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Pre-order: A1100 - A new motherboard for Amiga-1000 housing (10. Feb. 2021)
The 'A1100' is a new motherboard for an A1000 housing. A video shows the hardware. The boards has the following specifications: CPU: Motorola 68020 with 14 Mhz OCS-/ECS compatible, up to 2 MB Chip-Ram (Paula, Agnus, Denise not included) 64 Megabyte...

Arcade Shoot'em-Up: 'Gradius' port Tinyus Beta 0.1 (09. Feb. 2021)
After Tiny Invaders, Tiny Galaga and Tiny Bobble, the demo group of Abyss is working on its fourth aracade port within one year: 'Tinyus' (video) is a faithful port of the arcade shoot'em up Gradius released in 1985: The current beta versio...

Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest (05. Feb. 2021)
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some...

Raspberry Pi as m68000 replacement: PiStorm (30. Jan. 2021)
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to a CPU socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 using an adapter for emulating a fast m68k processor. In contrary to the Buffee project a Linux-based solution is used instead of running the 68k emulator directl...

E-Mail client: YAM supports AmiSSL 4.7 / moved to GitHub (27. Jan. 2021)
About seven years ago we reported about an update of the e-Mail program YAM last time. At the beginning of the year 2019 by updating AmiSSL to version 4.3 it was possible again to check e-mails from diverse providers. For that you have to switch to the de...

Product announcement: A500 replacement board 'MiSS FGPA' (27. Jan. 2021)
8bits4ever already is offering some FPGA solutions for retro fans. Soon also a FPGA-based replacement boards for A500 cases will be available. This 'MiSS FPGA' fit inside a Commodore A500 case and uses the original A500 keyboard as input device. The ...

Console replacement: ViNCEd 3.98 (24. Jan. 2021)
"ViNCEd" written by Thomas Richter is a replacement for the console program CON:. You can run the Shell in it but also other programs. The full screen console handler has many additional features. For example "the whole window content is kept in memory...

Aminet uploads until 23.01.2021 (24. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to Aminet: RedEthItaCat.lha comm/net 45K Italian catalog for RedEth 1.5 amostools.i386-aros.lha dev/amos 198K x86 Tools to work with AMOS programs xamos-mos.lha dev...

AROS Archives uploads until 23.01.2021 (24. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to AROS Archives: alac.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 6Mb Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder modexplorer_aros.zip aud/pla 2Mb Streaming mod file from Internet... libvstring.i386-aros...

CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.82 (23. Jan. 2021)
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL videos. In version 0.9.82 support for standard 12-bit AGA6-8 and HAM8 videos (used in several games in the late 90s) was added. Additionally optimized versions for all 68k processors inclusive Vampire are available. ...

Prototype: New 2-Stick controller for Amiga or C64 introduced (22. Jan. 2021)
"Abstraction Games" has developed a new joypad for C64 and Amiga which has four fire buttons but also two sticks - working on the joystick port without having to change something on the computer. In the past dual-stick-controllers often were used in ...

Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts (21. Jan. 2021)
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimat...

Online competition: Results of 'Commodore Creative Competition 2021' (18. Jan. 2021)
The results of the "Commodore Creative Competition" this year for the first time virtually organized by the Amiga Users Ireland are now available. All contributions of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" can be downloaded. ...

Aminet uploads until 16.01.2021 (17. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 16.01.2021 to Aminet: jansson_library.lha dev/c 215K OS4 native lib for manipulating J... NoMoreDiv0_Debug.lha dev/debug 20K 68k Division by Zero Debugger FamousAmigaUses.lha docs/lis...

Free eBooks: Amiga Story in Pixels, The Story of US Gold, History of Ocean (10. Jan. 2021)
Again Fusion Retro Books offers some Amiga books as free PDFs. You only have to create an user account in the shop: The history of Ocean Software, The story of US Gold and The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels. Additionally The story of the Commodore...

Aminet uploads until 09.01.2021 (10. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 09.01.2021 to Aminet: yWeather.lha comm/misc 229K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar SMB-ConnectItaCat.lha comm/tcp 12K Italian catalog for SMB-Conne... exomizer.lha de...

Arcade shoot'em-up: 'Gradius' port 'Tinyus' announced (09. Jan. 2021)
After Tiny Invaders, Tiny Galaga and Tiny Bobble the demo group is working on its fourth arcade port within one year: 'Tinyus' is supposed to become an true port of the arcade shoot'em up Gradius released in 1985: Tinyus will run on an A500...

File manager: MCAmiga 0.9 for all Amiga systems (update) (05. Jan. 2021)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander which can be completely used with the keyboard. Version 0.9 has been already released in August 2020 - we reported about it in our dominical Aminet uploads - but ...

Aminet uploads until 02.01.2021 (03. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 02.01.2021 to Aminet: Streamer2ItaCat.lha comm/www 12K Italian catalog for Streamer2 The_Future_Sound.zip demo/sound 153K 68k Musicdisk void-absolutedolle3.zip demo/sound 575K 68k Musicp...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.10 (30. Dec. 2020)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.10 of his web browser Wayfarer. MorphOS 3.14 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on mo...