Wolfenstein Enemy Territory port shows progress on MorphOS

August 15th, 2010

 

 

Weally weally wise:

Wolfenstein on MOS

Now there is an easy way to order that Amiga mouse

July 28th, 2010

 

 

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I mentioned the Amiga mouse from the Essen show in an earlier post, now there is an easy way for you to order it yourself without going to a1k.org and Google translate (if you can not speak German language).

Just go to this thread on amigaworld.net and follow instructions, price is around 15 euro which I think is a great price for a neat Amiga USB optical mouse. Keep in mind this is a mouse for a next-gen system and not for 68k systems although I guess it will work fine with Deneb and other USB solutions if 68k floats in your boat.

Oh, and it seems to be filled with water and has a boing ball in the transparant part of the mouse, how neat!

Norton Commander for your Amiga on AmiNET

July 27th, 2010

 

 

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If you are a computer user from the 80′ies and early 90′ies I think you have most probably heard about Norton/Symantecs fabulous file manager for MS-DOS: Norton Commander.

Back when I was young, everyone who had a 386 or 486 ran Norton Commander or NC for short when dealing with files in MS-DOS.

NTP is an inofficial Amiga version of Norton Commander, there is rumour Symantec did not like this almost 100% clone of NC on the Amiga.

Now, most of you probably say this is stupid program and it is old school etc, give me DOpus any day etc. But if you used NC back in the day you will be jumping with joy that the keyboard shortcuts are mostly the same in Amiga NTP, amazing. Yes, press F10 for quit, F5 for copy, you do not have to relearn your filemanager.

Recently NTP have been made freely available and the code have been released so we are all waiting for MorphOS/OS4/68k ports and refinements.

While we wait, be sure to download latest updated Norton Commander for your Amiga from AmiNET!

Mystery Amiga mouse spotted at the Essen Amiga event

July 27th, 2010

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This mystery Amiga mouse was observed at the Amiga Essen event. Ball in water, how nice. I want one. Rumour is that the mouse was ordered by the crew over at a1k.org from China, but do not tell anyone because it has not been certified for use in Europe.

Anyways, I do not care about RoHS, I want this Amiga mouse! :)

The Amiga event in Essen Germany 2010

July 26th, 2010

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Maybe some of you guys know recently there was a fairly huge (in the Amiga world) Amiga event in Germany (aka the capital of Amigaism in the world).

There where some groundbreaking news there such as X1000 news, MorphOS news and other stuff of coolnes from the world of Amiga that refuses to die.

Lets have 10 more years, lets celebrate with these images and videos if you missed this event!

Photos and videos (a bit slow server, varning, maybe he is running it on 68k Amiga system?)

Here is a video of the dual core Amiga X1000 system

Another video of the X1000 in action

Here is a Apple G4 Powerbook running MorphOS

MorphOS going for Powermac G5 (hopefully)

July 26th, 2010

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MorphOS are evolving at a blazing speed these days!

As if a demo of MorphOS 3 on the Apple Powerbook was not enough, here is showinfo screen from an Apple Powermac G5 system running at 2.7 GHz, just think about how fast 68k system friendly Amiga applications will run on this system!

Desert Racing of BarDos runs in AmigaOS4.1 and MOS now

December 3rd, 2009

Desert Racing of BarDos is probably one of the most famous bad games on the Amiga ever if you judge comments on internet forums.

It is a racing game with a reputation of being unplayable, but the game is still selling I guess so that is kinda cool :)

Anyways.. now you can enjoy this fine piece of racing game on your next-gen Amiga. Whoahhh…. Christmas arrived early this year.

Download the demo and find out the truth, is it playable or not?(please comment, I just sold my Peg2/4.1 machine so I can not test :( )

Automatic monitorswitch for classic Amiga from Germany

December 3rd, 2009

This is too cool to be true, on a1k.org user Ratte have made himself a very professional looking automatic monitor switch so that Amiga can switch between native screenmode and RTG-modes just as if you where running a CyberVision64-3D with scandoubler or Picasso IV.

I guess this device is specifically made for the Indivision, but it should be easy to modify pinouts to work with other scandoublers (however why would you, Indivision is the best).

You can be sure I am already saving up euro for at least one of these cool switches :D

Automatic monitor switch on a1k.org

MorphOS going for Powermac G4 PCI towers

December 1st, 2009

Wow, incredible news.

Straight from the dev team of MorphOS, the OS of the morph aka MorphOS is soon running on old Apple “quicksilver” G4 towers. These run up to 1.8 GHz (or up to 2 GHz with special turbos), meaning, it could potentially be the fastest Amiga system in the world soon.

Already MorphOS runs on the Mac Mini, but G4 towers are so much cheaper second hand thand Mac Mini. As a matter of fact, I found a G4 “quicksilver” in a dumpster last week, I thought “hmm I should take it home if Morph-team releases MorphOS for it” but decided not to, argh!

Who is not salivating over the prospect of running the slickest and nicest looking AmigaOS-likeable AmigaOS system on the nicest designed computers, do not lie to me, I know you want one too :)

AmigaAMP gets new SAM440 engine

November 21st, 2009

SAM440 is the hardware of choice for the next-gen Amiga that have its operating system built on by sources for the original Workbench.

Sam440 is not the most fastest hardware out there but it does a kick ass job because AmigaOS by nature is very lean and responsive.

AmigaAMP is to Amiga what WinAMP is to the Windows world.

So it is with great news we can say that AmigaAMP has been updated with new engine for SAM440 users to fix problems, or as it is said on the relevant hompage “Recompiled with SDK 53.15 to fix problems on SAM platform.”

If your Amiga begins on three letters and ends with three numbers, you should definitely download this archive right now.

http://www.amigaamp.de/log.html