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MorphOS: Sixth beta version of TinyGL (16. Dec. 2022)
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has...

Emulator: QEMU 7.2.0 released (16. Dec. 2022)
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This...

Advent Calendar: Door 15 - Dennis Pauler (15. Dec. 2022)
We open the 15th advent calendar door and welcome Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler from Virtual Dimension. Virtual Dimension can look back on a long history and has incredibly changed and gained versatility over the years: In 1991 the group around Dennis Pau...

Advent Calendar: Door 14 - Erik Hogan (14. Dec. 2022)
Today's Advent calendar door belongs to the game developer Erik 'earok' Hogan. Of course, the game construction kit "Scorpion Engine", which we first reported on in April 2020 and which he developed and continues to develop, immediately comes to mind...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 8 of "WhatIFF?" published (14. Dec. 2022)
"WhatIFF?" is an English Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is primarily intended for users who want to work creatively with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue...

Minimig: Revision 1.91 (14. Dec. 2022)
In mid-March we reported on revision 1.8 of Minimig: the reimplementation of an Amiga 500 in an FPGA, a field-programmable gate array. After six months of development, Minimig REV 9 is now available. Accelerator cards like the TerribleFire 534 and 53...

Debugging tool: PatchWork 1.1 (14. Dec. 2022)
In keeping with yesterday's Advent calendar door, Richard Körber has released version 1.1 of his debugging tool "PatchWork" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New TASKNAME option, which only reports hits caused by tasks with the given name. Note th...

Kickstarter campaign: Update on the Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor (13. Dec. 2022)
About three weeks ago, Stephen Jones launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund monitors for retro computers (amiga-news.de reported). Five days remain and so far 138.938 of the required 239.785 Euro have been funded. Jones has taken this interim status...

Mastodon-Client: Update on Amidon development status (13. Dec. 2022)
The author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, is in the process of developing a Mastodon client for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). In a blog entry published on his Ko-fi page he now reports about the current state. Among ot...

Advent Calendar: Door 13 - Richard Körber (13. Dec. 2022)
ust in time for lunch break, the 13th door of our Advent calendar opens. We may introduce: Richard 'Shred' Körber. This could be a record so far: Already on 04 May 1999 we reported (in German) about Richard Körber's newly established website "Palmiga...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 10 (13. Dec. 2022)
Press release: December 12, 2022 - Cloanto released today version 10 of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The new editions are the result of almost two years of developme...

Video: Beth Richard disassembles an Amiga CD 1200 (English) (11. Dec. 2022)
The CD 1200, which was only produced in a few copies as a prototype, was not only to equip an Amiga 1200 with an external CD-ROM drive, but also to ensure compatibility with Commodore's game console Amiga CD³². In the video at the title ...

Advent Calendar: Door 11 - Alain Fontanin (11. Dec. 2022)
For the third Advent and the eleventh door, we asked Alain Fontanin for an anecdote. Alain and his text editor "Amiga Source Editor (2019)", of which he has recently released version 2.0, is on the one hand a wonderful example of how nostalgia and th...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 graphics driver development (11. Dec. 2022)
In his latest blog entry, developer Michal Schulz reports on the work he has started with the P96 VideoCore driver and in particular with the VPU (Vector Processing Unit). In a short Video he demonstrates the VideoCore driver for the P96 RTG subsyste...

Advent Calendar: Door 10 - Edgar Schwan (10. Dec. 2022)
We start the weekend with the tenth door and Edgar Schwan. Edgar has been developing his Unix environment for AmigaOS 4, called AmiCygnix (current version 1.6), tirelessly and with great dedication for many years: it is not an emulation, but all prog...

Dock: QDock V1.39 (10. Dec. 2022)
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). In the update that has now been released, he has implemented various improvements: for example...

Puzzle game: Update for "Wood Block Puzzle" (10. Dec. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). In the small update that has now been released, he has fixed a bug that occurred when eliminating a ...

Jump'n Run: Minky V1.41 (10. Dec. 2022)
Minky (video) is a Jump'n Run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). With the now released update to version 1.41, the selection "Joy Up" or "Joypad 2nd Fire" is available ...

ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.8 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (09. Dec. 2022)
Chris Young has released version 1.8 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool ex...

AmigaOS 4.1: Update of Excel addon for spreadsheet ignition (08. Dec. 2022)
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.21, Achim Pankalla had also provided the xlsx-AddOn for reading MS-Excel files for the first time (amiga-news.de reported). For this he has released a small update to version 0.11 today: now it handle...