Category: Commodore Amiga

Linux: Kernel 3.17 RC1 for AmigaOne X1000

Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has compiled the first “release candidate” (rc) of the Linux-kernel 3.17 for the X10000. Website: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz

MorphOS: Epub-Reader 0.2

Version 0.2 of Carsten Siegner’s EPUB-Reader is still an alpha version. For the first time now some different fonts are aupported. Download: Epub-Reader_0.2.lhaSource: http://www.amiga-news.de

Immortal Amiga Episode 9 Released

Immortal Amiga Episode 9 – The Amiga tunage returns! Track Listing : Big thanks to Amiga Music Preservationhttp://amp.dascene.net/ 4-mat – anarchymenu 01 – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=10elijah – m6 – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=2430Brainbug – delicious fruits – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=786SQD – stellar – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=6991tang – spurenanzahl – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=7267Splitter – profil tdcs – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=6973frenger – hoba in hemsedal – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=7800dax and voodoo – hyper! endversion – http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=1665tang –…

Magazine: Amiga Future 110 – preview and excerpts online

A preview and some excerpts of the upcoming issue 110 (September/August 2014) of Amiga Future magazine have been released. Highlights of this issue are an interview with Pascal Pappara, a review of Tales of Gorluth and the eighth part about the AmigaOS 4 programming course. Website: http://www.amigafuture.de

The Open Racing Car Simulator – AmigaOS 4

TORCS is a racing car simulation for the Amiga. There are many different cars, tracks, and opponents to race against. You can adjust the tires, dampers, aerodynamics, spoilers etc. The game is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, MacOSX and Windows. Website: http://www.os4depot.net

Lost Treasures

On the Dustlayer Blog you can now see pictures of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong from December 1992. The photos were taken by Robert Baker who worked in production engineering at Commodore in West Chester, USA and who had been in Hong Kong for a pilot production run of the Amiga 600. Website: http://dustlayer.com

Stefans Amiga Welt

Stefan started a new Youtube channel. On this channel you can view videos about Amiga computers. At this moment you can watch the following videos: Amiga 600, Amiga 1200/60, Amiga 2000/60, Amiga 3000/60 D and the Amiga 4000/60 D. Website: YouTube

Blizzard PPC 68060/50 accelerator card repair

[youtube 8Vo12E0m-14 nolink] RetroGameModz made a video about the repair of a Blizzard PPC accelerator card for Amiga 1200. In the video you can see many tips and working methods for repairing retro hardware such as: Visual inspection, testing, schematics, measurements, disassembling, new components and final testing. RetroGameModz

WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 08-26-2014. 2014-08-26 new: Grapevine 7 (LSD) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-26 new: Grapevine 6 (LSD) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-26 new: Grapevine 5 (LSD) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-25 new: Vectordemo (Vector all Times) (Tristan Lorach) done by StingRay (Info,Image)…

BBB Live on SlayRadio with BozRetro!

Wednesday 27th August 2014, 19:00 USRT:Boz – BBB – It’s the Taint of the Week™ again, so it’s time for Boz to talk utter bollocks in between your requests. All aboard the Train-Wreck, WOO WOOH! Listen: SLAYRadioWebsite: BozRetro.com