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Website: 25 years of Games That Weren't (05. May. 2024)
Frank Gasking's website "Games That Weren't", which is dedicated to unpublished game projects for various platforms, looks back on its 25th anniversary at the title link. Originally started with the C64, there is also an Amiga spin-off created in 2005 by ...

AMOS Professional: BSD Socket Extension 1.1.4 (04. May. 2024)
With the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional by John Bintz, AMOS programmes can easily access the Internet. Originally started by the author in 1998, version 1.1.4 fixes several crashes and a problem that prevented the extension from working proper...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. May. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor (03. May. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fend off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The game is in development and currently has a world with 99 levels....

Platform game: Level 2 of the demo version of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas (02. May. 2024)
At the end of January, we introduced the platform game project "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas in detail. A few weeks later, a demo version with the first level was released (YouTube video). Now the developer 'lionagony', supported by his daughter who ...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 29 (02. May. 2024)
Issue 29 of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available from the publisher. The cover story is the French games industry, and the magazine also includes reviews of "Final Fight Enhanced" and of the book "Demoscene: The Logo Art", a retrospective ...

New articles on Obligement website (01. May. 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 for Ma...

Video from Amiga 30 event in California: Steve Jobs' fishing trip to Amiga 1983 (01. May. 2024)
As part of the Californian Amiga 30th birthday celebrations, Amiga investor and director Bill Hart told the story of Steve Jobs visiting the Amiga developers, who were in need of financial support in 1983. Jobs had money, so Amiga was interested in talkin...

Quake 2 now also available for AmigaOS 3.x as digital version (30. Apr. 2024)
Press release: Alinea Computer is very pleased to be able to offer the version for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) as a digital download in addition to the Quake 2 version for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and has implemented n...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for April 2024 (30. Apr. 2024)
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link....

Arcade shooter: Phoenix500 now also for AGA-Amigas (30. Apr. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has updated the arcade classic Phoenix500, released a few days ago for ECS-Amigas, with a version optimised for AGA systems. The top-down space shooter (YouTube video) now includes new graphics by Toni Galvez in its AGA mode. Ph...

TankX: Tank game returns after 30 years with new single-player mode (30. Apr. 2024)
About 30 years ago, the tank game Tankkk was released, in which each k in the name stood for the number of tanks in the game. Until now, Tankkk could only be played with up to six players on one computer. Now, after almost three decades, developer K-P Kol...

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...