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Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid (16. Feb. 2024)
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate d...

TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released (15. Feb. 2024)
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers. This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the inst...

Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany) (15. Feb. 2024)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well a...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2 (13. Feb. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and i...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86) (13. Feb. 2024)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 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 ...

Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories: 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschoo...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC w...

Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music (12. Feb. 2024)
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs: Ultima IV:...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1 (11. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now...

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update) (11. Feb. 2024)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MID...

Aminet uploads until 10.02.2024 (11. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to Aminet: LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program Leu.lha biz/spread 8.0M ALL Simple spreadsheet application SonosController_MOS.lha comm...

AROS Archives uploads until 10.02.2024 (11. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to AROS Archives: ptk_v2.6.4.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea... acidwarp.i386-aros.zip dem/mis 168kb Colour cycling eye-candy badapple.i386-aros.zip d...

Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS (10. Feb. 2024)
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as...

Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS (10. Feb. 2024)
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developi...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (10. Feb. 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...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2) (09. Feb. 2024)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes: AmiUpdate 2.50 The http transfer routines did not consider a filenam...

Demoparty: Lovebyte 2024 (09. Feb. 2024)
This year's edition of the Lovebyte demo party will take place on Discord and Twitch from Friday to Sunday. In addition to various intro competitions, seminars, intro shows and many other events are also planned (timetable)....

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.0.0 (08. Feb. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. After numerous beta versions, he has now released version 1.0.0....

Font: Topaz as TrueType font (08. Feb. 2024)
When the Amiga 500 was launched in 1987, it had a complete graphical user interface, the Workbench. Many of the resources required for Workbench were stored in ROM, including the default user interface font, a monospaced, 8x8px font called Topaz. It's hig...

AROS/MorphOS: Music program ProTrekkr V2.6.4 (update) (08. Feb. 2024)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small size...