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Unfinished R-Type clone: Thesius XII (25. May. 2016)
In Autumn 2003 the team of Underware Design released the R-Type clone "Thesius XII" which they did not finish. According to the authors "this version is basically a 3 level edition of the game, minus the final two levels (which are no where near complete)...

Tutorial: Raspberry Pi as PPP-server for the Amiga (Update 2) (24. May. 2016)
An blog entry explains how you can use a Raspberry Pi with a cheap TTL-to-RS232-converter as a PPP server for an Amiga. The Amiga is connected to the single board computer using a regular RS 232 serial cable und is using a TCP stack - the tourial is ...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver6" (24. May. 2016)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the accelerator boards "Vampire 600 V2" are using the core. Already last week the latest update "Si...

Renaming files: SRename 3.10.0 final (24. May. 2016)
Using SRename you can you can rename a lot of files. After a break of ten years, Constantinos Nicolakakis started the developement again and last year he released a first beta version of SRename 3.10. Mainly the update provides internal improvements and a...

Book announcement: AmigaOS 4.1 Emulation (English/Polish) (24. May. 2016)
Under the title link Krzysztof 'Radzik' Radzikowski, who is well-known by his podcast AmiCast, has announced the publication of his book about using an emulated AmigaOS 4.1 for August. The book will have 300 pages. Additional to the English-language ...

Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.14dev (19. May. 2016)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta versi...

Virtual maschine for Lazarus crosscompiler, now with AmigaOS 4-support (16. May. 2016)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released an update of Virtual Lazarus. It is a virtual maschine, which can be used with the VMWare Player and in which Linux inluding the Freepascal crosscompilers for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (i386) and MorphOS as well as Lazarus...

Arcade racing game Amiga Racer 3.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS) (16. May. 2016)
Over the update function included in Michael Neitzel's Lotus clone "Amiga Racer", players get new features. Currently version 3.1 provides the first modules required for the multiplayer mode. Registered users also get a new Hungarian scenario, which is th...

Driver system: OpenPCI under GPL released (16. May. 2016)
The openpci.library provides an interface for drivers of PCI expansion cards which does not depend on the hardware. The PCI busboards Prometheus, GRex and Mediator as well as the emulator Amithlon are supported. With permission of the initiating author th...

Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.0 (16. May. 2016)
Rapid Cross-Platform GUI Development On All Islands Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present its most ambitious Hollywood plugin yet: RapaGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the ...

USB mouse adapter: JP-Mouse (13. May. 2016)
Two members of the Portuguese forum Retromania.pt, José Gonçalves and Paulo Sousa (JPRetro), have developed a space-saving low-cost adapter which can connect an USB-mouse to an Amiga or Atari ST. Under the title link this article is introduced in ...

Alien Breed clone: Prototype of new "Chaos Guns" engine (10. May. 2016)
Originally "Chaos Guns" was meant to be a multiplayer shooter, a mix of Alien Breed and Hired Guns. Two years ago, a first demo version was released. Shortly afterwards the only programmer did back out. According to the team in a blog entry, meanwhile for...

Amiga Future: Issue 97 can be read online (08. May. 2016)
After issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out, the articles of the English (title link) and German version of the magazine can be read online watching image files. You also can purchase a pdf version. ...

AmigaOS 4: Free Pascal updated (08. May. 2016)
In 2004 Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh ported the compiler Free Pascal to MorphOS and two years later for the first time adapted it to AmigaOS 4. Based on Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's version of Free Pascal for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x he ha...

Aminet-Uploads until 07.05.2016 (08. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 7th, 2016: SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 8.5M MOS SQLite database manager HTTX.lha comm/www 111K 68k HTML to formatted text conver... NetSurf-m68k.lha comm...

WHDLoad: New installers until 07.05.2016 (08. May. 2016)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 7th, 2016: 2016-05-04 new: Megademo (Possessed)...

FPGA: Vampire-600/Apollo update "SILVER5" (07. May. 2016)
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also features an emulteg) graphic chip named SAGA. The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire-600 accelerator boards togehter with the included ve...

AMOS games: Mink Gold, preview to Total Pattern (07. May. 2016)
Mink Gold is a version of Pacman (Youtube video) which was wriiten in AMOS. The same author supported by a graphic artist and a musician also has announced the Sokoban game "Total Pattern" (Youtube video) which is supposed to be released soon. ...

Level editor for Turrican 2 (07. May. 2016)
Dennis Meuwissen has developed a level editor for the Amiga classic Turrican II. The programm runs under Windows and requires the files of the CDTV version of Turrican II. So far not all elements of a level can be changed. You can get further in...

Datatype: WarpTIFF 45.9 (06. May. 2016)
Again after five years, Oliver Roberts has released another update of his WarpTIFF-datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which are sold as Shareware. Changes in version 45.9: Can now load image files conforming to the ...