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DIY: 2,5-inch IDE-SSD (22. Jan. 2023)
As reported by hackster.io, Collin "dosdude1" Mistr has released the second in a series of open-source solid-state drive (SSD) upgrades for vintage computer hardware. A 1.8-inch ZIF design is now followed by a 2.5-inch IDE SSD compatible with any device t...

Aminet uploads until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 21.01.2023 to Aminet: Beautiful_Machine_Vol... demo/sound 813K 68k Musicdisk PcmciaCD.lha driver/med 10K 68k ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver Sony Vaio anaiis_lowlevel.lha driver/oth 25K 68k Ana...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 21.01.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Iris_1.7.lha Email New email client suppor... MirrorMagic_3.1.0.lha Games/Think Arcade style game in th... RocksNDiamonds_4....

WHDLoad: New installers until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
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 21.01.2023: 2023-01-21 improved: Pushover (Red...

Print magazine: 25 years Amiga Future - outlook and raffle (22. Jan. 2023)
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the print magazine Amiga Future, at the title link its editor-in-chief Andreas Magerl looks back briefly and comments on current plans. In addition, two subscriptions for one year are raffled. In case this mak...

Text adventure: The Dragnet Case (22. Jan. 2023)
"The Dragnet Case" is a text adventure published by Taskmaster Software, originally written back in the 1980s and now available for various retro systems (C64, Amstrad, Amiga etc.). You take on the role of Sam Boon, a private detective from L.A. who ...

AmigaRemix: Website launch of version 2.0 (21. Jan. 2023)
AmigaRemix provides new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games and demos as MP3 files for download. Now version 2.0 of the website has been introduced, which should improve the submission of tracks in particular. In the near future there should al...

Amiga Ireland 2023: Winners of Creative Competition (21. Jan. 2023)
Last weekend the Amiga Ireland took place in Athlone (amiga-news.de reported). Now the winners of the "Creative Competition 2023" have been published. In the category "Pixel Art" the winners can be seen directly under the title link, for the music entries...

PiStorm32-lite: JLCPCB soldering issues (20. Jan. 2023)
Since about three weeks the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). After that, many interested people ordered the necessary parts from JLCPCB. Some problems occurred during assembly, which An...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #144 - The fully networked Amiga 4000 (20. Jan. 2023)
Issue 144 of Douglas Compton's videocast 10MARC is about networking his Amiga 4000. Among others he demonstrated how to use the Twitter client twittAmiga or the SMB network protocol (amiga-news.de reported)....

AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop Live 1.31 beta 20230118 (18. Jan. 2023)
Paolo Besser released a beta version of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop live which contains the recent ABIv0 backports by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, but also other additions, and asks users willing to support it to test it....

SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (18. Jan. 2023)
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsm...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.8 (18. Jan. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.2.0 (17. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: while there are current implementations of version 1.9 for RTG Amigas and AGA Amigas with 68060 processor, the version for AGA Amigas with 68030 pro...

Event: Interface XXXIII in Kiel (Germany) on 28.01.2023 (16. Jan. 2023)
Sven Scheele writes: "On Saturday, January 28, 2023, the retro computer event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. As usual, organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and th...

Event: Retro meeting at indoor swimming pool Wolfsburg (Germany) on 04.03.2023 (16. Jan. 2023)
Not an Amiga event, but theoretically the favorite computer of our younger days could also be represented: The city of Wolfsburg, Germany, wants to further expand the topic of gaming and is therefore organizing a gaming event in a disused indoor swimming ...

Book: Message to subscribers of German version of "Commodore - The Inside Story" (16. Jan. 2023)
David Pleasance, author of the book "Commodore - The Inside Story" addresses via Twitter the subscribers of the German edition of his work, especially those of the printed edition. Due to e-mail losses, he asks for the current delivery address for send...

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.5 (16. Jan. 2023)
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.5 of the audio editor "Rave" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New function in the Process menu: "Reverse". New function in the Edit menu: "Paste at". New function in the Edit menu: "Insert Silence"...

Quiz for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: "2022 FIFA World Cup" add-on for AskMeUp XXL (15. Jan. 2023)
Press release: The "2022 FIFA World Cup" add-on, which includes 96 new questions about the lastest World Cup of soccer, is now freely downloadable from our website. Intended for Ask Me Up XXL buyers, the game offers you more than 2300 questions of general...

AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.24 (15. Jan. 2023)
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 54.16 are required. Now Juha...