03.Sep.2024
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Worth a read: Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers
In the blog post "Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers" on datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson describes the homely atmosphere when using old home computers. He emphasizes the simpler technology and the absence of distractions that modern devices often bring. The article highlights how old computers, with their mechanical noises and the warmth of the hardware, convey a sense of coziness and security that modern devices do not offer. The text celebrates the nostalgic and relaxing experience of dealing with retro technology. You can read the full article at the title link. (nba)
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03.Sep.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News for July/August 2024
- Old articles from Génération 4 19 to 22: News: Sales Curve launches Storm, Review of Dragon's Lair: Escape From Singe's Castle, Interview: Janine Pitot, Review of Castle Master, Review of Jumping Jack'Son, News: Les 4 D'Or 1989, Review of Rock Star, Review of Tennis Cup, Review of Austerlitz, Test of John Lowe's Ultimate Darts, etc.
- Interview with Kari-Pekka Koljonen (author of HippoPlayer)
- Interview with Gary Carlston (head of Brøderbund)
- Hardware: Amiga Mouse Pad
- Review of AmiDream
- The best of Byte from August 1987 to April 1989
- File: The reasons for Escom's bankruptcy
- File: Scrolling on the Amiga
- Tutorial: CompactFlash AmigaOS under Linux with FS-UAE
- Tutorial: Wi-Fi on Amiga 1200 (with Prism2 V2 and MiamiDX) (update)
- Tutorial: Common GUI design problems
- DIY: Repairing an Amiga 1000 (black screen, WCS memory)
- DIY: Making your own Amiga arcade controller (improved model) (update)
- Point of view: My VD0 story, the invention of the recoverable RAM disk
- Point of view: Beyond BBS - Internet solutions for 8-bit Commodores and my plans in this area
- Special quiz about The Secret Of Monkey Island
(nba)
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03.Sep.2024
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Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator Action in development
After Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre had collected all his previous arcade ports at the end of May and released them for the CD32, he is now working on an Amiga port of Galaga as well as a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action: as an agent, you have to take the lift down from the 30th floor, avoiding numerous enemy attackers and opening certain doors (YouTube video of the C64 conversion). (dr)
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03.Sep.2024
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Scala MM conversion: Adventure 2 Remake
In preparation for the AmiGameJam 2024, 'grindercowboy' has brought an old classic back to life: he has realised his second text adventure "Adventure 2" using Scala MM, a software for presentations, lectures and video captions.
His first version only ran under Scala MM400, after some adjustments the game now also works with the previous version Scala MM300 (Verion 50.3), as it was delivered with the Magic Pack of the Amiga 1200.
(dr)
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03.Sep.2024
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert v1.5
After Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), he has now also released an Amiga port of the second part, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, which is also intended for Amigas with accelerator cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260. An AGA version is to follow. (dr)
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03.Sep.2024
PyDPainter
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Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.0.0 offers some new features for the Amiga:
Animation
- Load and save GIF and IFF ANIM5
- Import and export a series of frames
- Edit and copy per-frame color palettes
- Easily edit per-frame animation rates
- Animation toolbar with VCR controls
Additional Improvements
- Import 24-bit and Amiga HAM images and convert to 256 colors
- Amiga overscan screen support
- Multicycle support for color cycling the colors in a custom brush
- Many bugs fixed
- Added a recovery mode (in case a bug isn't fixed yet)
(dr)
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02.Sep.2024
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Radio Paralax: Impressions of the Retro Area at gamescom 2024
A video compilation of all the exhibitors, slot machines, consoles, retro computers and showcases in the Retro Area in Hall 10.2 at gamescom 2024 in Cologne has been provided by Radio Paralax on YouTube under the title link. The video gives an impression of the total area of several hundred square meters, where well over 200 ready-to-use game consoles, home computers, handhelds and arcade machines from over 50 years of video game history can be played, including well-known home computers and game consoles such as the Amiga, SNES, Megadrive, Nintendo 64, PlayStation etc., as well as various arcade and pinball machines. (nba)
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02.Sep.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.4 and 6.3.4
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
The new versions 5.7.4 and 6.3.4 have now been released.
Amiberry v5.7.4 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and Amiberry v6.3.4 for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer new features, bug fixes and improvements.
Improvements in the new versions:
- Added VSync options from WinUAE in Display panel (#1368)
- Make Paths panel textboxes read-only (fixes #1385)
- add secondary check when loading cfg files, look in configs folder for filename (fixes #1388)
- resample audio during Push operations (#1397)
- fix inconsistency regarding default config name (fixes #1395)
- GUI - Make read-only textboxes in WHDLoad panel show as such (fixes #1403)
- updated FloppyBridge to v1.6.4
- updated game controller DB to latest version
- updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
- improve help text in Misc panel (fixes #1408)
- auto-select the first item in the Configs list (fixes #1391)
- Log command line parameters on startup (fixes #1380)
- harmonize buttons in HDD GUI panel
- use string.empty() instead of comparing with ""
- separate data from home directories, improve handling (fixes #1073)
- Fix new paths logic for Flatpak also (#1073)
- improve look of GUI Misc panel scrollbar (fixes #1412)
- Cherry pick updates from v6.x
(nba)
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02.Sep.2024
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft released, Soundtrack available
Badger Punch Games have released "Roguecraft", their "retro-inspired turn-based roguelike all about simplicity and fun" (YouTube video). Licensed and distributed by Thalamus Digital, the download version of the game is available for 72 hours at a 20% discount for the equivalent of around ¤7.20 as a thank you to the Amiga community. The Boxed Edition is currently sold out.
The soundtrack to the game can be purchased separately for the equivalent of around 1.80 euros. (dr)
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01.Sep.2024
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Aminet uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to Aminet:
gasm80.lha dev/cross 70K 68k Generic assembler for Z80/6502
HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.3M ALL Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
GISkyBallsAros.zip game/board 369K x86 GI Sky Balls
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
PolyNova3D.lha gfx/3d 740K 68k Amiga port of PolyNova3D
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 8.2M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
CrescentMoon.lha mods/8voic 2.2M 16bit 6ch Guitar Piano Ballad...
ACreeping.zip mods/crash 5.1M Lofi Melancholy Hiphop from 1...
NomadicHellstorm.zip mods/crash 7.0M Lofi Sludgecore from 1998 (+mp3)
Trespass00972.zip mods/crash 14M Slow Hypnotic Progressive med...
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B29.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
ASE2019_2.07.lha text/edit 210K 68k Text editor
CharacterMap.lha text/misc 57K 68k Browse character set and copy...
(snx)
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01.Sep.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hwp_rapagui.lha lib/hol 7Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
amigagpt.lha net/cha 221kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
(snx)
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01.Sep.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to AROS Archives:
giskyballsaros.zip gam/mis 369kb Game of skill
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb This is a SDK to make your decks...
(snx)
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01.Sep.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
RapaGUI_2.2.lha A cross-platform GUI to...
gasm80.lha Generic Z80 assembler
dethrace_0.7.1.1.lha Reverse engineering the...
AmiArcadia_33.20.lha A Signetics-based machi...
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01.Sep.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.08.2024
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 31.08.2024:
(snx)
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01.Sep.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 161 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about Black Hornet. (snx)
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01.Sep.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #196 - Metro Siege
In the 196th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team working on the game "Metro Siege", which is intended to run on a vanilla Amiga 500 and to be played online with multiple players - the demo version requires at least 1 MB of RAM, though. The interview starts at minute 37:05. (snx)
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31.Aug.2024
Paweł Tukatsch
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Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the game can be purchased as a Collector's Edition from the Polish shop Retronics. For 38 euros (plus shipping) you get a slipcase with two 3.5" discs, a map of the levels printed on a canvas and a manual. (dr)
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31.Aug.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.6.1:
- Default to speech disabled
- Fix crash when trying to close speech system when it failed to initialise
Update: (14:09, 01.09.24, dr)
Version 1.6.2 was released today, which increases the maximum OpenAI API key size to 256 characters.
Download v1.6.2: AmigaGPT.lha (221 KB) (dr)
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30.Aug.2024
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Video: AmiKit 12 on a Raspberry Pi 5
Under the title link, Amiga Bill talks to AmiKit developer Ján Zahurančík about his workbench distribution AmiKit 12 and shows how it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. He also gives tips and tricks and talks about the development of the distribution. (dr)
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30.Aug.2024
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released:
- Bug fixes
- Performance improvements
- Speed up initialization on 68000 systems
- Lideflash improvements - prompt the user before doing anything & reboot if necessary
(dr)
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29.Aug.2024
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Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2
pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the successor, four players will now be able to compete against each other. (dr)
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29.Aug.2024
itch.io
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Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newly invented programming language FOCAL, before it was ported to BASIC in 1973 and thus became known to a wider public (Wikipedia).
Phil Spilsbury has published the original source code on GitHub, as it was printed in the book "BASIC Computer Games" in 1978. If you want to get a first impression, you can test the version ported to HTML5 by Chris Ainsley in 2019 in your browser.
At the beginning of 2020, 'Dr Guru' published a version adapted to Amiga Kick Pascal in the Amiga-Dresden forum (German), the source code of which is still accessible.
Now 'lifeschool' has also taken on the game as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024 and, in addition to the original version from 1978 (with or without language), has published a conversion he created with HAM background images and a few additional questions to answer. The game runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga with KS 3.0+, 0.5 MB chip and 1 MB Fast-Ram. (dr)
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29.Aug.2024
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1
In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer software. In Dickinson's blog, Dixon already describes what he does on a daily basis with his two NextGen computers AmigaOne X1000 and X5000.
He has now started his own blog and describes his current use of various applications and tools and his reasons for using them in the first entry under the title link. Subsequent blogs will present newly discovered applications, tools or tips and their updates. (dr)
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28.Aug.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.6 provides several improvements and fixes and can now import the formats .it (Impulse Tracker), .xm (Extended Module) and .s3m (Scream Tracker 3).
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.
Update: (17:49, 29.08.24, dr)
Version 0.6.7 was released today, which fixes a major bug in the previous version: the NES DPCM sample loop was not working properly. (dr)
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28.Aug.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on certain trademark applications and the corresponding oppositions.
However, both sides, Amiga Corporation and Hyperion Entertainment, were required to provide regular updates to the USPTO on the status of that litigation - most recently, they were given 30 days to do so on March 28 of this year. However, as neither party felt compelled to do so, the trademark dispute was resumed by the USPTO on August 12 and the further course of action was set: the scheduled dates range from September 11, 2024 to January 14, 2026 (PDF file). (snx)
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28.Aug.2024
Siegfried Hübner (ANF)
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb supports EmuTOS
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or rather a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for Mac OS.
Besides the AROS ROM, since August 18 also the Atari-TOS-compatible EmuTOS has been added as a selectable Kickstart alternative, so that .ST disk images can be used as well. (snx)
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