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Report: The AmigaOne XE (Czech) (08. Oct. 2022)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about the Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, the Pegasos I or PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world. In her latest article, she describes her impressi...

Hymn: File manager Directory Opus 4 (08. Oct. 2022)
Carl Svensson is well known for his detailed reflections and assessments on topics around the Amiga: be it the buying guide The Amiga Buyer's Guide - Edition 2022 or his philosophical reflections on the Sustainability of the Amiga. In his latest essay,...

ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards available (update) (07. Oct. 2022)
In a press release from mid-August, ACube Systems had announced the delivery of the Sam460LE boards for the end of September (amiga-news.de reported). Now the board is offered in the in ACube's store for 962.58 Euro including taxes and AmigaOS 4.1 Final E...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.2+ beta 1 (07. Oct. 2022)
Originally Toni Wilen, the author of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE, had already planned to jump to version 5 with the next release in July 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). However, in February 2022 he first released version 4.9.1 and as he now report...

Preview video: Robocop (AGA) (06. Oct. 2022)
Daniel Allsopp is working on a port of Data East's classic Arcade game 'Robocop', he's trying create a better Amiga version than the official port from 1989. Allsopp has now released a new preview video of his AGA game which is developed in 68k assembler ...

Preview video: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege' (06. Oct. 2022)
In the latest preview video of the side-scrolling beat'em up Metro Siege (amiga-news.de reported) the developers show the latest changes and also give a first glimpse of an action platformer in development called "Scorpion Boy", which is written with the ...

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft announced (06. Oct. 2022)
Budger Punch has so far released games for the Commodore 64, including Rogue64. As in Roguelike games, you have to go through a cube-shaped tentacle-terror maze in search of treasures and glory. Now one of the developers, Ricki Sickenger, has announced an...

Video: Short tutorial for AMOS Pro (06. Oct. 2022)
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) the retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to open windows....

Linux: Billy Frontier ported (05. Oct. 2022)
After Cro-Mag Rally and Otto Matic, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has now compiled a third game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit), Billy Frontier, which had just been ported to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). The game should work under the AmigaOne X1000/X5000...

AmigaOS 4.1: Software Development Kit V54.16 released (05. Oct. 2022)
Press release: October 5, 2022 Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16. New functionality includes but is not...

MorphOS: Fourth beta version of TinyGL (05. Oct. 2022)
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has...

Feature test in AMOS: Minigame None Of Us (05. Oct. 2022)
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, has today released a minigame called "None Of Us", which is intended to test how to obscure the player's opponents with li...

Linux: Kernel 6.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (05. Oct. 2022)
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 6.0, which is the successor of version 5.19, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. Ther...

PiStorm32: lite variant announced (04. Oct. 2022)
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga via adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The variant for the Amiga 1200 is called "PiStorm32". Now the developer has announced a...

Amiga37: Schedules published (04. Oct. 2022)
The Amiga37 will take place on October 15 and 16, 2022 in Mönchengladbach (information about some exhibitors). Now Markus Tillmann has published the schedules for Saturday and Sunday: ...

Developer tool: vasm 1.9a (03. Oct. 2022)
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9a. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. Changes: Reads the input from stdin when no source file name is given. Small performance improvements. Tuned hash table siz...

Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (03. Oct. 2022)
Our readers might know the Polish developer 'Tukinem' by his farm simulation 'Farmiga' which is in development (amiga-news.de reported). Last year he learned AMOS and his first game implemented with it was a Sokoban conversion of a 53 level game originall...

Hollwood application: Lyrics Jukebox (03. Oct. 2022)
Ralf Gruner has written Hollywood, a music player that was originally intended to be the basis for a built-in device for historical jukebox wallboxes. As the author writes, the program was originally only supposed to play music and text, and control ...

Linux: Otto Matic ported (03. Oct. 2022)
After Cro-Mag Rally, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has now compiled a second game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit), Otto Matic, which had just been ported to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). The developer has tested the game under the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linu...

AmigaOS 4: "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier" ported (02. Oct. 2022)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has ported two other games to AmigaOS 4: Pangea Software's "Otto Matic" (YouTube video) was first released for Mac OS 9 and X in 2001 and was included with some Mac models of that time. Kargin further writes about it: "The gam...