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Hall of Light: Relaunch of Amiga game database (24. Jul. 2023)
For a good week now, the Amiga game database "Hall of Light" has been presented in a new design. The most important changes: Readable game URLs e.g. https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/hunter instead of https://hol.abime.net/764 Game pages now have a...

LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor (24. Jul. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000....

Aminet uploads until 22.07.2023 (23. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to Aminet: LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 204K OS4 ignition addon for access ods... Artstate-PartyPack07.adf de...

WHDLoad: New installers until 22.07.2023 (23. Jul. 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 22.07.2023: 2023-07-21 improved: Aunt Arctic A...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (23. Jul. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Venus the Flytrap Arabian Nights - Egyptian Style Intro STAG 2 Details Hoi intro remix ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15 / Firmware 1.4 (23. Jul. 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...

Event: Proposals wanted for the Community Award of the Amiga38 (23. Jul. 2023)
On October 6/7 the Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). During this event the recipients of the "Community Award" will be voted again - this time divided into the three categories Hardware, Software/Games and Other. Sugg...

Game Jonathan: Research in "Kronstadt" mentioned by Memminger Zeitung (German) (23. Jul. 2023)
In 2018/19 Markus Steffan went on a search for clues in "Kronstadt", the city of the game Jonathan (German Wikipedia entry), which is based on the city of Memmingen (Germany) and was released in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported in German)...

Platform game: Early version of "Jack In The Pit" (23. Jul. 2023)
For the AmiGameJam 2022 and the KiwiJam 2023, "Jack In The Pit" was written in 48 hours (YouTube video): the platform game "combines a short length with a sharply increasing difficulty curve. It also features a wide variety of vertical parallax effects to...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1 (22. Jul. 2023)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Now supports characters from Western languages other than English Blank responses from OpenAI no lon...

Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23 (21. Jul. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian w...

Video tutorial: Blitz Basic (20. Jul. 2023)
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more"....

Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1 (20. Jul. 2023)
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different. So he decided to create...

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...