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Introduction: The AMOS game "The Gate" (in development) (03. Oct. 2023)
For quite some time now, we have been reporting on Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's projects such as the Hollywood GUI system HGUI or the Hollywood utility APPBuilder. After G.E.M.Z., the programmer has now again started writing a game, which he has given the p...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6 for Windows, Mac and Linux (02. Oct. 2023)
A year and a half after the last release, a new version of Furnace is available: a tool which allows you to create music using sound chips ("chiptune"), most from the 8/16-bit era. It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and...

Development tool: vasm 1.9e (01. Oct. 2023)
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm. Changes: Exit before reading the source (from stdin) when there were errors already.Make sure the relocated blocks within all sections are closed after parsing. Otherwise the firs...

AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.21 (Beta) (30. Sep. 2023)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006). The new beta ...

Announcement: Workbench distribution AmiKit for PiStorm/PiStorm-lite (30. Sep. 2023)
In addition to the existing versions for Raspberry Pi, Windows, Mac and Linux, the workbench distributions AmiKit will soon also be available for the PiStorm and PiStorm-lite (YouTube video). The hardware and software requirements can already be seen unde...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 24 (28. Sep. 2023)
The 24th issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on 05 October 2023. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the CD32, the latest issue looks at the history of the console. There is also a downloadable CD32 cover disc with the fu...

DIY: Firmware 1.01 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (28. Sep. 2023)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). With the current version 0.21 of the schematics, all co...

Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer (24. Sep. 2023)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga: Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered o...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.09.2023 (24. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to OS4Depot: gifanimdt.lha dat/ani 164kb 4.1 Datatype for animated GIFs giflib-extras.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.1 Some extras to go with GifLib. libwebp.lha dev/lib 7Mb ...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate (22. Sep. 2023)
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Change...

Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim (22. Sep. 2023)
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to...

AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta) (22. Sep. 2023)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006). The new beta ...

MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.18, Contacts 1.1 (19. Sep. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.18 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.1 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes: Iris V1.18 Updated to match changes in Contacts application Updated curl, mysql and othe...

Platform games: Updates for all four parts of Boxx series (18. Sep. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' has released updates for the three parts of his Boxx remake series as well as for the fourth part. All four parts now use the same Scorpion engine version. The changes in the overview: Version 1.01 of Boxx 1 remake: Menu...

Creating slideshows/Videoplayer: RNOSlides for all Amiga ystems (17. Sep. 2023)
The developer 'jPV' has added another tool to its already extensive portfolio of RNO applications: RNOSlides is a programme for creating slideshows (MJPEG/AVI format), which can play them in real time (YouTube video). Furthermore, it can also play videos ...

Demoparty: Results of the Nordlicht 2023 (16. Sep. 2023)
Last weekend the Nordlicht-Demoparty 2023 took place in Bremen (amiga-news.de reported). Now the results are available on Pouet and three Amiga productions also made it into the rankings: in the "512 Byte Compo" AttentionWhore took third place with hypotr...

LinuxJedi blog: PiStorming (15. Sep. 2023)
In his latest blog entry, Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports on the installation of a PiStorm32-lite (with Raspberry Pi 4) in his Amiga 1200 and clearly summarises important points to consider....

OS4Depot uploads until 09.09.2023 (10. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 09.09.2023 to OS4Depot: blackivan.lha gam/car 14Mb 4.0 A blackjack clone koala_seasons.lha gam/pla 11Mb 4.1 Koala Seasons is a game to show ... ...

Pop Art: Amiga pictures from Keith Haring found, sold via NFT auction (07. Sep. 2023)
Keith Haring was a well-known member of the US Pop Art movement, who was gifted an Amiga by Timothy Leary, another famous artist, to design graphics for Leary's never completed computer version of the Science Fiction novel Neuromancer. Learys Neuroma...

Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.4.0 (05. Sep. 2023)
'wicknix' has released version 32.4.0 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version is a major development update, further imp...