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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024 (25. Feb. 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 24.02.2024: 2024-02-23 new: Spectral (The Blac...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 - preview and excerpts (24. Feb. 2024)
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 167 (March/April 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things, this issue features the following topics: Show report: Passione Amiga Day 2023 Interview: Michael Kafke (ASM Game) P...

Book: "68000 - The Flame Wars" available, sales discount (23. Feb. 2024)
The German-French coproduction "68000: The Flame Wars" (initially: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars") covers the competition between Amiga and Atari ST in the second half of the 1980ies combining factual and opinion-based approaches. Starting last June, the book ...

Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune' (22. Feb. 2024)
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended t...

amiga-news.de: Server update on Friday evening (21. Feb. 2024)
This Friday evening, amiga-news.de's server will be upgraded to a newer version of Debian Linux resulting in a short period of downtime for the website. Since the update was tested several times in a test environment, we're confident update will be painle...

Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0 (19. Feb. 2024)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.2.0. Changes: New features/updates MacroSystem DraCo emulation. Full emulation except V-Lab Motion video board which is totally undocumented. Amiga clone without Amiga custom chips. Pic...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6 (19. Feb. 2024)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.02.2024 (18. Feb. 2024)
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: openxcom_1.0.lha Games/Strategy A free open-source reim... ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 17.02.2024 (18. Feb. 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 17.02.2024: 2024-02-16 improved: Wonderboy (Ac...

Event: Report and video from AmigaWinterTreffen in Großensee (Germany) (18. Feb. 2024)
From February 9-11 2024 this year's "AmigaWinterTreffen" event took place in Großensee, Germany. A show report by Simon Adolf can be found in our German news-item, also there is a video on YouTube....

Web browser: AmiFox 0.5 with Itch.io downloads (18. Feb. 2024)
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). New features of version 0.5 include the ability to download files directly from Itch.io and the displa...

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7 (17. Feb. 2024)
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....

Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards (17. Feb. 2024)
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place fro...

Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU (17. Feb. 2024)
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies ...

AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.6 (update) (17. Feb. 2024)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small size...

Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version) (16. Feb. 2024)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bu...

TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released (15. Feb. 2024)
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers. This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the inst...

Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany) (15. Feb. 2024)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well a...

Video tutorial: "Screen Copy" command in AMOS (14. Feb. 2024)
Following on from his last video about screen commands, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the screen commands "Screen Copy", "Screen Hide" and "Screen Show" in another part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro. As always, the source file for t...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86) (13. Feb. 2024)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings ...