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The Guardian: An ironic look back at the Amiga (30. Apr. 2024)
'The Guardian', a renowned British daily newspaper, published a commentary in English on 26 April 2024 that takes a ironical look at the enduring love for the Amiga, which is classed as technically obsolete. Entitled ‘My Undying Love for the Painful...

Heise: Article about the Commodore insolvency 30 years ago today (German) (29. Apr. 2024)
At the title link, Heise.de dedicates a German article to the company's history on the occasion of Commodore's insolvency 30 years ago today. Two concluding paragraphs also mention the Escom period and the THEA500 Mini. Independent of the annivers...

A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS (27. Apr. 2024)
Press rekease: Cardiff, 27 April 2024 A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce further development of Personal Paint. Latest version 7.4 will be pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS Computer. A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint f...

Video tutorials: Run command and IFF screens in AMOS (26. Apr. 2024)
In two more videos of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows on the one hand how to call other AMOS programs from existing AMOS programs by using the Run command (YouTube video), and on the other hand how to use an I...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems (22. Apr. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6: updated guide file On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is ...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.0 and 6.3.0 (preview) (21. Apr. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

Aminet uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to Aminet: peak_filter.lha dev/amos 2K 2nd order osc filter formator_1.0.lha dev/hwood 14K MOS A hollywood plugin REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game C...

OS4Depot uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to OS4Depot: wildmidi.lha aud/pla 32Mb 4.1 A simple software midi player liba52.lha dev/lib 764kb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC... libharfbuzz.lha dev/l...

AmigaOS 4: cURL V8.7.1 (19. Apr. 2024)
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs, reported at the end of March in his blog about the release of versions 8.7.0 and 8.7.1. 'MickJT' has now ported this current version for AmigaOS 4....

Event: "ZZAP! Live 2024" in Kenilworth (England) (18. Apr. 2024)
On 17 August 2024, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) will host the second "ZZAP! Live" event (amiga-news.de reported), organised by Fusion Retro Books, der South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum. All Commodore computer systems including th...

Game: Quake 2 as download version for AmigaOS 4 available (17. Apr. 2024)
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to announce that it has taken over the distribution of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The first Amiga version of Quake 2 was released in 2002 by Hyperion Entertainment and has been continued and greatly imp...

Grind: Progress in development of a new Doom clone (16. Apr. 2024)
Grind is a first-person shooter (FPS) currently in development for the Amiga, which should even be able to run on small Amigas, appears extremely smooth in the preview videos shown and makes you want to try out more. The game is being developed with the s...

CLI command: sysvars V0.12 (15. Apr. 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...

Hollywood Designer 7.0 released (14. Apr. 2024)
Press release:20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood D...

Motorola68k emulation: First alpha version of WLAN driver for Emu68 (update) (14. Apr. 2024)
Michal Schulz continues to work intensively on a WLAN driver for his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported) and has now released the first public alpha version. The driver consists of two parts - the firmware files for the WiFi module i...

Aminet uploads until 13.04.2024 (14. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 33K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga slre.lha dev/lib 17K 68k Super Light Regular Expressio... GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.7M...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.15.18 (13. Apr. 2024)
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git comp...

Open source projects: IDE driver lide.device and CDTV extension CIDER (13. Apr. 2024)
The Amiga community is full of projects that initially go largely unnoticed despite their innovative power. The "lide.device" along with the so-called "CIDER" board were both developed by New Zealander Matt "LIV2" Harlum. Just about a year ago, in Janu...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic" (07. Apr. 2024)
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s (YouTube video). The player's task is to...

Aminet uploads until 06.04.2024 (07. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 06.04.2024 to Aminet: MicroExcel_1.0.lha biz/spread 1.5M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor amos_rocket_science.lha dev/amos 327K examples of targetting Butterfly.lha dev/c 569K MOS An...