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Pictures of Australian Amiga meeting (15. Mar. 2017)
In last autumn the US American Robert Bernardo toured New Zealand and Australia and attended several Amiga meetings. Now he has published some pictures of it: Sydney Amiga User Group Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event Amiga User Group of Victor...

Podcast: Amiga Ireland (15. Mar. 2017)
The organizer of the "Amiga Ireland Meetup" has established an English-language podcast. The first issue is about community meetings like the Amiga Ireland Meetup from January. Besides, the podcast offers a mixture of news, gaming and similar topics. ...

Operating system: NetBSD 7.1 (15. Mar. 2017)
NetBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system, now also available in version 7.1 for Amiga computers. The changes are listed in the changelog which also informs about the following specific Amiga changes: Maximize virtual memory space f...

AROS: Vector graphics program ZuneFIG 1.3.343 (14. Mar. 2017)
ZuneFIG is an AROS port of the vector graphics editor Xfig, using the Amiga User Interface from the older AmiFIG project. Several demo videos on Youtube (1, 2, 3) show how ZuneFIG can be used for illustrations. ...

Successful Kickstarter campaign for book of David Pleasance, Interview (13. Mar. 2017)
A few days ago David Pleasance, CEO of Commodore UK from 1983 to 1995, had announced a book about his time at Commodore, which will be crowdfunded. Meanwhile the Kickstarter project was started. So far 25.289 £ of the aim of 25.000 £ were donated and th...

WHDLoad: New installers until 11.03.2017 (12. Mar. 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 March 11th, 2017: 2017-03-08 new: Tragic Magic (Reb...

AmigaOS 4: Update for retro arcade game "Huenison" (11. Mar. 2017)
Huenison is an arcade game with retro look for AmigaOS 4 and Windows, which according to the developer combines elements of Arkanoid, Decathlon, Dynablaster, Impossible Mission, Oil's Well, Pac-Man, Pang, Qix, Slam Tilt, Space Invaders, Tetris and Vi...

Renaming picture files: Exutil 1.0 (08. Mar. 2017)
The MUI-based Hollywood program Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the Exif-information or the date of creation of the file. Version 1.0 is available for all Amiga systems, in English a...

Open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 (08. Mar. 2017)
The announced open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 for the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported) has been completed (video). Now the developer is working on a version for 68040 and, if possible, for 68060 processors. ...

Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 96 (08. Mar. 2017)
"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. ...

Turbo board: Wicher 500i to be produced soon (08. Mar. 2017)
The turbo board for the Amiga 500 and 500+ that has been announced by Retro 7-bit is expected to be produced soon. Since it has been adapted to be mounted internally, the turbo board is called Wicher 500i. Features: Processor: MC680...

Cloud storage with Amiga access: AmiCloud 1.2 (08. Mar. 2017)
Using the AmiCloud client available for all Amiga systems as well as for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, you can access cloud storage provided by Pascal Papara without traffic limitation (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2 meets the more strict Apache r...

David Pleasance (Commodore UK) announced book (06. Mar. 2017)
Until 1995 David Pleasance was CEO of Commodore UK for 12 years and tried to buy Commodore but finally Escom made it. In a speech at the British "Geekfest 2" in Cheltenham, the former manager announced his new project: He is going to write about his time ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 04.03.2017 (05. Mar. 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 March 4th, 2017: 2017-02-28 improved: Goblins 3 (Co...

AmigaOS 4: Closed beta test for LibreOffice started (04. Mar. 2017)
According to A-EON on its Facebook site, the beta test of the port of the office suite LibreOffice has started. For the first time in 2012 the port of LibreOffice was announced. The office suite is ported by the developer Thomas Frieden and finan...

Renaming picture files: Exutil 0.10 (03. Mar. 2017)
The MUI-based Hollywood program Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the EXIF-information or the date of creation of the file. Version 0.10 is available for all Amiga systems and provides...

Source codes of WaveTracer DS, AnimFX and other tools released (02. Mar. 2017)
Michael Pfeiffer has released the source codes of his Amiga programs under the GNU GPL. These are, for example, the sound editor WaveTracer DS and the IFF-ANIM player AnimFX. The tools are written in C and Pascal. Direct download: WaveTracer_Sources....

Print magazine: Amiga Future 125 (02. Mar. 2017)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 124 (March/April 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 the ignition maintainer, the fourth p...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Mar. 2017)
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement, which started 20 years ago, during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/Fe...

Looking for testers for Vampire 600 Fast-IDE (28. Feb. 2017)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards Vampire 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). For the forthcoming version 'Gold 3' tes...