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Amiga-compatible mainboard: Denise (20. Oct. 2023)
For about 90 Euro the Amiga-compatible mainboard "Denise" from the Swedish developer Enterlogic should be available in principle, plus e.g. 14 Euro shipping costs to Germany - but currently it is listed as sold out since the end of June, a new b...

CLI command: sysvars - system information as environment variables (20. Oct. 2023)
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical f...

Do it yourself: amiga-DSKRDY PCB for floppy disk drives (20. Oct. 2023)
If no original Amiga disk drives are used, the "RDY" signal that the floppy disk drive is ready is usually missing, which can cause problems with some programs. The 15x20 millimeter board amiga-DSKRDY provides the corresponding signal for such drives, ...

Alien Breed clone: new playable demo for 'Chaos Guns' (20. Oct. 2023)
Chaos Guns started life as a mashup of 'Alien Breed' - running and gunning from a top-down view - and 'Hired Guns' - four indepently playable characters. A first tech demo, written in the rather exotic programming language 'PowerD', was rel...

Poster: Cover of AmigaAddict #19 (19. Oct. 2023)
Stoo Cambridge was a graphic designer at Sensible Software, who had also published the game Cannon Fodder, among others. For the cover picture of AmigaAddict #19 he used the game theme and added himself and Jon Hare in pixel portrait style. This picture c...

Video talk: The "Amiga Game Framework" (19. Oct. 2023)
In mid-August we introduced Janne Peräaho's "Amiga Game Framework" in a detailed article. Last weekend, the traditional developer conference (DevCon) took place during the AmiWest, where developers report on their projects. Janne Peräaho kindly provided u...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Truxz (18. Oct. 2023)
Additional to Fatal Mission, there is another Amiga game started by Ola Zandelin (and Rodrigo Perez) that he did not finish: "Truxz" was supposed to be a 3D racing game with texture mapping. Planned were about nine different types of weapons, many differe...

Video: Converting PC disk drives for operating on Amigas (18. Oct. 2023)
In his latest video, Jan Beta shows how to modify standard PC floppy drives to work with Amigas and other retro systems....

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 v1.0 Release Candidate 2 (18. Oct. 2023)
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released Release Candidate 1 of version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 Release Candidate 2 contains a...

Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version 3) (17. Oct. 2023)
Frogger (YouTube video) is supposed to be a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konam game (amiga-news.de reported). As the developer reports, the third beta version of the game is technically 100% complete and a small trainer has also been integrated. He was also...

Image Gallery: Update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive" (17. Oct. 2023)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995. According to the operator, quite a number of remarkable images were created during this period, which he believes should not b...

"Making Of"video: AmiFox Amiga38 Boxed Special Edition (16. Oct. 2023)
The Amitopia AmiDev Team gave away boxed special editions of AmiFox on the Amiga 38 last weekend, like reported in a previous news. Now there is also a "Making Of" video available with details on how it was produced and what was learned in the proces...

AmigaOS 4: Update to Heretic II nearing completion (Update) (16. Oct. 2023)
Since the beginning of the year Steffen Häuser has been working on an update for Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which among other things should support HD modes. At the Amiga38 a preview of the game was already shown at the stands of Alinea Computer and HunoPP...

Diskmag: 'Amiga Rulez' now available in English (16. Oct. 2023)
A week ago, the first German issue of a new Diskmag called 'Amiga Rulez' was published, now the English translation is available. The next issue will be released in mid December, after that new issues will published every quarter. From now on, the German ...

Amiwest: Presentations from Amigakit, A-EON and ExecSG (15. Oct. 2023)
This weekend, "Amiwest 2023" took place in Sacramento, USA. As usual, all presentations from the show were streamed live over the internet - the recordings of the streams from the first and second day are available on Youtube. The following is a brie...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.1 (update) (15. Oct. 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...

Video: Show report Amiga38 by Robosaurus Spielothek (German) (15. Oct. 2023)
Dominic Ortmanns from Robosaurus Spielothek writes (translated from German): "I consider today's video to be a great moment in my work so far. On the one hand, this is due to the topic. After the relative success of my Amiga37 video, I didn't want to let ...

OS4Depot uploads until 14.10.2023 (15. Oct. 2023)
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to OS4Depot: milkytracker-sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl... wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game videoslotmachine.lha gam/boa 3M...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (15. Oct. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Beetlemusic [Bouncy edit] Beetlemusic [Encore500] Body Blows [Encore500] Rage is Relentless [Encore500] RSI ...

AmiWest 2023: First photos (15. Oct. 2023)
Robert Bernardo is documenting again the AmiWest 2023 taking place this weekend and has published first photos. Among those from friday the Ranger prototype can be seen. A separate gallery is dedicated to the prototype of the A600GS from AmigaKi...