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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
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 02.12.2023: 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's ...

Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update) (03. Dec. 2023)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor (02. Dec. 2023)
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, w...

AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7 (02. Dec. 2023)
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalst...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems (02. Dec. 2023)
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs i...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version) (02. Dec. 2023)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: ...

Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead (01. Dec. 2023)
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro. ...

Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4 (29. Nov. 2023)
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards....

Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated (29. Nov. 2023)
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slo...

Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite (29. Nov. 2023)
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now pub...

Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59 (29. Nov. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes: Fixes: Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being displayed. Info window: Fix PSID so...

Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24 (27. Nov. 2023)
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions....

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4 (27. Nov. 2023)
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 ...

Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4 (26. Nov. 2023)
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4: Encoding prob...

Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023 (26. Nov. 2023)
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet: wla_dx_v10.6.lha dev/cross 8.8M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble... HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 873K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo... HWP_Plananarama.lha d...

WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023 (26. Nov. 2023)
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 25.11.2023: 2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Line...

Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2 (26. Nov. 2023)
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators. Additional to som...

Dock: QDock V2.07 (26. Nov. 2023)
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. ...

Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette (25. Nov. 2023)
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music ...

AROS: Irritating bug of the month November (25. Nov. 2023)
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he the...