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AmigaOS4: LBreakout2 Port Released (21. Oct. 2004)
Michael Speck's Breakout clone LBreakout2 was ported by Hans-Jörg Frieden with Hyperion's libSDL port and has now been released for AmigaOS4. The game offers selectable themes, support for add-ons including the original LBreakout level sets, and a buil...

Updated AmigaOS 4.0 Software Development Kit Available (Update) (20. Oct. 2004)
Leuven, Belgium - October 20th, 2004 Hot on the heels of the Pre-Release update, Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the availability of the updated Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.0. The SDK features include: The complet...

Guru Meditation accquires right of the Amiga version of Directory Opus Magellan (20. Oct. 2004)
Press release: Gothenburg, Sweden, October 20th, 2004 Guru Meditation and GPSoftware are proud to announce that they have reached agreement on the acquisition of the exclusive, worldwide rights to Directory Opus Magellan for the Amiga platform from GPSof...

Magazine: Obligement #47 out now (17. Oct. 2004)
Issue 47 of the French magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue: Latest Amiga news Report of the Alchimie 4 show Interview with David Cadenas (coder of the coming game "Destinéa Wars") Interview with Michael Boehmer (maker of...

AmigaOS4: Uploads at os4depot.net (16. Oct. 2004)
Here are the new uploads at os4depot.net since our last posting: proplayeros4.lha aud/pla 81kb AHI Protracker player duke3d.lha gam/fps 497kb Duke Nukem 3D duke3dsetup.lha gam/fps 78kb Duke Nukem 3D - Setup Utility duke3dsrc.lha gam/fp...

Software news (16. Oct. 2004)
Instant messaging: AmigAIM 0.9453 (Beta) A new beta version of the "AOL Instant Messaging" client AmigaAIM was released today. Changes since the last update: Messages transmitted from AIM clients using UniCode would not display or log on AmigAIM. ...

AmigaOS 4: Integration of JIT emulators finished (16. Oct. 2004)
As Almos Rajnai, author of the JIT emulator "Petunia", indicates on his homepage with a huge "dancing banana" was the integration of the JIT emulator into the AmigaOS 4 kernel finished today. ...

Glowicon collection: Workbench drawers with 256 colors (15. Oct. 2004)
Ken Lester has released a complete set of Workbench drawer icons with 256 colors (screenshots: 1, 2). They require AmigaOS 4 or the "Powericons" patch from Elena Novaretti. Direct Download: Ken's_Icons.lha (346 KB)...

AmigaOS 4: New uploads at os4depot.net (15. Oct. 2004)
New uploads which have been added to os4depot.net recently: faad_library.lha aud/mis 2Mb OS4 port of libfaad. (AAC Decoder) tunenet.lha aud/pla 86kb Basic Shoutcast and MP3 Player powericonsos4.lha uti/mis 713kb 32-bit PNG icons on you...

IBM publishes Object Rexx under Open Source licence (15. Oct. 2004)
Today the sources of "Object Rexx" which is the successor of the script language "Rexx" (on Amiga known as "ARexx") have been released under the Open Source licence CPL (Common Public License). The further development of Object Rexx is organized by...

AmigaOS4: LMarbles and Abe's Amazing Adventure ported/Shell command Eject (15. Oct. 2004)
With LMarbles and Abe's Amazing Adventure Richard Drummond has ported another two games for AmigaOS4. Additionally he offers a native Eject command for opening CD drives. LMarbles is a SDL based mental game which was inspired by the Amiga classic ...

Software News Summary (14. Oct. 2004)
Online CD Databank: FreeDB (Beta) "FreeDB" is a graphic overlay for the Internet-based CD databank freedb.org. Link: FreeDB Homepage Direct download: freedb.lha (551 KB) Report+ 6.12b Die Freeware Report+ version 6.12b has been released. Th...

Guide: Installation of Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 on the Pegasos I (14. Oct. 2004)
The Image_Installer team has published on their website under the title link a detailed guide on how to install the current version 4.0 of Yellow Dog Linux from the official Board Support Package for the Pegasos II (amiga-news.de reported) also onto the P...

Kultpower.de: New Game Review Scans from the Year 1990 (14. Oct. 2004)
21 new game reviews from the June 1990 Powerplay have been released, at Kultpower.de: Afterburner (Mega Drive) Antheads (Amiga) Assault City (Master System) Castle Master (Amiga) City Hunter (PC-Engine) Code-Name: Iceman (MS-DOS) Conquests...

Convention: Amiga East Show in May 2004 in New York (14. Oct. 2004)
Celebrating 20 years supporting Amiga, Mr. Hardware Computers in New York, USA, is going to host the "Amiga East" show on 28 and 29 May, 2005. The newest hardware and software will be shown, with a heavy emphasis on AmigaOS4. Guest speakers and Amiga vete...

WookieChat 1.3 Beta Released (14. Oct. 2004)
The IRC program WookieChat has now reached version 1.3, this one is also functional under the OS4 update. WookieChat is a 68k program that also runs under AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The new version is not as stable as its predecessor, but since the author i...

SF-Radio: Report about Amiga and C64 (14. Oct. 2004)
In the 23rd offering of the program "Gameboys" on the On-Demand-Internet-Radio station SF-Radio.net, there's a short report on the current developments of Amiga and C64. Among other things you'll hear about AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS....

G5 Amiga: Project 'Amiga5' website online (13. Oct. 2004)
'Amiga5' is a project which intends to bring a G5 Amiga motherboard to the Amiga community. Apparantly, they are planning to modify the design of the G5 Evaluation Platform from Momentum Computers....

Yellow Dog Linux: Official Board Support Package for Pegasos II (12. Oct. 2004)
Launched by Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor has embraced the ATX PowerPC Genesi Pegasos II motherboard as an OEM CPU evaluation board. At Freescale's request, Terra Soft completed in October of 2004 the official Board Support Package, offering a simple ...

Hardware hack: CD-ROM, HD and disk drive in an A1200 case (11. Oct. 2004)
Update (26.10.2012, cg): Integrated article into the news item during database migration) After seeing what Egon Kohlschütter had done to his Amiga 1200, Bob Wicksall decided that there was a way to make an internal CD-ROM blend better with the o...