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Successful Kickstarter campaign for book of David Pleasance, Interview (13. Mar. 2017)
A few days ago David Pleasance, CEO of Commodore UK from 1983 to 1995, had announced a book about his time at Commodore, which will be crowdfunded. Meanwhile the Kickstarter project was started. So far 25.289 £ of the aim of 25.000 £ were donated and th...

Open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 (08. Mar. 2017)
The announced open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 for the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported) has been completed (video). Now the developer is working on a version for 68040 and, if possible, for 68060 processors. ...

Turbo board: Wicher 500i to be produced soon (08. Mar. 2017)
The turbo board for the Amiga 500 and 500+ that has been announced by Retro 7-bit is expected to be produced soon. Since it has been adapted to be mounted internally, the turbo board is called Wicher 500i. Features: Processor: MC680...

Cloud storage with Amiga access: AmiCloud 1.2 (08. Mar. 2017)
Using the AmiCloud client available for all Amiga systems as well as for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, you can access cloud storage provided by Pascal Papara without traffic limitation (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2 meets the more strict Apache r...

AmigaOS 4: Closed beta test for LibreOffice started (04. Mar. 2017)
According to A-EON on its Facebook site, the beta test of the port of the office suite LibreOffice has started. For the first time in 2012 the port of LibreOffice was announced. The office suite is ported by the developer Thomas Frieden and finan...

Renaming picture files: Exutil 0.10 (03. Mar. 2017)
The MUI-based Hollywood program Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the EXIF-information or the date of creation of the file. Version 0.10 is available for all Amiga systems and provides...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Mar. 2017)
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement, which started 20 years ago, during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/Fe...

Accelerator board: Vampire 500 has CE certification (27. Feb. 2017)
According Igor 'Majsta' Majstorovic on his website, the Vampire 500 has got a CE certification. For many electronic and electronical devices a CE certification is required for selling them in the European Economic Area. In contrary to the Vampire&nbs...

Crowdfunding: The Commodore Story, the next Commodore documentation (25. Feb. 2017)
After Viva Amiga and The Commodore Wars, a third film is supposed to tell the story of Commodore, financed by Kickstarter. "The Commodore Story" will be recorded, if 17.500 British Pound will be donated by April 20th - so far about 10.300 pounds were dona...

Plipbox Deluxe: Cases for Ethernet adapters in Commodore style (23. Feb. 2017)
Already since November, under the title link cases for Christian Vogelgsang's external Ethernet adapter plipbox (amiga-news.de reported) are offered which are made with 3D printing. The adapter is included in the price. ...

Text editor Redit: Source code released (23. Feb. 2017)
Kai Scherrer's Redit ist a text editor which is compatible to Kickstart 1.2 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the source code of the latest version 1.15 was released. Download: Redit1.15_src.lha (72 KB) ...

Flower Pot: Preconfigured WinUAE preferences for AmigaOS 4 (17. Feb. 2017)
If you do not want to waste your time with configuring the emulator WinUAE on your Windows or Mac-OS-X/x86 computer for running AmigaOS 4, you can use "Flower Pot" sold by the AmiKit-Team for 6,95 Euro which is a preconfigured environment. ...

Video: Tower 57 playing on the "Tabor" motherboard (update) (16. Feb. 2017)
In a blog entry Hyperion shows the crowdfunded shooter Tower 57, which will be also released for AmigaOS 4. Daniel Müßener is developing the port for OS4 and has created a special version of the game for the Tabor motherboard ("A1222") presenting th...

Interview with Jérôme Senay (French) (13. Feb. 2017)
Under the title link an interview in French with Jérôme 'Glames' Senay has been published, who is the author of Ask Me Up and Dir Me Up (English Google translation). ...

AmigaRemix: New songs added (12. Feb. 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: Parasol Stars Medley Rings of Medusa - Distorsion mix Sleeping Gods Lie (Intro Remix) Thu...

Developer tool: vlink 0.15d (09. Feb. 2017)
Frank Wille has updated the portable linker vlink which can handle a lot of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc. ...

Interview with AmigaWave (09. Feb. 2017)
Under the title link, generationamiga.com has interviewed Enrique who is one of the members of the Spanish group AmigaWave (YouTube channel). The games "Furtum Sacrum", "RetroWars" and "Brus Lii" have been written by the developer group (amiga-news.de rep...

Encryption: AmiSSL 4 (08. Feb. 2017)
A team led by Jens Maus (e.g. YAM) has released version 4 of the OpenSSL-port AmiSSL, which can establish encrypted connections on the Internet - e.g. loading a website using HTTPS. AmiSSL 4 is based on the latest OpenSSL 1.1.0d providing new en...

Games competition: Participants of the "AmiGameJam 2016" (06. Feb. 2017)
Six games have been registered for the programming competition "AmiGameJam 2016" which was started in December. They now can be downloaded from the website of the organizers. The winner will be selected by an online voting, completed by the jurors Trevor ...

Laser upgrade for Amiga mice (Update) (05. Feb. 2017)
Having been unsatisfied with the accuracy of his old Amiga 500 mouse, Jesús de la Torre developed a replacement board which turns the Amiga mice of Commodore and Amiga Technologies into optical mice with a resolution of (according to the retailer) 85...