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The Guardian: An ironic look back at the Amiga (30. Apr. 2024)
'The Guardian', a renowned British daily newspaper, published a commentary in English on 26 April 2024 that takes a ironical look at the enduring love for the Amiga, which is classed as technically obsolete. Entitled ‘My Undying Love for the Painful...

Diskmag: Amiga Rulez #2 now also available in English (30. Apr. 2024)
Almost a fortnight ago, the second issue of the disc magazine Amiga Rulez was published in German (amiga-news.de reported). The English edition has now also been available as of 28 April. In the current update version, the event section has been expanded ...

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...

Demo: "V4driver" 1.06 for Apollo Vampire V4 (29. Apr. 2024)
In mid-January, Sami Vehmaa released "V4driver", his second demo after 30 years, which he wrote exclusively for the Apollo Vampire V4 (amiga-news.de reported). With this update to version 1.06, he has made some fine adjustments such as the parallax timing...

Developer log: New graphics for the strategy game "Ecliptic" (29. Apr. 2024)
At the beginning of April, a new demo version of the strategy game "Ecliptic", which is currently under development, was released (amiga-news.de reported). Now the author has published a detailed developer diary in which he explains how he creates new mon...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (28. Apr. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: In the Forest (Midnight Resistance) Concerto for Lasers and Enemies (Tyros 3 edition) Outrun - Magical Sound Sh...

Do it yourself: HD floppy drive - Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk (Amiga-HDDLW) (28. Apr. 2024)
"Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk" describes the conversion of a 1.44 MB PC floppy disk drive into a corresponding HD drive for the Amiga. It is described for two models, the MPF920-E from Sony and the FD-235HF from TEAC. After the conversion, the speed of t...

A simple AmigaOS GUI in assembler (28. Apr. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year, Edwin van den Oosterkamp kindly wrote a tutorial for us based on his book "Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction" on how to create a GUI in C and thus demonstrated an introduction to C programming. Now he has...

A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS (27. Apr. 2024)
Press rekease: Cardiff, 27 April 2024 A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce further development of Personal Paint. Latest version 7.4 will be pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS Computer. A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint f...

USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.24 (26. Apr. 2024)
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes in version 1.24: Fix Massive ...

Video tutorials: Run command and IFF screens in AMOS (26. Apr. 2024)
In two more videos of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows on the one hand how to call other AMOS programs from existing AMOS programs by using the Run command (YouTube video), and on the other hand how to use an I...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 157 (Italian/English) (25. Apr. 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...

Survey: Future focus of Kea Sigma Delta's work (25. Apr. 2024)
Hans De Ruiter's (for example FTP server ZitaFTP) company Kea Sigma Delta has written several books on programming, produced videos and spent most of his time developing his own stuff. In the future, he would like to do more justice to his own slogan "We ...

Emulator: QEMU 9.0.0 released (25. Apr. 2024)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU ...

AmigaOS 4: Mini review of Heretic 2 (24. Apr. 2024)
The adaptation of the third-person shooter "Heretic 2", originally released in 1998 for the PC and two years later also for the Amiga, to AmigaOS 4, which was released this year, was subjected to a short review by Pavel 'pavlor' Dohnal at the ti...

Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created (24. Apr. 2024)
At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the scree...

Arcade port: Phoenix500 (23. Apr. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has converted another arcade classic for the Amiga: Phoenix500 is a top-down space shooter (YouTube video) that has been remade for ECS Amigas....

Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2 (23. Apr. 2024)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available. The game req...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168, preview and excerpts (22. Apr. 2024)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 168 (May/June 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content of this issue, which features four additional pages, includes interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham of ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows (22. Apr. 2024)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...