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Reading Amiga disks on a PC: ADF Drive 1.110, ADF Copy 1.130 (01. Aug. 2020)
With the USB adapter 'ADF Drive' and its accompanying copy program 'ADF Copy', Amiga floppy disks can be read using a standard PC floppy drive under Windows, Linux or Mac OS. Since our last news item, both the adapter's firmware as well as the frontend we...

Unreleased commercial game: 'Dragon Slayer' will be completed (31. Jul. 2020)
'Dragon Slayer' is an arcade-adventure game similar to Barbarian (Psygnosis) in which the hero has to fight through hundreds of rooms in a fantasy setting. The game originally was meant to be released as commercial game in 1990 but was never completed. ...

Selfmade project: 8-Bit sampler 'Open Amiga Sampler' (30. Jul. 2020)
Sampling like in the year 1988: Under this motto Brendan Ratliff has published a detailed manual for making a parallel-port sampler for Amiga computers on Github. His 'Open Amiga Sampler' digitises in 8 Bit (mono), has a typical maximum sampling rate of a...

Arcade classic: Super Wormy - The Worm-Like Snake 1.1 (29. Jul. 2020)
Unlike many other games, the levels in "Super Wormy" (video) are bigger than the screen. Therefore the screen is scrolled and the player is informed about his position by a little radar. A level editor also is included. Changes in version 1.1: Now...

AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.6 (29. Jul. 2020)
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programs has been compiled for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to an Unix installation. Additional to othe...

Announcement: Workbench distribution Amikit for Vampire planned (27. Jul. 2020)
On his website Ján Zahurančík has announced a version of his Workbench distribution 'Amikit' for Vampire boards. Currently more details are not available. The Amikit version is supposed to be released in August. ...

Full version for download: Role play 'Swords of Twilight' (27. Jul. 2020)
The Amiga Future has made available the full version of the role play Swords of Twilight, originally released by Electronic Arts in 1989, as ADF or IPF image. Additionally a PDF of the manual is available. ...

Aminet-Uploads until 25.07.2020 (26. Jul. 2020)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 25th, 2020: AWeb_APL34_full_020.lha comm/www 1.5M 68k AWeb APL Lite Full Package (6... AWeb_APL34_full_030.lha comm/www 1.5M 68k AWeb APL Lite Full Package (6... AWeb_APL34_full_04...

AROS-Archives-Uploads until 25.07.2020 (26. Jul. 2020)
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until July 25th, 2020: fpc-3.2.0a-arm-aros.lha dev/lan 53Mb FreePascal for arm-aros ABIv0 fpc-3.2.0a-i386-aros.lha dev/lan 53Mb FreePascal for i386-aros ABIv0 atomicbomberman_aros.l...

NetBSD project: Amiga 3000 ensured access during server failure (26. Jul. 2020)
Yesterday NetBSD had a big server failure - the only server which still provided access, has been an Amiga. For the German mirror of the project an Amiga 3000 with a Cyberstorm-Mk2/68060 accelerator board is used. ...

MorphOS: Iris beta version 91 with verified GMail access (25. Jul. 2020)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. About the new beta version 91 of Iris the author wrote: "Iris' use of the Gmail IMAP interface has now...

CPU and RAM monitor: NewMeter 1.7 (24. Jul. 2020)
Thomas Rapp's 'NewMeter' is a monitor showing on the Workbench screen the utilization of CPU, RAM and several partitions with a bar chart. The program is configured using tooltypes, the available features the author explained in a German comment on a1k.or...

Raspberry Pi in an Amiga: Network driver for A314 (23. Jul. 2020)
"A314" is an adapter board which helps putting a Raspberry Pi in an Amiga 500, 600 or 2000. Additional to applications like exchanging data with Linux (running on the Pi) or playing audio or video files under Linux, now also the network connection of the ...

Print magazine: Issue 121 of Amiga Future readable online (22. Jul. 2020)
Issue 121 (July/August 2016) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop. ...

WarpOS port of Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (update) (21. Jul. 2020)
Raven Software's Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is a 3D action game released in 2002. Its source code was released in 2013. The WarpOS port requires the level files of the commercial release. The developer warns against several bugs which still ha...

Richard Löwenstein: AMIGA JOKER - 30 very personal years (20. Jul. 2020)
As a delayed birthday present Richard Löwenstein, editor of the computer magazine "Amiga Joker" from 1991 till 1996, has written some personal notes under the title link on occasion of the 30. anniversary of the discontinued magazine. ...

Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.28 released (20. Jul. 2020)
Thomas Wenzel wrote: After extensive testing, the new version of AmigaAMP now is ready for an official release. Mainly bugs have been fixed. In the 68k version now Bebbos GCC 6.5 is used which now again produces correct Non-FPU-Code. Therefore Ami...

MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 18.07.2020 (19. Jul. 2020)
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until July 18th, 2020: AmiBlitz3_3.7.4.zip Amiblitz is the furtherdevelop of BlitzBasic 2 f... AtomicBomberman_2.10.lha A fan rewrite of the Win95 game *** Atomic Bombe... FPC_3.2.0...

AmigaOS 4: Beta testers for multi-touchscreen driver wanted (18. Jul. 2020)
Alfredo Amendolagine has written an update of his USB touchscreen driver which now also supports multi-touch. A video shows how the driver can be used. The author also promises to support additional screens if sufficient documentation is available. Users ...

Amiga floppy reader: ADF-Copy 1.104 supporting Flux-Level (18. Jul. 2020)
Dominik Tonn wrote: "ADF-Copy is a small hardware i developed which uses a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller to read and write non copy protected Amiga disks with an out of the box PC 3.5" Floppy drive connected to the microcontroller which can be build with a f...