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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.1 (19. 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....

German Amiga Podcast #4 (19. Apr. 2022)
The fourth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) deals with the FPGA turbo card IceDrake V4 for the Amiga 1200. Besides there are some surf tips again....

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 156 (19. Apr. 2022)
The English and German issue 156 (May/June 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes reviews...

Videos: Running Apple Macintosh 6 software on an Amiga using 'A-Max' (18. Apr. 2022)
Almost at the same time, two videos were released, dealing with the use of the 'Apple Macintosh 6' operating system on an Amiga: In the late 80s, early 90s ReadySoft released their combination of software and hardware, called 'A-Max' and 'A-Max II' respec...

Free hardware: Joystick adapter JoyDivision updated (18. Apr. 2022)
The USB adapter for classic joysticks by Stefan 'Develin' Blixth (amiga-news.de reported), which works without additional drivers, is now available in version 20220416. This one now also supports the minicomputer THEA500 Mini....

Aminet uploads until 16.04.2022 (17. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to Aminet: thttpd2.21b_working_p... comm/www 13M 68k THTTPd with PHP support + Big... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.3M 68k Game Creator with AGA support F1GP2022Carset.lha game...

AROS Archives uploads until 16.04.2022 (17. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to AROS Archives: whatiff1.04.lha doc/mis 674kb AmigaGuide format Magazine Mar/A... atomiks.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 772kb 1990) ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 16.04.2022 (17. Apr. 2022)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 16.04.2022: 2022-04-16 new: Megademo (Sargon) ...

Event: Amiga37 homepage online (17. Apr. 2022)
On 15/16 October 2022 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany (amiga-news.de reported). Now the corresponding homepage has been set up under the title link, but the list of participants is still empty and will be published bit by bit. Adva...

Open Source 3D printer: SLS4All (17. Apr. 2022)
Every now and then we report on do-it-yourself projects such as making your own joystick using a 3D printer. Not bad, you might say, but what's the point if I don't have a 3D printer? Especially not one that is even remotely affordable! While not amiga...

Hardware hack: A fifth audio channel for the Amiga (16. Apr. 2022)
In an older blog entry, which can only be found in the web archive, a Norwegian describes how he uses the FBAS signal of his Amiga to output a fifth audio channel in addition to the four existing (stereo) channels. He uses the fact that bright and dark pi...

Modern decompressor for Amiga data compression formats: Ancient 2.0 (16. Apr. 2022)
Ancient' unpacks files compressed with Amiga "crunchers" like Powerpacker or similar. The program, written in portable C, supports a variety of known compression formats - among others all that the regular XPK distribution can unpack, as well as disk imag...

Easter Egg in AmigaOS 3.2.1 discovered (15. Apr. 2022)
AmigaOS 3.2.1 contains an Easter Egg, that much had been hinted at by members of the team. A user has now discovered it: The disk image Update3.2.1.adf has a folder 'T', which contains a file called 'ed-backup'. This executable file is a small demo with b...

Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version (14. Apr. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schemat...

Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2 (13. Apr. 2022)
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a spe...

Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish) (13. Apr. 2022)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as w...

Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022 (12. Apr. 2022)
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("No...

Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp (12. Apr. 2022)
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Video: DrawBridge for MiSTer in development (11. Apr. 2022)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppy disks with a standard PC disk drive connected. After successfully implementing this project, the de...