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Programming Course: Amiga 500 Programming - Completing a Simple Game (14. Dec. 2024)
In the ninth part of Michael Martin's course on hardware-related A500 programming, the sample project is completed: "Completing a Simple Game" covers topics such as joystick polling and display updates....

Linux: Kernel 6.12.4 for X1000/X5000 (14. Dec. 2024)
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.4, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled a version for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The new kernel fixes bugs around DRM....

Developer documentation: "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" available (14. Dec. 2024)
Press release: Great news for Amiga fans and dedicated programmers: Thomas Richter's "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" has been shipped from the printer earlier than planned and will be sent to all customers who pre-ordered it starting Tuesday...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.7 (x86) (14. Dec. 2024)
The "AROS One" distribution, based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.7 for x86 computers. A DVD ISO file and a USB flash ("VHD") image are available for download. The VHD image can be used as a hard disk in virtual machine...

Mark Sibly (Blitz Basic) passes away (14. Dec. 2024)
Acid Software (u.a. Skidmarks, Guardian) announced on Facebook that Mark Sibly, the father of the Blitz Basic programming language, passed away earlier this month. Apparently, the New Zealander had been struggling with a number of health problems in recen...

AmigaOS 4: Space shooter "Super Star Blast" (13. Dec. 2024)
Press release: Super Star Blast has been available on PC and consoles for a while now. We are pleased to finally be able to release a version for AmigaOS 4 as well. Super Star Blast is a space shooter with challenging levels of increasing d...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.12.12 (13. Dec. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2024.12.12 provides the following changes: Fix ZuluSCSI v1.1plus firmware from not st...

Event: Review of "Alkmaar Amiga Meetup" (13. Dec. 2024)
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, describes in a current blog entry his impressions of the "Alkmaar Amiga Meetup" which took place at the end of November near Amsterdam (amiga...

Emulator: QEMU 9.2.0 (13. Dec. 2024)
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This suppor...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 3 (12. Dec. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutching recently bought an Amiga 2000 for 350 pounds and is now documenting his attempts to repair the considerably upgraded computer (amiga-news.de reported). The third part is to get the hard disc up and running....

Top-down shooter: Revenge Of The Grinch (12. Dec. 2024)
"Revenge Of The Grinch" (video) is a shooter with simultaneous mouse and joystick control. The game developed by "Electric Black Sheep" (e.g. Star Dust Wars, Project Quest) runs on any Amiga with 1 megabyte of RAM, an A1200 is recommended....

Interview: Rob Anderson ("Moonstone") (12. Dec. 2024)
The blog "Spillhistory" spoke to programmer Rob Anderson, the developer of the 1991 action adventure Moonstone....

Development tool: Amiga GCC updated (11. Dec. 2024)
Stefan 'bebbo' Franke's GNU-C compiler compilation for the Amiga was updated two days ago. The "lilzöö" version mainly fixes problems and integrates the Poseidon USB SDK....

Winterland level for Mega Lo Mania (11. Dec. 2024)
Back in November last year Dom Cresswell created a Winterland level for the game Mega Lo Mania by using "AI" for the graphics and a level editor he had started in 2008 and not completed until 2023. The new level can be downloaded at the title link....

Video series: The Amiga 1000 as a Workstation, part 9 (11. Dec. 2024)
Yesterday Thomas Cherryhomes published the ninth part of his video series on the Workstation suitability of the Amiga 1000 at that time. In it, he compares how an IBM PC/AT would have been used for scientific and engineering purposes by writing a heatmap ...

Video: The Best Amiga Christmas Games (11. Dec. 2024)
If you want to get into the Christmas spirit with Amiga nostalgia, you will find an almost half-hour video at the title link with scenes from the fifteen best Christmas-related games according to the creator....

Print magazine: Amiga Germany, issue 13 (10. Dec. 2024)
"Amiga Germany" has its origins in a Facebook group of the same name. The magazine, which is in A5 format, focuses on the game and demo scene on the Amiga. The thirteenth edition, which is around 60 pages long, can now be ordered for Euro 4.22 (plus shipp...

Announcement: Amiga 40th Anniversary Event in Silicon Valley (10. Dec. 2024)
A major event will be held in Silicon Valley in July 2025 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Amiga. Organised by the team behind the Amiga30th event, the event invites Amiga fans from around the world to celebrate the history and legacy of the Amiga...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 15 of "WhatIFF?", new forum and merchandise (10. Dec. 2024)
‘WhatIFF?’ is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format.The topics of the fifteenth issue include reviews of hardware (e.g. A600GS, RastPort PCMCIA and Electroware PSU) and software (e.g. IBrowse 3a and RogueCraft), tutorials (e.g. Basic Basic an...

Reverse Engineering: Carmageddon for 68k-Amigas (10. Dec. 2024)
A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga. Thanks to Arcziii, who has already presented reverse engineerings of Red Alert and Wipeout, the martial racing game has been made executable on classic Amiga hardware. T...