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Guides for AmigaOS 4 developers: Kea Campus videos about MUI (20. Oct. 2024)
As part of his membership program "Kea Campus" (amiga-news.de reported), Hans de Ruiter has now completed the videos on cross-compiling AmigaOS 4 programs and started a new series on creating user interfaces with MUI....

Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany (20. Oct. 2024)
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office. However,...

Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available. Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: it...

Logic game: Untangle V1.1 (20. Oct. 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 ...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (18. 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" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #4 under the title li...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.55 (17. Oct. 2024)
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Version 2.55 has now been released with the following changes: Fixed an error in the main li...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: ADFDiskBox v2 (16. Oct. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layer of the floppy regardless of the format used and stores as much information as possible in a so-called "flux level image" in supercard format (SCP), making it possible to read and write back copy-protec...

AmigaOS 4: Tutorial for creating a USB boot stick for the AmigaOne X5000 (16. Oct. 2024)
'McFly' has published two tutorials (available in English and German) in the OS4Depot which should enable users of an AmigaOne X5000 to create a bootable USB stick either from a system backup (OS4Depot link) or with the help of the AmigaOS 4.1 installatio...

CLI command: sysvars V0.13 (15. Oct. 2024)
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical f...

Demis Hassabis: Nobel prize winner with an Amiga background (Update) (15. Oct. 2024)
Demis Hassabis was recently honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, the development of AlphaGo, which was the first program to beat a professional Go player, and ...

File system: smbfs 2.22 published for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (15. Oct. 2024)
Olaf Barthel has released the new version 2.22 of the Samba file system smbfs for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x after a break of almost five years and four months of development (amiga-news.de reported about version 2.1). smbfs allows Amiga users to access Win...

Video: How the diskspare.device stores 984KB on a DD disc (14. Oct. 2024)
Robert Smith is currently working on an update of DiskFlashback (amiga-news.de reported) and is currently working on support for the diskspare.device (Aminet link), which is a supplement or replacement for the trackdisk.device, which can be used to format...

Aminet uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to Aminet: rse-coolcorkscrew.zip demo/aga 708K 68k Demo from Deadline 2024 SFL-AlteredVision.lha demo/aga 63K 68k AGA 64K Deadline 2024 Artstate-PartyPack25.adf demo/disk 880K 68k ...

OS4Depot uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to OS4Depot: x5kbootmedium.zip doc/tut 16Mb 4.0 Create X5000 boot medium from a ... x5kbootstick.zip doc/tut 26Mb 4.0 Create a USB installation stick ... arabic_console_device......

AROS Archives uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to AROS Archives: amifish.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 4Mb Chess program compatible with UC... setscreenmode.i386-aros.zip uti/she 93kb Auto set screenmode for differen... ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: Malibu_1.5.lha Dependencies/Hollywood Scala emulation for Hol... AmiArcadia_33.40.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... Pac-Man_1.0.lha ...

GoVD: Virtual desktops for the Workbench (13. Oct. 2024)
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 (and possibly also 3.1.4, but he has not tested this). You can specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the...

Platform game: Tiny Pixel Adventure (13. Oct. 2024)
Tiny Pixel Adventure is a classic platformer. Development has not yet been completed, but it is already playable. No information is given on the system requirements....

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...