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Spray paint cans in the colors of classic computer models (07. Aug. 2020)
retrohax.net is selling spray paint cans matching the coloring of various classic computer models. So far, the colors "C64C", "Amiga 500" and "Atari ST/XE" are available, more options are said to follow. In a Blog post, the supplier of these cans explains...

Elektronic music: Creating Jungle/Hardcore tracks using a A1200 (video) (06. Aug. 2020)
British producer and label owner Pete Cannon started his career in the electronic music business by creating tracks using Octamed 4 on an Amiga 1200. In a detailed demonstration for the Youtube channel "Sound on Sound", he shows how to use his A...

APC&TCP: Delays due to flooding (05. Aug. 2020)
Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP, Amiga Future) is apparently hit by the floods that appeared in parts of southern Germany in the last few days. He points out that there will be delays in fulfilling orders and replying to inquiries in the next few days....

Mount disk images on Workbench: GoADF! 3.0 (04. Aug. 2020)
The Shareware (7 Euro) utility "GoADF!" mounts floppy disk images on Workbench. Changes in version 3.0: from now GoADF can be localized with the locale.library, included catalogs: italian (by Samir Hawamdeh) spanish (by Ignacio Gully) fr...

Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.10 (03. Aug. 2020)
Dirk Hoffmann's 'vAmiga' is a new, "user friendly" (quoting the developer) Amiga emulator that emulates a A500, A1000 or A2000 computer. Changes since our last news item: Added support for .zip and .gz files. The VERTB interrupt fired one cycle too ...

Arcade game: Atarenium Falcon (demo) (03. Aug. 2020)
In 'Atarenium Falcon' (Video) the player has to collect pieces of coal and other items lying around in the screen-sized levels and then head for the exit. The early demo version that has been made available now does not seem to feature any enemies other t...

Aminet uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 01.08.2020: Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 6.8M x86 Generator of printable calendars Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 6.7M MOS Generator of printable calendars Crono_OS4.lha ...

OS4Depot uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 01.08.2020: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor crono.lha gra/mi...

AROS-Archives uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archiven until 01.08.2020: violetland.i386-aros.zip gam/act 10Mb OpenGL top-down shooter. They ha... crono_aros.lha gra/mis 7Mb Generator of printable calendars rnopublisher.i386-a...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages for MorphOS, which operating system celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday, have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 01.08.2020: AIOstreams_1.6.2.lha Stream online video from major platforms AmiArcadia_26.61.lha ...

Jump'n Run: Smarty And The Nasty Gluttons (01. Aug. 2020)
'Smarty And The nasty Gluttons' (Video) is a Jump'n Run that was intended for a commercial release in the early nineties but never finished due to the collapsing market. With help from members of the active Amiga scene, the original coder has now revamped...

TF360: Prototype of a 68060 accelerator board in the CD32 (video) (31. Jul. 2020)
The 'TF360' developed by Stephen Leary is an accelerator board for the Amiga CD32 which provides a slot for a 68060 processor as well as 128 MB Fast-RAM. A video now shows the prototype. Using an additional angle plug, providing a classic Amiga monitor po...

Unreleased commercial game: 'Dragon Slayer' will be completed (31. Jul. 2020)
'Dragon Slayer' is an arcade-adventure game similar to Barbarian (Psygnosis) in which the hero has to fight through hundreds of rooms in a fantasy setting. The game originally was meant to be released as commercial game in 1990 but was never completed. ...

Selfmade project: 8-Bit sampler 'Open Amiga Sampler' (30. Jul. 2020)
Sampling like in the year 1988: Under this motto Brendan Ratliff has published a detailed manual for making a parallel-port sampler for Amiga computers on Github. His 'Open Amiga Sampler' digitises in 8 Bit (mono), has a typical maximum sampling rate of a...

Desktop Publishing: RNO Publisher for all Amiga systems (30. Jul. 2020)
'RNO Publisher' created with Hollywood is a simple DTP application: The user creates one-page or multi-page documents and there can place text boxes, pictures and other graphic objects as well as links - the result then is exported to a PDF file. An ...

Arcade classic: Super Wormy - The Worm-Like Snake 1.1 (29. Jul. 2020)
Unlike many other games, the levels in "Super Wormy" (video) are bigger than the screen. Therefore the screen is scrolled and the player is informed about his position by a little radar. A level editor also is included. Changes in version 1.1: Now...

AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.6 (29. Jul. 2020)
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programs has been compiled for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to an Unix installation. Additional to othe...

Source codes: Example routines for AMOS programmer (28. Jul. 2020)
Usually with permission of the rightholders "Games-Coffer" offers Amiga games for free download. In a separate "AMOS" section the website collects example source codes for AMOS programmer. Currently 115 different routines are available. The following entr...

Cloanto opposing registration of US trademark 'Amico' (27. Jul. 2020)
As documented in the database of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Cloanto is opposing the registration of the trademark 'Amico' by Intellivision Entertainment LLC. since February. The US branch of the Italian software developer registered the 'Amiga' m...

Announcement: Workbench distribution Amikit for Vampire planned (27. Jul. 2020)
On his website Ján Zahurančík has announced a version of his Workbench distribution 'Amikit' for Vampire boards. Currently more details are not available. The Amikit version is supposed to be released in August. ...