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Workshop: upgrade an Amiga 'Tank' mouse with microswitches (21. Jun. 2016)
Commodore mice - especially the famous 'Tank' model - are decades old and their switches aren't getting any better with age. Even if the mouse buttons still work, it often takes a constantly increasing amount of force to activate them or you nev...

Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 93 (18. Jun. 2016)
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag. ...

Event: Commodore Vegas Expo (30./31. July, Las Vegas) (16. Jun. 2016)
In 2016, the Commodore Vegas Expo ("CommVEx") will take place for the twelfth time. The CommVEx is meant for fans of the Commodore home computer. There will be a rummage sale and some commercial distributors and software developers will also be present. ...

Crowd funding: The story of the Commodore Amiga in pixels (14. Jun. 2016)
Nostalgia-related projects continue being very much the trend on crowd funding platforms: After The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels, the author Chris Wilkins is going to acknowledge the Amiga. The book will be published as paperback and hardcover book...

PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 57 (talian/English) (11. Jun. 2016)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers. The latest version is a special edition which is mainly about ...

AmiModRadio 0.991 with rating function (11. Jun. 2016)
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." In version 0.991 a rating function has been added (from 1 to 5). All common ratings can be looked at as well as your own ones - if it is possible, because accordi...

Emulator: WinUAE 3.3.0 (07. Jun. 2016)
Toni Wilen has released version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adaptions. The developer thanks all donators who supported that. He also pointed out that "performance is not (and can't be) as fast as with m68k AmigaOS, e...

Aminet-Uploads until 04.06.2016 (05. Jun. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 4th, 2016: nfs-handler.lha comm/net 9K 68k NFS handler using bsdsocket.l... wif_info.lha dev/src 9K Fully commented MorphOS PPC a... C64P00-P00C64Conv.l...

Aminet-Uploads until 28.05.2016 (29. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 28th, 2016: nfs-handler.lha comm/net 8K 68k NFS handler using bsdsocket.l... floppy-youatered.zip demo/aga 202K 68k A dentro by Floppy SCX-GradeMyWaterbear.zip demo/eur...

Renaming files: SRename 3.10.0 final (24. May. 2016)
Using SRename you can you can rename a lot of files. After a break of ten years, Constantinos Nicolakakis started the developement again and last year he released a first beta version of SRename 3.10. Mainly the update provides internal improvements and a...

Aminet-Uploads until 21.05.2016 (22. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 21st, 2016: twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 4.5M MOS Twitter client with map view MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-MOS.lha gam...

Podcast: The Retro Hour interviewed David Pleasance (Commodore UK) (22. May. 2016)
In its 20th issue, the British podcast "The Retro Hour" published by Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott interviewed David Pleasance - who was the former chief of Commodore UK. After the bankruptcy of the parent company, Commodore UK made an offer for it but was out...

Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.0 (16. May. 2016)
Rapid Cross-Platform GUI Development On All Islands Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present its most ambitious Hollywood plugin yet: RapaGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the ...

Aminet-Uploads until 07.05.2016 (08. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 7th, 2016: SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 8.5M MOS SQLite database manager HTTX.lha comm/www 111K 68k HTML to formatted text conver... NetSurf-m68k.lha comm...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.05.2016 (08. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 7th, 2016: warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 517kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ... gmap.lha emu/mis 45Mb 4.0 Amiga Player & Maldita Castilla wormwars.lha ...

Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.5 68k (SDL-MUI-Version) (06. May. 2016)
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his SDL and MUI based AmigaOS/68k port of the web browser NetSurf. This port of Netsurg is different to the one based on ReAction provided by Chris Young (review) which additional to the version for AmigaOS-4 is ava...

AmigaOS 4: "Enhancer Software" updates system files and tools (02. May. 2016)
In a press release A-EON has announced the availability of the software bundle "Enhancer Software". In the late 1980s Commodore did sell OS-updates for AmigaOS 1.x - obviously A-EON tries to avoid using the name "OS-update": Enhancer Software is a collect...

Amicast: Interview with Toni Wilen (01. May. 2016)
In the blog of the English podcast Amicast an interview with Toni Wilen has been published. He is well-known for the development of the Amiga emulator WinUAE but has also written file manager FileMaster. In the interview he mainly talked about the WinU...

Aminet-Uploads until 30.04.2016 (01. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 30th, 2016: amirc_362_68000.lha comm/irc 637K 68k 68000 version of AmIRC NetSurf-m68k.lha comm/www 11M 68k CSS capable web browser OSCRetroIntro2016.lha demo/intro ...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.5.0 (26. Apr. 2016)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a trivia game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows) in which you have to correctly answer 1700 questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. You can play it for yourself or together with up t...