Amiga-News.de asked developers and programmers for a little anecdote for an advent calendar. So from December 1st until Christmas in sometimes shorter, sometimes longer texts you will read about about their Amiga beginnings, first successes and experiences from their creative wealth and little incidents to smile or even to think about:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2022-11-00129-EN.html

A big thank you to all who participated!

RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for many different audio formats, embedded cover images, and Last.fm scrobbling. A video demonstration of the program is available on YouTube.

Spotless is back! Lots of improvements this time, and everything has been tested thoroughly by a team consisting of elfpipe and kas1e.

Spotless v.2.2.0 at os4depot

Portabl E is my recreation of the AmigaE programming language, along with most of the improvements I have wanted. Portabl E works on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS, as well as even Linux & Windows! (It should also work on AmigaOS3, but compiling needs a powerful machine like WinUAE.)

On November 4th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released Hollywood 1.0 for 68k AmigaOS. Originally advertised as a multimedia authoring solution, nobody would have expected back then that this software would turn into a cross-platform programming language for lots of platforms with dozens of plugins for all kinds of tasks. Now, 20 years later, Hollywood is still going strong, receives regular updates and new plugins, and is used by many people around the globe. All of this would not have been possible without the continued support of many Hollywood enthusiasts in the past 20 years. Only the positive feedback we received right from the start made us continue developing Hollywood into what it is today.

The English and German issue 159 (November/December 2022) of our print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from our editorial office at Amiga Future, and from other Amiga dealers that stock it.

The following articles have been added to the website of the Amiga magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months:

Spotless is a symbol based debugging tool supporting the stabs standard for compiler debugging symbols.

Spotless v.2.1.0 on os4depot

The latest version promises to solve many of the user interface problems from earlier versions. Among these are fixes for interface inaccuracies, crashes with memory handling, and an overall more stable user experience.

Richard Löwenstein is currently working very hard on the completion of his new game RESHOOT Proxima 3.

If no other major problems arise, the game will be released by APC&TCP on March 15, 2023.

Amiga 1000 vs. CD32, DraCo vs. Pegasos, Walker vs. MCC - the brand-new card game AMIGA DUEL features 32
Amiga originals, clones and prototypes. Playable as trump or quartet with 2 to 4 players, these legendary
computers compete in six categories (CPU, graphics, Kickstart, year of availability, formfactor and innovation).
All playing cards have been illustrated with love - by Amiga fans for Amiga fans! Available now in a fancy box at
LOOK BEHIND YOU and from selected Amiga dealers.