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Programming competition: Developing of a RedPill game (07. Mar. 2025)
The Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave has organised a programming competition for the RedPill game construction kit, which runs until 28 June: The main aim of the competition is to promote the use of REDPILL. All games that have been developed with R...

E-Book: Amiga Mini for Gamer (07. Feb. 2025)
Arno Sommer runs the YouTube channel "Retro and Games" and has repeatedly reported on the THEA500 Mini in various videos. He has now compiled the knowledge he has gathered in an e-book. It is available from Amazon for 5.78 euros....

Commercial action RPG: Dungeonette - The New Adventure (AGA/CD32) available (07. Dec. 2024)
Adrian Cummings' action RPG "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" (video) is now available. A boxed edition - a DVD case containing a CD32-compatible CD, printed manual, USB stick with ADF files and two disk labels - is being sold on ebay UK for just under 36...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry V7.0.0-RC1 (28. Nov. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using ...

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft updated (WHDLoad configuration fixed) (07. Nov. 2024)
The Rogue-like game Roguecraft has been updated: Besides extended troubleshooting in the readme file, the WHDLoad configuration file has been fixed, enabling usage on THEA500 Mini and other unconventional systems....

Interview: Plaion Marketing Manager on licensing games for retro consoles (08. Oct. 2024)
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interview (‘Licensing is a complicated business’) with Simon Turner, Marketing Director UK and responsible for the global marketing of the retro division. He talks abo...

Platform game: "Dr. Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan" released (14. Sep. 2024)
After five test versions, hoogames has released its platformer "Dr Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan", inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous and created with the Scorpion Engine (YouTube video). In addition to the ADF and lha version, ...

Retro Games: New Amiga "console" to be released in Q1 2025 (20. Aug. 2024)
Retro Games Ltd, developer of the THEA500 Mini, has published a new schedule for the presentation of new products (YouTube video), which shows that the release of the "New Full Size Amiga Console" has been postponed from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the ...

Game announcement: Video about "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" (update) (04. Aug. 2024)
Adrian Cummings (Mutation Software) has published a short video at the title link on the current state of development of his game "Dungeonette - The New Adventure", which is announced to be released at the end of the year for AGA Amigas including the Amig...

Manual: Pandory500 on the THEA500 Mini (German) (30. Jun. 2024)
As reported, the alternative firmware "Pandory500" for the THEA500 Mini enables usage of emulators of other systems. At the title link 'Mingo' has published a German manual with several screenshots how to achieve this....

Event: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at Vectorama 2024 (16. Jun. 2024)
Last weekend, Vectorama 2024, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu (Finland). The Finnish Amiga Users Group was also there, organising an Amiga stand at the gaming event. There were high score competitions in Blocky ...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...

Heise: Article about the Commodore insolvency 30 years ago today (German) (29. Apr. 2024)
At the title link, Heise.de dedicates a German article to the company's history on the occasion of Commodore's insolvency 30 years ago today. Two concluding paragraphs also mention the Escom period and the THEA500 Mini. Independent of the annivers...

THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V3 (21. Apr. 2024)
The alternative firmware "Pandory500" for THEA500 Mini, which is "sideloaded" and enables the use of emulators for other systems (amiga-news.de reported), is now available in version 3. In addition to updates to included emulators, the new fe...

Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.3 released (22. Mar. 2024)
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.3. EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turboboards or the THEA500Mini using ROM files based on it....

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17 (27. Dec. 2023)
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics: Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Ra...

THEA500 Mini: Firmware 1.2.1 released (14. Dec. 2023)
Retro Games Ltd. has released the new firmware 1.2.1 for "THEA500 Mini", its replica of an Amiga 500. The changes: Adds additional game Time Bandit Adds support for custom controller configurations Corrects the speed of Amiga 500 WHDLoad games th...

THEA500 Maxi: Release planned in the 4th quarter of 2024 (04. Nov. 2023)
In a YouTube video under the title link, Retro Games Ltd. not only summarises the past development phase 1, which also included the release of the THEA500 Mini 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), but also announces the release of the "New Full Size Amiga Conso...

Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 16 (29. Oct. 2023)
The sixteenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 colour pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics: Videogames: Reshoot Proxima 3, C64 The Mystery Box, Boxx 2, Boxx 3, B...

Italian magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 15 (04. Sep. 2023)
The 15th issue of the Italian publication "Passione Amiga" - 48 pages in color, available as a PDF download or as a printed magazine - features the following topics: Videogiochi: Boxx, Rogue Declan Zero, Pengo500, Night/Shift, Pleiades 3D, ...