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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 ...

Video: The History of Cursor Keys (14. May. 2023)
In this video, the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Guy" takes a look at the history of the cursor keys, which nowadays are mostly arranged in the shape of an inverted "T": The index, middle and ring fingers can remain on the keyboard and the middle finger can ...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.0 (13. May. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. As the author explained in his latest blog entry on ko-fi, he is...

Operating system: MorphOS 3.18 released (13. May. 2023)
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application ...

Mastodon client: Amidon 1.2 (13. May. 2023)
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.2 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes some bugs with anonymous browsing and adds support for the latest AmiSSL...

AROS: Videos on AROS ONE 2.0 (13. May. 2023)
At the end of March, version 2.0 of the AROS distribution "AROS One" x86 computers was released (amiga-news.de reported). AROS user James Mattson now presents the new version in two YouTube videos: AROS ONE 2.0 AWESOME NEW LOOK! and AROS ONE 2.0 Touring S...

Lionheart Remake: Version 1.30 of Java port of Lionheart (13. May. 2023)
Byron 3D Games Studio Byron 3D Games Studio has released version 1.3.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android (amiga-news.de reported). The changes: Added New game menu New game modes (Story, Training,...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.12 (12. May. 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...