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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal v2023-10-29 (29. Oct. 2023)
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compat...

Tool: Mnemosyne shows used harddisk space (update) (29. Oct. 2023)
Mnemosyne is a tool for AmigaOS 3.x that shows how much space files and folders take up on the hard disk. It is supposed to help manage the space on the hard disk better. Mnemosyne is written in C and uses ReAction. ClassAct is required under AmigaOS 3.1 ...

Demoparty: Results of the TRSAC (26. Oct. 2023)
Last weekend, the last edition of the TRSAC demo party took place in Aarhus, Denmark. The organisers have now published various recordings and offer all entries of the various competitions for download. The results lists have also been published on Pouet....

WhatIFF magazine asking for recomemndations for best new releases of 2023 (25. Oct. 2023)
The AmigaGuide magazine "WhatIFF" is asking for recommendations for best hardware and software products released in 2023, the nominations will be described in detail in the magazine's next issue which will be released in December....

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE #151 (Italian/English) (25. Oct. 2023)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian and English editions. The magazine's game reviews compare ports of a title to different platforms (if available) and often focus on lesser known games. Th current issue c...

Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.9 (25. Oct. 2023)
Today version 2.5.9 of the web browser IBrowse has been released as a free update for existing customers. Changes: Fixed the disk cache, which became broken in 25.109 Now requires AmiSSL 5.12 for secure connections Added workaround for AmigaOS 4.x ...

Bachelor thesis "Amiga ASCII Art" (25. Oct. 2023)
Glyph Drawing Club is a free, modular online design and text art tool suitable for creating custom type design, illustrations, patterns and more. The origins of the tool, developed by Heikki Lotvonen, go back to his bachelor thesis "Amiga ASCII Art" writt...

Frogger clone: Frogger500 V1.1 (update) (24. Oct. 2023)
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), the final version 1.0 of the Frogger clone "Frogger500" has been released. Update: (25.10.2023, 05:18, dr) Version 1.1 fixes a graphic error....

Rogue-like game: Rogue Declan v1.1.3 (24. Oct. 2023)
After winning AmiGameJam 2022, Nivrig Games has released a major update to its twin-stick shooter (YouTube video): Over 100 changes since the jam version Four new play modes Improved in game music and effects including a brand new track Lair Rooms...

Platform game: Capitan Trueno (24. Oct. 2023)
"El Capitán Trueno" is a video game for 8-bit systems released in 1989, based on the Comics of the same name published between 1956 and 1968. The Amiga port of the game was created using the Game Construction Kit RedPill and requires at least a 68020 proc...

WHDLoad: New installers until 21.10.2023 (22. Oct. 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 21.10.2023: 2023-10-17 improved: Breach (Omnit...

Music: Guitar Rock covers of Turrican tracks (22. Oct. 2023)
'BadHairlineProductions' plays music from video games. Now he has also recorded some tracks from Turrican I and II as guitar rock versions, which are available as videos under the title link. As the artist told us, he started playing some Mario, Pokémo...

Theme set: 32se and 32se lite V7.20 for AmigaOS 3.2 (21. Oct. 2023)
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about ten US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators. In the new version...

Print magazine: Boing #7 (French) (20. Oct. 2023)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages. The seventh issue among others includes an Amiga buyer's guide, listing the different solutions available today, inform...

CLI command: sysvars - system information as environment variables (20. Oct. 2023)
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical f...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Truxz (18. Oct. 2023)
Additional to Fatal Mission, there is another Amiga game started by Ola Zandelin (and Rodrigo Perez) that he did not finish: "Truxz" was supposed to be a 3D racing game with texture mapping. Planned were about nine different types of weapons, many differe...

3D action adventure: Bugdom 2 for Linux and MorphOS (18. Oct. 2023)
Similar to the first part of the 3D action adventure game "Bugdom", the second part of the game originally published by Pangea Software was ported to modern OS by 'jorio'. Afterwards, 'BeWorld' compiled Bugdom 2 for MorphOS (the latest SDL archive is r...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.2 (x86) (18. Oct. 2023)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.2 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings. Beside...

Video: Procedurally generated levels in AMOS (17. Oct. 2023)
The procedural generation of levels is a technique for creating game worlds in which one does not create each individual level by hand, but uses algorithms to construct the levels programmatically. This allows for almost unlimited variation and can shorte...

Joystick repairs: Replacement PCB for the Competition Pro Mini (16. Oct. 2023)
The "Competition Pro Mini" is a miniaturized version of the well-known Competition Pro joystick. Thanks to their small size, the micro switches used in these joysticks aren't really up to the mechanical stress they're put through while playing games ...