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Popular Mechanics report about "The Cult of Amiga ..." (07. Oct. 2017)
Since 115 years the popular science US magazine Popular Mechanics has been published. Under the title link it reports about how "The Cult of Amiga Is Bringing an Obsolete Computer Into the 21st Century". ...

SD controller for Zorro Amigas: SD Drive Z2 (05. Oct. 2017)
The SD Drive Z2 is a Zorro-II card for reading and writing common SD/SDHC/MMC cards with up to 1,5 MB transfer rate. Fat32 is used as file system which should enable an easy data communication with a PC. The card slot is let out of the case using a long f...

Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #8 - 64K’s Later (05. Oct. 2017)
The eighth issue of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland is about new games and forthcoming Amiga events. ...

Operating system: FreeMiNT distribution for Vampire (04. Oct. 2017)
MiNT ("Mint is now TOS") is the successor of Ataris TOS with multitasking functionality. Stefan Niestegge has arranged a distribution of the open source operating system which now is called FreeMiNT for Amiga computers equipped with a Vampire accelerator ...

English magazine: "Amiga User" as print and eBook edition available (04. Oct. 2017)
Issue "zero" of the English-language magazine "Amiga User" which is designed and published in Poland is available. You can order the printed edition for 10 Euro (plus 5 Euro shipping) or the eBook edition for five Euro. Reading extracts can be find on the...

Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Drive 0.625 (04. Oct. 2017)
ADF-Copy is an USB adapter which, connected to a ordinary PC disk drive, can read and write Amiga disks - provided that the disks are not copy-protected. The floppy port is connected to a Teensy 3.2 micro controller by using some jumpers controlled by the...

MorphOS: MUI class Webp.mcc 1.0 (03. Oct. 2017)
Carsten Siegner's Webp.mcc is a MUI class for viewing WebP images and animations based on the libwebp 0.6.0. Currently the class can only decode, demux. The archive also contains two example programs: a picture viewer and a WebP toolbar including the sour...

Ancient Format Decompressor: Decompressing files (02. Oct. 2017)
"Ancient Format Decompressor" is a "collection of decompression routines for ancient formats popular in the Amiga, Atari computers (and others) from 80's and 90's as well as including some current ones that were used in a some specific way in these system...

Cinema show of documentation "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years" (02. Oct. 2017)
During the "Amiga32" which will take place on 28. Oktober 2017 in Neuss (Germany) you can watch the Amiga documentation "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years" produced by Nicola and Anthony Caulfield at the Hitch cinema. The film will start at 9:15 ...

Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.7 (01. Oct. 2017)
Press release: This is code business and the hardest working men in it are back on your screen with a brand-new release: MUI Royale 1.7. This version adds a few new features and contains some bug fixes. MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 30.09.2017 (01. Oct. 2017)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until September 30th, 2017: 2017-09-29 fixed: Megademo (Dar...

Print magazine: Skrolli International Edition 2017 (01. Oct. 2017)
Since 2012 the Finnish computer magazine Skrolli has been published. This year it is again completed by an English edition, which among others also is dedicated the Amiga. ...

RetroMañía 2017: Videogame and demo competition (27. Sep. 2017)
At the beginning of November, this year again the RetroMañía will take place in Zaragoza (Spain). Celebrating the Amiga 30th anniversary, the event will also have a competition: All videogames and demos which never have been released before and somehow ar...

MorphOS: MUI class for Windows-Metafiles Wmf.mcc 1.0 (24. Sep. 2017)
Carsten Siegner's Wmf.mcc is a MUI class for MorphOS for viewing "Windows Metafile" (.wmf) image files. The Archive additionally contains some example files, a simple wmf viewer and the source code of the viewer. Download: Wmf_mcc.1.0.lha (127 KB)...

MorphOS: MUI class Epub.mcc 0.4 (22. Sep. 2017)
Siegner's Epub.mcc is a MUI class vor viewing ebooks of the EPUB format. The archive also includes two demo programs for viewing ebooks and svg files. Version 0.4 now supports Unicode, exporting to PDF and printing documents. The archive ...

Amiga disks on PC: Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer (21. Sep. 2017)
Similar to ADF Drive, Robert Smith's project called "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer" also uses a micro controller - in this case an Arduino board - in order to be able reading and writing Amiga disks with an ordinary PC disk drive. All ...

Guest appearance: AmigaOne X5000 in an ad for hair salons (18. Sep. 2017)
According to Trevor Dickinson in his latest blog entry, Amiga fan and filmemaker Charles Paek has asked him if A-EON could provide a X5000 for a professional advertising spot for a chain of hair salons as a prop. Of course Dickinson could and therefore th...

Open source hardware: CD³² extension TerribleFire 328 (17. Sep. 2017)
TerribleFire products are open source hardware developed by Stephen Leary (e.g. accelerator board TF530). A month ago under the title link a beta version of the TF328 was published which is an extension board for the Amiga CD³² providing 8 MB RAM and...

Retro 7-bit: First prototype of CD³² extension Wicher CD³² working (17. Sep. 2017)
According to Retro 7-bit under the title link, the first prototype of the CD³² extension "Wicher CD³²" is working. The card for the expansion slot of the Amiga console and for the Riser board (Retro 7-bit) has 8 MB RAM, an IDE-controller an...

WHDLoad: New installers until 16.09.2017 (17. Sep. 2017)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until September 16th, 2017: 2017-09-16 improved: Heart Of...