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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...

Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s (05. Apr. 2022)
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers. In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key ...

Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple' (04. Apr. 2022)
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game wil...

MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0 (04. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL require...

AmiGameJam 2022: The winners (04. Apr. 2022)
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen: 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez. 2nd place: Jean-François Fab...

Pre-order: New Amiga mechanical USB keyboard (03. Apr. 2022)
Simulant Systems Ltd is a computer hardware, software and online IT support service provider based in York, United Kingdom. Today it was announced that production of Amiga USB mechanical keyboards will be started. Amiga Corporation's first officially l...