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Is this a coronavirus-lockdown effect? Developers seem to have become increasingly productive - in 2022, new Amiga games have been and still are popping up like mushrooms after a warm, rainy day.

Maria Renard's Revenge

Pretty much whenever you hear something French, you can be sure it has beauty and taste. ("French fries" ;-) ) This is certainly true for this outstandingly beautiful new game, which is currently under development by DomKid. 

Would you believe me if I told you that you can buy new release dedicated Amiga magazines in your local newsagent in 2022? 

Well, you can. Amiga Addict magazines are now available in your local Australian and UK newsagents, and likely in other countries as well. Here it is in a local Adelaide newsagent this week.

When browsing the net, you sometimes stumble upon things that question your beliefs.

AmigaOS 4 News – November 2022 Hi, Thanks for visiting my blog, and welcome to the 11th edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! As we are approaching December, we can look back on an active November with many releases and updates. On the hardware front, ACube Systems are now in the process of delivering boards to […]

AmigaOS 4 News – November 2022 Hi, Thanks for visiting my blog, and welcome to the 11th edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! As we are approaching December, we can look back on an active November with many releases and updates. On the hardware front, ACube Systems are now in the process of delivering boards to […]

AmigaOS 4 News – November 2022 Hi, Thanks for visiting my blog, and welcome to the 11th edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! As we are approaching December, we can look back on an active November with many releases and updates. On the hardware front, ACube Systems are now in the process of delivering boards to […]

 After a long wait, I finally got my MNT ZZ9000 cards this week - one Zorro 2 card for my Amiga 2000 and a Zorro 3 card for another Amiga to be decided!

I bought my first Amiga in 1992; it was an A2000, with a SCSI HDD...

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Autofire! Another round of catching up with Amiga game development.

Inviyya II : Hyperblaster

Great shoot-em-up game "Inviyya" by Tigerskunk is about to get a sequel: "Inviyya II: Hyperblaster" was announced in the first half of 2022, and updates on development progress have been posted on the internet since. 

A new version of zx81paint has been uploaded to AmiNet.

zx81paint has just learned a couple of new things: 15 steps of undo, drawing lines and rectangles, better menu layout, and slightly improved keyboard control.

So for today ladies and gentlemen, I present a teardown of an HP/Agilent logic analyzer cable. I think this is part number 16715-61601. This cable is used to connect one of a series of 40-pin compatible modules (many of the 167xx series, but not all) from the 60-pin connector on the LA side, to the 40-pin connectors that supports a variety pod adapters. The most popular, at least in my world, of the 40-pin pod adapters is the flying lead one, the venerable Agilent 01650-61608 pod adapters.

OMG, it's been a long time since the previous issue - again we have a lot of catching up ahead: Huge names in this issue! First-person-shooters, arcade, movie tie-in!

I’m not a frequent Amiga party-goer. I had my fair share when I was younger, but I no longer see much point in going to far-away places only to find, typically, a dozen tables with old machines running old games. So the Amiga37 party announcement in April left me somewhat indifferent, all the more so when I realized that the venue was located over a thousand kilometres from my hometown.

Creating your first action game from scratch can be quite a challenge, and cause severe frustration. But at some point you begin to see some light at the end of the tunnel - and that's where the real fun part begins.

My experiments in creating something that might become... a game?! ...have reached a stage where (except for sound) pretty much everything is in place: timing, user input, movement, graphics, limits, ...and it seems to work! Stably!

To achieve this within a somewhat tolerable time frame (= this lifetime), some fundamental decisions had to be made: