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Report: My Experiences with the Amiga A1222+ (16. Nov. 2024)
Francis G. Loch develops tools such as PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4 in the C programming language. 20 years after purchasing a MicroA1 and after a long break from OS4, Loch bought an A1222+. In his experience report, he describes his impressions of the...

Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.2 (Update) (15. Nov. 2024)
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 9.3 fixes two minor bugs: the PCI config area parser sk...

AROS x86_64: version 20241102-1 of the ABI v11 developer branch (14. Nov. 2024)
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz had given his stable branch of AROS for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors the code name ABIv11 to distinguish it from the ABIv1 version in progress in the main AROS repository. The new version replaces it...

CLI command: sysvars v0.15 (update) (12. Nov. 2024)
sysvars is a small CLI tool that creates several environment variables holding valuable system information (e.g. CPU and FPU, the chipset or Kickstart version). These variables can be used, for example, in the startup-sequence to enable/disable certain pa...

Aminet uploads until 09.11.2024 (10. Nov. 2024)
The following files have been added until 09.11.2024 to Aminet: amigassh.lha comm/net 108K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga getopt_long.lha dev/c 21K 68k GNU conform ReadArgs wrapper xlink.lha dev/misc 33K 68...

Aminet uploads until 02.11.2024 (03. Nov. 2024)
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to Aminet: COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger MusicPort-AHI.lha driver/aud 7K 68k AHI driver for Trinity 1240/1... F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 10K ...

A600GS: Update 46.1.864 with floppy drive support (29. Oct. 2024)
With the new update v46.1.864 for the A600GS computer, manufacturer Amiga Kit is introducing, among other things, support for floppy drives via Drawbridge (amiga-news.de reported). The changes in detail: System-v46-updates: ARM Graphics Library: A...

News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced (27. Oct. 2024)
At AmiWest, which took place this weekend in Sacramento (USA), Steven Solie and Trevor Dickinson were again present to give presentations and answer questions about AmigaOS 4 related products. Just like last year, no Hyperion representative was atte...

Aminet uploads until 26.10.2024 (27. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to Aminet: AmigAtari.zip demo/sound 882K 68k 12+ hours of Atari Demoscene ... ATasm.lha dev/cross 180K 68k Mac65 compatible 6502 cross-a... Amiga_500_Guide_V1.2.pdf d...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2024 (27. Oct. 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 26.10.2024: 2024-10-24 fixed: Wiz'n'Liz (Psygn...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert 1.7.2 (27. Oct. 2024)
Artur Jarosik's port of "Command & Conquer: Red Alert", designed for Amigas with powerful turbo cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260, is now available in version 1.7.2. The new features since version 1.5 include bug fixes, a ...

Development tool: vasm 2.0 (16. Oct. 2024)
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail: Support for architectures which have bytes with more than 8 bits. Output formats bin, ihex, ...

CLI command: sysvars V0.13 (15. Oct. 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 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to Aminet: rse-coolcorkscrew.zip demo/aga 708K 68k Demo from Deadline 2024 SFL-AlteredVision.lha demo/aga 63K 68k AGA 64K Deadline 2024 Artstate-PartyPack25.adf demo/disk 880K 68k ...

Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4 (12. Oct. 2024)
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte ar...

Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (11. Oct. 2024)
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates an...

Aminet uploads until 05.10.2024 (06. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to Aminet: BeeBase-1.1.lha biz/dbase 8.4M MOS Programmable relational datab... amigassh.lha comm/net 108K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga italodi2co.zip demo/disk 773K...

Video tutorial: Using the AMOS command "LIMIT BOB" (03. Oct. 2024)
In another video in his tutorial series on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains the LIMIT BOB command and points out an error in the AMOS Pro manual when explaining this command....

Aminet uploads until 28.09.2024 (29. Sep. 2024)
The following files have been added until 28.09.2024 to Aminet: ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 204K OS4 ignition addon for access ods... ign-AddOn-XLSX.lha biz/spread 303K OS4 ignition addon for access xls... ignition.lha b...

Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.3 (public beta version) (22. Sep. 2024)
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user interface with up to 640 colors (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS computers) that can replace the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games and other applications and requires few resources; an integrated command line and the Xpl0rEr...