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Sokoban conversion: Cat Hunts Rats (27. Jun. 2024)
After Skinny Marley, Rodrigo Vertulo has published a second Sokoban variant, this time based on childhood memories: when he was a boy, his kitten brought him "presents" in the form of mice or birds. In his realisation of the game, logical and spatial thin...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.5.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (26. Jun. 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 ...

Memory consumption: Consumer 1.0b (26. Jun. 2024)
To find out how much memory his game prototype Dizzy 1 consumes, 'lifeschool' wrote the "Consumer" tool. Among other things, this is intended to enable developers to estimate the system requirements for newly written software. The results are saved on the...

MorphOS: Sunny adjusts the color temperature to the time of day (26. Jun. 2024)
The MorphOS program "Sunny" adjusts the color temperature of the Ambient screen to the time of day to rest the eyes. Although it is currently still alpha version 0.3, the author, Alfonso 'alfie' Ranieri, considers the range of functions to be complete alr...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 169 - preview and excerpts (26. Jun. 2024)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 169 (July/August 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes several reviews - e.g. of Hollywood Designer 7.0 - and a special about power supplies for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200. ...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic" (26. Jun. 2024)
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a third demo has been released for ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 159 (English/Italian) (25. Jun. 2024)
The free PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available not only in the original Italian edition but also in an English translation (cover on the right-hand page). The new issue 159 contains many comparing reviews of old and new gam...

WHDLoad: Manage archives with WHDLoad-Download-Tool v1.4 (25. Jun. 2024)
With WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros from cracker groups that were only intended for disc usage can be installed on the hard disk. The WHDLoad packages basically only contain the installer function, but not the games themselves. The WHDLoad-Downloa...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever 10 updates R2 and R3 (25. Jun. 2024)
Over the past few months, updates have been released for Cloanto's official emulation and support suites "Amiga Forever" and "C64 Forever", which we would like to report on due to some rather promising new features. The current, free update 10 "R3" can be...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.3.0 (24. Jun. 2024)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.3.0 among others offers testcases and base index addressing: ...

Video: Building a disc cleaning station, part 1 (24. Jun. 2024)
Developer Rob Smith has a special idea for the Kickstart event taking place next weekend: he wants to develop a station for cleaning floppy discs. Some floppy discs cannot be read because the magnetic material has become detached from the disc or a layer ...

Text adventure: "Adventure 2" v1.12 (24. Jun. 2024)
After "Adventure 1" (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has also updated his second text adventure (amiga-news.de reported): visible exits have been added to the room descriptions. Bugs had already been fixed and more verbs added in previous updates...

Aminet uploads until 22.06.2024 (23. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to Aminet: MicroExcel_2.1.lha biz/spread 2.0M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor amigassh.lha comm/net 103K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga 3DPoles.lha dev/amos 149K 3D Pol...

OS4Depot uploads until 22.06.2024 (23. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator snes9x_gui_contrib.lha emu/mis 236kb 4.1 alternative/contribu donkeykong.lha gam/mis 4Mb 4....

AROS Archives uploads until 22.06.2024 (23. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to AROS Archives: donkeykong_net_arosx86.lha gam/boa 4Mb LCD game conversion runaway_net_arosx86.lha gam/boa 3Mb LCD game conversion slotgamearos.i386-aros.zip gam/boa 412kb Slot Gam...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.06.2024 (23. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: AmiArcadia_32.60.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... Runaway_1.31.lha Games/Misc LCD game conversion DonkeyKong_1.83.lha ...

Text adventure: "Adventure 1" v0.9 (22. Jun. 2024)
At the beginning of January, 'grindercowboy' published his text adventure "Adventure 1" as a feasibility study (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has made a finished version of this game available, which is based on a short story he wrote about 30 years ago...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.17.1 (22. Jun. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.0.5 for Windows (22. Jun. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.5 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Requires Greaseweazle 1.17 New disc formats: apple2.appledos.140, ...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.30.4 Release Candidate 1 (21. Jun. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published a first release candidate of version 2.30.4 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is u...