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Podcast: AMIcast 13 - Interview with Daniel 'Daytona' Müßener (25. Jun. 2016)
In the latest issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski talked to Daniel Müßener (GoldenCode) about his projects (Wings Remastered, Wings Battlefield, OpenGL ES). ...

Retro 7-bit: Sum-Firmware-Update (20. Jun. 2016)
Sum developed by Retro 7-bit is a family of USB-devices for connecting keyboards to diverse Amiga models including the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the integrated USB-stack it "enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installin...

Coffee table book : "The Master of Pixel Art - Volume 1" available (17. Jun. 2016)
Last year, "The Masters of Pixel Art" was successfully financed by crowdfunding. The coffee table book "presents a selection of the very best pixel artwork in an exclusive production." If you place your order before June 27th, you will get a discount of 1...

Prototype of new A1200 case, production of Amiga key caps planned (16. Jun. 2016)
Last year Philippe Lang succeeded in financing the professional production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. Meanwhile a first prototype of the case was made. The blog "Indie Retro News" shows some photographs of it. According to Indie Retro News, La...

AROS: May 2016 Highlights (13. Jun. 2016)
So far we reported about "A week in AROS" in which Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz collected information about changes of the operating system AROS. Recently only few changes could be reported therefore we will change to the monthly summaries of th...

Aminet: Separate category for Hollywood established (12. Jun. 2016)
The software collection Aminet has established a separate category called "dev/hwood" for the cross-platform programming language Hollywood. Currntly 24 entries are listed, especially plugins. ...

MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.10 updated (June-2016-Edition) (09. Jun. 2016)
The official Software Development Kit 3.10 for MorphOS which was released in January has been updated. The Update provides bug fixes for the compiler GCC 5, new versions of the ixemul and SSL libraries as well as revised documentations and include fi...

OpenStreetMap viewer: Mapparium 0.2 (03. Jun. 2016)
Using Mapparium written by Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow you can watch maps of OpenStreetMap. Version 0.2 of the programm which was written with Free Pascal now is available for Amiga systems. Changes of version 0.2: ADD: Show Height/Speed map of record...

Event: Amiga Racer 3.3 at the Comic Convention in Phoenix, Arizona (03. Jun. 2016)
Tomorrow version 3.3 of Michael Neitzel's clone of Lotus called "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) will be introduced by his American copartner Kirk Shepherd at the Comic Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. About 30.000 visitors are expected. ...

Starbreeze acquires the rights to Cinemawar (Defender of the Crown, Wings, etc.) (01. Jun. 2016)
In a press release the Swedish Starbreeze AB has announced that the company did acquire the rights to Cinemaware's classic video game catalogue (Defender of the Crown, Wings, It came from the Desert) as well as the trade mark "Cinemaware" itself. Obviousl...

PCI-Busboard: 3V-Version of Mediator 4000D (26. May. 2016)
In the online shop of Elbox, from now on a 3V version of the PCI-busboard Mediator 4000D is available, which similar to the versions "PCI 1200 TX Black" and "PCI 4000 Di Black", available since December, also supports 3.3V-PCI cards. ...

FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver6" (24. May. 2016)
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the accelerator boards "Vampire 600 V2" are using the core. Already last week the latest update "Si...

Book announcement: AmigaOS 4.1 Emulation (English/Polish) (24. May. 2016)
Under the title link Krzysztof 'Radzik' Radzikowski, who is well-known by his podcast AmiCast, has announced the publication of his book about using an emulated AmigaOS 4.1 for August. The book will have 300 pages. Additional to the English-language ...

Podcast: The Retro Hour interviewed David Pleasance (Commodore UK) (22. May. 2016)
In its 20th issue, the British podcast "The Retro Hour" published by Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott interviewed David Pleasance - who was the former chief of Commodore UK. After the bankruptcy of the parent company, Commodore UK made an offer for it but was out...

Amiga film: "From Bedroom to Billions-The Amiga Years!" available from May 19th (15. May. 2016)
Last year money was collected for another Amiga film (there is also "Viva Amiga"): "The Amiga Years", which is a sequel to the documentary report "From Bedroom to Billions" (amiga-news.de reported). From May 19th under the title link the film will be a...

Music: New single of Blue Metal Rose (14. May. 2016)
Since yesterday a new single of Blue Metal Rose is available. For "Strange Life", Alice Schmidt is supported by Thorsten Schwesinger (vocals. Under the title link a video for this track has been released. For its songs the Dark-Pop-Duo Blue Metal Rose ...

Alien Breed clone: Prototype of new "Chaos Guns" engine (10. May. 2016)
Originally "Chaos Guns" was meant to be a multiplayer shooter, a mix of Alien Breed and Hired Guns. Two years ago, a first demo version was released. Shortly afterwards the only programmer did back out. According to the team in a blog entry, meanwhile for...

Graphic card: Picasso II+ clone "Matzes-GraKa" available (09. May. 2016)
For quite some time, Matthias "Matze" Heinrichs has been working on clone of the Picasso II+. Now in the Kryoflux store such a graphic card can be bought. Matzes-Graka has the same performance like the original card - a Cirrus GD5434 graphic chip with 2 M...

AmigaOS 4: Free Pascal updated (08. May. 2016)
In 2004 Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh ported the compiler Free Pascal to MorphOS and two years later for the first time adapted it to AmigaOS 4. Based on Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's version of Free Pascal for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x he ha...

ReWarp: Reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 in progress (07. May. 2016)
Under the title link Dennis van der Boon (well-known by his SonnetAmiga project) is working on a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. The goal of "ReWarp" (screenshot) is to make it possible runing WarpOS-programms under PowerPC computers which ...