20388 Messages found

AmiFox: Server update (07. Jan. 2024)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's "AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). On the server side, there have now been some minor improvements, which the au...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.1 (update) (07. Jan. 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...

Platform game: Ami-H.E.R.O. (06. Jan. 2024)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest game is an Amiga conversion of the game Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation (H.E.R.O.) from the US games company Activision from 1984, originally programmed for the Atari 2600. The aim of the game is to fly into th...

Text adventure: "Adventure 2" v0.8 (06. Jan. 2024)
After "Adventure 1" (amiga-news.de reported) 'grindercowboy' has published a second text adventure created with the ADMS (Amiga Dungeon Mastering System): in "Adventure 2" you play a space cadet who has the goal of getting back home....

Rally game: Jari-Matti Rally (prototype) (06. Jan. 2024)
In mid-December, 'lifeschool22' published a prototype with "MonkeyEye", with which he wanted to test whether CanDo could be used to create a point'n'click adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has published another prototype with the racing game...

Video tutorial: Transferring Spectrum-Basic code to Amiga-AMOS (06. Jan. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he first enters a printed Basic program from a Sinclair magazine from October 1984 into his 48k ZX Spectrum and then converts it to AMOS Pro on his...

Preview video: Hyperborea (Resurrected) #2 (06. Jan. 2024)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing "Hyperborea", a project started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos) (amiga-news.de reported). Technically, the game is as good as finished. Changes compared to the fi...

Amiga-Emulator: vAmigaWeb - reworked virtual keyboard (06. Jan. 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 this update, the virtual keyboard has been restyled and technically reworked. It is now css-grid-based, which enables aut...

Web browser: NetSurf 3.12 (beta version) (06. Jan. 2024)
About a week ago the official version 3.11 of the web browser NetSurf for AmigaOS 4 was released (amiga-news.de reported). In the article we also reported about a corresponding version for AmigaOS 3, which, however, did not provide working support for enc...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 166 - preview and excerpts (05. Jan. 2024)
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 166 (January/February 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things this issue features an interview with Richard Löwenstein, two meeting reports as well as reviews of GothicVania, Ooze, ...

Emulator: Denise V2.21 (04. Jan. 2024)
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Three weeks ago version 2.21 has been released. Change...

Blog: An ode to Deluxe Paint (04. Jan. 2024)
Carl Svensson's latest blog entry is an ode to the bitmap graphics editor Deluxe Paint (DPaint), the first version of which was developed for the Commodore Amiga 1000 and released in November 1985....

Recovered: Early music programs "Computer Composer" and "Magic Harp" (03. Jan. 2024)
Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences also manages a curated collection of software believed to be lost by Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen. The collection comprises ten games, demos and experiments on artifi...

Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.0 (03. Jan. 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 5.6.0 offers i...

Individual Computers: Buddha Plus One can be preordered (03. Jan. 2024)
Press release: The new Buddha Plus One IDE controller adds new features to a 27-year old design that has been extremely successful over the decades. We're proud to say that even after 38 years of Amiga history, we've introduced novel design ideas how to m...

Demo: THE CURE v1.5 for AGA-Amigas (03. Jan. 2024)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has relea...

Text adventure: Adventure 1 (02. Jan. 2024)
grindercowboy' has published a text adventure created with the ADMS (Amiga Dungeon Mastering System) in which you have to return a stolen painting as a private detective. The author describes the game as a proof of concept that can be solved in 20 to 30 m...

Platform game: Dogi (demo version) (02. Jan. 2024)
After NinjFeratu, the next project from Amiten Games is another platform game: in Dogi (YouTube video), the aim is to collect various fruits and avoid obstacles and enemies. A first, early demo version of the game currently in development is now available...

AmigaOS 4: Tool for the DeepL translation service (31. Dec. 2023)
In addition to AmiTranslate, there is another option for AmigaOS 4 users to use the DeepL translation service: the tool of the same name is now available in version 0.92. The changes: added Ukraine language little improvements in copy function aout...

AmigaOS 4: Creating PDFs with "Compression" V0.30 (beta version) (31. Dec. 2023)
In addition to the ignition spreadsheet and the LüttjeBookholler financial management software, Achim Pankalla is also working on a third project: similar to a DTP programme, Compression allows text and graphics to be set and the document, for example a m...