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Arcade port: Karate Champ (27. Aug. 2023)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre's latest project is the Amiga port of the 1984 Karate Champ developed by Technos Japan and published by Data East. The Amiga port runs all Amigas with 2MB RAM (YouTube video)....

Aminet uploads until 26.08.2023 (27. Aug. 2023)
The following files have been added until 26.08.2023 to Aminet: x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 16K 68k Convert Sharp X68000 executab... alt-intl.lha driver/inp 2K 68k alt-intl keymap minetest.lha game/demo 7.2M M...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.08.2023 (27. Aug. 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 26.08.2023: 2023-08-24 improved: Pacman 87 (St...

Video: Infinity Music Player with Impbox (27. Aug. 2023)
At the title link, "Forgotten Computer" reports in a nearly one-hour video about Paweł 'juen' Nowak's Infinity Music Player (IMP3) and the hardware extension Impbox, with which the program can access the WLAN even without an Amiga TCP/IP stack. IMP3 ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 164 - preview and excerpts (27. Aug. 2023)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 164 (September/October 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes an interview with Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) as well as previews of Castlevania AGA, Hamulet and Bulbmaster. ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 149 (Italian/English) (27. Aug. 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...

German Amiga Podcast: Issue 15 (27. Aug. 2023)
The fifteenth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) is about the Amiga game "Babariana", which is still in development. In the interview, its developer Stephan 'Makconner' Pförtner calls Babariana a mixture of "Overtime-Game" and a "dark adventure"....

Platform game: Demo version v1.3 of Tony (26. Aug. 2023)
Only recently Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch had released demo version 1.2 of his game Tony, which among other things introduced different color palettes (amiga-news.de reported). Since some bugs crept in, he has now released version 1.3....

Font: "TopazDouble" as Amiga-native recreation of Topaz (26. Aug. 2023)
"TopazDouble" is an Amiga-native recreation of the 8×8 pixel Topaz font, now rendered in 8×16 for modern resolutions. As the developers wrote, the classic Amiga with 640×256 (PAL) uses a resolution close to 2:1 - which means that the standard Topaz font w...

Adventure: Demo version of "Mission2Mars" v1.00 (26. Aug. 2023)
After "The Oregon Trail", Sami Vehmaa has released another text-based adventure game for AmigaOS 3, which, however, is only suitable for emulation environments due to its high requirements (250 MIPS): in "Mission2Mars" (YouTube video), a crew of five is o...

Action game: "Ooze: The Escape" (26. Aug. 2023)
The developer 'Haplo' - who had already published the puzzle game Tenebra - has converted "Ooze: The Escape", originally published for ZX Spectrum, for the Amiga and given the game, among other things, improved graphics, sprites, animations and sound effe...

Demo development: Amiga Scroller (25. Aug. 2023)
After an estimated 30 years of Amiga abstinence, Andreas Scholl is trying to remember his programming skills and has started to write a small demo. He has documented the current status with two YouTube videos: Amiga Scroller V0.001 and Amiga Scroller V0.0...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.3 / RetroAnimator (update) (25. Aug. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Preview video: Real-time strategy game "AI Kills All Humans" (24. Aug. 2023)
"One Joyful Day" is a new Game Studio making games for Modern Amigas and PC. The first game is called "AI Kills All Humans" and is a tactical Real-time strategy game, in which you play as an AI, which due to a slight change in code, is sending robots to k...

LinuxJedi-Blog: Making Amiga IFF thumbnails work in Linux (24. Aug. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports how to correctly display thumbnails of Amiga IFF/ILBM files on Linux machines....

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft V0.4.3 (22. Aug. 2023)
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). At the beginning of August a demo version was released for the AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). Now a ...

Mediathek V0.3 for all Amiga systems (22. Aug. 2023)
In early August, we presented Jörg Renkert's Hollywood implementation of the MediathekView program for Amiga systems. Five days ago he updated to version 0.3. It would have been quick to write a report about it, but we wanted to test the program in more d...

Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 2 (22. Aug. 2023)
In the second part of a richly illustrated series of articles (amiga-news.de reported), "Epsilon's World" describes how he equips his Amiga 4000T with, among other things, a scanner, IDE CD drive and the applications AmiTube and AGABlaster....

Point'n click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.05b (21. Aug. 2023)
The photo point'n click adventure Holiday (YouTube video) is also a contribution to the AmiGameJam (you can still cast your vote today only!). The player arrives in a Spanish resort in 1988 and has the task of surviving the next 11 days. To do this, yo...

Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version) (21. Aug. 2023)
After Croaker, RANA and Megafrog, Frogger is the fourth recent attempt to adapt the classic game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river, for the Amiga. Frogger ...