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Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2 (23. Apr. 2024)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available. The game req...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168, preview and excerpts (22. Apr. 2024)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 168 (May/June 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content of this issue, which features four additional pages, includes interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham of ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows (22. Apr. 2024)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems (22. Apr. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6: updated guide file On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is ...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.0 and 6.3.0 (preview) (21. Apr. 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....

Aminet uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to Aminet: peak_filter.lha dev/amos 2K 2nd order osc filter formator_1.0.lha dev/hwood 14K MOS A hollywood plugin REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game C...

WHDLoad: New installers until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 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 20.04.2024: 2024-04-14 improved: Turrican 3 (F...

THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V3 (21. Apr. 2024)
The alternative firmware "Pandory500" for THEA500 Mini, which is "sideloaded" and enables the use of emulators for other systems (amiga-news.de reported), is now available in version 3. In addition to updates to included emulators, the new fe...

Gopher client: Gopherized (21. Apr. 2024)
As the name suggests, Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's "Gopherized" is a client for the Gopher network protocol. As a special feature compared to other Amiga programs, it automatically scans the pages saved as bookmarks for updates. After a test phase of thi...

AmigaOS 4: cURL V8.7.1 (19. Apr. 2024)
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs, reported at the end of March in his blog about the release of versions 8.7.0 and 8.7.1. 'MickJT' has now ported this current version for AmigaOS 4....

RIPPLE IDE: Firmware update for Zorro 2 IDE interface (18. Apr. 2024)
Last week we informed you about the open source projects lide.device, a new IDE driver for the Amiga, and CIDER, an expansion card for the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Matt "LIV2" Harlum had developed RIPPLE IDE for his lide.device as a follow-up produc...

Turn-based strategy: Update introduces free elections in "Settle the World" (18. Apr. 2024)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel's latest update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" introduces free elections: In the game, the population of cities can now vote every few years on whether the player should remain in power. E...

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.2) (17. Apr. 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). With this third early demo version, the first level has now 27 screens, in...

Tutorial: Building a ReAmiga 4000CR (17. Apr. 2024)
At the title link and in a separate entry with the second part, John 'Chucky' Hertell describes step by step mounting the chips on a ReAmiga 4000CR circuit board, i.e. the cost-reduced version with the 68030 CPU mounted directly on the mainboard....

Game: Quake 2 as download version for AmigaOS 4 available (17. Apr. 2024)
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to announce that it has taken over the distribution of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The first Amiga version of Quake 2 was released in 2002 by Hyperion Entertainment and has been continued and greatly imp...

Grind: Progress in development of a new Doom clone (16. Apr. 2024)
Grind is a first-person shooter (FPS) currently in development for the Amiga, which should even be able to run on small Amigas, appears extremely smooth in the preview videos shown and makes you want to try out more. The game is being developed with the s...

Emulation: BBoot bootloader v0.7 for QEMU (16. Apr. 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 ...

WinFellow: Developers call for support in preserving old versions (16. Apr. 2024)
WinFellow is one of the most popular Amiga emulators for Windows systems. In order to preserve the digital heritage, the developers are currently compiling an overview of all versions of Fellow for DOS and WinFellow that have ever been released. In additi...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm using a Wi-Fi driver (alpha version) (15. Apr. 2024)
Since October 2023, the AmiKit workbench distribution has also been available for the PiStorm and PiStorm-liteaccelerator boards (amiga-news.de reported), which use a Raspberry Pi minicomputer as a processor replacement. Emu68, the Motorola68K emulation d...

CLI command: sysvars V0.12 (15. Apr. 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...