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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...

Event: Further details on Kickstart UK show 2024 (Nottingham) (07. Apr. 2024)
As reported in December, the second edition of Kickstart UK will take place in Nottingham on June 29-30, 2024. More information on the event is now available at the title link - 18 retailers, 10 community groups, 5 speakers and 5 performers will be a...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.4 for Windows (04. Apr. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Requires Greaseweazle 1.16.3 Read: Added new template "Commodore C...

Casual puzzle game: Kondi Krush (04. Apr. 2024)
"Kondi Krush" is a clone of the smartphone classic Candy Crush: On a playing field filled with sweets, the aim is to place at least three identical elements in a row and making them disappear from the playing field by swapping two pieces of sweet in each ...

Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS (04. Apr. 2024)
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial ...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux (01. Apr. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

Aminet uploads until 30.03.2024 (31. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to Aminet: ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 203K OS4 ignition addon for access ods... amigassh.lha comm/net 30K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga amospro_darkula.lha dev/amos 26K ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2024.04.01 (31. Mar. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.04.01: Unified USB Mass ...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (23. Mar. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Der Standard: Bobby Kotick, who wants to buy Tiktok, once interested in Amiga (22. Mar. 2024)
The Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports on Robert 'Bobby' Kotick at the title link. The former Activision boss had put himself forward as a possible buyer should the US business of TikTok be sold. In this context, the newspaper recalls that...

Article series: The history of software soundtrackers (parts 1-3) (21. Mar. 2024)
30 years ago, Xavier Borderie had fun making music on his Amiga with the help of Protracker. This was the reason for him to take a look behind the scenes in a series of articles and write about those who made soundtracking possible: Soundtracker ori...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 (21. Mar. 2024)
Developer Michal Schulz has released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 contains all the changes from 1.0 RC1, RC2 and RC3...

Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher (17. Mar. 2024)
Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is...

Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024 (17. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet: amosreg.lha dev/amos 6K 68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno evo.lha dev/e 673K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution c2plib.lha dev/misc ...

YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024 (16. Mar. 2024)
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belg...

Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS (16. Mar. 2024)
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series....

Editor: Lite XL 2.1.3r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (11. Mar. 2024)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.3r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (OS4Depot link) and MorphOS. The developer has introduced a new feature in LiteXL that allows switching between ISO and Unicode files while preserving the text. Use...

Turn-based strategy game: Demo version of "Ecliptic" (11. Mar. 2024)
Ecliptic is described by the author as a mixture of turn-based tactical combat and role-playing. Visually, it is reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. The player's task is to regain control of a spaceship drifting in ...

Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.7.0 (09. Mar. 2024)
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de...

A1222 Plus: Production finished, available in shop (07. Mar. 2024)
AAA Technology, a joint venture between Amedia France, A-Eon Technology and AmigaKit in co-operation with ACube Systems, informs us that the production and subsequent testing of the A1222-Plus boards (formerly "Tabor") has been completed and can now be or...