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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 ...

Video player: Amos Anim Player v2025 (24. Jan. 2025)
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). The latest ve...

Video analysis: Shadow of the Beast - The Greatest Video Game Tech Demo Ever (23. Jan. 2025)
In a 14-minute video, the Youtuber "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a close look at the Amiga classic "Shadow of The Beast" and explains, among other things, how the up to 13 independently scrolling levels or the sometimes over 120 colours on the screen come ...

Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.07 (23. Jan. 2025)
Amiga Yoomp! is a conversion of an Atari 8-bit game from 2007. In the last few weeks, several updates have been released that bring the following changes: Version 1.07: improved save hi-score procedure it is now much faster Version 1.06: fixed bug i...

Audio playback: Interview on the occasion of version 1.0 of AmiModRadio (22. Jan. 2025)
Shortly before Christmas - after years of almost asymptotically approaching this version number - AmiModRadio 1.0 was released. Reason enough for us to ask its programmer 'Tygre' for an interview. About the program: AmiModRadio accesses the more than t...

Shoot 'em up: Sky Shapers available in a physical box edition (21. Jan. 2025)
Sky Shapers is a 50 FPS vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from the Norwegian development team ...

Flappy-Bird-clone: Happy Bat 1.2 (21. Jan. 2025)
The skill game "Happy Bat" has been developed by Carlos Zener for testing the high score function of the game development tool REDPILL (amiga-news.de reported). Happy Bat has now been updated to version 1.2, which features new graphics by Jordi Palome and...

Hyperion Entertainment: Press release regarding the new director (21. Jan. 2025)
As reported, Timothy De Groote has been appointed as the new director of Hyperion Entertainment. The following press release has been officially published by the company at the title link today. New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – Ne...