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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 9 (19. Mar. 2016)
In its nineth issue, Jeremy Reimer wrote about Video Toaster in his series "A history of the Amiga" which since 2007 has been published on Ars Technica. ...

Emulator: iUAE 1.1 for iOS (15. Mar. 2016)
After about two years the implementation of the Amiga emulator UAE for Apple's iOS-devices has been updated. As usual iUAE is available on Cydia. Owners of a Mac-OS-X computer can also install the programm without jailbreak via Sideload to the iPhone, iPa...

Amicast: Text interview with Frank Wille (13. Mar. 2016)
The blog of the English podcast Amicasthas published a text interview with Frank Wille. The developer is well-known for the game Solid Gold and the Amiga ports of Retroguru games like the Sqrxz series (1, 2, 3), Giana's Return, Xump or Fruit'Y, but he is ...

Aminet-Uploads until 12.03.2016 (13. Mar. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 12th, 2016: dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI dsm.i386-aros.zip comm/tcp 1.2M x86 Synology Download Station Man... AFnews-68k.lha ...

AmigaOS 4: Beta version of Cinnamon Writer 0.95 (12. Mar. 2016)
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a "compact and efficient word processor developed especially with Amiga and Amiga-like systems in mind" which can import RTF and DocX files and offers a spellchecker. Almost three years after the last release, at least...

Preview video: Amikit X ("A.L.I.C.E") launches Linux applications (11. Mar. 2016)
A preview video shows the forthcoming version X of the emulator distribution Amikit, which is suppposed to be used in A-EONs announced Laptop A.L.I.C.E. ("A Laptop Incorporating A Classic Experience"). One of the important new features of Amikit will be l...

amiga-news.de: Server problems, relocation in progress (09. Mar. 2016)
Currently amiga-news.de is located on a server of a friendly web presence. Obviously the (virtual) server cannot handle the additional traffic so we were going to move to a new server. During the last days, amiga-news.de could not be accessed for sev...

AROS-Distribution: Latest AEROS for Pi available to all (04. Mar. 2016)
One and a half week ago, Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS was made available for the Raspberry Pi (models 1 & 2) to registered customers. Now it is available to all users in his indieGO!-Appstore called "AEROS Premiu...

New articles on Obligement website (01. Mar. 2016)
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/February 2016 news. Old articl...

Podcast: AmiCast 10 interviewed Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo-Core) (28. Feb. 2016)
In its tenth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed the developer Gunnar von Boehn who is working on the Apollo-Core as well as on the accelerator board Vampire II. ...

Review: Netsurf under AmigaOS 3 (Update) (26. Feb. 2016)
If nowadays users of classic Amiga hardware are going to surf the Internet, until recently they could only choose between iBrowse and A-Web. But both web browsers have not been updated since 2006 and 2011, respectively. As long as you are only intending t...

MiST: FPGA-AGA-Core 1.2 (24. Feb. 2016)
For the Atari/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) an update of the emulated Amiga with AGA-support has been released which further increases the compatibility. Changes in version 1.2: Initial implementation of programmable display modes...

IBrowse developers explained usage of TLS with AmiSSL (20. Feb. 2016)
The developers wrote: "I'm sure you are all well aware that many secure websites are normally not reachable with IBrowse 2.4 any longer, due to servers shutting off SSLv2 and SSLv3 connections due to the POODLE attack. However, there is a solution... T...

AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Gorky 17 (19. Feb. 2016)
In October Hyperion Entertainment released its AmigaOS-4 port of the game "Gorky 17" (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today a demo version was released which includes the first level. ...

MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.8e (19. Feb. 2016)
While the version for AmigaOS-4.1 of the racing computer game "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) is constantly updated in the OS4Depot-Uploads, the version for MorphOS from the end of October remained almost unnoticed. On tuesday version 2.8e was...

amiga-news.de: Downtimes due to attacks on the database (18. Feb. 2016)
During the last two days amiga-news.de could not be accessed for a longer period: Our server was attacked by a script which succeeded several times in overloading our database. But no data got lost and the hackers could not break into our system. The prob...

Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Further prototypes added (14. Feb. 2016)
After the Amiga 2200, now further prototypes have been added to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware: 68040 processor board for the A3000, which was to show in 1990 when the computer was presented 68040 processor board for the A1000+ 68020/68030 proce...

Quick review: PDF magazine Amigaville, issue 4 (12. Feb. 2016)
November last year Brian Hedley started publishing his PDF magazine Amigaville, releasing a new issue every month. Having released just three issues, each downloaded "several hundred times" (Hedley), the author decided to switch to commercial distribution...

Aminet needs help: searching for freely distributable Amiga magazines (10. Feb. 2016)
The Aminet team writes: A lot of older freely distributable software is still missing from Aminet. Some of it is preserved nicely on Public Domain disks or CD compilations easily available on the web - but a lot of it is rotting away on private hard disks...

Obligement: Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiga-news.de; engl./fr.) (09. Feb. 2016)
French magazine Obligement published an interview with Christoph Gutjahr today, administrator of the software repository Aminet and one of the two publishers of amiga-news.de since 2010. The interview contains background information on both websites an...