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Advent Calendar: Door 7 - Christian Zigotzky (07. Dec. 2022)
Door 7 of our advent calendar is filled by Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky. You could almost say: he is the fairy godmother for everything to do with Linux on PPC Amigas. However, his "amiga-news.de career" began with the port of SuperTuxKart to AmigaOS ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.9.0 for Windows (06. Dec. 2022)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 1 (06. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.8 (06. Dec. 2022)
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 ...

Advent Calendar: Door 6 - Matthias Böcker (06. Dec. 2022)
For St. Nicholas Day and the sixth door, Matthias 'UltraGelb' Böcker has something special for all MorphOS users: especially for our Advent calendar, he has written a wintry Screenblanker module. Already in the early days of amiga-news.de Matthias w...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.5 (06. Dec. 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). Version 1.1.3 of the firmware was released today. Changes since 1.1.3: ...

Floppy emulator: GoFloppy (06. Dec. 2022)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already reported about his new floppy emulator project "GoFloppy" on Twitter some time ago (Tweet 1, Tweet 2) and now also found the time to report about it in more detail on his blog: the "GoFloppy" drive is a floppy driv...

Sokoban clone: LazSokoban for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (05. Dec. 2022)
During his work on the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for AROS, in April 2016, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow had also tested some third-party LCL applications to compile for AROS. One of these was the Sokoban clone LazSokoban, written by Ukrainian ...

Advent Calendar: Door 5 - David Brunet (05. Dec. 2022)
Our new Advent calendar week begins with the fifth door and David Brunet. David Brunet is inextricably linked to his French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. The long history of this magazine starts in the mid-1990s: inspired by Christian, a f...

Aiostreams V1.7.6: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos (05. Dec. 2022)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, Morp...

Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 2.0 (04. Dec. 2022)
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 2...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4 (04. Dec. 2022)
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...

Hollywood: XML-Plugin 2.0 and APK Compiler 4.3 released (04. Dec. 2022)
Pressemitteilung: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the XML plugin for Hollywood. This plugin, previously known as XML Parser, was one of the first Hollywood plug...

Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World" (04. Dec. 2022)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video). Compared to the playable preview from the beginning ...

Aminet uploads until 03.12.2022 (04. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to Aminet: apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga... brainfuck.lha dev/lang 1K ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 03.12.2022 (04. Dec. 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 03.12.2022: 2022-12-03 fixed: Flashback (Delph...

Analogue Pocket: Video shows Amiga core under development (04. Dec. 2022)
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. According to a video at the title link, 'Ultra FP64' is working on the adaptation of an Amiga 500 cor...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of November (04. Dec. 2022)
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link....

Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team (04. Dec. 2022)
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a re...

Mastodon client: Amidon in development (04. Dec. 2022)
After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, one or the other Amiga and retro enthusiast is thinking about either using the microblogging service only to a limited extent or, as for example announced by Jan Beta, leaving it altogether: either to set up ...