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PiStorm32-lite: Availability (28. Jan. 2023)
Since one month the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga-News.de has looked around where you can currently and potentially purchase the Raspberry Pi-based accelerator card for the Ami...

Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems (27. Jan. 2023)
Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and U...

Event: "Kickstart" in Nottingham (England) (26. Jan. 2023)
On July 1st and 2nd, 2023, the digital culture festival "Kickstart" will be held in Nottingham, England. Currently planned are meetings of British Amiga user groups, presentations of various dealers, live music and talks with developers like Core Designs,...

AROS: GUI for configuring SMB2/3-Shares (25. Jan. 2023)
As Paolo Besser, author of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop writes in his latest blog entry, he has programmed a simple graphical tool for configuring shares in LUA for the new SMB2 handler in order to add new shares to the AROS environment. It is not...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.10.1 (25. Jan. 2023)
Version 4.10.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. Changes: WinUAE 4.10.0 bugs fixed Chipset emulation updates and bug fixes. Interlace filter mode saved invalid config in certain situations, causing crash when loaded. Also added va...

Event: Review of the Amiga Ireland 2023 (24. Jan. 2023)
Amiga Ireland was held in Athlone on 13 and 14 January 2023. We asked the organisers for a summary, which has now kindly been made available to us. Many thanks! "Amiga Ireland 2023 has come to a close and the feedback seems to be very positive. The o...

DIY: N2630 expansion board for Amiga 2000 (23. Jan. 2023)
Parallel to his project of a replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX" (amiga-news.de reported), the developer Jason 'jasonsbeer' Neus has started another one : The N2630 is a further development of the original Commodore A2630...

DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 6) (23. Jan. 2023)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describe...

Demo party: Revision 2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
According to the organisers, Revision is the largest pure demoscene event in the world. This year's edition will take place from 07 to 10 April in Saarbrücken (Germany). The demo group Spaceballs has published a 40k-AGA-Intro (YouTube video), which also f...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 21.01.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Iris_1.7.lha Email New email client suppor... MirrorMagic_3.1.0.lha Games/Think Arcade style game in th... RocksNDiamonds_4....

Print magazine: 25 years Amiga Future - outlook and raffle (22. Jan. 2023)
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the print magazine Amiga Future, at the title link its editor-in-chief Andreas Magerl looks back briefly and comments on current plans. In addition, two subscriptions for one year are raffled. In case this mak...

Text adventure: The Dragnet Case (22. Jan. 2023)
"The Dragnet Case" is a text adventure published by Taskmaster Software, originally written back in the 1980s and now available for various retro systems (C64, Amstrad, Amiga etc.). You take on the role of Sam Boon, a private detective from L.A. who ...

PiStorm32-lite: JLCPCB soldering issues (20. Jan. 2023)
Since about three weeks the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). After that, many interested people ordered the necessary parts from JLCPCB. Some problems occurred during assembly, which An...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #144 - The fully networked Amiga 4000 (20. Jan. 2023)
Issue 144 of Douglas Compton's videocast 10MARC is about networking his Amiga 4000. Among others he demonstrated how to use the Twitter client twittAmiga or the SMB network protocol (amiga-news.de reported)....

MorphOS: Email client Iris 1.7 (update) (18. Jan. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.6 of his email client Iris for MorphOS. Changes: Settings UI improvements, missing help bubbles, etc External image viewer option for image attachments in mail reader Autoconfiguration disabled for ...

AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop Live 1.31 beta 20230118 (18. Jan. 2023)
Paolo Besser released a beta version of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop live which contains the recent ABIv0 backports by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, but also other additions, and asks users willing to support it to test it....

SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (18. Jan. 2023)
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsm...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.8 (18. Jan. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

Website launch: retro.directory (17. Jan. 2023)
Robert Smith, previously known for his DrawBridge or FloppyBridge project and various video releases, has put online "retro.directory", a first version of his website for searching and finding museums, magazines, clubs and groups, events, podcasts, Youtub...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.2.0 (17. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: while there are current implementations of version 1.9 for RTG Amigas and AGA Amigas with 68060 processor, the version for AGA Amigas with 68030 pro...