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Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany) (15. Feb. 2024)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well a...

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86) (13. Feb. 2024)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings ...

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update) (12. Feb. 2024)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC w...

Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS (10. Feb. 2024)
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as...

AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch and Odyssey Web Browser (09. Feb. 2024)
Press release: This new version 20220318-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems introduces updates to a few libraries as well as multiple bugixes. If you are a developer, please take note of switch to new C library and update your SDK installation. The downlo...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb runs on Apple Vision Pro (09. Feb. 2024)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. In a blog entry, the developer 'mithendal' has now published images that show that and how his emulator works with the Apple...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS (06. Feb. 2024)
John Bintz has been a software developer for over 20 years and runs the website The Industrious Rabbit. Originally to share his experiences as a developer with others, but more recently to explore some of the more unusual areas of technology and find ways...

USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update) (05. Feb. 2024)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of test...

AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.1b (04. Feb. 2024)
The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use....

Blog: Limitations of the HAM mode explained on the Hamulet engine (02. Feb. 2024)
Recently, the developer of the game Hamulet - a demo version was included in issue 10 of the English-language Amiga magazine "WhatIFF?" - published a YouTube video that is intended to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept whether a puzzle or platform game cou...

Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1 (01. Feb. 2024)
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. We asked the developer to tell us about the current stat...

DIY: Firmware 1.02 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660" (31. Jan. 2024)
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). The now available firmware 1.02 improves the SCSI emula...

New website for AmigaOS 3.x developers (30. Jan. 2024)
A website for AmigaOS 3.x developers has been set up at the title link, which contains articles, a forum and the NDK. The addition of online browsable versions of the autodocs is planned. Questions from users, their bug reports etc., on the other hand,...

Amiga Kit: Price of A600GS games console set/OctaMED update (29. Jan. 2024)
As AmigaKit writes to us, the price of the games console has now been set at 119 euros. OctaMED v8 from A-EON Technology is to be bundled with the A600GS. In-house developers have added AHI support to the original 1996 source code for OctaMED. This is the...

Developer tool: Installation package for GCC with accessories (28. Jan. 2024)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski provides an installation package at the title link, which facilitates the installation of the native compiler GCC 2.95.3 under AmigaOS, contains useful additions (e.g. make and diff) and also integrates it with the AmigaOS&nb...

Handheld console: "Amigo Tracker" for PlayDate (27. Jan. 2024)
PlayDate is a handheld games console released in 2022 by the US software developer and computer games publisher Panic Inc (Wikipedia). As the operating system is kept open, external developers can also write software for the console using Lua and C (and a...

Preview video: "The Lost Pixel" for AGA-Amigas (26. Jan. 2024)
"The Lost Pixel" will be a conversion of the game of the same name by bitmagine Studio for AGA-Amigas. The platformer will be created using the RedPill game construction kit and will offer the following features: 64 colours 4 colours background spri...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.33 (24. Jan. 2024)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requ...

Preview video: Platform game "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas (23. Jan. 2024)
A girl falls into a mysterious world armed with only her raincoat and umbrella while enduring constant attacks by strange, silhouetted creatures. The only way to return to her world is by collecting pieces to eventually assemble the raindrop portal... ...

Image editing: RNOEffects 2.0 for all Amiga systems (22. Jan. 2024)
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from its family of RNO applications to version 2.0. RNOEffects is a simple image editing programme with a focus on batch conversion options and alpha channel-based effects. Highlights of the update include the pi...