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Floppy emulator: GoFloppy (06. Dec. 2022)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already reported about his new floppy emulator project "GoFloppy" on Twitter some time ago (Tweet 1, Tweet 2) and now also found the time to report about it in more detail on his blog: the "GoFloppy" drive is a floppy driv...

Sokoban clone: LazSokoban for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (05. Dec. 2022)
During his work on the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for AROS, in April 2016, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow had also tested some third-party LCL applications to compile for AROS. One of these was the Sokoban clone LazSokoban, written by Ukrainian ...

Advent Calendar: Door 5 - David Brunet (05. Dec. 2022)
Our new Advent calendar week begins with the fifth door and David Brunet. David Brunet is inextricably linked to his French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. The long history of this magazine starts in the mid-1990s: inspired by Christian, a f...

Aiostreams V1.7.6: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos (05. Dec. 2022)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, Morp...

Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 2.0 (04. Dec. 2022)
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 2...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4 (04. Dec. 2022)
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...

Hollywood: XML-Plugin 2.0 and APK Compiler 4.3 released (04. Dec. 2022)
Pressemitteilung: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the XML plugin for Hollywood. This plugin, previously known as XML Parser, was one of the first Hollywood plug...

Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World" (04. Dec. 2022)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video). Compared to the playable preview from the beginning ...

Aminet uploads until 03.12.2022 (04. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to Aminet: apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga... brainfuck.lha dev/lang 1K ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 03.12.2022 (04. Dec. 2022)
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 03.12.2022: 2022-12-03 fixed: Flashback (Delph...

AROS distribution: AROS One 1.9 (x86) (04. Dec. 2022)
The distribution "AROS One", based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 1.9 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found...

Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team (04. Dec. 2022)
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a re...

Mastodon client: Amidon in development (04. Dec. 2022)
After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, one or the other Amiga and retro enthusiast is thinking about either using the microblogging service only to a limited extent or, as for example announced by Jan Beta, leaving it altogether: either to set up ...

Puzzle game: Wood Block Puzzle (04. Dec. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' - known among others for his platform game Ami-Tower or the farming simulation Farmiga - has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic: In terms of design, the...

Advent Calendar: Door 3 - Joerg van de Loo (03. Dec. 2022)
For the third door of our advent calendar, developer Joerg van de Loo took a lot of time. His main Amiga-side project is the text editor BareED. Unlike other editors, BareED is a RAM-based and pixel-oriented (not character-oriented) text editor for the Am...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 1 (03. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor version rewor...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.5 (02. Dec. 2022)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has just released version 4.5 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS including an updated libcURL to fix issues with HTTP/2 Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB)...

Advent Calendar: Door 2 - Daniel Jedlicka (02. Dec. 2022)
Behind the second door with the initials "DJ" of our advent calendar, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has prepared a story for us. The AmigaOS 4 developer is best known for his recently developed audio editor Rave, but he has been involved in AmigaOS 4 for much ...

CD32 adventure game: Wrong Way Back (01. Dec. 2022)
Richard Perrin is a former indie game developer who wrote, among other things, the science fiction adventure game The White Chamber (Wikipedia entry). In his spare time, he continues to develop adventures for retro systems. As he explains to us, he never ...

Advent Calendar: Door 1 - Achim Kern (01. Dec. 2022)
Our Advent Calendar is opened by Achim Kern, who is known for various Hollywood applications with his label KeHo Software. Besides various games like Balloons or Mars Tank Attack, he mainly dedicates himself to his SmartHome project for the automation of ...