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Amiga 30th Anniversary: Charity Dinner Event (August 2nd, Peterborough) (11. Apr. 2015)
After Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Mountain View (USA), the UK's Peterborough will be the third location hosting an anniversary event celebrating the Amiga's 30th birthday. On August 2, the organisers plan to "celebrate all things Amiga, alongside many of ...

Java-Tutorial: Project Amiga Juggler (11. Apr. 2015)
In an detailed tutorial, Java programmers are dmonstrated, how to implement the Amiga Juggler by themselves. All steps are programmed again: The tutorial starts with the development of a mini-raytracer rendering the frames which later will be used the ani...

Swedish print magazine: Amiga Forum 12 (10. Apr. 2015)
The swedish print magazine "Amiga Forum" is published since 2012 and consists of 28 A5 pages, with 12 of them in color. The price is 25 kronor plus shipping. It can be ordered at the title link or at Amigastore. In this issue you can read about: N...

Benchmarks: Warp 3D SI on the dem Sam460 and the X1000 (07. Apr. 2015)
During the last few days, AmigaOS 4 users started to collect benchmark results for the recently released commercial Warp 3D drivers for Radeon HD graphic cards. The results are collected and presented on amigans.net, an older result using a Sam4...

AROS: AEROS for Pi beta 10 and beta 8 (full version for Raspberry Pi 1) (05. Apr. 2015)
Pascal Papara's Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi is available for registered users as beta version 10 (changes see below , video of the previous version). In celebration of Easter beta version 8 which was released in Novemb...

Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.30dev (03. Apr. 2015)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Since the last...

AmigaOS 4: Commercial Warp3D driver for Radeon-HD cards (02. Apr. 2015)
A-EON has announced the availability of Warp 3D drivers for für Radeon-HD graphic cards. They are not the drivers developed by the Frieden-brothers for Radeon-HD cards with Evergreen-chipset (just like the Radeon-HD 5450, built in the X1000 as standa...

Amiga Games Inc. no longer distributing classic Amiga Games (Update) (01. Apr. 2015)
Since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in Blackberrys App Store. At the start of the project, "more then 300 titles" were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced...

Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 55 (french) (30. Mar. 2015)
Issue 55 of aMiGa=PoWeR is available, as always in full color, containing for example reviews of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition, Tales of Gorluth and Voxelnoid. Further articles cover the AmigaOne X5000, Eric Chahi and the AmiWest event. aMiGa=PoWeR is a Fr...

Ralph Schmidt: Commercial distribution of Cyberstorm-ROMs inadmissible (update) (27. Mar. 2015)
According to Ralph Schmidt in German comment on Amiga-News, he still owns the rights to the drivers, ROMs and utilities distributed by Phase 5 or DCE for their Amiga hardware. The company DCE never has been right holder of the software and therefore ...

Emulation: Legal source of supply for Cyberstorm-ROM-file (24. Mar. 2015)
If you are going to use AmigaOS 4.1 "Final Edition" with an emulator, that requires this PowerPC operating system, the Kickstart-ROM and the Workbench of AmigaOS 3.1 as well as the accelerator board ROM of the CyberStorm PPC. If you do n...

GUI-Toolkit for Hollywood: First demo version of cross-platform HGui (23. Mar. 2015)
HGui is a GUI-system developed with Hollywood, which in contrast to the Amiga-specific MUI Royale would be available for all platforms supported by Hollywood. The development has been almost finished, a first demo now is available (download site). ...

Crowdfunding: US-American celebration for Amiga 30th anniversary via Kickstarter (20. Mar. 2015)
On the occasion of Amiga 30th anniversary - on July 23rd 1985 it was presented for the first time - in Computer History Museum in Mountain View (California) a big party will take place. It is planned: a panel discussion with former Amiga developers D...

Music: Blue-Metal-Rose-Song with pure C64-sound (19. Mar. 2015)
On March 27th the album "Farbenfrohe Welt" written by Blue Metal Rose will be released. One song was recorded with C64-sounds and can be found under the title link on YouTube. ...

"Guide to Amiga Compatible Programming" as Markdown-/HTML-document (16. Mar. 2015)
The "Amiga Compatible Programming Guide" written by Gianfranco "ShInKurO" Gignina (e.g. NoWinEd) is an introduction to the development of cross-platform Amiga applications focused on the development of graphical user-interfaces with MUI. So far the g...

AmigaOS 4: Bugfix for Swamp Defense 2 (11. Mar. 2015)
Recently, Swamp Defense 2 has been released. Two minor bugs have been found yet: Additional to a memory leak, in some sections of the game the background graphic have been rotated by 180 degrees. On the website an update to version 1.2 is available. ...

Epsilon's Blog: Test of AEROS 3.5 (English) (08. Mar. 2015)
Under the title link, 'Epsilon' has tested the Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS (free version 3.5) on his Asus-K52F-laptop. The review has many pictures and among others describes the installation as well as the mixed usage of Linux and AROS applicatio...

AmigaOS 4: Tool collection zTools 1.5 (07. Mar. 2015)
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his commercially distributed collection of tools, called "zTools". Version 1.5 is exclusively sold in the Amistore and provides updates of FlipPaper and WebReplay as well as bug fixes of SysMon, FastHide and FastView....

Old School Game Blog: Interview with Pascal Papara (English) (07. Mar. 2015)
Under the title link an English-language interview has been conducted with Pascal Papara. He talked about his projects, e.g. the Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS, and announced focusing on the ARM-architecture to sell it as a commercial "Premium-Versio...

Bugfix for Hollywood 6: Epiphany (06. Mar. 2015)
For all those customers who downloaded the multimedia development environment Hollywood 6 before February 28th, the author has provided an update in the protected download section which contains a "critical bugfix". Users of the CD-ROM version are no...