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Emu68 tip: Reducing the speed of the Raspberry Pi (27. Sep. 2023)
Timo Weirich is in the process of setting up a computer museum. He is also working on his Amiga 500, which is upgraded with a PiStorm. Now he has published a tip on how to reduce the speed so that old games (e.g. XJ220) run better or correctly: For s...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 150 (Italian/English) (25. Sep. 2023)
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...

Video: Building a ReAmiga 1200, last episode (25. Sep. 2023)
We reported about the first and second and the third and fourth episode of the video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" which builds John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Now the final fifth part is available....

Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", Vol. 3 (24. Sep. 2023)
In 2021, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years", was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. Volume two, "Demoscene - The AGA Years", followed a year later and was dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996. Now the thi...

Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer (24. Sep. 2023)
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga: Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered o...

Video: The chronological history of AmigaOS (24. Sep. 2023)
The hobby YouTube channel "Proteque - Classic Beige Nostalgia" shows the chronological history of AmigaOS....

Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock (24. Sep. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like t...

Aminet uploads until 23.09.2023 (24. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to Aminet: 64tass.lha dev/cross 1.3M 68k Cross assembler targeting the... c2plib.lha dev/misc 201K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha... giplanner.lha d...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.09.2023 (24. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to OS4Depot: gifanimdt.lha dat/ani 164kb 4.1 Datatype for animated GIFs giflib-extras.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.1 Some extras to go with GifLib. libwebp.lha dev/lib 7Mb ...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate (22. Sep. 2023)
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Change...

ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (22. Sep. 2023)
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is ...

Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim (22. Sep. 2023)
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to...

AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta) (22. Sep. 2023)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006). The new beta ...

Blog Epsilon's World: Hardware upgrades and games (21. Sep. 2023)
In his latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows the installation of various games and hardware in the usual detail and with numerous pictures: among others, Alinea's Subway 2021 USB card including the power adapter or "AURA - Audible Real...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Fatal Mission (20. Sep. 2023)
As the website "Games That Weren't" reports, "Fatal Mission" was an ambitious project started by Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings in 1993: "a cinematic style adventure in the lines of Another World, but with bitmap graphics instead of vector style one". ...

Emulator: Denise V2.1 (20. Sep. 2023)
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64. Now version 2.1 has been released. Changes: General changes: add drag...

Video: Repairing an A590, part 5 (20. Sep. 2023)
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk....

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.11 (AmigaOS 3/4) (19. Sep. 2023)
Version 5.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.3 (19.9.2023) and thus provides various minor fixes, including removal of memory leaks. Furthermore the root certificates ha...

Platform games: Updates for all four parts of Boxx series (18. Sep. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' has released updates for the three parts of his Boxx remake series as well as for the fourth part. All four parts now use the same Scorpion engine version. The changes in the overview: Version 1.01 of Boxx 1 remake: Menu...

Event: Voting started & further information about Amiga38 (18. Sep. 2023)
Markus Tillmann informs in our german news-item about catering at Amiga38 and other details. Also voting on the Community Award has started....