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Ami2PC: Amiga-USB-Tansfer tool available for preorder (06. Aug. 2019)
With Ami2PC written by Przemyslaw 'Lotharek' Krawczyk you can copy disk images (ADF, DMS) from PC or Mac via USB-connection to disks using an Amiga. Ami2PC is connected to the Amiga port for external disk drives which recognizes it as drive DF1. Using cop...

Amiga adapter for wireless USB mouse available for preorder (06. Aug. 2019)
Przemyslaw 'Lotharek' Krawczyk offers an adapter which can connect a wireless USB mouse to the mouse port of the Amiga. It is based on the SmallyMouse2. The developer pointed out that some upgraded Amigas have to be modified because the applied voltage is...

Hardware: Kickstart-ROM switcher Romulator (04. Aug. 2019)
In the EAB forum, kipper2k has announced the latest product of his team, the "Romulator", which in an Amiga 500, 600 or 2000 allows you to switch between several Kickstart-ROM images (video). Amiga On The Lake will sell the Romulator. Below you c...

Free Hardware: Joystick adapter JoyDivision updated (04. Aug. 2019)
The USB adapter for classic joysticks developed by Stefan 'Develin' Blixth (amiga-news.de reported) works without any additional driver. Now version 20190803 is available. Now it supports also the C64 clone THEC64 which was licences by Cloanto. ...

Arcade puzzle game: Landfill (03. Aug. 2019)
Landfill (video) is an arcade puzzle game just like Tetris or Columns. You have to match equal items, pressing the fire button you can switch "landed" items with their neighbours. Landfill was written in C and requires an Amiga with at least one me...

Task bar: WBDock 2 (03. Aug. 2019)
WBDock 2 written by Thomas Rapp is a dock comparable with Toolmanager or AmiDock which so far was exclusively available with the Workbench distribution AKReal but now also can be downloaded as single program as an updated version. ...

Plexiglas cases for Amiga 500, 600 and 1200, ACA500 and Vampire Standalone (02. Aug. 2019)
On plexilaser.de transparent acryl cases for retro computers are available, among others a keyboard case for the A500 or desktop cases for the A600 and A1200. A "box" for the external extension board ACA500 or a case for the Vampire Standalone are offered...

Retro 7-bit: Xilinx-Firmware update V3 for Wicher CD32 (02. Aug. 2019)
For its memory extension with IDE port and clockport for Amiga CD³², the Wicher CD32 (amiga-news.de reported), Retro 7-bit has released a firmware update for the Xilinx chip uner the title link. Version 3 includes adjustments on the RAM controller an...

Workbench enhancement: BestWB 1.2 for AmigaOS 3.1.4 (31. Jul. 2019)
Just like BetterWB, BestWB is a collection of Workbench tools for, in this case, AmigaOS 3.1.4 which "persues speed and usability and does not focus on eye candy." In version 1.2 among others a dock bar, a picture viewer as well as tool for m...

Video: Retro Recipes reconstructed Witchwood intro (31. Jul. 2019)
Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson produces a video series called "Retro Recipes". Recently he got a developer Amiga from Team 17 (amiga-news.de reported) which was used for LightWave-3D animations. The latest episode under the title link shows some fil...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 100 (Italian/English) (27. Jul. 2019)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers. Among others the latest issue includes articles a...

amiga-news.de is looking for a (server administrator and) a PHP developer (23. Jul. 2019)
After more than 20 years, amiga-news.de's PHP developer and server administrator will be leaving the team in late summer (amiga-news.de reported). For the system administration we have received some applications but we are still looking for a PHP develope...

Aminet-Uploads until 20.07.2019 (21. Jul. 2019)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 20th, 2019: netsurf.lha comm/www 6.7M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 2.8M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser AmigaOS_3.1.4-FAQ.txt d...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (21. Jul. 2019)
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: Lethal Xcess - Main menu Leander - Title Gold Runner (Piano Live) Turrican 1 (Outpost) ...

Interview: Mark Ritter (Workbench Explorer) (21. Jul. 2019)
Under the title link the US-American online merchant Amiga On The Lake has published an interview with Mark Ritter who is the author of the AmigaOS-4 file browser Workbench Explorer and of the InfoData.gadget class which is part of the Enhancer software. ...

Event: AmiWest 2019 (21. Jul. 2019)
This year's 22th AmiWest in Sacramento (California) will take place from 23. to 27. October in the hotel Holiday Inn Express (reservations information). Among the exhibitors are A-EON Technology, AmigaKit and Amiga On The Lake (AOTL). By the financia...

Web browser: NetSurf 3.9 (ReAction) (21. Jul. 2019)
The web browser Netsurf - and also Chris Young's ReAction-based Amiga port (not to be confused with the SDL version) - now is available as version 3.9. The (cross-platform) changes includes among others CSS-Media-Queries (level 4) and improvemen...

Belgian Amiga Club: Fotographs of Amiga 1200+ (18. Jul. 2019)
Under the title link Jeroen Vandezande has documented his upgraded replica of an Amiga-1200 board which he will also present at the Amiga 34 in Neuss taking place in October. Instead of a PCMCIA port the Amiga 1200+ has a MicroSD card port and is op...

Event: David Pleasance at Belgian Amiga Club Meeting (17. Jul. 2019)
The former Commodore UK executive and author David Pleasance (Friend OS) will be special guest at Belgian Amiga Club Meeting on 5th October in Ekeren (district of Antwerp). The event will take place in "De Nobele Donk". The entrance is free of charge...

Event: Report and videos of AmigaOS 4 NorthEast Get-Together 2019 (14. Jul. 2019)
A month ago the first user meeting took place organized by the US Amiga trader Amiga On The Lake (AOTL) in the State of New York. Sean 'Debaser' Fitzgerald has published a report of Saturday. He guessed about 15-20 users took part. AOTL has published two ...