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Kickstart switcher: A500Flash (23. Feb. 2016)
A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher allowing Flash-memory reprogramming. The device should be installed inside the Amiga A500/A500+/A2000. The design of the Flash memory enables loading another Kickstart image by running additional software on the same A...

Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.4 (23. Feb. 2016)
Chris Young has updates his AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser NetSurf. Additional to improvements (websites now are better displayed) and bug fixes, now the Duktape Javascript engine is included. It is disabled by default because the support of Javascript...

Event: 3D videos and pictures of 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View (23. Feb. 2016)
During the 30th anniversary party in Mountain View, Alex Carmona took stereoscopic pictures and now has published them under the title link. The photographs are available in Multi Picture Object format, while the AVI-videos have two channels (A/B) and ...

Printed magazine: Amiga Future 119 - preview and extracts (23. Feb. 2016)
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 119 (March/April 2016) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are previews of Spielwiese, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2 and Amiga Racer as well as an interview with Pascal Papar...

AROS-Distribution: AEROS for Pi updated (22. Feb. 2016)
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS is available for registered users as updated version for the ARM-based computer Raspberry Pi (video). AmiCloud, AmigaRacer, MilkyTracker, fixed lokales, audio driver for AROS, VisualBoyAdvance a...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.4.4 (22. Feb. 2016)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to correctly answer questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is als...

Test your reaction time: R²Z 1.0 (21. Feb. 2016)
R²Z is a Hollywood programm written by Ulrich Beckers "to measure times required to motor-react (pressing a key) to different visual stimuli." R²Z is available in German and English for AmigaOS/68k, AROS and MorphOS. ...

Amiga developer Dave Needle died (21. Feb. 2016)
According to RJ Mical on his Facebook site, Dave Needle has died. After their employment at Amiga Corporation, they both worked as developers of the game consoles Atari Lynx and 3DO. Dave Needle did belong to the original hardware developers of ...

Aminet-Uploads until 20.02.2016 (21. Feb. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 20th, 2016: dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI dnstracer.lha comm/tcp 58K 68k Trace a chain of DNS servers ... netsurf_os3.lha ...

Accelerator board: Adding a FPU to the ACA-1233 (21. Feb. 2016)
The Amiga user Allan 'Drewlio77' Versaevel has upgraded his ACA-1233 accelerator board (55 MHz) by adding a 68882-FPU and a coresponding oscillator by himself. In his opinion, this might be the fastest 68030-board for the Amiga 1200. Addition...

AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Gorky 17 (19. Feb. 2016)
In October Hyperion Entertainment released its AmigaOS-4 port of the game "Gorky 17" (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today a demo version was released which includes the first level. ...

MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.8e (19. Feb. 2016)
While the version for AmigaOS-4.1 of the racing computer game "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) is constantly updated in the OS4Depot-Uploads, the version for MorphOS from the end of October remained almost unnoticed. On tuesday version 2.8e was...

amiga-news.de: Downtimes due to attacks on the database (18. Feb. 2016)
During the last two days amiga-news.de could not be accessed for a longer period: Our server was attacked by a script which succeeded several times in overloading our database. But no data got lost and the hackers could not break into our system. The prob...

Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.3.0 (16. Feb. 2016)
As usual Toni Wilen has given a detailed preview to the forthcoming version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Version 3.3.0 will focus on AmigaOS 4-specific adaptions. Wilen thanks all donators, who have supported him to make these changes possible. He a...

Preview videos: Shoot'em Ups "Ego Wings" and "Steel Hawk" (16. Feb. 2016)
Two vertically scrolling Shoot'em Ups currently are in development for the Amiga: The author of "Ego Wings" has published a first video, but at the same time has regret that due to a lack of time the development proceeds rather slowly. Already the third v...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.02.2016 (14. Feb. 2016)
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 13th, 2016: drawergad.lha dev/lib 176kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ... picflowgad.lha dev/lib 15kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI radiobuttonxgad....

Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Further prototypes added (14. Feb. 2016)
After the Amiga 2200, now further prototypes have been added to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware: 68040 processor board for the A3000, which was to show in 1990 when the computer was presented 68040 processor board for the A1000+ 68020/68030 proce...

Quick review: PDF magazine Amigaville, issue 4 (12. Feb. 2016)
November last year Brian Hedley started publishing his PDF magazine Amigaville, releasing a new issue every month. Having released just three issues, each downloaded "several hundred times" (Hedley), the author decided to switch to commercial distribution...

Aminet needs help: searching for freely distributable Amiga magazines (10. Feb. 2016)
The Aminet team writes: A lot of older freely distributable software is still missing from Aminet. Some of it is preserved nicely on Public Domain disks or CD compilations easily available on the web - but a lot of it is rotting away on private hard disks...

Obligement: Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiga-news.de; engl./fr.) (09. Feb. 2016)
French magazine Obligement published an interview with Christoph Gutjahr today, administrator of the software repository Aminet and one of the two publishers of amiga-news.de since 2010. The interview contains background information on both websites an...