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Emulator: WinUAE 5.0.0 (02. Jun. 2023)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.0.0. Changes: Fully cycle-accurate unexpanded Amiga 500 emulation WinUAE 4.9.x/4.10.x bugs fixed AGA-only sprite buffer overflow that can cause random side-effects. CIA synchronize clock d...

Amiga disks on PC: FloppyBridge 1.4 (06. Apr. 2023)
Using Robert Smith's plugin FloppyBridge (video on how it works), emulators like WinUAE and Amiberry can work in real time with real floppy disks. Today he has released version 1.4. Changes since our last news item: Version 1.4 Fixed issues with s...

Website launch: retro.directory (17. Jan. 2023)
Robert Smith, previously known for his DrawBridge or FloppyBridge project and various video releases, has put online "retro.directory", a first version of his website for searching and finding museums, magazines, clubs and groups, events, podcasts, Youtub...

Advent Calendar: Door 20 - Robert Smith (20. Dec. 2022)
It's getting close to Christmas and we open the 20th door with an anecdote from Robert Smith. The developer is probably best known for his project, initially called "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer": this uses a microcontroller - in this case...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.10.0 (19. Dec. 2022)
Version 4.10.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. Changes: Major update 68000 based unexpanded (with optional Slow or Fast RAM expansion) configurations are now 100% cycle-accurate. Big thanks to ross for writing test programs tha...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 10 (13. Dec. 2022)
Press release: December 12, 2022 - Cloanto released today version 10 of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The new editions are the result of almost two years of developme...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.2+ beta 1 (07. Oct. 2022)
Originally Toni Wilen, the author of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE, had already planned to jump to version 5 with the next release in July 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). However, in February 2022 he first released version 4.9.1 and as he now report...

Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE (30. Sep. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Floppy disk drive for WinUAE: Waffle (25. Sep. 2022)
Based on Robert Smith's FloppyBridge, Retrogiovedi.it offers at the title link a floppy disk drive in Amiga-inspired design called Waffle for use with the emulator WinUAE, with which ADF files can be created or written....

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.3 (03. Jul. 2022)
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....

Video review: WinUAE & FloppyBridge (21. Jun. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.8 / FloppyBridge 1.2 (10. Jun. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.1 (19. Apr. 2022)
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....

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1 (01. Mar. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6 (16. Feb. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.0 (06. Dec. 2021)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE was released today in version 4.9.0. The reason for the fact that almost 1.5 years have passed after the version 4.4.0 is given by the developers as the revision of the chipset emulation, which is also the reason for this big ver...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7 (27. Oct. 2021)
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2....