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Video: Amiga game classics under AmigaOS 4 (28. Feb. 2022)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin shows in his latest YouTube video how some old great Amiga classic games (released around the 2000s) work natively (without UAE, but with Petunia) under today's AmigaOS4 and on today's AmigaOS4 hardware. This test was done with his be...

Italian print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 5 (26. Feb. 2022)
The Italian print magazine 'Passione Amiga' is only available as an annual subscription: you have to pay 16 euros for four issues per year. The fifth issue offers the following topics, among others: Coverdisk: Extreme 2.0 Reviews: Tales of Gorluth I...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6 (16. Feb. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Video: Installation of AmiKit XE under Windows 11 (10. Feb. 2022)
Appropriate to yesterday's release of AmiKit 11.5+ Jörg "Torque" Klopsch shows in a video how to install the new version under Windows 11 and using WinUAE....

Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5+ for Windows/Mac/Linux (09. Feb. 2022)
For the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators, an update to version 11.5 (followed by a live update to version 11.6) has been released. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required. Users who purcha...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.1 (04. Feb. 2022)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been updated to version 4.9.1. Changes: Bug fixes of version 4.9.0 JIT indirect was unstable. JIT enabled + emulated (not uaegfx) RTG board corruption was possible in certain situations. Direct 3D 11 mode shader buffe...

Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 (02. Feb. 2022)
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide repla...

AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas' (24. Jan. 2022)
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support. With the help of PatchCompositeTags the ga...

AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision (16. Jan. 2022)
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision four times. Besides a new version of the Hippo Player, a CD-ROM filesystem and further programs regarding CDs, CRC checksums, encoding and decoding, virus prote...

Web emulator: vAmigaWeb (15. Jan. 2022)
For quite some time we have been reporting about vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for MacOS that emulates the classic Amigas 500, 1000 and 2000. Based on this code, two web ports have been developed in the last months: vAmigaWeb and vAmiga (online). We had alrea...

Preview video: 'Scourge of the Underkind' (06. Jan. 2022)
At the end of 2020, we reported for the last time about "Scourge of the Underkind", which was actually announced for 2021 and which sees itself as a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. On the project's Facebook page, there have been ...

Emulation: FS-UAE & Launcher 3.1.66 for Windows (03. Jan. 2022)
Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE makes the innovations from WinUAE available in a platform-independent UAE variant for Windows, Mac OS X and numerous Linux or BSD variants. The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for the configuration and the start of t...

AmigaOS 4: New version 53.15 of Updates preferences (02. Jan. 2022)
Today the new version 53.15 of the update preconfiguration program for AmigaOS 4.1 was released. This fixed a bug which made it impossible to basically set a directory for the updates - saving caused a crash - and moreover in a readable way: Like...

AmigaOS 4: First public version of editor 'Lite XL' released (30. Dec. 2021)
Recently George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had announced that he is going to port the Linux editor Lite XL. Now he has released the first public version v1.16.12.3 of his port. According to the author "LiteX...

WinUAE 4.90: German translation file by BlackByte (22. Dec. 2021)
On his WinUAE mirror Webwood.de Gunnar 'gunaTM' Bernhardt released a german translation file by BlackByte updated for version 4.90 of the emulator. The file has to be copied into the WinUAE drawer. Then german language can be selected under "Host/Mis...

WinUAE 4.9.0: Setting up the Voodoo3 RTG emulation for AmigaOS 4.1, part 1 (22. Dec. 2021)
At the beginning of March we reported for the first time that for the Amiga emulator WinUAE the emulation of the Voodoo3 graphics card is in development. This was then already made available in the beta versions. With the release of the official vers...

Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish) (13. Dec. 2021)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3....

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update) (12. Dec. 2021)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new versio...

Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.0 (06. Dec. 2021)
The Amiga emulator WinUAE was released today in version 4.9.0. The reason for the fact that almost 1.5 years have passed after the version 4.4.0 is given by the developers as the revision of the chipset emulation, which is also the reason for this big ver...

Emulation: FS-UAE Lanucher 3.1.48 (16. Nov. 2021)
The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for configuring and launching the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The now released update includes some translations that were forgotten in the original release. The author points out that due to changes in the SDL library used...