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History: Commodore's unreleased C64 game machine (18. Mar. 2022)
In December 1990 Commodore released the Commodore 64 Games System (C64GS), which became a big commercial failure. As the 'Commodore International Historical Society' reports in its latest blog entry, there were obviously concrete ideas in this direction s...

AmigaOne X5000 available from dealers again (17. Mar. 2022)
As Alinea announces (German) in a posting on os4welt.de, the German dealer currently has A-EON's AmigaOne X5000 in stock. The product photo in the shop is said to be outdated, the machines are now shipped in a different case. According to Alinea, the high...

AmiTube 1.0: YouTube client for all Amiga systems (17. Mar. 2022)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video). Yesterday, Version 1.0 has been released, which now includes a download queue to start mul...

ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.4 (17. Mar. 2022)
In the course of reporting on updates of various tools from Unsatisfactory Software, we had also mentioned Avalanche for the first time, a graphical user interface created with ReAction for the unarchiving tool XAD. Now Chris Young has released version 1....

Book: Status update and ordering option for 'From Vultures to Vampires', Volume (16. Mar. 2022)
The first book of the two-volume "From Vultures to Vampires" by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson on Amiga history was delivered in the middle of last year. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the se...

Hardware test: Building a serial/parallel loopback adapter (15. Mar. 2022)
Adam Wilson is an electrical engineer who reworks old electronics in his spare time. In his blog he reports about his work with old computers, about the expansion of his collection and the repairs or restorations he has carried out. In the latest blog ...

RastPort: Mechanical keyboard replacement for Amiga 1200 (14. Mar. 2022)
Grzegorz Kraszewski's RastPort designs and manufactures accesories and expansions for Amiga computers. His current project KA 59 is a mechanical keyboard replacement for the Amiga 1200. It is a complete replacement, no parts of the original keyboard are n...

Selfmade project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 3) (13. Mar. 2022)
'Drygol' is not only a member of the demoscene group Lamers, but 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 h...

Aminet uploads until 12.03.2022 (13. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to Aminet: Profyler.lha dev/debug 1.1M OS4 Software performance profiler... offizium_1.0.lha dev/hwood 1.2M MOS Office plugin for hollywood NDK3.2.lha dev/mi...

OS4Depot uploads until 12.03.2022 (13. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to OS4Depot: profyler.lha dev/deb 1Mb 4.1 Software performance profiler arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/g...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.03.2022 (13. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: Printer.hwp_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Printer plugin for holl... Offizium_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Office plugin for holly... SDL_2.0.20_Librar...

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.03.2022 (13. Mar. 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 12.03.2022: 2022-03-12 improved: Cabal (Ocean)...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.7 (12. Mar. 2022)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.95 (12. Mar. 2022)
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 1...

History: Commodore's hardware plans (11. Mar. 2022)
The Commodore International Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history of Commodore International. Recently, they published photos provided by Robert Miranda on their Twitter channel, which once again show the planned further development of...

YouTube playlist: 300 Amiga demos (10. Mar. 2022)
'rtiainen' has published a playlist on his YouTube channel that contains Amiga demo scene productions especially from groups that were not so famous or well known in the community. Most of these demos were released between 1988 and 1992, but there are als...

Developer Kit: AmigaOS 3.2 NDK R4 released (09. Mar. 2022)
Press release: Brussels, March 8 2022. Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another update to the Native Developer Kit (NDK) for AmigaOS 3.2. This R4 update of the AmigOS 3.2 NDK is a testament to our continued ...

Operating system: MorphOS 3.16 and MorphOS SDK 3.16 (March 2022) (09. Mar. 2022)
The MorphOS team today released new versions of their operating system and its development kit. Latter includes for example GCC 11 as well as link libraries for usage of the new openssl3.library, while support for GCC 4 and GCC 7 has been d...

Music album: 'ReFourmation' by Matt Gray (09. Mar. 2022)
6581 Records is the home of Matt Gray's 'Reformation' album project, which releases remakes of classic C64 and Amiga game soundtracks in full production. The original 'Reformation' and 'Reformation Last Ninja 2' projects were realized in 2014 via the crow...

Music album: Zaman (08. Mar. 2022)
YouTuber 'Madija' aka 'Ms Mad Lemon' is passionate about old computers and vintage audios and has been writing music on the Amiga since the 1990s. Now she has released her third album Zaman on bandcamp, which contains tracks from the 1990s to 2022. All bu...