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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3.lha Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula... Pac-Man_1.1.lha Games/Action Port of Pac-Man DonkeyKong_1.0.lha Ga...

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2024 (20. Oct. 2024)
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 19.10.2024: 2024-10-13 fixed: Humans 3: Evolut...

MorphOS: Future versions of Wayfarer without updated WebKit/GTK engine (20. Oct. 2024)
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has told at the title link, future versions of his web browser Wayfarer will stay with the current version 2.46 of the WebKit/GTK browser engine. Already porting this one would have taken several weeks. Since the WebKit devel...

Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress (20. Oct. 2024)
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or f...

Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5 for the 30th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
Next year, the legendary game Worms celebrates its 30th birthday. To mark the occasion, its programmer Andy Davidson is planning a free new edition for the Amiga. To this end, demo groups around the world are invited to contribute new levels with their ow...

Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany (20. Oct. 2024)
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office. However,...

Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary (20. Oct. 2024)
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available. Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: it...

Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey? (18. Oct. 2024)
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' &#346...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.55 (17. Oct. 2024)
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Version 2.55 has now been released with the following changes: Fixed an error in the main li...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: ADFDiskBox v2 (16. Oct. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layer of the floppy regardless of the format used and stores as much information as possible in a so-called "flux level image" in supercard format (SCP), making it possible to read and write back copy-protec...

AmigaOS 4: Tutorial for creating a USB boot stick for the AmigaOne X5000 (16. Oct. 2024)
'McFly' has published two tutorials (available in English and German) in the OS4Depot which should enable users of an AmigaOne X5000 to create a bootable USB stick either from a system backup (OS4Depot link) or with the help of the AmigaOS 4.1 installatio...

CLI command: sysvars V0.13 (15. Oct. 2024)
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...

Demis Hassabis: Nobel prize winner with an Amiga background (Update) (15. Oct. 2024)
Demis Hassabis was recently honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, the development of AlphaGo, which was the first program to beat a professional Go player, and ...

Video series: The Amiga 1000 as a Workstation (14. Oct. 2024)
In a nine-part journey through time, Thomas Cherryhomes attempts to categorise the Amiga 1000, which was officially launched in USA in 1985, in terms of its practical suitability as a workstation and to compare it with similar products. At that time th...

Print-/PDF magazine: ZZAP! Amiga, issue 18 (14. Oct. 2024)
After Patreon supporters, also the general public can now purchase the September/October issue of the “ZZAP! Amiga” magazine. It consists of 60 color pages in A5 size. A look at the table of contents can be found on Amiga Magazine RACK....

OS4Depot uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to OS4Depot: x5kbootmedium.zip doc/tut 16Mb 4.0 Create X5000 boot medium from a ... x5kbootstick.zip doc/tut 26Mb 4.0 Create a USB installation stick ... arabic_console_device......

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
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 12.10.2024: 2024-10-12 improved: Wiz'n'Liz (Ps...

DIY: Two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (13. Oct. 2024)
Rod Thomas' AmigaDualFloppyInterface allows the use of two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (tested only with version 6A of the motherboard). In practice, one of them is a Gotek drive. His project allows the use of two internal floppy ...

Interview with Ian Griffiths (Amiga Addict) (13. Oct. 2024)
For his website "Prankster101 Productions" Azfar Shah did an interview with Ian Griffiths at the title link, editor of the Amiga Addict magazine (Wikipedia)....