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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-27 at 06:20

Meanwhile version 1.3 is available!

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-27 at 06:19

Managing ADF files

In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. He has now released version 0.1.5.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00109-EN.html

[#]Amiga #adf #Rust

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-27 at 05:20

Strategy game

Rodrigo Vertulo wants to remind Amiga fans of their creative spirit with "LightTheLEDs" and offers an "electrifying challenge" with his new game, in which you have to connect batteries to LEDs, but have to go through at least one resistor to ensure that the circuit works correctly:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00108-EN.html

[#]Amiga #strategy #game

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-26 at 09:02

KickSmash32, currently available in version 1.4, is a Kickstart ROM replacement module for the Amiga 3000 and 4000, which can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00102-EN.html

[#]Amiga #KickstartROM #replacement

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-26 at 09:01

The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00101-EN.html

[#]Amiga #music #WaveFormat

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-26 at 08:58

Music competition:

On February 22nd, the next Boozedrome will not take place on location in Helsinki, but this time purely on YouTube. Music modules of a maximum length of three minutes and a maximum size of 2 MB that can be played by HippoPlayer 2.45 without additional libraries can be submitted.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00100-EN.html

[#]Amiga #music #competition

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-26 at 06:22

The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995.

In this January update, some level graphics were added for the game StarRay and, for comparison, the graphics of the Atari ST version, as these are better than the Amiga version despite the technical disadvantages:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00097-EN.html

[#]Amiga #pictures #game

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-26 at 06:11

The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements. Now version 40.9 was released:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00096-EN.html

[#]Amiga #driver #IDE

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-24 at 17:47

@mrsbeanbag

Hmmm, let me calculate...your jump 'n' run was released...14 years ago...:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2011-12-00051-EN.html

Don't you think it is time for a new one? :)

Thanks for being here! :)

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-24 at 06:06

Für unsere deutschen Leser (und all die, die deutsch üben wollen @nivrig ;)

An diesem Wochenende veranstaltet Virtual Dimension einen 25-stündigen Livestream und beginnt ein neues Bastel-Projekt: einen tragbaren Amiga.

https://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-01-00095-DE.html

[#]Amiga #Twitch #laptop

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-24 at 05:00

Video player: the "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD). Now version 2025 has been released:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00094-EN.html

[#]Amiga #AMOS #animation #player

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-24 at 04:42

Amiga Yoomp! is a conversion of an Atari 8-bit game from 2007. In the last few weeks, several updates have been released:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00092-EN.html

[#]Amiga #game

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-22 at 17:16

Shortly before Christmas AmiModRadio 1.0 was released. Therefore we have interviewed its programmer 'Tygre'.

AmiModRadio accesses the more than twenty thousand music modules in Aminet, but also tens of thousands of tracks from Haxor.fi, Modland and Modules.pl, in order to download a piece of music, unpack it and play it on one of the playback programs. A rating function is also included.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00091-EN.html

[#]Amiga #interview #musicmodules

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-21 at 16:58

As reported, Timothy De Groote has been appointed as the new director of Hyperion Entertainment:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00088-EN.html

[#]AmigaOS3 #AmigaOS4 #Amiga

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-21 at 16:56

Flappy-Bird-clone "Happy Bat" version 1.2 released

The skill game "Happy Bat" has been developed by Carlos Zener for testing the high score function of the game development tool REDPILL:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00089-EN.html

[#]Amiga #game #FlappyBird

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-21 at 16:54

Shoot 'em up "Sky Shapers" available in a physical box edition:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00090-EN.html

[#]Amiga #game

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-20 at 17:20

"Joy of Killing" was a shoot'em up started in 1996 by the Polish development team S-Crew. The site "Amiga Games That Weren't", which collects information on unreleased Amiga titles, has now restored the demo produced at the time in co-operation with 'Rygar'.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00087-EN.html

[#]Amiga #game #demo

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-20 at 17:08

May I ask a stupid question? Do you prefer using hashtags within the text oder better as a seperate line after the text...? Are there any advantages for this and that variant?

I myself find it sometimes a bit confusing to read texts which have the hashtags inside...

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-20 at 16:59

Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.13.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled a version for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The new kernel fixes, among others, bugs around nezwork, sound and SCSI.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00086-EN.html

[#]AmigaOne #Linux

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Written by Daniel on 2025-01-20 at 05:53

"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics. Now another bonus level and level 5 have been released:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00084-EN.html

[#]Amiga #game #kids

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