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Aminet uploads until 10.12.2022 (11. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 10.12.2022 to Aminet: ign-AddOn-XLSX.lha biz/spread 303K OS4 ignition addon for access xls... plm80.lha dev/cross 273K MOS C port of Intel's ISIS-II PLM80 HWP_XML.lha de...

OS4Depot uploads until 10.12.2022 (11. Dec. 2022)
The following files have been added until 10.12.2022 to OS4Depot: libpsem.lha dev/lib 176kb 4.0 POSIX semaphore implementation libwprintf.lha dev/lib 32kb 4.0 Wide char printf functions glsnoop.lha dev/uti 198kb...

Video: Beth Richard disassembles an Amiga CD 1200 (English) (11. Dec. 2022)
The CD 1200, which was only produced in a few copies as a prototype, was not only to equip an Amiga 1200 with an external CD-ROM drive, but also to ensure compatibility with Commodore's game console Amiga CD³². In the video at the title ...

Print magazine: Boing #5 (French) (11. Dec. 2022)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (among others Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems and contains 52 A4 pages in colour. The fifth issue contains among other things an interview with the musici...

Java program: ham_convert 1.8.7 (11. Dec. 2022)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.8.7. New features include bug fixes for resizing and an improved HAM8 output in non-CIE94 colour mode....

Advent Calendar: Door 11 - Alain Fontanin (11. Dec. 2022)
For the third Advent and the eleventh door, we asked Alain Fontanin for an anecdote. Alain and his text editor "Amiga Source Editor (2019)", of which he has recently released version 2.0, is on the one hand a wonderful example of how nostalgia and th...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 graphics driver development (11. Dec. 2022)
In his latest blog entry, developer Michal Schulz reports on the work he has started with the P96 VideoCore driver and in particular with the VPU (Vector Processing Unit). In a short Video he demonstrates the VideoCore driver for the P96 RTG subsyste...

Advent Calendar: Door 10 - Edgar Schwan (10. Dec. 2022)
We start the weekend with the tenth door and Edgar Schwan. Edgar has been developing his Unix environment for AmigaOS 4, called AmiCygnix (current version 1.6), tirelessly and with great dedication for many years: it is not an emulation, but all prog...

Dock: QDock V1.39 (10. Dec. 2022)
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). In the update that has now been released, he has implemented various improvements: for example...

Puzzle game: Update for "Wood Block Puzzle" (10. Dec. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). In the small update that has now been released, he has fixed a bug that occurred when eliminating a ...

Jump'n Run: Minky V1.41 (10. Dec. 2022)
Minky (video) is a Jump'n Run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). With the now released update to version 1.41, the selection "Joy Up" or "Joypad 2nd Fire" is available ...

ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.8 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (09. Dec. 2022)
Chris Young has released version 1.8 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 ex...

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...