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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish) (13. Apr. 2022)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as w...

Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022 (12. Apr. 2022)
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("No...

Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp (12. Apr. 2022)
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Video: DrawBridge for MiSTer in development (11. Apr. 2022)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppy disks with a standard PC disk drive connected. After successfully implementing this project, the de...

Aminet uploads until 09.04.2022 (11. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to Aminet: Ghetto_Crew.lha demo/ecs 331K 68k Ocean Floor demo for GERP2022... void-dreams37.zip demo/misc 537K 68k Demopack - April 2022 F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7...

Prototype: A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga or PC (10. Apr. 2022)
An Amiga fan from England is working on a metall case inspired by the PET/CBM series from Commodore. Thanks to different backplates, the "A-Pet" will be able to house a generic PC motherboard or various Amiga models. While the proportions will be similar,...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 4 of 'WhatIFF?' published (09. Apr. 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. As Timo Paul, the creator of the magazine, told us, h...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.2 (09. Apr. 2022)
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-n...

Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.0 Beta 2 (09. Apr. 2022)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS, vAmiga. Parallel to the current update of the Amiga emulator, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application with the lat...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 3 (update) (09. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the second beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a graphics bug caused by returning an erroneous value...

Demopack: Issue 37 of 'Dreams' released (08. Apr. 2022)
Void is an Amiga demo group that has been active since 1995. Its members come from different parts of the world: United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland, United States, Greece, Switzerland and South Africa. Yesterday they released the 37th issue of their ...

Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The AGA Years' near completion (08. Apr. 2022)
About a year ago, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years', was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. The second part, 'Demoscene - The AGA Years', which is dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996, has also been crow...

Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #19, last issue for now (08. Apr. 2022)
After a 12-year break, the 18th issue of the English-language diskmag 'Jurassic Pack', first published in 1995, was released in January 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Editor Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj has now published the 19th issue and announces in the edito...

Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development (07. Apr. 2022)
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately...

Print magazine: issue 135 of Amiga Future readable free of charge (07. Apr. 2022)
The German and Englisch editions of 'Amiga Future' issue 135 (November/December 2018) can now be read for free on the magazine's website. Remainders of the physical issue as well as PDF files at a higher resolution are available from the publisher....

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series (06. Apr. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files,...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98 (06. Apr. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Co...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2 (06. Apr. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "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 w...

MorphOS: Free fonts package (also for AmigaOS) (05. Apr. 2022)
Monotype employee 'pikewerfer', with permission from his superiors, has put together a free font pack that can be "bought" for 0 Euros under the title link. The "MorphOS Value Pack" contains ten different types, including their variants (italic, bold...