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Video: AmiKit for PiStorm (29. Jul. 2024)
Even though George 'walkereo' Sokianos mainly focuses on the development of AmigaOS4 software, he also has classic hardware at his disposal. In a detailed Twitch recording, he takes a look at the AmiKit workbench distribution for his Amiga 1200 upgraded w...

Aminet uploads until 27.07.2024 (28. Jul. 2024)
The following files have been added until 27.07.2024 to Aminet: Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 4.4M x86 Generator of printable calendars Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 4.2M MOS Generator of printable calendars Crono_OS4.lha b...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.30.5 Release Candidate 1 (28. Jul. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published a first release candidate of version 2.30.5 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is u...

AmigaOS 4: File manager "Dir Me Up" V4.00 (27. Jul. 2024)
Press release: Five years after its last update (amiga-news.de reported), the modern explorer for AmigaOS 4, Dir Me Up, is back in version 4... with more than 130 new features, optimizations and fixes! More than ever, it will be your faithful companion to...

Game: Snake conversion for the Amiga 1000 (26. Jul. 2024)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch has written a simple Snake game in Blitz Basic 2, which only runs on a standard Amiga 1000 with Kickstart 1.2 or Kickstart Disk 1.2....

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.37 (25. Jul. 2024)
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 160 (Italian/English) (25. Jul. 2024)
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...

Event: Guest list for the "ZZAP! Live 2024" in Kenilworth (England) (25. Jul. 2024)
On 17 August 2024, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) will host the second "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by Fusion Retro Books, the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, will take place (amiga-news.de reported). Only 100 tickets are still...

Game: Droid (24. Jul. 2024)
Droid is a run-and-gun platformer that appeared in 1992 as a cover disk of the Atari magazine "ST Format" and has now been ported to the Amiga (video). The version of the game released today, which is only available in PAL resolution, trades as versi...

PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 99 (24. Jul. 2024)
In its latest issue 99, the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" reports on the "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" currently being developed by Mutation Software, which is scheduled for release at the end of 2024, in a separate chapter entitled "...

Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project" (24. Jul. 2024)
In a new preview video (amiga-news.de reported), developer Maurice Doerr explains what he has been working on recently: optimising the engine and adapting the dialogues and selection options. Feedback on the interface or elements of the game is welcome....

Time travel at gamescom 2024: Retro Area invites you to play games and reminisce (23. Jul. 2024)
There is one thing that cannot be missed at gamescom 2024, which takes place in Cologne from 21 to 25 August 2024: the popular Retro Area! In Hall 10.2, visitors will embark on a nostalgic journey through 50 years of video game history. Numerous exhi...

Arcade port: King and Balloon V0.94 (23. Jul. 2024)
"King and Balloon" is an arcade conversion of the title King & Balloon, originally released by Namco in 1980 (amiga-news.de reported). The new beta version 0.94 that has now been released includes small bug fixes, enables joystick support (port 2) and add...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" V0.16.29 (22. Jul. 2024)
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git comp...

Accelerator board projekt: Revision 0.8 of Buffee boards (22. Jul. 2024)
The turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) has been rather quiet lately. Now Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the project, is back with a new blog entry. They can now devote themselves full-time to development again as they h...

Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.2 (22. Jul. 2024)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.2. Changes: Faster extra HAM6 palette optimized. Fixed Atari 8-bit gui glitch. Fixed a bug that caused no...

Video: Interview with Andy Finkel (21. Jul. 2024)
In April Dave McMurtrie did an interview with the former Amiga developer Andy Finkel about his time at Commodore, where he was working since 1981. Now the 50 minute video of the interview has been published at the title link....

Hollywood plugin: Extended SVG support in Pangomonium 2.0 (21. Jul. 2024)
Pangomonium is a plugin for Hollywood that offers a modern text and graphics engine with extensive features, including support for exotic fonts and coloured emojis. In the recently released version 2.0, Pangomonium now also supports SVG image files. ...

Image converter: Lazzy Image Viewer v0.71 for Windows (20. Jul. 2024)
In 2010, 'PascalVault' started to create a website that allows you to quickly convert old image formats into new ones. It was written in PHP but unfortunately "terribly slow", as he writes to us. He is now in the process of porting the code to Pascal u...

Platform game: Test version of "Dr. Dangerous" (19. Jul. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released a playable test version of "Dr Dangerous", which was created with the Scorpion Engine and offers eight playable levels (YouTube video). It is the first project for the Amiga platform a...