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Video tutorial: Programming assistance for AMOS (20. May. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains in the current video his programming assistance which he wrote for AMOS and which can be downloaded from his homepage. I...

Minimig: Source codes and gerber files published (20. May. 2023)
Developer Ranko Rodic has made available the source codes and production files for the various revisions of the Minimig parallel to the release of revision 1.97itx (amiga-news.de reported). The production files contain the necessary schematics, PCB layout...

Java program: ham_convert 1.9.1 (19. May. 2023)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.8.7. New features besides bug fixes are further options for HAM6 and support for very small pictures, i.e. ...

Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.46 for Linux, macOS and Windows (19. May. 2023)
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, re...

Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.1546 for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS (19. May. 2023)
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has ...

Minimig: Revision 1.97itx (18. May. 2023)
Revision 1.97itx of the Minimig - a reimplementation of an Amiga 500 in a FPGA - is available. This board was designed to fit into any MiniITX case and is compatible with standard ITX power supplies. It features an added LED and button header, allowi...

Video report: Amiga Ruhrpott Convention 2023 (German) (18. May. 2023)
Dominic Ortmanns visited the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Germany, on May 6, 2023 and recorded his impressions in a video at the title link (Camera: Jürgen Weißenfels, Graphics: Jan Reineke). His summary of the "small but nice Amiga ...

Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.1 (18. May. 2023)
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms. Under Firefox the installation takes place automatically with the corresponding consent. For Chro...

Preview videos: Temptations port for CD32 (18. May. 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 two further preview videos showing the complete third and first sequences of the fourth...

Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.05.16 (17. May. 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). Not much RAM is needed, as the anim frames ...

AmigaOS 4: Survey results regarding usage of PowerPC emulation (17. May. 2023)
Hans de Ruiter has now evaluated his recently started survey about the usage of AmigaOS 4 on a PowerPC emulator. According to this, almost 55 % of the 447 participants use real hardware and a good fifth exclusively emulation. At the title link m...

Reverse Engineering: Speedball 2 (17. May. 2023)
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works. A GitHub page provides software tips and learning materials for interested developers. In this case, Simon Frankau h...

Platformer: Tech Demo "Space Cavern Blaster" v0.13 (17. May. 2023)
As entry to the Retro Platform Jam #6, 'dotmos' has released a cross-system platformer for Amiga 500, Atari ST, C64, DOS and Sega Megadrive as a proof of concept (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video). Version 0.13 now provides support for joysticks....

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.2 (16. May. 2023)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video)...

Strategy game: "Virtual Enemies" in development (16. May. 2023)
LogicalByte, the developer of the logic game Connect, yesterday introduced the next game for the Amiga 500 (and higher). The title is "Virtual Enemies". The player lives in an alternative timeline in the 80s. The earth is already suffering enormously...

Event: Information on the Amiga38 (15. May. 2023)
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events -...

Amiga Future: All Amiga Joker articles online (German) (14. May. 2023)
Already since the beginning of the year, all original issues of German print magazine Amiga Joker are available as PDF files at Amiga Future homepage (amiga-news.de reported). Now also all articles have been added to the database at the title link....

Video: Pixel art using Brilliance II (14. May. 2023)
In December 2021, graphic and game designer Kevin Saunders had published a video tutorial for the graphics programme Brilliance II. As he reports in his latest Patreon blog entry, he was recently asked for advice on creating pixel art on the Amiga. Under ...

OS4Depot uploads until 13.05.2023 (14. May. 2023)
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to OS4Depot: warppngdt.lha dat/ima 159kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.27 bwbasic.lha dev/lan 944kb 4.0 The Bywater BASIC Interpreter hollywoodcompile.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (14. May. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Desert Dawn Details Wizball - Drabness to Splendour ...