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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1) (13. Feb. 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). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) hav...

Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories: 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschoo...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC w...

Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music (12. Feb. 2024)
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs: Ultima IV:...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.7 (11. Feb. 2024)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video)...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1 (11. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now...

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update) (11. Feb. 2024)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MID...

Aminet uploads until 10.02.2024 (11. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to Aminet: LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program Leu.lha biz/spread 8.0M ALL Simple spreadsheet application SonosController_MOS.lha comm...

OS4Depot uploads until 10.02.2024 (11. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to OS4Depot: sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your... snes9x.zip emu/gam 128Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e... leu.lha ...

Event: AUGS meeting 2024 in Zurich (Switzerland) (11. Feb. 2024)
The Amiga User Group Switzerland is hosting this year's meeting on March 16 and 17, 2024 at the Centrum Čechů a Slováků in Zurich. Admission is free for visitors, but registration is mandatory for participation with hardware and subject ...

AmigaOS 4: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.87 (11. Feb. 2024)
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Now Achim Pankalla has released version 1.87. Changes: Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only la...

Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS (10. Feb. 2024)
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as...

Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS (10. Feb. 2024)
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developi...

Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit) (10. Feb. 2024)
The podcast The Retro Hour spoke to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit, about his latest project, the A600GS gaming computer, among other things....

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (10. Feb. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2) (09. Feb. 2024)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes: AmiUpdate 2.50 The http transfer routines did not consider a filenam...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.2 (09. Feb. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). It contains minor bug fixes and improvements as well as a comprehensive hint system in the game that does not spoil anyt...

Blog: Modding the Amiga boot hand (09. Feb. 2024)
Alexander Grupe recently discovered the Amiga start screen redesigned by AndroidArts on X and wondered whether the standard screen designed by Sheryl Knowles could actually be changed or replaced. In a current article on his website heckmeck! he shows tha...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb runs on Apple Vision Pro (09. Feb. 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 a blog entry, the developer 'mithendal' has now published images that show that and how his emulator works with the Apple...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.0.0 (08. Feb. 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. After numerous beta versions, he has now released version 1.0.0....