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Amiga Games, Inc. sells Amiga NFTs to fund blockchain development (07. Apr. 2022)
"Amiga Games, Inc." (AGI) was a spin-off of Amiga, Inc. founded by Bill McEwen in 2013 to continue the last remaining line of business: selling (emulated) Amiga game classics for mobile platforms. AGI was taken over by the Writers Group almost immediately...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.2, video series (06. Apr. 2022)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan is supposed to allow the development of games. The engine itself is closed source, but all included demos and demo games are open source. The editor itself runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files,...

Video: All about MiSTer FPGA (03. Apr. 2022)
The YouTube channel 'My Life in Gaming' has published a video that goes into detail about the MiSTer FPGA board: what is needed, how to set it up, which consoles, computers, handhelds or arcade cores are supported. Supposedly worth watching even for long-...

OS4Depot uploads until 02.04.2022 (03. Apr. 2022)
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to OS4Depot: vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 237kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 231kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmppc_std.lha ...

Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10 (02. Apr. 2022)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday the new firmware version 1.10 was released providing the fol...

Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 Update 3 (31. Mar. 2022)
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb is based on vAmiga for Mac OS and runs in the web-browser and as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on mobile devices, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). Despite the rather small update suggested by its version number, it...

Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress ITX (30. Mar. 2022)
Recently we reported about an expansion for mounting the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 1200 case, called MiSTress 1200. Now there is also a conversion kit, MiSTress ITX, for mounting the MiSTer FPGA into an ITX/Micro ITX PC case. The MiSTress...

MorphOS: Screenbar plugin Uptime 1.5a (30. Mar. 2022)
The #amigazeux team has updated the Screenbar plugin 'Uptime' for displaying uptime - the time the computer system is running and functional - for MorphOS to version 1.5. Changes: Added a savety requester when trying to reset the uptime record. Uptime...

History: Commodore's 'ChessMate' (29. Mar. 2022)
In its latest blog entry, the 'Commodore International Historical Society' has reported on the history of Commodore's 'ChessMate'....

Sound module: First batch of ZZ9000AX is delivered (29. Mar. 2022)
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday it was announced that the first batch is shipping now, which was originally planned for January already. Interested users who order no...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.03.2022 (27. Mar. 2022)
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: EMagicBeaconModules_0.... Development/E MorphOS MagicBeacon mod... EReggaeModules_0.1.lha Development/E MorphOS Reggae modules ... EMUIModules_0.4.l...

THEA500 Mini: 'Citadel' and user manual available (26. Mar. 2022)
Starting April 08, interested users can purchase the THEA500 Mini (in North America only on May 31). If you want to shorten the time until then, you can already study the user manual. Furthermore, the first game of the Bonus USB Games Pack has been rel...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.0 (25. Mar. 2022)
The latest version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz contains some major changes and a few optimizations: Adjustments to libs handling: To be able to reduce the amount of loaded blitzlibraries at startup, I divided the former to biglib-files...

Accelerator board project: Buffee now Closed Source (24. Mar. 2022)
According to the developers of the turbo card 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) in their latest blog entry, the project which started as open source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license will now be continued completely closed source. Up to a...

Compiler: vbcc V0.9h patch 2 (23. Mar. 2022)
After the release of version 0.9h of the C compiler vbcc and a first patch at the beginning of March (amiga-news.de reported), the second patch has now been released, which fixes three optimizer bugs, as well as an old bug in fopen() and a new one in strn...

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' with wireless DB9 receiver (23. Mar. 2022)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the campaign is still running for three days, 150% (about 120,000 Euro) of the funding...

Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.95 (22. Mar. 2022)
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first par...

Linux: Kernel 5.17 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (22. Mar. 2022)
The final Linux kernel 5.17 has been released. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. Among other things, the XFS file system and...

Graphic designer Celal Kandemiroglu passed away (21. Mar. 2022)
GamesWirtschaft (German) has reported that graphic designer and artist Celal Kandemiroglu has passed away in Turkey at the age of 69. Readers of Amiga Joker, PC Joker and PC Player magazines will be familiar with his cover artwork, which Celâl Kandemir...

Minimig: Revision 1.8 (update) (20. Mar. 2022)
In 2005 we reported on the start of the Minimig project by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren: the reimplementation of the one Amiga 500 in an FPGA. Based on this approach there were other projects like the Mist, which uses its own hardware but f...