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Historical document: Amiga presentation from 1984 (12. May. 2024)
In June 1984, the heads of "Amiga Computer, Inc." had met with representatives of Commodore to discuss the licensing or purchase of Amiga's currently developed technology. Commodore's financial director at the time, Don Greenbaum has now presented the hob...

Aminet uploads until 11.05.2024 (12. May. 2024)
The following files have been added until 11.05.2024 to Aminet: MCE.lha game/edit 4.2M 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor GIOminoAros.zip game/jump ...

OS4Depot uploads until 11.05.2024 (12. May. 2024)
The following files have been added until 11.05.2024 to OS4Depot: amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Mult...

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.3) (11. May. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this further early demo version, the player's power has been upgraded...

Reverse Engineering: Dungeon crawler Bloodfest (11. May. 2024)
In relation to games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game in order to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, Petri Häkkinen, author of the dungeon crawler Bloodfest, had lost...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.15 (AmigaOS 3/4) (10. May. 2024)
Version 5.15 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.3.0. Detailed changes: Switched to OpenSSL 3.3, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.3.0 (9.4.2024) version,...

AmigaOS 4: Partitioning and formating the A1222 Plus SSD drive (09. May. 2024)
Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci has purchased an A1222 Plus in addition to his existing AmigaOS 4 hardware (MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000). In a first article he reported on the various parts that are included in his complete system. Now he explains how to partition an...

Video: Compilations of game music (09. May. 2024)
The YouTube channel "RetroSpeedruns" has two videos for those who would like to indulge in the music of old Amiga gaming times: Another Amiga Music Compilation (1988-1994) offers, for example, Alien Breed, Apidya, The Chaos Engine or Jaguar XJ220, while A...

Developer log: Amiga Isometric #4 (09. May. 2024)
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de reported). After three further entries - Amiga Isometric #2, Amiga Isometric #3 and Amiga Isometric #3.5 - the ability to...

Preview video: Scorpion Engine port of "Street Fighter 1" (09. May. 2024)
Mohammed Malik is in the process of using the Scorpion Engine to port the well-known beat'm up "Street Fighter 1" for the Amiga in a new and better way compared to the existing version. The target platform is an Amiga 500 with 512 Kb RAM. The author start...

Interview: Announcement of a cost-reduced MiSTer FPGA board (08. May. 2024)
Taki Udon recently presented the prototype of a cost-reduced version of the FPGA Amiga clone "MiSTer" in a video. Wes Fenlon has now interviewed him at the title link, so that details of the new board are now also available in writing. After the price ...

USB-C power supply: 2nd batch of the PowerShark imminent - color choice possible (08. May. 2024)
The “PowerShark” is a USB-C-based power supply unit for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200, which sold out quickly. A second batch with very minor changes to the electronics is now about to go into production, for which a new housing c...

Multi-emulator: AmiArcadia V32.41 emulates 14 systems (07. May. 2024)
The Arcadia emulator, which has been continuously developed for several years, aims to bring unusual video game consoles from the 70s/80s to new systems.The emulator has now been released in version 32.41 for AmigaOS 3.2/3.9, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS under t...

Demo: THE CURE V1.6 for AGA-Amigas (07. May. 2024)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen'-Demoparty 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). He continues to maintain this demo and has now released v...

Video: Test of a new MOD player for Amigas with low memory (06. May. 2024)
Musician, DJ and developer Ian 'h0ffman' Ford has published a video on YouTube in which he tests his new MOD player for Amigas with little memory, which is currently under development: it is based on Arnaud Carré's "Light Speed Player" (amiga-news.de repo...

Event: µAlchimie VIII in Clérieux (France) (06. May. 2024)
The Triple A association is organising the eighth µAlchimie Clérieux (France) on the weekend of 1 to 3 November 2024. Focusing on Amiga, Atari and retrogramming in general, it will also be a long weekend to relax, play and discover each other's systems....

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.1.0 (06. May. 2024)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.1.0 among others offers share by URL: Added share by URL, ...

Blog: Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500 (06. May. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings describes in a recent blog entry how he modified a CITIZEN Z1DE-57A PC floppy drive so that it works in an Amiga 500....

Aminet uploads until 04.05.2024 (05. May. 2024)
The following files have been added until 04.05.2024 to Aminet: MicroExcel_1.1a.lha biz/spread 1.5M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor amigassh.lha comm/net 75K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 37K 68k Use bs...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168 (05. May. 2024)
The English and German issue 168 (May/June 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes, beside...