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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.08.2017 (20. Aug. 2017)
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until August 19th, 2017: 2017-08-17 improved: Odyssey (Audi...

Jump'n Run: Hermes - Run a la carte (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS) (20. Aug. 2017)
Hermes developed by Retroguru is according to its own description "an extraordinary Jump'n' Run game with plenty of bad taste humour" (Youtube trailer). Frank Wille has ported the game to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, Yannick Erb to AROS. A...

AROS: Weekly progresses (since 11.07.2017) (19. Aug. 2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes updates of some programs and bug fixes. Multiple compiler warnings fixed (neil) Use unified vapor.h header for morphos ports (wawa) Multiple compiler warnings fixed ...

Developer tools: vasm 1.8a and vlink 0.16a (16. Aug. 2017)
Frank Wille has released updates of the portable and retargetable assembler vasm and of its corresponding linker vlink. Changes in vasm 1.8a: Increased number of fast-optimization passes from 50 to 200, as very large sources (> 60000 lines), w...

Amiga Impact: Further pictures of FPGA accelerator board Vampire V4 (09. Aug. 2017)
For the fourth quarter of 2017 version 4 of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire was announced (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today Amiga Impact has published further pictures which show the standalone version and a bare board in a alum...

Podcast: AmiCast 24 - Interview with Jon Lennart Aasenden (Amibian.js) (30. Jul. 2017)
In the 24th issue of his English-language podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Jon Lennart Aasenden. One of his software projects is the Smart Mobile Studio, a development environment, in which programs can be written in Smart Pascal and then comp...

Retro aracde machines in Amiga design (29. Jul. 2017)
At "Ray's Arcades" custom build aracde machines are available which are equipped with a PC. The system emulates ten - which are not specified - classic computer and consoles. The cases are made of wood and are rather small (610x340x360mm) so they can be t...

AROS for AmigaOS: AfA 4.8 (15. Jul. 2017)
Bernd Rösch's "AROS for AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS components to AmigaOS 3 trying to make new functions of AROS available under AmigaOS. In version 4.8 several bugs were fixed and the Afa prefrerences have been reworked. Additionally 22 ...

Trader: Amiga on the Lake agreed with A-EON Technology (09. Jul. 2017)
After a disagreement between the US American Amiga trader "Amiga on the Lake" (AOTL) and AmigaKit, which is the main distributor of the products of A-EON Technology, (amiga-news.de reported), under the title link Aaron Smith (AOTL) has announced an agreem...

FPGA graphic board: Driver and firmware 1.6 for VA2000 (07. Jul. 2017)
Last month version 1.6 of the firmware and of the driver for the FPGA-based graphic board VA2000 (amiga-news.de reported) was released. Additional to bug fixes, "multiple tunable parameters for va2000cx tool to use full PAL resolution and some overscan in...

Amiga-inspired operating system: FriendUP 1.0.0 released as open source (02. Jul. 2017)
The new operating system FriendUP has been released in version 1.0.0 as open source software. While not being compatible to AmigaOS, the latter did inspire it, according to its developers. FriendUP is a project of the former AROS developer Hogne Titlestad...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever 7 and C64 Forever 7 (24. Jun. 2017)
Press release: June 23, 2017 - Cloanto released today Amiga Forever 7 and C64 Forever 7, the latest versions of the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows. The new editions are the result of more than 18 ...

Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.27 (24. Jun. 2017)
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author would very appreciate. He still is s...

Retro 7-bit: CD³² extension announced (15. Jun. 2017)
After Retro 7-bit has announced the accelerator board Wicher 500i for Amiga 500/500+ computer systems (amiga-news.de reported), on the website of the Polish company now an extension for the Amiga CD³² is announced. The "CD³² Expansion Slot" prov...

AmigaOS 4: Commercial calendar software AOrganiser gets Sync function (07. Jun. 2017)
According to Andy Broad he has invested more than 300 hours updating the calendar software AOrganiser. Now it is possible to "sync your AmigaOS diary with your phone or other mobile device via Google Calendar". Additionally "a suite of python and ARexx sc...

Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.6dev (beta) (04. Jun. 2017)
Frode Solheim has released a new developer version 2.9.6 of the emulator FS-UAE providing the following changes: Changes in FS-UAE 2.9.6dev: Changed default fade in/out duration, only fade in fullscreen FS-UAE default is now to show a 692×540 im...

US trader stopped cooperation with A-EON/Amigakit (31. May. 2017)
A message on the homepage of the webshop of the US trader "Amiga On The Lake" (AOTL), which was opened in September last year, informs, that they will "no longer support A-EON or AmigaKit in any way, shape or form." This step is not justified by the ...

Hollywood 7.0 Addons (15. May. 2017)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 7.0. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal: Hollywood Player 7.0 for all supported ...

Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment) (08. May. 2017)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de ...

AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2017) (04. May. 2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week. Week of April 18th to April 24th: Build fixes (Kalamate...