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Emulator: WinUAE 4.10.1 (25. Jan. 2023)
Version 4.10.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. Changes: WinUAE 4.10.0 bugs fixed Chipset emulation updates and bug fixes. Interlace filter mode saved invalid config in certain situations, causing crash when loaded. Also added va...

Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.63 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 (24. Jan. 2023)
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported). In version 0.63 he ...

Event: Review of the Amiga Ireland 2023 (24. Jan. 2023)
Amiga Ireland was held in Athlone on 13 and 14 January 2023. We asked the organisers for a summary, which has now kindly been made available to us. Many thanks! "Amiga Ireland 2023 has come to a close and the feedback seems to be very positive. The o...

DIY: N2630 expansion board for Amiga 2000 (23. Jan. 2023)
Parallel to his project of a replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX" (amiga-news.de reported), the developer Jason 'jasonsbeer' Neus has started another one : The N2630 is a further development of the original Commodore A2630...

Minesweeper clone: AmiMineSweeper (22. Jan. 2023)
After Rafal Zabdyr's "MegaSaperPL" (amiga-news.de reported), another Polish developer is now trying his hand at a Minesweeper clone: 'Tukinem' - known among other things for his platform game Ami-Tower or the farming simulation Farmiga - has named his ver...

DIY: 2,5-inch IDE-SSD (22. Jan. 2023)
As reported by hackster.io, Collin "dosdude1" Mistr has released the second in a series of open-source solid-state drive (SSD) upgrades for vintage computer hardware. A 1.8-inch ZIF design is now followed by a 2.5-inch IDE SSD compatible with any device t...

Amiga Ireland 2023: Winners of Creative Competition (21. Jan. 2023)
Last weekend the Amiga Ireland took place in Athlone (amiga-news.de reported). Now the winners of the "Creative Competition 2023" have been published. In the category "Pixel Art" the winners can be seen directly under the title link, for the music entries...

PiStorm32-lite: JLCPCB soldering issues (20. Jan. 2023)
Since about three weeks the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). After that, many interested people ordered the necessary parts from JLCPCB. Some problems occurred during assembly, which An...

Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #144 - The fully networked Amiga 4000 (20. Jan. 2023)
Issue 144 of Douglas Compton's videocast 10MARC is about networking his Amiga 4000. Among others he demonstrated how to use the Twitter client twittAmiga or the SMB network protocol (amiga-news.de reported)....

SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (18. Jan. 2023)
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsm...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.8 (18. Jan. 2023)
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 ...

Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.2.0 (17. Jan. 2023)
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: while there are current implementations of version 1.9 for RTG Amigas and AGA Amigas with 68060 processor, the version for AGA Amigas with 68030 pro...

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.5 (16. Jan. 2023)
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.5 of the audio editor "Rave" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: New function in the Process menu: "Reverse". New function in the Edit menu: "Paste at". New function in the Edit menu: "Insert Silence"...

Video tutorial: Episode 34 of assembler coding course (14. Jan. 2023)
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news...

Video tutorial: Programming functional buttons with AMOS Pro (14. Jan. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time shows how to program functional buttons using the function "ZONE$", which creates a screen section around a text....

Kickstarter campaign: Delivery of "Tank Mouse" delayed (13. Jan. 2023)
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). In a recent status update, the developer writes that due to the current COVID situation in China, ...

Dock: QDock V1.63 (12. Jan. 2023)
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). Since our last news item the developer has fixed several minor bugs and did some fine tuning. ...

Tutorial: Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000 (12. Jan. 2023)
Dutch AmigaOS 4 user Dave 'Skateman' Koelman has been connected to the Amiga since the 1990s, when he bought an Amiga 500 to replace the Commodore VIC20 and later C64. When the AmigaOne X1000 was introduced many years later, he considered taking another l...

Game Soundtrack: Albums "The Holocube" and "Time Travellers" released (10. Jan. 2023)
Génération Delphine is a project to honor the game soundtracks of the French software company Delphine Software International by releasing albums of the restored tracks (amiga-news.de reported). Originally a first album should be released in November 2021...

Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on ARM GCC (10. Jan. 2023)
In her blog, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the "Buffee" turbo card project (amiga-news.de reported), reports on the theoretical and practical basics of the project. In the latest blog entry, she explains with examples that the ARM GCC someti...