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Tool: Consumer 1.0 shows memory consumption (07. Mar. 2024)
lifeschool' wanted to find out how much memory its recently released game prototype Dizzy 1 consumes and has written the "Consumer" tool for this purpose. Among other things, this is intended to enable developers to estimate the system requirements for ne...

Cross development: amitools 0.8.0 for macOS (07. Mar. 2024)
Christian Vogelgsang has published amitools, a collection of Python 3 tools that should make it possible to work with Amiga OS binaries and files on macOS and all other *nix-like platforms that support Python. The author has not tested it on Windows, but ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 (05. Mar. 2024)
The English and German issue 167 (March/April 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes, bes...

Developer log: Amiga Isometric Scrolling (05. Mar. 2024)
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to Amiga. Under the title link a corresponding developer log was published (YouTube video)....

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.1.0 (05. Mar. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (for example EmptyADF). Changes of version 1.1.0: Creating a...

Event: Interface XXXVII in Kiel (germany) on 16.03.2024 (04. Mar. 2024)
Press release: On Saturday, March 16, 2024, the first "Interface" in 2024 will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. This will be the 37th edition of the retro computer get-together. As always, the organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC)...

Aminet uploads until 02.03.2024 (03. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to Aminet: Amix561.lha comm/amiex 1.1M 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel... amigassh.lha comm/net 32K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga ellipse_xct_npt_drggb... dev/amos 6K ...

AROS Archives uploads until 02.03.2024 (03. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to AROS Archives: pana_sx-kc600.lha aud/mis 5Mb Piano Music MP3 sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb Control Sonos speakers with your... ptk_v2.6.6.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23...

New articles on Obligement website (03. Mar. 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 from...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for February 2024 (03. Mar. 2024)
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link....

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.13.22 (02. Mar. 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...

Musik track: "199X" by LukHash (02. Mar. 2024)
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His current chiptune "199X" takes you back to the 90s: ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3 (01. Mar. 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...

Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.1 (01. Mar. 2024)
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.1 offers s...

Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS (01. Mar. 2024)
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a s...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.8 (01. Mar. 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....

SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6 (29. Feb. 2024)
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A...

Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched (28. Feb. 2024)
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany....

Video series: Restoration of an Amiga 4000 (28. Feb. 2024)
In a six-part video series, the YouTube channel "Retronaut" shows how an Amiga 4000, which was part of a whole conglomerate of items used by a commercial television station in the British Midlands in the 1990s and which no longer worked, is brought back t...

AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru" (27. Feb. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT sometimes knows...