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THEA500 Mini: Release date and games list (19. Dec. 2021)
On their Facebook account RetroGames Ltd. has published the release date of their size-reduced replica "THEA500 Mini" now (amiga-news.de reported). The just 20,7 x 14,4 x 2,7 centimeters measuring device - therefore being without a working keyboard -...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 154 - preview and excerpts (19. Dec. 2021)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 154 (January/February 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include an interview with Thomas Römer as well as reviews of the 68030-TK2 by 'Matze' and the games collection Ad Cosmos Ex T...

AmigaOS 4.1: Warp3D backward compatibility with 'NovaBridge' (19. Dec. 2021)
At this year's AmiWest it was announced that Hans De Ruiter is working on NovaBridge: This driver should allow all 3D applications written under the old Warp3D and MiniGL to work on modern graphics cards like Radeon RX and Radeon HD. As the author explain...

BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.0 (18. Dec. 2021)
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively. Yesterday the developer has released versi...

New preview video: 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' winter update (17. Dec. 2021)
With another preview video, Michael 'Mixel' Dawes presents the current state of development of his Scorpion Engine created platformer 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'. Making a demo out of the winter stage was his initial plan, but there wasn't enough time ...

Holly Lights: Xmas decoration for Workbench 1.3 (17. Dec. 2021)
For those who already want to give their Workbench 1.3 some Christmas glamour, Chris 'Crispy' Brenner has written a small program that conjures up a Christmas fairy lights on the screen: Regarding how it works, the author states the following...

AROS: PipeWalker game ported (17. Dec. 2021)
PipeWalker ist a puzzle-like game, where you have to make connections to link the beginning and the end: network connections, water pipes, electrical cables, roads, etc. Versions for Linux and Wondows have been available for a while, now an implementati...

Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 4 (17. Dec. 2021)
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularl...

AmiTube 0.5: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (15. Dec. 2021)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video). Yesterday version 0.5 has been released, providing the following changes: As described ...

Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish) (13. Dec. 2021)
"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 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3....

Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 2 (13. Dec. 2021)
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the second part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de...

New preview video: Souverän Soccer (12. Dec. 2021)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps. Meanwhile the ...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update) (12. Dec. 2021)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new versio...

Vampire 1200 V2 accelerator board: Availability, reviews (12. Dec. 2021)
In summer the Apollo team had announced two new accelerator boards: the FireBird (A500/A1000/A2000) and the IceDrake (A1200). Meanwhile, a third card has been added, the Apollo Kraken V4 (Amiga 3000/4000). While the latter is announced for the fourth quar...

OS4Depot uploads until 11.12.2021 (12. Dec. 2021)
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator camp_uncanny.lha gam/mis 12Mb 4.1 Demo of basic game operation mce.lha gam/uti ...

Windows: DOpus cooperation with Haage & Partner terminated (12. Dec. 2021)
The file manager Directory Opus, originally from the Amiga and commercially continued for Windows only, which has been open source in the Amiga variant since 2012, was previously distributed by Haage & Partner (H&P) in Germany, with their support page, in...

Amigaland: Two rare CDTV games for download / PD area added (12. Dec. 2021)
At Amigaland.de - a legal collection of games, demos and emulators - Mirko Engelhardt can now offer two rare comic adventures for free download: "The Case of the Cautious Condor" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" by Tiger Media, published for Amiga C...

Java program: ham_convert 1.84 (12. Dec. 2021)
Java-based program ham_convert for transition of standard graphics file formats into Amiga ones, has meanwhile been updated to version 1.84. Among other changes, now the number of used palette colors can be selected when creating HAM6 and HAM8 files....

Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 3 (11. Dec. 2021)
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularl...

Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS (09. Dec. 2021)
Rob Smith, known for his DrawBridge project to read Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has released the first part of a YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS....