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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...

MorphOS: Screenbar plugin Uptime 1.5a (30. Mar. 2022)
The #amigazeux team has updated the Screenbar plugin 'Uptime' for displaying uptime - the time the computer system is running and functional - for MorphOS to version 1.5. Changes: Added a savety requester when trying to reset the uptime record. Uptime...

Sound module: First batch of ZZ9000AX is delivered (29. Mar. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday it was announced that the first batch is shipping now, which was originally planned for January already. Interested users who order no...

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...