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In project management circles, there is a running joke that the last five per cent of a project takes 95 per cent of the entire completion time. If you’re a software developer, this funny paradox may ring some bells because it is in fact well rooted in experience. Your project proceeds quickly until it reaches a point where it is almost finished, save for a few little things that make it unsuitable for release. These “few little things” can turn the final phase of the project into a nightmare that will drag for months, if not years.

Three arcade conversions, an AGA conversion of a classic Konami platformer, and a new cyberpunk themed shoot-em-up.

Caves & Cargo

This is an arcade action game similar to "Gravity Force", under development by EAB user TheoTheoderich: Fly your spaceship through caves and collect cargo.

Jens Schönfeld / individual Computers is showing his commitment to Amiga RTG software by releasing another update of P96 graphics card driver.

Here's a copy of the v3.3.1 list of changes:

Knightmare

In Jan. 2022 an old MSX game got remade for the Amiga: Konami's "Knightmare", a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up with a fantasy theme.

 Over the past two weeks I have been continuing to explore the Mega 65 computer after recently getting it, now looking at the updated Basic features, and alternative cores like the C64 Core and Gameboy Core.

Hi everyone, It is time for the first official Amigans.net games competition! During the month of June, we will be playing the brilliant action game Blastaway by Retream. If you are interested in participating in this AmigaOS 4 gaming contest or to read more about it, please click on the link below: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=130976 Hope you’ll […]

Among the many arcade style game releases, in this issue we also have a slightly unusual point-and-click adventure from Germany.

Turbo Tomato

Around July 2021 arcade action game "Turbo Tomato" by Nivrig games was released, and got an update to v1.1.0 in October.

As has been announced on Jan. 17th 2022, the "Amiga37" event will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany, on October 15th and 16th 2022. Tickets are available since April 27th.

Go to https://amigaevent.de for detailed information, latest updates, and tickets!

Amiga artists, warm up your fingers! 

Since 2019 "10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast" is organizing the "Amiga Art Contest", where all sorts of Amiga art creations - images, animation, sound - can be submitted. The 2022 event has just been announced. 

You can submit your artwork to the following categories:

1. Handdrawn artwork

2. Digital photography

3. Raytracing

4. Music

5. Animation

This week I returned from a business trip overseas for the past few weeks. This is why I haven't been able to blog this month until now. But now I am back, and my pre-ordered Mega 65 computer has arrived!

So what is a Mega 65? 

Great news for Amiga 68k internet users: iBrowse and AmiSSL have both been updated, indicating active and steady development.

Here's a copy of the iBrowse's latest list of changes (see link below):

Mutation Software Is at it again, this time with a sequel to their 1993 hit...

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