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Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...

Developer log: Weapons for the strategy game "Ecliptic" (12. Jun. 2024)
At the beginning of April, a new demo version of the strategy game "Ecliptic", which is currently under development, was released (amiga-news.de reported). In another detailed developer diary, the author now writes about some of the weapons that can be us...

Video game history: Amiga Germany trading cards (11. Jun. 2024)
The team behind Amiga Germany, which founded and manages the Facebook group of the same name and publishes the associated magazine, has presented a new project that should be of interest to collectors who are interested in the history of video games: the ...

Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback V1.0.1.0 (11. Jun. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has written DiskFlashback, a convenient software for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) that enables PC floppy drives to read and write image files such as ADFs (Amiga Disk Files) during operation. It also allows you to process real discs in Amiga...

Action-Adventure: 2nd June update of "Castlevania AGA" (09. Jun. 2024)
Dante Mendes has released another June update (amiga-news.de reported) for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula", which fixes some problems: a problem with screen transitions after a continu...

Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.00 (09. Jun. 2024)
Sami Vehmaa's current project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released versi...

Aminet uploads until 08.06.2024 (09. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 08.06.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 99K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga convolver.lha dev/amos 114K 16bit mono convolver HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 928K Hollyw...

WHDLoad: New installers until 08.06.2024 (09. Jun. 2024)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 08.06.2024: 2024-06-04 improved: Manic Miner (...

Game: Ami-H.E.R.O. 1.1 (09. Jun. 2024)
"Ami-H.E.R.O.", inspired by the Atari 2600 game H.E.R.O., (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in version 1.1. New features include updated graphics and a pause function....

Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" V0.3C (08. Jun. 2024)
Besides some other projects like "Deathmine" or "Pumpman", 'PixelPlop' is about to port a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never published to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The second preview video shows the following changes: Rewrote/red...

Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.1 (07. Jun. 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 1.10.1. New in this version: Temporal dithering (fake rgb666 in ham6 animations, dither_temporal command line pa...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.16 (AmigaOS 3/4) (07. Jun. 2024)
Version 5.16 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.3.1. Detailed changes: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.3.1 (4.6.2024) version whi...

Blog: Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers (07. Jun. 2024)
Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article on his website datagubbe.se, entitled ‘Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers’. This article deals with the subjective perception of computer speed...

Platformer: Release of "Tony Montezuma's Gold" (07. Jun. 2024)
Monochrome Productions has published the Amiga game ‘Tony Montezuma's Gold’ (amiga-news.de reported). This new platform game lets players take on the role of Polish explorer and film-maker Tony Halik (1921-1998), whose adventures spanned conti...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.7 (07. Jun. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.7 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes: Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.44.2 Implemented a targeted ReCaptcha workaround to improve its reliability on slower hardware Updated to latest cURL Fixe...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.2.0 (06. Jun. 2024)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.2.0 among others offers a memory region viewer: Added memo...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.218 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (06. Jun. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.3 for Windows, Linux and macOS (05. Jun. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video). The new version now supports unlimited hunks. In addition, the author has spent some...

AROS: Emulator for 32-bit software under 64-bit AROS in development (04. Jun. 2024)
To facilitate the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture for AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has now published the prototype of an emulator, which should enable the continued use of existing 32-bit software until it might get recompiled...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.2 and 6.3.2 (preview), (update) (03. Jun. 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....