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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #21 (English/Polish) (17. Sep. 2022)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 21 (summer/autumn) are an article about Amiga in NASA service, the second part about the situation of Am...

Floppy disks, part two: Who got them? Tom Persky! (17. Sep. 2022)
Recently, the offspring discovered the almost criminally forgotten floppy disks as a game object, which not only our one, but also many readers were drawn into many fond memories. However, there is someone who never lost interest and passion for collectin...

8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-09-16 (17. Sep. 2022)
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compat...

Real-time strategy: Update of Vanilla Conquer (16. Sep. 2022)
Artur Jarosik had released version 1.0 of his port of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in May (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a separate version ("vanillatd_no_vamp.zip") for Amigas without Vampi...

Video: What is DMA? (16. Sep. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains Direct Memory Access (DMA) and among other things also the interleaved mode of the Amiga....

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI-Firmware 1.0.8 (16. Sep. 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). Today version 1.0.8 of the firmware was released. Changes: Enable...

Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 600 (15. Sep. 2022)
After the currently sold out versions for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 or ITX/Micro ITX PC-, 8bits4ever today officially introduced a conversion kit for the Amiga 600 as well. As with other MiSTres...

Video: Amiga Alive and Kicking also at Amazon Prime in the USA (15. Sep. 2022)
The crowd-funded documentary "Amiga Alive and Kicking", which has been available for download since the end of June (amiga-news.de reported), is now also available on Amazon Prime - but currently only in the USA....

Text adventure: Pre-order of Collector's Edition of "Silk Dust" (14. Sep. 2022)
In the middle of the last year, Davide Bucci had released the third part of his text adventures series called "Silk Dust" (amiga-news.de reported. "poly.play" now offers a collector's edition for 27 Euro plus shipping. It includes: 3.5" floppy disk ...

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.3 (14. Sep. 2022)
For more than a year Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka presented the audio editor 'Rave' developed by him in status updates on his blog, at the end of June he released the first version 1.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 1.3 includes the follow...

AmigaKit: Switchless floppy boot selector (13. Sep. 2022)
British dealer AmigaKit offers a switchless boot-selector for the Amiga 500 or 2000 floppy drives at the title link: Pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga for five seconds makes DF1 the boot drive, while the original DF0 is switched off. Pressing the key again revers...

AmigaOS 4.1: Spreadsheet ignition 1.21 (13. Sep. 2022)
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.21 of his spreadsheet ignition, which requires at least AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6. The new version corrects bugs in some functions, now allows file suffixes with more than three characters and offers a revised manual. T...

AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.34 (13. Sep. 2022)
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote: "ZitaFTP Server v1.34 has just been released, and can be downloaded. This version marks a major milestone: it's no longer a pre-release. No, this doesn't me...

Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris (12. Sep. 2022)
Yesterday, Sami Vehmaa - also AB_Template - has released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas with gfx board (YouTube video). The game was written in AmiBlitz 3 and requires AmigaOS3.x, AHI, RTG 960x540 16-bit for full screen mode and 35M...

Image processing: FPU version of RNOEffects 1.4 (11. Sep. 2022)
In the middle of August, developer 'jPV^RNO' had released version 1.4 of his image processing program "RNOEffects" (amiga-news.de reported). Now he additionally compiled and released a FPU version which according to him is much faster for certain function...

Aminet uploads until 10.09.2022 (11. Sep. 2022)
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to Aminet: ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 212K OS4 ignition addon for access ods... ign-AddOn-XLSX.lha biz/spread 301K OS4 ignition addon for access xls... ignition.lha b...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.09.2022 (11. Sep. 2022)
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: Protrekkr_2.6.3.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ... LHArchiver_1.5.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int... Doom3-ProjectUAC_...

MorphOS: TinyGL beta version 2022-09-08 (11. Sep. 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). In the meantime, the ...

AmigaOS 4.1: free AMOS interpreter AMOS Kittens 0.8 (10. Sep. 2022)
Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand is working on an interpreter which can run AMOS source code under AmigaOS 4. As the developer wrote "on the Amos command this project tries to stay 99% compatible, a few command won't work as this project use a bit more moder...

Frogger clone: Croaker (10. Sep. 2022)
A classic: In the game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river ((Wikipedia entry)). In the now released Amiga adaptation "Croaker" (YouTube video), the task remains the s...