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Video: ApolloBoot Omni R8 - Starting different operating system versions (25. Apr. 2022)
At the title link, Willem Drijver undertakes a "journey through time" in his video in the form of different operating systems, which he starts one after the other in real-time on his Apollo V4 standalone. For this purpose, ApolloBoot Omni was...

Game announcement: Andrew Vaisey's puzzle game 'Spheroid (25. Apr. 2022)
Andrew Vaisey is a very versatile and busy developer who describes himself as an "8/16bit graphician, musician & coder", but has always had a connection to the Amiga as well. He has been creatively active in graphics and music on the C64 since the 1980s. ...

Hollywood 9.1 released (24. Apr. 2022)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 9.1. This is a maintenance release which contains mostly bug fixes amid a few new features. It is available free of...

Email client: YAM development discontinued (24. Apr. 2022)
The last Nightly Build is almost a year old: As the authors of the Amiga email client YAM now confirmed to us on request, the development has been stopped. The reasons for this are manifold: Basically it became more and more obvious over the years ...

Aminet uploads until 23.04.2022 (24. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 23.04.2022 to Aminet: fd-kickthesofa.lha demo/aga 797K 68k Demo - GERP 2022 soul_strain.lha demo/aga 160K 68k Demo - Revision 2022 swaptro_v2_0.adf demo/disk 880K 68k Wild dem...

WHDLoad: New installers until 23.04.2022 (24. Apr. 2022)
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 23.04.2022: 2022-04-23 fixed: Chaos In Androme...

RTG driver: P96 V3.3.0 released (23. Apr. 2022)
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.0 of his RTG driver P96 which among others offers "faster C2P/P2C (for CV3D even hardware-accelerated), new drivers for classic GFX cards like Retina Z2 (the very first one, don't confuse with...

Video test: A600/1200 CF2IDE adapter (23. Apr. 2022)
In his latest video, Chris Edwards tests the new A600/1200 CF2IDE adapter released by RetroRewind, which claims to be "the world's first and only CF2IDE adapter with buffering, which separates a total of 24 signals from the rest of the system." This imp...

Programming language: 'AMOS Professional Unity' project updates (21. Apr. 2022)
Almost exactly one year ago we reported last time about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's attempt to add new features to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional with 'AMOS Professional Unity'. In the meantime the project has been moved to a new website...

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....

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 156 (19. Apr. 2022)
The English and German issue 156 (May/June 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes reviews...

Free hardware: Joystick adapter JoyDivision updated (18. Apr. 2022)
The USB adapter for classic joysticks by Stefan 'Develin' Blixth (amiga-news.de reported), which works without additional drivers, is now available in version 20220416. This one now also supports the minicomputer THEA500 Mini....

WHDLoad: New installers until 16.04.2022 (17. Apr. 2022)
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 16.04.2022: 2022-04-16 new: Megademo (Sargon) ...

Open Source 3D printer: SLS4All (17. Apr. 2022)
Every now and then we report on do-it-yourself projects such as making your own joystick using a 3D printer. Not bad, you might say, but what's the point if I don't have a 3D printer? Especially not one that is even remotely affordable! While not amiga...

Jump'n Run: second playable demo of 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' (16. Apr. 2022)
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes provides another demo version of his jump'n run 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', created with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. According to the developer, this second preview "adds a lot of improvements since the last time (no...

Raspberry Pi: Development status of free firmware (13. Apr. 2022)
'Raspberry Pi' computers require partially closed source software to boot - the so-called raspi-firmware package. But since its release 10 years ago, there have been efforts to make it bootable with open source software only. In a recent blog entry Gunnar...

Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022 (12. Apr. 2022)
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("No...

Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp (12. Apr. 2022)
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a...

Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6 (11. Apr. 2022)
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics: Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, Th...

Scandoubler announcement: 'Medusa' converts video signals to VGA/DVI (11. Apr. 2022)
The scandoubler Medusa accepts a composite, S-Video or RGB signal and converts it into proper VGA output, which is also converted into a digital signal available via a DVI-I connector. There is also an option to digitize an analog audio signal, combine it...