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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 1 (14. Oct. 2022)
Developer Daniel Bratton had been "fascinated with what appeared to be a living breathing world – and that world looked like a gaming tabletop", ever since the game Powermonger came out in 1990. Since then, he said, he's always wondered how that was...

ACube Systems: Delivery of Sam460LE boards in November (13. Oct. 2022)
Press release: We would like to thank all our customers for their support and patience. Despite all our efforts to deliver the new Sam460LE by the end of September, we suffered some delay in the production and, unfortunately, the boards are still not rea...

Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.0 (13. Oct. 2022)
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.0 of the web browser Artic Fox 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 AmigaOne X1000 ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.0 (12. Oct. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.1.0 of the firmware was released. Changes: Remove...

Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris V0.50 (12. Oct. 2022)
A month ago, Sami Vehmaa released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas equipped with graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported). This update to version 0.50 adds an easy and a hard mode, each of both with highscore. Additionally, the game now can be comple...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 7 of 'WhatIFF?' released (12. Oct. 2022)
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue 7 is available ...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.4 (AmigaOS 3/4) (12. Oct. 2022)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.4 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6, which was also released yesterday. The changes: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6 (11.1...

DIY: Remake of audio digitiser AP420 (12. Oct. 2022)
The AP420, released by Phoenix Microtechnologies in 1991, is an audio digitiser that can take a microphone or line-level input and is connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. 'wiretap-retro' has posted an updated schematic on GitHub that matches the on...

Commercial puzzle game: Connect (12. Oct. 2022)
In the puzzle game "Connect", you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. The game offers over 4 billion possible board variations and can be played alone, in cooperat...

MP3 player: Reel Deck V0.71 (update) (11. Oct. 2022)
After Atris, his Tetris clone for RTG Amigas, and AB_Template, his programming assistance for AmiBlitz 3, Sami Vehmaa had released Reel Deck, an MP3 player for Amigas with graphics card, a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported). With his update to version ...

Editor: Lite XL 2.1.0r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released (10. Oct. 2022)
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: "Hope you are all ready for one more release of LiteXL editor, for both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. This re...

C64 music emulation: PlaySid.library updated (10. Oct. 2022)
SID (short for Sound Interface Device) is the name of the sound chip used in the VC 10, C64 and C128. (see C64-Wiki). The Playsid.library allows music players like HippoPlayer and DeliTracker to emulate this chip under AmigaOS 3. Kari-Pekka Koljonen,...

Programming language: AVCodec plugin 1.5 for Hollywood (10. Oct. 2022)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair are proud to announce that version 1.5 of the AVCodec plugin for Hollywood has just been released. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to load all kinds of video and audio formats supported by FFmpeg. Version 1.5 is a mino...

AmigaOS 4.1: Introduction to the Software Development Kit V54.16, part 1 (09. Oct. 2022)
A few days ago, Hyperion Entertainment released the Software Development Kit (SDK) V54.16 (amiga-news.de reported). Our reader and AmigaOS 4 user Josef Wegner has kindly agreed to introduce us to the new SDK and its possibilities in a series of articles. ...

Aminet uploads until 08.10.2022 (09. Oct. 2022)
The following files have been added until 08.10.2022 to Aminet: SoS_robots.lha demo/aga 10M 68k Robots by System of Sound wla_dx_v10.3.lha dev/cross 6.6M 68k WLA DX - 8-bit CPU Cross Macr... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc...

OS4Depot uploads until 08.10.2022 (09. Oct. 2022)
The following files have been added until 08.10.2022 to OS4Depot: daplayer.lha aud/pla 1Mb 4.0 A digital audio player for Amiga imp3.lha aud/pla 40kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga! vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 240kb 4.0 P...

WHDLoad: New installers until 08.10.2022 (09. Oct. 2022)
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 08.10.2022: 2022-10-08 fixed: Tintin on the Mo...

Event: Amiga Ireland 2023 (09. Oct. 2022)
On January 13/14 the next Amiga Ireland will take place again as a regular event. The venue for the meeting, which is regularly also attended by more prominent members of the Amiga community, is as usual the Sheraton Hotel in the town of Athlone, located ...

Amiga Kit launched Blog (08. Oct. 2022)
Today Amiga Kit has launched his blog. Among others, these are the topics of the first entry: PiStorm 600 Amiwest and Amiga37 Shows Floppy Disk Switcher Alien Breed Killing Grounds Development V46 commands AMIGA.org server update ...

Jump'n Run: Minky released (update) (08. Oct. 2022)
Minky (video) is a jump'n run similar to Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one Megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported about the pre-release version). Now the developer 'Matze1887' has released the full version, which offers 28 l...