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Block diagram from 1991: the Amiga 5000 (31. Oct. 2024)
The “Commodore International Historical Society” regularly publishes official Commodore documents provided by former employees and other insiders. A block diagram from 1991 by Commodore engineer Dave Haynie shows a design for an “Amiga 5...

A600GS: Update 46.1.864 with floppy drive support (29. Oct. 2024)
With the new update v46.1.864 for the A600GS computer, manufacturer Amiga Kit is introducing, among other things, support for floppy drives via Drawbridge (amiga-news.de reported). The changes in detail: System-v46-updates: ARM Graphics Library: A...

Educational game: Simons Siffror / Simon's Numbers (Swedish) (29. Oct. 2024)
A playful introduction to numbers and math is provided by the new educational game "Simons Siffror" ("Simon's Numbers") for the Amiga - but only in Swedish text and speech. Players can solve various simple math problems designed especially for children. T...

Hyperion continues to be managed by court-appointed administrator (28. Oct. 2024)
“Ben Hermans BV” (hereinafter: BHBV) was a private company with limited liability owned by Ben Hermans, which has held 97% of the shares in Hyperion since 2019 and subsequently also acted as a ‘director’ of Hyperion. In March...

News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced (27. Oct. 2024)
At AmiWest, which took place this weekend in Sacramento (USA), Steven Solie and Trevor Dickinson were again present to give presentations and answer questions about AmigaOS 4 related products. Just like last year, no Hyperion representative was atte...

Aminet uploads until 26.10.2024 (27. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to Aminet: AmigAtari.zip demo/sound 882K 68k 12+ hours of Atari Demoscene ... ATasm.lha dev/cross 180K 68k Mac65 compatible 6502 cross-a... Amiga_500_Guide_V1.2.pdf d...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2024 (27. Oct. 2024)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 26.10.2024: 2024-10-24 fixed: Wiz'n'Liz (Psygn...

Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson (27. Oct. 2024)
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for...

Pre-order sale: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - AmigaDOS as a printed book (27. Oct. 2024)
Press release: The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" by Thomas Richter will be published in a strictly limited print run - a project that does not pursue any commercial purpose, but aims to offer the PDF reference manual created by Thomas 'Tho...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert 1.7.2 (27. Oct. 2024)
Artur Jarosik's port of "Command & Conquer: Red Alert", designed for Amigas with powerful turbo cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260, is now available in version 1.7.2. The new features since version 1.5 include bug fixes, a ...

Arananet: Accelerator Trinity 1240-60 can be pre-ordered (24. Oct. 2024)
After four years of development and extensive testing, "best accelerator ever built for the Amiga A1200" has been finalised. The Trinity 1240-60 supports 68040-68060 CPUs and is compatible with all A1200 revisions. According to the developer, great care h...

Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany (20. Oct. 2024)
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office. However,...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.55 (17. Oct. 2024)
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Version 2.55 has now been released with the following changes: Fixed an error in the main li...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...

CLI command: sysvars V0.13 (15. Oct. 2024)
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical f...

Aminet uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to Aminet: rse-coolcorkscrew.zip demo/aga 708K 68k Demo from Deadline 2024 SFL-AlteredVision.lha demo/aga 63K 68k AGA 64K Deadline 2024 Artstate-PartyPack25.adf demo/disk 880K 68k ...

Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4 (12. Oct. 2024)
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte ar...

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...

"Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance, Volume 3" now available (08. Oct. 2024)
The new book ‘Demoscene – The Amiga Renaissance’ is the third part of a series of illustrated books about the demoscene (amiga-news.de reported). Following the first two volumes, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years" (1984-1993) and "Demoscene -...

3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter v1.0 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x (08. Oct. 2024)
3D Object Converter is a new tool for 3D polygon models, also often referred to as wireframe models. The software was originally developed for MS-DOS and Windows and has now been ported to AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x in version 1.0. The application can be used...