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Datatype for WebP: WarpWebP.datatype 45.5 (12. Jan. 2024)
Oliver Roberts has updated his WarpWebP.datatype for viewing the WebP image format to version 45.5. The datatype is based on Google's libwebp 1.3.2. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, WarpOS and MorphOS are available, a graphic card is not required. Changes: ...

Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.42 (11. Jan. 2024)
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.42: HFEv3: Various read/write improvements WDATA: Merge short write pulses, and apply de-jitt...

Preview video: Hyperborea (Resurrected) #3 (11. Jan. 2024)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing "Hyperborea", a project started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos) (amiga-news.de reported). Technically, the game is as good as finished. Changes of the third previ...

Wireless Gamepad: Turbo 2000 Super V2 (11. Jan. 2024)
The Turbo 2000 Super gamepad from Commotron is wireless and has a fourth fire button for jumping (amiga-news.de reported). Now the manufacturer is showing a revised and, with a recommended retail price of 29.90 euros, cheaper version 2 of the pad on ...

Diskmag: Last issue of Jurassic Pack released (11. Jan. 2024)
Lars Sobiraj wrote: Today, after almost two years, the 20th and probably last issue of the Jurassic Pack was published (amiga-news.de reported). This demoscene discmag looks back on a long history. The pre-issue appeared 18.5 years ago at a French demo pa...

Flappy Bird clone: Amiga Flappy Ace v1.02 (update) (11. Jan. 2024)
After Amiga conversions of the game Flappy Bird using RedPill (Happy Bat), the Scorpion Engine (Flighty Fox) and AmiBlitz3 (Börd), Jose has now written "Amiga Flappy Ace" using the Amiga C Engine (ACE), which should also run quickly on an A500. The game s...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.9.0 (beta version) (10. Jan. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes of version 0.9.0: bitmap object did not generate code fo...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.5 (09. Jan. 2024)
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are ...

AmiFox: Download of itch.io archives (09. Jan. 2024)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's "AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). Besides Aminet, itch.io is one of the central sources for current Amiga softw...

HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.15.2.3 (09. Jan. 2024)
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de repo...

MorphOS: 3D Action adventure Bugdom V1.3.4 (08. Jan. 2024)
A year ago, 'BeWorld' compiled version 1.3.3 of the game Bugdom for MorphOS, originally published by Pangea Software and customised by 'jorio' for current operating system versions. Version 1.3.4 is now available. Changes: Fixed framerate-dependent i...

Tool: identify-library 44.0 (07. Jan. 2024)
Today Richard Körber has released version 44.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added a few more boards Emu68 (PiStorm light) is now detected and properly shown as CPU/FPU/MMU. Until now, identify only estimated the MMU de...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (07. Jan. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Turrican II Freedom Live Performance WAR (Never been so much fun!) Electric City ...

AmiFox: Server update (07. Jan. 2024)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's "AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). On the server side, there have now been some minor improvements, which the au...

Preview video: Pumpman v0.002 (07. Jan. 2024)
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman", for which he has now published a preview video. ...

Shoot'em Up: "Skillgrid" V1.4 (07. Jan. 2024)
In early 2019, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (YouTube video). Changes to version 1.4: Added cells field flashing when these cells (are about to) appear: ASTEROIDS cell (bright colors); BEAM/* cell...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.1 (update) (07. Jan. 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...

Platform game: Ami-H.E.R.O. (06. Jan. 2024)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest game is an Amiga conversion of the game Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation (H.E.R.O.) from the US games company Activision from 1984, originally programmed for the Atari 2600. The aim of the game is to fly into th...

Source code editor: Hollywood 10 support for Visual Studio Code (06. Jan. 2024)
For Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), "hw4vsc" is an extension that enables the development of Hollywood programmes with the free source code editor. The developer Micha J. has adapted his extension for the latest Hollywood 10 versi...

Video tutorial: Transferring Spectrum-Basic code to Amiga-AMOS (06. Jan. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he first enters a printed Basic program from a Sinclair magazine from October 1984 into his 48k ZX Spectrum and then converts it to AMOS Pro on his...