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Windows: "Amiga Conversion Kit" 1.1 (02. Oct. 2011)
The "Amiga Conversion Kit" tries to adapt Look and Feel of Windows to AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot). Among others Amiga Icons (Ken's Icons, Source Icons), an AmigaOS 4-skin as well as Amiga mouse pointer are used. Additionally the package patches an...

Event: Datastorm 2012 (Sweden) (01. Oct. 2011)
From 10. until 12. Februar 2012 in Göteborg (Sweden) the Datastorm 2012 will take place. In 2010 the event was organized as winterly counterpart to the Little Computer People and is a scene party for "oldskool"- and retro systems like C64 or Amiga. ...

MorphOS: PowerBook purchase advice (28. Sep. 2011)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has written an English-language purchase advice for users who want to buy an Apple PowerBook to use it with MorphOS. Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski has translated the text into Polish. ...

Amiga Forever 2012.0.16.0 (28. Sep. 2011)
Cloanto has published two new updates for its emulator package Amiga Forever 2012. The "player" and the RP9-editor were updated and additional to minor bug fixes, the performance of booting the computer was improved. ...

Installer 1.39 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS (26. Sep. 2011)
Installer written by Guido "geit" Mersmann is a replacement for the installation programm provided by Commodore. In version 1.39 several minor bugs were fixed. The Installer is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS. Installer.lha (570 KB) (Readme) ...

Puzzle game: "Symbol-Rechnen" for all Amiga systems (25. Sep. 2011)
"Symbol-Rechnen" simulates the arithmetical problem where each figure is encrypted by a certain symbol. The computer generates new tasks every time - which have to be solved so all additions and subtractions or multiplications and divisions (Vers 2.1) fit...

Amiga Inc. lost several US-trademarks (25. Sep. 2011)
Recently Amiga Inc. had had six registered trademarks in the United States. For five of these trademarks the company would have proved a commercial use until August. This did not happen. Therefore the "US Patent and Trademark Office" deleted the following...

Programming language: Hollywood creates iPad-applications (25. Sep. 2011)
Press release: Hollywood has recently been ported to the iPad (ARM architecture) by order of a commercial customer who needs to use it on tablet devices in clinics and hotels. A small demo video of Hollywood running on iPad has been uploaded to YouTube. ...

HSMathLibs 46.00 for MC68060, MC68040 and MC68881/82 (24. Sep. 2011)
Matthias Henze's HSMathLibs replace the libraries mathieeedoubbas.library, mathieeedoubtrans.library, mathieeesingtrans.libray and mathtrans.library and patch or replace the libraries mathffp.library and mathieeesingbas.libray by optimized versions. ...

AROS: LLVM-Bounty (Phase 1) completed (24. Sep. 2011)
After the release of the first release candidate of the cross-compiler LLVM, this bounty project was now successfully completed. Pascal Papara who is initiator and main sponsor is looking for suggestions for the description of the second phase. The poi...

AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.2 (24. Sep. 2011)
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS (screenshot). This is customized to the Acer-netbook Aspire but should run on every other hardware. The update requires an existing 1.x-installation. Amiga games now are st...

AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser NetSurf 2.8 (23. Sep. 2011)
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally written for RiscOS. It can be used with 17 MB memory and supports among others HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes in version 2.8 are listed in the Changelog. Release notes for this AmigaO...

Interview: Richard Hewison (Speedball 2, Stunt Car Racer) (22. Sep. 2011)
Richard Hewison was involved with various classic Amiga games (Beneath a Steel Sky, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Stunt Car Racer, Speedball II) as a playtester or project manager. In this interview he speaks about his memories of the former Amiga games...

OnyxSoft: BackUp 1.71 and DECH 1.50 (21. Sep. 2011)
The developers group OnyxSoft has updated two of their programs: BackUp and DECH. BackUp 1.71 An average copying speed in kB or MB/s has been added to Daniel 'Deniil' Westerberg's backup tool. It will show up after finishing. It's mostly interesting...

MorphOS: Prospect of version 3.0 (21. Sep. 2011)
Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin has given an outlook on the next update of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS at MorphZone. The next public version of MorphOS will be version 3.0 and introduce support for PowerBook (only 15" and 17" PowerBooks of versions 5...

AmigaOS 4: integrated development environment CodeBench 0.23 (19. Sep. 2011)
Simon "Rigo" Archer has released a new beta version of his integrated development environment CodeBench (screenshot). Codebench 0.23 requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1, but Update 3 is highly recommended for use with Codebench. The free edi...

AROS: Zune bounty divided into separate projects (19. Sep. 2011)
The original bounty project for enhancement of the MUI clone for AROS, Zune, is now being split into smaller steps. Current donors are advised to request by e-mail that their contributions are moved to the new "Phase 1" bounty detailed at the title l...

Amiga-Meeting 2011: Further exhibitors, dealers and developers wanted (19. Sep. 2011)
The organisers of this year's Amiga-Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (near Hamburg), Germany, are still looking for further exhibitors, dealers and developers to take part. So far almost 40 participants have been registered. Among them are for example Alinea Comp...

ACube announces complete systems labeled "AmigaOne 500" (19. Sep. 2011)
ACube announces the "AmigaOne 500", a complete system based on their well-known PPC motherboard Sam460ex. It comes in a case with "AmigaOne 500" and Boingball stickers and includes the following components: Sam460ex 1.15 GHz 2 GB DDR2 RAM 500 GB HD...

Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.3 (18. Sep. 2011)
Version 2.3.3 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released today. The update introduces a new VSync mode to solve the problem of complete CPU usage. New features: New very low latency VSync mode, autodetects real refresh rate, no more 100% CPU u...