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Survival game: Zombie Survivor v0.69 (17. May. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fend off an endless army of the undead (amiga-news.de reported). According to the author, the latest beta version is "a big leap forward"...
Amiga emulator: Audio fix for vAmigaWeb (iOS, iPadOS) (17. May. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has fixed the problem that after activating the mobile phone or iPad from a longer...
Managing ADF files: adflib V0.9.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (16. May. 2024)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported)...
Arcade port: King and Balloon V0.92 (16. May. 2024)
"King and Balloon" is an arcade conversion of the title King & Balloon, originally released by Namco in 1980 (amiga-news.de reported). The new beta version 0.92 that has now been released fixes some graphics and sound effect problems and Fix spawn positio...
Print/PDF magazine: ZZAP! Amiga, issue 15 (15. May. 2024)
After Patreon supporters, also the general public can now purchase the March/April issue of the “ZZAP! Amiga” magazine. It consists of 60 color pages in A5 size. A look at the table of contents can be found, along with other photos, on Steven ...
DiskFlashback: Using image files and discs in PC drives (14. May. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has introduced DiskFlashback, a convenient software for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) that enables PC floppy drives to read and write image files such as ADFs (Amiga Disk Files) during operation. It also allows you to process real discs in Am...
Blog: Repairing an Amiga 1200 with an unusual problem (13. May. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings describes in a recent blog entry how he repaired an Amiga 1200 whose motherboard worked for 15 minutes and then crashed with a black screen, sometimes paired with random noise....
Linux: Kernel 6.9 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (13. May. 2024)
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.9, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.9.0-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB)...
Historical document: Amiga presentation from 1984 (12. May. 2024)
In June 1984, the heads of "Amiga Computer, Inc." had met with representatives of Commodore to discuss the licensing or purchase of Amiga's currently developed technology. Commodore's financial director at the time, Don Greenbaum has now presented the hob...
Aminet uploads until 11.05.2024 (12. May. 2024)
The following files have been added until 11.05.2024 to Aminet:
MCE.lha game/edit 4.2M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
GIOminoAros.zip game/jump ...
OS4Depot uploads until 11.05.2024 (12. May. 2024)
The following files have been added until 11.05.2024 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Mult...
Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.3) (11. May. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this further early demo version, the player's power has been upgraded...
Reverse Engineering: Dungeon crawler Bloodfest (11. May. 2024)
In relation to games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game in order to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, Petri Häkkinen, author of the dungeon crawler Bloodfest, had lost...
Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.15 (AmigaOS 3/4) (10. May. 2024)
Version 5.15 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.3.0. Detailed changes:
Switched to OpenSSL 3.3, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.3.0 (9.4.2024) version,...
AmigaOS 4: Partitioning and formating the A1222 Plus SSD drive (09. May. 2024)
Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci has purchased an A1222 Plus in addition to his existing AmigaOS 4 hardware (MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000). In a first article he reported on the various parts that are included in his complete system. Now he explains how to partition an...
Video: Compilations of game music (09. May. 2024)
The YouTube channel "RetroSpeedruns" has two videos for those who would like to indulge in the music of old Amiga gaming times: Another Amiga Music Compilation (1988-1994) offers, for example, Alien Breed, Apidya, The Chaos Engine or Jaguar XJ220, while A...
Developer log: Amiga Isometric #4 (09. May. 2024)
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de reported). After three further entries - Amiga Isometric #2, Amiga Isometric #3 and Amiga Isometric #3.5 - the ability to...
Preview video: Scorpion Engine port of "Street Fighter 1" (09. May. 2024)
Mohammed Malik is in the process of using the Scorpion Engine to port the well-known beat'm up "Street Fighter 1" for the Amiga in a new and better way compared to the existing version. The target platform is an Amiga 500 with 512 Kb RAM. The author start...
Interview: Announcement of a cost-reduced MiSTer FPGA board (08. May. 2024)
Taki Udon recently presented the prototype of a cost-reduced version of the FPGA Amiga clone "MiSTer" in a video. Wes Fenlon has now interviewed him at the title link, so that details of the new board are now also available in writing.
After the price ...
USB-C power supply: 2nd batch of the PowerShark imminent - color choice possible (08. May. 2024)
The “PowerShark” is a USB-C-based power supply unit for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200, which sold out quickly. A second batch with very minor changes to the electronics is now about to go into production, for which a new housing c...
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