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ACube Systems: New online shop / Sam460cr boards still not available (30. Jul. 2021)
Press release, 29. July 2021: "ACube Systems it’s pleased to announce the opening of its new online store. In the new store customers will find the current lineup of ACube hardware ranging from barebones motherboards to accessories. Everything y...

Tales of Gorluth III: Development status and survey (29. Jul. 2021)
In January 2019 the third part of Tales of Gorluth Saga was announced. In April of the last year the developer Patrick Nevian (AMIworx) informed that the third part is being ported to the Scorpion Engine. Now Nevian has asked all users who have pre-o...

Emulator: QEMU 6.1 emulates Pegasos II (29. Jul. 2021)
Two days ago, release candidate 1 of version 6.1 of the emulator QEMU has been published, including now the possibility to also emulate bplan's PowerPC mainboard Pegasos II. Besides the AmigaOne X5000 and the already emulated mainboard S...

Lawsuit: Hyperion's response to Evert Carton's testimony (29. Jul. 2021)
On June 25, 2021 Hyperion's co-founder and sole managing director during the settlement negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009, Evert Carton, was deposed by both parties' lawyers in the lawsuit of the plaintiffs Cloanto and the so-called Amiga parties ...

Iconverter: Old icons with a new look / Basics about AmigaOS icons (28. Jul. 2021)
With 'Iconverter' (currently version 0.95) you can convert old icons as if they were created for today's more recent versions of AmigaOS. Iconverter converts AmigaOS 1.x and MagicWB icons into the format of NewIcons, using the color scale for which these ...

Adventure: Furtum Sacrum (Spanish/English) (27. Jul. 2021)
Furtum Sacrum ("holy theft") is a point'n'click adventure by the Spanish group AmigaWave (amiga-news.de reported). Besides its original language, also English is supported. The game features characters of the film adaptation of the novel "The name of the ...

CS-Lab: New firmware 1.20 for Warp560/1260 available (27. Jul. 2021)
As reported by Greg Donner on his unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page, CS-Lab has released a new version 1.20 for the Warp 560 and Warp 1260 along with an updated Quick Start Guide, which includes the following changes: SD card support in AmigaOS (warp...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2021.5.2 (25. Jul. 2021)
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using ...

A2000-Motherboard using the EATX standard: Revision 1.2 is production candidate (22. Jul. 2021)
After the developer 'jasonsbeer' has tested the prototpye of his rebuild of the A2000 motherboard called 'Amiga-2000-ATX', he has set revision 1.2 as production candidate. He wrote: "I am currently running a Supra Wordsync SCSI card, a Commodore A263...

Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons: Game conversion technical details (21. Jul. 2021)
In his blog Cracking Stones one of the developers of the game Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (amiga-news.de reported) gives detailed information about how it was technically implemented So far four blog entries have been published: Part 1: Used ...

Project announcement: Universal Commodore power supply (21. Jul. 2021)
The website 'RavenWolf' is generally dedicated to the research and restoration of all kinds of retro technology. In the latest project, a universal Commodore power supply is to be developed in the next few months. It is intended to be built by any hobbyis...

Hollywood-Plugin: RapaGUI 2.0 released (19. Jul. 2021)
Press release: After almost 4 years of development Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the long awaited release of RapaGUI 2.0. RapaGUI is the cross-platform GUI toolkit for Hollywood that allows you to crea...

Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009 (18. Jul. 2021)
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by...

AmigaOS 4: Version 6.8 des Audio-Treibers für Intel HD Audio (15. Jul. 2021)
An update of the new AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 has been released (amiga-news.de reported) which includes the following changes: Output options added (ALL, Line, Front HP, S/PDIF) Added support for S/PDIF output (both RCA and optical) Added support fo...

AmigaOS 4: Python implementation of Space Invaders (14. Jul. 2021)
Programmed by Tomohiro Nishikado and Taito distributed by Taito, Space Invaders premiered in 1978: an attack of aliens had to be fended off with the spaceship, moving left and right with it at the bottom of the screen and trying to decimate with shots the...

A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Amiga-2000-ATX (11. Jul. 2021)
The developer 'jasonsbeer' continues to work on his project 'Amiga-2000-ATX' (amiga-news.de reported). 'Amiga-2000-ATX' is a replica of the A2000 motherboard which, unlike the original, uses the E-ATX form factor and thus fits into standard PC cases. Anot...

ADF support for AmigaOS 1.3: DiskMimic (10. Jul. 2021)
Chris Brenner writes: "This software was created to fill in a missing feature of OS 1.3: the ability to mount ADF images. It allows you to directly read and write ADF images stored on your hard drive. Although it was intended to work with ADF images, ther...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Database entry for Amiga mark updated (09. Jul. 2021)
Already earlier this year, the "Amiga" trademark had been transferred to Amiga Corporation by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with regard to the USA (amiga-news.de reported). However, the USPTO trademarks database still had to be updated. This has be...

Reimplementation of 'Frontier: Elite II'-Intros with browser playback (05. Jul. 2021)
Mark Watson has reverse engineered the Frontier: Elite II game intro. It implements the full 3d renderer and music playback code from the original in C. The source code is available on GitHub. Features: Compiler & decompiler for the game's 3d model...

New preview videos: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege', Run'n Gun 'DaemonClaw' (30. Jun. 2021)
Metro Siege is a side-scrolling beat'em up for up to two players that requires 512 KB of chip and Fast RAM each. DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar is supposed to be a side-scrolling run and gun (amiga-news.de reported). In the latest video update for Metro...