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Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1 (11. Feb. 2024)
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now...

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update) (11. Feb. 2024)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MID...

Aminet uploads until 10.02.2024 (11. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to Aminet: LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program Leu.lha biz/spread 8.0M ALL Simple spreadsheet application SonosController_MOS.lha comm...

AmigaOS 4: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.87 (11. Feb. 2024)
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Now Achim Pankalla has released version 1.87. Changes: Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only la...

Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS (10. Feb. 2024)
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as...

Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS (10. Feb. 2024)
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developi...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (10. Feb. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2) (09. Feb. 2024)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes: AmiUpdate 2.50 The http transfer routines did not consider a filenam...

Blog: Modding the Amiga boot hand (09. Feb. 2024)
Alexander Grupe recently discovered the Amiga start screen redesigned by AndroidArts on X and wondered whether the standard screen designed by Sheryl Knowles could actually be changed or replaced. In a current article on his website heckmeck! he shows tha...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch and Odyssey Web Browser (09. Feb. 2024)
Press release: This new version 20220318-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems introduces updates to a few libraries as well as multiple bugixes. If you are a developer, please take note of switch to new C library and update your SDK installation. The downlo...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.3 (08. Feb. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.3 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Wayfarer now is based on the latest WebKit engine WebKitGTK 2.42.5, which was released three days ago....

Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.0.0 (08. Feb. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. After numerous beta versions, he has now released version 1.0.0....

Font: Topaz as TrueType font (08. Feb. 2024)
When the Amiga 500 was launched in 1987, it had a complete graphical user interface, the Workbench. Many of the resources required for Workbench were stored in ROM, including the default user interface font, a monospaced, 8x8px font called Topaz. It's hig...

AROS/MorphOS: Music program ProTrekkr V2.6.4 (update) (08. Feb. 2024)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small size...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS (06. Feb. 2024)
John Bintz has been a software developer for over 20 years and runs the website The Industrious Rabbit. Originally to share his experiences as a developer with others, but more recently to explore some of the more unusual areas of technology and find ways...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.02.06 (06. Feb. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.02.06: RP2040: Fix watc...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS) (05. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Ho...

RTG driver: P96 V3.4.1 released (05. Feb. 2024)
Press release: The new version V3.4.1 contains new drivers for the GBA-PII++ and VA2000 cards, and it makes installation on UAE a lot easier. Further, the driver for the A2410 "Tiga" card has been updated and overlays for the Picasso IV card have been fix...

USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update) (05. Feb. 2024)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of test...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.34 (04. Feb. 2024)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requ...