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Video: How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked (14. Feb. 2022)
In the first episode of his two-part series on floppy disks, Robert Smith, best known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, explained how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-w...

Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.0 released (13. Feb. 2022)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, continue Hollywood's 20th anniversary celebrations with yet another major new release: Plananarama 2.0. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run o...

Aminet uploads until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to Aminet: SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.3M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y... SonosController_OS3fp... c...

OS4Depot uploads until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to OS4Depot: sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your... reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reactive C Library sminkiator.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4....

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.02.2022 (13. Feb. 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 12.02.2022: 2022-02-12 improved: Seven Gates o...

Board game featuring a computer opponent: Castle Danger (12. Feb. 2022)
'Castle Danger' (Video) ist a virtual, 2-player board game that was initially released as Freeware for Windows. The Amiga version can also be played against the computer, the AI is described as "kind of working" and planned to be improved in subsequent re...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.12 (AmigaOS 3/4) (12. Feb. 2022)
Version 4.12 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1m (14.12.2021) version, which brings...

Word processing: FinalWriter update status (11. Feb. 2022)
Just about a year ago, we last reported on the update for Finalwriter first announced by new rights owner Timothy "Terminills" Deters in 2015. Yesterday, the developer briefly outlined the current status on Amigans and MorphZone respectively: Accordi...

AROS distribution: The 100% Useless AROS Distribution 0.3 (10. Feb. 2022)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.3 of his "The 100% Useless AROS Distribution" at the title link. The reason for this is the version AROS ABIv11 for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors released by the developer 'deadwood' at the beginning of Janu...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5+ for Windows/Mac/Linux (09. Feb. 2022)
For the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators, an update to version 11.5 (followed by a live update to version 11.6) has been released. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required. Users who purcha...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.2 (OS3/4, MorphOS) (09. Feb. 2022)
Well-known for his workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp had released his first Amiga program at the beginning of August, which is used to control Sonos speakers: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). After a first update, he has released version 1....

Shooter: Playable demo version of 'Cyberpunk Alien City' (08. Feb. 2022)
Cyberpunk Alien City (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: The player has to defend a city against attacking aliens. Various weapon systems, horizontal scrolling (dual playfield with four bitplanes each) and 50 frames per second are offere...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.6 (06. Feb. 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 ...

Aminet uploads until 05.02.2022 (06. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to Aminet: mrwolf.lha comm/tcp 32K OS4 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync ... googoo1_2022.lha demo/sound 48K 68k Chip-music pack by Zenon gcc3210.lha dev/gcc ...

OS4Depot uploads until 05.02.2022 (06. Feb. 2022)
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to OS4Depot: frozenat.lha dev/deb 4kb 4.0 find out where a program is hang... mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor openurl.lha net/mis...

WHDLoad: New installers until 05.02.2022 (06. Feb. 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 05.02.2022: 2022-02-05 updated: Hawkeye (Thala...

Do it yourself: internal keyboard adapter PS2toAmiga (06. Feb. 2022)
Jari Tulilahti from Finland has published his project at the title link for using a PS/2 keyboard for the Amiga. The adapter, based on the ATTiny85 microcontroller, is placed within the keyboard....

Apollo-Team: Apollo V2 Accelerators Support Statement (06. Feb. 2022)
Press release: Dear V2 users, Apollo V2-series have been an extremely successful and hugely loved Amiga accelerator since 2014. Vast amounts of Amiga’s were resurrected from a lonely existence in the attic by “Vampirising” with the ...

Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000 (03. Feb. 2022)
In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000....

Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest (02. Feb. 2022)
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some...