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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.98 (06. Apr. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now he is porting the first part of the real-time strategy series Co...

Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2 (06. Apr. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as w...

Overview: The world of non-C operating systems (03. Apr. 2022)
As an online portal, The Register provides news and analysis from the world of technology companies. In a recent article, the authors explore the question of what current commercial operating systems exist that were written before C was invented or that d...

Aminet uploads until 02.04.2022 (03. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to Aminet: Artstate-Loopback.zip demo/sound 24K 68k 32Kb executable music for GER... vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 366K POSIX compatibility library f... zlib_S1212.lha d...

Chip-Ram expansion for Amiga 500, 2000, Commodore CDTV: RAMesses (31. Mar. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about his latest development 'RAMesses': this board upgrades an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV to 2MB chip RAM without soldering or cutting the motherboard. It is based on the board develo...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.1 (31. Mar. 2022)
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak has now written 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle. This is cur...

History: Commodore's 'ChessMate' (29. Mar. 2022)
In its latest blog entry, the 'Commodore International Historical Society' has reported on the history of Commodore's 'ChessMate'....

Aminet uploads until 26.03.2022 (27. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to Aminet: nfs3.lha comm/net 10K 68k Mount NFS3 shares using bsdso... less-mos.lha dev/gg 661K MOS Viewer program similar to "more" MuManual.lha d...

MorphOS: Web-browser Wayfarer 3.2 (27. Mar. 2022)
By version 3.2 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web-browser Wayfarer, support of WOFF/WOFF2 fonts has been implemented and, besides fixes of a few minor quirks, the support of ligatures has been improved. Wayfarer requires MorphOS 3.16 and at least 1&...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.0 (25. Mar. 2022)
The latest version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz contains some major changes and a few optimizations: Adjustments to libs handling: To be able to reduce the amount of loaded blitzlibraries at startup, I divided the former to biglib-files...

Retream: all games available for free download, new beta version of 'Skillgrid' (24. Mar. 2022)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua is currently offering all of his retro games for free download, including the commercial titles Skillgrid und BOH Advanced. He asks players who like the games to make a donation to any organisation supporting the people of Ukra...

Accelerator board project: Buffee now Closed Source (24. Mar. 2022)
According to the developers of the turbo card 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) in their latest blog entry, the project which started as open source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license will now be continued completely closed source. Up to a...

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' with wireless DB9 receiver (23. Mar. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the campaign is still running for three days, 150% (about 120,000 Euro) of the funding...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.95 (22. Mar. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Minimig: Revision 1.8 (update) (20. Mar. 2022)
In 2005 we reported on the start of the Minimig project by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren: the reimplementation of the one Amiga 500 in an FPGA. Based on this approach there were other projects like the Mist, which uses its own hardware but f...

Aminet uploads until 19.03.2022 (20. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to Aminet: ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server. just-for-fun.lha demo/misc 4.6M MOS Oldschool Demo in SDL2 by PuR... void-planetr.lha d...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.03.2022 (20. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: bePlayer_1.3.lha Audio/Players A simple music player u... GG.module_1.4.lha Communication/KwaKwa A plugin for KwaKwa ins... Kwakwa_1.9.lha ...

ACube Systems: Production of Sam460LE boards started (19. Mar. 2022)
Press release: Dears customers, we would like to tell you some important news about the production of the Sam460LE boards. Well, to be honest, just one BIG news. The production has begun!!! Do not miss the opportunity to be among the first to rec...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.1 (update) (18. Mar. 2022)
Just a few days ago, with the release of the new version 3.16 of MorphOS, the Wayfarer web browser not only became the default browser of the operating system, replacing the previous one Odyssey, but the author Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek also contributed ...

History: Commodore's unreleased C64 game machine (18. Mar. 2022)
In December 1990 Commodore released the Commodore 64 Games System (C64GS), which became a big commercial failure. As the 'Commodore International Historical Society' reports in its latest blog entry, there were obviously concrete ideas in this direction s...