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Reverse Engineering: Task Force (15. Nov. 2023)
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, the website Tetracorp has analysed Task Force, a Freeware game released 1994 ...

Alinea Computer: New products and firmware updates (14. Nov. 2023)
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products: Joyport Power-Adapter (power thief) With the Joyport Power-Adapter (power thief), external 5V devices can be operated via the Amiga. The joystick port of the Amiga is looped through. A US...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (14. Nov. 2023)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle V4.1 (14. Nov. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layers of the disks independently of the used disk format and saves as much information as possible in a so called "Flux Level Image" in the Supercard-Format (SCP) which enables reading and writing copy-prot...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.1.0 for Windows (13. Nov. 2023)
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...

Preview video: Platform game "Robot Jet Action" (13. Nov. 2023)
Almost two years ago, Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik released the platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the C64. Now he has started porting the game to the Amiga and has presented an initial concept study. The author describes the current status as follows: Su...

Development tool: vasm 1.9f (12. Nov. 2023)
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm. Changes of version 1.9f: Fix relative section offset directives, which must be unsigned to work correctly over the whole target's address space. Fixed a few issues with named macro a...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.10.16 (12. Nov. 2023)
Rafał Zabdyr has released a second beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x a...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.10 (alpha version) (12. Nov. 2023)
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles is in the process of writing a remake of ClassMate called "ReBuild", which should make it possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. When asked about the motivation behind this project,...

Aminet uploads until 11.11.2023 (12. Nov. 2023)
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to Aminet: makedepend_AmiMod.lha dev/c 249K 68k makedepend bugfixed + modifie... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support AmigaMon_162.lha dev/...

WHDLoad: New installers until 11.11.2023 (12. 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 11.11.2023: 2023-11-11 improved: Nathan Never ...

Diagnosis software: Amiga Test Kit 1.21 (11. Nov. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Amiga Test Kit" is a software-based solution for checking diverse components of an Amiga. The download archive includes a bootable disk image as well as an executable file which can be started from the harddrive (amiga-news.de reported). I...

Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog 1) (11. Nov. 2023)
Maurice Doerr is not only a photographer, but has also been a passionate Amiga user since 1987. Over the years he has owned several models such as the A500, A600, A1200 and the CD32 and programmed in Assembler, AMOS, Amiga E and Blitz Basic. After a long ...

Arcade classic: Super Bagman (beta version) (11. Nov. 2023)
After Bagman, Jean-François Fabre is now in the process of porting the next arcade classic for the Amiga, Super Bagman from Stern Electronics (YouTube video) and has released a first beta version....

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.6 (10. Nov. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.6 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author explained, this version updates WebKit to WebKitGTK 2.40.5 (and is likely the last update before Wayfarer 7). This build also works around the issue...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.3 (update) (10. Nov. 2023)
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....

MorphOS: PolyOrganiser 1.25 (09. Nov. 2023)
Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault's PolyOrganiser is a 'Personal Information Management' tool that features a calendar, an address book and ToDo lists. Changes since version 1.22a: Fix: Double start the app don't open an MUIcon with fail message but show ...

Amiga Tool Jam: DrawerGenie V0.4 (08. Nov. 2023)
For the Amiga Tool Jam, Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley has written the commodity "DrawerGenie" for AmigaOS 3.5 or higher (amiga-news.de reported) and updated it once again. Among others, DrawerGenie allows you to add simple toolbars to the Workbench drawer wi...

Desktop widget: RNOWidgets 1.6 for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (08. Nov. 2023)
RNOWidgets combines several utilities (widgets) in a single application and is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. RNOWidgets contains widgets for calendar (ISO), analog clock, digital clock, notes, pictures (local and net), RSS feeds, sticker, and weath...

AmigaOS 4: CompareDirs V1.12 (07. Nov. 2023)
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. Version 1.12 wa...