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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #119 - Upgrading an Amiga 500 to ECS (04. Mar. 2022)
In the 119th issue of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton is upgrading his Amiga 500 to a full ECS machine with 1 MB of CHIP RAM....

FPGA accelerator board: "Multiport Modul" for Icedrake (04. Mar. 2022)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a Multiport Modul for the FPGA-based A1200 turbo card Icedrake - successor of the well-known Vampire series - which relocates HDMI and network ports as well as the microSD slot to the rear expansion slot of the A1200 a...

Cologne exhibition videos: Computer 95, 96 and 97 (04. Mar. 2022)
An Amiga fan has digitized his private videos from the Cologne computer exhibitions ('Computer') 95, 96 and 97 and published the result on Youtube. The 35 minute clip contains uncommented impressions from all three shows....

AmigaOS 4: Bugfixed Hollywood plugin hURL 1.2 (03. Mar. 2022)
In mid-November last year hURL 1.2 was released, the multiprotocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood with SSL support. As Andreas Falkenhahn reports in the Hollywood forum, the version for AmigaOS 4 had some debug outout, so he asks to download the plugi...

AROS: Shell command for AxRuntime (03. Mar. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as we...

Apple patents 'Computer in an Input Device' (02. Mar. 2022)
Apple had already applied for a patent for a "computer in an input device" in mid-2020, which was now published a few days ago. The basic idea is reminiscent of the concepts of e.g. the Atari ST, C64 and Amiga. The patent application describes the ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 0.39 / Firmware 1.1 (02. Mar. 2022)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

New article on Obligement website (02. Mar. 2022)
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/February 2022 news. Old ar...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1 (01. Mar. 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...

Developer tools: vasm 1.9 and vlink 0.17 (01. Mar. 2022)
Frank Wille hat released updates for portable and retargetable assembler vasm and the corresponding portable linker vlink. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. A list of the changes can be found on the respective websites....

Compiler: vbcc 0.9h (01. Mar. 2022)
vbcc is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific code). It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (...

AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of February (01. Mar. 2022)
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of February....

Video: Amiga game classics under AmigaOS 4 (28. Feb. 2022)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin shows in his latest YouTube video how some old great Amiga classic games (released around the 2000s) work natively (without UAE, but with Petunia) under today's AmigaOS4 and on today's AmigaOS4 hardware. This test was done with his be...

Video: How easy is it to make your own joystick using a 3D printer? (28. Feb. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith attempts to 3D print and build his own retro-style joystick for his Amiga. He takes you through all the steps from design to build in his tutorial. Below the video is all the information needed so anyone can build their o...

Aminet uploads until 26.02.2022 (27. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.02.2022 to Aminet: wla_dx_v10.1.lha dev/cross 7.0M 68k WLA DX - 8-bit CPU Cross Macr... printer.hwp_1.0.lha dev/hwood 5K MOS Printer plugin for hollywood anaiis.lha drive...

AROS Archives uploads until 26.02.2022 (27. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.02.2022 to AROS Archives: vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb The ubiquitous text editor cbmconvert.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 235kb C64 archive converters d64.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 368k...

Music: Amiga-DJ-Video (27. Feb. 2022)
In this YouTube video, musician and DJ 'Fast Ram' presents the broader spectrum of old and new rave sound, which he mixes and plays using Amiga computers and software he developed himself. His equipment: 2x Amiga 600 running PT-1210 v1.1 (DJ-Decks) 1x...

Arcade port: 'Scramble 500' released (26. Feb. 2022)
A few days ago we already reported about Jean-François Fabre's new project: the port of the shoot'em-up classic Scramble (video). Now the developer has released his game (adf file) on itch.io. Since, as he explained to us, he was able to fix the last bugs...

Italian print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 5 (26. Feb. 2022)
The Italian print magazine 'Passione Amiga' is only available as an annual subscription: you have to pay 16 euros for four issues per year. The fifth issue offers the following topics, among others: Coverdisk: Extreme 2.0 Reviews: Tales of Gorluth I...

French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 3 (26. Feb. 2022)
'Boing' is a French print magazine published by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL). The third issue has 52 pages in A4 format and includes a report from AmiWest, a review of the use of the Amiga in video production and tests of 'The Shadow...