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Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10 (26. Feb. 2024)
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not al...

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7 (26. Feb. 2024)
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology. Die Änderungen in der Version 1.7: The program now...

Web browser: AmiFox 0.6 (26. Feb. 2024)
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the pr...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary (26. Feb. 2024)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to Aminet: SonosController_AROS.lha comm/misc 2.6M x86 Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.6M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_OS3.lha c...

OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to OS4Depot: sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your... mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor amigemini.lha net/bro...

AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to AROS Archives: usbmidi.i386-aros.lha dri/aud 66kb MidiDriver with source ...

DIY: "Joystick Reanimator" repairs micro switches using electric impulses (25. Feb. 2024)
C64 fan 'GI-Joe' - a service technician in real life - has come across many faulty microswitches in his professional life. The silver-plated switching contacts of switches that only have to switch very low currents were often oxidized: the arcing that occ...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 - preview and excerpts (24. Feb. 2024)
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 167 (March/April 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things, this issue features the following topics: Show report: Passione Amiga Day 2023 Interview: Michael Kafke (ASM Game) P...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.4 for all Amiga systems (24. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga program for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.4, for the first time also for AROS and...

Book: "68000 - The Flame Wars" available, sales discount (23. Feb. 2024)
The German-French coproduction "68000: The Flame Wars" (initially: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars") covers the competition between Amiga and Atari ST in the second half of the 1980ies combining factual and opinion-based approaches. Starting last June, the book ...

Book: "AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch" available, English version announced (22. Feb. 2024)
The German book "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" ("AmigaOS 3.2 - The Reference Manual") has been published by Look Behind You. It has 512 pages and is available both as a hardcover book and as a PDF file. The official press release can be found in our...

Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune' (22. Feb. 2024)
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended t...

amiga-news.de: Server update on Friday evening (21. Feb. 2024)
This Friday evening, amiga-news.de's server will be upgraded to a newer version of Debian Linux resulting in a short period of downtime for the website. Since the update was tested several times in a test environment, we're confident update will be painle...

Article on the advertising games of the 90s (German) (20. Feb. 2024)
In a (German) GamersGlobal article at the title link, 'Nischenliebhaber' looks back at the advertising games of the 1990s. These include the games "BiFi 2 - Action in Hollywood", "Das Telekommando kehrt zurück", "Victor Loomes" and "Der rasende Repor...

Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0 (19. Feb. 2024)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.2.0. Changes: New features/updates MacroSystem DraCo emulation. Full emulation except V-Lab Motion video board which is totally undocumented. Amiga clone without Amiga custom chips. Pic...

Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 2 (19. Feb. 2024)
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire an A1060 Sidecar on eBay and reports in a three-part series on how he restored it. In the first part he disassembled it, in the second part now available under the title link all the broken parts ...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6 (19. Feb. 2024)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.54 (18. Feb. 2024)
After AmiUpdate was recently updated several times (amiga-news.de reported), another update has been released today with version 2.54. Changes: Changed the main list to include a "Last Changed" column. This now allows you to sort updates accordin...

Aminet uploads until 17.02.2024 (18. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to Aminet: ellipse.lha dev/amos 15K ellipse targetted 5 points ellipse_exact.lha dev/amos 9K Precise solution of ellipse escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 9...