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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9 (01. Feb. 2022)
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows: Enhancements: The hardware config panel has been split into a separate chi...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January (01. Feb. 2022)
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January....

AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories (01. Feb. 2022)
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. Changes sin...

ACube Systems: Appeal for reporting AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware (31. Jan. 2022)
ACube Systems asks in their Twitter message today to report AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware so that the AmigaOS 4.1 Hardware Compatibility List can be completed....

Aracade game: Green Beret released (update) (31. Jan. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine. Basically, the game is not meant to be a 1:1 port. The player is much more "agile", as he can stab from ladders, for exampl). It ...

Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks (31. Jan. 2022)
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he...

Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board (30. Jan. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in. In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development rega...

Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas (30. Jan. 2022)
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022....

Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022 (30. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet: facts.lha comm/tcp 249K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A... FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K Italian catalog for Facts v5.10 asm3210.lha de...

OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022 (30. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot: dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc... reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4....

AmiTube 0.8: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (29. Jan. 2022)
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). Today version 0.8 has been released which provides an improved download speed and a lot of...

Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released (29. Jan. 2022)
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today. Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in...

RMC Retro Amiga Demo (28. Jan. 2022)
In addition to his various YouTube videos, Neil aka RMC has set up a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games called The Cave. It is located in Chalford in Gloucestershire and is about to open to the public. To mark the occasion, he...

BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2 (28. Jan. 2022)
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 (amiga-news.de reported). About the new version 0.8...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.1 (26. Jan. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 130 (Italian/English) (26. Jan. 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. Among others the la...

Scene World Podcast Episode #132 - Netlabels with Simon Carless (26. Jan. 2022)
Simon Carless is a former Amiga musician and founder/owner of the Monotonik netlabel, which rose to prominence in the late '90s and early '00s. Jörg Dröge and guest co-host Martin Wisniowski pick his brain about this unique time in the development of the ...

Amigaland: 324 games online (26. Jan. 2022)
At the beginning of the new year, Mirko Engelhardt writes about achievements and future plans: "We now have 324 games online, of which 28 games are also available on CD 32 or CD, plus 86 PD games. We've never had this many games online before. That was a...

Hyperion blog apparently hacked by spammers (26. Jan. 2022)
At the end of 2010, Hyperion had introduced a "developer blog" to inform users about current events around AmigaOS 4. The last official contributions date back to 2017, from then technical director Costel Mincea. Then in November, The Ultimate Guide To On...

AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas' (24. Jan. 2022)
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support. With the help of PatchCompositeTags the ga...