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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.2 (06. Apr. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as w...

MorphOS: Free fonts package (also for AmigaOS) (05. Apr. 2022)
Monotype employee 'pikewerfer', with permission from his superiors, has put together a free font pack that can be "bought" for 0 Euros under the title link. The "MorphOS Value Pack" contains ten different types, including their variants (italic, bold...

Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s (05. Apr. 2022)
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers. In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key ...

Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple' (04. Apr. 2022)
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game wil...

MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0 (04. Apr. 2022)
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL require...

AmiGameJam 2022: The winners (04. Apr. 2022)
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen: 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez. 2nd place: Jean-François Fab...

Pre-order: New Amiga mechanical USB keyboard (03. Apr. 2022)
Simulant Systems Ltd is a computer hardware, software and online IT support service provider based in York, United Kingdom. Today it was announced that production of Amiga USB mechanical keyboards will be started. Amiga Corporation's first officially l...

Overview: The world of non-C operating systems (03. Apr. 2022)
As an online portal, The Register provides news and analysis from the world of technology companies. In a recent article, the authors explore the question of what current commercial operating systems exist that were written before C was invented or that d...

Chris Hülsbeck songs: Album "Piano Collection II" released (03. Apr. 2022)
Patrick Nevian is a hobby programmer responsible for games like Ambermoon Arcade or the 'Tales of Gorluth' series. He first combined his hobby and his profession as a music producer and pianist in 2008, when he interpreted songs from various Amiga games o...

Aminet uploads until 02.04.2022 (03. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to Aminet: Artstate-Loopback.zip demo/sound 24K 68k 32Kb executable music for GER... vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 366K POSIX compatibility library f... zlib_S1212.lha d...

OS4Depot uploads until 02.04.2022 (03. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to OS4Depot: vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 237kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 231kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmppc_std.lha ...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10 (02. Apr. 2022)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday the new firmware version 1.10 was released providing the fol...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.0 (02. Apr. 2022)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch....

MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin MouseEyes 1.4 (01. Apr. 2022)
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'MouseEyes', that displays eyes in the screen title looking at and following the mouse pointer, to version 1.4 for MorphOS. Changes: The pupils of the eyes are now only shown on the active screen. On...

Do it yourself: A500KB - a mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500 (31. Mar. 2022)
Henryk Richter's project A500KB is a mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500 which can be mounted with either the original keys of the Amiga 2000/3000/4000, the A1200.net replicas or keys from Mitsumi, Cherry and KailH, respectively. For Power, Driv...

Do it yourself: MicroSD interface for the Parallel Port (31. Mar. 2022)
Based on the design concept by Niklas Ekström, 'RetroNynjah' has published his "Retroninja Amiga Parallel SD" project at the title link. It allows to use microSD cards via the Amiga's Parallel Port. Since the latter does not include a power source, this h...

Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 Update 3 (31. Mar. 2022)
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb is based on vAmiga for Mac OS and runs in the web-browser and as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on mobile devices, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). Despite the rather small update suggested by its version number, it...

Chip-Ram expansion for Amiga 500, 2000, Commodore CDTV: RAMesses (31. Mar. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about his latest development 'RAMesses': this board upgrades an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV to 2MB chip RAM without soldering or cutting the motherboard. It is based on the board develo...

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.1 (31. Mar. 2022)
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak has now written 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle. This is cur...

Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress ITX (30. Mar. 2022)
Recently we reported about an expansion for mounting the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 1200 case, called MiSTress 1200. Now there is also a conversion kit, MiSTress ITX, for mounting the MiSTer FPGA into an ITX/Micro ITX PC case. The MiSTress...