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Lawsuit: Court order denying motion to enjoin C-A Acquisition Corporation (09. Apr. 2019)
After the failed registration of the trademark "Workbench" in the EU and the denied motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4, Cloanto has to deal with the third setback in a row: the court has denied enjoining C-A Acquisition Co...

Lawsuit: Court denies Cloanto's motion for preliminary injunction (04. Apr. 2019)
In the lawsuit between Cloanto and Hyperion yesterday the court has denied the motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 (PDF file). After the futile attempt of registering the trademark "Workbench" also in the EU, this is t...

Tutorial: Using a Linux box as a Proxy for SSL connections (03. Apr. 2019)
While AmiSSL 4 makes a modern version of SSL available for AmigaOS 3, software that supports it is still hard to find. And given its slow CPU, an Amiga is barely able to decode modern SSL cyphers anyway. amiga-news.de reader 'Cego' solved this proble...

TCP/IP-Stack: SDK update 1.4 for Roadshow (02. Apr. 2019)
For developers now version 1.4 of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the TCP/IP stack Roadshow is available. The update became necessary because of the Amiga port of NetSurf that makes use of the SDK. download site...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (31. Mar. 2019)
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added: Apydia - Game Over (Memorial) Varanen Turrican 2 (The Final Challenge) Turrican 2 - Freed...

Interview with Paolo Cattani (Virtual Grand Prix) (31. Mar. 2019)
For the Spanish website Amigatronics, Paolo Cattani was interviewed. Among others he wrote the racing game "Virtual Grand Prix" released in 1999 as well as its MorphOS successor released in 2005. ...

Game prototypes: AlarCity and Blask (27. Mar. 2019)
AlarCity Dungeon Prototype (video) is an early prototype of Erik 'earok' Hogan's top-down-view-shooter AlarCity which still is in development. According to the developer the prototype "no longer represents our vision for the game" offers 55 playable rooms...

Game: Bridge Strike (27. Mar. 2019)
Bridge Strike developed by Project R3D is a River-Raid clone. Two and half year after the pre-release, meanwhile the shoot'em up has been completed and is available as commercial download or CD version under the title link. At the RetroKomp i...

Cloanto: Registration of "Workbench" trademark in EU rejected (22. Mar. 2019)
Following the long-time ownership of the "Workbench" trademark in the USA, two years ago Cloanto also tried to register it at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This application was opposed by Hyperion Entertainment (amiga-news.de re...

Interview with demoscene member StingRay (17. Mar. 2019)
Under the title link AmigaLife has interviewed the demoscene member StingRay who is founding member of Scarab and released hundreds of patches for WHDLoad. ...

AmigaOS 4 speaker fired / confirmation regarding A-EON's 2012 restructuring (16. Mar. 2019)
Since 2011, the Canadian developer Steven Solie was employed as head of the AmigaOS 4 developer team for Hyperion Entertainment ("team lead") - a title which, according to Solie, was self-given and later qualified by him to be the "spokesman" of the ...

Collector's edition of Trap Runner (15. Mar. 2019)
Since today APC&TCP offers the collector's edition of Trap Runner. Additional to the disk and the booklet the box also includes an A3 poster. ...

Dungeon Crawler: Videos of "The Shadows of Sergoth" and "Black Dawn Rebirth" (13. Mar. 2019)
On Double Sided Games two dungeon crawler similar to Dungeon Master are in development: For the announced Amstrad port "The Shadows of Sergoth" a first gameplay video was published. For the planned seventh part of the in-house Black Dawn series there are ...

Video podcast: Amiga Retro Cast on plans of the new Amiga entity (11. Mar. 2019)
Episode 24 of the Amiga Retro Cast is about the latest events concerning the licence to use Picasso96 in Amiga Forever (amiga-news.de reported). For this Douglas Compton exchanged e-mails with Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who recently acquired further ...

Workbench enhencement: BestWB 1.1 for AmigaOS 3.1.4 (10. Mar. 2019)
Similar to BetterWB, BestWB is a collection of Workbench tools for, in this case, AmigaOS 3.1.4 without bloating the whole system. ...

Picasso96 conflict: Jens Schönfeld reacts to Cloanto's rebuttal (07. Mar. 2019)
Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) has been publicly claiming (German) for quite a while that Cloanto (PersonalPaint, Amiga Forever) are distributing unlicensed copies of Picasso96. In an attempt to rebut these allegations, the Italian developer had pu...

amiga-news.de website: Minor bugs fixed (07. Mar. 2019)
Our programmer Programmierer Sven Drieling has fixed some minor bugs of the website of amiga-news.de: Among others Configuring the main page now also works although a coresponding cookie already exists on the computer of the user. Additionally the functio...

Personal Paint: Update to version 7.3c now available (05. Mar. 2019)
Under the title link the update for the 8-bit paint program Personal Paint which was announced a month ago now is available for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. The changes of this version among others add a polygon mode to grab brush tools, updat...

E-mail programs: AmiSSL 4.3 speeds up SSL/TLS communication (05. Mar. 2019)
In February 2017 a team consisting of Jens Maus and Thore Böckelmann (e.g. YAM) and others released the first version of AmiSSL 4. Recently an update to AmiSSL 4.3 was released which now is based on the latest version OpenSSL 1.1.1a (20.11.2018) and ...

Jump'n Run: Celtic Heart (05. Mar. 2019)
After the releases of Trap Runner and Solid Gold the brothers Frank und Gerrit Wille have joined for their third game project called "Celtic Heart". According to programmer Frank in contrary to the first two games this time it is only an "internal test pr...