That’s all from us for a few months. Thanks for listening and stay tuned for new episodes in the future.Av Amiga Ireland

An earlier break than usual, for longer than usual. But we’ll be back. Stay tuned!Av Amiga Ireland

NEWS AmiGemini 0.6 has new features added (link) AmigaOS 3.2.1 has been released (link) SWOS World Cup Returns (link) APOLLO-CORE Update for the Vampire V2 V600 / V500 / V1200 version 2.15RC (link) A new joystick on the way – UniThor (link) TerribleFire 1260 Alpha firmware released (link) KA59 – a mechanical keyboard available from Rastport (link) …

Flower Collage by Douglas Compton aka 10MARC – 4th place winner of the 2021 Pixel Art competiton NEWS Amiga Ireland 2022: Beer Edition. happens on Jan 28th & 29th in Athlone. Pre-book tickets on our website. (link) TF1260 gerber files released (link) DvPlayer for OS4 gets updated to version 54.7 (link) GuideML – AmigaGuide to HTML converter gets fi…

Amiga Word by TLF, 3rd place winner of the 3D Scene competition 2021 NEWS Co-hosting with us today is Eamonn aka Vectorfunk. Find him on Twitter. (link) Sonos Controller lets you control your speaker and the playback from your Amiga on OS3, 4.1 and MOS. (link) VirusZ-III Updated, now supports OS4, MOS & AROS as well as 3.1.4 and 3.2 (link) XTD has …

Winter Solstice Tree 2021 by Klearchos Gourgourinis aka Muadib, 2nd place Winner of the 3D Scene competition 2021 NEWS M68k plugin developed for IntelliJ and other IDEs. (link) ZZ9000AX sound card add-on for ZZ9000 in development (link) HippoPlayer gets another update (link) Deniser, the open source chip replacement (link) Gemini Browser released b…

Image: Tron Recognizer by Anthony Jarvis, 1st place at Amiga Ireland 2021 3D Competition NEWS AmiSpeedTest by Karl Jeacle- test your Amigas network/internet speed (link) vAmiga – the OCS Amiga emulator for MacOS – has come out of beta (link) OS 3.2 released (link) AmiProv can create an OS3 partition with a network boot disk (link) Work starts on RK…

Image: Winter Nights by Vasilis Psomiadis, 3rd place winner at Amiga Ireland 2021 NEWS Dublin Maker 2021 (link) TF1230 Design Complete (link) PiStorm – a turbo board utilising RPi (link) Raptor 1200 announced by Apollo Team (link) Fusion Magazine – Amiga special issue made freely available (for now?) as PDF (link) TF1200 Adaptor under development (…

Image: Time and Space by Mattie Whittle, 2nd place winner of the Amiga Ireland 2021 Pixel Art competition. NEWS Amiberry 4.1 has come out of beta and is available for download (link) AROS One has a new release (link) GoShell, an attractive, full-screen shell for Amiga (link) After 12 years, Jurassic Pack diskmag is back (link) Amiga Forever 9 relea…

(Image: Heavy Metal Amiga by Eric Hill aka AmigaLove.com – 1st place winner of the Pixel Art category, Creative Competition 2021) NEWS MsMadLemon is in the New York Times talking about retro computing. (link) Amiga Ireland 2021 Youtube playlist has been uploaded with all scheduled features (link) Amiga for Mortals blog (link) Amiga Ireland 2021 cre…

Picture of a lake rendered in R3D v2. By Andy Jones. Winner of organic section of the recent Amiga Swapshop BBS Raytracing Competition. NEWS Amiga Ireland Online: 2021 happens on January 16th – get your tickets (link) Alanna Kelly, Director at the Computer Museum of Ireland has finished a huge website revamp with her group. (link) SDBox for Amiga g…

A casual chat to wind down the Amiga Ireland year. Thanks for being with us throughout 2020! Some recommendations for the December break: Casual Retro Gamer (all things Commodore & Amiga) (link) Banjo Guy Ollie (great acoustic covers of game tunes) (link) Mad Pete’s Commodore & Amiga channel (link) The Amiga Show (link) The Little Cinema Galway (As…

(Image: by Elena using Cinema4D Pro for Amiga) NEWS The Amiga Show – A brand new Amiga channel about Amiga and created on Amiga. (link) Amiga Addict magazine has hit its preorder target, first issue expected 14 Dec (link) AMOS roadmap announced for 2021 including Vampire and enhanced graphics and sound operations (link) Retro Games Ltd teases poten…

NEWS Ask Your Amiga – Wolfram Alpha client for the Amiga (link) New OS4 blog for developers (link) Wayfarer – version 1.5 of the Web browser just got released (link) Online BASIC programming workshop for the Commodore 64 with the Computer Museum of Ireland and Rob Cranley. Register here (link) Amiga Ireland 2021 is canceled – at least, the planned …

Image by unknown https://aminet.net/package/pix/fract/041 NEWS Viva Amiga – Extended Remix version has been uploaded to Vimeo. Free to backers of David Pleasances new book Vultures to Vampires (link) Amos Professional AGA first demo version (link) MorphOS 3.14 has been released (link) Wayfarer – a modern web browser – first beta for MorhOS 3.14 rel…

NEWS Cover image: “Thanasis Amp v3” by Muadib which came joint 1st place in the Creative Competition at Amiga Ireland 2020 (link) IBrowse 2.5.3 released with increased performance of HTTPS connections thanks to Session Caching and Persistant HTTP(S)Connection. (link) AmiExpress BBS gets a rewrite (link) AmiBerry now lets you send commands to linux …

The Warp 1260 and other cards in the family add so many features to classic Amiga like USB, micro SD, WiFi, RTG and more. The story of its creation and its creators is fascinating and entertaining. Special thanks to Cizar and Sellen for sharing their story with us (link) CS-Labs / Warp Homepage: (link) Music by Radix licensed under the Mod Archive …

Image: “Fisherman” by Anthony Jarvis which won joint 1st place at the Creative Competition at Amiga Ireland 2020 NEWS Navajo & Hopi Coronavirus Emergency Fund (link) Reformat allows you format plain text documents, eg, fixed width for Amiga displays (link) Warp1260 turbo board sent to first beta testers (link) MCAmiga – Midnight Commander clone for…

COVER ART “Mirrorworld” by Douglas Compton who came 3rd place at Amiga Ireland 2020 NEWS HAM convert – converts jpg/gif/png to Amiga graphic modes (ILBM IFF) (link) New Amiga viruses (link) UnRAR v5.90 released (link) RetroPie 4.6 – Now with Raspberry Pi4 support. (link) cAMIra – small webcam software that uses VHI drivers on 68K Amigas (link) Spot…

COVER IMAGE “Desert Sunset” by Vasileois Psomiadis who came 2nd in the Amiga Ireland Commodore Creative Competition NEWS Juan Calderon has released almost 400 MOD samples from the Harmless Synth (link) OS 3.2 snippets and previewed new features (link) Apollo Core 2.12 released (link) AmigaOS 4 Odyssey new beta versions (link) ScreenTime is a Limpid…

Cover image: Cover image this month is Sayonara, Okaasan… by Vicky Lamburn who came 1st in the pixel art category. https://www.patreon.com/pixel_vixen NEWS AGABlaster new version – CDXL player (link) Yet another update for IBrowse – this time 2.5.2 (link) New Animation datatype for AROS is completed and looking for testers (link) Amiga Tech Tips an…

NEWS A1222 Limited Edition early orders for EUR 400 (shipping in 2020) (link) Royal Mail introducing classic British games, including many Amiga titles (link) New Sane version released for OS4 with support of over 500 HP printers (link) Versus #9 an Amiga Chart magazine for OS4 released (link) TF1260 Nears Completion, latest revision board being te…

A casual chat this time without the usual news / reviews. Happy Christmas everyone. Music by http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66739 #amiga #commodore #ireland #eventsAv Amiga Ireland

NEWS GoADF 2.0.2 by Krzysztof Donat released. (link) AmiBlitz 3 is getting some love and updates, FPU requirement being fixed (link) Amiga Game Development – tutorial on how to write games in assembler (link) AmiBerry v3 on the Pinebook – a full tutorial and review with photos by Epsilon (link) Mediator PCI update released (link) Komoda & Amiga Plu…

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! 2019-11-08 NEWS Amiga Joker 30th anniversary – the original Joker team release a jubilee edition. (link) AmiWest took place in California recently, some news on the Tabor board (revised for obsolete parts, drivers being worked on, etc.) (link) Perry Kivolowitz has been awarded a 2019 Engineering Emmy Award for SilhouetteFX. …

NEWS Pre-configured AROS development environment released. Download & run in VMWare Player. (link) Amiga Kit aquire AK-Datatypes (link) HippoPlayer IR – How to build an IR remote control for HippoPlayer. (link) SysInfo updated to work with Apollo Core 68080, now with ADF version. (link) Stand-alone Vampire V4 announced, will be available as a speci…

2019-09-05 NEWS WRP 4.4 has been released by Tenox. Allows you to access HTTPS sites from old computers. (link) New version of a great tool ADFer (link) RNOPDF – an app to view PDF files (link) Final Writer teases “minor update” in the works. (link) New AmiBerry Beta runs on the Odroid N2, one of the fastest platforms available. (link) Issue 9 of V…

New C= parts as easy as “Tea; Early Grey, Hot”? 15 years of AmigaKit, new releases, crash course in AREXX & Assember programming and a great version of the Final Fight theme. All this and our usual round up of events, games and troubleshooting tips. NEWS Tiny Aros by salvatore. A 615MB ISO which will work on emulation or hardware, like AROS. (link)…

Peter was involved in many game projects; Foundation, Simon the Sorcerer II, Knights & Merchants: Shattered Kingdom, Feeble Files – working with RuneSoft and Epic Interactive. We talk about his past and current activity with his local Amiga community in Norwich, England. http://hol.abime.net/3908 http://hol.abime.net/4107 http://hol.abime.net/1943 …

A big donation has arrived at the museum compliments of a computer programmer who owned it. It includes an A500, monitor, Commodore Amiga monitor cover, lots of games, technical manuals and more. Thanks Pat. Here’s a 6 minute interview we had at the time. Also: Mega65 link The-C64 link New mouse driver for OS4 has been released. Code cleanup and ne…

(Image with thanks to Tony Aksnes at https://blog.amigaguru.com/amiga-spotted-in-superhot-vr) Massive MOD collection available in one handy download place Amigas featuring in modern games Roadie – a tool for your favourite TCP/IP stack AGABlaster link GoADF link Albatross – a lockscreen for 68K Amiga link New release of AmiTime Keeper (provides ntp…

We talk about the scene in Italy before and during Commodore’s reign. Pre-Commodore game development in Italy Zaccaria produced a set of pinball machines between 1972 and 1988, eventually developing a handful of arcade games (e.g. Money Money, Quasar, Jack Rabbit). The pinball tables were so renowned that a PC game exists today, devoted to re-creat…

Random Backdrops link Amiga AGA 68k port of the SDL (static library only) link RNORadio is a GUI based internet radio player program for MP3 streams link WinUAE 4.2.0 released. Bug fixes, lots of fine-tuning, new (obscure) hardware emulated and some new, useful features like locking aspect ratio when resizing a windowed display. link TF360 – 060 ca…

KA – Komoda Amiga Plus #12 has been released link Steven Solie let go as team lead from Hyperion dev team link Amiga Test Kit link First pictures of a new Polish Amiga Turbo Board – Warp 1260 – 060/FPGA hybrid link Hollywood 8 addons have been released link AmigaLife – a series of interviews with demoscence people link 8-bit Slicks link Bridge Stri…

www.bambi-amiga.co.uk is a fascinating Amiga project. It’s the projects and services it hosts, but it’s the infrastructure itself – an Amiga 1200 based in England. Meet the gentleman behind it and afterwards be sure to visit and browse the excellent sites on there. If you’re technically inclined, consider hosting your project using the services the…

Amiga Ireland 2020 “Guess Who” crossword click here The Motherfolkers Podcast with Banjo Guy Ollie YouTube New version of Personal Paint released. V 7.3c for Classic OS3 and OS4. link Hoffman PT-1210 special. Special edition of Unstable Radio with a 100% Commodore Amiga DJ set using two Amiga 1200’s and a DJ Mixer. link DosBox RTG and AGA0.74 by No…

New Mortal Kombat movie in the works and looks very promising according to the Galway Gamer’s commentary. link Rocky Bergen has made a Papercraft A500 link Pixel Vixen link Adam Podstawczynski link Marcus Mac Phaidín – Issue 77 of Amiga Format (Nov, 1995) featured his Batman image “Batman Digital Justice” and it was hand drawn using DPaint IV and B…

We have Mortal Kombat news – twice! We look at some new games and another WinUAE update Extra special guest at the Amiga Ireland Meeting 2019 WinUAE 4.1 released link Rewrite of the bridgeboard emulation system, general fixes and improvements, including improved AGA emulation (more accurate positioning, fetch mode features added) New version of Ami…

Happy Christmas from Amiga Ireland to everyone listening and coming to the event in January. One more podcast until the big weekend! Music: Radix https://mosaik.se Music: Joe Dixon’s excellent cover of Walking in the Air from Frosty the Snowman 2 Turbo!Av Amiga Ireland

(Image “Phoebes Steps 3” by Muadib) Vampire 1200 closer and closer. First video on YT. link Geos 2.0 source code released. link New turbo card from Poland for Amiga 500 – CS540 link AmigaOS 3.1.4 no more available as a digital purchase. Boxed version with dedicated Kickstart ROMs is being sent to Amiga dealers. Digital download recently resumed lin…

Kipper2K has developed a replacement keyboard for Amigas that uses Cherry MX keys – well regarded amongst keyboard aficionados. A500, 600, 1200 and external keyboards in the works. Custom Cherry keycaps also in the works. link Peceha has drawn very stylish 4 colour icons. link link link Jon Aasenden is creating a distributed software system that ca…

A lot of great things happening in the world of Amiga and Amiga Ireland this month. New keycaps finally in production link Commodore the Inside Story by David Pleasance available to buy: link 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast is a new Amiga show that is viewable on your Amiga with the right setup link Netsurf 68k ver. 3.8 link FPGASID in the making. link …

At Amiga Ireland in January 2018 we talked with David and Trevor and learned about past and current projects as well as ventures in the USA, Britain and Ireland. Projects include David Pleasances book as well as some potentially new hardware in the works.Av Amiga Ireland

The Amiga Ireland podcast trio have something in common this week; we’re all very tired! But that won’t stop us bringing this months news, events an games. And as always, the Ask Amiga section covers something technical before we finish with Amiga music. PPC boards for Mediator-equipped Amigas link AmiKit for Mac including “Rabbit Hole” link ReAmig…

(Main image by Cammie from her upcoming game) Amiga 1200 motherboard mapping by John Hertell. Assembly of first board almost complete link KA 21 Gayle PCMCIA fix – is hardware solution for Gayle PCMCIA reset bug. link QEMU Sam460 Emulation, now has OS 4.1 and MorphOS HC533 33Mhz Turbo board with 8MB fast RAM – Yet another turbo board for A500 from …

At Amiga Ireland 2018 we had the pleasure of meeting with some influential and inspiring people. Eddy Carroll gifted SnoopDOS to the world while Neil Cafferkey is a core AROS developer. Niall Ó’Brollchain created the first commercially sold game in Ireland which was Hitman for the Commodore 64. Brendan “Speedie” Smith is the curator for the Compute…

Enhancer Software v1.4 to release this summer. update by Matthew Leaman link MMULib updated (again) – bug fixes and support for specifics of hardware such as the VA2000 graphics card and ACA accelerators. link WinUAE 4.0 Released, graphics subsystem overhauled enabling such features as virtually lagless video output and multi-monitor emulation. lin…

Tower 57 is Fast-paced neo-retro shooter where cooperation is as important as your ammo capacity. Avaliable for Amiga OS4, AROS and MorphOS, Marco “Benitosub” Pappalardo talks about it’s development and his Amiga roots. Amiga Version HERE. Music by Radix licensed under the Mod Archive Distribution license.…

LHA self-extracting archive – update to version 2.15 link MilkyTracker for MorphOS link A500 replacement case campaign on IndieGoGo just made its goal. Stretch goal not reached, but the team are investigating the possibility. Vampire cards registration ends in June. link RNOWidgets link The Art of Breaking Ground – is a documentary by Micha? Bara?s…

3D Modelling and Amiberry workshops are planned for Amiga Ireland 2019. Our friends from Greece talk about their plans to teach us all about them! Muadib talks about Lightwave 3D, MiDWaN tells us about Amiberry. Muadib https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMuadib25 https://vimeo.com/user1811008 https://www.facebook.com/groups/Amiga.Raytracing.Society http…