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Creating and reading disk images: Disk Jockey V3.4 for macOS (14. Jun. 2024)
At the end of March, we reported on Jean-Michel Durand's "Disk Jockey" (DJ), with which you can easily create and analyse (Disk-O-Matic) disc images for retro computers and emulators under macOS 10.13 to macOS 14. After version 3.0, he continued to work o...

Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun. 2024)
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and gre...

Aminet uploads until 08.06.2024 (09. Jun. 2024)
The following files have been added until 08.06.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 99K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga convolver.lha dev/amos 114K 16bit mono convolver HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 928K Hollyw...

Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.1 (07. Jun. 2024)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.1. New in this version: Temporal dithering (fake rgb666 in ham6 animations, dither_temporal command line pa...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.5 (x86) (01. Jun. 2024)
The "AROS One" distribution, which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 (screenshot), is now available in version 2.5 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file (1.7 GB) or as a USB flash image (3.7 GB) under the title link, where y...

Modplayer: Minimod V1.2 (20. May. 2024)
Harry 'piru' Sintonen has written a minimal Protracker command line modplayer using Frank Wille's ptplayer routine that runs on AmigaOS 1.3 and higher....

Managing ADF files: adflib V0.9.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (16. May. 2024)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported)...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux (03. May. 2024)
'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 Am...

Video tutorials: Run command and IFF screens in AMOS (26. Apr. 2024)
In two more videos of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows on the one hand how to call other AMOS programs from existing AMOS programs by using the Run command (YouTube video), and on the other hand how to use an I...

Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems (22. Apr. 2024)
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6: updated guide file On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is ...

Aminet uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to Aminet: peak_filter.lha dev/amos 2K 2nd order osc filter formator_1.0.lha dev/hwood 14K MOS A hollywood plugin REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game C...

OS4Depot uploads until 20.04.2024 (21. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to OS4Depot: wildmidi.lha aud/pla 32Mb 4.1 A simple software midi player liba52.lha dev/lib 764kb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC... libharfbuzz.lha dev/l...

AmigaOS 4: cURL V8.7.1 (19. Apr. 2024)
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs, reported at the end of March in his blog about the release of versions 8.7.0 and 8.7.1. 'MickJT' has now ported this current version for AmigaOS 4....

CLI command: sysvars V0.12 (15. Apr. 2024)
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical f...

Aminet uploads until 06.04.2024 (07. Apr. 2024)
The following files have been added until 06.04.2024 to Aminet: MicroExcel_1.0.lha biz/spread 1.5M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor amos_rocket_science.lha dev/amos 327K examples of targetting Butterfly.lha dev/c 569K MOS An...

Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS (04. Apr. 2024)
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial ...

Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux (01. Apr. 2024)
'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 Am...

Aminet uploads until 30.03.2024 (31. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to Aminet: ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 203K OS4 ignition addon for access ods... amigassh.lha comm/net 30K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga amospro_darkula.lha dev/amos 26K ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2024.04.01 (31. Mar. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.04.01: Unified USB Mass ...

Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024 (17. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet: amosreg.lha dev/amos 6K 68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno evo.lha dev/e 673K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution c2plib.lha dev/misc ...