17.Aug.2023
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga CD32
In the first part of a series of articles Richard 'shred' Körber shows how he restores an Amiga CD32. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Video: Installing PageSetter 2 under Workbench 3.2
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explores in his latest video whether it is possible to install the desktop publishing software "PageSetter 2" (information on version 1), released in 1989 for Workbench 1.3, under Workbench 3.2. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Platform game: Boxx 3 remake v0.2
After the release of Boxx 4 and the remake of Boxx, the developer 'Lemming880' has also started to remake the third part of the Boxx series, which he originally released in 2017, with the Scorpion Engine and improve the graphics (YouTube video of the editing of the third level). This version is declared as a beta version, the developer asks to report any bugs. (dr)
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16.Aug.2023
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Video: Setting up a Greaseweazle V4
In a video the YouTube channel 'MikeyGRetro' shows how to set up Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" with the help of the Greaseweazle Tools and the GUI FluxMyFluffyFloppy for reading Amiga disks. (dr)
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15.Aug.2023
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AROS: Forum closes, successor recommended
Already in the middle of July Ola '4pLaY' Jensen had announced that the forum "AROS-Exec" would be closed on September 19 for health and financial reasons. Since nothing has changed since then, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz recommends to use AROSWorld as successor.
Ola Jensen's withdrawal from the AROS Archives, on the other hand, has no further consequences, since Krzysztof Śmiechowicz has already supported him here since the end of 2021 and continues this commitment. (snx)
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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Ninth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the ninth public beta version of his TinyGL update which mainly includes a preview of the R600 driver even though there are still plenty of known issues with the R600 driver.
As the developer explained, "in this update only Evergreen and Northern Islands based Radeons are supported. Support for R600 and R700 based Radeons will be added at a later date." Since the R600 driver is a preview driver, it must be expected that many applications and games will either be misrendered or cause the system to crash. The author asks to report any problems.
The newly supported Radeon graphics cards are all of the Radeon HD-5000 series, all of the Radeon HD-6000 series and the following cards:
- Radeon HD 7350
- Radeon HD 7450
- Radeon HD 7470
- Radeon HD 7510
- Radeon HD 7570
- Radeon HD 7670
- Radeon HD 8350
- Radeon HD 8450
- Radeon HD 8470
- Radeon HD 8490
- Radeon R5 220
- Radeon R5 230
- Radeon R5 235
- Radeon R5 235X
(dr)
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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.16
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.16 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS which introduces a lot of improvements, optimizations and bug fixes, including faster message list updates and better handling of operations on big numbers of messages. This is also the first version coming with a Polish translation. Detailed changes:
- All operations that can potentially modify a lot of messages are now done in stages to avoid timing out while server copies/deletes/etc the messages
- Added progress to more message operations
- Avoids reloading message list when deleting emails
- Improved the Find Messages window's UI
- Return key in the message editor now creates paragraphs instead of line breaks (hold shift to insert a line break)
- Warns when trying to quit while there's still write operations running on server, etc
- Improved CSS sanitization when viewing emails authored using Outlook
- Implemented Auto-Update
- Worked around a problem that caused longer subject lines with non-ASCII characters would sometimes end up with extra spaces added inside words
- Fixed to refresh folder contents after deleting all messages in it
- Fixed a case where Find Messages could get stuck forever when doing an advanced search
- Fixed a case where message finder could continue working even after closing Find Messages window
- Fixed a case where upon selecting a folder, the active message wouldn't automatically load
- Updated WebKit and associated libraries
- Added Polish translation
(dr)
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14.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Sylpheed 3.7.0 for AmiCygnix released
Edgar Schwan wrote: Version 3.7.0 of the email client Sylpheed is available for AmiCygnix (snapshot). It is based on GTK+ GUI Toolkit. The design and
user interface is similar to many well-known email programs from the Windows
world, such as Outlook Express.
Why another mailer? Sylpheed has a very good support of the IMAP4 protocol,
which is currently only available with a few Amiga mailers. But Sylpheed
also has other interesting features.
New in this release:
- Update to the latest stable version of Sylpheed. The program was ported from scratch and some bugs were fixed that way.
- Working remote control of Sylpheed. Sylpheed can only be started once, when started again, the options are passed to the running program.
- Update to SQLite 3.9.3 in "bogofilter 1.2.5".
Supported protocols:
- POP3 / APOP
- IMAP4rev1
- SMTP / SMTP AUTH
- NNTP (News)
- SSL / TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP)
Features:
- multiple accounts
- thread display
- newsreader
- printing
- address book
- templates
- external editor (e.g. Vim, which has spell checking)
- powerful filtering (POP3, IMAP4, local spool)
- powerful search (query search, quick search, search folder)
- customization of toolbar
- mark / color label
- and much more
(dr)
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13.Aug.2023
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Aminet uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to Aminet:
aamp.lha comm/www 130M OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha comm/www 16M Sources of AAMP server package
lubricator.lha comm/www 70K 68k GUI HTTP search/download + di...
batari_Basic.lha dev/cross 321K MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
dasm_mos.lha dev/cross 1.1M 68k Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cross ass...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 11M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_ECS_030.lha game/misc 3.9M 68k Amiga ECS port of ScummVM 1.4...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 11M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AudioEvolution320_bin... mus/edit 1.2M 68k Multitrack audio application ...
AudioEvolution320_src... mus/edit 351K Multitrack audio application ...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 67K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 21K French catalog and docs for i...
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 100K 68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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13.Aug.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libharfbuzz.lha dev/lib 6Mb 4.1 HarfBuzz text shaping engine
libsdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
ciccioview.lha gra/vie 656kb 4.0 A simple viewer written in Holly...
mediathek.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
mediavault_script.lha net/mis 16kb 4.0 Choose player or download stream...
aamp.lha net/ser 130Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha net/ser 16Mb 4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
cocktailsshaker.lha uti/mis 439kb 4.0 Cocktails database
owlong.lha uti/she 12kb 4.0 Times the duration of a command.
tubexx.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 ARexx script to play Youtube videos
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx)
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13.Aug.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to AROS Archives:
arosone_themes_08-07-23.zip gra/the 310kb Aros One Colored Window Themes
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx)
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13.Aug.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Aften_0.0.8.lha Audio/Encoder A/52 (AC3) audio encode...
Horny_1.3.lha Audio/Sequencer A MIDI sequencer for Mo...
DASM_2.20.14.1.lha Development/Cross Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cro...
batari-Basic_1.7.lha Development/Cross BASIC-like language for...
RDBrecov_1.11.lha Devices/HD/Tools Search lost PFS/SFS par...
Sploiner_1.01.lha Files/Tools Split, Join & recover t...
Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha Games/Platform A Jump'n'Run game.
Easy2Install_1.0b28.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
PDF2JPG_1.0.lha Office/Convert Convert PDF to JPG
TopCPU_1.19.lha System/CPU A small CPU monitor (MU...
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13.Aug.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.08.2023
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 12.08.2023:
- 2023-08-10 improved: TFX (Digital Image Design) fix max screen objects, fix glitchy mouse cursor, NTSC support (Info)
- 2023-08-10 fixed: Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) some bugs fixed, customs options added (Info)
- 2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image)
(snx)
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13.Aug.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Sarcophaser
- Wings of death - Title (MadmaX StyLE)
- Bomb Jack
- Battle Squadron Game Over
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13.Aug.2023
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Amiga-Meeting Nord 2023 in Neumünster (Germany)
From November 3-5, Amiga-Meeting Nord will take place in Neumünster in northern Germany. Space is available for about 50-60 attendees to bring their own computers. There will be demonstrations and a "Party DVD" will be created. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)
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13.Aug.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: World of Retro Computing 2023 (Canada)
On September 16-17, World of Retro Computing 2023 will be held in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and admission is free. In addition to lectures, the focus will be on buying and selling, as well as repairs, including amiga-related products. (snx)
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12.Aug.2023
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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.08.12
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our last news item:
- Reducer: Overal motion sensitivity is set to automatic (considering the amount of changes between frames)
- Reducer: fine sensitivity is adjustable by user
- Reducer: High/Normal/Low Quality option (more blocks but smaller size)
- Reducer: Bug Fix (related to: every fourth line left some residue/arifact)
- Player : Screen was not double buffered after reselect a new file to play.(fixed)
- Player : Fast forward/Rew step is fixed to 100 frames, now eats less ram. Now 14 kb, previously was 720K because the program loged everey frame!
- Reducer: Filter against noise
- Player: Something to handle the error of Amos (when anim framesize above 40Kb)
- Player: Fast forward/Reward is fixed, loged, saved and auto loaded if the anim is already been played. So forward is faster to use, because if the log exist.... it is a direct jump.
(dr)
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12.Aug.2023
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AMOS: Eclips animation in "Projects in the attic" updated
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Included was the game "Eclips", in which you steer an owl through a landscape that is always the same. The group added the archive "EclipsAnim.rar" to this game, which offered a complete animation in the sense of changing landscapes. This was updated today and the member Sövény Imre explained us:
"By default, I can't put a blitter object on top of an iff animation, because AMOS automatically updates the surface underneath to a previous state when the blitter object is moved.
That's why so far I could only move sprites over it, because it didn't spoil it, but in that way I could move one "large" sprite over it.
In the new upload, however, there are several large blitter objects above it. It's slow, but worth a try." (dr)
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12.Aug.2023
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.188 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. The new version fixes the issue with the RDB (Rigid Disk Block) of an Amiga hraddrive.
Download: linux-image-5.10.188-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB) (dr)
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12.Aug.2023
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - fullscreen feature
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
Developer 'mithrendal' has added the fullscreen feature as well as a dimming lock which is supposed to prevent dimming or auto off on supported browsers. Besides, more ADF files are recognized now . (dr)
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10.Aug.2023
Janne Peräaho (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: Amiga Game Framework
After Janne Peräaho dedicated himself to porting Python games to AmigaOS 4 among other things in the past (amiga-news.de reported), he has now started a completely new project: the "Amiga Game Framework". "Amiga Game Framework" is intended for programming 2D games under AmigaOS 4 and offers a user-friendly and intuitive C-API for 2D graphics, playing sounds, reading user input and more.
Asked about the motivation and intention of his project, Janne explains that he intends to use it in future game ports, but also hopes it will inspire other programmers to write new 2D games for AmigaOS 4. The goal is to make the programming interface so simple that anyone with basic C programming skills can write a game with it.
And he continued explaining: "The programming interface (API) is object oriented. First you create a game object by calling GetFrameworkInterface() function and then you can call the returned object's methods, like OpenWindow(), Line(), etc.
The framework is a set of include files that you include in your code like this: #include <frameworks/game/game.h> "
Janne has not yet published the source code of the framework because the event handler is still missing. Without it, you can't write real games because you can't recognise keystrokes or mouse movements, nor can you close the game window by clicking the close button. Currently, he is working on elementary geometric shapes, so-called graphic primitives. The project status picture on "OS4 Coding" shows which parts of the framework are finished and which are still in progress:
All the planned drawing functions (graphic primitives) are ready, but some of them still need to be improved. Currently, he is still thinking about how music should be integrated: should one be able to control a CD-ROM drive to play music, should there be a software synthesiser that one controls, MIDI support, or should the music be streamed from an OGG/MP3 file. On his project page, he has published a few example pictures as well as archives. (dr)
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10.Aug.2023
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AmigaOS 4: mySQLcontrol 2.12
mySQLcontrol by Michael Christoph is a database administration and editing program for the mySQL database server under AmigaOS 4. Version 2.12 has been adapted to the development environment AAMP, which is required for this and has just been updated to version 2.0 by Edgar Schwan. (dr)
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10.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: AAMP 2.0 (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
Edgar Schwan wrote: This package offers a development environment on your Amiga, with which you
can create and test your own web projects. Similar to the well-known XAMPP
package for Linux and Windows, it contains the HTTP (web) server "Apache"
with compiled-in support for the scripting language "PHP" (version 8.0.28 and
5.2.10) and the database server "MySQL" version 5.5.10.
AAMP is not only interesting for developers. This means that web applications can also be run locally on the Amiga. These are e.g. the database administrator "phpMyAdmin" or the image manager "Coppermine" - just to name a few.
You can create your own tools with the included "php" interpreter. "PHP" is easy to learn and with its extensions a powerful language.
New in PHP 8 is the ability to use the "php" tool as a web server, so it is a simple alternative to Apache.
Last but not least, data can be managed with the "MySQL" database server, which can then also be accessed via the network. External programs (e.g. IODBC) can use this server as a database backend.
New in AAMP 2.0:
- New version 8.0.28 of PHP. Together with the new MySQL server, the latest web applications can be used again.
The old version 5.2.10 is still included to keep older projects running.
You can switch between the two versions at any time using a script.
- Updated MySQL database server from version 5.1.35 to version 5.5.10.
- Updates of the tools "myApacheStarter" and "mySQLcontrol" - now also with Italian and Spanish localization.
- The Subversion package including Apache's WebDAV modules is now included and enabled by default.
- Updates of the used libraries:
- curl 7.19.7 -> curl 7.61.1
- libgcrypt 1.2.4 -> libgcrypt 1.8.2
- libgpg-error 1.4 -> libgpg-error 1.27
- libiconv 1.9.2 -> libiconv 1.17
- libpng 1.2.13 -> libpng 1.2.49
- libxml2 2.6.19 -> libxml2 2.9.14
- libxslt 1.1.14 -> libxslt 1.1.34
- openssl 1.0.0d -> openssl 1.0.2o
- PDFlib-Lite 6.0.1 -> PDFlib-Lite 7.0.5p3 (only PHP 5)
- tiff v3.4 -> tiff 3.8.2
- neon 0.29.0 -> neon 0.31.1
- sqlite 3.4.2 -> sqlite 3.9.3
- subversion 1.6.17 -> subversion 1.6.23
- Newly added libraries and tools:
- cadaver 0.23.3 (WebDAV-Client)
- coreutils 5.2.1 (utilities for the Unix shell)
- gmp 6.2.0 (library for arbitrary precision arithmetic)
- gnutls 3.7.3 (modern implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol)
- libtasn1 4.9 (an ASN.1 encryption library)
- libwebp 0.5.2 (library to encode and decode images in WebP format)
- nettle 3.7 (a cryptographic library)
- openldap 2.4.49 (implements LDAP directory services)
- Now includes a customized version of the ABC shell called "ampsh". This
avoids collisions with other packages that use the ABC shell, such as the
AmigaOS4 SDK or AmiCygnix.
With a script in the AAMP main directory you can start it on the workbench
and access the AAMP tools directly.
- This package is a complete rebuild of AAMP. This and extensive trouble-
shooting eliminated many problems that were still in AAMP 1.0.
- The base library "libaos4util" has been completely revised.
Homepages:
Apache: https://httpd.apache.org/
MySQL: https://www.mysql.com/
PHP: https://www.php.net/
phpMyAdmin: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Coppermine: https://coppermine-gallery.net/
Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/
Snapshots:
(dr)
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10.Aug.2023
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Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7.1C
As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has released another update, fixing several bugs:
- Fixed multiple issues with the status panel not displaying the correct number of gold/keys/bombs.
- Enemies can now display the item they are carrying which will hopefully make it less likely to miss the key in the first room on the right!
- Fixed a bug where image draw offsets were getting reset to 0 when loading graphics from DAT files.
- Fixed a bug where the auto map would sometimes not draw correctly for the first room.
- Fixed a bug where pushable objects would sometimes draw the tile to the left when restoring background tiles.
- Fixed a bug where the spinning sword on the title screen would draw in the wrong colours after returning from the character select screen
(dr)
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10.Aug.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
After the restoration of an Amiga 3000 (amiga-news.de reported) Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings now dedicates himself to an Amiga 4000 and has already published four blog entries about it: 1, 2, 3, 4. (dr)
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