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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 ...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6 (19. Feb. 2024)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.54 (18. Feb. 2024)
After AmiUpdate was recently updated several times (amiga-news.de reported), another update has been released today with version 2.54. Changes: Changed the main list to include a "Last Changed" column. This now allows you to sort updates accordin...

Aminet uploads until 17.02.2024 (18. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to Aminet: ellipse.lha dev/amos 15K ellipse targetted 5 points ellipse_exact.lha dev/amos 9K Precise solution of ellipse escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 9...

WHDLoad: New installers until 17.02.2024 (18. 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 17.02.2024: 2024-02-16 improved: Wonderboy (Ac...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (18. Feb. 2024)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Poormouth Shadow Fighter BGM09 ...

Event: Report and video from AmigaWinterTreffen in Großensee (Germany) (18. Feb. 2024)
From February 9-11 2024 this year's "AmigaWinterTreffen" event took place in Großensee, Germany. A show report by Simon Adolf can be found in our German news-item, also there is a video on YouTube....

Web browser: AmiFox 0.5 with Itch.io downloads (18. Feb. 2024)
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). New features of version 0.5 include the ability to download files directly from Itch.io and the displa...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7 (17. Feb. 2024)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....