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Workshop: upgrade an Amiga 'Tank' mouse with microswitches (21. Jun. 2016)
Commodore mice - especially the famous 'Tank' model - are decades old and their switches aren't getting any better with age. Even if the mouse buttons still work, it often takes a constantly increasing amount of force to activate them or you nev...

AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 2.1.2 (21. Jun. 2016)
Version 2.1.2 of Paolo Besser's AROS distribution Icaros Desktop (screenshot) is the first one which supports Windows 7 "shared folders" using the SMB-handler; additionally the DropBox-handler and an AmiCould client were integrated. The AROS/68k s...

Diagnostic tool: DiagROM 0.6 (20. Jun. 2016)
DiagROM is a diagnostic software which is meant to be burned in an EPROM by the user and replaces the regular Kickstart-ROMs of an Amiga. The software does not require any timer, IRQs or something like that and therefore can be launched on very broke comp...

Retro 7-bit: Sum-Firmware-Update (20. Jun. 2016)
Sum developed by Retro 7-bit is a family of USB-devices for connecting keyboards to diverse Amiga models including the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the integrated USB-stack it "enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installin...

Aminet-Uploads until 18.06.2016 (19. Jun. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 18th, 2016: Legs_Intro_Colly.adz demo/disk 499K 68k Legionarys Intro Collection cflow-mos.lha dev/c 1.3M MOS Generate a program flowgraph AfricaMOS.lha ga...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.06.2016 (19. Jun. 2016)
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 18th, 2016: vsp.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.0 An easy mod, mp3, ogg and wav Vi... snes9x.zip emu/gam 170Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e... africa.lha ...

AROS-Archives-Uploads until 18.06.2016 (19. Jun. 2016)
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 18th, 2016: grafx2-2.4.2035.i386-aros... gra/edi 1Mb The Ultimate 256-color bitmap pa... clockywock.i386-aros.zip uti/mis 333kb Ncurses based ASCII analog clock. ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 18.06.2016 (19. Jun. 2016)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 18th, 2016: 2016-06-17 updated: Curse of Ra (R...

Coffee table book : "The Master of Pixel Art - Volume 1" available (17. Jun. 2016)
Last year, "The Masters of Pixel Art" was successfully financed by crowdfunding. The coffee table book "presents a selection of the very best pixel artwork in an exclusive production." If you place your order before June 27th, you will get a discount of 1...

Prototype of new A1200 case, production of Amiga key caps planned (16. Jun. 2016)
Last year Philippe Lang succeeded in financing the professional production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. Meanwhile a first prototype of the case was made. The blog "Indie Retro News" shows some photographs of it. According to Indie Retro News, La...

Event: Commodore Vegas Expo (30./31. July, Las Vegas) (16. Jun. 2016)
In 2016, the Commodore Vegas Expo ("CommVEx") will take place for the twelfth time. The CommVEx is meant for fans of the Commodore home computer. There will be a rummage sale and some commercial distributors and software developers will also be present. ...

Free download: Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (16. Jun. 2016)
The platform game Crystal Kingdom Dizzy was released in 1993 and now can be downloaded for free as ADF, IPF and WHDLoad. ...

Crowd funding: The story of the Commodore Amiga in pixels (14. Jun. 2016)
Nostalgia-related projects continue being very much the trend on crowd funding platforms: After The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels, the author Chris Wilkins is going to acknowledge the Amiga. The book will be published as paperback and hardcover book...

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.26 (14. Jun. 2016)
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 would very appreciate. He still is s...

AROS: May 2016 Highlights (13. Jun. 2016)
So far we reported about "A week in AROS" in which Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz collected information about changes of the operating system AROS. Recently only few changes could be reported therefore we will change to the monthly summaries of th...

Aminet: Separate category for Hollywood established (12. Jun. 2016)
The software collection Aminet has established a separate category called "dev/hwood" for the cross-platform programming language Hollywood. Currntly 24 entries are listed, especially plugins. ...

Aminet-Uploads until 11.06.2016 (12. Jun. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 11th, 2016: Void-ApplejackPack1.adf demo/disk 880K 68k "Applejack Pack #1" by Void WeAreTheRobots.adz demo/disk 374K 68k We are the robots by Risky bu... PD-Uebersicht.txt ...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.06.2016 (12. Jun. 2016)
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 11th, 2016: libsdl2_mixer.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 Mixer library for Simple DirectM... libsdl2_gfx.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Drawing and graphical effects ex... libsdl2_image.lh...

AmiModRadio 0.991 with rating function (11. Jun. 2016)
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." In version 0.991 a rating function has been added (from 1 to 5). All common ratings can be looked at as well as your own ones - if it is possible, because accordi...

Emulator: WinUAE 3.3.0 (07. Jun. 2016)
Toni Wilen has released version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adaptions. The developer thanks all donators who supported that. He also pointed out that "performance is not (and can't be) as fast as with m68k AmigaOS, e...