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Self-made project: Memory expansion Minimal A501 (16. Aug. 2020)
The self-made project "Minimal A501" is another memory expansion. The gerber files can be found on GitHub. With Jonni Rainisto's memory expansion you can add 512 KB RAM to the Amiga 500(+) in a cost-effective way. ...

AmigaOS 4: Claws-Mail 3.9.2 Release 2 for AmiCygnix (16. Aug. 2020)
For his Unix environment AmiCygnix for AmigaOS 4, Edgar Schwan has released an update of the GTK+-based e-Mail program "Claws-Mail" (screenshot). Changes: The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among ot...

AmigaOS4: Chat software Pidgin 2.13.0 for AmiCygnix (15. Aug. 2020)
Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the universal chat software Pidgin to his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Version 2.13.0 (screenshot) provides the following changes: New protocols for Discord, Facebook, Skype and Twitter. The program was linked with...

Preview video: A platform game with a footballer (13. Aug. 2020)
Third_Knight / Czorny currently is working on a different kind of platform game: The player has to kick several bonus items or switcher with a football and then shoot it in a hole. A preview video shows the latest status of the engine. The game which has ...

Tiny Bobble - a complete new "Bubble Bobble" (beta) (13. Aug. 2020)
Tiny Bobble (video) is being written by the developers of Tiny Invaders and Tiny Galaga and is supposed to become a "complete new Bubble Bobble arcade port for Amiga 500" instead of porting the Atari ST version to the Amiga done for the existing comm...

Reprint: The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels (12. Aug. 2020)
Three years ago Chris Wilkins published the book "The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels" based on a crowdfunding campaign (amiga-news.de reported). Since one year and a half the book is sold out, therefore the book is supposed to be reprinted. Und...

Apollo team launched AROS-based operating system project (10. Aug. 2020)
First the developer team of the Apollo-FPGA-Core used in the Vampire products did choose AROS as official operating system. After having had some problems with the free AmigaOS clone, the Kickstart-ROMs officially licenced from Cloanto were used. From aro...

Announcement: Tiny Bobble - a better 'Bubble Bobble' port (08. Aug. 2020)
Tiny Bobble is done by the people who released Tiny Invaders und Tiny Galaga and is an attempt to create a port of the Arcade classic Bubble Bobble that is optimized for the Amiga 500 - instead of just porting the existing Atari ST version, as F...

Commercial Workbench distribution: Amikit XE for Vampire (06. Aug. 2020)
Version 11 ("XE") of the commercial Workbench distribution Amikit is now also available in a dedicated 'Vampire edition'. The distribution is described as "fully compatible with the Vampire V2 core". But since the V4 core is still in active development, t...

MorphOS celebrates 20 year anniversary (04. Aug. 2020)
André Siegel from the MorphOS team reminds us in a morph.zone announcement, that the PowerPC based clone of AmigaOS has been available to the public for 20 years now: on August 2nd, 2000, the team initiated public Betatests. At that time, the target hard...

Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.10 (03. Aug. 2020)
Dirk Hoffmann's 'vAmiga' is a new, "user friendly" (quoting the developer) Amiga emulator that emulates a A500, A1000 or A2000 computer. Changes since our last news item: Added support for .zip and .gz files. The VERTB interrupt fired one cycle too ...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.08.2020 (02. Aug. 2020)
The following packages for MorphOS, which operating system celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday, have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 01.08.2020: AIOstreams_1.6.2.lha Stream online video from major platforms AmiArcadia_26.61.lha ...

Reading Amiga disks on a PC: ADF Drive 1.110, ADF Copy 1.130 (01. Aug. 2020)
With the USB adapter 'ADF Drive' and its accompanying copy program 'ADF Copy', Amiga floppy disks can be read using a standard PC floppy drive under Windows, Linux or Mac OS. Since our last news item, both the adapter's firmware as well as the frontend we...

Unreleased commercial game: 'Dragon Slayer' will be completed (31. Jul. 2020)
'Dragon Slayer' is an arcade-adventure game similar to Barbarian (Psygnosis) in which the hero has to fight through hundreds of rooms in a fantasy setting. The game originally was meant to be released as commercial game in 1990 but was never completed. ...

Desktop Publishing: RNO Publisher for all Amiga systems (30. Jul. 2020)
'RNO Publisher' created with Hollywood is a simple DTP application: The user creates one-page or multi-page documents and there can place text boxes, pictures and other graphic objects as well as links - the result then is exported to a PDF file. An ...

Cloanto opposing registration of US trademark 'Amico' (27. Jul. 2020)
As documented in the database of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Cloanto is opposing the registration of the trademark 'Amico' by Intellivision Entertainment LLC. since February. The US branch of the Italian software developer registered the 'Amiga' m...

Teaser video: Super Metal Hero (27. Jul. 2020)
"Super Metal Hero" (video of the latest prototype) is a jump'n run with parallex scrolling. This project is managed by 'Tenshu' who also is porting the role play Shadows of Sergoth. ...

AmigaOS 4: FreePascal also compatible to AmigaOne X5000 (26. Jul. 2020)
According to Károly 'chainq' Balogh under the title link in a Tweet, the main problem was fixed which did prevent creating FreePascal programs on an AmigaOne X5000 under AmigaOS 4. The issue was solved via remote access to a computer of a MorphOS ...

Raspberry Pi in an Amiga: Network driver for A314 (23. Jul. 2020)
"A314" is an adapter board which helps putting a Raspberry Pi in an Amiga 500, 600 or 2000. Additional to applications like exchanging data with Linux (running on the Pi) or playing audio or video files under Linux, now also the network connection of the ...

WarpOS port of Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (update) (21. Jul. 2020)
Raven Software's Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is a 3D action game released in 2002. Its source code was released in 2013. The WarpOS port requires the level files of the commercial release. The developer warns against several bugs which still ha...