Since today you can read the Amiga Future issue 124 online on our webpage

In irregular intervals we provide older issues of the Amiga Future for free online.

The magazines and the PDF versions (in HQ) are also available in our online shop [...]
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Retro ends for some people where the mouse with a ball is used. But if you don't want to use your Amiga without your beloved tank mouse, we have a new DIY project for you.

Christopher Harris has published his project on GitHub for converting the so-called tank mouse into a mouse with a laser. All you need is an Arduino Nano, an ADNS9800 laser, a matching lens, a hand of electronic components and this project. The project itself contains Gerber files with which a suitable circuit board can be produced. There are two versions of the PCB available, one for THT components and one for SMD components. You will also find a list of the required components in this GitHub repository, the software for the Arduino Nano and a cover for the laser lens that can be printed with a 3D printer. If you are interested, there is also a link to another project to produce a tank mouse with a 3D printer.

The author points out that the project is still in development. [...]
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Most Amiga games, if they are not a one-man show, should be filled with two players. But there are also some games that four people can play at the same time. One of the most famous of these games is likely to be Dynablaster. For players 3 and 4, an adapter is required that provides the necessary joystick connections via the parallel port. Such an adapter can now be soldered together thanks to the RCEU540-Amiga-4-Player-Adapter-Project. A suitable housing from the 3D printer can be ordered via a link on Thingiverse.

Here is the GitHub repository of the project: https://github.com/Retro-Commodore/RCEU ... er-Adapter

This message should be interesting for all those who do not trust themselves to produce hardware or who have no time or inclination to do it or who want to offer some self-made hardware themselves.

Tindie is really not new anymore, but when I heard about it from my work colleague, "Amiga" was my first search term there. I wasn't really surprised to see numerous results there. This also worked with the search terms "Commodore", "C64" and "Atari". And of course many more. So I thought that might be a good tip. But what is Tindie?

Anyone who knows the online marketplace Etsy can roughly imagine what is behind Tindie. The original principle of Etsy is to offer artists and skilled craftsmen a marketplace where they can sell their self-made products. Only instead of, for example, handmade jewelry and sewn or knitted goods, there is everything an electronics technician's heart desires. Everything that can somehow be combined under the term hardware finds its place here. From bare circuit boards to fully soldered products. [...]
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This is the full colour preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 147 (November/December 2020) can now be viewed online on the Amiga Future website.

Some of the interesting articles in this issue are:

Making of Amiga Future TV [...]
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VControlGUI is a very small utility that lets you send commands to flype's VControl software. VControl allows us to tweak Vampire card behaviours according to the needs of the user.

Requirements

Any vampire card [...]
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You can find a German interview with Chris Hülsbeck under the link.

https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/games ... k-100.html

ALB42 write:

Finally I found some motivation to put a release together of “Ask Your Amiga” the new tool for your beloved Amiga. It’s working nicely, now also can save the image or text, but nothing more… just very basic functionality but even so I like it working rather smooth even on my slower Amiga 68030.

As always it is available for all Amiga systems with an Internet connection. [...]
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On the following links you will find your other Youtube-Video about the Amiga, which were released in the last days:

The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)

https://youtu.be/xgqEneDNQto [...]
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35 years of gaming experience, as well as 20 years worth of Internet videos - Virtual Dimension has been dealing with the digital world for many years to report on interesting, as well as, background information. Whether that's the C64, Amiga, PC, Atari or Schneider: Virtual Dimension knows the history of computer gaming and so gives you the chance to glance backwards while at the same time looking forward to the future.

Since our last announcement, Virtual Dimension has now put the following videos online:

PC-Strategie-Hits, Star Wars und RPGs (Retro ausgepackt Live #50) [...]
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