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Coding workshops: Amiga 500 programming at hardware level (20. Aug. 2024)
Michael Martin shares detailed insights into his experimental programming projects for the Amiga 500 on his Bumbershoot Software Blog. Over the past few weeks, he has created a small, coherent series of practical courses in English. He explores advanced t...

Classic remakes: Project X: Lightyears and X-OUT: Resurfaced (20. Aug. 2024)
A small glimpse over the edge of the plate: the popular Amiga games "Project X" and "X-Out" are to be re-released in updated versions for current gaming platforms, with the help of renowned artists in the gaming industry. "Project X: Lightyears" is t...

Platform game: Test version 4 of "Dr. Dangerous" (19. Aug. 2024)
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 4 offers the following changes: ...

OS4Depot uploads until 17.08.2024 (18. Aug. 2024)
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator amigagpt.lha n...

AROS Archives uploads until 17.08.2024 (18. Aug. 2024)
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to AROS Archives: sfsobject.i386-aros.zip uti/mis 35kb SFSobject AROS i386 ABIv0 version ...

Crowdfunded book: Retro Gaming Library - Amiga Edition (18. Aug. 2024)
The already fully financed project for printing of the book "Retro Gaming Library - Amiga Edition", which is still running for more than two weeks, promises over 400 pages in almost A4 size (8x10") with short reports and photos on over 300 selected Amiga ...

AmigaOS 4: IntuitionBase updated (17. Aug. 2024)
George 'walkereo' Sokianos has extensively updated the IntuitionBase website, which provides an overview of AmigaOS 4 compatible software and hardware: it is now based on what he considers to be one of the best CMS available, Drupal 10, which makes the si...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor v14 (17. Aug. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This wil fix a bug in the game that affected all versions of the game. All users are recommended to install the update....

MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.33 (16. Aug. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.33 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Changes: Restored context menus over folder and message list title rows Narrow view message list title row now has a sleeker menu for quicker access to sorti...

Print magazine: Issue 144 of Amiga Future readable online (13. Aug. 2024)
The German and English issue 144 (May/June 2020) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version...

Operating system for the Amiga: Second alpha version of "Serena OS" (13. Aug. 2024)
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a second alpha version, which is ...

Online chiptune and music module player: Pixeltune (12. Aug. 2024)
Back in 2014, Tomás Pollak, a journalist, developer and musician, released a first version of Pixeltune: a web-based player for chiptune and video game music that builds on a large collection of music that has been carefully archived over the years and in...

Puzzle game: AmiBrixx v2.3 for all Amiga systems (12. Aug. 2024)
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert has released version 2.3 of his puzzle game AmiBrixx. The player's task is to eliminate the stones stacked on the board by clicking on groups of the same colour. In doing so, the tiles above fall down and form new groups. The game ends...

Aminet uploads until 10.08.2024 (11. Aug. 2024)
THe following files have been added until 10.08.2024 to Aminet: mandel_and_julia.lha dev/amos 7K mandelbrot and julia REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.7M 68k Game Creator with AGA support WhatIFF3.14.lha mags/misc 3.7M ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 10.08.2024 (11. Aug. 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 10.08.2024: 2024-08-07 fixed: A320 Airbus (Tha...

MorphOS: Continued GMail support by Iris questionable (11. Aug. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, author of the e-mail program Iris, reports in a forum post at title link, continued support for the American e-mail service GMail is questionable. Programs that are allowed to access this Google service are subject to certai...

Paper: Trackers - The Rise, Bloom and Later Developments of a Paradigm (11. Aug. 2024)
Markku Reunanen, a lecturer at Finland's Aalto University, has published a paper in English on tracker music programs at the title link, examining 60 trackers and interviewing six developers. As he summarizes, his findings would illustrate the close conne...

Arcade game: Holy Warrior (10. Aug. 2024)
Amiten Games has released the arcade game "Holy Warrior" (YouTube video), in which you have to defend yourself as a knight against skeletons and fallen soldiers in order to recover the six holy books. These books had been scattered and hidden by evil forc...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.6.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (10. Aug. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.41 (08. Aug. 2024)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video shows improved support of moving platforms) is compatible with AGA an...