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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...

Alinea Computer will take over distribution of the next two Hyperion games (18. Mar. 2024)
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we, as Alinea Computer, will take over the distribution of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope to continue it to realize further projects. Our...

Linux: Kernel 6.8 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (18. Mar. 2024)
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.8, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests. Download: linux-image-6.8-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB)...

Tower defense: "Dice Masters" 1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4 (18. Mar. 2024)
In Sami Vehmaa's tower defence game "Dice Masters", the player has to fend off aliens on a spaceship (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video of version 1.00). Now all ten levels as well as an arcade mode are available. A demo version with one level offers ...

Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher (17. Mar. 2024)
Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is...

Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024 (17. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet: amosreg.lha dev/amos 6K 68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno evo.lha dev/e 673K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution c2plib.lha dev/misc ...

PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works (17. Mar. 2024)
At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals....

Amiga-Scoopex-C: Conversion of the Assembler tutorial into C (17. Mar. 2024)
The GitHub project Amiga-Scoopex-C is a conversion of the examples of the Amiga assembler course "Amiga Hardware Programming", which can be found on YouTube, into the C programming language. Now all 11 previously created instructions have been adapted ...

Video: Review of the PowerShark (17. Mar. 2024)
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported)....