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Arcade port: Wonderboy V1.2 (26. Jul. 2023)
Wonderboy is an Amiga port of the first part of the Wonder Boy saga, of which only the sequel Wonderboy in Monsterland was available for the Amiga so far (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our news item about version 1.0: Tweaks to bosses, impro...

MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.3 (26. Jul. 2023)
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.3 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes MysticLines. It is based on June Tate-Gans live stream tutorial in QBasic....

Xbox: 201 Amiga games in stream with Antstream Arcade (25. Jul. 2023)
Owners of the Xbox game console from Microsoft now have access to 201 Amiga games via streaming, provided by the British provider Antstream. (Or "had access", respectively, since according to today's updated FAQ, Antstream Arcade has been "temporarily" re...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 148 (Italian/English) (25. Jul. 2023)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

Proof of concept: Shoot 'em Up "Amiga E.D.F." (25. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' (among others Temptations port for the CD32) has taken a look at the Shoot 'em Up Earth Defense Force, originally released for the SNES, and tested if an implementation and continuation on Amiga-AGA computers would be possible (YouTube...

Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.2 (24. Jul. 2023)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's programme AmiTranslate (video) serves as a link to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS. In version 0.2 some bugs have been fixed: the scrollbars for the text e...

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.32 (24. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. A few days ago, we reported on the demo version of the Amiga port which is currently in development. The demo now was updated to version 0.32. Changes: Fixed: Jumping, swinging and then trying...

Hall of Light: Relaunch of Amiga game database (24. Jul. 2023)
For a good week now, the Amiga game database "Hall of Light" has been presented in a new design. The most important changes: Readable game URLs e.g. https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/hunter instead of https://hol.abime.net/764 Game pages now have a...

LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor (24. Jul. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000....

Aminet uploads until 22.07.2023 (23. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to Aminet: LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 204K OS4 ignition addon for access ods... Artstate-PartyPack07.adf de...

WHDLoad: New installers until 22.07.2023 (23. Jul. 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 22.07.2023: 2023-07-21 improved: Aunt Arctic A...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (23. Jul. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Venus the Flytrap Arabian Nights - Egyptian Style Intro STAG 2 Details Hoi intro remix ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15 / Firmware 1.4 (23. Jul. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Event: Proposals wanted for the Community Award of the Amiga38 (23. Jul. 2023)
On October 6/7 the Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). During this event the recipients of the "Community Award" will be voted again - this time divided into the three categories Hardware, Software/Games and Other. Sugg...

Game Jonathan: Research in "Kronstadt" mentioned by Memminger Zeitung (German) (23. Jul. 2023)
In 2018/19 Markus Steffan went on a search for clues in "Kronstadt", the city of the game Jonathan (German Wikipedia entry), which is based on the city of Memmingen (Germany) and was released in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported in German)...

Platform game: Early version of "Jack In The Pit" (23. Jul. 2023)
For the AmiGameJam 2022 and the KiwiJam 2023, "Jack In The Pit" was written in 48 hours (YouTube video): the platform game "combines a short length with a sharply increasing difficulty curve. It also features a wide variety of vertical parallax effects to...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1 (22. Jul. 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). Changes: Now supports characters from Western languages other than English Blank responses from OpenAI no lon...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23 (21. Jul. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian w...

Video tutorial: Blitz Basic (20. Jul. 2023)
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more"....

Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1 (20. Jul. 2023)
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different. So he decided to create...