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Event: Guest list for the "ZZAP! Live 2024" in Kenilworth (England) (25. Jul. 2024)
On 17 August 2024, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) will host the second "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by Fusion Retro Books, the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, will take place (amiga-news.de reported). Only 100 tickets are still...

Game: Droid (24. Jul. 2024)
Droid is a run-and-gun platformer that appeared in 1992 as a cover disk of the Atari magazine "ST Format" and has now been ported to the Amiga (video). The version of the game released today, which is only available in PAL resolution, trades as versi...

PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 99 (24. Jul. 2024)
In its latest issue 99, the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" reports on the "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" currently being developed by Mutation Software, which is scheduled for release at the end of 2024, in a separate chapter entitled "...

Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project" (24. Jul. 2024)
In a new preview video (amiga-news.de reported), developer Maurice Doerr explains what he has been working on recently: optimising the engine and adapting the dialogues and selection options. Feedback on the interface or elements of the game is welcome....

Time travel at gamescom 2024: Retro Area invites you to play games and reminisce (23. Jul. 2024)
There is one thing that cannot be missed at gamescom 2024, which takes place in Cologne from 21 to 25 August 2024: the popular Retro Area! In Hall 10.2, visitors will embark on a nostalgic journey through 50 years of video game history. Numerous exhi...

Arcade port: King and Balloon V0.94 (23. Jul. 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 0.94 that has now been released includes small bug fixes, enables joystick support (port 2) and add...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" V0.16.29 (22. Jul. 2024)
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git comp...

Accelerator board projekt: Revision 0.8 of Buffee boards (22. Jul. 2024)
The turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) has been rather quiet lately. Now Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the project, is back with a new blog entry. They can now devote themselves full-time to development again as they h...

Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.2 (22. Jul. 2024)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.2. Changes: Faster extra HAM6 palette optimized. Fixed Atari 8-bit gui glitch. Fixed a bug that caused no...

Video: Interview with Andy Finkel (21. Jul. 2024)
In April Dave McMurtrie did an interview with the former Amiga developer Andy Finkel about his time at Commodore, where he was working since 1981. Now the 50 minute video of the interview has been published at the title link....

Hollywood plugin: Extended SVG support in Pangomonium 2.0 (21. Jul. 2024)
Pangomonium is a plugin for Hollywood that offers a modern text and graphics engine with extensive features, including support for exotic fonts and coloured emojis. In the recently released version 2.0, Pangomonium now also supports SVG image files. ...

Image converter: Lazzy Image Viewer v0.71 for Windows (20. Jul. 2024)
In 2010, 'PascalVault' started to create a website that allows you to quickly convert old image formats into new ones. It was written in PHP but unfortunately "terribly slow", as he writes to us. He is now in the process of porting the code to Pascal u...

Platform game: Test version of "Dr. Dangerous" (19. Jul. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released a playable test version of "Dr Dangerous", which was created with the Scorpion Engine and offers eight playable levels (YouTube video). It is the first project for the Amiga platform a...

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...