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Emulator: QEMU 6.1 emulates Pegasos II (29. Jul. 2021)
Two days ago, release candidate 1 of version 6.1 of the emulator QEMU has been published, including now the possibility to also emulate bplan's PowerPC mainboard Pegasos II. Besides the AmigaOne X5000 and the already emulated mainboard S...

Lawsuit: Hyperion's response to Evert Carton's testimony (29. Jul. 2021)
On June 25, 2021 Hyperion's co-founder and sole managing director during the settlement negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009, Evert Carton, was deposed by both parties' lawyers in the lawsuit of the plaintiffs Cloanto and the so-called Amiga parties ...

Iconverter: Old icons with a new look / Basics about AmigaOS icons (28. Jul. 2021)
With 'Iconverter' (currently version 0.95) you can convert old icons as if they were created for today's more recent versions of AmigaOS. Iconverter converts AmigaOS 1.x and MagicWB icons into the format of NewIcons, using the color scale for which these ...

mouSTer: USB input devices for retro computers / Review (27. Jul. 2021)
In the middle of last year, the Polish store retrohax.net announced "mouSTer", an adapter that allows connecting any USB mice and joypads to classic computers. In the meantime, "mouSTer" is available from the provider for just under 26 euros (plus shippin...

CS-Lab: New firmware 1.20 for Warp560/1260 available (27. Jul. 2021)
As reported by Greg Donner on his unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page, CS-Lab has released a new version 1.20 for the Warp 560 and Warp 1260 along with an updated Quick Start Guide, which includes the following changes: SD card support in AmigaOS (warp...

MIDI utilities: amiditools 1.0.0 (26. Jul. 2021)
Christian Vogelsang provides with the 'amiditools' some tools for musicians who control MIDI hardware with an Amiga. The package contains the following programs: udp - A network MIDI driver with custom protocol echo - A simple (test) driver that ec...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2021.5.2 (25. Jul. 2021)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

Aminet uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to Aminet: HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.2M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support dsp3210.lha driv...

OS4Depot uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to OS4Depot: picasm.lha dev/cro 142kb 4.0 PIC16F84 Assembler for the Amiga crash.lha dev/uti 3kb 4.0 C source included amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Si...

AROS Archives uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to AROS Archives: vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb Vim iconverter.i386-aros.lha gra/con 98kb Convert WB 1.x/MagicWB icons to ... installerlg.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 121kb Commodor...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.07.2021 (25. Jul. 2021)
The following files have been added until 24.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage: HWP_RapaGUI_2.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... A cross-platform GUI to... Iris_0.125.lha Email New email client suppor... MCE_13.0.lha ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.13 (24. Jul. 2021)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

MorphOS 3.15: Bugfix for RAM handler (23. Jul. 2021)
RAM handler of MorphOS 3.15 comprises a bug lasting for some years already that may result in the RAM: root directory to appear to contain many duplicate entries. With help by user 'AngryTom', MorphOS team member Harry 'Piru' Sintonen could fix this ...

MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.125 (23. Jul. 2021)
Today MorphOS team member Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released an update for his e-mail client Iris. Changes in version 0.125 include improvements of spellchecking, context menus and HTML markup code of e-mails. For feedback to the author the correspond...

A2000-Motherboard using the EATX standard: Revision 1.2 is production candidate (22. Jul. 2021)
After the developer 'jasonsbeer' has tested the prototpye of his rebuild of the A2000 motherboard called 'Amiga-2000-ATX', he has set revision 1.2 as production candidate. He wrote: "I am currently running a Supra Wordsync SCSI card, a Commodore A263...

Game announcement: 'Jump!' (22. Jul. 2021)
Polish developer Markus Duda is in the process of converting Yoomph, originally written for the Atari, for the Amiga. You have to move in a three-dimensional tunnel by means of a bouncing Amigaball and hit various (bonus) areas. This YouTube video shows t...

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons: Game conversion technical details (21. Jul. 2021)
In his blog Cracking Stones one of the developers of the game Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (amiga-news.de reported) gives detailed information about how it was technically implemented So far four blog entries have been published: Part 1: Used ...

Project announcement: Universal Commodore power supply (21. Jul. 2021)
The website 'RavenWolf' is generally dedicated to the research and restoration of all kinds of retro technology. In the latest project, a universal Commodore power supply is to be developed in the next few months. It is intended to be built by any hobbyis...

Hollywood-Plugin: RapaGUI 2.0 released (19. Jul. 2021)
Press release: After almost 4 years of development Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the long awaited release of RapaGUI 2.0. RapaGUI is the cross-platform GUI toolkit for Hollywood that allows you to crea...

Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009 (18. Jul. 2021)
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by...