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Competition: Results of Logiker's Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022 (13. Jan. 2023)
For the second time after 2021, the Logiker website organised a Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge, in which a specific Christmas symbol is to be created using multiplication signs in a freely chosen programming language. In this year's edition, a Chri...

ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.10 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (12. Jan. 2023)
Chris Young has released version 1.10 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool e...

Dock: QDock V1.63 (12. Jan. 2023)
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). Since our last news item the developer has fixed several minor bugs and did some fine tuning. ...

Tutorial: Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000 (12. Jan. 2023)
Dutch AmigaOS 4 user Dave 'Skateman' Koelman has been connected to the Amiga since the 1990s, when he bought an Amiga 500 to replace the Commodore VIC20 and later C64. When the AmigaOne X1000 was introduced many years later, he considered taking another l...

AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonRX V2.12 (11. Jan. 2023)
The graphics card driver "RadeonRX.chip" is written especially for selected Radeon RX graphics cards with the Polaris graphics chip. These include Radeon RX 550, 560, 570, 580. Version 2.11 included in Enhancer Software 2.2 has now been updated to version...

Game Soundtrack: Albums "The Holocube" and "Time Travellers" released (10. Jan. 2023)
Génération Delphine is a project to honor the game soundtracks of the French software company Delphine Software International by releasing albums of the restored tracks (amiga-news.de reported). Originally a first album should be released in November 2021...

Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on ARM GCC (10. Jan. 2023)
In her blog, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the "Buffee" turbo card project (amiga-news.de reported), reports on the theoretical and practical basics of the project. In the latest blog entry, she explains with examples that the ARM GCC someti...

Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.1158 for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS (09. Jan. 2023)
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now...

AmigaGuide to HTML converter: GuideML 3.17 for AmigaOS 3/4 (09. Jan. 2023)
GuideML is an AmigaGuide to HTML converter which can convert most AmigaGuides and since v3.1 also has a GUI (amiga-news.de reported). The tool was originally written by Richard Körber and now is available in version 3.17. Changes: Add basic support f...

AmigaOS 4: Version 6.10 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio (09. Jan. 2023)
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. Now the develope...

AmigaOS 4: SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.3 (08. 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...

Aminet uploads until 07.01.2023 (08. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 07.01.2023 to Aminet: WiseSpy2.lha comm/cnet 12K Text Adventure for C-Net BBS amicygnix-base.lha comm/misc 148M OS4 an Unix/X11 environment for A... amicygnix-base-src.lha comm...

OS4Depot uploads until 07.01.2023 (08. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 07.01.2023 to OS4Depot: mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor zip_lib.lha lib/mis 184kb 4.1 Library for reading/writing zip ... amicygnix-base.lha net/mis...

Hollywood: XLSX plugin manual in German (08. Jan. 2023)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: Dominic Widmer and Helmut Haake have been busy again and translated the manual of the XLSX plugin for Hollywood into German. It is available for download at the title link. With the XLSX plugin for Hollywood you can easily lo...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.3 (08. Jan. 2023)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. Based on the latest version 2.3 of vAmiga, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application. Changes: fixe...

Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir V1.1.1 (08. Jan. 2023)
The English point'n click adventure game "NEONnoir" (video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private detective, the player has to track down a drug-addicted daughter from a good family (amiga-news.de report...

RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.93 (07. Jan. 2023)
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo v...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.3 (07. Jan. 2023)
At Christmas Dirk Hoffmann had published the first beta version of version 2.3 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS (amiga-news.de reportedberichtete). Today already the final version 2.3 has been released. Changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a bug that cau...

AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.7 (06. Jan. 2023)
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is a Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation, but all programs are compiled natively for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to that of a Unix installation. ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 160 - 25th anniversary (06. Jan. 2023)
The English and German issue 160 (January/February 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes...