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Analysis: PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world (Czech) (29. Mar. 2022)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex or the Pegasos I. Now she takes Amiga users on a discourse about the PPC architecture used in Amiga...

Apollo-Team: Maggie 3D Chip - preview video (28. Mar. 2022)
The Apollo team shows a preview of the Apollo Maggie 3D chip, which is already included in all V4 models, in a short YouTube video. This Maggie chip is also intended to make the Amiga 3D capable. This first early preview video demonstrates basic 3D modeli...

Aminet uploads until 26.03.2022 (27. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to Aminet: nfs3.lha comm/net 10K 68k Mount NFS3 shares using bsdso... less-mos.lha dev/gg 661K MOS Viewer program similar to "more" MuManual.lha d...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.03.2022 (27. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: EMagicBeaconModules_0.... Development/E MorphOS MagicBeacon mod... EReggaeModules_0.1.lha Development/E MorphOS Reggae modules ... EMUIModules_0.4.l...

Amiga Addict available from newsagents in England, Irland, USA, Australia soon (26. Mar. 2022)
Print magazine Amiga Addict is anouncing on Twitter that the English publication will soon be available from more than 300 newsagents in the United Kingdom as well as in selected stores in the USA, Irland, and Australia. The current 11th issue featur...

THEA500 Mini: 'Citadel' and user manual available (26. Mar. 2022)
Starting April 08, interested users can purchase the THEA500 Mini (in North America only on May 31). If you want to shorten the time until then, you can already study the user manual. Furthermore, the first game of the Bonus USB Games Pack has been rel...

A-EON confirms lack of an AmigaOS 4 license (25. Mar. 2022)
A few days ago, Alinea announced that the X5000 was back in stock. Their listing of a complete system includes a digital copy of AmigaOS 4, but according to a former Hyperion manager, A-EON no longer has a valid AmigaOS 4 license - which br...

Blog: 'Tables' and 'Strings' in programming language COBOL (25. Mar. 2022)
Carl Svensson, author of the ARexx tools RxEnv, deals in his latest blog entry with 'Tables' and 'Strings' in the COBOL programming language in response to a corresponding article on The Craft of Coding. A (no longer maintained) compiler is also availa...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.0 (25. Mar. 2022)
The latest version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz contains some major changes and a few optimizations: Adjustments to libs handling: To be able to reduce the amount of loaded blitzlibraries at startup, I divided the former to biglib-files...

Preview videos: Robocop (AGA), Metro Siege (24. Mar. 2022)
Daniel Allsopp is working on a port of Data East's classic Arcade game 'Robocop', he's trying create a better Amiga version than the official port from 1989. Allsopp has released a few preview videos (1, 2) of his AGA game which is developed in 68k assemb...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 132 (English/Italian) (24. Mar. 2022)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other. The current edition also features ...

Accelerator board project: Buffee now Closed Source (24. Mar. 2022)
According to the developers of the turbo card 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) in their latest blog entry, the project which started as open source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license will now be continued completely closed source. Up to a...

Compiler: vbcc V0.9h patch 2 (23. Mar. 2022)
After the release of version 0.9h of the C compiler vbcc and a first patch at the beginning of March (amiga-news.de reported), the second patch has now been released, which fixes three optimizer bugs, as well as an old bug in fopen() and a new one in strn...

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' with wireless DB9 receiver (23. Mar. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the campaign is still running for three days, 150% (about 120,000 Euro) of the funding...

MorphOS: Screenbar plugin MouseCoords 1.4 (23. Mar. 2022)
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'Mousecoords' for displaying the current mouse coordinates for MorphOS to version 1.4. Changes: Window titles of the window currently under the mouse pointer weren't shown anymore in the info window...

Blog: Considerations to the AmigaOne X1000 (23. Mar. 2022)
Vincent Perkins dedicates his website AmigaNG to the "next generation and new Amigas computers and operating systems." Over 10 years ago he bought his AmigaOne X1000, which he writes had a lot of promise to take the Amiga platform to the next level: Dual-...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.95 (22. Mar. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-03-13 (22. Mar. 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...

Linux: Kernel 5.17 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (22. Mar. 2022)
The final Linux kernel 5.17 has been released. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. Among other things, the XFS file system and...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.6.1 for Windows/Mac/Linux (21. Mar. 2022)
An update to version 11.6.1 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required. With the new version it is now also possible to use AmigaO...