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Floppy-Emulator: Raspberry pi as disk drive replacement (28. Nov. 2013)
The Italian Maurizo Ramondo has replaced the disk drive of his Amiga 500 by a Raspberry Pi: The single-board computer was connceted to the internal floppy port of the Amiga with a simple adapter developed by Ramondo and in this way emulates two disk ...

Accelerator board: Progress report about ACA500 (English) (16. Nov. 2013)
Under the title link an English-language progress report about the accelerator board ACA500 developed by Individual Computers was released. The report, written by an user who was a co-developer, concludes: 2 MB Fast-RAM as well as a missing case a...

New articles on Obligement-website (01. Nov. 2013)
During the last two months several new articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are always welcome, please contact David 'Daff' Brunet. September/October 2013 new...

Magazine: Amiga-citations in Game Developer Magazine (12. Oct. 2013)
After 19 years the US-American Game Developer Magazine (Wikipedia entries) was closed down in July. Meanwhile all issues of the magazine are available for free on Internet. Under the title link the search shows the Amiga citations. ...

AmigaOS 4: Software Development Kit 53.24 (12. Oct. 2013)
According to Hyperion Entertainment under the title link, for developers a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4 is available. You can find further information in the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki, which also has a FAQ section. ...

Home-made: Replacement for memory expansion A501 (11. Oct. 2013)
Under the title link you can find information about the open-source respectively open-hardware project of a "replacement A501 512K memory expansion trapdoor card". According to the developer the so far unpublished DRAM-Timings will be documented. Curre...

Data Becker will be closed down (09. Oct. 2013)
According to Heise online under the title link, the IT-publishing house and software developer Data Becker will be closed on March 31st, 2014. The company was founded in 1981 and in 1983 started to publish books and to release software for the C64 and ...

AmiWest Developer Award (09. Oct. 2013)
During the AmiWest, the best developer will be honoured with the "AmiWest Developer Award". You can vote for your favourite programmers under the title link. The top five developers then will be presented during the event for the final election. ...

Progress report: Difficulties in porting Opus Magellan (26. Sep. 2013)
In a blog entry, Roman 'kas1e' Kargin reported about the difficulties, a team of AmigaOS-, MorphOS- and AROS-developers had to overcome to get rid of the m68k and AmigaOS 3 dependences in the source codes of Directory Opus Magellan and then to be abl...

Interview with Bullfrog developer Glenn Corpes (20. Sep. 2013)
Glenn Corpes was co-developer of games like Populous, Syndicate and Flood. Six weeks ago the interview was published which now is also available in the English-language original. ...

AROS: Game-Engine Antiryad Gx (08. Sep. 2013)
Antiryad Gx is an engine for 2D-/3D-games with an integrated editor. After a registration with the free version also commercial games can be developed. The AROS-port supports 68k-, x86- and PPC-processors and is available on the website of the developer. ...

Amiga-News celebrates 15th anniversary (07. Sep. 2013)
In late summer of 1998 Petra Struck began to publish news about the Amiga on here private website. The oldest news message is from August  13th - the regular news then started to be published in September. Right from the beginning a whole team w...

Sales figures: Entwickler-X satisfied with M.A.C.E. sales (06. Sep. 2013)
During a discussion on os4welt.de, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus of Entwickler-X has revealed some sales numbers for the recently released shooter M.A.C.E.: About 50 people purchased the download version which is available from the developers - this is abou...

Developer tool: vlink 0.14b (01. Sep. 2013)
Yesterday Frank Wille has released version 0.14b of vlink. A list of changes you can find under the title link. vlink is a portable linker which can handle many binary formats and which is part of the compiler package vbcc. ...

Developer tools: vasm 1.6c and vlink 1.4c (28. Aug. 2013)
Frank Wille has updated vasm and vlink. Currently both uopdates are only available as source codes. Vasm is a portable assembler which supports several CPU-families, vlink is a portable linker which can handle a lot of binary formats. Both are part of ...

Aminet-Uploads until 24.08.2013 (25. Aug. 2013)
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 24th, 2013: twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 2.8M MOS Twitter client NASS2013cracked.lha demo/intro 200K 68k OCS/ECS old school intro style binutils-m1-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg ...

AROS: IRC-chat with Jason McMullan (25. Aug. 2013)
For this Sunday the team of the English-language IRC-channel "Ashachat" has invited Jason McMullan. As member of the AROS developer team, he has concentrated on the m68k-branch of the operating system and the AmigaOS-compatibility. As usual the the cha...

Hometown of DMA Design put up Lemming-statues (13. Aug. 2013)
The headquarter of the software developer of DMA Design formerly was situated in Scottish Dundee. Among others it released the famous Amiga classic Lemmings. Near the former DMA-headquarter the city administration now has put up some Lemming-statues which...

AmigaOS 4: Shoot'em Up M.A.C.E. available (03. Aug. 2013)
M.A.C.E. is a classic space shoot'em-up, inspired by the legendary Amiga games of this genre. With "Handdrawn 2D graphics in HD resolutions, parallax scrolling, explosion effects and optimized games mechanics, combined with the proven gameplay" ther devel...

AROS: Developer for Directory Opus Magellan II wanted (01. Aug. 2013)
After the release of the source code of the well-known file manager Directory Opus Magellan II (amiga-news.de reported) and the release of a first 68k-version which was adapted to AmigaOS 4, Roman 'kas1e' Kargin now is looking for a developer wh...