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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops (30. May. 2017)
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain...

Workbench distribution: AmiKit X (21. May. 2017)
The Workbench distribution AmiKit, which is meant for emulators, now is available as version 10 ("X") for the notebook "A.L.I.C.E." (A-EON Technology) which was announced two years ago and introduced in a preview video last year but still is not available...

Descent: Freespace as download / Update for AmigaOS 4.1 (19. May. 2017)
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the space-combat simulation Descent: Freespace (also known as "Descent: Freespace - The Great War", "Conflict: Freespace - The Great War", "Freespace - The Great Wa...

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 ...

Amiga 32: Further guests and exhibitors announced (27. Apr. 2017)
The organizers of the "Amiga 32" which will take place on 28. October in Neuss, have completed the list of guests and exhibitors: Return Magazin ACube Systems Dave Haynie ARES Computer Amedia Computer Ron Nicholson Mike Clark und Tim Wright (Psyg...

Individual Computers: Memory extension A512 can be preordered (19. Apr. 2017)
Under the title link Individual Computers has announced that the 512-KB memory extension will be available from 26. May. You can already order for about 25 Euro in advance. ...

AROS: A week in AROS (from 27.03.2017) (11. Apr. 2017)
Additional to his work on AROS, since September 2014 Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week. A year later he also published monthly highlights until November 2016...

Hollywood: Several Plugin updates, 64-Bit support (04. Apr. 2017)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of many plugins for the x86_64 architecture. Since Hollywood 7.0: Eternity now has support for 64-bit CPUs the plugins also had to be updated for the new architecture. The fol...

amiga.net.pl announced English magazine "Amiga User" (27. Mar. 2017)
The publisher amiga.net.pl is more focused on the English-language market. After an AMIGA OS 3.9 User's manual, an English-language printed magazine is supposed to be published. The first issue "Amiga User 0/2017" will be delivered in July and featur...

Amiga France: New french Amiga website (26. Mar. 2017)
A new Amiga and Commodore 64 website in french language has been launched. Contents are news, interviews and tutorials as well as forums for discussions and sales. Each month there is also a poll and a game challenge (currently on Test Drive 1). Furt...

English manual for AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 is delivered (18. Mar. 2017)
Last year in autumn the guide "AmigaOS 3.9 - User's Manual" was announced (index, PDF-file) and now is available as e-book. The printed book will be delivered starting next week. ...

Successful Kickstarter campaign for book of David Pleasance, Interview (13. Mar. 2017)
A few days ago David Pleasance, CEO of Commodore UK from 1983 to 1995, had announced a book about his time at Commodore, which will be crowdfunded. Meanwhile the Kickstarter project was started. So far 25.289 £ of the aim of 25.000 £ were donated and th...

Open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 (08. Mar. 2017)
The announced open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 for the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported) has been completed (video). Now the developer is working on a version for 68040 and, if possible, for 68060 processors. ...

Turbo board: Wicher 500i to be produced soon (08. Mar. 2017)
The turbo board for the Amiga 500 and 500+ that has been announced by Retro 7-bit is expected to be produced soon. Since it has been adapted to be mounted internally, the turbo board is called Wicher 500i. Features: Processor: MC680...

David Pleasance (Commodore UK) announced book (06. Mar. 2017)
Until 1995 David Pleasance was CEO of Commodore UK for 12 years and tried to buy Commodore but finally Escom made it. In a speech at the British "Geekfest 2" in Cheltenham, the former manager announced his new project: He is going to write about his time ...

AmigaOS 4: Closed beta test for LibreOffice started (04. Mar. 2017)
According to A-EON on its Facebook site, the beta test of the port of the office suite LibreOffice has started. For the first time in 2012 the port of LibreOffice was announced. The office suite is ported by the developer Thomas Frieden and finan...

Results of the Amiga Games Awards 2016 (06. Feb. 2017)
The French magazine Obligement carried out a survey on the best Amiga game of the last year. Today the results have been announced: AmigaOS 68k: Tanks Furry (Project R3D) Heart Of The Alien: Out Of This World Part 2 (Delphine Software) Center Co...

Ben Hermans resigns his position as director of Hyperion (23. Jan. 2017)
During the afternoon a hint was published on amiga.org that in the Belgisch Staatsblad an application of Hyperion (PDF) was published for removing the rank of the director ("Bestuurder") for Ben Hermans because he did resign this position on December 16th...

Dave Haynie: Entire "Deathbed Vigil" video at Youtube (13. Jan. 2017)
In spring 1994 with his own camera hardware developer Dave Haynie recorded the almost deserted Commodore production facility in West Chester, a mass dismissal as well as a party of former employees ("wake") on the day after the announcement of the company...

Hyperion Entertainment: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 available (Update) (31. Dec. 2016)
Press release: Brussels, December 31, 2016 - Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the immediate release of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 for all supported systems including PowerPC equipped 68k Amiga machines. Building on the ex...