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Blog: The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks (14. Feb. 2023)
In his latest, richly illustrated blog entry, Carl Svensson looks at Amiga utility disks and their often creative CLI menus: Utility disks were especially popular in the demo scene, and included editors, crunchers, graphics tools, trackers for composing m...

Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain (13. Feb. 2023)
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Doma...

AmigaOS 4: Status of Qt 6.2.0 (12. Feb. 2023)
In October 2021, developer Alfkil Wennermark had published a first preview of a text editor created with Qt6 (amiga-news.de reported). Now he shows in a current YouTube video how he edits text in this editor and then exports it to a pdf file. The special...

Aminet uploads until 11.02.2023 (12. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to Aminet: fe.lha dev/lang 45K MOS A tiny, embeddable language TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ... LazyMines_FR.lha game/t...

OS4Depot uploads until 11.02.2023 (12. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to OS4Depot: void-fb14.zip dem/mus 5Mb 4.0 A music-pack by Void cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks... afnews.lha net/new 1Mb ...

WHDLoad: Neue Pakete bis 11.02.2023 (12. Feb. 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 11.02.2023: 2023-02-07 new: Rocket Attack (Sof...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (12. Feb. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Test Drive 2 The Duel Intro Live Performance LedStorm Ambient Cover Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 The Sentinel Intro...

Report: Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX format (Czech) (12. Feb. 2023)
Martina Hřebcová Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. Now she has published a series of articles dealing with Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX size or smaller: Part 1: Micro A1-C Part 2: ...

Jump'n Run: Maria Renard's Revenge released (12. Feb. 2023)
"Maria Renard's Revenge" (video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania which was developed using the Scorpion Engine. Today the final version has been released. An Amiga 1200 or an Amiga CD32 with 1 MB FastRam are required. ...

ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.11 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (11. Feb. 2023)
Chris Young has released version 1.11 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool e...

Turn-based strategy: Intro update for "Settle the World" (11. Feb. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de - which now tells the background story with a slideshow (YouTube video). Compa...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-1 (10. Feb. 2023)
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Over 1400 changes have been integrated, with 1700 still to come to match the main branch. The full list...

Tech demo: 3D engine for Amiga 1200 (10. Feb. 2023)
In a little tech demo, 'Rst7/CBSIE' presents his 3D engine "SDDDE" for the Amiga 1200. The corresponding project is maintained on GitHub....

User Report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 1 (10. Feb. 2023)
I never really planned to get a PiStorm for my Amiga 1200. Firstly, the project - the PiStorm32 - didn't seem to be finished in the near future and then, of course, there was the question of its sense and usefulness. Since the 90s, a Blizzard 1230 ha...

Demoparty: Lovebyte 2023 / Call to Amiga programmers (10. Feb. 2023)
From 8pm tonight until Sunday, the Lovebyte Demoparty 2023 will take place on Discord and Twitch, where there will again be intro competitions in various categories. However, until just before the closing date, not a single Amiga demo has been submitted f...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.1 (update) (09. Feb. 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 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version ...

Programming contest: 12th Edition of BASIC 10Liner Contest (09. Feb. 2023)
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some...

Event: AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg (Germany) (09. Feb. 2023)
On Saturday, 6 May 2023, the first AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention will take place in Duisburg-Rheinhausen (Germany) at the Area 51 youth centre, starting at 10 am. The event is intended as a meeting for Commodore AMIGA fans from the Ruhr region, but is open to...

Print magazine: Issue 136 of Amiga Future readable online (09. Feb. 2023)
The German and English issue 136 (January/February 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF...

AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub websites v1.6 (08. Feb. 2023)
On our hint that you can't see download links on the GitHub page for version 5.7 of the encryption protocol AmiSSL, released today (amiga-news.de reported), with the browser Odyssey, George 'walkero' Sokianos has again adapted his script for the correct d...