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Platform game: Amiga port of Electro Man (30. Sep. 2023)
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch - among other things, platform game Tony - is in the process of porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (YouTube-Video). FastRam...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 24 (28. Sep. 2023)
The 24th issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on 05 October 2023. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the CD32, the latest issue looks at the history of the console. There is also a downloadable CD32 cover disc with the fu...

DIY: Firmware 1.01 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (28. Sep. 2023)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). With the current version 0.21 of the schematics, all co...

AMOS: Micke project to "Projects in the attic" added (28. Sep. 2023)
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the M...

Emu68 tip: Reducing the speed of the Raspberry Pi (27. Sep. 2023)
Timo Weirich is in the process of setting up a computer museum. He is also working on his Amiga 500, which is upgraded with a PiStorm. Now he has published a tip on how to reduce the speed so that old games (e.g. XJ220) run better or correctly: For s...

Music track: "White King" with ProTracker visualisation (26. Sep. 2023)
Since version 1.1, ProTracker (Aminet version 3.61) has a Quadrascope: ProTracker visualises the sound waveform for each channel in four small windows. 'no9' has now written a Protracker module and published it on his YouTube channel that not only plays t...

Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", Vol. 3 (24. Sep. 2023)
In 2021, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years", was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. Volume two, "Demoscene - The AGA Years", followed a year later and was dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996. Now the thi...

Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer (24. Sep. 2023)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga: Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered o...

Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock (24. Sep. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like t...

Aminet uploads until 23.09.2023 (24. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to Aminet: 64tass.lha dev/cross 1.3M 68k Cross assembler targeting the... c2plib.lha dev/misc 201K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha... giplanner.lha d...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.09.2023 (24. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to OS4Depot: gifanimdt.lha dat/ani 164kb 4.1 Datatype for animated GIFs giflib-extras.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.1 Some extras to go with GifLib. libwebp.lha dev/lib 7Mb ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.09.2023 (24. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Morphobia_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE MORPHOBIA by ENCORE Kheshkhash_2.1.lha Demoscene/ENCORE A demo for MorphOS name... Morphever_1.3.lha ...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate (22. Sep. 2023)
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Change...

ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (22. Sep. 2023)
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is ...

Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim (22. Sep. 2023)
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to...

AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta) (22. Sep. 2023)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006). The new beta ...

Blog Epsilon's World: Hardware upgrades and games (21. Sep. 2023)
In his latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows the installation of various games and hardware in the usual detail and with numerous pictures: among others, Alinea's Subway 2021 USB card including the power adapter or "AURA - Audible Real...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Fatal Mission (20. Sep. 2023)
As the website "Games That Weren't" reports, "Fatal Mission" was an ambitious project started by Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings in 1993: "a cinematic style adventure in the lines of Another World, but with bitmap graphics instead of vector style one". ...

Emulator: Denise V2.1 (20. Sep. 2023)
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64. Now version 2.1 has been released. Changes: General changes: add drag...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.11 (AmigaOS 3/4) (19. Sep. 2023)
Version 5.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.3 (19.9.2023) and thus provides various minor fixes, including removal of memory leaks. Furthermore the root certificates ha...