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Visual effects Pioneer: Ron Thornton died (24. Nov. 2016)
"After a short battle with liver disease" Ron Thornton died on 21. November 2016. He was 59. Together with Paul Beigle-Bryant, he was one of the pioneers using computers for creating visual effects for space films. His animations created on an Ami...

Podcast: AMIcast 18 - Amibian (Amiga on the Raspberry Pi) (23. Nov. 2016)
In the latest issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Gunnar Kristjánsson and Thomas Navarro Garcia, members of the project Amibian, which directly boots a Raspberry Pi into the Amiga emulator UAE4All. ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.4.4 (alpha) (23. Nov. 2016)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which is supposed to help developing games of diverse genres - released videos show ports of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" for running the finished games requir...

Game: BOH-Update 17, new website (22. Nov. 2016)
There is a free update for Simone Bevilacqua's commercial "Dungeon-crawler" BOH (among others available for AmigaOS 4, AROS). Besides, the website moved and can be now found under the title link. Changes: Adds 17 new missions (5 very easy, 8 ...

Web browser: NetSurf 3.6 for AmigaOS 3/4 (22. Nov. 2016)
Chris Young has updated his ports of the web browser Netsurf. In version 3.6 some bugs have been fixed and the GUI-code cleared up. Besides, supercookies now can be refused and handling certificates was improved. ...

Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 95 (22. Nov. 2016)
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML version and as C64-Diskmag. ...

Aminet-Uploads until 19.11.2016 (20. Nov. 2016)
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 19th, 2016: BlitzISOtoFloppy.lha dev/basic 1K Make floppy from Ultimate Bli... SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 36K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G... TunnelsAnd...

Catacomb 3D: Delivery has started (18. Nov. 2016)
Since the beginning of this week, the game Catacomb 3D (amiga-news.de reported) has been delievered. Purchaser of Projekt Lila can apply for a "VIP-Status" in Pascal Papara's Ares-shop and then will get a discount for the game. ...

Kickstarter: New keycaps for Amiga keyboards (16. Nov. 2016)
Last year, Philipp Lang and his team achieved the production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. The production just has started. As completion now new keycaps are supoposed to be produced which are compatible with existing Amiga keyboards. About 67....

Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.18 (AmigaOS 3/4) (16. Nov. 2016)
In the latest version of the audio player AmigaAMP a bug was fixed, which could cause crashes if the preferences are changed while playing. ...

Video-Review: ARMIGA, ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole (14. Nov. 2016)
"The Game Show" has released a video review of the ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole ARMIGA. In March the ARMIGA-project was started via crowdfunding, meanwhile you can buy the devices in a webshop. A special feature of the ARMIGA is the built-in dis...

CD1200 prototype in Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester (13. Nov. 2016)
The CD-drive CD1200, which was introduced by Commodore at the CeBIT 1994, should make the Amiga 1200 compatible with the CD³² by using the integrated Akiko-chip. There are two prototypes, a gray one which Ryan Czerwinski ("Merlancia") own and the ...

Crowdfunding: First Amiga pictures of the game Tower 57 (13. Nov. 2016)
In summer last year, the development of the game "Tower 57" was crowdfunded. As an additional goal also it was given so much money to develop an Amiga version, which Daniel Müßener does. Under the title link some first screenshots show the current le...

Aminet-Uploads until 12.11.2016 (13. Nov. 2016)
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 12th, 2016: ntimed.lha comm/net 266K 68k Network time synchronization ... streamer.lha comm/www 355K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio... AmigaProgr...

Video: Production of new Amiga-1200 cases has started (12. Nov. 2016)
Yesterday the mass production of the new Amiga-1200 cases has started by producing the trapdoors, like the video proves which is available under the title link. Next week more videos and photos will be added. ...

Podcast: AMIcast, Special Episode 4 (10. Nov. 2016)
In the fourth special episode of the English-language podcast AMIcast the Pole Adam Zalepa was invited, who is distributing books and games for the Amiga under amiga.net.pl. The host Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked with him about his projects but also ab...

Documentation: "Viva Amiga" - International Release on January 6th (10. Nov. 2016)
The website of the crowdfunded Amiga documentation Viva Amiga has announced the official release date: From January 6th 2017, Zach Weddington's six years lasting project will be available. Pre-Orders will begin in December. ...

Emulator: FS-UAE 2.8.1 (10. Nov. 2016)
After several beta versions, now Frode Solheim has released a "stable" one of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. There are ports for Windows, Mac OS and different Linux and BSD versions. Changes since the last release: Alt+F4 and Cmd+Q will no longer qu...

New Amiga video of Eric Schwartz (10. Nov. 2016)
For a while, Eric Schwartz, well-known by his Cartoon characters like "Amy" or "Rachel Racoon", creates music videos for existing songs, in which animated Amiga computers play the leading role. At the beginning of 2008 Still Alive was released, for the 25...

Aminet-Uploads until 05.11.2016 (06. Nov. 2016)
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 5th, 2016: librhash.lha dev/lib 326K 68k C library for computing hash ... HeartOfTheAlienRedux.lha game/actio 269K 68k Amiga version of action-adven... MCE-MOS.lha...