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Nicky Boom i Nicky Boom 2 for free Comments »

Nicky Boom is an arcade game released by Microids in 1992. You could download it for free from Amiga Future both 1 a 2 part of game as ADF files as well as WHDLoad. There is also PDF instruction.

AmiSSL 4.6 Comments »

AmiSSL has been released in version 4.6. The main code uses OpenSSL in version 1.1.1g (21.4.2020). There are also some improvements for Amithlon users.

Parrot 1.2 Comments »

Parrot is a project to write (alternative to ScummVM) engine to launch adventure games amde by Lucasfilm. It is 100% Amiga idea, without any porting. It should works on ECS mahines - currently we could launch (version 1.2) "Maniac Mansion".

Firmware for Warp 560/Warp 1260 (1.008)

The software for Warp 560/Warp 1260 turbo cards has been updated. Version 1.007 has been released as well as 1.008. Cards for Amiga 500 i 1200 (beta test stage) will cost 499 euro without a processor. There are plans to release also Warp 4060 version.

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Added: 2020-06-18 15:10, Author: st, Category: Hardware Comments »

Test: QuickShot QS 131 and Konix Speedking Comments »

Mikołaj Małkiewicz presents test of two joysticks: the classic QuickShot and more exotic Konix Speedking (made in 1996). text is available here. Enjoy the reading.

DIY Mini-ITX laptop - what's netx?

Hans de Ruiter has described what is going on with his project - create an Amiga laptop using Tabor (A1222) motherboard: This caused me to waste a lot of time trying to get things "perfect" first time round. As an engineer and software developer I'm used to rapid prototyping and iterative design. In this case, the cost of prototyping and not wanting to waste too much material on prototypes got the better of me.

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Added: 2020-06-17 10:44, Author: st, Category: Hardware Comments »

AMIcast SE 10 Comments »

Krzysztof "Radzik" Radzikowski and Marcin "Piana" Pianka in English AMIcast SE 10 discuss about the most important latest events in Amiga world. Enjoy the listening.

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Amiga Source Preservation Comments »

Amiga Source Preservation is a small project to protect and release Amiga books and source codes to share them using Creative Commons license. Currently there are 16 books and 110 source codes.

Gallery: Bars & Pipes Professional

Bars & Pipes Professional is a MIDI sequencer, an application to create a music. It was developed (early 90s) by American company The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks. During the times of the first Amiga One it was ported for AmigaOS 4 by Lyle Hazelwood. In attached gallery you could find how an original product was look like.

Added: 2020-05-28 23:16, Author: cm, Category: Software Comments »

SimpleTransfer 1.0

SimpleTransfer is a FTP program created using Hollywood 8. It could work both as a client or server on AmigaOS 4, Windows and Android. We could transfer files using IP addresses and paths to catalogs. It is a simple alternative for Samba and people, who are not able to configure a standard FTP server.

Added: 2020-05-28 22:52, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

Infinity Modules Player Comments »

Infinity Modules Player is a player of Amiga modules directly from network. Author: Paweł "Juen" Nowak (R3D). Currently we have about 10 thousands of mods in the database. Chat option is available for free registration.

Verge World - the first demo Comments »

The first demo (ADF file) of new Amiga shooter Verge World Icarus Rising is vailable.

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NetSurf 3.10 - is there a sense of browser wothout JS?

Chris Young still develops the official Amiga version of NetSurf browser. We just received version 3.10 for OS3 and OS4. There are lots of changes and bugfixes.

Added: 2020-05-26 23:01, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

Projekt ReAmiga - version 1.5

ReAmiga project (a replica of Amigi 1200 motherboard in version 1D4) has achieved version 1.5. Now we have S-Video instead a standard video output and there i enough space to put all necessary connectors.

Added: 2020-05-25 22:59, Author: st, Category: Hardware Comments »

NetBSD 9.0 for 68k and PPC cards

NetBSD in version 9.0 is available for Amiga 68k (including DraCo) and in experimental version for PPC cards. The full list of changes is available here. You could download a proper verion here: NetBSD/amiga and NetBSD/amigappc.

Added: 2020-05-25 22:47, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

WarpWebP.datatype 45.1 Comments »

There is available a new datatype for AmigaOS (OS 3/4, WarpOS), which is used to read pictures in WebP fromat. Author (Oliver Roberts) has prepared also update of settings WarpDTPrefs.

Decrunch 2020: a new date

Decrunch 2020 has a new date: 31.07-2.08.2020. party place: Tamka club in Wrocław (Poland). A usual, number of competitions are planned: Amiga demo, 8bit, intro, music (tracked and exe 32K), graphics - Amiga pixel, raytrace, exe 4K and colorcycling, as well as wild compo. There will be also Gamedev i Live Pixel Art. More info and tickets: on party website.

Added: 2020-05-24 23:10, Author: st, Category: Events Comments »

Amiga? Not Amiga? Keyboard interface

Something non-usual - an equipment for people who use Amiga case to put inside other computer (like Raspberry Pi). Tynemouth Software has prepared a special interface to connect with Amiga keyboard for Amiga 500(+) and A600 and 1200.

Added: 2020-05-23 23:12, Author: st, Category: Emulation Comments »

Odyssey 1.23 r5 beta07 Comments »

A new beta version of Odyssey brwser 1.23 r5 is available. We could find there e.g. fixes of Cairo library, a new version of Pixman library, some fixes of full-screen video player and handling of additional mouse buttons.

Kraftwerk - In the memory of Florian Schneider (on Amiga)

21-th April 2020 - this day Florian Schneider-Esleben passed away. German singer, musician and one of founders of Kraftwerk band. Kevin Saunders has prepared on Amiga (using Brilliance 2) special nimation (HAM8 format) in the memory of Florian Schneider.

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Added: 2020-05-19 14:47, Author: st, Category: Events Comments »

AmigaOS 3.1.4(.1) - new release and new language versions Comments »

Hyperion Entertainment has shared (for all registered users) release info of AmigaOS 3.1.4(.1) edition as well as localization files (version 45.315) for languages: Polish, Greek, Russian.

Flickerfixer for A500/A2000 (based on FPGA)

In GitHub you could find a project of flickerfixer for Amiga 500/2000 based on FPGA technology. The first idea was to use Denise chip directly, but later the author has changed his mind. He decoded to use emulation of Denise (based on FPGA) and send video VGA signal.

Added: 2020-05-16 23:07, Author: st, Category: Hardware Comments »

WarpBMP 45.8, WarpPCX 45.6 and WarpPSD 45.6

Oliver Roberts has updated his datatypes for such formats: BMP, PCX and PSD. All of them are compiled using GCC 8.1.0 (OS4) and VBCC 0.9g (WarpOS). Besides optimization, there are also global variables ENV. Datatypes should have better recognition of the formats.

Added: 2020-05-14 22:17, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

RNOPDF - ECS/AGA version Comments »

RNOPDF is a PDF viewer build using Hollywood. In Aminet There is a special version for Amiga computers without additional graphic cards. Minimal requirements: AmigaOS 3.0, 68020 processor and RAM - as much as possible.

Hans de Ruiter about "ready when it is ready"

Amiga developer Hans de Ruiter has recorded video clip where he explained, that release date "ready when is ready" is bot a good idea. And developers should announce release date, even if it is not realistic.

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Added: 2020-05-12 12:51, Author: st, Category: Journalism Comments »

AxRuntime (AxRT)

Krzysztof "deadwood" Śmiechowicz works on his runtime environment AxRuntime for Linux developers, which like to create his applications using API of AmigaOS. The idea is to compile, develop, test and optimize programs for Amiga within AxRT.

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Added: 2020-05-11 22:56, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

JAmiga 1.3 Comments »

The files of moving Java on AmigaOS project have been updated 21.4.2020 0 the version 1.3 is available. There is no information if such a files are fresh (and Joakim Nordstrom is working on it again) or we received code prepared three years ago. Author's blog has not been updated yet.

Hollywood Designer 5.0

19.4.2020 Airsoft Softwair has released a version 5.0 of Hollywood Designer program.

Hollywood Designer is and graphic interface (GUI) to work with Hollywood. It allows us to create presentations as well as games and applications, which could be compiled for: AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Hollywood Designer 5.0 is available both as CD and digital download. Available versions: AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), AmigaOS 4 (PPC) i AROS (x86). There is a discount for current users and free version for persons who bought 4.0 within a current year. Please remind, that Designer requires the latest version of Hollywood (8.0).

Added: 2020-05-10 22:53, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

Andy Broad shows how to prepare video on AmigaOS4 Comments »

Andy Broad (musician and developer) shows on his blog how to use Amiga One X1000 (applications: Audio Evolution and Blender for AmigaOS 4) to prepare his video "One Man Band".

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Magazyn 1.0

Robert Szacki has made a game Magazyn (EN: Magazine). It is the Sokoban clone. To pass to the next level you have to move packages to the proper places. There is also option to edit levels and make your owns. The next versions of the game are in progress.

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Added: 2020-05-08 22:24, Author: st, Category: Games Comments »

ZitaFTP Server 1.13 Comments »

Serwer FTP "Zita" (by Hans de Ruiter) is still developed. Version 1.13 contains e.g. bug fixes, AmiSSL 4.5 and new messages. The cost of this program: from 47 up to 188 euro.

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EvenMore 0.93 Comments »

A text file viewer EvenMore has been release in version 0.93. You could download this program in versions lha: OS3, OS4 and AmiKit. The author is back after three years and some new options were added: e.g. wrapping of texts and correct handling of files in formats XML, HTML and AbiWord XML.

Shaderjoy 1.0

Capehill works on player of shaders for AmigaOS 4.1 + OpenGL ES 2.0/Warp3D Nova. The main goal of this project is to develop program which will be able to display projects from shadertoy.com website. This program is available to download in version 1.0. More info and progress is place on amigans.net forum. Video prepared by kas1e is attached to this news.

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Added: 2020-05-04 20:56, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

4xIDE adapter + FastIDE for A600/1200 Comments »

Amigakit offers adapter, which allows to connect up to 4 IDE peripherals to Amiga 1200 or 600. You could expand this tool by purchasing FastIDE - extension on Gayle chipset which increases hard disks transfer.

UnRAR 5.90 Comments »

On Aminet you could find a new version of decompressing tool: UnRAR - 5.9.2. The size of stock is increased to 800 kB to handle files RAR3 archives. Additional feature: the program displays warning when there are signs outside the coding set.

HomeBank 4.6.3 Comments »

Edgar Schwan has updated his AmiCygnix port of HomeBank program - a tool for a maintain personal finance.

Amos Kittens Comments »

Amos Kittens is a GitHub project. The author, Kjetil "LiveForIt" Hvalstrand, works on the interpreter, which will allow to run AMOS code on AmigaOS 4 (compatibility level for commands should be around 99%).

New virus on Aminet

On Aminet sombody uploaded vprot.lha archive, which contains trojan virus (it deletes/overwrites bootblock on floppy). This virus has been not recognized by any existing antivirus software on AmigaOS, so it looks like we have a new one.

Added: 2020-04-30 21:45, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

Spotless and SimpleDebug Comments »

Spotless is a developer tool for debugging. The idea was to prepare a simply and complete tool. This program has GUI and there is also CLI version: SimpleDebug.

AbandonMI2 - Mason's abandoned incons

On OS4Depot service you could download an archive (382 MB - 256x256 icons), which contains icons prepared by Martin "Mason" Merz for AmigaOS 4.2.

Added: 2020-04-26 23:00, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

WarpJPEG 45.14

Oliver Roberts has updated his datatype for JPEG format. The newest jpeglib v9d library is used on all systems (OS4, OS3 i WarpOS), so it should be faster about 10% more (max on AltiVec). WarpOS version was compiled using VBCC 0.9g (GCC 8.1.0 for AmigaOS 4 version). WarpDT is a shareware software (the registration fee is 20 euro).

Added: 2020-04-25 22:26, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

DOSBox 0.74 r4293 with JIT

DOSBoxis a software emulation of DOS/CPU x86 environment and focuses on launching old PC games. It has been written using SDL library and GNU license is used here.

The original MS-DOS is not required, because DOSBox has his own DOS implementation. You could run Windows 3.0, 3.11 and 95.

Graphic emulation: text mode, Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA (including Mode X and other extensions), VESA and full emulation of S3 Trio 64.
Sound emulation: Adlib, PC speaker, Tandy, Sound Blaster, CMS, Disney and Gravis Ultrasound.

The new version of DOSBox for AmigaOS has been prepared by kas1e and released in February 2020.

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Added: 2020-04-24 21:25, Author: st, Category: Software Comments »

Odyssey 1.23 r5 beta06 Comments »

Since 22.04.2020 the next beta version (6-th) of Odyssey web browser (1.23 r5) is available. The main changes are connected with multimedia player. The new user-agent "iPhone OS 12.4" has been added as well as new function of turning on/off handling of audio/video mp4 (for example if we would like to download such files, instead playing them).

Trevor's blog: stay at home

Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) has added a new entry on his blog. We could read here: Our Amiga community is not immune from these dramatic world events. The lockdown will delay the release of the A1222 Early Adopter edition with Matthew Leaman stating on AmigaWorld.net it could be pushed back towards the end of the year. In better news, AmigaKit, as an online retailer, can still mail shipments to most parts of the world and Matthew has confirmed that the AAA Bundles will begin shipping in April/May.

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