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Report: My Experiences with the Amiga A1222+ (16. Nov. 2024)
Francis G. Loch develops tools such as PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4 in the C programming language. 20 years after purchasing a MicroA1 and after a long break from OS4, Loch bought an A1222+. In his experience report, he describes his impressions of the...

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...

AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1 (29. Aug. 2024)
In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer soft...

AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460 (05. Apr. 2024)
The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 5 only supports "Southern Islands" cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2...

Trevor's Blog: On the Plus side (15. Mar. 2024)
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. Among other things, he explains why the delivery of the A1222 Plus motherboards, which began a week ago, has been delayed again: "The original batch of boards...

Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer (09. Mar. 2024)
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K appli...

Amiga Kit: Price of A600GS games console set/OctaMED update (29. Jan. 2024)
As AmigaKit writes to us, the price of the games console has now been set at 119 euros. OctaMED v8 from A-EON Technology is to be bundled with the A600GS. In-house developers have added AHI support to the original 1996 source code for OctaMED. This is the...

AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonRX V2.12 (11. Jan. 2023)
The graphics card driver "RadeonRX.chip" is written especially for selected Radeon RX graphics cards with the Polaris graphics chip. These include Radeon RX 550, 560, 570, 580. Version 2.11 included in Enhancer Software 2.2 has now been updated to version...

A-EON Technology: Enhancer Software Core Release 2 / Delay of A1222 (25. Dec. 2022)
According to Trevor Dickinson in his latest blog entry, the production of the A1222 Plus continues to delay due to the "ongoing worldwide lack of integrated circuits and other electronic supply chain issues". As he explained: "One small micro-controller w...

Blog: Review of RadeonHD V5 driver with a X1000 (16. Dec. 2022)
While 'Epsilon' had taken a look back at 40 years of English-language Amiga magazine history in his blog "Epsilon's World" two days ago, he now devotes himself to his AmigaOne X1000 and AmigaOS 4: Thus he acquired the latest Enhancer Software 2.2, the new...

Advent Calendar: Door 8 - Daniel Müßener (08. Dec. 2022)
For the 8th door of our Advent calendar, we were able to win Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener. Who would like to play "Battle Squadron" again? :) Originally developed by Cope-com in 1989, the game was re-released for AmigaOS 4 (and iOS, Android, Windows,...

AmigaOS 4.1: Introduction to Software Development Kit V54.16, part 2 (update) (29. Oct. 2022)
Tree weeks ago we had published the first part of the introduction to Hyperion Entertainment's recently updated Software Development Kit (SDK) V54.16 written by Josef Wegner. Now the second part: "AmigaOS 4.1 SDK 54.16 - How to install it? In the ...

AmigaOS 4.1: NovaBridge V54 available (27. Oct. 2022)
As announced at last weekend's AmiWest 2022 (see our summary of the event), Nova Bridge is now available separately via the AMIStore for about 50 Euros (plus taxes and fees). NovaBridge allows all 3D applications written under the old Warp3...

Amiwest: A-EON, Amigakit and ExecSG presentations (23. Oct. 2022)
Traditionally, representatives of the AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne camp are attending AmiWest to give presentations about the current state of affairs and announce the next releases being worked on. This year, Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Leaman from A-EON/Amigakit...

AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5 (update) (21. Sep. 2022)
At the end of October 2018, RadeonHD driver version 3.6 came out with the release of the "Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade", as a supplement to the Enhancer 1.x package, which later also became part of Enhancer Software 2.0. With version 2.1 of Enhancer...

AmigaOS 4.1: Enhancer Software 2.2 (09. Aug. 2022)
Six years after the release of the first version of the "Enhancer Software" (amiga-news.de reported) version 2.2 for AmigaOS 4.1 by A-EON Technology has been released today. Existing customers of version 2.x can get it for free via the updater tool. For...

AmigaOS 4: First beta version of Doom 3 port (09. Jul. 2022)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is in the process of porting Dhewm3 - based on the Doom 3 GPL source code, to AmigaOS 4.1 and has released a first beta version 1.5.2b1 (recent YouTube video). Requirements: EGL-Wrapper Gl4es Warp3D NOVA 'OpenGL ES 2' lib...

AmigaOS 4.1: DvPlayer V54.9 released (20. Apr. 2022)
In early November 2021, version 54.7 of the DvPlayer video and audio playback program distributed by A-EON Technology was released, supporting the new hardware video acceleration standard introduced with Enhancer Software V2. Now version 54.9 is available...

Trevor Dickinson on: A1222+/Enhancer V2.x/From Vultures to Vampires Vol 2 (13. Jan. 2022)
In response to our inquiry, Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) provided a brief summary of the current status of some projects: A1222plus motherboard Hardware works as expected, including network and audio DVD drive support still problematic at the moment ...

AmigaOS 4.1: DvPlayer V54.8 released (28. Dec. 2021)
In early November, version 54.7 of the DvPlayer video and audio playback program distributed by A-EON Technology was released, supporting the new hardware video acceleration standard introduced with Enhancer Software V2. Now version 54.8 is available via ...