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Previews: Adventures "Furtum Sacrum" and "RetroWars", Beat'em Up "Brus Lii" (01. Feb. 2017)
The point'n click adventures Furtum Sacrum (video) and Retro Wars (video) are developed by the Spanish team of Amiga Wave using the editor GRAC and some AMOS code. Both games require any Amiga with one Megabyte Chip-RAM. Retro Wars immerses in the wo...

Hyperion: Screenshot shows installation process of AmigaOS on Tabor (01. Feb. 2017)
A screenshot published in the official blog of Hyperion shows the "Installation Utility for the A1222" and thus demonstrates a regular installation of AmigaOS 4.1 FE on the Tabor motherboard. The headline "First steps towards beta test :D" is supposed to ...

Kickstart switcher: Software update for A500Flash (01. Feb. 2017)
A software update for the Kickstart switcher A500Flash developed by Retro 7-bit (amiga-news.de reported) has been released. Version 1.2 fixes a bug of the communication with accelerator boards ("fix check toggle ready procedure"). Download: Flashe...

New Facebook group for Amiga developers (30. Jan. 2017)
A new Facebook group is supposed to complete the options for developers by providing a platform for discussing issues. ...

Review: Vampire 500 V2 (English/French) (30. Jan. 2017)
In his blog, Amiga user "Epsilon" has published a detailed review of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire 500 V2: Part 1, Part 2. Thanks to David Brunet, a French translation is available as well. ...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit 9 Reloaded for Mac with Rabbit Hole (29. Jan. 2017)
On October 2015 "Rabbit Hole" was introduced which for the Workbench distribution AmiKit makes it possible to start programms of the Linux or Windows operating system or to get access to Amiga files. Releasing "AmiKit 9 Reloaded for Mac" this now ...

Barjack Magigames: New pictogramms for WHDLoad games (Update) (29. Jan. 2017)
Barjack Magigames provides every collection of WHDLoad games an informative set of icons (screenshot) because at first glance the new pictogramms provide information on chipset, year of release, category, language, rating and if it is a disk or CD game. T...

WHDLoad: New installers until 28.01.2017 (29. Jan. 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 January 28th, 2017: 2017-01-28 new: Kakburk (Strang...

Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.14 (28. Jan. 2017)
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without s...

Obligement: Vote for the Amiga Games Award 2016 (28. Jan. 2017)
David Brunet writes: Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2016! To vote for the best AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, or AROS games, you can rate them at the title li...

Podcast: AmiCast 20 - Interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology) (28. Jan. 2017)
In the 20th issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology. Additionally a record of his speech on the "Amiga Ireland 2017" is included, which also is available as video. ...

AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: SnapIT 1.4 (27. Jan. 2017)
SnapIT written by Stefan Blixth (OnyxSoft) is a "powerful screen grabber" for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 (screenshot). The version of MorphOS can save the screenshots as different formats by using Reggae. Generally version 1.4 now can be used...

Calendar for printing (26. Jan. 2017)
The Croatian website amigawarp.org has published a year 2017 calender with Amiga motifs. The calendar was created in A4 landscape format and can be printed in English (PDF) or Croatian (PDF). ...

MorphOS: Calimero 3.82 (24. Jan. 2017)
Carsten Siegner's Calimero "is a powerfull DTP program" which can handle spreedsheets (screenshot) now of the formats EPUB (photo 1) and ODT (photo 2). The comic picture shown in the document is a WMF image format file which can be converte...

A500 accelerator board: HC508 in progress (24. Jan. 2017)
Another accelerator board for the Amiga 500 is in development called HC508 which is based on a 68HC000 processor clocked with 50 Mhz and according to the developer is fully compatible to the 68000. The hardware has been tested for a loner time, the l...

New PCMCIA angle connector: KA37 (Update) (24. Jan. 2017)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski offers another angle connector for the PCMCIA port of the A1200 or A600 called "KA37" which is mostly required if the Amiga was put into a tower. The "KA37" is available for about 21 Euro and thus cheaper than similar produc...

Interview with Patrick Nevian (Tales of Gorluth, Blue Metal Rose) (24. Jan. 2017)
generationamiga.com has published an interview with Patrick Nevian who among others is the developer of the Tales of Gorluth series and founder of the Indie Pop band project Blue Metal Rose. ...

Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 10 (24. Jan. 2017)
The tenth part of the series "A history of the Amiga", since 2007 released on Ars Technica, is about the decline of the Amiga. ...

Subtitle editor: Slarti (all Amiga platforms) (23. Jan. 2017)
"Slarti" is written in Hollywood and can "help making or modifying video subtitles" in the SubRip format. Using the avcodec-plugin, Slarti loads the video into its user-interface (which was created with RapaGUI) and offers rich editing modes. Obvious...

Ben Hermans resigns his position as director of Hyperion (23. Jan. 2017)
During the afternoon a hint was published on amiga.org that in the Belgisch Staatsblad an application of Hyperion (PDF) was published for removing the rank of the director ("Bestuurder") for Ben Hermans because he did resign this position on December 16th...