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Raspberry Pi as m68000 replacement: PiStorm (30. Jan. 2021)
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to a CPU socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 using an adapter for emulating a fast m68k processor. In contrary to the Buffee project a Linux-based solution is used instead of running the 68k emulator directl...

MorphOS: Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge', updates of other plugins (29. Jan. 2021)
The Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge' shows the free video RAM. By double clicking the plugin, the program GraphicBoards is started. Additionally all other Screenbar plugins have been updated: CPUGauge 1.7 CPUGraph 1.1 DateTime 1.4 MemoryGauge 1...

E-Mail client: YAM supports AmiSSL 4.7 / moved to GitHub (27. Jan. 2021)
About seven years ago we reported about an update of the e-Mail program YAM last time. At the beginning of the year 2019 by updating AmiSSL to version 4.3 it was possible again to check e-mails from diverse providers. For that you have to switch to the de...

Product announcement: A500 replacement board 'MiSS FGPA' (27. Jan. 2021)
8bits4ever already is offering some FPGA solutions for retro fans. Soon also a FPGA-based replacement boards for A500 cases will be available. This 'MiSS FPGA' fit inside a Commodore A500 case and uses the original A500 keyboard as input device. The ...

Podcast: Scene World Episode 106 - Retro music on floppy disks (26. Jan. 2021)
The musician 'Remute' does not olny release his productions on vinyl or as download but also on Amiga and C64 floppy disks. 'Scene World' talks to him about why he chose this medium, and the unique challenges associated with releasing music on such unusua...

Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Minkey', Super-Sprint clone 'Turbo Sprint' (26. Jan. 2021)
'Minkey' (video) is a classic jump'n run for Amigas equipped with at least 1 MB RAM. The author describes the engine as "90% finished". So far 11 levels can be played. And he has added: "There are also more colorful levels ready with nice copper'ed backgr...

Database: MUIBase 4.3 and SQLite 3.34.0 (26. Jan. 2021)
Steffen Gutmann has released an update of his programmable relational database MUIBase for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS (and Windows and Linux). For SQLite is used as engine he has also updated his port of this SQL database. Changes in MUIBase 4.3: ...

Tetris clone: Crazy Columns (demo) 0.93 (25. Jan. 2021)
Jochen Hoffer has released a new demo version of his port of the Sega classic 'Columns'. German as well as English versions are available now and the update fixes a few minor bugs. The developer tells us that the last thing holding back the release of the...

MorphOS: e-mail client Iris 0.104 (24. Jan. 2021)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails. With this latest release you can now add e-mail archives of other programs. Several bugs ...

Console replacement: ViNCEd 3.98 (24. Jan. 2021)
"ViNCEd" written by Thomas Richter is a replacement for the console program CON:. You can run the Shell in it but also other programs. The full screen console handler has many additional features. For example "the whole window content is kept in memory...

Aminet uploads until 23.01.2021 (24. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to Aminet: RedEthItaCat.lha comm/net 45K Italian catalog for RedEth 1.5 amostools.i386-aros.lha dev/amos 198K x86 Tools to work with AMOS programs xamos-mos.lha dev...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.01.2021 (24. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to OS4Depot: libwprintf.lha dev/lib 31kb 4.0 Wide char printf functions minigl.lha dri/gra 7Mb 4.0 OpenGL subset 3D API pekkakana2.lha gam/pla 9Mb 4.1 Save ...

AROS Archives uploads until 23.01.2021 (24. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to AROS Archives: alac.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 6Mb Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder modexplorer_aros.zip aud/pla 2Mb Streaming mod file from Internet... libvstring.i386-aros...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.01.2021 (24. Jan. 2021)
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to MorphOS-Storage: ModExplorer_3.22.zip Audio/Players A module player by J?rg. XAMOS_0.29a.lha Development/AMOS A cross-platform AMOS B... DOSBox_0.74r4Jit.lh...

CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.82 (23. Jan. 2021)
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL videos. In version 0.9.82 support for standard 12-bit AGA6-8 and HAM8 videos (used in several games in the late 90s) was added. Additionally optimized versions for all 68k processors inclusive Vampire are available. ...

Spaceship vs Asteroids Game: SPOD (23. Jan. 2021)
After more than 20 years Marten Wobst has reactivated his Amiga 500. In celebration of the day he has written a little game called SPOD (Space Pilot of Death). The game principle ist very simple: you're supposed to avoid all asteroids appro...

Videos of virtual meeting of "Amiga Ireland" (22. Jan. 2021)
This year the annual meeting of "Amiga Ireland" has been virtually organized. On YouTube you now can watch the videos which were shown on the meeting last Saturday. Among others the results of the Creative Competition, tutorials on Lightwave and BlitzBasi...

Lawsuit: Hyperion und Cloanto allegedly close to a settlement again (22. Jan. 2021)
A year ago, Hyperion and Cloanto asked the judge presiding their lawsuit to extend a deadline because they were allegedly close to finalizing a settlement. A few days later, the negotiations were aborted. In another motion dated January 20th, both Pa...

Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts (21. Jan. 2021)
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimat...

Apollo core: Release 5 for Vampire 4 (20. Jan. 2021)
The Apollo core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola providing a new graphic resolution called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards. Apollo Release 5 provides the following changes: Copper compatibility fixed....