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Website lists Christmas games: "Amiga Christmas Tree" update (07. Dec. 2023)
To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit, 'Cammy' has set up its own website, which lists all Amiga games related to Christmas (amiga-news.de reported). So far, "Santa's Present Drop", "Santa's Present Drop 2" and "Santa Claus ...

Event: Kickstart 02, 29 to 30 June 2024 in Nottingham (UK) (07. Dec. 2023)
After the premiere this year (amiga-news.de reported), there will be another event for Amiga fans in the UK next year: Kickstart 02 will take place in Nottingham from 29 to 30 June 2024....

Intro competition: Nominations for the "Nano Awards 2024" (07. Dec. 2023)
The "Nano Awards 2024" intro competition will honour the best demo productions of 2023 at Lovebyte 2024 on 9 February 2024. The Amiga productions from the "Oldschool" category: Bitstream, by gigabates / Desire hypotrain, by Losso / AttentionWhore T...

Preview video: Shadow Dancer, demo version available (07. Dec. 2023)
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer (amiga-news.de reported). He has now published another preview video as well as a demo version....

Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team (06. Dec. 2023)
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link. Major changes in that version are: Tuning of Main Hourglass (...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November (06. Dec. 2023)
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link....

Video series: Turning an Amiga 600 into a Classic Gaming Console (05. Dec. 2023)
In a three-part series, two episodes have been published so far ((part 1, part 2), Wolfgang Kierdorf shows on his YouTube channel "RETRO is the new black" how he transforms an Amiga 600 into a retro game console for 4 players. As he told us, this project ...

Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.2 for Aseprite (05. Dec. 2023)
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.2 has now been released with the following changes: Dialog button shortcuts have been added. Added a ne...

Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS (04. Dec. 2023)
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sampl...

Mastodon client: Amidon 1.3 (03. Dec. 2023)
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.3 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes a bug, where Amidon's Settings window would stop responding if opened on...

Aminet uploads until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to Aminet: REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support f1champ.lha docs/misc 74K Statistics of Formula One 195... anaiis_massive.lha driv...

OS4Depot uploads until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to OS4Depot: nallepuh.lha aud/mis 494kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator xrick_sdl2.lha g...

WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 02.12.2023: 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's ...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (03. Dec. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Apidya (Highscore) Urban Ferret (Afterburner Final Take Off) ...

Amiga38: Video of PiStorm panel held by Michal Schulz (03. Dec. 2023)
At Amiga38 Michal Schulz gave a presentation about the Amiga extension PiStorm, which uses the minicomputer Raspberry Pi as an 68k emulator. You can find a video recording of it at the title link....

Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German) (03. Dec. 2023)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of t...

Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update) (03. Dec. 2023)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (02. Dec. 2023)
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 ...

AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7 (02. Dec. 2023)
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalst...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems (02. Dec. 2023)
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs i...