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Event: Commodore and Amiga Meeting (Belgium) (19. Jul. 2024)
The "Belgian Amiga Club" is once again organising a "BAC Meeting" on 21 September in Antwerp. Admission is from 1 pm. In addition to workshops and lectures, a special focus this year will be on new hardware such as the A600GS and the A1222 Plus. Admission...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.1 (19. Jul. 2024)
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...

Adventure: Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" v2.1 (19. Jul. 2024)
Paul Golian began writing his graphic adventure Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" in 2000, interrupted work on it in 2002 and was only able to continue it last year when he retired (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 2.1 (YouTube tr...

Linux: Kernel 6.10.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (19. Jul. 2024)
Parallel to the release of the ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.18 (19. Jul. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Alinea Computer is looking for Amiga game developers to support the Octodapter (18. Jul. 2024)
Simon Neumann writes: "We are looking for game developers who would like to adapt their existing Amiga games or future developments to our new 10 player adapter called Octodapter. The Octodapter provides 8 additional joystick ports via the Amiga's para...

Games database LemonAmiga back online after hacker attack (17. Jul. 2024)
The comprehensive games database LemonAmiga was the victim of a hacker attack last Sunday (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, the website is back online and fully usable. According to the operators of LemonAmiga, the hackers gained access to the ent...

Arcade Attack: interview with Barry Leitch about Lotus 2 (17. Jul. 2024)
Barry Leitch is one of the world's longest-serving composers of video game music and has provided soundtracks and effects for a large number of games during his career. His best-known works include the classic racing games Lotus Turbo Esprit Challenge and...

Demoscene: TRISTAR + TSA and DevLab-TSA makerspace archive has been launched (16. Jul. 2024)
The members of the former demoscene group ‘TRISTAR’ have put an archive online that contains extensive material from the period 1987 to 2012, including demos (for C64, PC and Amiga), music and graphics documenting the creative history of the g...

Programming: IDE Codecraft 1.15 (14. Jul. 2024)
Camilla Boemann's Codecraft is an integrated development environment (IDE). It was tested with SAS/C and E, but should also support other programming languages. The IDE is free of charge, but requires at least AmigaOS 3.2.2 as it is an extension of t...

Games database LemonAmiga has been hacked (14. Jul. 2024)
The games database and retro community "LemonAmiga" has apparently been hacked: both lemonamiga.com and its sister site lemon64.com are currently offline, with only a note from the operators indicating that they are currently analyzing the attack and work...

Aminet uploads until 13.07.2024 (14. Jul. 2024)
The following files have been added until 13.07.2024 to Aminet: HHH-KWR.adf demo/sound 880K 68k Borschtsch - Kuchenwurm HHH-SBM.adf demo/sound 880K 68k Borschtsch - (Sp)BassMan laffiks_fractal.lha dev/amos 4K ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future now with 68 pages (11. Jul. 2024)
The publisher of "Amiga Future" has announced that the size of the print magazine has steadily increased in recent months - starting with the most recent issue, the magazine has 68 pages. It is hoped that the increased size will attract more subscribers....

Test: Audio playback on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus (10. Jul. 2024)
Due to its incompatible FPU, the use of AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus is subject to restrictions, which also affect popular audio playback programs such as AmigaAMP. 'Ktadd' has tested a few of them at the title link. AmigaAMP requi...

Developer's diary: Dune II - The Building of A Remaster (09. Jul. 2024)
Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II, has set himself the goal of developing a remake for the Amiga that largely eliminates the limitations of the original release compared to the DOS o...

Rogue-Like "Roguecraft". Preview video, boxed edition can be pre-ordered (09. Jul. 2024)
The 'Roguelike' Roguecraft, a revised port of the C64 title Rogue 64 from the same developer, is to be released in September in digital and physical editions. Pre-orders for the boxed edition will be accepted until the end of the month. Torque' shows the ...

Multiple-choice adventure: Ninja Carnage (09. Jul. 2024)
In "Ninja Carnage", the player controls a constantly cursing ninja who has to execute a Yakuza boss. The game mechanics are described by the developer as "Die & Retry": decisions have to be made constantly, wrong decisions lead to one of 128 different dea...

Game: Chopper Duel 1.1 (09. Jul. 2024)
Chopper Duel is an Amiga version of the MS-DOS game of the same name by Addict from 1993. The helicopter duel comprises 50 playing fields with 32 colors, requires 512 KB RAM and can be controlled by joystick or keyboard....

Free/Libre hardware: SMD2000 "Bushfire", an A2000 in Mini-DTX form factor (09. Jul. 2024)
SMD2000 "Bushfire" is a version of the A2000 motherboard in mini-DTX format (170 mm × 203 mm). The computer has a modular design: In order to be able to work with different Agnus revisions, the Agnus and chip RAM are located on a separate daughterboard. T...

Interview with Rolf-Dieter Klein and Jim Sachs about "Ports of Call" (08. Jul. 2024)
For their Norwegian website "Spillhistorie" Hans Arne J. ('Retrogamingpappa') and Joachim Froholt have conducted an interview with two fathers of the well-known Amiga game "Ports of Call", namely Rolf-Dieter Klein, one of the two developers alongside Mart...