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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...

Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 1200 (10. Feb. 2022)
After a currently sold out version for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 case, there is now with the MiSTress 1200 under the title link also a corresponding extension for the case of the Amiga 1200 (original or replica). ...

AROS distribution: The 100% Useless AROS Distribution 0.3 (10. Feb. 2022)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.3 of his "The 100% Useless AROS Distribution" at the title link. The reason for this is the version AROS ABIv11 for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors released by the developer 'deadwood' at the beginning of Janu...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5+ for Windows/Mac/Linux (09. Feb. 2022)
For the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators, an update to version 11.5 (followed by a live update to version 11.6) has been released. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required. Users who purcha...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.2 (OS3/4, MorphOS) (09. Feb. 2022)
Well-known for his workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp had released his first Amiga program at the beginning of August, which is used to control Sonos speakers: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). After a first update, he has released version 1....

Shooter: Playable demo version of 'Cyberpunk Alien City' (08. Feb. 2022)
Cyberpunk Alien City (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: The player has to defend a city against attacking aliens. Various weapon systems, horizontal scrolling (dual playfield with four bitplanes each) and 50 frames per second are offere...