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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1 (23. Jun. 2023)
'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed...

Book project: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" can be pre-ordered (22. Jun. 2023)
In March 2023, the book project "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the book can be pre-ordered at a currently reduced price of 40 euros (instead of 44.90 euros) plus shipping....

amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon (22. Jun. 2023)
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to hav...

Icon-Library 46.4.577 (22. Jun. 2023)
In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icon...

Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200 (22. Jun. 2023)
About three years ago, revision 1.5 of John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 was released. In a two-part video (part 1, part 2), the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" creates this clone....

Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 14 (21. Jun. 2023)
The 14th issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics: Video Games: CyberPunks 2, Tapper, Poker Nights: Tropical Heat, KalleK...

Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.1 for Windows (19. Jun. 2023)
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de repor...

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts (19. Jun. 2023)
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports. Amiga Future magazine is available a...

Video: "Browservice" under Linux and AmigaOS 4 (18. Jun. 2023)
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, explains in a video along with the accompanying video description how to set up Browservice - a web "proxy" server that allows surfing the in...

Hollywood: Support by editors SciTE and Notepad++ (Update) (18. Jun. 2023)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: The popular editors SciTE and Notepad++ now also support Hollywood by default. SciTE supports Hollywood beginning with version 5.3.6 and Notepad++ supports Hollywood beginning with version 8.5.2. SciTE is especially...

Video tutorial: MUI-GUI (part 3) and GadTools GUI (part 1) in Blitz Basic (18. Jun. 2023)
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch both the third part Teil of his tutorial showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported) and the first part of a tutorial series on how to create a GadTools GUI in Blitz Basic....

Shell extension: GoShell 4.0 (18. Jun. 2023)
GoShell is a free and simple tool for opening a shell terminal in full screen mode on a separate screen (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in the now released version 4.0 of the tool developed by Krzysztof Donat: added locale support for GoShell confi...

SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.7 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (17. Jun. 2023)
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsm...

Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" v0.85 (17. Jun. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa had started a new game project: "The Oregon Trail" (new YouTube video of a live presentation) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 0.85 provides the following changes: Menu updated Amiga Gui...

AmigaOS 4: Current hardware availability (17. Jun. 2023)
After ACube Systems recently delivered the last boards to pre-orderers, including shops (amiga-news.de reported), we asked the relevant Amiga shops if they had them on sale: Alinea Computer offers a Sam460LE complete system for 1299 euros (plus shipp...

Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.1 (16. Jun. 2023)
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de...

Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14 (16. Jun. 2023)
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). In the current ...

Preview video: Temptations port for CD32 (16. Jun. 2023)
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the fifth level....

Background: Influence of the cache on PowerPC CPU (Czech) (15. Jun. 2023)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time she looks at how big the influence of cache is on the speed of PowerPC CPUs, here in particular the G3 to G5 processors. The starting point for the articl...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.06.13 (14. Jun. 2023)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.06.13: Fix CD-ROM leado...