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Programming: IDE Codecraft 1.15 (14. Jul. 2024)
Camilla Boemann's Codecraft is an integrated development environment (IDE). It was tested with SAS/C and E, but should also support other programming languages. The IDE is free of charge, but requires at least AmigaOS 3.2.2 as it is an extension of t...

Games database LemonAmiga has been hacked (14. Jul. 2024)
The games database and retro community "LemonAmiga" has apparently been hacked: both lemonamiga.com and its sister site lemon64.com are currently offline, with only a note from the operators indicating that they are currently analyzing the attack and work...

Crowdfunding: Book project by David Pleasance - "Dare to Dream" (10. Jul. 2024)
After "Commodore - The Inside Story" and "From Vultures to Vampires", former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance is looking for pre-orders for a third book project at the title link. This time, however, the subject is fictional - "Dare to Dream" invites ...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.9 (10. Jul. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.9 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This fixes six bugs and introduces a "YouTube Experience" notice, which appears when that website is visited for the first time....

Test: Audio playback on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus (10. Jul. 2024)
Due to its incompatible FPU, the use of AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus is subject to restrictions, which also affect popular audio playback programs such as AmigaAMP. 'Ktadd' has tested a few of them at the title link. AmigaAMP requi...

Developer's diary: Dune II - The Building of A Remaster (09. Jul. 2024)
Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II, has set himself the goal of developing a remake for the Amiga that largely eliminates the limitations of the original release compared to the DOS o...

Multiple-choice adventure: Ninja Carnage (09. Jul. 2024)
In "Ninja Carnage", the player controls a constantly cursing ninja who has to execute a Yakuza boss. The game mechanics are described by the developer as "Die & Retry": decisions have to be made constantly, wrong decisions lead to one of 128 different dea...

Game: Chopper Duel 1.1 (09. Jul. 2024)
Chopper Duel is an Amiga version of the MS-DOS game of the same name by Addict from 1993. The helicopter duel comprises 50 playing fields with 32 colors, requires 512 KB RAM and can be controlled by joystick or keyboard....

Point'n Click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.07 (09. Jul. 2024)
Another update has been released for the Point'n Click adventure "Holiday" (video), which fixes various minor bugs: Discovered and fixed a bug with V1.05. If you completed a day after midnight, the day would roll over to the next day, and all missio...

Free/Libre hardware: SMD2000 "Bushfire", an A2000 in Mini-DTX form factor (09. Jul. 2024)
SMD2000 "Bushfire" is a version of the A2000 motherboard in mini-DTX format (170 mm × 203 mm). The computer has a modular design: In order to be able to work with different Agnus revisions, the Agnus and chip RAM are located on a separate daughterboard. T...

Interview with Rolf-Dieter Klein and Jim Sachs about "Ports of Call" (08. Jul. 2024)
For their Norwegian website "Spillhistorie" Hans Arne J. ('Retrogamingpappa') and Joachim Froholt have conducted an interview with two fathers of the well-known Amiga game "Ports of Call", namely Rolf-Dieter Klein, one of the two developers alongside Mart...

AROS Archives uploads until 06.07.2024 (08. Jul. 2024)
The following files have been added until 06.07.2024 to AROS Archives: pintorweb.lha gra/con 7Mb A simple and easy picture editor ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 169 (06. Jul. 2024)
The English and German issue 169 (July/August 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes a sp...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.8 (06. Jul. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.8 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which fixes a race condition in MediaSource player and video synchronization issues....

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7.5 for Windows, Linux and macOS (06. Jul. 2024)
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (YouTube video). This update to version 0.7.5 mainly contains UI upgrades: DPI awareness, save/restor...

Aracde classic: Beta version of Galaga500 (06. Jul. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has started to realise another game for the Amiga: this time Namco's Aracade classic Galaga. He has now released a first beta version, which is already fully playable, but may still have minor bugs and not all features. A standa...

AmigaOS 4: Scanner utility AirScan V1.40 (05. Jul. 2024)
Arild Aarbakk has released version 1.40 of its AirScan scanner software, which uses the eSCL protocol developed by the Mopria Alliance Technical Working Group. The client is able to scan (or print) without having to install drivers on the client device, a...

Retro Supplies: Updates of hardware projects (05. Jul. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings and his shop "Retro Supplies" visited the Kickstart 02 event in England last weekend and presented updates of his hardware projects: He has developed a new version of the RGBtoHDMI board for the Amiga 500, which enables p...

Synth-Pop mit Amiga-Beteiligung: "Bleakwave" von Vogue Renege (04. Jul. 2024)
Amiga musician Paulee Alex Bow has released an EP called "Bleakwave" under the artist name 'Vogue Renege'. The songs can be purchased on Bandcamp, a CD version can be ordered from the author by e-mail. As Bow tells us, a whole series of Amiga computers...

AmigaOS 4: ignition OpenDocument addon V0.40, Excel addon V0.12 (04. Jul. 2024)
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.30 (amiga-news.de reported) Achim Pankalla has also updated two addons: The ods-addon enables tables to be loaded and saved in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among oth...