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SDL support for Hollywood: RebelSDL 1.0 (10. Sep. 2017)
Press release: Summer's over and Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: RebelSDL. RebelSDL is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to use SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ...

Aminet-Uploads until 09.09.2017 (10. Sep. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 9th, 2017: irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client w3s_10sharp.lha comm/www 23K Small Webserver in ARexx w3s228.lha ...

Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Drive supports Amiga filesystems (09. Sep. 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...

Trademark disputes: yet another party wants to own "Amiga" (Update) (09. Sep. 2017)
In the US and Germany, the registration for the "Amiga" trademark already expired. It's still a registered mark in the EU until May next year, but nobody really expects the current owner to ever do something with that registration again. As a result, Hype...

Workbench history: Why was "Disk doctor" so spectacularly bad at its job? (08. Sep. 2017)
In an article at auf amiga.org, Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel has explained, why "DiskDoctor" - known from the first generation of the Workbench - worked so bad and could not successfully repair disks. Since the middle of the 90ies Barthel has been working with th...

Status update: Web browser Netsurf under AGA (update) (08. Sep. 2017)
In May it turned out that the current version of Artur Jarosik's SDL-based port of Netsurf could only be used with a graphics board. Daniel Reimann, an editor of amiga-news.de, has contacted Jarosik to find out how the development status is regarding a ve...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Comic archive viewer RNOComics 1.0 (07. Sep. 2017)
Like Comicami for AmigaOS 4, RNOComics is a comic book archive viewer for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 that can open almost any archive file, or a directory with unarchived images, and display the images in it in a GUI designed to read comics (screensh...

Emulation of Sam 460 using QEMU in development (05. Sep. 2017)
According to a mail on the QEMU-PPC mailing list Zoltan Balaton is working on an emulation of a Sam-460 using QEMU. In the first status report (middle of August) he described that AROS as well as MorphOS could boot, but finally failed due to different pro...

Zorro 2 extension: IDE controller "IDE4" (04. Sep. 2017)
THe French online shop Ameedia offers a new IDE-controller for Zorro-2 Amigas: To the "IDE4" up to four IDE/ATA-devices can be connected. Besides, a CompactFlash slot is on the card. The controller is compatible to Gayle, which in an A600 and A1200 contr...

Scandoubler: ScanPlus AGA (04. Sep. 2017)
ScanPlus AGA is a simple scandoubler for AGA computers. The device has a VGA-port and a simple screensaver. The developer has published some pictures in his blog. Currently only Amedia Computer seems to offer the device. ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 128 (04. Sep. 2017)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 128 (September/October 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Marcus Sackrow (MUIMapparium, F...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit X 10.3 (03. Sep. 2017)
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is meant for emulators and has more than 390 pre-configured programs. In version 10.3 the Boxx trilogy games of 'Lemming880' and Stephan Rupprecht's replacement of the info-command were added. Besides, a lot of programs h...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.3 (03. Sep. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free. In version 3.3 a question was corrected and...

MorphOS: MUI class Epub.mcc 0.2 (03. Sep. 2017)
Carsten 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. In version 0.2 the performance was improved and hyperlinks and SVG support added. Additionally, ...

AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.8.3 (02. Sep. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga." In version 3.8.3 among others an automatic update of the software was added. ...

Elbox: pci.library 12.0 and beta version 13.0 (02. Sep. 2017)
Under the title link Elbox has released two updates of his pci.library for users of the PCI-busboard Mediator. "The pci.library ver. 12.0 allows to set the PCI space of Mediators working in the MMU mode as noncachable. It's controlled by Envarc:Mediator/...

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.28 (02. Sep. 2017)
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. ...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2017)
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2017 news Old articles from T...

Interview: Artur Jarosik (NetSurf) (30. Aug. 2017)
In the blog of the podcast AMIcast an interview with Artur Jarosik has been released. He has written the one of the ports of web browser Netsurf for AmigaOS 3. ...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2.1 (27. Aug. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free. From version 3.2.1 on now AskMeUp checks if...