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PDF document: The Amiga 500 beginner's guide (German) (24. Oct. 2024)
In a 46-page German PDF document, Patrick Schwedt has written both his personal Amiga story and, above all, lots of tips and hints for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or after a long time. There are chapters on drives, memory expansi...

Arananet: Accelerator Trinity 1240-60 can be pre-ordered (24. Oct. 2024)
After four years of development and extensive testing, "best accelerator ever built for the Amiga A1200" has been finalised. The Trinity 1240-60 supports 68040-68060 CPUs and is compatible with all A1200 revisions. According to the developer, great care h...

Blog: Different versions of Amiga Topaz font (24. Oct. 2024)
In his latest article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, reports on his journey of discovery regarding the different Amiga Topaz fonts of the respective Kickstart ROMs: while browsing through Cloanto's collection of Kicksta...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.18 (AmigaOS 3/4) (23. Oct. 2024)
Version 5.18 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.4.0 (22.10.2024) of OpenSSL. Changes: Switched to OpenSSL 3.4, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.4.0 (22.10.2024)...

Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.1 (22. Oct. 2024)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.1. Changes: New features Added Picmatic Marbelle Vice and Tierras Salvajes 100Hz TV laser disc arcade game support. Updates Implemented OpalVision undocumented automatic VRAM bank s...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 33 (22. Oct. 2024)
Issue 33 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team discusses the influence of the Amiga on virtual reality systems. This issue also...

Videogames studies: Experimental action game "Squarez" now available (22. Oct. 2024)
The recently released Squarez is a remake of the Flash game SQUARES 2 and was developed as part of the CHLudens research project (amiga-news.de reported). This abstract action game is controlled entirely by mouse and offers minimalist, rectangle-based gra...

Developer log: Creation of demo "New Art" (1st place at Deadline 2024) (22. Oct. 2024)
In a detailed article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, describes the creation of the demo New Art, which won first place in the "Three Dee" category (3D effect using red/cyan-coloured glasses) at this year's edition of De...

Blog: Comparison of Push-Over versions (Amiga, Atari ST, PC, Super Nintendo) (21. Oct. 2024)
The "Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog" compares and reviews games "as unbiased as possible". The current article compares the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Super Nintendo versions of the Ocean classic Push-Over....

Developer log: Amiga Game Scripting Languages (21. Oct. 2024)
In a recent developer diary entry, Nivrig Games discusses The Bitmap Brothers' own scripting language called "Adventure Creation Language" (ACL) used in the game Cadaver and possible alternatives. This is completed in a second entry....

Aminet uploads until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to Aminet: 8VoicesDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k 8 Voices Demo MiniDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k Trackloader Amiga Demo MiniDemo.png demo/disk 8K 68k Trackload...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (20. Oct. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Flashback, Main Menu Music (Vandahlia Special Remix) Heatbeats Bubblegum (nightwolf 2024 remix) Firehawk Take O...

Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress (20. Oct. 2024)
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or f...

Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5 for the 30th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
Next year, the legendary game Worms celebrates its 30th birthday. To mark the occasion, its programmer Andy Davidson is planning a free new edition for the Amiga. To this end, demo groups around the world are invited to contribute new levels with their ow...

Guides for AmigaOS 4 developers: Kea Campus videos about MUI (20. Oct. 2024)
As part of his membership program "Kea Campus" (amiga-news.de reported), Hans de Ruiter has now completed the videos on cross-compiling AmigaOS 4 programs and started a new series on creating user interfaces with MUI....

Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany (20. Oct. 2024)
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office. However,...

Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available. Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: it...

Logic game: Untangle V1.1 (20. Oct. 2024)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1) (19. Oct. 2024)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound. He ...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (18. Oct. 2024)
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #4 under the title li...