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Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued (16. Jul. 2023)
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his...

Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.0 (15. Jul. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. As the developer wrote, the WebKit core has again been rebased to the latest stable WebKitGTK tree. But that's not all, 6.0 also brings many UI improvements like ...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.2 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux (14. Jul. 2023)
AmiKit has released version 12.2 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 is now supported and it has been updated to the latest version of the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux a...

Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.41 (14. Jul. 2023)
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.41: AT32F415: Fix timer handling since clock speed increase (v3.39). LCD: Faster power-on ini...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.0.1.01 for Amigas with 68060 processor (14. Jul. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.0.1 for the first time....

MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.2 (14. Jul. 2023)
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.2 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes DotFlag and RandomPixels....

Start bar: WBDock2 2.877 (14. Jul. 2023)
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.877. Changes of this program for AmigaOS 3.1 and higher include addition of an experimental separator app (only working properly in AmiDock style yet) and a cha...

Amiga Future: New full versions online (14. Jul. 2023)
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Wibble World Giddy, Giddy 2, Operation Firestorm, and Space Ace 2 - Borfs Revenge as well as the Bauersoft releases Basket, Hotel, Imbiss, and Toon....

Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (14. Jul. 2023)
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as...

Virtual Enemies: Devlog #2 - Registration, Network, Language-Support (14. Jul. 2023)
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published a second devlog: "It's time to give another interim report on the development status of "Virtual Enemies". So how does it looks like: Charact...

Arcade port: Pengo beta version released (11. Jul. 2023)
At the title link, a beta version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines, has been released (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks....

AROS distribution: AROS Vision "Sunrise" (11. Jul. 2023)
Olaf Schönweiß has uploaded a new version of his distribution Aros Vision. There is no information if and what new features there are apart from the addition of Marcus Sackrow's programs AmiDream and AmiTranslate. Below you can read a general distribut...

AmigaOS 4: Status update for the WebKit port (10. Jul. 2023)
George 'walkero' Sokiano's describes the current status of the Webkit port in a forum post: Since his last status report, he had not spoken up again, but a lot had happened behind the scenes. The work on the Webkit engine requires changes in adtools,...

Hollywood: ZIP plugin 2.0 released (10. Jul. 2023)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the ZIP plugin for Hollywood. This is a major update which adds several new features exclusively for users of Hol...

Aminet uploads until 08.07.2023 (09. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 08.07.2023 to Aminet: lubricator.lha comm/www 69K 68k GUI HTTP search/download + di... WhatMightHaveBeen.lha demo/aga 119K 68k Demo for DSP3210 chips GameX.lha dev/c ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.07.2023 (09. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 08.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: IMP_3.411.lha Audio/Players Play modules from inter... AmiArcadia_29.50.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... AmiDream_0.2.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 08.07.2023 (09. Jul. 2023)
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 08.07.2023: 2023-07-08 improved: Stunt Car Rac...

MorphOS: Settings for usage under Linux with libvirt (09. Jul. 2023)
At the title link, MorphZone member "AA5ikkR5SQC6pJSc" reports the settings he used under Fedora Linux to run MorphOS in emulation via QEMU using libvirt. A working NIC, however, he didn't achieve to configure so far....

Book: From Vultures to Vampires, Volume 2 available (09. Jul. 2023)
Two years after volume one of the "From Vultures to Vampires" books about Amiga history by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, starting July 14 the second of in total three volumes will b...