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Games competition: Winners of AmiGameJam 2016 announced (05. Jun. 2017)
From six games which were sent in to the games competition "AmiGameJam 2016" the winners have been choosen with an online voting. In the category "Next Generation" the jump'n'run game "Santa Run" has won for AmigaOS 4, in the "Classic"-c...

AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.2 (04. Jun. 2017)
On Christmas a preview version of Icaros Desktop 2.2 was released. Now the official main version 2.2 is available which provides "little and bigger enhancements like a complete new look, which involves both Magellan toolbars and decoration theme, and...

Gotek/HxC: Adapter for using a floppy emulator as external drive (01. Jun. 2017)
If you want to use a floppy emulator just like Gotek or HxC as external drive ;- thus avoiding changes on the Amiga case;- you need a corresponding adapter. The Polish developers of Sakura IT has made available documents for constructing such an adapter a...

FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops (30. May. 2017)
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain...

Beat'em Up: Else we get mad! (playable preview) (30. May. 2017)
"Else we get mad" (video) is a Beat'em Up developed by Amiga Wave (e.g. Retro Wars) which is an homage to the actors Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. Else we get Mad! runs on each Amiga with 512 KB memory, a single and two player mode is offered...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (28. May. 2017)
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: Shadow Of The Beast II - Title (Chillout Edit) Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007 Turrican II ...

Compiler: vbcc 0.9f, sponsored by Individual Computers (24. May. 2017)
vbcc ist ein C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. "It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a sub...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit X (21. May. 2017)
The Workbench distribution AmiKit, which is meant for emulators, now is available as version 10 ("X") for the notebook "A.L.I.C.E." (A-EON Technology) which was announced two years ago and introduced in a preview video last year but still is not available...

Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks on a broad front (update 2) (19. May. 2017)
It looks as if Cloanto's registration of the 'Amiga' mark filed in January in the USA will be contested by Hyperion: After the Belgium based company's attempts to register its own trademarks 'AmigaOS' and 'AmigaOne' failed, Hyperion now filed a request fo...

Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99 (13. May. 2017)
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for...

Story of Commodore: Separating the current manuscript into two books? (13. May. 2017)
Originally Brian Bagnall had split the second issue of his story of Commodore called "On The Edge" into two volumes - the first volume was published in 2010 and finished the story before the company Amiga was took over. The publication of the second volum...

Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks (11. May. 2017)
Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going o...

Preview: First issue of English magazine "Amiga User" (10. May. 2017)
In March the Polish publisher amiga.net.pl had released a new English-language magazine. Meanwhile some first reading extracts of the first issue have been published. The complete magazine will be published in July as ebook and printed issue. ...

Web browser: Netsurf 3.7 (SDL version) with Youtube streaming (10. May. 2017)
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His version is based on SDL, only the preferences use MUI, and should not be confused with Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version. Additional to some bug fixes, versi...

Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment) (08. May. 2017)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de ...

Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy (08. May. 2017)
In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software ...

AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2017) (04. May. 2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week. Week of April 18th to April 24th: Build fixes (Kalamate...

New articles on Obligement website (01. May. 2017)
The articles below have been added to the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. March/April 2017 news Old articles from T...

OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.04.2017 (30. Apr. 2017)
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 29th, 2017: drawergad.lha dev/lib 285kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ... handy-jacobs.lha emu/gam 228kb 4.0 Atari Lynx emulator reactive_lib.lha li...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (30. Apr. 2017)
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: Atom Demo IV Soundtrack (Strange Days 2017 Refurbish) Pinball Dreams (Beatbox Ingame Remix)...