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Trademark exploitation: "Commodore" household appliances (07. Jul. 2023)
Apparently the most recent use of the brand name "Commodore" with a logo similar to the original can currently be found in MediaMarkt's advertising in Germany and Austria: on the one hand wet mopping robots in three variants and in Austria on the other ha...

Emulator of an optical drive with CD³² support (05. Jul. 2023)
Felix Lazarev has announced that his "Phøde Universal Optical Drive Emulator" will also support the Amiga CD³² among other systems. An "Optical Drive Emulator" (short: ODE) replaces an optical drive with a board that reads CD images from e.g. an SD c...

AmigaOS 4: Script for adjusting Browservice usage by Odyssey (05. Jul. 2023)
In order to be able to visit more modern websites on AmigaOS 4 with the Odyssey web browser, Browservice can be used (amiga-news.de reported). However, it happens that lateral scroll bars constantly appear and disappear again. George Sokianos has ...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.2 (05. Jul. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Videos of the Kickstart 01 (03. Jul. 2023)
Last weekend, after a break of several years, an event for Amiga fans took place again in Great Britain with the Kickstart 01 (amiga-news.de reported). A short walk around of the event organised by Ravi Abbott (interview with amiga-news.de) was recorded b...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.14 (02. Jul. 2023)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Aminet uploads until 01.07.2023 (02. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to Aminet: encore_morphiller.lha demo/misc 11M MOS Morphiller by Encore - demo f... ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 94K x86 SSHv2 file system client ssh2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc...

AROS Archives uploads until 01.07.2023 (02. Jul. 2023)
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to AROS Archives: worldcup.lha doc/mis 655kb Soccer World Cup statistics 1930... z_lib.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 54kb Zlib core as a shared library yam29p1-aros-i386.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 01.07.2023 (02. 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 01.07.2023: 2023-06-29 fixed: Star Command (SS...

Lubricator 2.0: Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk (02. Jul. 2023)
"Lubricator" written by Timm 'bifat' Mueller loads disk images from the World Wide Web and writes them on an Amiga disk using an Amiga with only 1 MB RAM and without harddrive. New in version 2.0: Parser bits rewritten in assembler Minor corrections...

RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.9 for P96 (02. Jul. 2023)
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 47.9, now available on Aminet, adds support of tooltypes that are supported as of P96 3.4.0, namely the Rainbow...

Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers (02. Jul. 2023)
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong, who recently published AmigaGPT, offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit. These contain additional adaptations of AmiSSL-S...

New cross compiler/assembler: Calypsi (01. Jul. 2023)
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - among others, 6502 and 68000 processors are supported. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source c...

Preview video 31: Souverän Soccer (01. Jul. 2023)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). He has written about his 31. preview video: "Lots of stuff has happened during the pas...

Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3.1 (30. Jun. 2023)
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported). Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3.1. It...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.07.01 (30. Jun. 2023)
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 2023.07.01: Improve CD-ROM i...

Preview video: Platform game "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword" (30. Jun. 2023)
At the end of 2021 we reported for the first time about Yoz Montana's platformer "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword", which he creates for AGA-Amigas with the help of the Game Construction Kit RedPill. In issue 15 of the magazine Amiga Addict a demo ...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.5 (29. Jun. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.5 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes include among others mjpeg support in ffmpeg (enables audio playback in JellyFin) and an updated/bugfixed cURL. Therefore, the author strongly recommends...

Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania" (29. Jun. 2023)
Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan is a about writing his first platform game using the Scorpion Engine. He has released a first, early demo version of "Gothic Vania" for AGA Amigas: ...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V2.0 R87 for Windows 10/11 (29. Jun. 2023)
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, ...