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Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.1 (22. Oct. 2024)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.1. Changes: New features Added Picmatic Marbelle Vice and Tierras Salvajes 100Hz TV laser disc arcade game support. Updates Implemented OpalVision undocumented automatic VRAM bank s...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 33 (22. Oct. 2024)
Issue 33 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team discusses the influence of the Amiga on virtual reality systems. This issue also...

Blog: Comparison of Push-Over versions (Amiga, Atari ST, PC, Super Nintendo) (21. Oct. 2024)
The "Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog" compares and reviews games "as unbiased as possible". The current article compares the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Super Nintendo versions of the Ocean classic Push-Over....

Developer log: Amiga Game Scripting Languages (21. Oct. 2024)
In a recent developer diary entry, Nivrig Games discusses The Bitmap Brothers' own scripting language called "Adventure Creation Language" (ACL) used in the game Cadaver and possible alternatives. This is completed in a second entry....

Aminet uploads until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to Aminet: 8VoicesDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k 8 Voices Demo MiniDemo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k Trackloader Amiga Demo MiniDemo.png demo/disk 8K 68k Trackload...

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
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 19.10.2024: 2024-10-13 fixed: Humans 3: Evolut...

MorphOS: Future versions of Wayfarer without updated WebKit/GTK engine (20. Oct. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has told at the title link, future versions of his web browser Wayfarer will stay with the current version 2.46 of the WebKit/GTK browser engine. Already porting this one would have taken several weeks. Since the WebKit devel...

Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress (20. Oct. 2024)
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or f...

Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5 for the 30th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
Next year, the legendary game Worms celebrates its 30th birthday. To mark the occasion, its programmer Andy Davidson is planning a free new edition for the Amiga. To this end, demo groups around the world are invited to contribute new levels with their ow...

Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany (20. Oct. 2024)
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office. However,...

Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available. Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: it...

Logic game: Untangle V1.1 (20. Oct. 2024)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1) (19. Oct. 2024)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound. He ...

Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey? (18. Oct. 2024)
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' &#346...

Dungeon Crawler: Demo version of Halloween X released (update) (17. Oct. 2024)
After a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) Sami Vehmaa has now released a demo version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (new Twitch video). A fast AGA-Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required. Update: (06:17, 21.10.24, dr) Demovesion V1.04 is n...

AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.4.1 (17. Oct. 2024)
The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use. The now released version 3.4.1 (video) is ...

Cowboy/shootout game: Demo version of Duel (17. Oct. 2024)
In "Duel", two cowboys (or so far a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the finalised version, you will be able to choose from over 20 characters and the weather wi...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.55 (17. Oct. 2024)
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Version 2.55 has now been released with the following changes: Fixed an error in the main li...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.10.16 (17. Oct. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.10.16: Reset watchdog wh...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...