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Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.10 (15. Jun. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The current version 1.10 offers the following changes: more s...

Individual Computers: Features of Indivision ECS V4 (14. Jun. 2024)
V4 of the Indivision ECS flickerfixer and scandoubler developed by Individual Computers will be available in limited quantities from 15 July. The previous version V3 is sold out. In a forum post, developer Jens Schönfeld explains new functions and details...

Worth a read: 42 years of programming - The Amiga (13. Jun. 2024)
Matthias Wiesmann is a Swiss computer scientist who took part in a programming camp 42 years ago, where he learned to program for the TRS-80. As he writes in his blog, programming languages have changed a lot over time, and the computer world used to be m...

Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.47 for Linux, macOS and Windows (13. Jun. 2024)
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, re...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...

Event: Interface XXXVIII in Kiel, Germany, on 22.06.2024 (12. Jun. 2024)
Sven Scheele writes: On Saturday, June 22, 2024, the second "Interface" in 2024 will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. This will be the 38th edition of the retro computer get-together. As always, the organizers are the Vintage Computer Club...

Developer log: Weapons for the strategy game "Ecliptic" (12. Jun. 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). In another detailed developer diary, the author now writes about some of the weapons that can be us...

Video game history: Amiga Germany trading cards (11. Jun. 2024)
The team behind Amiga Germany, which founded and manages the Facebook group of the same name and publishes the associated magazine, has presented a new project that should be of interest to collectors who are interested in the history of video games: the ...

Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback V1.0.1.0 (11. Jun. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has written 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 Amiga...

Background: The Amiga 8 sprite myth (10. Jun. 2024)
In a recent article Edwin van den Oosterkamp corrects the misconception, which in his opinion is still widespread today, that a programmer has to resort to tricks on the Amiga in order to be able to display more than 8 sprites on the screen....

Action-Adventure: 2nd June update of "Castlevania AGA" (09. Jun. 2024)
Dante Mendes has released another June update (amiga-news.de reported) for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula", which fixes some problems: a problem with screen transitions after a continu...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.00 (09. Jun. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's current project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released versi...

Aminet uploads until 08.06.2024 (09. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 08.06.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 99K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga convolver.lha dev/amos 114K 16bit mono convolver HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 928K Hollyw...

OS4Depot uploads until 08.06.2024 (09. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 08.06.2024 to OS4Depot: amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL gluae.lha emu/uti 15kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS hwp_htex.lha lib/hol 13Mb 4.0 Hollywood ...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (09. Jun. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added: Flashback from the Future ...

Game: Ami-H.E.R.O. 1.1 (09. Jun. 2024)
"Ami-H.E.R.O.", inspired by the Atari 2600 game H.E.R.O., (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in version 1.1. New features include updated graphics and a pause function....

Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" V0.3C (08. Jun. 2024)
Besides some other projects like "Deathmine" or "Pumpman", 'PixelPlop' is about to port a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never published to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The second preview video shows the following changes: Rewrote/red...

PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 10 (08. Jun. 2024)
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 14-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue contains, among other things, another installment of the "Graphics Workshop", another part of the PiMiga tutorial and a review of ...

Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.1 (07. Jun. 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 1.10.1. New in this version: Temporal dithering (fake rgb666 in ham6 animations, dither_temporal command line pa...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.16 (AmigaOS 3/4) (07. Jun. 2024)
Version 5.16 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.3.1. Detailed changes: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.3.1 (4.6.2024) version whi...