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Aminet uploads until 04.02.2023 (05. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to Aminet: Golem.lha biz/misc 505K 68k Business management software ... Envoy_FR.lha comm/net 5K French catalog for Envoy 3 parForth.lha dev/lan...

DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 7) (05. Feb. 2023)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describe...

Music album: "Amiga Collection" by Stamen (05. Feb. 2023)
'ST Arts' is an amateur musician from Finland who likes to compose melodic electronic music, mainly synthpop and space synth music with influences from the mod/demo scene. Thereby 'ST Arts' stands as a generic term for all his musical work, regardless of ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.8 (04. Feb. 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...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (04. Feb. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is continuing to work on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video, he now gives a taste of the second level of the game....

Tech demo of an arcade game: RemGame (03. Feb. 2023)
'RemGame' (video) is the author's first C/ASM project on the Amiga. He describes it as a "tech demo", and he has yet to come up with a game design to go with it. RemGame uses a sprite multiplexer and can thus display up to 104 moving sprites. The colours ...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.1 (31. Jan. 2023)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following c...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 142 (Italian/English) / Interview with the publisher (30. Jan. 2023)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Th...

Editor: Lite XL 2.1.1r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (29. Jan. 2023)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.0r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) and explained: "Today I released a new version of LiteXL for both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS 3. This includes the latest c...

AmigaOS 4: Version 6.11 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio (29. Jan. 2023)
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. With the update ...

Blog: Benchmarks for "Lightwave 3D 5" for several hardware configurations (29. Jan. 2023)
The developer George 'walkereo' Sokianos reports in his latest blog entry on Ko-fi about benchmarks and findings to be drawn from them for the 3D graphics software LightWave 3D, which is also available for AmigaOS 3 until the release. The following hardwa...

The Amiga as a musical instrument: Paulimba (29. Jan. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' or 'lft'. Last year he built "The Commodordion": an 8-bit accordion consisting mainly of ...

Aminet uploads until 28.01.2023 (29. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to Aminet: apccomm.lha comm/misc 205K 68k transfers files between Amiga... Forest.lha demo/ecs 120K 68k Forest demo for GERP2023/Sweden bin2iso_mos.lha di...

OS4Depot uploads until 28.01.2023 (29. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to OS4Depot: hdaudio_ahi.lha dri/aud 972kb 4.1 Generic HD audio driver for Amig... loschinos.lha gam/chi 5Mb 4.0 This is the classic spanish game... sdl2.lha ...

3D action adventure: Bugdom for Linux and MorphOS (28. Jan. 2023)
After, among others, "Cro-Mag Rally" and "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier", another game originally published by Pangea Software has made it to Amiga platforms: Bugdom is described as "an incredibly diverse 3D action/adventure for the entire family". ...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.9 (28. Jan. 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 ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.7 (update) (28. Jan. 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...

Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.4 (28. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...

PiStorm32-lite: Availability (28. Jan. 2023)
Since one month the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga-News.de has looked around where you can currently and potentially purchase the Raspberry Pi-based accelerator card for the Ami...

Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems (27. Jan. 2023)
Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and U...