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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7 (17. Feb. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards (17. Feb. 2024)
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place fro...

Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU (17. Feb. 2024)
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies ...

AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.6 (update) (17. Feb. 2024)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small size...

Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version) (16. Feb. 2024)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bu...

Tool: EmptyADF 1.0 (16. Feb. 2024)
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzyszt...

Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid (16. Feb. 2024)
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate d...

TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released (15. Feb. 2024)
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers. This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the inst...

Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany) (15. Feb. 2024)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well a...

Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 1 (14. Feb. 2024)
The A1060 Sidecar is an expansion hardware device developed by Commodore and released in 1986 for the Amiga 1000 computer. It features a complete PC XT-clone system mounted in an expansion case which connected to the expansion bus on the right side of the...

Platformer: Playable demo of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA Amigas (14. Feb. 2024)
Three weeks ago, we introduced the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is developing together with his daughter for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Now he has released a playable demo version of the first level (YouTube video)....

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2 (13. Feb. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 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 i...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86) (13. Feb. 2024)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings ...

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1) (13. Feb. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) hav...

Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories: 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschoo...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC w...

Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music (12. Feb. 2024)
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs: Ultima IV:...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.7 (11. Feb. 2024)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video)...

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1 (11. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now...

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update) (11. Feb. 2024)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MID...