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Daniel<p>HooGames 2017 is currently working on several projects: after a first preview video of a Zelda-like game, a first demo version of the platformer "Phantom Leap" developed with the Scorpion Engine was released today: in typical Giana Sisters style, you make your way through initially four playable levels and try to "head out" and collect as many coins as possible:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00059-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00059-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Platformer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Platformer</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>The aim of the Amiga game Pjusk is to find your way through a labyrinth by tackling enemies in a carefully considered sequence in order to open doors and collect resources.</p><p>The game comprises 24 levels and requires at least an Amiga 500 with 512 KB of additional slow mem:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00051-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00051-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>Robert 'Pyrdacor' Schneckenhaus has provided "Amiga-Tools" for current computer systems. Specifically, these are two command line commands for Windows, Linux or Mac OS; a user interface is planned. They can be used to create, modify, display and unpack ADF disk images or LHA archives:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00040-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00040-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lha</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ADF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADF</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>"AmigaBlueKick" is a Kickstart switch that does not require any soldering work on the motherboard or a mechanical switch: Switching between the different Kickstart ROMs is done via Bluetooth. To do this, a ready-made ESP32S3 or ESP32C3 Wifi/Bluetooth module is connected to four pins of a Kickstart EPROM (5V, ground, A18, A19):</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00036-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00036-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Kickstart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kickstart</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/switcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>switcher</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to various 8- and 16-bit systems, the Amiga is also emulated. In version 2025-03-05, a bug was fixed that could lead to a crash under macOS when creating a new virtual machine:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00030-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00030-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/emulator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emulator</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical artifacts from the collection of Dale Luck" and "current innovations from the Amiga community" is announced:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00032-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00032-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/event" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>event</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga40</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. New version 5.9 has been now released:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00033-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00033-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compiler</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>Ever thought about programming an Amiga game? Now is the right time! Dive into the game construction kit RedPill and win an Amiga 500 Plus or THEA500 Mini:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00034-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00034-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RedPill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedPill</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>New version of the Game Construction Kit RedPill 0.9.48 has been released, introducing the possibility of realistically resolving circular collisions:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00027-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">03-00027-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmiBlitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmiBlitz</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>"Operation Steel Rain" is supposed to become a Run'n Gun for AGA Amigas, developed with the help of the Scorpion Engine. Now an updated demo version was released:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-02-00112-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00112-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RunNGun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RunNGun</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>'lifeschool' has started a new project: a real-time strategy game with some "Defender of the Crown" influences. The playing field in "King Arthur's Campaign" can be seen from a bird's eye view, the units are freely movable. The game is set in Roman times:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-02-00113-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00113-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/realtimestrategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realtimestrategy</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demo</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>Under the title link you will find a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language. The tool now supports not only 68k, but also MIPS architecture:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-02-00069-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00069-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>m68k</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MIPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIPS</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for the native Amiga ISOCD application. It creates bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 and CDTV. The initial version 1.3 was released last week, and version 1.3.1.2 is currently available:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-02-00044-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00044-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CD32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CD32</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CDTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDTV</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ISOCD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISOCD</span></a></p>
Daniel<p>New version 4.0b1 of Dirk Hoffmann's Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS, introducing workspaces as document format and now supporting Apple's Quick Look:</p><p><a href="https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-02-00038-EN.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00038-EN.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmigaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/emulator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emulator</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a></p>
AmigaNews (inofficial)<p><a href="http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-02-00029-DE.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00029-DE.html</span></a><br>Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom. <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiganews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiganews</span></a></p>
AmigaNews (inofficial)<p><a href="http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-02-00027-DE.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00027-DE.html</span></a><br>Cross-Compiler/Assembler: Calypsi 5.8.1. <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiganews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiganews</span></a></p>
AmigaNews (inofficial)<p><a href="http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-02-00013-DE.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2025-</span><span class="invisible">02-00013-DE.html</span></a><br>WHDLoad: Neue Pakete bis 01.02.2025. <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiganews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiganews</span></a></p>
AmigaNews (inofficial)<p><a href="http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2024-12-00094-DE.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2024-</span><span class="invisible">12-00094-DE.html</span></a><br>Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust!. <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://c64.social/tags/amiganews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiganews</span></a></p>
pixelguff<p>Holy shitsnacks. If I'm understanding this correctly, it looks like Cloanto has bought Amiga Inc. <a href="https://bibeogaem.zone/tags/amiganews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaNews</span></a></p>