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Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.2 for Aseprite (05. Dec. 2023)
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.2 has now been released with the following changes: Dialog button shortcuts have been added. Added a ne...

Aminet uploads until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to Aminet: REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support f1champ.lha docs/misc 74K Statistics of Formula One 195... anaiis_massive.lha driv...

WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
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 02.12.2023: 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's ...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor (02. Dec. 2023)
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, w...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (02. Dec. 2023)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7 (02. Dec. 2023)
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalst...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems (02. Dec. 2023)
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs i...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (30. Nov. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level....

Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated (29. Nov. 2023)
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slo...

Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite (29. Nov. 2023)
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now pub...

Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59 (29. Nov. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes: Fixes: Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being displayed. Info window: Fix PSID so...

Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24 (27. Nov. 2023)
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions....

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4 (27. Nov. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) 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 ...

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4 (26. Nov. 2023)
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4: Encoding prob...

WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023 (26. Nov. 2023)
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 25.11.2023: 2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Line...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English) (25. Nov. 2023)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues co...

Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online (25. Nov. 2023)
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher....

Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette (25. Nov. 2023)
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music ...

AROS: Irritating bug of the month November (25. Nov. 2023)
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he the...

Amiga Kit: A600GS Wiki updated (23. Nov. 2023)
In addition to the launch of a dedicated, albeit currently still empty, A600GS website for the planned games console, which will be available in the first quarter of 2024, the Wiki under the title link has also been updated. According to this, there will ...