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Competition Pro clone featuring Arcade parts: ArcadeR (Update) (13. Nov. 2020)
The ArcadeR's design is heavily inspired by the classic 'Competition' joysticks, but inside the newcomer is making use of actual Arcade components - a noname clone of a Sanwa joystick mechanism, to be precise. The sticks are available in different co...

Print magazine: Issue 125 of Amiga Future online (12. Nov. 2020)
The English issue 125 (March/April 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop. ...

AmigaOS 4: Games collection for AmiCygnix 1.6 (11. Nov. 2020)
Edgar Schwan has updated his games collection for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. 24 games are included, most of them board- or cardgames but also a shoot'em up and a interactive fractal zoomer. New in version 1.6: New game "Pioneers", a clone of "...

Free graphic set for game developer: "NEONworld" (10. Nov. 2020)
One of the submissions to the Amiga Art Contest 2020 was a graphic set for an imaginary game called "NEONworld". On his Patreon website, the graphics artist Kevin Saunders has provided the set as zip archive. It can be used in free game projects without a...

Early video preview: Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma' (10. Nov. 2020)
In Erik 'earok' Hogan's jump'n run 'Duckstroma' the player controls a duck which can use its eggs for jumping in higher levels. The game already has been released for MSX and ZX Spectrum using the flip-screen feature. Now a video of the Amiga prototy...

Competition: Submissions to the 'Amiga Art Contest 2020' released (09. Nov. 2020)
For the graphic competition "Amiga Art Contest 2020", started in July, all submissions in the categories "hand drawn artworks", "Photographic" and "Raytracing" now are available on the website of the organizers. The tracks do not seem to be available but...

3D-Shooter: Another early Tech-Demo from 'Blask' (09. Nov. 2020)
'Blask' (video) is a 3D-Shooter written in AMOS which is still in the very early stage of development and is supposd to be run on an Amiga 500. In a discussion on ppa.pl (Polish) the developer has talked about the latest progress of the game. He has ...

Little discourse on render-library (09. Nov. 2020)
In our report about the game AmiBrixx we have attended the auhor Jörn Renkert on the fact that under usually an OS3 port of a Hollywood application requires a graphics card and therefore pushing a port for AGA Amigas. Unfortunately we did not succeed ...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #79 - Ultimate Floppy Emulator (08. Nov. 2020)
In issue 79 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the Ultimate Floppy Emulator developed by Edu Arana and compares it with the GoTek drive. The floppy emulator can be connected internally or externally to the computer, the AFD files can ...

MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.11.2020 (08. Nov. 2020)
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 07.11.2020: Chrysalis_3.14.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to... Chrysalis-update_FR_1.... Chrysalis Script permettant d'ins... Chrysalis-upda...

Video: "Commodore Show and Tell" featuring Dave Haynie and Bil Herd (06. Nov. 2020)
In a video which was recorded for the this year's virtual "Vintage Computer Festival East 2020" the both former Commodore developers Bil Herd (C16, C128) and Dave Haynie (Amiga 2000, 3000) has talked about their work and time at Commodore. ...

Dan Malone (Bitmap Brothers) sells signed prints (05. Nov. 2020)
Dan Malone was graphics artist for the Bitmap Brothers. On his website he now sells signed prints of some of his work. At least one of them should be also interesting for Amiga users: The Navvie is a character from The Chaos Engine. ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 147 (04. Nov. 2020)
The English and German issue 147 (November/December 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Among others this latest issue i...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Nov. 2020)
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. Septembre/October 2020 news Old arti...

AROS Archives uploads until 31.10.2020 (01. Nov. 2020)
The following packages have been added to AROS Archives until 31.10.2020: zxsna_datatype.i386-aros.lha dat/ima 28kb ZX Spectrum .sna DataType arexxreference_1.32.lha doc/dev 33kb ARexx command/function reference... installer_dev.lha ...

Emulator: FS-UAE 3.0.5 (update) (30. Oct. 2020)
Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE provides the new features made in WinUAE to a cross-platform UAE version for Windows, Mac OS X and several Linux and BSD versions. Although specific release notes still are not available, the main page of FS-UAE as we...

Puzzle game: AmiBrixx 2.0 for all Amiga systems (29. Oct. 2020)
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert wrote about the game: "In a field of stacked stones, your target is to elminate groups of stones of the same color. Thereby the other stones will fall down and form new groups. The game ends, when no more groups can be eliminated." ...

Developer package: "DevPack" installs diverse compilers, editors and tools (28. Oct. 2020)
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does not have any dependencies on the commercial Workbench envir...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 115 (Italian/English) (28. Oct. 2020)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers. Among others the latest issue includes Amiga arti...

Wolfram Alpha question machine for Amiga systems: AskYourAmiga 0.2 (28. Oct. 2020)
According to the author, AskYourAmiga, in short AYA, is "a very early version of a GUI for Wolfram Alpha question machine" (Wikipedia entry). It does not find any links but right away the answer which can be also represented in e.g. graphs. In versio...