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7-bit: Firmware update for Wicher 1211 (03. Feb. 2022)
7-bit has released a firmware update for the Wicher 1211 memory expansion card for the Amiga 1200 today, which includes fixes for the RAM controller and adds an SPI controller to the ZorroII card chain....

Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000 (03. Feb. 2022)
In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000....

Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest (02. Feb. 2022)
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some...

Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 (02. Feb. 2022)
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide repla...

AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3 (02. Feb. 2022)
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9 (01. Feb. 2022)
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows: Enhancements: The hardware config panel has been split into a separate chi...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January (01. Feb. 2022)
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January....

AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories (01. Feb. 2022)
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. Changes sin...

ACube Systems: Appeal for reporting AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware (31. Jan. 2022)
ACube Systems asks in their Twitter message today to report AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware so that the AmigaOS 4.1 Hardware Compatibility List can be completed....

Aracade game: Green Beret released (update) (31. Jan. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine. Basically, the game is not meant to be a 1:1 port. The player is much more "agile", as he can stab from ladders, for exampl). It ...

Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks (31. Jan. 2022)
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he...

Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board (30. Jan. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in. In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development rega...

Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas (30. Jan. 2022)
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022....

Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022 (30. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet: facts.lha comm/tcp 249K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A... FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K Italian catalog for Facts v5.10 asm3210.lha de...

OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022 (30. Jan. 2022)
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot: dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc... reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4....

AmiTube 0.8: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (29. Jan. 2022)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video). Today version 0.8 has been released which provides an improved download speed and a lot of...

Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released (29. Jan. 2022)
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today. Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in...

RMC Retro Amiga Demo (28. Jan. 2022)
In addition to his various YouTube videos, Neil aka RMC has set up a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games called The Cave. It is located in Chalford in Gloucestershire and is about to open to the public. To mark the occasion, he...

BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2 (28. Jan. 2022)
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). About the new version 0.8...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.1 (26. Jan. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...