As has been announced on Jan. 17th 2022, the "Amiga37" event will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany, on October 15th and 16th 2022. Tickets are available since April 27th.
Go to https://amigaevent.de for detailed information, latest updates, and tickets!
Amiga artists, warm up your fingers!
Since 2019 "10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast" is organizing the "Amiga Art Contest", where all sorts of Amiga art creations - images, animation, sound - can be submitted. The 2022 event has just been announced.
You can submit your artwork to the following categories:
1. Handdrawn artwork
2. Digital photography
3. Raytracing
4. Music
5. Animation
Great news for Amiga 68k internet users: iBrowse and AmiSSL have both been updated, indicating active and steady development.
Here's a copy of the iBrowse's latest list of changes (see link below):
Allround Amiga music player "HippoPlayer" got a new update, with lots of fixes and enhancements.
It updates HippoPlayer to version 2.52, thus requires an existing full installation.
Here's a quick overview of the changes from 2.50 to 2.52 (skips 2.51), according to the AmiNet readme file (see link below):
The Sinclair ZX81 is a wonderful little machine. It's limitations create both a simple, fun environment to play with, and a challenge for developers.
Jens Schoenfeld / Individual Computers says Merry Christmas with an update to P96 (Picasso96) that happens to match AmigaOS's latest version number.
According to the announcement (see link below), it's a bugfix release that addresses many little issues that were reported by users via P96's support forum.
Among the changes are updates to blitter emulation, improved use of hardware sprites (mouse pointer) that increases performance, and added support for the ZZ9000 graphics cards' dual-palette feature, removing artifacts when dragging Intuition screens.
Thomas Wenzel has release a new version of his audio player "AmigaAmp" with a decent set of bugfixes and new features. This is the list of changes, as published on AmigaAmp's website on Dec. 23rd:
Bug fixes:
Another project I've been working on is slowly taking shape, and there was quite some headache involved to get it going.
Great news from the operating system side of Amiga things: Hyperion has released AmigaOS update 3.2.1, for registered users, and for free.
In a press release published on 21st Dec. 2021 the availability of the first update to AmigaOS 3.2 was announced, along with a list of highlighted features:
Once again public health takes precedence over retro computing.
Due to increased spread of the coronavirus in Germany, an in accordance with expected restrictions to public life, the "Interface XXIX" event by Vintage Computer Club (VCC), Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and Computer-Club Klausdorf (CCK) to be held in Kiel on Nov. 27th 2021, was cancelled.
No substitute event (online stream, ...) is planned - but the organisers already promised to create a new event and send out invitations once the situation is back to normal.