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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.106 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x (11. Mar. 2025)
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.106 since the last news upd...

Music tips (10. Mar. 2025)
To kick off the new week, we would like to present our readers with a few music tips: The Swedish software and hardware developer 'mbitsnbites', who for example has published SoundBox, a synth music tracker and editor written in HTML5 for creating mu...

Project introduction: Floppy disk reader for AmigaOS 4 (10. Mar. 2025)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has adapted Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (amiga-news.de reported) for reading Amiga floppy disks with the help of an Arduino board so that it can now also be used under AmigaOS 4 (GitHub project page). Above all, he had to...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 03/25 of "Ecliptic" (10. Mar. 2025)
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a fifth demo has been released for ...

Rogue-like game: Roguecraft 1.5 (10. Mar. 2025)
The Rogue-like game Roguecraft (video, amiga-news.de reported) has been updated to version 1.5, providing the following changes: There is now a Highscore screen. The high scores are saved when exiting the Highscore screen after Game Over or completi...

Aminet uploads until 08.03.2025 (09. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga HHH-AmTechLQ.adf demo/sound 880K OS3 Borschtsch - Amerikansk... REDPILLGam...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (09. Mar. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added: The Seven Gates Of Jambala A Prehistoric Tale - Title Eggciting As Duck (Qwak Intro + Level 2 Music, Fusion Rem...

Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Command line programs Amiga-Tools 1.0 (09. Mar. 2025)
At the title link Robert 'Pyrdacor' Schneckenhaus has provided "Amiga-Tools" for current computer systems. Specifically, these are two command line commands for Windows, Linux or Mac OS; a user interface is planned. They can be used to create, modify...

Video: Doom clone Grind 0.6 (09. Mar. 2025)
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The level "DevArena" shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new opponents and functions and actually serves as a stress tes...

Flip screen platformer: Trapped in the Tomb, also as a Boxed Edition (08. Mar. 2025)
"Trapped in the Tomb" (video) is a flip-screen platformer in which the items to be collected and the player's starting position are chosen randomly each time the game is started. The game runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM and at least Kickstart 1...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.8 (08. Mar. 2025)
Version 12.8 of the Workbench distribution "Amikit" is available to all registered users free of charge. The software collection has been expanded to include the Jump'n Run "Absolute Zero" and the "World Construction Set" as well as a utility that enables...

Hardware project: Bluetooth-based Kickstart switch "AmigaBlueKick" (08. Mar. 2025)
"AmigaBlueKick" is a Kickstart switch that does not require any soldering work on the motherboard or a mechanical switch: Switching between the different Kickstart ROMs is done via Bluetooth. To do this, a ready-made ESP32S3 or ESP32C3 Wifi/Bluetooth modu...

Logic game: Untangle V1.2 (07. Mar. 2025)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Programming competition: Developing of a RedPill game (07. Mar. 2025)
The Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave has organised a programming competition for the RedPill game construction kit, which runs until 28 June: The main aim of the competition is to promote the use of REDPILL. All games that have been developed with R...

Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West (06. Mar. 2025)
The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical...

Multiplatform emulator: Clock Signal 2025-03-05 (macOS, Linux) (06. Mar. 2025)
Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to vario...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.8 (06. Mar. 2025)
Version 3.2.8 of the multimedia library SDL is now available, which brings the following platform-specific innovations: Fix issue with window size after SetWindowPosition Prefs: add AISS images to menus Ignore destination alpha for target textures ...

Linux: Kernel 6.12.17 LTS for X1000/X5000 (06. Mar. 2025)
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.17 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Newly added is the support for Renesas xHCI controllers with firmware, in return Kexec is ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.48 (06. Mar. 2025)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requ...

AmigaOS 4: GemRB RPG package 0.8.8 (05. Mar. 2025)
Press release (translation): Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are very pleased to present the GemRB RPG package version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and the easy installation. GemRB makes it possible to play...