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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (05. Sep. 2023)
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as...

WHDLoad: New installers until 02.09.2023 (03. Sep. 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 02.09.2023: 2023-09-01 updated: Crayon Shincha...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2023)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News from Jul...

Linux: Quake mods under Fienix (01. Sep. 2023)
Casey Cullen, developer of the Linux PowerPC distribution Fienix, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000, among others, has started a sub-project called "Quasco", with which one can play various Quake mods from within Fienix without havi...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.0.1 for Windows (update) (31. Aug. 2023)
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.00, which for the first time also includes the sour...

Alinea Computer: TV-Port and OmniPort EX available (30. Aug. 2023)
Press release: Alinea Computer is very pleased to present two versions of the TV-Port and the OmniPort EX. Both products are port expansion boards that can be easily combined with each other. TV-Port The TV port is an interface board for every Am...

Video tutorial: Creating a vertical scrolling demo with Scorpion Engine (30. Aug. 2023)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has posted on YouTube a recording of a Twich stream showing how to create a vertically scrolling demo from scratch on the Amiga (and Sega Mega Drive) using the Scorpion Engine. As the developer explains, the Amiga has no native suppo...

PDF converter: PDF2JPG V1.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 and MorphOS (30. Aug. 2023)
Bernd Assenmacher is in the process of completing his small collection of PDF tools or converters: after Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs), PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), he has now released PDF2JPG, with which one can convert the i...

Event: Developers and shops at Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany) (29. Aug. 2023)
Thorsten Mampel, president of the Amiga club Hamburg, writes: "Besides Matthias Goldisch from 'HobbyRaum - Ihr Retropartner' we are happy that Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer has announced his appearance and will also set up his store at the Amiga-Meet...

Blog: Protagonists in the creation of a demo (update) (29. Aug. 2023)
Carl Svensson's latest blog entry is a tribute to the demo scene and in particular to the protagonists necessary to create a demo. Update: (06:41, 30.08.23, dr) Carl Svenssons has kindly pointed out that the article is a continuation of his recently...

Event: Further informationen on AmiWest 2023 (28. Aug. 2023)
From 12 to 15 October 2023, AmiWest 2023 will take place in Sacramento, California. Now the organisers have published further information: "The AmiWest 2023 is coming fast! Going strong since 1998, this year will be the 26th year of the longest-runni...

Platform game: Updated demo version of "Super Delivery Boy" (27. Aug. 2023)
Two years ago, NeesoGames published the last demo version of "Super Delivery Boy" (amiga-news.de reported). As the developers report, the development of the game has progressed continuously despite the lack of public updates (YouTube video). What has chan...

Puzzle game: Connect V1.4 (27. Aug. 2023)
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Developer Frank Röger has written about the now released version 1.4: "Hel...

Turn-based strategy game: Farm update for "Settle the World" (27. Aug. 2023)
After several developer diaries in which he describes his programming progress, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has published a farm update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World". He writes about it: "This update is also ju...

Motorola68k emulation: Beta version 2.1 of Emu68 (V0.16) (26. Aug. 2023)
Developer Michal Schulz has released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite which fixes bugs of the previous version and introduces many important improvements. Changes: ...

Font: "TopazDouble" as Amiga-native recreation of Topaz (26. Aug. 2023)
"TopazDouble" is an Amiga-native recreation of the 8×8 pixel Topaz font, now rendered in 8×16 for modern resolutions. As the developers wrote, the classic Amiga with 640×256 (PAL) uses a resolution close to 2:1 - which means that the standard Topaz font w...

Video: The Terrible Fire developer Stephen Leary (26. Aug. 2023)
Neil aka RMC has set up The Cave, a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games. There he also welcomes guests for a chat, this time developer Stephen Leary, creator of the Terrible Fire turbo cards, who talks here about their developm...

Action game: "Ooze: The Escape" (26. Aug. 2023)
The developer 'Haplo' - who had already published the puzzle game Tenebra - has converted "Ooze: The Escape", originally published for ZX Spectrum, for the Amiga and given the game, among other things, improved graphics, sprites, animations and sound effe...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.3 / RetroAnimator (update) (25. Aug. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" 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 imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Preview video: Real-time strategy game "AI Kills All Humans" (24. Aug. 2023)
"One Joyful Day" is a new Game Studio making games for Modern Amigas and PC. The first game is called "AI Kills All Humans" and is a tactical Real-time strategy game, in which you play as an AI, which due to a slight change in code, is sending robots to k...