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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: ADFDiskBox v2 (16. Oct. 2024)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layer of the floppy regardless of the format used and stores as much information as possible in a so-called "flux level image" in supercard format (SCP), making it possible to read and write back copy-protec...

AmigaOS 4: Tutorial for creating a USB boot stick for the AmigaOne X5000 (16. Oct. 2024)
'McFly' has published two tutorials (available in English and German) in the OS4Depot which should enable users of an AmigaOne X5000 to create a bootable USB stick either from a system backup (OS4Depot link) or with the help of the AmigaOS 4.1 installatio...

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...

Demis Hassabis: Nobel prize winner with an Amiga background (Update) (15. Oct. 2024)
Demis Hassabis was recently honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, the development of AlphaGo, which was the first program to beat a professional Go player, and ...

File system: smbfs 2.22 published for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (15. Oct. 2024)
Olaf Barthel has released the new version 2.22 of the Samba file system smbfs for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x after a break of almost five years and four months of development (amiga-news.de reported about version 2.1). smbfs allows Amiga users to access Win...

Video series: The Amiga 1000 as a Workstation (14. Oct. 2024)
In a nine-part journey through time, Thomas Cherryhomes attempts to categorise the Amiga 1000, which was officially launched in USA in 1985, in terms of its practical suitability as a workstation and to compare it with similar products. At that time th...

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 ...

OS4Depot uploads until 12.10.2024 (13. Oct. 2024)
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to OS4Depot: x5kbootmedium.zip doc/tut 16Mb 4.0 Create X5000 boot medium from a ... x5kbootstick.zip doc/tut 26Mb 4.0 Create a USB installation stick ... arabic_console_device......

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2024 (13. 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 12.10.2024: 2024-10-12 improved: Wiz'n'Liz (Ps...

GoVD: Virtual desktops for the Workbench (13. Oct. 2024)
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 (and possibly also 3.1.4, but he has not tested this). You can specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the...

DIY: Two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (13. Oct. 2024)
Rod Thomas' AmigaDualFloppyInterface allows the use of two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (tested only with version 6A of the motherboard). In practice, one of them is a Gotek drive. His project allows the use of two internal floppy ...

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...

Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" (11. Oct. 2024)
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #3 under the title link as well as the correspo...

Hollywood: Malibu 1.5 published (09. Oct. 2024)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes (translated): "Version 1.5 of Malibu, the Hollywood plugin that can display Scala scripts, has now been released. This version contains some bug fixes that were necessary to make the recently released iconic Scala games Beyond a ...

AVX instructions: An Amiga fan at Intel? (09. Oct. 2024)
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are an instruction set extension for x86 processors introduced by Intel. Arnaud Carré's blog article at the title link is specifically about the AVX-512 instruction set published in 2013. The vpternlogd instruction it cont...

Platform game: 2tinycowboys for the Amiga 500 (update) (08. Oct. 2024)
2tinycowboys is a new game for the Amiga 500 that is designed for two players to compete against each other on a single screen in an arcade-platformer style. Compared to the PC and Android version, the Amiga version stays closer to the original vision of ...

3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter v1.0 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x (08. Oct. 2024)
3D Object Converter is a new tool for 3D polygon models, also often referred to as wireframe models. The software was originally developed for MS-DOS and Windows and has now been ported to AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x in version 1.0. The application can be used...

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.10 for Windows (07. Oct. 2024)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.10 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.20 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: Read/Write: Fixed save template if destination folder (options) ...

Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V4.5 R112 for Windows 10/11 (update) (07. Oct. 2024)
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, G...