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Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems (27. Jan. 2023)
Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and U...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor (26. Jan. 2023)
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). As the developer told us when asked, he continues to work on the project, fo...

AROS: GUI for configuring SMB2/3-Shares (25. Jan. 2023)
As Paolo Besser, author of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop writes in his latest blog entry, he has programmed a simple graphical tool for configuring shares in LUA for the new SMB2 handler in order to add new shares to the AROS environment. It is not...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.10.1 (25. Jan. 2023)
Version 4.10.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. Changes: WinUAE 4.10.0 bugs fixed Chipset emulation updates and bug fixes. Interlace filter mode saved invalid config in certain situations, causing crash when loaded. Also added va...

DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 6) (23. Jan. 2023)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describe...

Demo party: Revision 2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
According to the organisers, Revision is the largest pure demoscene event in the world. This year's edition will take place from 07 to 10 April in Saarbrücken (Germany). The demo group Spaceballs has published a 40k-AGA-Intro (YouTube video), which also f...

OS4Depot uploads until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 21.01.2023 to OS4Depot: rave.lha aud/edi 3Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ... wildmidi.lha aud/pla 41Mb 4.1 A simple software midi player fenachistoscopio.lha gra/v...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
The following files have been added until 21.01.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Iris_1.7.lha Email New email client suppor... MirrorMagic_3.1.0.lha Games/Think Arcade style game in th... RocksNDiamonds_4....

WHDLoad: New installers until 21.01.2023 (22. Jan. 2023)
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 21.01.2023: 2023-01-21 improved: Pushover (Red...

Text adventure: The Dragnet Case (22. Jan. 2023)
"The Dragnet Case" is a text adventure published by Taskmaster Software, originally written back in the 1980s and now available for various retro systems (C64, Amstrad, Amiga etc.). You take on the role of Sam Boon, a private detective from L.A. who ...

PiStorm32-lite: JLCPCB soldering issues (20. Jan. 2023)
Since about three weeks the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). After that, many interested people ordered the necessary parts from JLCPCB. Some problems occurred during assembly, which An...

ACube Systems: First batch of Sam460LE boards shipped - second delayed (19. Jan. 2023)
Press release - January 29, 2023 Dear customers, We have sent out as many boards as we could prepare. Unfortunately, we received from our suppliers some faulty Ethernet controllers and therefore some boards failed the stress tests. This will cre...

SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (18. Jan. 2023)
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsm...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.8 (18. Jan. 2023)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

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...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.2.0 (17. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: while there are current implementations of version 1.9 for RTG Amigas and AGA Amigas with 68060 processor, the version for AGA Amigas with 68030 pro...

CS-Lab: Warp firmware pack 1.400 (16. Jan. 2023)
CS-Lab released a firmware update for their 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes in version 1.400 include: Hardware sprite in RTG modes Additional RTG hardware acceleration: BliltTemplate BlitPattern BlitRectNoMaskComplete P96 mo...

Event: Interface XXXIII in Kiel (Germany) on 28.01.2023 (16. Jan. 2023)
Sven Scheele writes: "On Saturday, January 28, 2023, the retro computer event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. As usual, organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and th...

Event: Retro meeting at indoor swimming pool Wolfsburg (Germany) on 04.03.2023 (16. Jan. 2023)
Not an Amiga event, but theoretically the favorite computer of our younger days could also be represented: The city of Wolfsburg, Germany, wants to further expand the topic of gaming and is therefore organizing a gaming event in a disused indoor swimming ...

Book: Message to subscribers of German version of "Commodore - The Inside Story" (16. Jan. 2023)
David Pleasance, author of the book "Commodore - The Inside Story" addresses via Twitter the subscribers of the German edition of his work, especially those of the printed edition. Due to e-mail losses, he asks for the current delivery address for send...