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Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Drive supports Amiga filesystems (09. Sep. 2017)
ADF-Copy is an USB adapter which, connected to a ordinary PC disk drive, can read and write Amiga disks - provided that the disks are not copy-protected. The floppy port is connected to a Teensy 3.2 micro controller by using some jumpers controlled by the...

Trademark disputes: yet another party wants to own "Amiga" (Update) (09. Sep. 2017)
In the US and Germany, the registration for the "Amiga" trademark already expired. It's still a registered mark in the EU until May next year, but nobody really expects the current owner to ever do something with that registration again. As a result, Hype...

Workbench history: Why was "Disk doctor" so spectacularly bad at its job? (08. Sep. 2017)
In an article at auf amiga.org, Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel has explained, why "DiskDoctor" - known from the first generation of the Workbench - worked so bad and could not successfully repair disks. Since the middle of the 90ies Barthel has been working with th...

Status update: Web browser Netsurf under AGA (update) (08. Sep. 2017)
In May it turned out that the current version of Artur Jarosik's SDL-based port of Netsurf could only be used with a graphics board. Daniel Reimann, an editor of amiga-news.de, has contacted Jarosik to find out how the development status is regarding a ve...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Comic archive viewer RNOComics 1.0 (07. Sep. 2017)
Like Comicami for AmigaOS 4, RNOComics is a comic book archive viewer for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 that can open almost any archive file, or a directory with unarchived images, and display the images in it in a GUI designed to read comics (screensh...

Emulation of Sam 460 using QEMU in development (05. Sep. 2017)
According to a mail on the QEMU-PPC mailing list Zoltan Balaton is working on an emulation of a Sam-460 using QEMU. In the first status report (middle of August) he described that AROS as well as MorphOS could boot, but finally failed due to different pro...

Scandoubler: ScanPlus AGA (04. Sep. 2017)
ScanPlus AGA is a simple scandoubler for AGA computers. The device has a VGA-port and a simple screensaver. The developer has published some pictures in his blog. Currently only Amedia Computer seems to offer the device. ...

Aminet-Uploads until 02.09.2017 (03. Sep. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 2nd, 2017: OSCopperlist.lha dev/asm 4K 68k Copperlist on intuition screen Epub_mcc.0.2.lha dev/mui 3.6M MOS A Epub MUI Class Screech_src.lha gam...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.09.2017 (03. Sep. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 2nd, 2017: coreutils.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities diffutils.lha dev/uti 586kb 4.0 File comparison tools sed.lha dev/uti 354kb ...

AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.09.2017 (03. Sep. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until September 2nd, 2017: mui_examples.i386-aros.zip dev/exa 449kb MUI coding examples in C clicolor-1.4-aros.zip uti/she 23kb AROS dos script to switch shell ... ...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit X 10.3 (03. Sep. 2017)
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is meant for emulators and has more than 390 pre-configured programs. In version 10.3 the Boxx trilogy games of 'Lemming880' and Stephan Rupprecht's replacement of the info-command were added. Besides, a lot of programs h...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.3 (03. Sep. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free. In version 3.3 a question was corrected and...

AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.8.3 (02. Sep. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga." In version 3.8.3 among others an automatic update of the software was added. ...

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.28 (02. Sep. 2017)
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. ...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2017)
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2017 news Old articles from T...

Aminet-Uploads until 26.08.2017 (27. Aug. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until August 26th, 2017: rentp.lha comm/tcp 6K 68k Sets system time from NTP server CS2017.lha demo/misc 110K 68k Old-school style demo badformat.lha ...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.08.2017 (27. Aug. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until August 26th, 2017: coreutils.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator wormwars.lha gam/...

AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.08.2017 (27. Aug. 2017)
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until August 26th, 2017: blockattack.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 6Mb Match colors of rising blocks in... ...

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2.1 (27. Aug. 2017)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free. From version 3.2.1 on now AskMeUp checks if...

Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 0.6.0a (26. Aug. 2017)
FlashFloppy is an open source firmware alternative for the Gotek disk drive simulation (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 0.6.0a: Allow PC Floppy Interface (DSKCHG on pin 34) to be selected via a jumper at position JC. Default interface...