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Apollo team launched AROS-based operating system project (10. Aug. 2020)
First the developer team of the Apollo-FPGA-Core used in the Vampire products did choose AROS as official operating system. After having had some problems with the free AmigaOS clone, the Kickstart-ROMs officially licenced from Cloanto were used. From aro...

Aminet uploads until 08.08.2020 (09. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 08.08.2020: Amix531.lha comm/amiex 998K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel... Yip_cover.lha demo/intro 140K 68k Yip cover intro (Revision 2020) encore_morphilia.lha ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.08.2020 (09. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 08.08.2020: Deark_1.5.5.lha Extracting data from various file formats. DRC_0.14.lha DAAD Reborn Compiler Frontend ENCORE_Morphilia_1.1.0... MORPHILIA by ENCOR...

Announcement: Tiny Bobble - a better 'Bubble Bobble' port (08. Aug. 2020)
Tiny Bobble is done by the people who released Tiny Invaders und Tiny Galaga and is an attempt to create a port of the Arcade classic Bubble Bobble that is optimized for the Amiga 500 - instead of just porting the existing Atari ST version, as F...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 3.2-beta1 (08. Aug. 2020)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based boards (like the Raspberry Pi, ASUS Tinkerboard, Odroid XU4, etc) that also offers a few unique features developed only for Amiberry, such as the WHDLoad booter and support for RetroArch controller mapping. The ...

Spray paint cans in the colors of classic computer models (07. Aug. 2020)
retrohax.net is selling spray paint cans matching the coloring of various classic computer models. So far, the colors "C64C", "Amiga 500" and "Atari ST/XE" are available, more options are said to follow. In a Blog post, the supplier of these cans explains...

Elektronic music: Creating Jungle/Hardcore tracks using a A1200 (video) (06. Aug. 2020)
British producer and label owner Pete Cannon started his career in the electronic music business by creating tracks using Octamed 4 on an Amiga 1200. In a detailed demonstration for the Youtube channel "Sound on Sound", he shows how to use his A...

APC&TCP: Delays due to flooding (05. Aug. 2020)
Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP, Amiga Future) is apparently hit by the floods that appeared in parts of southern Germany in the last few days. He points out that there will be delays in fulfilling orders and replying to inquiries in the next few days....

Mount disk images on Workbench: GoADF! 3.0 (04. Aug. 2020)
The Shareware (7 Euro) utility "GoADF!" mounts floppy disk images on Workbench. Changes in version 3.0: from now GoADF can be localized with the locale.library, included catalogs: italian (by Samir Hawamdeh) spanish (by Ignacio Gully) fr...

MorphOS celebrates 20 year anniversary (04. Aug. 2020)
André Siegel from the MorphOS team reminds us in a morph.zone announcement, that the PowerPC based clone of AmigaOS has been available to the public for 20 years now: on August 2nd, 2000, the team initiated public Betatests. At that time, the target hard...

Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.10 (03. Aug. 2020)
Dirk Hoffmann's 'vAmiga' is a new, "user friendly" (quoting the developer) Amiga emulator that emulates a A500, A1000 or A2000 computer. Changes since our last news item: Added support for .zip and .gz files. The VERTB interrupt fired one cycle too ...

Aminet uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 01.08.2020: Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 6.8M x86 Generator of printable calendars Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 6.7M MOS Generator of printable calendars Crono_OS4.lha ...

OS4Depot uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 01.08.2020: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor crono.lha gra/mi...

Jump'n Run: Smarty And The Nasty Gluttons (01. Aug. 2020)
'Smarty And The nasty Gluttons' (Video) is a Jump'n Run that was intended for a commercial release in the early nineties but never finished due to the collapsing market. With help from members of the active Amiga scene, the original coder has now revamped...

Reading Amiga disks on a PC: ADF Drive 1.110, ADF Copy 1.130 (01. Aug. 2020)
With the USB adapter 'ADF Drive' and its accompanying copy program 'ADF Copy', Amiga floppy disks can be read using a standard PC floppy drive under Windows, Linux or Mac OS. Since our last news item, both the adapter's firmware as well as the frontend we...

The Dork Web: Crash And Burn - The Amiga ST Story (31. Jul. 2020)
Under the title link Steve Lord in his 14. issue of "Tales From The Dork Web" has written about the beginning of the Amiga and also has a closer look at the interdependence between Amiga and Atari. ...

TF360: Prototype of a 68060 accelerator board in the CD32 (video) (31. Jul. 2020)
The 'TF360' developed by Stephen Leary is an accelerator board for the Amiga CD32 which provides a slot for a 68060 processor as well as 128 MB Fast-RAM. A video now shows the prototype. Using an additional angle plug, providing a classic Amiga monitor po...

Selfmade project: 8-Bit sampler 'Open Amiga Sampler' (30. Jul. 2020)
Sampling like in the year 1988: Under this motto Brendan Ratliff has published a detailed manual for making a parallel-port sampler for Amiga computers on Github. His 'Open Amiga Sampler' digitises in 8 Bit (mono), has a typical maximum sampling rate of a...

Desktop Publishing: RNO Publisher for all Amiga systems (30. Jul. 2020)
'RNO Publisher' created with Hollywood is a simple DTP application: The user creates one-page or multi-page documents and there can place text boxes, pictures and other graphic objects as well as links - the result then is exported to a PDF file. An ...

AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.6 (29. Jul. 2020)
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programs has been compiled for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to an Unix installation. Additional to othe...