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Anniversary: APC&TCP has now been active for 30 years (02. May. 2022)
Andreas Magerl writes: "The APC&TCP computer club was founded more than 30 years ago. (Does anybody of you know exactly when?) As one of the largest Amiga clubs worldwide, the question of how to better support all the programmers in the club came up quite...

Video: Commodore 64 celebrates 40th anniversary (02. May. 2022)
According to Wikipedia, the Commodore 64 was introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and thus celebrates its 40th anniversary. The YouTuber 'BastichB 64K' has dedicated a special video with sever...

Operating system: MorphOS 3.17 released (01. May. 2022)
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.17. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeo...

Aminet uploads until 30.04.2022 (01. May. 2022)
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to Aminet: femto.lha dev/gg 768K MOS Extended version of Atto Emacs Fynn_Thorin_Finale.zip game/2play 698K 68k Fynn and Thorin (German and E... flappadiddle.lha gam...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.04.2022 (01. May. 2022)
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to MorphOS-Storage: Chrysalis_3.16.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to... ld80_0.6.1.lha Development/Cross L80 replacement linker zmac.lha ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 30.04.2022 (01. May. 2022)
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 30.04.2022: 2022-04-30 improved: Narco Police ...

Chipmusic tracker: PreTracker 1.5 (30. Apr. 2022)
Abyss, an Amiga demo group founded in 1992, hat released version 1.5 of its chipmusic tracker 'PreTracker'. It emulates the Paula soundchip of the Amiga computers. The tracker for creating music for Amiga demos, intros and games runs under Windows. All sa...

AmigaOS 4: Version 2 of editor 'Lite XL' released (30. Apr. 2022)
At the end of the last year, George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had released the first version v1.16.12.3 of hisport of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2 and has written on it: ...

Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.52 (30. Apr. 2022)
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.52. Changes: New fixes: Simplify file loading so that compatibility with FTPMount is better. FTPMount does not seem to support file seek...

Demo: THE CURE version 1.4 for AGA Amigas (30. Apr. 2022)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has relea...

Platformer: Developer for Amiga port of 'Flea' wanted (29. Apr. 2022)
As John Girvin from Nivrig Games (e.g. Turbo Santa or Turbo Tomato) reports, developer Alastair Low (Lowtek Games) said in a conversation on Twitch that he would be open to a port of his platformer 'Flea' to the Amiga. The game was originally funded and r...

Video: Installation of AmiKit XE on Apollo V4 system (29. Apr. 2022)
In a short video Willem Drijver has demonstrated how to install the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE on a system equipped with a Apollo-V4....

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.2 / 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' announced (28. Apr. 2022)
At the end of March the new major release 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was made available. Today with version 3.9.2 a second bug fix release was added. Changes: fixed some enforcer hits fixed drawing problem with text cursor updated sev...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.5 (2nd update) (28. Apr. 2022)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.3 and then as a bugfix version 3.4 of his MorphOS web browser 'Wayfarer'. Changes: HTTP HEAD requests to resources would poison the Curl disk cache with 0-byte files, leading to websites failing to load...

Apollo Team: Deluxe remake of Menace in development (28. Apr. 2022)
Already in August last year Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), announced the HD conversion of the Menace game for Vampire Amigas with an animated end boss on his homepage (amiga-news.de reporte...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New, experimental firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems (update) (28. Apr. 2022)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with connections beyond that (network, USB, SD cards), which can be pre-ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Now he provides an experimental, new firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems, which fixes ...

Kickstart patch for using NTSC Agnus chips on PAL systems (25. Apr. 2022)
At the title link, 'Cathal' has published his project, with the help of which the NTSC version of the 2 MB Agnus custom chip can also be used for PAL systems. However, patching the Kickstart ROM file requires Windows. He writes about it: "In view of ...

Video: ApolloBoot Omni R8 - Starting different operating system versions (25. Apr. 2022)
At the title link, Willem Drijver undertakes a "journey through time" in his video in the form of different operating systems, which he starts one after the other in real-time on his Apollo V4 standalone. For this purpose, ApolloBoot Omni was...

Video tutorial: How to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA (25. Apr. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA. He says the tutorial is suitable for beginners and includes an example of the binary search algorithm, which is very useful when searching for a word in the list....

Game announcement: Andrew Vaisey's puzzle game 'Spheroid (25. Apr. 2022)
Andrew Vaisey is a very versatile and busy developer who describes himself as an "8/16bit graphician, musician & coder", but has always had a connection to the Amiga as well. He has been creatively active in graphics and music on the C64 since the 1980s. ...