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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...

Desktop widget: RNOWidgets 1.5 for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (11. Jun. 2023)
RNOWidgets combines several utilities (widgets) in a single application and is now available for the first time for AmigaOS 4 in addition to MorphOS. RNOWidgets contains widgets for calendar (ISO), analog clock, digital clock, notes, pictures (local and n...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (11. Jun. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Hard (Harder Edit) Global Trash 3 (Hardwired) Tyros Edition Led Metal Storm - Led Storm Lvl One ...

ACube Systems: Delivery of all pre-ordered Sam460LE boards (11. Jun. 2023)
Press release: Dear valued Customers, we are pleased to announce that all preordered Sam460LE boards have been shipped after extensive testing and preparation. We sincerely hope that our customers will enjoy using this latest Sam460 board, and we would...

Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.1 (10. Jun. 2023)
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.1 has now been published of the Amiga Core. Changes: Created a Settings file for the Po...

Music tips for the weekend (10. Jun. 2023)
If you want to start the weekend with relaxed house music, Jonas Faupel's Jungle Cut, which he created on an Amiga 500, is recommended. If you need some "driving" music for vacuuming, for example, you can throw in the latest remixx by 'D4XX', who this ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.0 for Windows (10. Jun. 2023)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

Text adventure: Preorder of boxed edition of "Tristam Island" (09. Jun. 2023)
At the end of 2020, the commercial text adventure "Tristam Island" was released (amiga-news.de reported). At poly.play, the game can now be pre-ordered as a boxed edition for 35 euros. Content: 3.5" floppy disk Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18.5...