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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1 (20. Jul. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Added Now the Genre list is populated from the iga...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS (19. Jul. 2023)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his se...

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31 (19. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.3...

Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German) (19. Jul. 2023)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous inte...

AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86 (18. Jul. 2023)
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item: Recognises a transaction as existing if there are many spaces in a row in the reas...

AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38 (18. Jul. 2023)
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to pr...

Event: "ZZAP! Live" in Kenilworth (England) (18. Jul. 2023)
On 12 August 2023 at The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) the first "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, among others. All Commodore computer systems including the Amiga will be represented. Guests...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.9.19 (17. Jul. 2023)
Rafał Zabdyr has released a first beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS. "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of t...

Arcade port: Pengo released (17. Jul. 2023)
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees...

AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users (16. Jul. 2023)
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public. As he tells us, a lot of work went int...

Start bar: WBDock2 V2.896 (16. Jul. 2023)
Today Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.896. Changes: the background config of the AmiDock style changed: if you specify a non-existant file, the background will be filled with the workbench ...

Aminet uploads until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to Aminet: z80dasm.lha dev/cross 275K MOS Z80 assembly generating disas... HWP_ZIP.lha dev/hwood 297K ALL Read and write ZIP archives F1GP2023Carset.lha game/d...

AROS Archives uploads until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to AROS Archives: eaqne2.lzx gam/adv 18Mb Second chapter of EAQNE zip_amiga.lha lib/mis 297kb Plugin allows Hollywood scripts ... ...

LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000 (15. Jul. 2023)
In two detailed blog entries Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings shows how he restores an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA. The first part is mainly about adjustments to the power supply and changing from NTSC to PAL system, in the second part he replaces the 100M...

Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.2 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux (14. Jul. 2023)
AmiKit has released version 12.2 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 is now supported and it has been updated to the latest version of the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux a...

Review: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at the Vectorama 2023 (14. Jul. 2023)
In mid-June, Vectorama 2023, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu, Finland. Also present was the Finnish Amiga Users Group, which organised an Amiga stand at the gaming event. The stand featured an Amiga 500 with Got...

Demoparty: Results of Pågadata 2023 (14. Jul. 2023)
At the beginning of July the Pågadata 2023 took place in Kvidinge, Sweden (amiga-news.de reported). At the demo competition held there, the following Amiga results were achieved: Amiga Demo Lubricator by The Electronic Knights (TEK) (YouTube video...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.0.1.01 for Amigas with 68060 processor (14. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.0.1 for the first time....

MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.2 (14. Jul. 2023)
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.2 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes DotFlag and RandomPixels....