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Video talk: "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" (28. Jun. 2023)
On 15 and 16 June, the "ICE Conference 2023" took place, dedicated to 3D environments in the most diverse fields of application. Part of the event was the video talk "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" held by Dr. Andre 'kudr...

Linux: Kernel 6.4 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (27. Jun. 2023)
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.4, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests (Screenshot). Changes concerning the AmigaOnes: X1000, X5000, and QEMU e5500: Multi-Gen LRU sup...

Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.40 (27. Jun. 2023)
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.40: XDF: Fix writes to side 1 of XDF disk images HFE: Better handling of long No Flux Areas ...

Game: Cypherpunk adventure Night/Shift (27. Jun. 2023)
Night/Shift by Eclectic Imaginations is an Amiga-exclusive exploration game with Hi-Res HAM8 graphics. The game runs on any Amiga with an AGA chipset and can be downloaded for free at the title link. Set in Boston in 2039, this cypherpunk adventure gam...

Music tip: Protracker music track "Grogon - Tabular Ravers" (27. Jun. 2023)
'no9' has been working in the audio field for years and also occasionally composes music for games (amiga-news.de reported). On his YouTube channel, he also publishes his own compositions time and again, like now the piece "Grogon - Tabular Ravers"....

Management of ADF files: adflib V0.8.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (27. Jun. 2023)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format. Besides Volker Schwaber...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.1 (x86) (26. Jun. 2023)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.0 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings. Beside...

Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" V1.00 (25. Jun. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa's "The Oregon Trail" (YouTube video) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.00 provides the following changes: Fixed repeat event not to occur Weather gfx Fixed/tested out family member dea...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.06.2023 (25. Jun. 2023)
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: SDL_2.28.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies All Libraries SDL : SDL... AmiArcadia_29.41.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... REminiscence_0.5....

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.06.2023 (25. Jun. 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 24.06.2023: 2023-06-23 improved: Art Of Chess,...

Event: Look Behind You and Gameplan at the Level Up in Salzburg (Austria) (25. Jun. 2023)
In addition to Amiga Future, the two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will also participate at Level Up in Austria for the first time this year. Below you can read the translation of their official press release: "Level Up is th...

Game announcement: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (24. Jun. 2023)
After Nivrig Games had already published some preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), the official game announcement now followed with the opening of the itch.io project site: the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (latest YouTube video) will be rel...

Text comparison tool: ADiffView 2.4 (24. Jun. 2023)
ADiffView compares two ASCII text files and displays the differences graphically. The diff engine uses Eugene Myers' diff algorithm. After Uwe Rosner had already published version 2.4 for MorphOS in May, this version is now also available for AmigaOS 3 (d...

MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1 (23. Jun. 2023)
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software. This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes: added looping ...

Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1 (23. Jun. 2023)
'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1 (23. Jun. 2023)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open so...

PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update) (23. Jun. 2023)
The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color a...

amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon (22. Jun. 2023)
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to hav...

Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58 (22. Jun. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes: Fixes: Starting with command line "HiP " or with a "Startup" playlist and with random play mode always played the first...

Icon-Library 46.4.577 (22. Jun. 2023)
In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icon...