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USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update) (05. Feb. 2024)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of test...

Aminet uploads until 03.02.2024 (04. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to Aminet: strangeMOS.lha comm/www 779K MOS strange' is strange json.hollywood.lha dev/hwood 6K JSON en- and decoder for Holl... MCE.lha game/edit 4.0...

OS4Depot uploads until 03.02.2024 (04. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to OS4Depot: amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL json.hollywood.lha dev/mis 6kb 4.0 JSON en- and decoder for Hollywo... mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Mu...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.02.2024 (04. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: SDL_2.30.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL... MCE_14.50.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... ReportPlus_8.46.l...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (04. Feb. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added: Emax/TRSI - Def.loration (Nightwolf 2024 remix) ...

Amiga Future: New full versions online (04. Feb. 2024)
Further full versions of Amiga software have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Font Machine and XDVE CD. The following games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads: A320 Airbus, Alien Drug Lords, Alien Fish Finger, Anstoss, ...

Diving game: "The Deep" V1.01 for Apollo Vampire V4 and RTG Amigas (03. Feb. 2024)
This version 1.01 of Sami Vehmaa's diving game "The Deep" (YouTube video) not only offers a slight speed improvement for the Vampire V4, but also support for RTG Amigas for the first time....

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 1 (03. Feb. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open so...

m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.7 for Visual Studio Code (03. Feb. 2024)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Preversion 1.8.7 fixes a compatibility issue with Vscode 1.86.0. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available....

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. Feb. 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...

Blog: Limitations of the HAM mode explained on the Hamulet engine (02. Feb. 2024)
Recently, the developer of the game Hamulet - a demo version was included in issue 10 of the English-language Amiga magazine "WhatIFF?" - published a YouTube video that is intended to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept whether a puzzle or platform game cou...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX) (02. Feb. 2024)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on h...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January 2024 (02. Feb. 2024)
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. ...

Java program: ham_convert 1.9.4 (01. Feb. 2024)
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.4. Changes: Added DynamicHires variant with an AGA palette. To enable select mode=Amiga AGA Dynamic HiRes...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.0 (01. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the Amiga conversion of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally published by Data East in 1986: the player controls an armed military vehicle and must make his way throu...

Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1 (01. Feb. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. We asked the developer to tell us about the current stat...

Arcade classic: Pong for RTG Amigas and Apollo Vampire V4 (31. Jan. 2024)
After Sami Vehmaa initially released his Pong conversion for the Apollo Vampire V4 only, version 1.01 is now also available for RTG Amigas. It can be played either against each other or against the computer....

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (31. Jan. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

DIY: Firmware 1.02 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (31. Jan. 2024)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). The now available firmware 1.02 improves the SCSI emula...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.14 (AmigaOS 3/4) (30. Jan. 2024)
Version 5.14 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.2.1. Detailed changes: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.2.1 (30.1.2024) version wh...