this current version for AmigaOS 4....

Event: "ZZAP! Live 2024" in Kenilworth (England) (18. Apr. 2024)
On 17 August 2024, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) will host the second "ZZAP! Live" event (amiga-news.de reported), organised by Fusion Retro Books, der South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum. All Commodore computer systems including th...

Turn-based strategy: Update introduces free elections in "Settle the World" (18. Apr. 2024)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel's latest update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" introduces free elections: In the game, the population of cities can now vote every few years on whether the player should remain in power. E...

Game: Quake 2 as download version for AmigaOS 4 available (17. Apr. 2024)
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to announce that it has taken over the distribution of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The first Amiga version of Quake 2 was released in 2002 by Hyperion Entertainment and has been continued and greatly imp...

Grind: Progress in development of a new Doom clone (16. Apr. 2024)
Grind is a first-person shooter (FPS) currently in development for the Amiga, which should even be able to run on small Amigas, appears extremely smooth in the preview videos shown and makes you want to try out more. The game is being developed with the s...

WinFellow: Developers call for support in preserving old versions (16. Apr. 2024)
WinFellow is one of the most popular Amiga emulators for Windows systems. In order to preserve the digital heritage, the developers are currently compiling an overview of all versions of Fellow for DOS and WinFellow that have ever been released. In additi...

Hollywood Designer 7.0 released (14. Apr. 2024)
Press release:20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood D...

Motorola68k emulation: First alpha version of WLAN driver for Emu68 (update) (14. Apr. 2024)
Michal Schulz continues to work intensively on a WLAN driver for his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported) and has now released the first public alpha version. The driver consists of two parts - the firmware files for the WiFi module i...

Aminet uploads until 13.04.2024 (14. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 33K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga slre.lha dev/lib 17K 68k Super Light Regular Expressio... GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.7M...

OS4Depot uploads until 13.04.2024 (14. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator dgen_sdl.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 Emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg... openfodder.lha g...