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Self-made project: Parallel port to SPI adapter (01. Sep. 2022)
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible. There exists m...

Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.7.0 (31. Aug. 2022)
Just a week ago we first reported about Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension of 'MickGyver', which provides support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). In the article the developer indicated to us that a merge of both extensions was ...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.5 (31. Aug. 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). Yesterday vers...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.7 (31. Aug. 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). The firmware needed for this has been updated several times in the last ...

Video: Installation of an Amiga 500 in a Checkmate 1500 Plus (30. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Jan Beta introduces the "Checkmate 1500 Plus" case and shows how to install an Amiga 500 in it....

Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga available (29. Aug. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a new beta version (28.08.2022) was released. Changes: Full game time is 16 fiscal periods New start screen and main menu of...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

USB stick/keychains in Amiga-1200 and A500 look (29. Aug. 2022)
Tim Lenke offers USB sticks in retro design on lavago.de, which can also be used as keychains. Currently available is, among others, a "Mini Amiga 500", at the Amiga 37 (October 15 and 16, Mönchengladbach) an A1200 version will then celebrate its premiere...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 137 (Italian/English) (28. Aug. 2022)
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 the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. The latest issue amo...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.24.0 Release Candidate 1 (28. Aug. 2022)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki provides the first release candidate 1 for version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1, which should make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. ...

Aminet uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to Aminet: BeeBase-1.0.lha biz/dbase 7.8M Programmable relational datab... amigaXfer_win32.zip comm/misc 12M Easy GUI for Serial file/flop... AmiVms.lha m...

OS4Depot uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to OS4Depot: libxslt.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 XSLT support for libxml2 arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... mednafen.lha emu/gam 8M...

Programming assistance: "AB_Template" offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 (28. Aug. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23). The idea behind it is not to teach Ami...

Accelerator board: More information on replacement project of Buffee developers (28. Aug. 2022)
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) addresses the topic of chip shortage and presents the currently pushed "clone projects" in a detailed article (amiga-news.de rep...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.4 (27. Aug. 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). Yesterday vers...

Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Last episode of Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial (27. Aug. 2022)
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (...

Book: Volume 3 of "From Vultures to Vampires" announced (update) (27. Aug. 2022)
In a video message the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance announced that the book "From Vultures to Vampires" (amiga-news.de reported), which was originally divided into two volumes, will be extended by a third volume. As he explained, they...

Playable demo: Jump'n Run 'Minky' (26. Aug. 2022)
'Minky' (Video) is a jump'n run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte of RAM. The now released playable pre-release version includes the first four levels, the release of the full version is supposed t...

OpenGLES ports: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy (26. Aug. 2022)
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are the third and fourth part of a series of first and third person shooters set in the Star Wars universe. The source code of both games was released years ago, shortly afte...

Database: MUIBase is now BeeBase, version 1.0 available (26. Aug. 2022)
Steffen Gutmann has been maintaining a programmable relational database called MUIBase since 1998, most recently version 4.5 had been released in mid-July. Since the open source program is now available for various other platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)...