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Video-tour: Inside Commodore-Amiga (28. Apr. 2013)
For an Amiga developer conference, Dave Schein made a video 20 years ago which documented a fourty minutes lasting tour through the offices of Commodore. This video now has been uploaded to Youtube. ...

AmigaOS 4: Interview with Guillaume Boesel (24. Apr. 2013)
The Italian news site "Amiga News.IT" has interviewed the developer Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel (FastCompress, SysMon) which is available in English and Italian. ...

Cloanto: Amiga Forever Essentials for Android (23. Apr. 2013)
Press release: April 23, 2013 - Cloanto, publishers of Amiga Forever since 1997, is announcing today the immediate availability of Amiga Forever Essentials on Google Play. The release marks the first of a planned series of "Essentials" packages for differ...

MorphOS: Interview with Ilkka Lehtoranta (13. Apr. 2013)
After Grzegorz Kraszewski and Jacek Piszczek, 'saib0t' now has interviewed the Finnish MorphOS developer Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta. Like Piszczek, he would prefer x64 over ARM in case of an architecture change....

Disney closed down LucasArts (04. Apr. 2013)
In 1982 the video game developer company LucasArts was founded which also on the Amiga released famous games like Maniac Manson, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and Zak McKracken. A half year ago the Disney-company took over LucasArts and now has closed down...

Game-Launcher: X-bEnCH 0.87 beta (19. Mar. 2013)
X-bEnCH (Youtube video) is a graphical user-interface with 128 colours for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe). According to the developer the program runs on all Amigas (OCS and AGA) with 68000 up to 68060 processors and requires very few ressouces. ...

AROS: Screenshot of native Raspberry-Pi-port (17. Mar. 2013)
Under the title link a screenshot of the AROS developer Nick 'Kalamatee' Andrews announces his nearly finished native port of the operating system for the Raspberry Pi. Only the USB-support has still to be added. ...

Game-Launcher: X-bEnCH 0.86 Beta (11. Mar. 2013)
X-bEnCH (Youtube-video) is a graphical user-interface, which can replace the Workbench for starting WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe). According to the developer, the programm works on all Amigas (68000 to 68060 processor) with OCS or AGA and requires low memo...

Event: Silicon Dreams & Vintage Computer Festival in Coalville, England (07. Mar. 2013)
According to Mikey Carillo, there will be also an Amiga section during the Silicon Dreams & Vintage Computer Festival in Coalville. A-EON and Amigakit have already announced their attendance. The event will take place from July 5th till 7th. Volunt...

MorphOS: Arcade-Emulator MAME 0.148 (02. Mar. 2013)
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has released an update of the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) which emulates several arcade machines (screenshot). According to the developer, MAME has become up to 15% slower. Changes in MorphOS version 0.148: Builtin MU...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Mar. 2013)
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. January/February 2013 news Old articles...

Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.6.0 (26. Feb. 2013)
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE habe given a preview to the forthcoming version. WinUAE 2.6.0 is supposed to be released in Spring 2013 with the following changes: New features: SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) CD drive emulati...

ACube Systems: onchipmem.resource for Sam460ex-boards (25. Feb. 2013)
With the onchipmem.resource, under AmigaOS 4.1 ACube Systems provides developers access to the buffer memory of the APM460Ex-SoC. This is much faster than the main memory, nearly as fast as the level-2-cache of the processor. The buffer is meant to han...

Accelerator board: Vampire 600 is stable (25. Feb. 2013)
Two years ago Igor Majstorovic announced the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire 600 for the Amiga 600. According to the developer in the VooDoo-Amiga forum this board is stable and is currently tweaked. He then is going to produce (after the revision) 5...

A-EON Technology: HD-Audio-driver working (25. Feb. 2013)
In his blog on the website of A-EON-Technology, Trevor Dickinson told that Lyle Hazlewood recently has started working on the HD-Audio-driver for the AmigaOne X1000. Actually now under AmigaOS 4 sound output is possible over the onboard-chip. Therefo...

Amiga game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.85 (beta) (23. Feb. 2013)
X-bEnCH (Youtube-video) is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe). For this purpose, it can replace the Workbench and requires low ressources. According to the developer the programm runs on all Amigas ...

A600 accelerator board Fúria EC020: Pictures and Benchmarks (Update) (11. Feb. 2013)
Two years ago, Boris 'Boboo' Krizma from Slovakia presented an Amiga 600 accelerator board that was based on the SEC000AA20 - a low cost variant of Motorola's MC68000. The sources and schematics for the design had been released back then aswell....

MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 09.02.2013 (10. Feb. 2013)
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until February, 9th: PowerSDL SDK 16.0 dev/lib 2349 The Software Developer Kit ... Cave Story 1.0.0.4 gam/adv 1408 Mixed platform and adventur... cURL ...

Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.84 (09. Feb. 2013)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe). According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) with 68000 up to 68060 prozessor and uses low virtual memory. Changes in ...

Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.83 (24. Jan. 2013)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) and requires less memory. According to the developer the programm works with all OCS and AGA Amigas. Additional to sever...