04.Sep.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Amiga Public Domain Disks preserved
This time, "Games that weren't" has not preserved a game believed to be lost for posterity, but rather nine previously unknown PD disks containing music demos and PD catalogues.
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04.Sep.2025
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.54 for Bluetooth adaptor BlueLink
The firmware for the BlueLink Bluetooth adapter from 7-bit has been updated. Version 0.54 offers the following new features:
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03.Sep.2025
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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News from Alinea Computer: Langley 1200 multifunctional adapter
Press release: "No sooner said than done, we fired up our layout programme and programming environment for you and ended up with a small but fine piece of hardware called Langley. In response to many customer requests, we managed to build a Kickstart switch that switches directly via the keyboard and does so at runtime: We are pleased to present the new multifunctional hardware Langley 1200.
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03.Sep.2025
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Open source A4091 software package: Version 42.34
For ReA4091, the open source replica of Commodore's Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, a software package is available, which is also open source and includes AmigaOS drivers, a ROM image, a test program and software for debugging the driver.
The update to version 42.34 fixes a bug in device detection.
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03.Sep.2025
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AROS: Month in review, August 2025
In his blog at the title link, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month.
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03.Sep.2025
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Video: Every Commodore Amiga Model Ever Made
At the title link Chris Edwards presents in a one-hour video the following Amiga models:
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02.Sep.2025
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DIY: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, version 1.9
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS or via USB-C with Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files.
Since version 1.6, the Amiga1200, Amiga 3000, and 4000 models, as well as the Amiga 4000CR and Amiga 3000T, are supported.
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02.Sep.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" - August 2025
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has published another monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4. Among other things, he reports on the latest software announcements and new products, as well as updates, including The Settlers 2 Gold Edition, Starfall Defenders, Janggi, RNOSoundboard, AmiArcadia, Rave, RetroArch, and ShaderNova.
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02.Sep.2025
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
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01.Sep.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib v0.10.4 for Windows, Linux and macOS (update)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported). The library is currently being developed under the responsibility of Tomasz Wolak. Changes in version 0.10.3:
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01.Sep.2025
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Do it yourself: Ripple IDE update, revision A5
Matt 'LIV2' Harlum's Ripple IDE is an IDE interface for Zorro II based Amiga models (Amiga 2000/3000/4000; amiga-news.de reported). Revision A5 fixes up the R10/R11 silkscreen which had been inadvertently swapped at Rev_A3.
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01.Sep.2025
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Platformer: Krogharr Beer Glass Set (Limited Edition)
The platform game Krogharr was released at the end of June (amiga-news.de reported). For collectors, the online shop poly.play is now offering a beer glass set for 25 Euro (plus shipping), which contains the following:
- 1 x Beer glass with handle (beer mug/beer stein)
- With Krogharr logo engraving
- Height: 130 mm
- Diameter: 73 mm
- Total capacity: 0.36 l
- Capacity up to calibration mark: 0.3 l
- 10 x beer coasters (2 types)
- 5 x Krogharr Amiga diskette
- 5 x Krogharr CD32 CD-ROM
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01.Sep.2025
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Arcade adventure: First demo version of "The Gate"
About two years ago, we presented Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's game "The Gate", written entirely in AMOS Professional, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts (video). Now he has released a first demo version, which should offer about 1.5 hours of gaming fun.
In "The Gate", you take on the role of private detective Kal, who must solve the disappearance of a scientist at a research facility. The author tested the game under AmigaOS 3.1 and 2 MB of Fast RAM.
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31.Aug.2025
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Aminet uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to Aminet:
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31.Aug.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to OS4Depot:
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31.Aug.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to AROS Archives:
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31.Aug.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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31.Aug.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.08.2025
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 30.08.2025:
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31.Aug.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Amiga40: Voting for the Community Award / Presentation of the Mirari Board
Following last month's Geit@Home meeting, the Mirari Board will be presented to a wider audience for the first time at Amiga40 in Mönchengladbach. It will be on display at the MorphOS booth by developers Dave 'Skateman' Koelman and Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning.
Meanwhile, voting for the Community Award has begun and will continue until September 30 in four categories (hardware, software, games, miscellaneous). Registration is required to participate.
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31.Aug.2025
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AmigaOS 4: ShaderNova 1.1 for post-processing effects
ShaderNova uses the Warp3D Nova library (version 54.16) for AmigaOS 4 to mirror content from other windows and render it using fragment shaders. The source window must not be obscured, though. If running on its own screen, ShaderNova can also be used in full-screen mode. Normal keyboard and mouse events are passed through to the original window.
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31.Aug.2025
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Beta version 6 of the SDK-Explorer
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's SDK-Explorer is used to display the documentation included in the MorphOS developer package. However, the beta version 6 now available does not yet have the ability to display also the source code from the SDK (or third-party documents). Minor issues still to be resolved include the search function's case sensitivity and the consistent display of document titles in bold.
Download: SDK-Explorer_1.0-beta6.lha (2 MB)
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31.Aug.2025
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Blog: Epsilon's World on installing a magnetic tape and ZIP drive in the A4000T
In his latest blog entry, 'Epsilon' describes the successful installation of a magnetic tape drive in his Amiga 4000T. A ZIP drive is also installed.
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31.Aug.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AI image generator: AmiDream 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiDream uses the Stable Diffusion language model to generate images from text descriptions. The program is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
The update fixes bugs and introduces a randomly generated image every day, including a list of random images from previous days, as this seems to be the most used feature according to the author and can therefore be loaded faster for everyone now.
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30.Aug.2025
Marcin Spoczynski (E-Mail)
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Remote control of an Ultimate 64: u64SidPlayer and u64ctl
Marcin Spoczynski has released two tools, u64SidPlayer and u64ctl, which allow an Amiga to control the FPGA-based C64 and 1541 clones Ultimate 64 and Ultimate II via a home network.
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30.Aug.2025
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: modular multi-plattform emulator "RetroArch"
Steffen Häuser writes: After a long development period, the modular emulator system RetroArch for AmigaOS 4 was released today on os4depot. Unlike single emulators, RetroArch has the advantage that it is easier to implement/port a 'core' and that you don't have to implement things like video refresh, sound and gamepad support from scratch every time, because the main executable already does that – and is highly optimised. And the end user gets a common GUI for all emulations.
A large number of cores are already available.
Versions for WarpOS, MorphOS and 68k (and possibly AROS x86 in the future; the AROS version's GUI is already running, but the cores are not yet) are still in development (donors via PayPal to tirionareonwe@gmail.com can already receive the beta for WOS/MOS/68k). MorphOS and WarpOS versions will probably be the next to be released, but it is not yet known exactly how long this will take.
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30.Aug.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.8
Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka has released version 1.8 of his audio editor "Rave". To load and save audio files, the programme now uses the Linux library libsndfile, which was recently ported to an AmigaOS shared library by Jedlicka himself and was also released today. The changes in Rave 1.8 in detail:
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29.Aug.2025
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Programming challenge: Demos without using CPU
At this year's Evoke demo party, the demo "No-CPU Challenge" by Demostue Allstars took first place in the "Alternative Platforms" category (amiga-news.de reported) and also served as an invitation to a programming challenge: the creation of demos that run entirely on Amiga custom chips without using the CPU.
The linked repository contains the challenge rules and a runner application for launching no-CPU demos.
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29.Aug.2025
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Soundplayer: RNOSoundboard v1.0 released (AROS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
RNOSoundboard is an application that can play audio files with keyboard
shortcuts and mouse clicks. The program offers the following features:
- MUI GUI for arranging sound sets
- Full screen soundboard mode with graphical buttons
- Loads embedded cover images from MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files for soundboard button graphics
- Internal playlist loading and saving
- Teachable hotkeys, also looping and volume options for each audio file
- Drag'n'drop support for loading files, directories, and playlists
- Supports MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AIFF, WAV, Protracker, DigiBooster, SID, AHX, FastTracker II, ScreamTracker, OctaMED, The Player, NoisePacker, ProRunner, Oktalyzer, Impulse Tracker, Ultra Tracker, Ice Tracker, Liquid Tracker, Quadra Composer, and many other formats
- ARexx, Command Line, and tooltypes support
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29.Aug.2025
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Demoparty: Amiga productions of Xenium 2025
This year's edition of the Xenium demo party took place last weekend in Łódź, Poland (amiga-news.de reported). Several Amiga productions were shown:
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29.Aug.2025
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Preview video: Emu68 V1.1 with Dumpster feature (update)
In a preview video, Michal Schulz uses the macOS 8.1 boot process to demonstrate how the Dumpster feature in the upcoming version 1.1 of Emu68 improves performance: with Dumpster disabled, the boot process took 84 seconds, but after enabling it, the boot time was reduced to 28 seconds.
And the developer explained: "Dumpster is a new way of destroying and re-using JIT instruction caches in Emu68. Instead of throwing them away right after cache flush, they are reused later if the memory of the JIT block has not changed.
The effect is visible here - macOS is constantly flushing CPU instruction cache, also the JIT cache of Emu68. With dumpster on, the boot time of macOS decreases drastically. The effect is even more pronounced on macOS 7.5.
This is a Work-In-Progress - there are still few things to do before it is going public."
Update: (29.08.2025, 20:11, dr)
The developer has now published the first part of a three-part series of articles in which he provides an overview of the upcoming version 1.1 of Emu68. The first part deals with changes to the JIT scheduler and hash tables.
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