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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) (05. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Ho...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.34 (04. Feb. 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...

OS4Depot uploads until 03.02.2024 (04. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to OS4Depot: amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL json.hollywood.lha dev/mis 6kb 4.0 JSON en- and decoder for Hollywo... mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Mu...

Amiga Future: New full versions online (04. Feb. 2024)
Further full versions of Amiga software have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Font Machine and XDVE CD. The following games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads: A320 Airbus, Alien Drug Lords, Alien Fish Finger, Anstoss, ...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 1 (03. Feb. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open so...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. Feb. 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...

Blog: Limitations of the HAM mode explained on the Hamulet engine (02. Feb. 2024)
Recently, the developer of the game Hamulet - a demo version was included in issue 10 of the English-language Amiga magazine "WhatIFF?" - published a YouTube video that is intended to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept whether a puzzle or platform game cou...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX) (02. Feb. 2024)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on h...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.0 (01. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the Amiga conversion of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally published by Data East in 1986: the player controls an armed military vehicle and must make his way throu...

Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1 (01. Feb. 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. We asked the developer to tell us about the current stat...

New website for AmigaOS 3.x developers (30. Jan. 2024)
A website for AmigaOS 3.x developers has been set up at the title link, which contains articles, a forum and the NDK. The addition of online browsable versions of the autodocs is planned. Questions from users, their bug reports etc., on the other hand,...

OS4Depot uploads until 27.01.2024 (30. Jan. 2024)
The following files have been added until 27.01.2024 to OS4Depot: imp3.lha aud/pla 47kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga! cppcheck.lha dev/uti 4Mb 4.1 A static analysis tool for C/C++... mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4....

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.01.2024 (30. Jan. 2024)
The following files have been added until 27.01.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: AmiArcadia_30.80.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3.lha Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula... SonicMania_1.0.0....

WHDLoad: New installers until 27.01.2024 (30. Jan. 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 27.01.2024: 2024-01-23 fixed: Menace (DMA Desi...

Amiga Kit: Price of A600GS games console set/OctaMED update (29. Jan. 2024)
As AmigaKit writes to us, the price of the games console has now been set at 119 euros. OctaMED v8 from A-EON Technology is to be bundled with the A600GS. In-house developers have added AHI support to the original 1996 source code for OctaMED. This is the...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.6 (28. Jan. 2024)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video)...

Developer tool: Installation package for GCC with accessories (28. Jan. 2024)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski provides an installation package at the title link, which facilitates the installation of the native compiler GCC 2.95.3 under AmigaOS, contains useful additions (e.g. make and diff) and also integrates it with the AmigaOS&nb...

Handheld console: "Amigo Tracker" for PlayDate (27. Jan. 2024)
PlayDate is a handheld games console released in 2022 by the US software developer and computer games publisher Panic Inc (Wikipedia). As the operating system is kept open, external developers can also write software for the console using Lua and C (and a...

Preview video: "The Lost Pixel" for AGA-Amigas (26. Jan. 2024)
"The Lost Pixel" will be a conversion of the game of the same name by bitmagine Studio for AGA-Amigas. The platformer will be created using the RedPill game construction kit and will offer the following features: 64 colours 4 colours background spri...

Preview video: "Trojan" for AGA-Amigas (25. Jan. 2024)
During our advent calendar campaign, especially in the article about Erik 'earok' Hogan, we already reported on a first preview video by 'Retro Passion' about his realisation of the game Trojan for AGA-Amigas with the game construction kit "Scorpion Engin...