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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.5 (16. Dec. 2023)
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....

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.11.31 (14. Dec. 2023)
Rafał Zabdyr has released a third 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...

AmigaOS 4: FTP server ZitaFTP with 20% X-Mas discount (12. Dec. 2023)
ZitaFTP Server is an easy to set up and use FTP server for sharing files from one computer to another and is available for Windows and AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). With Christmas coming up, Hans de Ruiter is offering his commercial FTP server at a ...

Crowdfunding: "The Commodore Amiga 500 Story" (10. Dec. 2023)
At the title link, Nicola and Anthony Caulfield are collecting money to finance a documentary film about the Amiga 500, lasting more than two hours, which will initially only be made available to its backers in April. The campaign runs until thurs...

Demoscene: The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives (10. Dec. 2023)
In his article at the title link, Marin Balabanov explains why he thinks the Amiga enjoys such popularity in the demo scene....

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 12 of "WhatIFF?" (10. Dec. 2023)
In its 12th issue, "WhatIFF?" - a magazine in AmigaGuide format - offers the following content: Reviews: A600 RGB2HDMI Adapters Furia Accelerator DrawerGenie Aminet Goodies Game Reviews: Spheroid (Demo) Tenebra 1 and 2 Guides: Maki...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch / Hardware list (09. Dec. 2023)
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems. He writes about it: "This new version introduces close to 1000 changes made by several AROS developers, including improveme...

Aminet uploads until 02.12.2023 (03. Dec. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to Aminet: REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support f1champ.lha docs/misc 74K Statistics of Formula One 195... anaiis_massive.lha driv...

Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German) (03. Dec. 2023)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of t...

Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update) (03. Dec. 2023)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems (02. Dec. 2023)
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs i...

Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite (29. Nov. 2023)
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now pub...

Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59 (29. Nov. 2023)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes: Fixes: Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being displayed. Info window: Fix PSID so...

PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97 (28. Nov. 2023)
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the or...

Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023 (26. Nov. 2023)
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet: wla_dx_v10.6.lha dev/cross 8.8M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble... HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 873K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo... HWP_Plananarama.lha d...

Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette (25. Nov. 2023)
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music ...

AROS: Irritating bug of the month November (25. Nov. 2023)
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he the...

CLI command: sysvars V0.11 (20. Nov. 2023)
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 18.11.2023 (19. Nov. 2023)
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to Aminet: Amidon_OS3.zip comm/net 1.7M 68k A Mastodon client for Amiga GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.2M MOS Graphical git frontend BackMan68k.lha disk/bakup 48K ...

Video tutorial: Playing sound in AMOS (16. Nov. 2023)
In another instalment of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' takes a look at the PLAY command in AMOS to see what it does and how it can be manipulated. A small sample programme is available on his website....