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Blog: Review of RadeonHD V5 driver with a X1000 (16. Dec. 2022)
While 'Epsilon' had taken a look back at 40 years of English-language Amiga magazine history in his blog "Epsilon's World" two days ago, he now devotes himself to his AmigaOne X1000 and AmigaOS 4: Thus he acquired the latest Enhancer Software 2.2, the new...

MorphOS: Sixth beta version of TinyGL (16. Dec. 2022)
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has...

Advent Calendar: Door 16 - Günter Bartsch (16. Dec. 2022)
The 16th Advent calendar door is opened and we look forward to an anecdote Günter Bartsch. At the end of August 2021, the developer had not only published the source code of his Amiga QuickBasic (AQB) compiler on GitHub, but also a first early versio...

Emulator: QEMU 7.2.0 released (16. Dec. 2022)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.6 (AmigaOS 3/4) (15. Dec. 2022)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.6 and contains a fix for server applications and some other minor changes. The changes in detail: Fixed TLS 1.3 cipher lookup failure regression on OS4. The improvement from v5...

Video: 'DarkG' from Batman Group guest at AmigaBill (15. Dec. 2022)
In his "Replay" series on Twitch.tv, 'AmigaBill' had 'DarkG', a member of the Batman Group, as a guest three days ago and talked to him about the recently released demo Batman Rises....

Advent Calendar: Door 15 - Dennis Pauler (15. Dec. 2022)
We open the 15th advent calendar door and welcome Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler from Virtual Dimension. Virtual Dimension can look back on a long history and has incredibly changed and gained versatility over the years: In 1991 the group around Dennis Pau...

Advent Calendar: Door 14 - Erik Hogan (14. Dec. 2022)
Today's Advent calendar door belongs to the game developer Erik 'earok' Hogan. Of course, the game construction kit "Scorpion Engine", which we first reported on in April 2020 and which he developed and continues to develop, immediately comes to mind...

Linux: Kernel 6.1 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (14. Dec. 2022)
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.1, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered the kernel for download in the associated discussion topic of the Hyperion forum. There you can also find a screenshot sh...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 8 of "WhatIFF?" published (14. Dec. 2022)
"WhatIFF?" is an English Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is primarily intended for users who want to work creatively with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue...

Blog: Review of English Amiga print magazines (14. Dec. 2022)
In his latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World" Epsilon gives a review of English-language Amiga magazines of the last 40 years, as usually detailed and and with numerous pictures. He himself had decided to get one copy of each English-language Amiga ma...

Minimig: Revision 1.91 (14. Dec. 2022)
In mid-March we reported on revision 1.8 of Minimig: the reimplementation of an Amiga 500 in an FPGA, a field-programmable gate array. After six months of development, Minimig REV 9 is now available. Accelerator cards like the TerribleFire 534 and 53...

Debugging tool: PatchWork 1.1 (14. Dec. 2022)
In keeping with yesterday's Advent calendar door, Richard Körber has released version 1.1 of his debugging tool "PatchWork" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New TASKNAME option, which only reports hits caused by tasks with the given name. Note th...

Kickstarter campaign: Update on the Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor (13. Dec. 2022)
About three weeks ago, Stephen Jones launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund monitors for retro computers (amiga-news.de reported). Five days remain and so far 138.938 of the required 239.785 Euro have been funded. Jones has taken this interim status...

Mastodon-Client: Update on Amidon development status (13. Dec. 2022)
The author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, is in the process of developing a Mastodon client for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). In a blog entry published on his Ko-fi page he now reports about the current state. Among ot...

Advent Calendar: Door 13 - Richard Körber (13. Dec. 2022)
ust in time for lunch break, the 13th door of our Advent calendar opens. We may introduce: Richard 'Shred' Körber. This could be a record so far: Already on 04 May 1999 we reported (in German) about Richard Körber's newly established website "Palmiga...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 10 (13. Dec. 2022)
Press release: December 12, 2022 - Cloanto released today version 10 of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The new editions are the result of almost two years of developme...

Advent Calendar: Door 12 - 'Prince' (12. Dec. 2022)
The Amiga-News.de Advent Calendar starts with 'Prince' and the twelfth door into the new week. 'Prince' is the founder of the demo group 'Phaze101' and an incredibly busy Amiga developer: he might be best known to our readers for his assembler codin...

Demo tip: "Batman Rises" (12. Dec. 2022)
It does not often happen that amiga-news.de publishes a recommendation for a demo, but this production of the Batman Group is more than worth it: "Batman Rises" ranked first on the Posadas 2022 Autumn Edition which took place last weekend and only require...

Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.0.6 Alpha (11. Dec. 2022)
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. The early version 0.0.6 Alpha of the Amiga core mentioned in our last news item has now been released...