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Maze game: Cube V1.00 demo version (18. Apr. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). Before releasing the full...

SFX engine: Audio Mixer 3.1 (17. Apr. 2023)
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A...

Linux: Nanosaur V1.44 ported (16. Apr. 2023)
Nanosaur was released in 1998 by Pangea Software as a Mac exclusive. It was a pack-in game on Macs that came out around that time. Nanosaur casts a cybernetic dinosaur from the future who’s sent back in time 20 minutes before a giant asteroid hits t...

Aminet uploads until 15.04.2023 (16. Apr. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.04.2023 to Aminet: Void-Dreams40.zip demo/misc 731K 68k Demopack - Revision 2023 vbrowse.lha dev/c 5K 68k VBCC MSG Browser env. using G... APPBuilder_AmigaOS3.lha dev/hwood...

OS4Depot uploads until 15.04.2023 (16. Apr. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.04.2023 to OS4Depot: rnotunes.lha aud/pla 10Mb 4.1 Multi-format audio player appbuilder.lha dev/mis 3Mb 4.0 Hollywood language productivity amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb ...

Programming contest: Deadline extension at AmiGameJam 2022 (16. Apr. 2023)
The current AmiGameJam "Sword & Sorcery" was originally supposed to run until the end of this month (amiga-news.de reported) - however, despite 23 participants, there have been no entries so far. The deadline has therefore been extended to July 31. New...

Windows: Embedding media files into Amiga RAM for usage in own programs (16. Apr. 2023)
'RetroNick', the author of the Sprite/Icon/Map editor "Raster Master" for Windows 10/11, has released "Hunkster" (named after the Hunk format), a Windows program that allows programmers to convert media files so that they are loaded by the Amiga into...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.4 R80 for Windows 10/11 (16. Apr. 2023)
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, ...

Jump'n Run: Boxx 4, version 1.01 (15. Apr. 2023)
About a week ago, the developer 'Lemming880' in co-operation with "Retroguru" had released the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Now an update to version 1.01 is available. Changes: Fixed a ...

Preview videos: Temptations port for CD32 (15. Apr. 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 introducing the third and fifth level....

Tool: identify-library 42.1 (15. Apr. 2023)
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 42.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported) which now supports the Open Amiga Hardware Repository as well as new boards. Downloads: IdentifyDev.lha (66 kB) IdentifyUsr.lha (99 kB)...

Do it yourself: Amiga Floppy Swap (15. Apr. 2023)
Amiga Floppy Swap is an extension for the Amiga 500, 1000, 2000 or 3000 with connected external drive, which is placed under the MOS 8520 Even CIA chip. After pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga twice in quick succession, the drives DF0: and DF1: are swapped, so th...

Video tutorial: Creating and using Blitter objects (BOBs) in AMOS (15. Apr. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the creation and use of Blitter Objects (BOBs) and controlling a BOB on the screen by using a joystick for input....

Open Amiga Hardware: Product ID for boards and identify library (15. Apr. 2023)
The authors of the boards- and identify-library have started a project to promote open source Amiga hardware, the Open Amiga Hardware Repository. The project has reserved its own manufacturer ID for Zorro boards. Developers of open Amiga hardware can...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.3.1 (14. Apr. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.3.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. In this release the gameslist.csv file changed. It is recommended t...

Workbench distribution: Wrapper for AmiKit X/XE for Ventura Macs with Apple CPU (13. Apr. 2023)
For Mac OS users of the workbench distribution AmiKit as well as of the installation assistance for AmigaOS 4, Flower Pot, a wrapper optimized for the current operating system version "Ventura" on computers with Apple processor is available at the title l...

RTG driver: New Prefs editor for P96 in development (13. Apr. 2023)
According to Thomas Richter in the A1k support forum (German), he is about to completely rewriting the P96 preferences editor. He has released a beta version of this new "P96Prefs" tool and asks to test it and give feedback. Requirements: P96 3.0.0 o...

Whatever became of... - Bill McEwen? (12. Apr. 2023)
As one can read on the company website at the title link, the former president of Amiga Inc. Bill McEwen is now working for Stavatti Aerospace. The plans of its founder are ambitious - he wants to produce military jets e.g. for NATO, although he has n...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.0.6 for Windows (12. Apr. 2023)
In contrast to DPaint.js, which we reported on yesterday and which can be executed platform-independently in the browser, PyDPainter (for Windows) uses the Python programming language, but is also inspired by DPaint. As author Mark Riale wrote, "PyDP...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.04.11 (12. Apr. 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). Since our last message about version 1.2.1 of the fi...