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Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1 (20. Jul. 2023)
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different. So he decided to create...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto" (19. Jul. 2023)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes: Car...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS (19. Jul. 2023)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his se...

Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31 (19. Jul. 2023)
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.3...

Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German) (19. Jul. 2023)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous inte...

AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86 (18. Jul. 2023)
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item: Recognises a transaction as existing if there are many spaces in a row in the reas...

AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38 (18. Jul. 2023)
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to pr...

AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users (16. Jul. 2023)
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public. As he tells us, a lot of work went int...

Aminet uploads until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to Aminet: z80dasm.lha dev/cross 275K MOS Z80 assembly generating disas... HWP_ZIP.lha dev/hwood 297K ALL Read and write ZIP archives F1GP2023Carset.lha game/d...

OS4Depot uploads until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to OS4Depot: eaqne2.lzx gam/adv 19Mb 4.0 Second chapter of EAQNE amidream.lha gra/con 213kb 4.0 A Text to Image Application hwp_zip.lha lib/hol 297kb 4.0 R...

AROS Archives uploads until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to AROS Archives: eaqne2.lzx gam/adv 18Mb Second chapter of EAQNE zip_amiga.lha lib/mis 297kb Plugin allows Hollywood scripts ... ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.07.2023 (16. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: ZIP_2.0.lha Dependencies Read and write ZIP arch... z80dasm_1.2.0.lha Development/Cross Z80 assembly generating... EAQNE-2_1.0.lha ...

Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued (16. Jul. 2023)
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his...

LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000 (15. Jul. 2023)
In two detailed blog entries Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings shows how he restores an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA. The first part is mainly about adjustments to the power supply and changing from NTSC to PAL system, in the second part he replaces the 100M...

Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. As the developer wrote, the WebKit core has again been rebased to the latest stable WebKitGTK tree. But that's not all, 6.0 also brings many UI improvements like ...

Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.41 (14. Jul. 2023)
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.41: AT32F415: Fix timer handling since clock speed increase (v3.39). LCD: Faster power-on ini...

Review: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at the Vectorama 2023 (14. Jul. 2023)
In mid-June, Vectorama 2023, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu, Finland. Also present was the Finnish Amiga Users Group, which organised an Amiga stand at the gaming event. The stand featured an Amiga 500 with Got...

Demoparty: Results of Pågadata 2023 (14. Jul. 2023)
At the beginning of July the Pågadata 2023 took place in Kvidinge, Sweden (amiga-news.de reported). At the demo competition held there, the following Amiga results were achieved: Amiga Demo Lubricator by The Electronic Knights (TEK) (YouTube video...

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (14. Jul. 2023)
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as...