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Crossfire II: Soundtrack released on Spotify/Apple Music (26. Dec. 2024)
Just over 20 years after the release of the Amiga game Crossfire II, the soundtrack has now been released on Spotify and Apple Music. It contains both the in-game music by Timo Kloss and the background music for the video sequences by Markus Holler. ...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit 11 now freely available (25. Dec. 2024)
Version 11 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows 7 or newer is now freely available with all of its updates until version 11.9. The current commercial version is 12.6....

Merry Christmas! (24. Dec. 2024)
Dear Amiga friends, as the festive season gets into full swing, we look back on the past year – a year full of nostalgia and creative projects in the Amiga world. From refreshing games and practical hardware to lively events, the Amiga has contin...

m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.12 for Visual Studio Code (24. Dec. 2024)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.12 fixes a bug in vasm console output on MacOS. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available....

Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released (24. Dec. 2024)
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with an integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The program offers full MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. About a year after the last update, ASM-Pro has now been brought up to version 1.21. The chan...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.0 (24. Dec. 2024)
Jacek ‘jacadcaps’ Piszczek has published version 9.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.5 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, several libraries (cURL, tasn, xml2, nghttp2) have been updated ...

Action game: Amiga Yoomp! released (23. Dec. 2024)
In contrast to Marek Duda's realisation of the game Yoomph!, originally written for the Atari, which he called "Jump!" and which is written explicitly for AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported), Zbigniew Ross' aim was to see how the game could be made to run...

Train simulator: Trans-Pennine Express (23. Dec. 2024)
At the beginning of 2024, 'lifeschool' had already published a full-motion video (FMV) game with the racing game "Jari-Matti Rally" (amiga-news.de reported). Now he is following up with the train simulator "Trans-Pennine Express", a game based on the same...

Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 1.666 (23. Dec. 2024)
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in Assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 1.666 offers the following new features: new ...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga v3.0b3 (23. Dec. 2024)
Starting with version 2.6.1, developer Dirk Hoffmann made changes to the internal architecture of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS with the aim of porting the new emulator architecture of VirtualC64 v5.0 to vAmiga in order to enable features such as Ru...

Operating system-compliant Pac-Man conversion: 8./9. part of the video series (23. Dec. 2024)
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on a conversion of the game Pac-Man that only uses operating system calls. Episodes eight and nine deal with the arrangement of sprites and blitter objects and show how Intuition menus are programmed....

OS4Depot uploads until 21.12.2024 (22. Dec. 2024)
The following files have been added until 21.12.2024 to OS4Depot: lua.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Lua is a powerful, efficient, li... pcre2.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 PCRE2 (Perl-compatible regular e... cppcheck.lha ...

Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.0.1 with MorphOS version (2nd update) (22. Dec. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong's chat software AmigaGPT is based on ChatGPT. Version 2.0.0 replaces ReAction by MUI 5 (with compatibility to MUI 3), is completely compatible to AmigaOS 3.1 now and exists now also natively for MorphOS. Furthermore the la...

Arcade game: Santatron 2024 1.04 (22. Dec. 2024)
John Girvin's arcade shooter Santatron, in which you have to save Christmas from commercial terror, fixes minor bugs in version 1.04 - including one that caused the game to hang. The programmer blames the Grinch....

Video: Preview of Worms DC 1.5 levels by Eric W. Schwartz (22. Dec. 2024)
The game "Worms: Director's Cut 1.5" will be released for its 30th anniversary. This update will also include six levels contributed by the well-known Amiga artist Eric W. Schwartz, which can be seen at the title link....

Amiga show: "Amiga 40" on October 18 and 19, 2025 (22. Dec. 2024)
As announced by the organizers at a1k.org (registration required, German), the next edition of “Amiga xx” will take place on 18 and 19 October 2025 at Kunstwerk - das rote Krokodil in Mönchengladbach-Wickrath, admission is from 10 a.m. each da...

AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 4.10 (21. Dec. 2024)
"Dir Me Up" tries to emulate the approach of modern file managers on AmigaOS 4. The update to version 4.10 includes a preview for text documents using UTF8 and UTF16 encoding and displays ID3 tags of selected MP3 files (including cover images). There...

Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust! (20. Dec. 2024)
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. In it he gives an outlook on the numerous Amiga events already announced for the coming year, but also looks back on this year's Amiga meetings. He also anno...

German print magazine: ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), issue 12/24 (19. Dec. 2024)
Press release: After the great success of the german ASM revival issue 3/23, the editorial team is now upping the ante: this year's issue of german ASM ("Aktueller Software Markt"), number 12/24, has now been published and can now be ordered from amigasho...

Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 11.2 (19. Dec. 2024)
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" supports without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer all known PCI solutions for the Amiga. The current version includes the following changes: GetBoardAttrs() and S...