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Do it yourself: Amiga 3000 daughterboard (20. Feb. 2022)
At the title link, Ian Bremner has released the files for his recreation of the revision 9 daughterboard for the Amiga 3000....

Do it yourself: Using PC floppy disk drives on Amiga with EZ-FD (20. Feb. 2022)
Graham Thomson's EZ-FD is based on the same idea as Eyetech's EZ-DF0, which they used in their EZ-Tower cases for the Amiga 1200 to use standard PC floppy disk drives. At the title link he released the KiCAD files for the circuit board....

8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal (20. Feb. 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-c...

Video: The history of the Amiga 1000 (19. Feb. 2022)
In his eighth eposide on Commodore's history, the well-known Texan YouTuber The 8-Bit Guy has recorded a video explaining the Amiga 1000....

Text adventure: Updates for Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut) (18. Feb. 2022)
In mid-June 2021 we reported about the remake of the text adventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), which was released for numerous platforms. In the meantime, several updates have been released, which also affect the Amiga version: Release 8 mainly correc...

Fundraiser: Preserving Commodore documents (18. Feb. 2022)
Two days ago Dave McMurtrie of the Commodore International Historical Society and Brian Bagnall, known for his books about Commodore's company history, started a fundraising campaign to finance the retrieval of Commodore documents from a basement archive ...

RaSCSI: SCSI adapter for Raspberry Pi (17. Feb. 2022)
In 2015, we reported about SCSI2SD, a SCSI adapter that allows SD cards to be used as SCSI hard drives. The firmware is still being maintained and the adapter is also still available, but it costs just under 90 Euros converted. As Gotek-Retro reports, the...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6 (16. Feb. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards announced / Pre-order campaign (15. Feb. 2022)
Press release: After many months, we are so happy to announce we are very close to a production start for a new batch of Sam460 boards. Well, these will not be Sam460 but Sam460LE, i.e. Limited Edition. Due to the pandemic time and huge delays in deli...

Commercial RPG: Glamorous Zombie Flakes (OCS/AGA/RTG) (15. Feb. 2022)
The developers of 'Glamorous Zombie Flakes' describe it as an "oldschool, console-style RPG", where the player must guide a group of models to cure zombies of their bizarre affliction and chase UFOs. The title features more than 30 different zombie types,...

Video: How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked (14. Feb. 2022)
In the first episode of his two-part series on floppy disks, Robert Smith, best known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, explained how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-w...

Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.0 released (13. Feb. 2022)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, continue Hollywood's 20th anniversary celebrations with yet another major new release: Plananarama 2.0. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run o...

Aminet uploads until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to Aminet: SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.3M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_OS3fp... c...

OS4Depot uploads until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to OS4Depot: sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your... reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reactive C Library sminkiator.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4....

AROS Archives uploads until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to AROS Archives: whatiff1.01.lha dem/mag 24kb December 2021 whatiff1.02.lha dem/mag 162kb January 2022 vim-8.2.i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb The ubiquitous text e...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: RASM_1.6.lha Development/Cross Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2... SonosController_1....

Kultmags.com: All issues of Amiga DOS magazine archived (13. Feb. 2022)
At kultmags.com, german computer and video game magazines of the 80s, 90s and early 2000 years are digitized and preserved for posterity with permission of the respective copyright holders. Recently, the final eight issues missing to complete the Amiga&nb...

Board game featuring a computer opponent: Castle Danger (12. Feb. 2022)
'Castle Danger' (Video) ist a virtual, 2-player board game that was initially released as Freeware for Windows. The Amiga version can also be played against the computer, the AI is described as "kind of working" and planned to be improved in subsequent re...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.12 (AmigaOS 3/4) (12. Feb. 2022)
Version 4.12 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1m (14.12.2021) version, which brings...

Word processing: FinalWriter update status (11. Feb. 2022)
Just about a year ago, we last reported on the update for Finalwriter first announced by new rights owner Timothy "Terminills" Deters in 2015. Yesterday, the developer briefly outlined the current status on Amigans and MorphZone respectively: Accordi...