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Kickstarter campaign: Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor (20. Nov. 2022)
Already in April this year (reported) Stephen Jones announced a Kickstarter campaign to finance monitors for retrocomputers. This was now started two days ago (detailed YouTube video) and of the targeted 240,171 Euros, already a quarter, about 67,000 Euro...

Action game: Chaos Arena released (20. Nov. 2022)
"Last Minute Creations" is a Polish group of Amiga game developers and has now released their third game after "GermZ" and "'Atarenium Falcon" (amiga-news.de reported): "Chaos Arena". The goal of the game is to push opponents out of the a...

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.11.2022 (20. Nov. 2022)
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 19.11.2022: 2022-11-18 improved: Wonderboy (Ac...

Platform game: Super Delivery Boy 2022.1 (20. Nov. 2022)
Coinciding with the approaching Christmas season, the mini-game "Super Delivery Boy" (amiga-news.de reported) has been updated. New features include a permanent high score, an improved menu screen and various optimisations and bug fixes....

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 driver development for Compute Module 4 finished (19. Nov. 2022)
At the end of October, we reported that developer Michal Schulz was going to make all the necessary improvements and fixes to Emu68 and the low-level drivers needed to make them work properly with Compute Module 4. As he now reports in his latest Patreon ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI-Firmware 1.1.3 (19. Nov. 2022)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1.3 of the firmware was released today. Changes: Move p...

AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey scripts for GitHub and itch.io websites (18. Nov. 2022)
At the end of 2021, George 'walkero' Sokianos had provided a script for the Odyssey browser, after which you can display GitHub project pages correctly again (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it so that there should be no more overlaps in the d...

AmigaOS 4: FTP client AmiFTP 1.953 (17. Nov. 2022)
At the beginning of 2010, for the last time amiga-news.de reported on the FTP client AmiFTP. Ten years later, Matthias 'djBase' Münch (maintainer of Amigaworld) started a discussion about the further development of the client on OS4Welt. A source code was...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.2b1 (17. Nov. 2022)
After developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS in mid-August (amiga-news.de reported), he has now started the new cycle of pre-releases for version 2.2 with the first beta release. Changes: Enhancements A...

Arcade port: Wonderboy released (17. Nov. 2022)
Wonderboy is an Amiga port of the first part of the Wonder Boy saga, of which only the sequel Wonderboy in Monsterland was available for the Amiga so far. The Amiga version was created with the help of the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Now 'ac...

Video: 68k programs under MorphOS (16. Nov. 2022)
Ravi Abbott, known for his documentary "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" (amiga-news.de reported), shows in his latest video how to install the operating system MorphOS and then set it up so that you can use 68k applications and games....

Video: Scalos as Linux desktop (16. Nov. 2022)
The Workbench replacement Scalos, which was ported for AROS ten years ago, is now also running under the runtime environment AxRuntime under Linux in a still very early state. A video of it can be watched at the title link, in a forum post Krzysztof 'd...

Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on the advantages of PJIT (16. Nov. 2022)
In her blog Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports about theoretical and practical basics of the project. In two previous blog entries she had compared her emulation solution of the 68...

Metacompiler: Portabl E r6a (15. Nov. 2022)
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. This update fixes some bugs of ve...

Feature test in AMOS: Update for mingame None Of Us (15. Nov. 2022)
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, had released a minigame called "None Of Us" three weeks ago, which is intended to test how to obscure the player's opponen...

Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.5 (13. Nov. 2022)
About three weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). By releasing another update, the following bugs were fixed: When using the ADF's, Level 9 now loads, Stage 10 files moved to disk 2 to fix. I'm amazed nobody...

Do it yourself: Drivers for clockport/Raspberry Pi interface (12. Nov. 2022)
At the end of June Niklas Ekström had provided the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clockport is possible (amiga-news.de reported). The goal is to be able to run serv...

Do it yourself: Sound card Prelude replica (Update) (11. Nov. 2022)
The Zorro II sound card Prelude supported recording and playing in full-duplex mode at a resolution of 16 bit and a frequency of upto 64 kHz. Those who are interested in building a replica themselves can find a corresponding project - inlud...

Distributed.net: OGR-28 completed, Distributed Amiga in second place (10. Nov. 2022)
Around the turn of the millennium, various initiatives were started to make unused computing time available for projects, which also led to the formation of teams in the Amiga area that competed with others - be it against other operating systems or among...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.0 (10. Nov. 2022)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following c...