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Modern decompressor for Amiga data compression formats: Ancient 2.0 (16. Apr. 2022)
Ancient' unpacks files compressed with Amiga "crunchers" like Powerpacker or similar. The program, written in portable C, supports a variety of known compression formats - among others all that the regular XPK distribution can unpack, as well as disk imag...

Easter Egg in AmigaOS 3.2.1 discovered (15. Apr. 2022)
AmigaOS 3.2.1 contains an Easter Egg, that much had been hinted at by members of the team. A user has now discovered it: The disk image Update3.2.1.adf has a folder 'T', which contains a file called 'ed-backup'. This executable file is a small demo with b...

Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version (14. Apr. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schemat...

Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2 (13. Apr. 2022)
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a spe...

Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish) (13. Apr. 2022)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as w...

Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp (12. Apr. 2022)
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Scandoubler announcement: 'Medusa' converts video signals to VGA/DVI (11. Apr. 2022)
The scandoubler Medusa accepts a composite, S-Video or RGB signal and converts it into proper VGA output, which is also converted into a digital signal available via a DVI-I connector. There is also an option to digitize an analog audio signal, combine it...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.8 with WHDLoad support (11. Apr. 2022)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 09.04.2022 (11. Apr. 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 09.04.2022: 2022-04-09 improved: SAS Combat Si...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.2 (09. Apr. 2022)
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-n...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta 3 (update) (09. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the second beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a graphics bug caused by returning an erroneous value...

Illustrated book: 'Demoscene - The AGA Years' near completion (08. Apr. 2022)
About a year ago, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, 'Demoscene - The Amiga Years', was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. The second part, 'Demoscene - The AGA Years', which is dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996, has also been crow...

Diskmag: Jurassic Pack #19, last issue for now (08. Apr. 2022)
After a 12-year break, the 18th issue of the English-language diskmag 'Jurassic Pack', first published in 1995, was released in January 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Editor Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj has now published the 19th issue and announces in the edito...

Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development (07. Apr. 2022)
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately...

New maps for a classic Dungeon Crawler: Blackest Crypt (07. Apr. 2022)
Raven's 1992 Dungeon Crawler Black Crypt just got five new dungeons developed by a fan of the game. The mission pack is called "Blackest Crypt", changes only the levels while the story stays the same and works with both a WHDLoad install and the disk vers...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series (06. Apr. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files,...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98 (06. Apr. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Co...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2 (06. Apr. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as w...

Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s (05. Apr. 2022)
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers. In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key ...