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Do it yourself: Retro joystick USB adapter DualJoy (29. Jan. 2025)
DualJoy is a firmware for the Rapsberry Pi Pico that turns it into a USB adapter for two D-Sub 9 joysticks, as they are used with the Amiga....

Restoration report: The first perfect computer - Amiga 1000 (29. Jan. 2025)
At the title link, Celso Martinho describes in a longer report with many photos how he restored and upgraded a second-hand Amiga 1000....

Announcement: New issue of German print magazine Amiga Joker in October 2025 (29. Jan. 2025)
After the revivals of 2017 and 2019, another special issue of the German print magazine "Amiga Joker" is going to be published in October. They are still looking for letters to the editor, picture contributions for the gallery and a few articles. Interest...

Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero 1.1.1 (28. Jan. 2025)
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, the player has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (Video). Version 1.1.1 has just been released. Since the initial version 1.0 in summer 2023, new particles have b...

Action game: "Operation Steel Rain" playable demo has been released (28. Jan. 2025)
"Operation Steel Rain" is a new run'n'gun action game in development for AGA Amigas. Inspired by mecha-style games like "Assault Suits Valken" (SNES) or "Ranger-X" (Megadrive), the game brings platform shooter action to the Amiga screen. The project,...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Darkland (28. Jan. 2025)
"Darkland" was an advanced action role-playing game developed by New Deal Productions in the early 1990s. The game was intended for the Amiga, but never reached commercial release. Thanks to the website "Games That Weren't", which specialises in unre...

Demoparty: Lovebyte 2025 (15-16 February) (28. Jan. 2025)
On the weekend of 15-16 February 2025, the virtual demoparty "Lovebyte" will take place on Discord and Twitch - an event dedicated entirely to so-called sizecoding, i.e. programming with as few bytes as possible. Under this year's motto "Blind Date", all ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 166 (Italian/English) (28. Jan. 2025)
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, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (update) (27. Jan. 2025)
Just last week SDL 3 was officially released with version 3.20. As usual, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki is implementing the multimedia library for AmigaOS 4.1 and has now published a first release candidate which contains the following Amiga-specific changes:...

Amiga-500-Guide: Version 2 of the manual for (re-) beginners (German) (27. Jan. 2025)
Last year Patrick Schwedt wrote a German PDF file with all kinds of tips for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or are starting to use it again after a long time. Version 2 is now available on Aminet, which has been expanded and no...

Strategy game: LightTheLEDs (27. Jan. 2025)
Rodrigo Vertulo, who previously published "Skinny Marley" (amiga-news.de reported), now wants to remind Amiga fans of their creative spirit with "LightTheLEDs" and offers an "electrifying challenge" with his new game, in which you have to connect batterie...

Aminet uploads until 25.01.2025 (26. Jan. 2025)
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to Aminet: xdump.lha dev/misc 538K OS3 Four AmigaDOS binary fi... xmdump.lha dev/misc 555K OS3 Analyze AmigaDOS progra... xrom.lha ...

OS4Depot uploads until 25.01.2025 (26. Jan. 2025)
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to OS4Depot: aos-amigagpt-icons.lha gra/ico 574kb 4.1 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons for Amig... perciman.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Person Contact and Information M... ...

Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 3000/4000 (26. Jan. 2025)
KickSmash32, currently available in version 1.4, is a Kickstart ROM replacement module for the Amiga 3000 and 4000, which can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files....

Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.3 (update) (26. Jan. 2025)
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC fr...

Music competition: Winter edition of the Boozedrome (26. Jan. 2025)
On February 22nd, the next Boozedrome will not take place on location in Helsinki, but this time purely on YouTube. Music modules of a maximum length of three minutes and a maximum size of 2 MB that can be played by HippoPlayer 2.45 without additiona...

Music: An introduction to Amiga (techno) hardcore (26. Jan. 2025)
At the title link, Jude Noel has written an overview of the Amiga techno hardcore music scene in English and links to corresponding tracks for direct listening....

Video: Why the Commodore Amiga CD³² failed (26. Jan. 2025)
In the video at the title link, 'The Matrix' once again addresses the failure of the Amiga CD³². Picking up on this, 'Havok' has also written a text on the subject for The Oasis BBS, which he co-runs....

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive (26. Jan. 2025)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). In this January update, some level graphics were added for the game StarRay and, for comparison, t...

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.9 (26. Jan. 2025)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.9 was released: Driver Performance improvements Add support for AIDE Lideflash Add support ...