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AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru" (27. Feb. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT sometimes knows...

Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10 (26. Feb. 2024)
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not al...

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7 (26. Feb. 2024)
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology. Die Änderungen in der Version 1.7: The program now...

Web browser: AmiFox 0.6 (26. Feb. 2024)
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the pr...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary (26. Feb. 2024)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to Aminet: SonosController_AROS.lha comm/misc 2.6M x86 Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.6M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_OS3.lha c...

OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to OS4Depot: sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your... mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor amigemini.lha net/bro...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 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 24.02.2024: 2024-02-23 new: Spectral (The Blac...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 - preview and excerpts (24. Feb. 2024)
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 167 (March/April 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things, this issue features the following topics: Show report: Passione Amiga Day 2023 Interview: Michael Kafke (ASM Game) P...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.4 for all Amiga systems (24. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga program for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.4, for the first time also for AROS and...

TCP networking on Kickstart 1.3: AmigaNOS tutorial (23. Feb. 2024)
KA9Q aka "NOS" is an early TCP stack designed for Packet Radio or computers with serial connections. The existing Amiga port is compatible with Kickstart 1.3 and supports both SLIP as well as PPP. In his tutorial, 'neongod' describes - in authenti...

Book: "68000 - The Flame Wars" available, sales discount (23. Feb. 2024)
The German-French coproduction "68000: The Flame Wars" (initially: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars") covers the competition between Amiga and Atari ST in the second half of the 1980ies combining factual and opinion-based approaches. Starting last June, the book ...

Book: "AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch" available, English version announced (22. Feb. 2024)
The German book "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" ("AmigaOS 3.2 - The Reference Manual") has been published by Look Behind You. It has 512 pages and is available both as a hardcover book and as a PDF file. The official press release can be found in our...

Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune' (22. Feb. 2024)
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended t...

amiga-news.de: Server update on Friday evening (21. Feb. 2024)
This Friday evening, amiga-news.de's server will be upgraded to a newer version of Debian Linux resulting in a short period of downtime for the website. Since the update was tested several times in a test environment, we're confident update will be painle...

Article on the advertising games of the 90s (German) (20. Feb. 2024)
In a (German) GamersGlobal article at the title link, 'Nischenliebhaber' looks back at the advertising games of the 1990s. These include the games "BiFi 2 - Action in Hollywood", "Das Telekommando kehrt zurück", "Victor Loomes" and "Der rasende Repor...

Accelerator: PiStorm16 for the Amiga 600 in development (20. Feb. 2024)
At the title link Michal Schulz describes the PiStorm16 turbocard currently under development. In contrast to the classic PiStorm, an Efinix FPGA chip is used here as with the PiStorm32-lite. This means that no external devices are required for configurat...

Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0 (19. Feb. 2024)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.2.0. Changes: New features/updates MacroSystem DraCo emulation. Full emulation except V-Lab Motion video board which is totally undocumented. Amiga clone without Amiga custom chips. Pic...

Video: Building a PlipBox adapter (19. Feb. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to use it to get connected to the Internet....

Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 2 (19. Feb. 2024)
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire an A1060 Sidecar on eBay and reports in a three-part series on how he restored it. In the first part he disassembled it, in the second part now available under the title link all the broken parts ...