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Action game: Santa Claus Xmas Season 2022 (06. Jan. 2023)
Amiten Games - among others, platformer game Inca Man, mini-game EmotiWorld or jump'n run NinjFeratu - thanks everyone with the free game "Santa Claus Xmas Season 2022" (YouTube video) for the continued support they have received since founding as Amiten ...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 2 (05. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published the first release candidate of version 2.26.1 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develo...

Tool: Image2PDF for all Amiga systems (05. Jan. 2023)
Bernd Assenmacher has released version 1.3 of his tool Image2PDF, which converts PNG or JPG images into a PDF file. Among other things, A3, A4 or A5 can be selected as the target format. Image2PDF is available for all Amiga systems and requires the Polybi...

Action adventure: Anniversary Edition of Enemy 1 and 2 (05. Jan. 2023)
At Christmas 2013, the action adventure Enemy 2 - Missing In Action was released as freeware. Technically identical to its commercial predecessor Enemy - Tempest Of Violence, the title offered completely new levels and brought the story begun in the first...

CDXL video player: AGABlaster 0.9.91 (04. Jan. 2023)
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL video format. According to the author, it uses a customized version of the CDXL format supporting the AGA chipset with 24 bit colors and variable length frames. Customized CDXL files can be generated with AGAConv. AGABlas...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.5 (04. 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...

Video: Amiga 500 with serial number 190 (04. Jan. 2023)
In his latest video, Jan Beta takes a look at what he believes to be one of the first Amiga 500s, as it bears the serial number 190....

AmigaOS 4: Payback ported (04. Jan. 2023)
After a long development period - announced in V - Apex Designs released their Grand Theft Auto clone Payback in February 2001, including a demo version for 68k and PPC processors (WarpUP). In this, the player slips into the role of a young getaway driver...

AmigaOS 4: Accessing the ARexx ports of applications on remote PCs (03. Jan. 2023)
In a recent blog entry, Andy Broad (among other things, graphics programme SketchBlock) reports on his current project, currently still called "NetRexx", with which one can write Arexx scripts to control applications on remote computers (YouTube video)....

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.5.1 (03. Jan. 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....

Blog: Displaying 24-bit images optimally in HAM mode (03. Jan. 2023)
For more than 25 years, Arnaud Carré has been programming and as a member of the demo group Oxygene also demos. In his newly established blog, he deals with the problem of displaying 24-bit images correctly and as best as possible on current PC hardware i...

RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.89 (02. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo v...

Dock: QDock V1.49 (02. Jan. 2023)
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). This update fixes several minor bugs. The tool is currently available for 1 Euro or more. The ...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.5 (02. Jan. 2023)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as we...

Aracade-Spiel: "Green Beret" update (02. Jan. 2023)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported). With this update, the developer wishes all a happy new year. Changes: ...

Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.1 (02. Jan. 2023)
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.1 of the web browser Artic Fox (screenshot) for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for Am...

Action game: Elf Spirit Hunters released (02. Jan. 2023)
For the TOY BOX JAM 4, the developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has written the action game "Elf Spirit Hunters" using his Scorpion Engine and released it today. It is inspired by David Crane's Ghostbusters game. The player's task is to rid the world of the ...

AmigaOS 4: Update for Heretic II in development (01. Jan. 2023)
According to Roman 'kas1e' Kargin, Steffen Häuser is working on updates for the games published by Hyerion Entertainment such as Heretic II and Quake II for AmigaOS 4. He had already worked on the beta test for the original version (amiga-news.de reported...

New articles on Obligement (01. Jan. 2023)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. Novembre/December 2022 news. Old art...

AmigaOS 4: Version 6.9 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio (01. 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. Now the develope...