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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.04.2024 (07. Apr. 2024)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 06.04.2024: 2024-04-05 improved: After Burner ...

Anniversary: 10 years of Kultmags.com (07. Apr. 2024)
Under the entry dated April 5, 2024, Klaus Sommer looks back on the tenth anniversary of his website kultmags.com at the title link. Kultmags preserves computer and video game magazines in German language of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s digitized for...

Game: Hack and Slay (07. Apr. 2024)
In this simple Amiga conversion of the mailbox game "Hack and Slash", the aim is to explore five levels with a stick figure. AmigaOS 3.x and 1 MB RAM are required....

History of technology: The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disc (05. Apr. 2024)
IEEE, an online magazine specialising in technology topics, has published a background report on the storage medium floppy disk and the company 3M that is well worth reading. Floppy discs had an amazingly long life - it was only in January 2024 that ...

AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460 (05. Apr. 2024)
The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 5 only supports "Southern Islands" cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.4 for Windows (04. Apr. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Requires Greaseweazle 1.16.3 Read: Added new template "Commodore C...

Casual puzzle game: Kondi Krush (04. Apr. 2024)
"Kondi Krush" is a clone of the smartphone classic Candy Crush: On a playing field filled with sweets, the aim is to place at least three identical elements in a row and making them disappear from the playing field by swapping two pieces of sweet in each ...

Obligement: Interview with AmigaOS 3.2 developer Camilla Boemann (04. Apr. 2024)
David Brunet has published on his Obligement website an interview with the Danish developer Camilla Boemann, who is part of the AmigaOS 3.2 team. Besides the english version at the title link there is also a french one....

Preview video: Pumpman v0.003 (04. Apr. 2024)
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman" (amiga-news.de reported), for which he has now published a new preview video. Changes: "Fake" vertical scrolling allowing for more floors. I...

Operating system: NetBSD 10.0 (02. Apr. 2024)
The Unix derivative NetBSD has been released in version 10.0. The eighteenth major version of the NetBSD operating system is also available as an original port for PowerPC-Amigas (experimental) and 68k-Amigas. The global changes since the last versio...

Demoparty: Demos and results of Revision 2024 (02. Apr. 2024)
This year's edition of the demoparty Revision took place this Easter weekend in Saarbrücken (amiga-news.de reported). In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are (overview of al...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux (01. Apr. 2024)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Am...

Puzzle game: Glubble (01. Apr. 2024)
The "Revision" demo party takes place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. The group Oxygen has published a puzzle game there called "Glubble", in which blobs of the same color have to be pushed together to form groups of the same color. ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 30.03.2024 (31. Mar. 2024)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 30.03.2024: 2024-03-26 new: De Profundis (The ...

Video tutorial: WIFI internet on Amiga with BlueSCSI v2 (31. Mar. 2024)
BlueSCSI v2 is an SCSI solution for retro computers. Based on the Raspberry Pi Pico-W microcontroller, there are further possibilities, though. The Video at the title link demonstrates how one can also use it to access wireless LAN, thanks to...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2024.04.01 (31. Mar. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.04.01: Unified USB Mass ...

Motorola68k emulation: Status update on the WLAN driver for Emu68 (30. Mar. 2024)
After Michal Schulz had released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), he is working intensively on a WLAN driver and had made first considerations and tests in a Patreon post. In yest...

Print magazine: Issue 142 of Amiga Future readable online (29. Mar. 2024)
The German and English issue 142 (January/February 2020) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF...

Hyperion: Bankruptcy proceedings reopened against Ben Hermans B.V. (Update) (29. Mar. 2024)
Since a restructuring in 2019, the Belgian lawyer Ben Hermans has owned around 97% of all shares in Hyperion (Heretic 2, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.2), which he transferred to his company "Ben Hermans B.V." a few months later. Since then, this very company also...

Overview: Linux for Sam and A1222-Plus boards (28. Mar. 2024)
With our ongoing coverage of new Linux kernels for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 models (amiga-news.de reported), the availability of the A1222 Plus, as well as the Sam460LE boards, raises the question of how Linux support will look here. Sam boards ...