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OS4Depot uploads until 10.02.2024 (11. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to OS4Depot: sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your... snes9x.zip emu/gam 128Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e... leu.lha ...

Event: AUGS meeting 2024 in Zurich (Switzerland) (11. Feb. 2024)
The Amiga User Group Switzerland is hosting this year's meeting on March 16 and 17, 2024 at the Centrum Čechů a Slováků in Zurich. Admission is free for visitors, but registration is mandatory for participation with hardware and subject ...

AmigaOS 4: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.87 (11. Feb. 2024)
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Now Achim Pankalla has released version 1.87. Changes: Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only la...

Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS (10. Feb. 2024)
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as...

Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS (10. Feb. 2024)
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developi...

Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit) (10. Feb. 2024)
The podcast The Retro Hour spoke to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit, about his latest project, the A600GS gaming computer, among other things....

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (10. Feb. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2) (09. Feb. 2024)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes: AmiUpdate 2.50 The http transfer routines did not consider a filenam...

Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.2 (09. Feb. 2024)
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). It contains minor bug fixes and improvements as well as a comprehensive hint system in the game that does not spoil anyt...

Blog: Modding the Amiga boot hand (09. Feb. 2024)
Alexander Grupe recently discovered the Amiga start screen redesigned by AndroidArts on X and wondered whether the standard screen designed by Sheryl Knowles could actually be changed or replaced. In a current article on his website heckmeck! he shows tha...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb runs on Apple Vision Pro (09. Feb. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. In a blog entry, the developer 'mithendal' has now published images that show that and how his emulator works with the Apple...

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.0.0 (08. Feb. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. After numerous beta versions, he has now released version 1.0.0....

Font: Topaz as TrueType font (08. Feb. 2024)
When the Amiga 500 was launched in 1987, it had a complete graphical user interface, the Workbench. Many of the resources required for Workbench were stored in ROM, including the default user interface font, a monospaced, 8x8px font called Topaz. It's hig...

3D Printing: Amiga case for Pi 400 (08. Feb. 2024)
NamicDesigns' has provided a 3D self-printing case based on the Amiga for the Pi 400 with "Amig400"....

Video: Upgrading a A2000 to 2MB Chip RAM and ECS (07. Feb. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he not only added 1MB of Chip RAM to his Amiga 2000, but also completed the upgrade to a full ECS system....

Video tutorial: Writing a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS (06. Feb. 2024)
John Bintz has been a software developer for over 20 years and runs the website The Industrious Rabbit. Originally to share his experiences as a developer with others, but more recently to explore some of the more unusual areas of technology and find ways...

Video tutorial: Screen commands in AMOS (06. Feb. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the commands available for using screens in AMOS programs. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of...

Aracde classic: "Donkey Kong" (06. Feb. 2024)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. The game is running on a Amiga 500 (YouTube video)....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.02.06 (06. Feb. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.02.06: RP2040: Fix watc...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) (05. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Ho...