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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 161 - preview and excerpts (19. Feb. 2023)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 161 (March/April 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include an interview with Colin Vella and a review of AmiCygnix 1.7. Amiga Future magazine is available as an Englis...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Firmware 1.3 (18. Feb. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Developer log: Single player mode in "Settle the World"? (18. Feb. 2023)
A week ago, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel published an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In the feedback, the wish was expressed to integrate a single-player mode including at least ...

Video: Hidden developer messages (17. Feb. 2023)
Piracy was rife on the Amiga, and almost every game was cracked by various scene groups. In his latest video, Kim Justice presents the messages and rants left in the code by developers for these crackers, which were sometimes angry but mostly hilarious....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.1 (17. Feb. 2023)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2.1 of the firmware has been released. Cha...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.9 (16. Feb. 2023)
A few moments ago, version 3.9.9 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes: changes in project:: updated documentation updated examples drawer re-added serveral resident sourcefiles of BB2 for later improvement added disas...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.167 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (16. Feb. 2023)
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest ker...

Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.56 (15. Feb. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.56 which among others provides improved MP3 support and PSID playback....

AmigaOS 4: Status of Qt 6.2.0 (12. Feb. 2023)
In October 2021, developer Alfkil Wennermark had published a first preview of a text editor created with Qt6 (amiga-news.de reported). Now he shows in a current YouTube video how he edits text in this editor and then exports it to a pdf file. The special...

Aminet uploads until 11.02.2023 (12. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to Aminet: fe.lha dev/lang 45K MOS A tiny, embeddable language TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ... LazyMines_FR.lha game/t...

OS4Depot uploads until 11.02.2023 (12. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to OS4Depot: void-fb14.zip dem/mus 5Mb 4.0 A music-pack by Void cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks... afnews.lha net/new 1Mb ...

AROS Archives uploads until 11.02.2023 (12. Feb. 2023)
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to AROS Archives: cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 2Mb This is a SDK to make your decks... image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 9Mb convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF rpnscientific.i-386-aro...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (12. Feb. 2023)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Test Drive 2 The Duel Intro Live Performance LedStorm Ambient Cover Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 The Sentinel Intro...

Top-Down action game: "Mighty Mike" for MorphOS and Linux (12. Feb. 2023)
A few days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 3.0.2 of the top-down action game "Mighty Mike" for Windows, Mac and Linux (64 bit), originally published by "Pangea Software", including the source code, on itch.io. Analogous to "Otto Matic", 'B...

Jump'n Run: Maria Renard's Revenge released (12. Feb. 2023)
"Maria Renard's Revenge" (video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania which was developed using the Scorpion Engine. Today the final version has been released. An Amiga 1200 or an Amiga CD32 with 1 MB FastRam are required. ...

ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.11 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (11. Feb. 2023)
Chris Young has released version 1.11 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool e...

Turn-based strategy: Intro update for "Settle the World" (11. Feb. 2023)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de - which now tells the background story with a slideshow (YouTube video). Compa...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-1 (10. Feb. 2023)
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Over 1400 changes have been integrated, with 1700 still to come to match the main branch. The full list...

User Report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 1 (10. Feb. 2023)
I never really planned to get a PiStorm for my Amiga 1200. Firstly, the project - the PiStorm32 - didn't seem to be finished in the near future and then, of course, there was the question of its sense and usefulness. Since the 90s, a Blizzard 1230 ha...

Demoparty: Lovebyte 2023 / Call to Amiga programmers (10. Feb. 2023)
From 8pm tonight until Sunday, the Lovebyte Demoparty 2023 will take place on Discord and Twitch, where there will again be intro competitions in various categories. However, until just before the closing date, not a single Amiga demo has been submitted f...