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Hardware test: Building a serial/parallel loopback adapter (15. Mar. 2022)
Adam Wilson is an electrical engineer who reworks old electronics in his spare time. In his blog he reports about his work with old computers, about the expansion of his collection and the repairs or restorations he has carried out. In the latest blog ...

RastPort: Mechanical keyboard replacement for Amiga 1200 (14. Mar. 2022)
Grzegorz Kraszewski's RastPort designs and manufactures accesories and expansions for Amiga computers. His current project KA 59 is a mechanical keyboard replacement for the Amiga 1200. It is a complete replacement, no parts of the original keyboard are n...

Selfmade project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 3) (13. Mar. 2022)
'Drygol' is not only a member of the demoscene group Lamers, but 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 h...

OS4Depot uploads until 12.03.2022 (13. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to OS4Depot: profyler.lha dev/deb 1Mb 4.1 Software performance profiler arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/g...

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.03.2022 (13. Mar. 2022)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 12.03.2022: 2022-03-12 improved: Cabal (Ocean)...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.7 (12. Mar. 2022)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.95 (12. Mar. 2022)
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 1...

History: Commodore's hardware plans (11. Mar. 2022)
The Commodore International Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history of Commodore International. Recently, they published photos provided by Robert Miranda on their Twitter channel, which once again show the planned further development of...

YouTube playlist: 300 Amiga demos (10. Mar. 2022)
'rtiainen' has published a playlist on his YouTube channel that contains Amiga demo scene productions especially from groups that were not so famous or well known in the community. Most of these demos were released between 1988 and 1992, but there are als...

Developer Kit: AmigaOS 3.2 NDK R4 released (09. Mar. 2022)
Press release: Brussels, March 8 2022. Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another update to the Native Developer Kit (NDK) for AmigaOS 3.2. This R4 update of the AmigOS 3.2 NDK is a testament to our continued ...

Operating system: MorphOS 3.16 and MorphOS SDK 3.16 (March 2022) (09. Mar. 2022)
The MorphOS team today released new versions of their operating system and its development kit. Latter includes for example GCC 11 as well as link libraries for usage of the new openssl3.library, while support for GCC 4 and GCC 7 has been d...

Music album: 'ReFourmation' by Matt Gray (09. Mar. 2022)
6581 Records is the home of Matt Gray's 'Reformation' album project, which releases remakes of classic C64 and Amiga game soundtracks in full production. The original 'Reformation' and 'Reformation Last Ninja 2' projects were realized in 2014 via the crow...

Minesweeper clone: MegaSaperPL 1.28 (08. Mar. 2022)
Rafal Zabdyr has released version 1.28 of his Minesweeper clone 'MegaSaperPL' on Aminet as well as on itch.io. The game requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, AGA/CGX/P96 (320x240 in 8 bit) and the reqtools.library (V38+). Both mouse buttons can...

Event: Retrocomputer-Treff Niedersachsen (Germany) (06. Mar. 2022)
The next Retro-Computer-Treff Niedersachsen (RCT#26) will take place on Saturday, 02.04.2022, from 10 to 7 o'clock at Haus Kassel (next to the Wandelhalle), Hauptstraße 4, in 31542 Bad Nenndorf. The Retro-Treff is a workshop for all friends of o...

Demo party: Revision 2022 (06. Mar. 2022)
Revision " is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event", according to the organizers. This year's edition will take place from April 15 to 18, 2022. A dedicated website has now been launched online. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the event will be str...

Apollo-Team: Icedrake accelerator board for A1200 available (05. Mar. 2022)
As Gunnar von Boehn announced in the Apollo forum earlier this week, the Icedrake turbo card for A1200 can be ordered now for 570 Euros (incl. VAT). The specifications: Apollo 68080 CPU Performance is application dependent up to ~ 1000MHz 68030 /...

Book pre-order: The Little Book of Sound Chips - Volume 2 (05. Mar. 2022)
Fusionretrobooks is currently accepting pre-orders for a printed edition of The Little Book of Sound Chips - Volume 2: The book costs about 18 Euros and will only be printed if about 7250 Euros in pre-orders have been collected. Currently about 4750 Euros...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 131 (English/Italian) (04. Mar. 2022)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other. In the latest edition, the magazin...

FPGA accelerator board: "Multiport Modul" for Icedrake (04. Mar. 2022)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a Multiport Modul for the FPGA-based A1200 turbo card Icedrake - successor of the well-known Vampire series - which relocates HDMI and network ports as well as the microSD slot to the rear expansion slot of the A1200 a...

Cologne exhibition videos: Computer 95, 96 and 97 (04. Mar. 2022)
An Amiga fan has digitized his private videos from the Cologne computer exhibitions ('Computer') 95, 96 and 97 and published the result on Youtube. The 35 minute clip contains uncommented impressions from all three shows....