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Open source design: EPROM adapter for A500 motherboards of revision 5 (25. Aug. 2020)
The Amiga 500 ROM Adapter allows the usage of EPROMs in an Amiga 500 of motherboard revision 5. Compared to previous versions of the mainbord, this generation has a bug which normally prevent using regular EPROMs. Additionally, some resistors are mis...

Demo scene: Interview with Bifat / The Electronic Knights (24. Aug. 2020)
On amigalife.org interviews with memebers of the demo scene are published. Currently an interview with 'Bifat', member of the group 'The Electronic Knights', is online. ...

UAE-based Amiga virus scanner for Unix systems (24. Aug. 2020)
amiga-uae-virus-scan is a batch script for Unix systems which checks single files or complete directories for Amiga virus using FS-UAE. ADF images are supported as well. Some Amiga programs and libraries are required from the Aminet which the script could...

Diagnosis software: Amiga Test Kit 1.12 (24. Aug. 2020)
Keir Fraser's "Amiga Test Kit" is a software-based solution for checking diverse components of an Amiga. The download archive includes a bootable disk image as well as an executable file which can be started from the harddrive. ...

Aminet uploads until 22.08.2020 (23. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 22.08.2020: redpillgamecreator.lha dev/misc 1.9M 68k Game Creator with AGA support UAEGfxForOS4.lha driver/vid 5K OS4 UAEGfx/UltraHD for UAE/OS4 MCE.lha game/ed...

Lemon Amiga Forum: Several user accounts hacked (22. Aug. 2020)
In the English-language forum of "Lemon Amiga" obviously several user accounts have been hacked for advertising for certain versions of DOOM. The team of Lemon Amiga wrote:" Its going to take us a month to remove all of this crap manually, and also longer...

Legal dispute: Intellivision and Cloanto seeking for settlement (22. Aug. 2020)
After Cloanto has taken legal action to protect the brand Amiga with regard to the console "Amico" developed by Intellivision (amiga-news.de reported) "this proceeding be suspended for 90 days to allow the parties to continue their settlement efforts" (PD...

Adapter: SmallyMouse2 and "USB mouse module" support USB mice (22. Aug. 2020)
Simon Inns' SmallyMouse2 uses a microcontroller to convert signals of common USB mice into a format which computers from the 1980s and early 1990s can "process". Additional to the Amiga also the Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes and BBC Micro are supported. All...

Overview: List of CNet mailboxes (21. Aug. 2020)
On amiga.org an user has published a list of C64 and Amiga mailboxes, which use the BBS software CNet. Most of the computers can only be accessed via Telnet but also three (US-American) boxes with a real telephone connection are listed. ...

AmigaOS 4: Reworked version of Gnumeric 1.10.17 (21. Aug. 2020)
Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the spreadsheet Gnumeric (screenshot) for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Changes: The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Content and other things can now...

Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #16 (English/Polish) (21. Aug. 2020)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to the retro gamers and mainly reports about Commodore's 8-Bit computers and Amigas. The current issue among others has articles about Inviyya, Tiny Galaga and Raid over Moscow as well as the fourth part of the WinUA...

Raspberry Pi and Amiga: A314 Adapter for Amiga 2000 (20. Aug. 2020)
"A314" is an adapter board which connects a Raspberry Pi to a A500 or A600. In this way it is possible to exchange data with the Linux running on the Pi or to play audio or video files under Linux. You can also use the network connectivity of the Pi out o...

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.34 (19. Aug. 2020)
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appr...

AmigaWorld.de: RTC Module V2 for Amiga 1200 (19. Aug. 2020)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has published a new hardware extension self-assembly on AmigaWorld.de. Compared with variant "V1" which is still availalbe, now the "V2" of the clock module for the Amiga 1200 is not placed rotated any longer on the clock port...

Full version for download: Super Ski 1+2 (17. Aug. 2020)
The full versions of the sports games SuperSki and Super Ski II can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future. ADF and IPF disk images as well as a WHDLoad version are available. ...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.3 (16. Aug. 2020)
A free update for the Workbench distribution AmiKit, meant for emulators or Vampire hardware, has been released for users of the Version XE (11.x). The changes include several Software updates as well as a reworked startup-sequence, which according to the...

Board for using a Meanwell RT50-B in power supply housing of the Amiga 600 (16. Aug. 2020)
Under the title link Dave Poo has published a board created with KiCAD, which makes it possible to put a power supply housing of the Meanwell-RT50-B into an Amiga 600. Using the board for the power supply housing of the Amiga 1200 is considered ...

Self-made project: Memory expansion Minimal A501 (16. Aug. 2020)
The self-made project "Minimal A501" is another memory expansion. The gerber files can be found on GitHub. With Jonni Rainisto's memory expansion you can add 512 KB RAM to the Amiga 500(+) in a cost-effective way. ...

AmigaOS 4: Claws-Mail 3.9.2 Release 2 for AmiCygnix (16. Aug. 2020)
For his Unix environment AmiCygnix for AmigaOS 4, Edgar Schwan has released an update of the GTK+-based e-Mail program "Claws-Mail" (screenshot). Changes: The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among ot...

Aminet uploads until 15.08.2020 (16. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 15.08.2020: NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 493K MOS Remote filesys and AREXX betw... NoMoreDiv0_Debug.lha dev/debug 5K 68k Division by Zero Debugger Python_One_Liner.zip dev/s...