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Hardware: Vampire V4 announced inclusive A1200 and standalone version (03. Aug. 2017)
In a press release and in the forum of the project the Apollo team has announced the next generation of the FPGA-based accelerator board, which for the first time will be also offered as "standalone" version. Three different versions are offered: ...

Stereo headphone amplifier for Amiga computers: KA71 (03. Aug. 2017)
The sound output of the Amiga is given out on four channels: two on the left stereo channel and two on the right one - this is not an advantage if you use headphones. rastport.com offers a solution for this problem: An amplifier for the Amiga called KA71....

Speech synthesizer: espeak 1.1 (02. Aug. 2017)
The Amiga port of the speech synthesizer espeak wriiten by Jonathan Duddington currently is available on Aminet. Espeak speaks 75 languages in 19 different versions. The Amiga version is identical to the original Linux version. The audio.device is used fo...

Podcast: AmiCast 24 - Interview with Jon Lennart Aasenden (Amibian.js) (30. Jul. 2017)
In the 24th issue of his English-language podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Jon Lennart Aasenden. One of his software projects is the Smart Mobile Studio, a development environment, in which programs can be written in Smart Pascal and then comp...

Aminet-Uploads until 29.07.2017 (30. Jul. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until July 29th, 2017: FocusDesign-Kublai.zip demo/aga 64K 68k An Amiga AGA 060 64k for Revi... FocusDesign-StormRide... demo/aga 5.6M 68k An Amiga AGA demo for Datasto... BoozeDesign-Ba...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.07.2017 (30. Jul. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until July 29th, 2017: absolute_d0lle_2.zip dem/mus 30Mb 4.0 Amiga OS 4 Musicdisc Released at... amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 942kb 4.0 AmiSSL SDK arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 29.07.2017 (30. Jul. 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 July 29th, 2017: 2017-07-25 new: Sound Erection (Sh...

Retro aracde machines in Amiga design (29. Jul. 2017)
At "Ray's Arcades" custom build aracde machines are available which are equipped with a PC. The system emulates ten - which are not specified - classic computer and consoles. The cases are made of wood and are rather small (610x340x360mm) so they can be t...

New, open source Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy (25. Jul. 2017)
FlashFloppy is a alternative firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek, which original firmware meanwhile is not developed further. Additional to the proprietary alternative HxC, now an open source option is available. A first alpha version has been released...

AmigaOS 4: Video of latest development status of "Tower 57" (25. Jul. 2017)
The arcade shooter "Tower 57" which was financed in summer 2015 by crowdfunding has not been finished yet. But Daniel Müßener updates his Amiga port of the game which is also in development. Recently the JSON-library had to be completely rewritten because...

AmiCast: Text interview with Andreas Falkenhahn (23. Jul. 2017)
The ninth text interview of the English-language podcast AmiCast is about Andreas Falkenhahn, who is the developer of Hollywood. He wrote about the accident which did prevent him from turning his back on the Amiga and announced a major update of the Holly...

AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.7.0 (23. Jul. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. In version 3.7.0 now you can hide the volumes panels (screenshot 1) and show a "list of drawers of the current ...

Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland talked to Eddy Carroll (SnoopDOS) (21. Jul. 2017)
In the latest issue of the English-language podcast, Amiga Users Ireland talked to the first programmer of the system monitor SnoopDOS, Eddy Carroll. ...

PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 76 (Italian/English) (21. Jul. 2017)
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 on vintage computers. Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amig...

AmigaOS 4: Enhancer Software 1.3 (20. Jul. 2017)
According to A-EON Technology in a press release, the third update for the tool collection "Enhancer Software" is available and can be downloaded for free by registered customers on Amistore. As some of our readers have pointed out, currently the server o...

C64 clone: Ultimate-64 announced (19. Jul. 2017)
Under the title link Gideon Zweijtzer, who developed the emulated C64 disk drive 1541-Ultimate and who also tried to develop a PowerPC card for the Amiga, has announced a FPGA-based C64 clone with integrated 1541-Ultimate II+ called Ultimate-64. ...

Cloanto: Transcripts of speeches on events (2014-2017) (17. Jul. 2017)
In the forum of Amigaworld.net, 'Tripos' transcribed three videos in English, in which Mike Battilana gives an insight into the work of Cloanto from now up to 1986. 'Tripos' was inspired by A Discourse on Possible Futures, recently published on cloanto...

AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.6.0 (16. Jul. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. In version 3.6.0 LZX, Zip and 7z archives can be created (using third-party software). Besides, some minor improveme...

Commodore documents on Hombre chipset found (15. Jul. 2017)
Dr. Ed Hepler, who is the former "Director of System and VLSI architecture" at Commodore, has provided detailed documents on the Hombre chipset. The PA-RISC-based Hombre would have been the base for the planned next generation of Amiga computers - if Comm...

AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 4.8 (15. Jul. 2017)
Bernd Rösch's "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS components to AmigaOS 3 trying to make new functions of AROS available under AmigaOS. In version 4.8 several bugs were fixed and the Afa prefrerences have been reworked. Additionally 22 ...