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Puzzle game: Adam is me (26. Feb. 2022)
'Adam is me' (video) is a conversion of Baba Is You for the Amiga: by moving and joining tiles on the playing field, on which nouns and verbs are noted, the rules of the respective level are changed in such a way that the game character can finish the sec...

Kickstarter campaign: Bluetooth remake of Amiga mouse (25. Feb. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis has started a Kickstarter campaign for a wireless remaking of the Commodore Maus 1352. His 'Tank Mouse' is outwardly based on the original, but incorporates modern technology: the Tank Mouse is a wireless optical mouse that...

Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Maria Renard's Revenge', Beat'em Up 'Double Dragon' (25. Feb. 2022)
'Maria Renard's Revenge' (Video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania, is developed using the Scorpion Engine. It comes from the same team that has announced a remake of 'Rick Dangerous' recently. The Beat'em Up 'Double Dragon' (Video) is also done ...

CDXL video player: AGABlaster 0.9.90 (23. Feb. 2022)
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL video format. According to the author, it uses a customized version of the CDXL format supporting the AGA chipset with 24 bit colors and variable length frames. Customized CDXL files can be generated with AGAConv. AGABlas...

Aracade game: 'Green Beret' update (23. Feb. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The recent update provides the following changes: Added the missing songs (Stage clear cut scene, an...

Preview video 26: Souverän Soccer (23. Feb. 2022)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). According to the developer, "the game still runs on a standard A1200 without turbo card and...

MorphOS: PDF-Anzeiger 'SpeedPDF' (22. Feb. 2022)
Recently Carsten Siegner had released the first public version of his Hollywood-written PDF viewer 'SpeedPDF', which handles meta information (title, subject, author etc.), hyperlinks and bookmarks among other things. Now version 1.1 is available adding o...

AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.31 (22. Feb. 2022)
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.31 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote: "I'm pleased to announce that the first ZitaFTP Server update for 2022 is finally here! As usual, there are bug fixes and improvements. The big new feature is ...

Arcade conversions: Amidar500 and MsPacman 500, Preview video of Scramble 500 (21. Feb. 2022)
After his Pacman port released in September, Jean-François Fabre seems to have taken a liking to the conversion of old Aracde games: In the meantime, with Amidar500 (video) and MsPacman 500 (video) further Amiga versions of Pacman clones from the early ei...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 155 - preview and excerpts (21. Feb. 2022)
Previews and excerpts of Amiga Future 155 (March/April 2022) have been published today. This issue includes reviews of 'Attack of the PETSCII Robots' and 'Checkmate A1500' as well as a "Special" about AmigaOS 3.2.1. Amiga Future magazine is available as a...

Commercial Jump'n Run: The Dream of Rowan 1.2 (21. Feb. 2022)
The Jump'n Run 'Dream of Rowan' (Video), originally released in 2017, was now updated to version 1.2 which improves the jump routine and "removes any CPU restrictions". The game requires a harddisk, the ECS chipset, at least 1,9 MB free C...

Detailed review (Czech): The Pegasos I from bPlan (20. Feb. 2022)
In June last year Martina Hřebcová had published a detailed review and test on the Czech Amiga portal about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex. Now she got her hands on a Pegasos I computer, which she not only reviews in detail (Czech)...

OS4Depot uploads until 19.02.2022 (20. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 19.02.2022 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... hle-pokercard.lha gam/car 5Mb 4.0 Guess the next card to appear in... mce.lha ...

AROS Archives uploads until 19.02.2022 (20. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 19.02.2022 to AROS Archives: vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb The ubiquitous text editor zmakebas.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 150kb BASIC Text to ZX Spectrum/ZX81 .... hle-pokercard.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.02.2022 (20. Feb. 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 19.02.2022: 2022-02-13 improved: Attack of the...

Text adventure: Updates for Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut) (18. Feb. 2022)
In mid-June 2021 we reported about the remake of the text adventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), which was released for numerous platforms. In the meantime, several updates have been released, which also affect the Amiga version: Release 8 mainly correc...

Fundraiser: Preserving Commodore documents (18. Feb. 2022)
Two days ago Dave McMurtrie of the Commodore International Historical Society and Brian Bagnall, known for his books about Commodore's company history, started a fundraising campaign to finance the retrieval of Commodore documents from a basement archive ...

RaSCSI: SCSI adapter for Raspberry Pi (17. Feb. 2022)
In 2015, we reported about SCSI2SD, a SCSI adapter that allows SD cards to be used as SCSI hard drives. The firmware is still being maintained and the adapter is also still available, but it costs just under 90 Euros converted. As Gotek-Retro reports, the...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6 (16. Feb. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards announced / Pre-order campaign (15. Feb. 2022)
Press release: After many months, we are so happy to announce we are very close to a production start for a new batch of Sam460 boards. Well, these will not be Sam460 but Sam460LE, i.e. Limited Edition. Due to the pandemic time and huge delays in deli...