Another year in the bag! All I can wish for is a better 2022!!

Wishing everyone a safe and productive New Year from the whole AmigaSource family.

- No news from Santa. Maybe Baby New Year will bring us some good news...

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• Boing: New French Amiga magazine. {Can't believe I missed this one. It's now added to my Magazine table}
  
• MUIbase: MUIbase is a relational, programmable database with graphical user interface for Windows, Mac, Linux and Amiga. MUIbase is a fast and flexible database system. It is targeted for advanced desktop users who want to manage data in a comfortable and powerful way. MUIbase is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses, CD series, movies, photo collections, your family tree, your income and expense, and much more.
  
• Get 14-bit Audio On Every Amiga Guide: Stop getting tricked by people! Amiga is not a 16-bit computer. It is a 32-bit computer as AmigaOS is 32-bit. Amiga is not an 8-bit sound computer. It is a 14-bit audio-capable computer which means that all Classic Amiga computers are able to play 14-bit audio. To get 14-bit Audio on any Classic Amiga. You don't need AHI and you don't need to hack it. The 14-bit possibility is a feature of the Amiga hardware. So, let's make a deal? Stop saying that Amiga audio is 8-bit because the true fact is that it is 14-bit. It means that Paula can produce “almost” CD-quality audio. You will also get rid of the Paula noise too.
  
• Amiga City: Welcome to Amiga City - the portal for the classic Commodore Amiga personal computer. Community, Downloads, Forums and more.
  
• The Commodore Story: Gone But Not Forgotten. From the PET to the Amiga CD32: What links the following? #1: a best-selling home computer, #2: one of the most beloved non-console gaming machines of the 80s and 90s, and #3: the first personal computer to sell over 1 million units. A lot of people over 30 will probably name a Commodore machine as the first computer they ever used, be it a Commodore PET in the late seventies, a VIC-20 or Commodore 64 from the 1980s, or even one of the Amiga line in the early nineties. Some will have played their first game on one or wrote their first program in BASIC, perhaps leading them to a life-long career in the tech industry—I'm one of many who owe a debt of gratitude to the company.
  
• Commodore Techtopics Index: The TECHTOPICS BULLETIN has been developed to inform the dealer network about special troubles and corrections to the Commodore Systems. TECHTOPICS will be a monthly bulletin directed to the Service Centers of the dealerships.
  
• Commodore A1000 Pictures: {A directory of pics of the A1000}
  
• Commodore A2500 Restoration: {Bill Degan documents his restoration of his A2500 w/pics}
  
• The Secret Weapons of Commodore: They were the secret weapons! The unrealized phantasms of technological wonder! The ravings of mad geniuses made flesh and locked away in caverns of dust never to see the light of day! The demons that Tramiel forgot, to come tapping at their door even as the winds of oblivion beckon and spit! {One of the BEST site on the web to find out about about the secrets Commodore was working. Highly recommended}
  
• Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown: In 1986-87, Commodore released the Amiga 2000. The machine was technically similar to the Amiga 500, but had a larger case and was designed to be more expandable. Costing around $1,500 (US), the Amiga 2000 was designed to compete with the much more expensive Apple Macintosh II (~$5,500) and IBM PC (~$3,000). Follow along as we crack open the second generation he Amiga 2000--the Amgia B2000-CR. Updated 1/8/2011: Dave Haynie, lead engineer for the Amiga 2000 (B2000-CR), has posted several comments about the Amiga 2000 and his worked on the project in this gallery's discussion forum. I encourage everyone to read his posts. And, I would like to thank Mr. Haynie for taking the time to share his experiences.
  
• AmiTube - The first YouTube Client for m68k Amiga: Did you every dream about to watch ordinary YouTube Videos on your classic Amiga? Now it is possible, with AmiTube. You can search by keywords or youtube URLs for your favorite short films then the Server will download them convert to CDXL(32 for OCS Amigas or 255 colors for AGA or RTG Amigas) or MPEG1 (for fast RTG Amigas) then the movie is downloaded to your Amiga where you can use any CDXL/MPEG Player to watch them.
  
• AQB: A BASIC Compiler and IDE for Amiga Computers: An experiment in alternate history: what AmigaBASIC could have looked like, had it been developed further tailored to the Amiga OS. What AQB is not: AQB does not try to be a clone of any particular BASIC dialect - neither QuickBASIC, FreeBASIC or VisualBASIC nor any particular Amiga specific BASIC implementation like AmigaBASIC, ACE, HiSoft, GFA, Blitz or AMOS. While it strives to be as compatible as possible with the Microsoft BASIC family of languages (and certainly has many QuickBASIC traits) the primary focus is on the creation of a modern, clean, Amiga OS-compliant, future-proof BASIC that is tailored towards modern Amiga application development. To be more specific, FreeBASIC is the source of many core AQB language constructs (in many respects AQB can be considered a subset of FreeBASIC) with inspiration for Amiga specific commands mainly from AmigaBASIC, ACE and HiSoft. Main target is Amiga OS compliant application development.
  
• DvPlayer: DvPlayer is an ongoing project to bring the ultimate multimedia experience to the Amiga computer. It is a unique and Amiga-only multimedia player, developed by Amiga enthusiasts, for Amiga enthusiasts! The current version of DvPlayer requires Enhancer Software V2 and supports the following video formats: MPEG-1/2 video streams, MPEG-1/2 system streams, MPEG audio files, VideoCD and SVCD, DVD Video, AVI files (including OpenDML extensions), ASF/WMV files & AIFF audio files
  development.
  
• Amiga 500/600/1200 Floppy recap / capacitor list: Floppy drives have an sensor to detect track zero position which tells the drive the positioning of the first track on the disk(hence all tracks). On some drives it is mounted on the same PCB as the capacitors and removing the PCB will dislocate the adjustment for track 0. If the screw holes for the PCB are elongated (thus allowing for adjustment) then there is a good possibility the track zero sensor is on the PCB. One way to determine bad track zero adjustment is by formatting a disk on that device. It will manage to read and write a disk formatted by itself, trying to read a disk written on another known good drive will fail because the track offsets differ. Adjustment of the zero stop should be done using proper equipment and not by trial and error. .. in other words, (TL;DR) do not touch the track zero sensor adjustment
  

- Maybe this year Santa will bring us some good news under the Christmas Tree...

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• Amiga-VideoSlot-RGBtoHDMI: Add pixel-perfect HDMI output to big box Amiga machines with video slots. This project builds on c0pperdragon's Amiga-Digital-Video project, adapted for use in big box Amiga video slots.
  
• Forums for MNT: The community forum page for MNT. Makers of the ZZ9900 Video card, ZZ99000CX Denise adapter & ZZ9000AX Audio expansion.
  
• close-and-run-amiga68k: Tools for maximizing chip ram when loading Amiga games or applications from floppy on Kickstart 1.3
  
  

- Wind blowing through the leaves...

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• vasm: vasm is a portable and retargetable assembler to create linkable objects in various formats or absolute code. Multiple CPU-, syntax and output-modules can be selected. Many common directives/pseudo-opcodes are supported (depending on the syntax module) as well as CPU-specific extensions. The assembler supports optimizations (e.g. choosing the shortest possible branch instruction or addressing mode) and relaxations (e.g. converting a branch to an absolute jump when necessary). Most syntax modules support macros, include directives, repetitions, conditional assembly and local symbols.
  
• NASA Technical Reports Server - Keyword *AMIGA*: {Did you every wonder if the Amiga was even mentioned in any NASA Technical Service Reports? Well wonder no more!}
  
• {Archived} Kipper2k Items for sale: {Kipper2k make quite a few hardware add ons: A500 (1000, 2000) 4MB / 8MB Fast Ram Memory Expansion board With CF Card IDE support, A600 4MB Fastmem board, A600 Vampire 64MB 68020 Accelerator, A600 8MB Fast Ram Memory Expansion board (configurable), A500 CPU Adapter, A1000 CPU Adapter, CF Adapter, Internal, CF Adapter - External, Modded HDMI cable (3feet), HDMI Adapter, ECS Indivision I VGA adapter for the Amiga 600, Custom Length ribbon cable for Indivision I VGA header, Amiga/Atari PSX controller adapter, MKII Indivision custom length cable, A600 Mouse/Joystick Extender & Svideo/Composite Video Adapter. Good historical info}
  
• Amiga Reproduction Box Brand New: Amiga reproduction box, these are brand new and designed to be used as box art or to house your Amiga. These are true reproductions of the original boxes created by plakativ-druck.ch used when the Amiga was shipped. {Note: This link is for the A1200. The also sell the boxes for the A500, A500+, A600 & CD32}
  
• Amiga News Network {ARCHIVED MIRROR}: {This is the link to the archived mirror of one of the GREATEST Amiga news sites ANN.LU (Amiga News Network) It was run by Christian Kemp, who I had the pleasure to meet in the mid 90's when he visited sunny southern California. What a GREAT person! From 31 Jan 2000 to 28 Dec 2006 if something happened in the Amiga community you could find it here. This official archive, hosted on covers the dates form 31 Jan 2000 to 22 Oct 2004.}
  
• Amiga News Network {Archive.org}: {One of the GREATEST Amiga news sites ANN.LU (Amiga News Network) It was run by Christian Kemp, who I had the pleasure to meet in the mid 90's when he visited sunny southern California. What a GREAT person! From 31 Jan 2000 to 28 Dec 2006 if something happened in the Amiga community you could find it here. This archive covers the full date range. 5754 entries.}
  
• Amiga Information Center {Russian}: {Daily Amiga news and other links in Russian}
  
• HyperCacheAmiga: Source code to the 1980s Amiga product, version dated 1992. A fellow named Matthew Kott reached out and asked me to release the source code to HyperCache if I still had it, so I dug around, and sure enough I did, so I opted to post it here on Github. For various legal and liability reasons, I cannot open-source it at this time, but it's yours to explore and tinker with for nostalgia. If anyone still has Lattice C out there, I'd love to hear if it can still be compiled! If there's sufficient interest, I'll look into the logistics of open-sourcing it. For now, though, it remains (c) 1992 Silicon Prairie Software. Authorship: Primarily Dave Plummer, though it was initially kindled by a sample that I found which showed how to hook the disk driver, and that code likely remains. Also, I ultimately hired someone to work on V2.0 once I got to Microsoft, as I was pretty busy, but now I don't have a name! So some of the code was written by someone else on contract, but I'm still trying to figure out who! Thanks to Matthew for thinking to ask! Dave