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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 7 (02. Sep. 2022)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.3 (02. Sep. 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...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2022)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2022 news News: The big...

Demo scene: "Nano Gems" offers selection of the best intros (02. Sep. 2022)
The "Nano Gems" page, a subpage of the demo platform Demozoo, gives a curated selection of the best small intros from the demo scene. It aims to give a quick overview of what kind of small intros exist in different size categories and platforms. The intro...

Newspaper: Guardian article with Amiga 500 picture (01. Sep. 2022)
In the Guardian article "Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop" published today, a picture of an Amiga 500 opens the report about Japan&#8217s Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, who after abolishing the fax now wants to banis...

Emulator: QEMU 7.1.0 released (01. Sep. 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...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of month August (01. Sep. 2022)
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of August....

Self-made project: Parallel port to SPI adapter (01. Sep. 2022)
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible. There exists m...

Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.7.0 (31. Aug. 2022)
Just a week ago we first reported about Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension of 'MickGyver', which provides support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). In the article the developer indicated to us that a merge of both extensions was ...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.5 (31. Aug. 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). Yesterday vers...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.7 (31. Aug. 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). The firmware needed for this has been updated several times in the last ...

Video: Installation of an Amiga 500 in a Checkmate 1500 Plus (30. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Jan Beta introduces the "Checkmate 1500 Plus" case and shows how to install an Amiga 500 in it....

Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga available (29. Aug. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a new beta version (28.08.2022) was released. Changes: Full game time is 16 fiscal periods New start screen and main menu of...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

USB stick/keychains in Amiga-1200 and A500 look (29. Aug. 2022)
Tim Lenke offers USB sticks in retro design on lavago.de, which can also be used as keychains. Currently available is, among others, a "Mini Amiga 500", at the Amiga 37 (October 15 and 16, Mönchengladbach) an A1200 version will then celebrate its premiere...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 137 (Italian/English) (28. Aug. 2022)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. The latest issue amo...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.24.0 Release Candidate 1 (28. Aug. 2022)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki provides the first release candidate 1 for version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1, which should make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. ...

Aminet uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to Aminet: BeeBase-1.0.lha biz/dbase 7.8M Programmable relational datab... amigaXfer_win32.zip comm/misc 12M Easy GUI for Serial file/flop... AmiVms.lha m...

OS4Depot uploads until 27.08.2022 (28. Aug. 2022)
The following files have been added until 27.08.2022 to OS4Depot: libxslt.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 XSLT support for libxml2 arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... mednafen.lha emu/gam 8M...

Programming assistance: "AB_Template" offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 (28. Aug. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23). The idea behind it is not to teach Ami...