Category: Commodore Amiga

Szilárd Biró interview

David Brunet from the web page Obligement has had a interview with Szilárd Biró. Szilárd is an Amiga user from Hungary. His first computer was a PC but later he got himself an Amiga A500 with a 1084S monitor. Later he became more interested in AROS and started to make AROS version of PC games. Website: http://obligement.free.fr

SketchBlock v2.6 – Amiga

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: One important error was removed, a couple of small improvements and a new Julia set is available. Website: http://www.os4depot.net

Commodore Amiga A500 repair

[youtube qk5wSM6sR4g nolink] GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM. Website: https://www.youtube.com

Dopus5 – Amiga

Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform. Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dopus5allamigas/

MorphOS 3.5 Software Development Kit

The MorphOS development team released version 3.5 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: LogTool only runs one multiple ramdebug sessions. Improved SDK indexing for Scribble and updated for OpenSSL and dependencies. Website: http://www.morphos-team.net

Assist v1.9 – AmigaOS 4

Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the “Get the most out of your AMIGA” PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Many improvements to the download system including the Tuomas Hokka’s download tool. Improvements for Remove. Added the…

AROS Vision 2.6

A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. Changes in this version: Updates for the system data, new background picture from Wawa, Magellan v5.90, Speech support, FAT95, more demos, compilers and much more. Website: http://www.aros-platform.de

WinUAE 2.8.1 beta 1

– Audio DMA CPU wait hack (that tries to prevent missing samples if program has CPU timed audio DMA wait) improved, now compatible with programs that really need delay after DMA switch off (for example switches DMA off, then clears interrupt request, and then finally waits for audio interrupt). – CPU on the fly mode changes were unreliable (2.8.0b15) –…

Sqrxz 4 – Amiga

[youtube n_ZB7bd3xTI nolink] In the fourth part of the Sqrxz series you are on a cold icy island. On the island you will find shiny marbles, evil penguins, ghosts, underwater creatures and many more. Features: Retro graphics, 10 levels, great music, high score, hidden passages and cheat codes (if you can find them). Website: http://www.sqrxz.de/sqrxz-4/

Davidope puzzle – AmigaOS4

Mrdarek made a game for AmigaOS4. If you are bored with solving static puzzles you should try this animated puzzle. Features: Snap to grid, auto link pieces and a viewer for solved puzzles. Website: http://www.os4depot.net