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Whatever became of... - Bill McEwen? (12. Apr. 2023)
As one can read on the company website at the title link, the former president of Amiga Inc. Bill McEwen is now working for Stavatti Aerospace. The plans of its founder are ambitious - he wants to produce military jets e.g. for NATO, although he has n...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.04.11 (12. Apr. 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). Since our last message about version 1.2.1 of the fi...

Musicdisk: Chipo Django 2 (12. Apr. 2023)
Also released at the Revision Demo Part held last Easter weekend in the "Wild" category was the musicdisc "Chipo Django 2" by Raubenage & Bitshifters Collective cross-platform for Atari STe, Amiga OCS/ECS and Acorn (YouTube video of the Atari STe version)...

Audio player: RNOTunes 1.1 for all Amiga systems (12. Apr. 2023)
RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for many different audio formats, embedded cover images, and Last.fm scrobbling (amiga-news.de reported). 'jPV^RNO' now has released version 1.1. Changes: Added button graphics previews in...

Web-based image editor: DPaint.js (11. Apr. 2023)
"DPaint.js" by 'Steffest' is a web-based image editor focusing on Amiga file formats, strongly inspired by the classic DPaint. It is run directly in the browser (works also with the MorphOS browser Wayfarer) and can read and write all kinds of Amiga icons...

Game soundtrack: MicroProse Soccer (D4XX Remix) (11. Apr. 2023)
If the prospect of the upcoming short week is not enough motivation, Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann's latest work is highly recommended: his remix of the main theme of the game "MicroProse Soccer" is based on the original music by Martin Galway for the C64 ...

AmigaOS 4: CPU profiler "Tequila" 1.0 (10. Apr. 2023)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki's "Tequila" is a simple CPU profiler which samples current running tasks. At the moment it's not very accurate or feature-rich, but it will detect if some task is using CPU. Direct download: Tequila-1.0.lha (28 KB)...

AmigaOS 4: mySQLcontrol 2.10, myApacheStarter 3.10 (10. Apr. 2023)
mySQLcontrol by Michael Christoph is a database administration and editing program for the mySQL database server under AmigaOS 4. It requires the MySQL database server included in Edgar Schwan's development environment AAMP (and update if necessary). ...

USB-C Power Supply for Amiga announced (10. Apr. 2023)
At the title link a USB-C-based power supply called "PowerShark" has been announced for Amiga 500, 600 and 1200. Battery-powered USB-C chargers would also be supported, as would magnetic USB-C adapters. Currently, however, only a text-only description ...

MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.11 (10. Apr. 2023)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.11 of Iris, his e-Mail client for MorphOS. Changes include faster refreshes when viewing folders and an updated version of the WebKit engine. Changes: Faster message refresh when viewing a folder -...

Jump'n Run: Boxx 4 released (10. Apr. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' in cooperation with "Retroguru" has released the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine at the currently taking place Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported). Features: 14 finest Amiga chip...

Developer package: DevPack 1.2 (10. Apr. 2023)
The free "DevPack" by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is intended for Amiga users who want to develop their own software under AmigaOS. The new version 1.2 provides the following changes: ADDED: AmigaRebol V2 by Carl Sassenrath - the cross pl...

Aminet uploads until 08.04.2023 (09. Apr. 2023)
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to Aminet: BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 32K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 3.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support F1GP2023Carset.lha game...

WHDLoad: New installers until 08.04.2023 (09. Apr. 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 08.04.2023: 2023-04-08 improved: Tie-Break (St...

Mastodon client: Amidon 1.1 (08. Apr. 2023)
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.1 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Implemented Profile view Updated Readme with more details on the requirement...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.10 (08. Apr. 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...

Amiga disks on PC: FloppyBridge 1.4 (06. Apr. 2023)
Using Robert Smith's plugin FloppyBridge (video on how it works), emulators like WinUAE and Amiberry can work in real time with real floppy disks. Today he has released version 1.4. Changes since our last news item: Version 1.4 Fixed issues with s...

AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.25 (06. Apr. 2023)
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 54.16 are required. Now Juha...

Programming: TLS library Crypto Ancienne 2.2 (06. Apr. 2023)
Crypto Ancienne by Cameron Kaiser is a TLS library compatible with pre-C99 C compilers and "geriatric architectures", according to the author. With version 2.2, AmigaOS is now also supported; Crypto Ancienne was tested with ADE with the compiler GCC 2.95....

AMOS Professional: BSD Socket Extension 1.0.1 (06. Apr. 2023)
With the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional by John Bintz AMOS programs can easily access the internet. Originally the author had started his project already in 1998. In several videos he presents this extension in detail. Download: BSDSocket-E...