Developer Axel 'Flynn' Friedrich has published a preview video for his upcoming Amiga game Operation Backstab. The title draws inspiration from the classic Spy vs. Spy series, and the video is intended to demonstrate how the game plays. Operation Backstab appears to still be in development rather than released. via amiga-news.de
A new puzzle game called Witch Jam has been released for the Amiga. Players collect eyeballs falling into a jam jar, and when two identical eyeballs collide they merge into a larger one, similar in concept to merge-style puzzle games. The aim is to score as many points as possible before the jar fills up, which ends the game. via amiga-news.de
AmiWordle 2.0 has been released for the Amiga, a homebrew recreation of the popular word puzzle game Wordle written in Blitz Basic. It supports German, English and French word lists, and lets players pre-assign known letters to help narrow down the solution by clicking a tile or using the cursor keys. The update is not compatible with high-score lists saved by previous versions of the game. via amiga-news.de
Andreas Falkenhahn has released version 5.2 of his Hollywood APK Compiler. The update's main change allows users to disable compression, which improves performance. Hollywood is a scripting and development language with roots in the Amiga community, and the APK compiler lets developers package Hollywood applications for Android. via amiga-news.de
Manfred Bergmann has released version 0.12 of AmiLisp, a Common Lisp implementation for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS formerly known as CL-Amiga. The update introduces a new garbage collector architecture with an abstracted interface and adds the Immix collector, which runs on both AmigaOS and MorphOS and is described as significantly faster than its predecessor in most situations. The release also improves Clamacs, AmiLisp's bundled editor and IDE, adding project support so that groups of windows and buffers can be opened or closed together when switching between projects, a feature similar to Emacs perspectives. Multiple cursor support has also been added to the editor. via amiga-news.de
Christian Foltin has released version 1.1 of Avibe Coder, a development environment for AmigaOS 4.1. It combines an editor, project management, build tools, debugging and reference material within a single MUI window. The software is written in C specifically for the Amiga and offers a choice of German or English user interface. A full feature list is available on the project's page. via amiga-news.de
A new point-and-click adventure called Bibula has been released for the Amiga. The game is set in Poland in 1982 during martial law, casting the player as a university student expelled from their studies after their grandfather's arrest for opposition activity. The task is to work with allies to write and distribute an underground newspaper, known as a bibula. It requires at least an Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM to run. via amiga-news.de
Amigadex has launched as a free search engine covering the Amiga community across AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS, as well as both classic hardware and emulation. A single search field covers news sites, blogs, forum threads and release feeds such as Aminet, OS4Depot, WHDLoad and AROS Archives, along with more than 5,000 open-source projects hosted on GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg. Each result links back to the original source. The tool is aimed particularly at developers, letting them check for existing similar projects before starting new work, and includes an "Overlaps" feature that groups related project families together. via amiga-news.de
The amigazen project has released a 3.5.3 beta of Voyager, the AmigaOS web browser originally developed by David Gerber and the late Oliver Wagner. Gerber released the browser's source code under the GPL nine years ago, and this update focuses on getting it to compile cleanly and fixing bugs. New features include HTTPS support via AmiSSL or the bundled AmiTLS, completed printing functionality covering dialogs, menus, ARexx and TurboPrint, and mapping of UTF-8 HTML content onto the OS3 Latin-1 character set. The default User-Agent is now set to Firefox 4.0.1 on Windows 7. via amiga-news.de
Developer BrokenBytes has released an Amiga port of Fix-It Felix Jr, the fictional 1982 arcade game featured in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph film. The game has previously been recreated by fans on platforms including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum Next and ZX Spectrum, and this new version brings the same arcade-style action to the Amiga. It recreates the original concept of repairing windows with a hammer while avoiding the villain Ralph. via indieretronews.com
Rocketship Park and Thalamus are working on ZERO, a new futuristic racing game for the Game Boy Color. The project draws on the style of Nintendo's F-Zero, which launched on the SNES in 1990 and used Mode 7 rotation effects that handheld hardware could not replicate until the Game Boy Advance version arrived in 2001. ZERO aims to show how a similar high-speed racer could work on the more limited Game Boy Color hardware. via gamesasylum.com
A fan-made ROM hack called Secret of Goku has been released, retooling the classic SNES RPG Secret of Mana around Dragon Ball Z's Goku. Secret of Mana, originally released in 1993, is widely regarded as one of the best action RPGs on the SNES, often mentioned alongside Chrono Trigger. The hack reportedly brings the Dragon Ball Z character into the game's world and structure rather than building a new game from scratch. via retrododo.com
