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Status update: FPGA graphic board MNT VA2000 (09. Jul. 2016)
On a1k.org, Lukas 'mntmn' Hartmann summarized the current state of development of his FPGA-based graphic board VA2000 (we reported). Meanwhile the final prototype (photograph) is on the way to him. When the board has been received, he will start implement...

AROS: Commercial emulator frontend EmuLa 1.4 (07. Jul. 2016)
EmuLa ("Emulator-Launcher") recognizes ROMs or disk images using their checksum. After scanning your device, you will get a list of recognized roms which you can click to run and "if that rom need an emulator not yet installed in your system EmuLa will do...

Retro 7-bit: Sum-Firmware-Update (20. Jun. 2016)
Sum developed by Retro 7-bit is a family of USB-devices for connecting keyboards to diverse Amiga models including the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the integrated USB-stack it "enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installin...

WHDLoad: New installers until 18.06.2016 (19. Jun. 2016)
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 installers have been added until June 18th, 2016: 2016-06-17 updated: Curse of Ra (R...

AROS: May 2016 Highlights (13. Jun. 2016)
So far we reported about "A week in AROS" in which Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz collected information about changes of the operating system AROS. Recently only few changes could be reported therefore we will change to the monthly summaries of th...

WHDLoad: New installers until 11.06.2016 (12. Jun. 2016)
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 installers have been added until June 11th, 2016: 2016-06-11 fixed: Humans / The Hum...

Emulator: WinUAE 3.3.0 (07. Jun. 2016)
Toni Wilen has released version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adaptions. The developer thanks all donators who supported that. He also pointed out that "performance is not (and can't be) as fast as with m68k AmigaOS, e...

Event: Amiga Racer 3.3 at the Comic Convention in Phoenix, Arizona (03. Jun. 2016)
Tomorrow version 3.3 of Michael Neitzel's clone of Lotus called "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) will be introduced by his American copartner Kirk Shepherd at the Comic Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. About 30.000 visitors are expected. ...

Driver system: OpenPCI under GPL released (16. May. 2016)
The openpci.library provides an interface for drivers of PCI expansion cards which does not depend on the hardware. The PCI busboards Prometheus, GRex and Mediator as well as the emulator Amithlon are supported. With permission of the initiating author th...

Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.0 (16. May. 2016)
Rapid Cross-Platform GUI Development On All Islands Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present its most ambitious Hollywood plugin yet: RapaGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the ...

Amiga film: "From Bedroom to Billions-The Amiga Years!" available from May 19th (15. May. 2016)
Last year money was collected for another Amiga film (there is also "Viva Amiga"): "The Amiga Years", which is a sequel to the documentary report "From Bedroom to Billions" (amiga-news.de reported). From May 19th under the title link the film will be a...

Music: New single of Blue Metal Rose (14. May. 2016)
Since yesterday a new single of Blue Metal Rose is available. For "Strange Life", Alice Schmidt is supported by Thorsten Schwesinger (vocals. Under the title link a video for this track has been released. For its songs the Dark-Pop-Duo Blue Metal Rose ...

AmigaOS 4: Free Pascal updated (08. May. 2016)
In 2004 Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh ported the compiler Free Pascal to MorphOS and two years later for the first time adapted it to AmigaOS 4. Based on Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's version of Free Pascal for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x he ha...

ReWarp: Reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 in progress (07. May. 2016)
Under the title link Dennis van der Boon (well-known by his SonnetAmiga project) is working on a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. The goal of "ReWarp" (screenshot) is to make it possible runing WarpOS-programms under PowerPC computers which ...

AMOS games: Mink Gold, preview to Total Pattern (07. May. 2016)
Mink Gold is a version of Pacman (Youtube video) which was wriiten in AMOS. The same author supported by a graphic artist and a musician also has announced the Sokoban game "Total Pattern" (Youtube video) which is supposed to be released soon. ...

AmigaOS 4: Arcade emulator FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.37 R2 (02. May. 2016)
FinalBurn Alpha is an arcade emulator supporting several hardware platforms, e.g. Sega Master System and MegaDrive, Colecovision, Capcom CS-1/2/3 and Neo Geo. The update includes OpenGL, new supported games (8449 in total now), rendering effects, ...

AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Cinnamon Writer 0.95 beta 2 (25. Apr. 2016)
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a "compact and efficient word processor" which can import simple RTF and DocX files, offers a spell check and can restore lost documents. Now the latest beta version also is available for MorphOS and fixes some bugs:...

Compiler: Free Pascal 3.1.1 and alpha version of Lazarus for AmigaOS 3 (11. Apr. 2016)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has ported the Pascal compiler Freepascal 3.1.1 as well as the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) to AmigaOS. Using this library it is possible to develop cross-platform applications. The port for Amiga is still an alpha v...

Hollywood 6.1 Add-ons released (11. Apr. 2016)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 6.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal: Hollywood Player 6.1 for all supported ...

AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 (03. Apr. 2016)
After the previous beta versions, now Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released Odyssey 1.25 for AROS/x86. This version is based on the WebKit version 187682 from July 2015 and can play HTML5-videos. The latest version 2.1 of the AROS distri...