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Video: The Amiga 500 as a guitar pedal (31. Mar. 2024)
The video at the title link demonstrates the ability of the Amiga to serve as a guitar pedal to alter the sound of an electric guitar in real-time....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2024.04.01 (31. Mar. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.04.01: Unified USB Mass ...

Motorola68k emulation: Status update on the WLAN driver for Emu68 (30. Mar. 2024)
After Michal Schulz had released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), he is working intensively on a WLAN driver and had made first considerations and tests in a Patreon post. In yest...

Print magazine: Issue 142 of Amiga Future readable online (29. Mar. 2024)
The German and English issue 142 (January/February 2020) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF...

Hyperion: Bankruptcy proceedings reopened against Ben Hermans B.V. (Update) (29. Mar. 2024)
Since a restructuring in 2019, the Belgian lawyer Ben Hermans has owned around 97% of all shares in Hyperion (Heretic 2, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.2), which he transferred to his company "Ben Hermans B.V." a few months later. Since then, this very company also...

Overview: Linux for Sam and A1222-Plus boards (28. Mar. 2024)
With our ongoing coverage of new Linux kernels for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 models (amiga-news.de reported), the availability of the A1222 Plus, as well as the Sam460LE boards, raises the question of how Linux support will look here. Sam boards ...

AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.39 (26. Mar. 2024)
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In the current version 0.39, nume...

Aminet uploads until 23.03.2024 (24. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to Aminet: amospro_darkula.lha dev/amos 19K Dark theme for AMOS Professional BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 32K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS... HWP_Pangomonium.lha d...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (23. Mar. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #169 - Amiga iBrowse 3.0a Review and Tutorial (22. Mar. 2024)
In the 169th edition of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton focuses on the iBrowse 3.0a web browser....

Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.3 released (22. Mar. 2024)
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.3. EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turboboards or the THEA500Mini using ROM files based on it....

Der Standard: Bobby Kotick, who wants to buy Tiktok, once interested in Amiga (22. Mar. 2024)
The Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports on Robert 'Bobby' Kotick at the title link. The former Activision boss had put himself forward as a possible buyer should the US business of TikTok be sold. In this context, the newspaper recalls that...

Emulator: WinFellow 0.5.11 (21. Mar. 2024)
Release candiate 1 of version 0.5.11 of the Amiga emulator WinFellow has been released. The default display driver has been changed from DirectDraw to Direct3D 11, where supported. In addition, keyboard-initiated reset in Amiga Forever has been implemente...

Article series: The history of software soundtrackers (parts 1-3) (21. Mar. 2024)
30 years ago, Xavier Borderie had fun making music on his Amiga with the help of Protracker. This was the reason for him to take a look behind the scenes in a series of articles and write about those who made soundtracking possible: Soundtracker ori...

Demoparty: Posadas Party 2024 (Posadas/ES, 28.6.-30.6.) (21. Mar. 2024)
In the very south of Europe, the demoscene has been celebrating occasionally for many years, since 1995, at the Posadas party in the town of the same name north-east of Seville. The Posadas has its origins in the Amiga demoscene, and this is also ref...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.3.0 for Amigas with 68060 processor (21. Mar. 2024)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.3.0 for the first time....

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 (21. Mar. 2024)
Developer Michal Schulz has released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 contains all the changes from 1.0 RC1, RC2 and RC3...

Shoot 'em up: R-Squadron (20. Mar. 2024)
Developer Monster's Legs has made a name for himself in the scene with games for the ZX Spectrum. Recently, he has released a previously unpublished shoot 'em up for the Amiga, which he designed as a 16-year-old in the 1990s: "R-Squadron" was created usin...

Snake conversion: "Letter-Worm" for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (19. Mar. 2024)
For fun, 'tickBit' has released a Snake implementation with letters for the Workbench for AmigaOS 3 and 4. The game requires the respective background graphics in a "gfx" folder. Downloads: Letter-worm-OS4-exe.lha (7 Kb) Background picture OS4 ...

Modern text engine for Hollywood: Pangomonium 1.0 supports Emojis (18. Mar. 2024)
Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new plugin for Hollywood: Pangomonium - the ultimate text engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin to require Hol...