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Advent Calendar: Door 9 - Jérôme Senay (09. Dec. 2022)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay is the patron of our ninth advent calendar door. He is the manager of and programmer for Boing Attitude and a few days ago could celebrate the tenth anniversary of the quiz game AskMeUp at the beginning of December, which was fi...

Blog: Review of the UltimatePPC Expansion Card (08. Dec. 2022)
The blog "Amiga alive" not only presents own, partly older projects, but also reports about other software and hardware products. In the latest blog entry, the developer once again traces the development and the missed opportunities of the UltimatePPC boa...

AmigaOS 4.1: Update of Excel addon for spreadsheet ignition (08. Dec. 2022)
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.21, Achim Pankalla had also provided the xlsx-AddOn for reading MS-Excel files for the first time (amiga-news.de reported). For this he has released a small update to version 0.11 today: now it handle...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 2 (08. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series (part 1) shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor vers...

Advent Calendar: Door 8 - Daniel Müßener (08. Dec. 2022)
For the 8th door of our Advent calendar, we were able to win Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener. Who would like to play "Battle Squadron" again? :) Originally developed by Cope-com in 1989, the game was re-released for AmigaOS 4 (and iOS, Android, Windows,...

RTG Solitare: Demo version of "Solitare match" (08. Dec. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa has released a demo version of his graphics card Solitare conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. Tho...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 17 (08. Dec. 2022)
The seventeenth issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available as a digital version for about 5.20 Euros. The printed version of the Christmas issue (from 15 December) including shipping costs about 11.50 euros. The current issue contains t...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.2 (07. Dec. 2022)
After developer Dirk Hoffmann released the first beta version 2.2 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS in mid-November (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released the final version 2.2. Changes: Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash wh...

Advent Calendar: Door 7 - Christian Zigotzky (07. Dec. 2022)
Door 7 of our advent calendar is filled by Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky. You could almost say: he is the fairy godmother for everything to do with Linux on PPC Amigas. However, his "amiga-news.de career" began with the port of SuperTuxKart to AmigaOS ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.9.0 for Windows (06. Dec. 2022)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 1 (06. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.8 (06. Dec. 2022)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version ...

Advent Calendar: Door 6 - Matthias Böcker (06. Dec. 2022)
For St. Nicholas Day and the sixth door, Matthias 'UltraGelb' Böcker has something special for all MorphOS users: especially for our Advent calendar, he has written a wintry Screenblanker module. Already in the early days of amiga-news.de Matthias w...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.5 (06. Dec. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1.3 of the firmware was released today. Changes since 1.1.3: ...

Floppy emulator: GoFloppy (06. Dec. 2022)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already reported about his new floppy emulator project "GoFloppy" on Twitter some time ago (Tweet 1, Tweet 2) and now also found the time to report about it in more detail on his blog: the "GoFloppy" drive is a floppy driv...

Sokoban clone: LazSokoban for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 (05. Dec. 2022)
During his work on the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for AROS, in April 2016, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow had also tested some third-party LCL applications to compile for AROS. One of these was the Sokoban clone LazSokoban, written by Ukrainian ...

Advent Calendar: Door 5 - David Brunet (05. Dec. 2022)
Our new Advent calendar week begins with the fifth door and David Brunet. David Brunet is inextricably linked to his French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. The long history of this magazine starts in the mid-1990s: inspired by Christian, a f...

Aiostreams V1.7.6: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos (05. Dec. 2022)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, Morp...

Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 2.0 (04. Dec. 2022)
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 2...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4 (04. Dec. 2022)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...