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New articles on Obligement website (03. Sep. 2024)
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 for J...

Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator Action in development (03. Sep. 2024)
After Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre had collected all his previous arcade ports at the end of May and released them for the CD32, he is now working on an Amiga port of Galaga as well as a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action: as an agent, you...

Scala MM conversion: Adventure 2 Remake (03. Sep. 2024)
In preparation for the AmiGameJam 2024, 'grindercowboy' has brought an old classic back to life: he has realised his second text adventure "Adventure 2" using Scala MM, a software for presentations, lectures and video captions. His first version only r...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert v1.5 (03. Sep. 2024)
After Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), he has now also released an Amiga port of the second part, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, which is also intended...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (03. Sep. 2024)
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) 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 ...

Radio Paralax: Impressions of the Retro Area at gamescom 2024 (02. Sep. 2024)
A video compilation of all the exhibitors, slot machines, consoles, retro computers and showcases in the Retro Area in Hall 10.2 at gamescom 2024 in Cologne has been provided by Radio Paralax on YouTube under the title link. The video gives an impression ...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.4 and 6.3.4 (02. Sep. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft released, Soundtrack available (02. Sep. 2024)
Badger Punch Games have released "Roguecraft", their "retro-inspired turn-based roguelike all about simplicity and fun" (YouTube video). Licensed and distributed by Thalamus Digital, the download version of the game is available for 72 hours at a 20% disc...

Aminet uploads until 31.08.2024 (01. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to Aminet: gasm80.lha dev/cross 70K 68k Generic assembler for Z80/6502 HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.3M ALL Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo... GISkyBallsAros.zip gam...

OS4Depot uploads until 31.08.2024 (01. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks... mce.lha g...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.08.2024 (01. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: RapaGUI_2.2.lha A cross-platform GUI to... gasm80.lha Generic Z80 assembler dethrace_0.7.1.1.lha Reverse engineering the... AmiArcad...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 161 (Italian/English) (01. Sep. 2024)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

Scene World Podcast Episode #196 - Metro Siege (01. Sep. 2024)
In the 196th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team working on the game "Metro Siege", which is intended to run on a vanilla Amiga 500 and to be played online with multiple players - the...

Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man (31. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported)....

Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update) (31. Aug. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Video: AmiKit 12 on a Raspberry Pi 5 (30. Aug. 2024)
Under the title link, Amiga Bill talks to AmiKit developer Ján Zahurančík about his workbench distribution AmiKit 12 and shows how it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. He also gives tips and tricks and talks about the development of the distribution....

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8 (30. Aug. 2024)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released: Bug fixes Performance improvements Speed up initialization on 68000 systems Lidefl...

Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2 (29. Aug. 2024)
pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the...

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1 (29. Aug. 2024)
In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer soft...