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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 2 (05. Aug. 2022)
At the end of July, Epsilon reported in his blog 'Epsilon's World' on the restoration of his Amiga 2000. Today he has published part two, describing the installation of the 'Picasso IV' graphics card, a real-time clock and of Picasso 96....

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.2 (01. Aug. 2022)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Jump'n Run: Demo version of NinjFeratu (01. Aug. 2022)
The busy developers of Amiten Games - among others 'EmotiWorld' and 'CyberPunk Alien City' (amiga-news.de reported) - are in the process of writing another Jump'n Run for Amigas called 'NinjFeratu' using their 'AmiGen' game engine (YouTube video). A demo ...

AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated (30. Jul. 2022)
As already reported in the article on Blastaway, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated several games in parallel and thus his arcade game KOG as well (video). Changes: July 29, 2022 Added screenshots of internal graphics (now [F1] grab a screensho...

AmigaOS 4: Update of arena shooter 'Blastaway' (30. Jul. 2022)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's 'Blastaway' (video) is an arena shooter with 50 levels in five different worlds. The game principle is inspired by Wizard of Wor, the graphics by The Chaos Engine (amiga-news.de reported). As Simone wrote, "lately work ha...

Self-made project: Interface clock port/Raspberry Pi (29. Jul. 2022)
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported), Niklas Ekström provides under the title link the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clock port is possible. After th...

A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga 500 (29. Jul. 2022)
Mike, a British Amiga fan, is working on a metal case in the style of Commodore's CBM series. The "A-Pet" is supposed to be able to accommodate either a standard PC or various Amiga models, this is achieved by using different backplates (amiga-news.de rep...

RSS-Reader: IvoRSS 1.1.1 für AmigaOS 3, 4 und MorphOS (29. Jul. 2022)
IvoRSS is a simple RSS reader written with Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported). The codesets.library and AmiSSL 4 are required. IvoRSS is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes: Version 1.1.1 Fixed crash for uncovered HTML characte...

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b5 (27. Jul. 2022)
After the release of version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported) developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and released the fifth beta version today. Changes: Bug fixes Added support for ECS ...

AmigaOS 4: Flawfinder finds vulnerabilities in C/C++ source code (25. Jul. 2022)
George 'walkero' Sokianos has ported Flawfinder, originally written by David A. Wheeler in Python, to AmigaOS 4 and explained: "In the last couple of years that I started working on AmigaOS applications, I always look how to make use of modern tools ...

Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga released (24. Jul. 2022)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Two days ago, a new beta version (22.07.2022) was released. Changes: additional animal taxes the shears can break when shearing a shee...

Kickstarter campaign: Production of 'Tank Mouse' starts soon (23. Jul. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 ((amiga-news.de reported)). A few days ago the developer announced in a status update that the production of the Tan...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.1 / Firmware 1.2 (23. Jul. 2022)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.2 (23. Jul. 2022)
For about a year, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has been introducing the audio editor 'Rave' in ...

Hardware: 'PiStation ITX' available (23. Jul. 2022)
At the end of June, we reported about the announcement of the shop 8bits4ever to offer a board for a mini-ITX case for holding a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4. 'PiStation ITX' now is available for 80 Euro plus shipping....

RCross: Radio-controlled car game from developer contest ported (17. Jul. 2022)
Last year, the developer competition #hvdosdev2021 was won by the PC game "RCross", which requires an 80486 processor with 8 MB RAM. In it, you control a radio-controlled car that has to complete a course in the best possible time. The Amiga port ...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.0 (15. Jul. 2022)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), whi...

Apollo-Team: Manticore accelerator board for Amiga 600 announced (13. Jul. 2022)
In addition to the currently already available turbo cards FireBird (for the Amiga models 500, 1000 and 2000) and IceDrake (for the Amiga 1200), which are based on the core of the Vampire 4 (amiga-news.de reported) the Manticore for the Amiga 600 is now a...

Interview: MorphOS developer Jacek Piszczek (12. Jul. 2022)
Many of our readers know Jacek Piszczek by his browser Wayfarer, first released in early October 2020, and his email program Iris, first beta version released at the end of March 2018, both for MorphOS. But the developer has been active for MorphOS fo...

Email client: New YAM Nightly Build provides AmiSSL 5 support (11. Jul. 2022)
At the end of May we reported that IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts had uploaded changes to the YAM project that enable the mail programme to support the new version 5 of the AmiSSL 5 encryption protocol. Jens Maus has now merged these changes...