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Interview: Manuel Fernández Higueras (FPGA computers Mistica FPGA16 and SiDi) (23. Sep. 2020)
The magazine 'Obligement' has published an interview with the Spanish hardware developer Manuel Fernández Higueras (English, French) who has designed the Amiga compatible FPGA computers 'Mistica FPGA16' and 'SiDi'. ...

Aminet uploads until 19.09.2020 (20. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been uploaded to Aminet until 19.09.2020: RADManager_de.lha disk/misc 1K German catalog for RADManager DodgyRocks.lha game/actio 236K 68k Dodgy Rocks F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 8K ...

Audio recording: Speech of Jay Miner (19. Sep. 2020)
Bill Winters from the Youtube channel "Guru Meditation" has found an old audio recording in the garage of his father which includes a speech of Jay Miner at the "AmiExpo East Coast 1990" in Washington D.C. (USA). The "father of the Amiga" talked in detail...

Prototype of an unreleased jump'n run: Green Thang (18. Sep. 2020)
"Green Thang" (video) is a jump'n run game which has been started being developed for the Amiga in 1994. Due to a crashing market, later only a version for the Atari Jaguar was developed further but which only some time later was also dropped. The website...

Full version for download: Directory Opus Magellan 2 (18. Sep. 2020)
The website of the Amiga Future offers the full version of the file manager "Directory Opus Magellan 2" for free download. The download - an ISO image of the CD - can be only be accessed by registered users due to the size of the file. Hint o...

Game developer Chris Földing (Jonathan, Stadt der Löwen) died (18. Sep. 2020)
Chris G. Földing (audio interview from 2019 (German)) was graphic artist and media designer who in cooperation with Markus Frisch in the 90s released several graphic adventures for Amiga and PC: Holiday Maker, Die Stadt der Löwen and Jonathan. Markus '...

Playable Demo: Dungeon Crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" (17. Sep. 2020)
"The Shadows of Sergoth" is a Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master which was released in 2018 for the Amstrad CPC 6128. Some months ago an Amiga port has been announced and now a first playable demo version released (video). The game requires 1,5 MB ...

Self-made project: Using standard power supply for A500/A1200 (16. Sep. 2020)
Tobias "MastaTabs" Seiler's A500 Single Power and A1200 Single Power are adapter boards which replace the powersupply port of an Amiga. By the help of the board, the computers can be supplied with electricity using a standard 12-Volt power supply. As...

Self-made project: A500/A2000 2MB Chip-RAM adapter (16. Sep. 2020)
Matt Harlum's "A500/2000 2MB Chip RAM Mod" is an adapter board which can use the last generation of the "Agnus"-chip (MOS 8375) in an A500 or A2000. This version of the Amiga-Adress-Generator supports up to 2 Megabyte Chip-RAM. A corresponding RAM is alre...

TCP-Stack: Roadshow 1.14 (14. Sep. 2020)
Press release: Slightly delayed by only two years, the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.14 update is now available to all customers. This update fixes a number of long standing bugs, improves performance and accuracy in the TCP/IP stack itself, as well as add...

Podcast: Amiga-Users-Ireland interview with CS-Lab developers (13. Sep. 2020)
In the latest issue of their podcast, the Amiga Users Ireland have interviewed the developers of CS-Lab, well-known for the accelerator board Warp 1260 (amiga-news.de reported). ...

Aminet-Uploads until 12.09.2020 (13. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 12.09.2020: AmiBlitz3.lha dev/basic 11M 68k AmiBlitz 3.8 full distribution SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 25K 18 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli... F1GP2020Carset.lha ...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.09.2020 (13. Sep. 2020)
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 12.09.2020: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator zgloom.lha gam/fps 3Mb 4.1 A re-implementation of Amiga FPS... sodipodi.lha ...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (13. Sep. 2020)
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added: 242 (DeNitro Edit) Drunk Cat (meow!) Artificial Intelligence (Spatial Remix) ...

The Guardian: Amiga ranked 2 of the greatest computers (13. Sep. 2020)
The British newspaper "The Guardian" has created a ranking list of the 20 greatest computer systems "that inspired a generation of gamers and programmers". Commodore is at the forefront: The Amiga ranked 2, the C64 is on the third place. ...

Collective purchase order: MasPlayer-Pro-2 kit (12. Sep. 2020)
Sascha van Wahnem is organizing another collective purchase order for MasPlayer-Pro-2 kits. This is a MPEG decoder which is connected to the parallel port and enables also Amigas having a weaker processor playing MP3 songs. Registered users can get mor...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.0 beta 6 (10. Sep. 2020)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games. In the forthcoming version 2.0 now it is also possible to start non-WHDLoad games using WBRun and for the first time there will be a native version for AmigaOS 4. Besides, minor improvements a...

Linux kernel: Support for Amiga filesystem updated (09. Sep. 2020)
Current versions of the Linux kernel can still manage FFS-formated Amiga media. The corresponding kernel module called "affs" now has been updated: The changes are listed in the commit on kernel.org. ...

AmigaOS 4: Sodipodi 0.34r2 for AmiCygnix (07. Sep. 2020)
Edgar Schwan has ported the general vector illustrating application Sodipodi, which is the predecessor of the well-known editor "Inkscape", in version 0.34r2 for his X11 environment AmiCygnix (screenshot). Files of the SVG format can be created and edited...

Hollywood Designer 5.0 Special Edition available (06. Sep. 2020)
Press release: Autumn just got awesome: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present the Special Edition of Hollywood Designer 5.0. Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE is identical to the standard edition of Hollywood Designer&nb...