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Overview: Linux for Sam and A1222-Plus boards (28. Mar. 2024)
With our ongoing coverage of new Linux kernels for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 models (amiga-news.de reported), the availability of the A1222 Plus, as well as the Sam460LE boards, raises the question of how Linux support will look here. Sam boards ...

AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.39 (26. Mar. 2024)
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In the current version 0.39, nume...

OS4Depot uploads until 23.03.2024 (24. Mar. 2024)
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to OS4Depot: pt2_clone.lha aud/tra 24Mb 4.1 Ported clone of Protracker II liba52.lha dev/lib 722kb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC... libsdl2_mixer.lha dev/l...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (23. Mar. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Emulator: WinFellow 0.5.11 (21. Mar. 2024)
Release candiate 1 of version 0.5.11 of the Amiga emulator WinFellow has been released. The default display driver has been changed from DirectDraw to Direct3D 11, where supported. In addition, keyboard-initiated reset in Amiga Forever has been implemente...

Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 (21. Mar. 2024)
Developer Michal Schulz has released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 contains all the changes from 1.0 RC1, RC2 and RC3...

Tower defense: "Dice Masters" 1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4 (18. Mar. 2024)
In Sami Vehmaa's tower defence game "Dice Masters", the player has to fend off aliens on a spaceship (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video of version 1.00). Now all ten levels as well as an arcade mode are available. A demo version with one level offers ...

Video: Review of the PowerShark (17. Mar. 2024)
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported)....

Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.5 (13. Mar. 2024)
Almost two years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy programme G-Copy for reading and writing Amiga ADF data on a Windows PC. G-Copy, which is visually similar to the popular X-Copy, supports the drive controllers Grea...

MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes for AROS (11. Mar. 2024)
Now that AROS developer Franck Charlet has published a driver for the MIDI system 'camd.library' that closes the gap between camd.library and Poseidon's camdusbmidi.class (amiga-news.de reported), Alfred Faust made good on his promise to finish the suspen...

Blog Epsilon's World: AmigaOne A1222, part 1 (11. Mar. 2024)
This time, Epsilon devotes himself to the A1222 Plus, which has been officially available since the end of last week (amiga-news.de reported), in his usual detail and with numerous pictures. As a beta tester, he has been working with the system since 2016...

Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: First alpha version of "Serena OS" (10. Mar. 2024)
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. After another status update at the end of last year, the developer has now renamed his project "Serena...

Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.7.0 (09. Mar. 2024)
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de...

Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer (09. Mar. 2024)
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K appli...

Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (09. Mar. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and ...

Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (V0.05C) (08. Mar. 2024)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview vide...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.03.07 (07. Mar. 2024)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.03.07: Added Apple CD-RO...

A1222 Plus: Production finished, available in shop (07. Mar. 2024)
AAA Technology, a joint venture between Amedia France, A-Eon Technology and AmigaKit in co-operation with ACube Systems, informs us that the production and subsequent testing of the A1222-Plus boards (formerly "Tabor") has been completed and can now be or...

PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 98 (07. Mar. 2024)
After a break of more than six years, the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" returned at the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The latest issue 98 offers, among other things, a brief overview of the history of Commodore....

Cross development: amitools 0.8.0 for macOS (07. Mar. 2024)
Christian Vogelgsang has published amitools, a collection of Python 3 tools that should make it possible to work with Amiga OS binaries and files on macOS and all other *nix-like platforms that support Python. The author has not tested it on Windows, but ...