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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 graphics driver development (11. Dec. 2022)
In his latest blog entry, developer Michal Schulz reports on the work he has started with the P96 VideoCore driver and in particular with the VPU (Vector Processing Unit). In a short Video he demonstrates the VideoCore driver for the P96 RTG subsyste...

Advent Calendar: Door 10 - Edgar Schwan (10. Dec. 2022)
We start the weekend with the tenth door and Edgar Schwan. Edgar has been developing his Unix environment for AmigaOS 4, called AmiCygnix (current version 1.6), tirelessly and with great dedication for many years: it is not an emulation, but all prog...

Dock: QDock V1.39 (10. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). In the update that has now been released, he has implemented various improvements: for example...

Puzzle game: Update for "Wood Block Puzzle" (10. Dec. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). In the small update that has now been released, he has fixed a bug that occurred when eliminating a ...

Jump'n Run: Minky V1.41 (10. Dec. 2022)
Minky (video) is a Jump'n Run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). With the now released update to version 1.41, the selection "Joy Up" or "Joypad 2nd Fire" is available ...

ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.8 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (09. Dec. 2022)
Chris Young has released version 1.8 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool ex...

Advent Calendar: Door 9 - Jérôme Senay (09. Dec. 2022)
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay is the patron of our ninth advent calendar door. He is the manager of and programmer for Boing Attitude and a few days ago could celebrate the tenth anniversary of the quiz game AskMeUp at the beginning of December, which was fi...

Blog: Review of the UltimatePPC Expansion Card (08. Dec. 2022)
The blog "Amiga alive" not only presents own, partly older projects, but also reports about other software and hardware products. In the latest blog entry, the developer once again traces the development and the missed opportunities of the UltimatePPC boa...

AmigaOS 4.1: Update of Excel addon for spreadsheet ignition (08. Dec. 2022)
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.21, Achim Pankalla had also provided the xlsx-AddOn for reading MS-Excel files for the first time (amiga-news.de reported). For this he has released a small update to version 0.11 today: now it handle...

Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 2 (08. Dec. 2022)
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series (part 1) shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor vers...

Advent Calendar: Door 8 - Daniel Müßener (08. Dec. 2022)
For the 8th door of our Advent calendar, we were able to win Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener. Who would like to play "Battle Squadron" again? :) Originally developed by Cope-com in 1989, the game was re-released for AmigaOS 4 (and iOS, Android, Windows,...

RTG Solitare: Demo version of "Solitare match" (08. Dec. 2022)
Sami Vehmaa has released a demo version of his graphics card Solitare conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. Tho...

Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 17 (08. Dec. 2022)
The seventeenth issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available as a digital version for about 5.20 Euros. The printed version of the Christmas issue (from 15 December) including shipping costs about 11.50 euros. The current issue contains t...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.2 (07. Dec. 2022)
After developer Dirk Hoffmann released the first beta version 2.2 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS in mid-November (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released the final version 2.2. Changes: Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash wh...

Advent Calendar: Door 7 - Christian Zigotzky (07. Dec. 2022)
Door 7 of our advent calendar is filled by Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky. You could almost say: he is the fairy godmother for everything to do with Linux on PPC Amigas. However, his "amiga-news.de career" began with the port of SuperTuxKart to AmigaOS ...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.9.0 for Windows (06. Dec. 2022)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 1 (06. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by...

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.8 (06. Dec. 2022)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version ...

Advent Calendar: Door 6 - Matthias Böcker (06. Dec. 2022)
For St. Nicholas Day and the sixth door, Matthias 'UltraGelb' Böcker has something special for all MorphOS users: especially for our Advent calendar, he has written a wintry Screenblanker module. Already in the early days of amiga-news.de Matthias w...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.5 (06. Dec. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1.3 of the firmware was released today. Changes since 1.1.3: ...