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DIY: Two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (13. Oct. 2024)
Rod Thomas' AmigaDualFloppyInterface allows the use of two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (tested only with version 6A of the motherboard). In practice, one of them is a Gotek drive. His project allows the use of two internal floppy ...

Interview with Ian Griffiths (Amiga Addict) (13. Oct. 2024)
For his website "Prankster101 Productions" Azfar Shah did an interview with Ian Griffiths at the title link, editor of the Amiga Addict magazine (Wikipedia)....

Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4 (12. Oct. 2024)
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte ar...

Preview video: First level of the game "The Gate" (12. Oct. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on his latest progress in a recent...

Installing floppy disks on hard disk: JST 7.4 (11. Oct. 2024)
JST can be used to install disk-based games on hard disk using WHDLoad slaves. After a long break - our last news-item dates back to 2002 - the further development of this program, which was first released in 1996, has been resumed in 2017. Today's focus ...

Text editor extension: Motorola 68k assembler environment for Emacs (11. Oct. 2024)
For those who want to program with current versions of the text editor Emacs (Wikipedia) in assembler for the Amiga, there is an open source extension for it at the title link....

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (11. Oct. 2024)
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #3 under the title link as well as the correspo...

Hollywood: Malibu 1.5 published (09. Oct. 2024)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes (translated): "Version 1.5 of Malibu, the Hollywood plugin that can display Scala scripts, has now been released. This version contains some bug fixes that were necessary to make the recently released iconic Scala games Beyond a ...

AVX instructions: An Amiga fan at Intel? (09. Oct. 2024)
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are an instruction set extension for x86 processors introduced by Intel. Arnaud Carré's blog article at the title link is specifically about the AVX-512 instruction set published in 2013. The vpternlogd instruction it cont...

Platform game: 2tinycowboys for the Amiga 500 (update) (08. Oct. 2024)
2tinycowboys is a new game for the Amiga 500 that is designed for two players to compete against each other on a single screen in an arcade-platformer style. Compared to the PC and Android version, the Amiga version stays closer to the original vision of ...

"Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance, Volume 3" now available (08. Oct. 2024)
The new book ‘Demoscene – The Amiga Renaissance’ is the third part of a series of illustrated books about the demoscene (amiga-news.de reported). Following the first two volumes, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years" (1984-1993) and "Demoscene -...

3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter v1.0 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x (08. Oct. 2024)
3D Object Converter is a new tool for 3D polygon models, also often referred to as wireframe models. The software was originally developed for MS-DOS and Windows and has now been ported to AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x in version 1.0. The application can be used...

Demoparty: Results of Deadline 2024 (07. Oct. 2024)
Last weekend, this year's edition of the demo party Deadline took place in Berlin (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga productions could rank in the various competitions. Desire won first place in the "Oldschool Demo" category with Inside the Machine. Sec...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V4.5 R112 for Windows 10/11 (update) (07. Oct. 2024)
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, G...

MOD player: rePlayer for Windows (07. Oct. 2024)
If you are looking for an MOD player for Windows (and other systems), you already have a good choice: in addition to NostalgicPlayer, there are the online players Pixeltune or Bassoontracker, for example. Now Arnaud Neny has released another alternat...

Preview video: Halloween X (07. Oct. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is to be a game for Halloween and adapted for AGA Amigas. He has now published a first preview video on Twitch....

Arcade game: GoGoGo (07. Oct. 2024)
After Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch recently published a demo version of his game "Ami Robbo 2", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported), the next release is already following: in "GoGoGo" (YouTube video) you drive in a car scrolling si...

Aminet uploads until 05.10.2024 (06. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to Aminet: BeeBase-1.1.lha biz/dbase 8.4M MOS Programmable relational datab... amigassh.lha comm/net 108K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga italodi2co.zip demo/disk 773K...

WHDLoad: New installers until 05.10.2024 (06. Oct. 2024)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 05.10.2024: 2024-09-29 improved: Grapevine 17 ...