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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...

Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 (20. Mar. 2022)
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb for web-browsers is based on vAmiga for Mac OS (amiga-news.de reported). Besides being updated to the current vAmiga core released a couple of days ago, it also contains a new GPU shader renderer. Furthermore there is aut...

Do-it-yourself: Adapter for connecting DB9 joysticks (14. Mar. 2022)
Two weeks ago, we reported on Robert Smith's video showing how to 3D print your own retro-style joystick. In the new video that followed, he now shows how easy it is to build an adapter to connect vintage and retro joysticks to a modern system via USB....

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' officially licensed by Amiga Corporation (09. Mar. 2022)
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 there are still 18 days left to reach the funding goal of 78,000 Euros, almost 74,000 Euro...

AmigaOS 4: Status update on audio editor 'Rave', part 3 (05. Mar. 2022)
In mid-April 2021, developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka first reported on the current development status of his audio editor "Rave" in his blog Rear Window. In the second part of his developer diary he told about further progress in the sample editing featu...

Apollo-Team: Icedrake accelerator board for A1200 available (05. Mar. 2022)
As Gunnar von Boehn announced in the Apollo forum earlier this week, the Icedrake turbo card for A1200 can be ordered now for 570 Euros (incl. VAT). The specifications: Apollo 68080 CPU Performance is application dependent up to ~ 1000MHz 68030 /...

AROS: Shell command for AxRuntime (03. Mar. 2022)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as we...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 0.39 / Firmware 1.1 (02. Mar. 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...

RTG driver: P96 V3.2.4 released (02. Mar. 2022)
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) schreibt: "The new version addresses all issues that have been reported in our support forum - and a few more. As usual, the update is free for everyone who purchased a copy of P96 in the past 12 months. Just log in ...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1 (01. Mar. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Developer tools: vasm 1.9 and vlink 0.17 (01. Mar. 2022)
Frank Wille hat released updates for portable and retargetable assembler vasm and the corresponding portable linker vlink. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. A list of the changes can be found on the respective websites....

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.02.2022 (27. Feb. 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 26.02.2022: 2022-02-26 improved: Manchester Un...

Arcade port: 'Scramble 500' released (26. Feb. 2022)
A few days ago we already reported about Jean-François Fabre's new project: the port of the shoot'em-up classic Scramble (video). Now the developer has released his game (adf file) on itch.io. Since, as he explained to us, he was able to fix the last bugs...

Aracade game: 'Green Beret' update (23. Feb. 2022)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The recent update provides the following changes: Added the missing songs (Stage clear cut scene, an...

Preview video 26: Souverän Soccer (23. Feb. 2022)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). According to the developer, "the game still runs on a standard A1200 without turbo card and...

Text adventure: Updates for Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut) (18. Feb. 2022)
In mid-June 2021 we reported about the remake of the text adventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), which was released for numerous platforms. In the meantime, several updates have been released, which also affect the Amiga version: Release 8 mainly correc...

RaSCSI: SCSI adapter for Raspberry Pi (17. Feb. 2022)
In 2015, we reported about SCSI2SD, a SCSI adapter that allows SD cards to be used as SCSI hard drives. The firmware is still being maintained and the adapter is also still available, but it costs just under 90 Euros converted. As Gotek-Retro reports, the...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6 (16. Feb. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.0 released (13. Feb. 2022)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, continue Hollywood's 20th anniversary celebrations with yet another major new release: Plananarama 2.0. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run o...

Word processing: FinalWriter update status (11. Feb. 2022)
Just about a year ago, we last reported on the update for Finalwriter first announced by new rights owner Timothy "Terminills" Deters in 2015. Yesterday, the developer briefly outlined the current status on Amigans and MorphZone respectively: Accordi...