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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.1.0 (05. Mar. 2024)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (for example EmptyADF). Changes of version 1.1.0: Creating a...

MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.13.22 (02. Mar. 2024)
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git comp...

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3 (01. Mar. 2024)
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...

SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6 (29. Feb. 2024)
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A...

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.5 (update) (28. Feb. 2024)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. This update introduces a reworked settings UI, possibility to fine-tune browser settings per 1st component of a URL path as well as fixes of reported crashes. ...

Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched (28. Feb. 2024)
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany....

AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru" (27. Feb. 2024)
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT sometimes knows...

Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.4 for all Amiga systems (24. Feb. 2024)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga program for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.4, for the first time also for AROS and...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6 (19. Feb. 2024)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.54 (18. Feb. 2024)
After AmiUpdate was recently updated several times (amiga-news.de reported), another update has been released today with version 2.54. Changes: Changed the main list to include a "Last Changed" column. This now allows you to sort updates accordin...

Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards (17. Feb. 2024)
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place fro...

Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU (17. Feb. 2024)
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies ...

Tool: EmptyADF 1.0 (16. Feb. 2024)
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzyszt...

TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released (15. Feb. 2024)
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers. This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the inst...

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2 (13. Feb. 2024)
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and i...

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1) (13. Feb. 2024)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) hav...

Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories: 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschoo...

Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music (12. Feb. 2024)
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs: Ultima IV:...

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 (10. Feb. 2024)
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the la...

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2) (09. Feb. 2024)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes: AmiUpdate 2.50 The http transfer routines did not consider a filenam...