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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.1 (16. Jun. 2023)
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de...

Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14 (16. Jun. 2023)
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). In the current ...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (16. Jun. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the fifth level....

Amiga-Look.org: VisualPrefs themes by HanSOLO (15. Jun. 2023)
Amiga-Look is inspired by offerings like KDE-Look and Gnome-Look and is supposed to offer the user a one-stop source for everything he needs to beautify his Workbench: Pictograms, themes and background images, but also MUI settings or mouse pointers. A...

Blog: The best hardware to play Amiga games? (15. Jun. 2023)
John Novak programs in his spare time and runs a blog that reports on his various activities. Already at the beginning of the year he published the first part of a very detailed article in which he investigates the question of which hardware is best suite...

Video: Accelerator board TF1260 in Amiga 1200 (15. Jun. 2023)
Musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' shows off the Terrible Fire 1260 turbo card in her Amiga 1200 in her latest video....

Demoparty: Flashparty 2023 in Argentinia (15. Jun. 2023)
On 28 October, Flashparty 2023 will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The demo party consists of two events: from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the demo competition will take place at the San Martin Cultural Center with free admission, while tickets must be purc...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.06.13 (14. Jun. 2023)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.06.13: Fix CD-ROM leado...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.1 (14. Jun. 2023)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

AmigaOS 4: CPU profiler "Tequila" 1.1 (14. Jun. 2023)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki's "Tequila" is a simple CPU profiler that samples currently running tasks (screenshot). Changes of version 1.1: Add custom rendering. Add locale support. Add Finnish and Italian catalogs. Display task switches / second. ...

CDXL tools: AGABlaster 0.9.92 and AGAConv 1.0.2 (13. Jun. 2023)
Markus Schordan's AGAConv is a CDXL video converter. It combines some existing tools to convert videos (MP4, etc.) into the CDXL format that can be played on an AGA Amiga with its AGABlaster or other CDXL players (amiga-news.de reported). Both tools have ...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.1.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (13. Jun. 2023)
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as...

Crowdfunding for retro community "Amiga Global Alliance" canceled (12. Jun. 2023)
David Pleasance - ex-Commodore UK management, author of several Commodore books and regular guest at various Amiga events since 2015 - had launched a new project with his "Amiga Global Alliance" ("AGA") at the beginning of June, which was to be financed v...

Tool: identify-library 43.0 (12. Jun. 2023)
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added more expansions (and fixed a few typos). InstallIfy has new options ENV and GLOBAL, to store the result in an env variable. ...

Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" in development (12. Jun. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa - among other things, start bar QDock or maze game Cube - has started a new game project: "The Oregon Trail" (YouTube video of a live presentation) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game. The goal is to survive the 2040-mile east-we...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 06/23 (12. Jun. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continues to work on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). His latest developer diary entry is about the implementation of an election system and a hapiness system: "I ...

Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 2 (12. Jun. 2023)
In the first part of his video series about the repair of an A590, Robert Smith dealt with the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In this second part, everything revolves around the hard disk....

Video tutorial: Working with sprites in AMOS (12. Jun. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, and following on from his last video on sprites, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to load them from an image bank file (.abk) and how to use the channel or move command to be ab...

WinUAE: Update of German localization (11. Jun. 2023)
WinUAE users BlackByte and Bernardi independently from each other created a German translation of the text strings in the Amiga emulator WinUAE 5.0....

Video: Amiga Laptop with LEGO case (11. Jun. 2023)
Ravi Abbott and Howard from Dubious Engineering started a tinkering project four years ago to build an Amiga 600 laptop as cheaply as possible (YouTube playlist). With the video published yesterday, the project comes to an end and has received a LEGO case...