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Pre-order starts soon: Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format (29. May. 2021)
Stephen Jones had an A3000-inspired case crowdfunded in 2018, reviving the "Checkmate" brand he used thirty years ago for an A500 desktop case. Announced in late summer, the "Checkmate Mini" variant which is significantly smaller and intended for motherbo...

AmigaOS 4: Fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG 3.6 (28. May. 2021)
Developer Dino Papararo, about whom we published a detailed portrait the other day, has uploaded version 3.6 of his fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG to OS4Depot. This version enables graphics card rendering even under 24bit screens. There are ...

AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.2.0 (28. May. 2021)
MediaVault is an open source desktop application for AmigaOS 4 that can be used to stream online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp is needed. It is planned to create egine favorite lists with Mediavault and also to be able to retrieve podca...

Redesign: Amiga-compatible Joypad 'Protopad' (27. May. 2021)
The well-known C64 vendor Protovision has successfully finished a fundraising campaign for the production of new joypads especially designed for the C64, but also compatible with Amiga (we reported). More than 15,000 Euro collected mean that the new paddl...

MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.15 (24. May. 2021)
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators for MorphOS. Usage requires an unmodified installation of MorphOS 3.15. Changes in Chrysalis 3.15: Wayfarer 1.20 (Jacadcaps) Iris 0.117 beta...

Spaceship vs Asteroids Game: SPOD now with online highscore (23. May. 2021)
In celebration of the reactivation of his Amiga 500 after 20 years, Marten Wobst had released a little game called SPOD (Space Pilot of Death) which we reported about it. Inspired by some comments of our readers, he now has released an update to vers...

Lawsuit: Cloanto applies for admittance of Evert Carton as witness (23. May. 2021)
Regarding the lawsuit with Hyperion, Cloanto and the Amiga parties applied to vacate and reset the pre-trial calendar (PDF file). Given the differing motions for a summary judgement by Hyperion and themselves, respectively, and that they do not know which...

A-EON Technology: Commands copy and version for Enhancer Software updated (23. May. 2021)
Within the framework of creating own components of the operating system, called Enhancer Software, A-EON Technology have updated their versions of the Shell commands "copy" (version 46.6 and 54.6, respectively) and "version" (46.10/54.10) for AmigaOS&nbsp...

Print magazine: History of Amiga Future (23. May. 2021)
A couple of days ago, issue 150 of the print magazine Amiga Future has been released. Now an accompanying short article on the magazine's history has been published. Some small campaigns with regard to issue 150 have been and will be collected at the...

AmiProv v1.0: Creating an AmigaOS 3 partition with network BootDisk (22. May. 2021)
The Norwegian Amiga user Marius Lauritzen has created a special Network-BootDisk for his A3000 for his own purposes and to prove the feasibility. With this disk he loads various software from Aminet and various other internet sources to finally install Am...

Dock bar: WBDock V1.10 and WBDock 2 V2.327 (22. May. 2021)
Since our last news item from the last year, Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar: In WBDock 1.10 which runs under AmigaOS 1.3. the WBStartup feature was added: It can now run all programs from a directory or listed in a text file at startup. WBD...

Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 1.0 (21. May. 2021)
The developer Dirk Hoffmann wrote: "After two and a half years of development, I am proud to announce the release of V1.0 of vAmiga. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who helped me realize the emulator during this long time. Without...

amigaXfer 1.1.0: Serial data transfer to the Amiga - without Amiga software (21. May. 2021)
Roc Vallès' amigaXfer transfers single files or whole disk images to the Amiga via serial cable. No additional software is needed on the Amiga since the debugger (which is included in the Kickstart ROM) is being used to take control from the main computer...

PiStorm: Video shows current development status (20. May. 2021)
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket in an A500, A1000 or A2000 via an adapter and uses the single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. Unlike the Buffee project where the 68k emulator runs directly on the hardwa...

Event: AmiWest 2021 (October 16/17 in Sacramento, USA) (20. May. 2021)
24th AmiWest show will take place on October 16th and 17th 2021 at the Holiday Inn Express Cal Expo in Sacramento, California, USA. So far, a MorphOS user will present a couple of computers running e.g. the web-browser Wayfarer and the e-mail client Ir...

Hyperion: Bug-fixed Installer for AmigaOS 4 released (19. May. 2021)
Hyperion Entertainment has released version 53.12 (10.5.2021) of the Installer, which can be loaded and installed via AmiUpdate within AmigaOS 4. This release fixes a bug which mainly occured during the installation of the recent version of the Enhancer 2...

Games announcements: Chases of Death, Swapped Arts (AGA), JetHuntERS (17. May. 2021)
Developer "Coagulus" (Super Wormy, JetHunt) works on three titles, of which he presents early versions on Youtube: Chases of Death (video) is a conversion of the Spectrum classic Deathchase, Swapped Arts (video) seems to be a puzzle game while the sequel ...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (16. May. 2021)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Ruff 'N' Tumble - The Fantasy Forest Obliterator Macrocosm Hybris Imploded! Apidya - Credits Desert Dream ...

AmigaOS 4: A-FTP Server 1.96 (update) (15. May. 2021)
"A-FTP Server" is an FTP server written with Hollywood 9.0 for AmigaOS 4. Startfenster "A-FTP" "A-FTP Server" can be started using a GUI or in background, preferably already at startup by dropping it into the WBStartup. The program requir...

MorphOS: Web-Browser Wayfarer 1.20 (15. May. 2021)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his Wayfarer web browser to version 1.20. The changes at a glance: Mitigated a problem with TLS that would often cause crashes when Wayfarer was used alongside Iris Addressed some potential ffmpeg abort() calls...