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Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man (31. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported)....

Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update) (31. Aug. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Video: AmiKit 12 on a Raspberry Pi 5 (30. Aug. 2024)
Under the title link, Amiga Bill talks to AmiKit developer Ján Zahurančík about his workbench distribution AmiKit 12 and shows how it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. He also gives tips and tricks and talks about the development of the distribution....

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8 (30. Aug. 2024)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released: Bug fixes Performance improvements Speed up initialization on 68000 systems Lidefl...

Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2 (29. Aug. 2024)
pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the...

Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01 (29. Aug. 2024)
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newl...

AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1 (29. Aug. 2024)
In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer soft...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update) (28. Aug. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute (28. Aug. 2024)
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on c...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb supports EmuTOS (28. Aug. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or rather a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for Mac OS. Besides the AROS ROM, since August 18 also the Atari-TOS-compatible EmuTOS has been added as a selectable ...

Programming environment: MicroPython for the Amiga in development (27. Aug. 2024)
MicroPython Amiga is a fork of the MicroPython project that brings this programming environment to the classic Amiga (with at least AmigaOS 3.1). The project is still under development, but can already be compiled and used. Amiga-specific features: ...

AROS: First test version of Odyssey browser v2.0 (26. Aug. 2024)
At the beginning of August, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released a first test version of the 64-bit browser Odyssey for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). In this next test version, the WebKit engine has been updated from August 2015 to February 201...

Hollywood: GUI plugin RapaGUI 2.2 (25. Aug. 2024)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.2. RapaGUI is one of the most popular Hollywood plugins as it can be used to create graphical user interfaces for a variety of systems (AmigaOS, Windows, macOS,...

AROS: Demo version of word processor Final Writer 7.1 (25. Aug. 2024)
Nine years after the initial announcements, the word processor Final Writer is now receiving its first update since 1997: The new rights holder Timothy "terminills" Deters is offering free demo versions for AROS-68K, AROS-x86-64 and AROS-x86 ABIv0 (...

Platform game: Test version 5 of "Dr. Dangerous" (25. Aug. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 5 offers the following changes: ...

Logic game: Untangle V0.5 (25. Aug. 2024)
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 ...

Aminet uploads until 24.08.2024 (25. Aug. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.08.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 104K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga CestinoGlobale.lha dev/blitz 53K 68k Italian global trashcan WIP CVBasic.lha dev/cross 316K 68k...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (25. Aug. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Full Contact Intro Tyros Edition Planets live performance ...

Video: AmiGameJam candidate Anguish as spiritual successor of Agony (25. Aug. 2024)
Topic of this year's AmiGameJam, which runs until December 1, are sequels to Amiga games from the old days. With a video of the current state of development, Adrian Browne presents his candidate "Anguish" at the title link, which is to continue the g...

iOS app: 4champ 3.7.0 for accessing Amiga Music Preservation (25. Aug. 2024)
The iOS program 4champ is a user interface for corresponding mobile devices to access the Amiga Music Preservation database....