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Iconverter: Old icons with a new look / Basics about AmigaOS icons (28. Jul. 2021)
With 'Iconverter' (currently version 0.95) you can convert old icons as if they were created for today's more recent versions of AmigaOS. Iconverter converts AmigaOS 1.x and MagicWB icons into the format of NewIcons, using the color scale for which these ...

mouSTer: USB input devices for retro computers / Review (27. Jul. 2021)
In the middle of last year, the Polish store retrohax.net announced "mouSTer", an adapter that allows connecting any USB mice and joypads to classic computers. In the meantime, "mouSTer" is available from the provider for just under 26 euros (plus shippin...

Adventure: Furtum Sacrum (Spanish/English) (27. Jul. 2021)
Furtum Sacrum ("holy theft") is a point'n'click adventure by the Spanish group AmigaWave (amiga-news.de reported). Besides its original language, also English is supported. The game features characters of the film adaptation of the novel "The name of the ...

Video tutorial on how to install the Amiga emulator 'Amiberry' on a Pi400 (27. Jul. 2021)
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....

CS-Lab: New firmware 1.20 for Warp560/1260 available (27. Jul. 2021)
As reported by Greg Donner on his unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page, CS-Lab has released a new version 1.20 for the Warp 560 and Warp 1260 along with an updated Quick Start Guide, which includes the following changes: SD card support in AmigaOS (warp...

MIDI utilities: amiditools 1.0.0 (26. Jul. 2021)
Christian Vogelsang provides with the 'amiditools' some tools for musicians who control MIDI hardware with an Amiga. The package contains the following programs: udp - A network MIDI driver with custom protocol echo - A simple (test) driver that ec...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.9 Beta 25 (26. Jul. 2021)
The next release of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE will be version number 5.0 due to a new chipset emulation as well as the emulation of a Voodoo3 graphics card. Beta versions have been provided by the developer Toni Wilen for some time already unde...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2021.5.2 (25. Jul. 2021)
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 ...

Aminet uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to Aminet: HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.2M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support dsp3210.lha driv...

OS4Depot uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to OS4Depot: picasm.lha dev/cro 142kb 4.0 PIC16F84 Assembler for the Amiga crash.lha dev/uti 3kb 4.0 C source included amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Si...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage: HWP_RapaGUI_2.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... A cross-platform GUI to... Iris_0.125.lha Email New email client suppor... MCE_13.0.lha ...

Developer package: DevPack 1.1 (23. Jul. 2021)
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The first version was released at the end of October 2020. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does ...

A2000-Motherboard using the EATX standard: Revision 1.2 is production candidate (22. Jul. 2021)
After the developer 'jasonsbeer' has tested the prototpye of his rebuild of the A2000 motherboard called 'Amiga-2000-ATX', he has set revision 1.2 as production candidate. He wrote: "I am currently running a Supra Wordsync SCSI card, a Commodore A263...

Game announcement: 'Jump!' (22. Jul. 2021)
Polish developer Markus Duda is in the process of converting Yoomph, originally written for the Atari, for the Amiga. You have to move in a three-dimensional tunnel by means of a bouncing Amigaball and hit various (bonus) areas. This YouTube video shows t...

Retailer: Relec changing ownership (21. Jul. 2021)
Swiss Amiga retailer Relec has been founded in 1996 to fill a gap in the French speaking part of Switzerland as well as other countries of the same language. Now co-founder Emmanuel Rey is handing the company over to Benoît Wiblé. Connected to this is a c...

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons: Game conversion technical details (21. Jul. 2021)
In his blog Cracking Stones one of the developers of the game Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (amiga-news.de reported) gives detailed information about how it was technically implemented So far four blog entries have been published: Part 1: Used ...

Project announcement: Universal Commodore power supply (21. Jul. 2021)
The website 'RavenWolf' is generally dedicated to the research and restoration of all kinds of retro technology. In the latest project, a universal Commodore power supply is to be developed in the next few months. It is intended to be built by any hobbyis...

Hollywood-Plugin: RapaGUI 2.0 released (19. Jul. 2021)
Press release: After almost 4 years of development Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the long awaited release of RapaGUI 2.0. RapaGUI is the cross-platform GUI toolkit for Hollywood that allows you to crea...

Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009 (18. Jul. 2021)
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by...

Aminet uploads until 17.07.2021 (18. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 17.07.2021 to Aminet: 64tass.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 968K x86 Cross assembler targeting the... picasm_os4.lha dev/cross 142K OS4 PIC16F84 Assembler for the Amiga picasm-1-06.i386-aros... d...