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AROS: Aros Vision X86 1.0 (10. May. 2015)
As announced, there are now different versions of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k-distribution "Aros Vision". Aros Vision X86 is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS, that means it can be started as application under Windows without using VMware or having...

Hollywood Player 6.0 released (10. May. 2015)
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the Hollywood Player is now also available in version 6.0 for all platforms supported by Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86 & ARM, An...

Museum of Electronic Games & Art: MEGA65 8-bit computer (28. Apr. 2015)
Under the title link the Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced the MEGA65, which is a FPGA-based 8-bit computer inspired by the Commodore 65 which never was mass-produced. ...

External disk drive: Pictures of finished Sakura-drives (26. Apr. 2015)
At the beginning of March, Sakura was announced as a new disk drive (amiga-news.de reported). At this stage there were only non-painted prototypes. Now the drives are produced and pictures of the finished product could be published. The price of the advan...

Amiga 30th Anniversary: Charity Dinner Event (August 2nd, Peterborough) (11. Apr. 2015)
After Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Mountain View (USA), the UK's Peterborough will be the third location hosting an anniversary event celebrating the Amiga's 30th birthday. On August 2, the organisers plan to "celebrate all things Amiga, alongside many of ...

Forum: Moo Bunny announces preliminary closure (Update) (05. Apr. 2015)
After 18 years, Moo Bunny announced closure. The basically unmoderated forum had been appreciated especially by people who considered other websites to be biased in favour of only one of the different Amiga operating systems. Due to contuinued abuse of th...

AmigaOS 4: Commercial Warp3D driver for Radeon-HD cards (02. Apr. 2015)
A-EON has announced the availability of Warp 3D drivers for für Radeon-HD graphic cards. They are not the drivers developed by the Frieden-brothers for Radeon-HD cards with Evergreen-chipset (just like the Radeon-HD 5450, built in the X1000 as standa...

Amiga Games Inc. no longer distributing classic Amiga Games (Update) (01. Apr. 2015)
Since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in Blackberrys App Store. At the start of the project, "more then 300 titles" were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced...

Event: Carl Sassenrath attends "Amiga 30 Years" in Amsterdam (27. Mar. 2015)
The organizers of the birthday party "Amiga 30 Years" (June 27th, Amsterdam) have announced that additional to Dave Haynie and David Pleasance (Commodore UK), Carl Sassenrath will be attend the event. Sassenrath is the author of the AmigaOS-kernel "Exec"....

Ralph Schmidt: Commercial distribution of Cyberstorm-ROMs inadmissible (update) (27. Mar. 2015)
According to Ralph Schmidt in German comment on Amiga-News, he still owns the rights to the drivers, ROMs and utilities distributed by Phase 5 or DCE for their Amiga hardware. The company DCE never has been right holder of the software and therefore ...

Old School Game Blog: Interview with Pascal Papara (English) (07. Mar. 2015)
Under the title link an English-language interview has been conducted with Pascal Papara. He talked about his projects, e.g. the Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS, and announced focusing on the ARM-architecture to sell it as a commercial "Premium-Versio...

NXP will merge with Freescale (03. Mar. 2015)
"NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. (NYSE: FSL) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NXP will merge with Freescale in a transaction which values the combined enterprise at jus...

Playable demo: Point'nClick adventure "The Secret of Middle City" (27. Feb. 2015)
For the first time, GDG Entertainment has released a playable demo of its point'nclick adventure "The Secret of Middle City". The game has been announced again and again for 15 years, but the current developer Gianluca "g0blin" Girelli is the first one wh...

P96-driver for OpenPCI (22. Feb. 2015)
Under the title link André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer has released the trial version of an OpenPCI-based driver for Permedia2 graphic boards. It is written for users of a PCI-busboard (GRex, Prometheus or Mediator). A support of Amithlon has been announced. If y...

Hollywood 6.0: Epiphany available now (22. Feb. 2015)
Press release: Three years after the release of Hollywood 5, Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 6: Epiphany. Hollywood 6 is a massive update with a myriad of new functions. The most important ne...

A-EON acquires OctaMED Soundstudio (16. Feb. 2015)
In a press release, A-EON has announced to acquire the soundtracker OctaMED Soundstudio as already mentioned on the AmiWest. The company purchased the source code and exclusive rights for the AmigaOS and Amiga-inspired operating systems. The press re...

Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2014 (08. Feb. 2015)
On February 7th 2015, the french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2014. This represents the best Amiga games voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms. AmigaOS (68k): Tales Of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga (Amiworx...

Game developer received warning for Backbone game with smurf characters (23. Jan. 2015)
On January 1st, Mikael 'Hipoonios' Persson did release his game Smurf Rescue created with Backbone under a Freeware licence. Five days ago he received an e-Mail from the law office Gevers, which in behalf of the rightholder of the smurfs named Studio Pey...

A-EON purchased ImageFX from Woodall Design LLC (22. Jan. 2015)
On the website of A-EON, the press release still is not available, but the company's Twitter account has already announced it: A-EON has purchased source code and development rights for ImageFX and Cinemorph from Woodall Design LLC. ...

Event: "Amiga 30 Years" in Amsterdam (27.06.2015) (21. Jan. 2015)
In 2015 the Amiga celebrates its 30th anniversary. Initially an anniversary celebration was planned in the Heinz Nixdorf Forum, in Paderborn (Germany) which was supposed to be take place simultaneously with a similar event in USA. But Jens Schönfeld (Indi...