31.Oct.2025
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m68k assembler support: m68kplugin for JetBrains
In September 2021, we reported on Chris 'platon42' Hodges' MC68000 Assembly Language Plugin for Jetbrains' integrated development environments and also mentioned a second approach by Yann Cébron, whose plugin had not yet been released at that time.
This happened shortly afterwards. According to the documentation, support currently focuses on editing, code insight and navigation. There is no support for project setup, integration with build tools or execution/debugging. The new version 0.2.0 has now been released.
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31.Oct.2025
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Halloween mini game: Whack-a-Skull
Just in time for Halloween, Alberto Sgaggero has released a small game written in AMOS for the Amiga 500, in which you have to hit skulls appearing next to a gravestone.
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30.Oct.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future Archive DVD #6
The "Amiga Future Archive DVD #6" is a pressed DVD9 with over 8 GB of data, containing the following issues of the print magazine in digital form:
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30.Oct.2025
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Jump'n Run: demo version 2.0 of "Creeping Me Out Hex Night"
Michael "Mixel" Dawes has released another demo version of his platform game "Creeping Me Out: Hex Night", created using the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. The demo is shorter than its predecessor, but features completely new content from the game.
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30.Oct.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Minecraft clone "ClassiCube"
"HunoPPC" and "AOS4 fans from Mars" have ported the server-based Minecraft clone ClassiCube to AmigaOS. ClassiCube replicates the original "Classic" Minecraft from 2009. The AmigaOS 4 implementation requires clib4 - a suitable version is included in the archive, but it must be installed in the system.
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30.Oct.2025
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Testimonial: "Old Blue Workbench" on an Amiga 500
In a blog post, "Epsilon" presents a detailed introduction to Old Blue Workbench, a Kickstart 1.3-compatible Workbench replacement.
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30.Oct.2025
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.63 for Bluetooth adapter BlueLink
The firmware for the BlueLink Bluetooth adapter from 7-bit has been updated. Version 0.63 offers the following new features:
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29.Oct.2025
Bill Borsari (ANF)
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Event: Details about AmiWest 2025 in Sacramento, USA (November 1-2)
Press release: October 27th, 2025; Sacramento, California - The Sacramento Amiga Computer Club is proud to present AmiWest 2025 on November 1st and 2nd. This is a special year for the Amiga Computer, launched by Commodore in 1985, marking the platform's 40th anniversary. So far this year, Amiga enthusiasts have been treated to the AMIGA/040th in Silicon Valley and the Amiga40 in Germany, along with a host of other special events.
AmiWest, the longest-running Amiga show in the world, will be celebrating its 40th anniversary with a focus on the Amiga community. In place of a traditional show floor banquet, we will be traveling to a local Sacramento Burgers and Brew. In place of a conventional speaker, we will allow the attendees to share their Amiga Computer journeys and experiences.
The show floor will see several new exhibits joining our long-time supporters. We will have the Amiga "Lorraine" wire-wrap prototype, the AMIGA/040th FutureWall, Marcin Spoczynski (Tunefinder) and more. We will also present AmigaOS 4 Update 3, the new Mirari PPC board, and AmigaOS 3.3 beta. To top it off, the A-Eon A1222+, motherboard and complete tower systems, will be on sale at the AAA table!
For presentations, the show will have unique content:
- Carl Sassenrath presents the history of the Amiga
- Jason Neus talking about AmiPCI
- A-Eon updates from Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Lehman
- Steven Solie is providing an update on AmigaOS 4 multicore
- And more!
Like AmiWests in the past, we will have the Raffle, Games Competition, and live internet broadcast!
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29.Oct.2025
Commodore Mania
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Dylan the Spaceman: Demo version released, game likely to remain unfinished
In July, we reported that a Dizzy clone called "Dylan the Spaceman" was in the works. Chris Clarke has now released a demo version, but at the same time announced that the platform game will likely remain unfinished due to a lack of time and further creative ideas.
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29.Oct.2025
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Windows: Emu68 Imager 1.0.6.4
The Imager tool for Windows enables PiStorm users to prepare an SD card with the Motorola 68K emulation Emu68 and a preconfigured AmigaOS 3.x installation. The update now forces the download of version 1.3 of GeNet, as its version 2.0 would require a customized version of Emu68.
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29.Oct.2025
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Cross compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.13 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS
The Calypsi collection of compilers and assemblers, which can be used to generate code for various retro platforms under Windows, Linux and Mac OS, has been updated to version 5.13 and now includes a debug macro, among other features and bug fixes.
Although Calypsi is hosted on GitHub, the source code is not freely available; furthermore, its use is restricted to private purposes only.
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28.Oct.2025
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QEMU front end for launching AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 1.7.0
George Sokianos' QEMU front end Kyvos, which is designed to significantly simplify the setup and launch of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS under QEMU, is now available in version 1.7.0, which includes the following new features:
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28.Oct.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Revival of the Joker: Amiga Joker 1/2025 out now
Amiga Joker was seen by many German-speaking Amiga fans in the late 80s to mid-90s as the go-to Amiga magazine. After revivals in 2017 and 2019, a new issue was released at amiga40 to mark the 40th anniversary of Amiga.
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28.Oct.2025
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Spillhistorie-interview: Frank Gasking on preserving lost games
The Norwegian gaming magazine Spillhistorie.no has published a new interview with Frank Gasking, founder of the archive platform "Games That Weren't". In the interview, Gasking discusses his career path from gaming enthusiast to retro historian, as well as the motivation behind the digital preservation project. He provides insights into spectacular rediscoveries, explains how many games have been lost forever due to a lack of archiving, and talks about collaborating with developers and publishers.
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27.Oct.2025
AmigaKit
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A600GS and A1200NG: System update including new AmiBrowser version
AmigaKit regularly releases system updates for its emulation-based A600GS and A1200NG systems, which existing customers receive directly via the built-in Live Updater.
The latest update includes a new version of AmiBrowser and ScummVM V3. Users can now also create HDFs inside the A600GS.
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27.Oct.2025
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Event: Personal reflections on the Amiga40
If you didn't make it to the Amiga40 event in Mönchengladbach last weekend, three blog entries offer you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the events after the fact.
Under the title "Glad in Gladbach", AmigaOS4 developer Daniel 'Trixie' Jedlicka describes his impressions of the event in detail and with plenty of pictures. Among other things, he reports on the Mirari board, a completely overcrowded stand run by the publisher "Look Behind You" and the vast quantities of Settlers II copies sold there, and stops by AmigaKit and their A600GS and A1200NG.
"Amiga 40 Germany" is the name of Nivrig Games' review, in which he reports on long queues in front of the venue, wonders why Retro Games Limited's presentation was prevented by a "last minute issue", marvels at the bullet hell shooter shown by Daniel ' Daytona675x' Müßener and currently in development (the new preview video #10 has just been released), writing: "I haven't seen anything like it on Amiga before - it is a proper bullet-hell with hundreds of objects on screen at once and pixel perfect collision detection."
Grind developer John Tsakiris from Pixelglass reports under the title "Grind at Amiga 40!" that a special demo was prepared there: the very first multi-map version containing the first three levels of the game, with all monsters, collectibles, secrets, interactions and level design 100% complete and playable from start to finish. An updated version of this demo is set to be released on Patreon shortly.
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27.Oct.2025
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.39
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey and Wayfarer). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS or via this Link.
Version 0.39 includes the following new features:
- AIFF and AIFC support (based again on iff.js by DrSnuggles, see https://github.com/DrSnuggles/IFF):
- play with MultView
- file recognition when drag'n'dropping a local file onto the Workbench by the file's header
- support for mono and stereo channel files
- support for the following resolutions:
- support for the following compression methods:
- HippoPlayer:
- Implementation of a new backend (also based on iff.js by DrSnuggles) incl. all Scopes, to support the following file formats:
- Updated to the latest version of ScriptProcessorPlayer 1.3.10 by Jürgen Wothke. This improves sound quality if «Stereo Level»
is not set to either 0% or 100%.
- new playlist: Shoot'em'ups.prg
- New scope «MultiRuppScope»:
- supports multi channel module formats to render a graph for each channel.
- «Dynamic width» option for multi channel module formats
- «Scale» option to magnify the scope between 100% and 400%
- RuppScope:
- added «Scale» option to magnify the scope between 100% and 400%
- minsize set to 32×32px (was 64×64px before)
- HippoScope:
- Rework to add support for multi channel module formats to render a graph for each channel.
- added «Dynamic width» option for multi channel module formats
- HippoPlayer v2.62 features:
- PSID song length support. From HVSC provided data now also «Songlengths.md5» is supported in addition to «STIL.txt» data. This allows seeing song
lengths and detecting song endings for PSIDs.
- Position slider now always changes position if position info is available even when disabled. It is enabled when position changing is possible.
Position shown for SIDs too.
- Title bar display: Removed the option «Time/duration, pos/len» from «Prefs > Display-1 > Show». The option «Time, pos/len, song» already shows all the
relevant information available.
- HippoPlayer v2.63 features:
- Shortcut button to change the play mode added beside the position slider.
- Support for Audacious-UADE metadata. This data contains song lengths, author/composer, publisher/group, album/game/demo name and year info for
about 300,000 modules.
Song length will be shown in the title bar as well as with the position slider. Other metadata is shown in the infobox at the top with a scroller
and in the info window. Song length is used for end detection for the formats which do not support it otherwise.
Protracker modules already have lengths calculated, but every other format, including obscure exotics, will get lengths this way.
Thanks to mvtiane for his work on «audacious-uade-tools» and the data!
- PSID data (author, publisher/copyright) is also shown in the infobox area now.
- HippoPlayer v2.64 features:
- Info window: reworked layout and removal of unnecessary metadata line changes.
- Main window height limit removed, it was historically set to 50 rows.
- Prefs:
- Removed filebox and info window size change sliders, the same functionality can be done with window resize gadgets.
- Moved «Play mode button and position slider» toggle to the «Display-1» page.
- Added «Disable info scroll» toggle in the «Display-1» tab to disable the metadata info scroller introduced in v2.63.
- HippoPlayer v2.65 features:
- Prefs: «Scope size» selection added, allows choosing the vertical size for the scopes: «Default», «Half» or «Double».
Note that the actual size depends upon the use of a «MedRes» or «HiRes» window layout.
- Incl. of the file «hippoplayerupdate.readme» which contains a description of all new features since v2.45 and their keyboard shortcuts.
- Bugfixes:
- Setting a favorite with the right mouse button also triggered a window minimize.
- Position slider sometimes didn't work with HTML5-Audio files (such as MP3s from «AmigaRemix»).
- In some cases the wrong STIL informations (SID Tune Information List) would be displayed.
- While searching the internet, «Searching...» is displayed in the playlist area and not in infobox at the top (a change in HiP 68k v2.56 that I've missed).
- correction of the info window's listbox border
- Fixed the playlist's scroll position after using or saving preferences.
- Fixed window widths for «MultiScopes» with dynamic width when switching to fixed width in case the browser's window size has been changed.
- Palette IFF-PREF files support (again based on iff.js by DrSnuggles, many thanks for the great coop):
- loading directly from the Palette tool (saving stays in JSON format)
- Drag'n'drop onto the Workbench and double clicking will apply the color settings.
- Drag'n'drop onto the Palette tool will just load the settings into the tool.
- Support for file recognition if such files are dynamically loaded from the server (by the PHP scripts).
- Shell: support for running «Palette» with the following parameters:
FROM=File or simply File: PREF file (error handling if case of invalid file or file path)USE: PREF file is usedSAVE: PREF file is used and settings are savedEDIT: PREF file is loaded into «Palette»?: show command line help
- AmigaGuide: support for «system» calls to «Palette» incl. parameters as if called from Shell (as used in the WhatIFF? AmigaGuide magazines)
- Dynamic loading of files using PHP server scripts:
- IFF files are now generally being checked for their file type on the server's side for quite a bit of a speedup.
- Optimised caching: already loaded server directories are only reloaded if explicitly called by «Window / Update» or «Workbench / Update all».
- When entering
/ or : as drawer- or filename:
- OS <= 3.0: show message that this is now allowed
- OS >= 3.1: suppress characters with error blinking
- IBrowse: swedish localization - many thanks to Kenneth Hansson
- OS 3.2:
- OS 1.x / 2.0: showing scanlines and CRT monitor curves during boot animation
- Bugfixes:
- Drag'n'drop of a local music module file onto the Workbench and double clicking will open and play it with HippoPlayer (bug since v0.38).
- Palette: fixed listbox's height for some (surely very rare) layout settings combinations
- OS 3.2: when moving an icon to the screen's very bottom its label stays visible (as it's the case with OS 3.1 and below but not with 3.1.4, 3.5 and later).
- When reopening a window that has been moved out of the left side the screen, is positioned at the very left but not outside the visible bounds.
- Improved Topaz fonts that don't prompt Firefox to throw an error («Zero length subtable is found») anymore - thanks to Peter Slootbeek!
- OS 1.x:
- CLI and requesters: correction of the lower border (bug since v0.35)
- Requester buttons: correction of layout when pressed (bug since v0.38)
- Requesters on Firefox: correction of the text's line height
- Amiga Early Startup Control:
- prevent browsers from blurring the Topaz font (Bug since v0.38)
- Boot Options: the selected boot device is always at the top of the list.
- MultiView:
- playback quality of 16SV files is now truly 16bit and no longer converted to 8bit
(many thanks to DrSnuggles for fixing this).
- IFF-PBM files are once again correctly recognized (bug since v0.38).
- Locally loaded music module files of type MOD, S3M or XM can be played (bug since v0.36).
- Lemmings:
- Fixed start position and finish collision detection in case the screen was dragged down and/or (in case of OS 4.x) moved to the right.
- Can now be restarted once successfully finished.
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27.Oct.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.60
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.10.1, which allows the development of games from various genres. RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
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27.Oct.2025
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Internet radio: TuneFinderMUI 0.8
TuneFinderMUI searches for Internet radio stations and offers various filter options. Individual stations can be exported to a file
or played directly with AmigaAMP, even entire station lists can be can be saved as a playlist in PLS format - which is also supported by AmigaAMP.
Since our last news item, the following changes have been made:
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26.Oct.2025
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Aminet uploads until 25.10.2025
The following files have been added until 25.10.2025 to Aminet:
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26.Oct.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.10.2025
The following files have been added until 25.10.2025 to OS4Depot:
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26.Oct.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.10.2025
The following files have been added until 25.10.2025 to AROS Archives:
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26.Oct.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.10.2025
The following files have been added until 25.10.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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26.Oct.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.10.2025
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 25.10.2025:
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26.Oct.2025
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Apollo team: End of Vampire V2 support
Press release: "Dear Vampire Community, after many years of development and dedication, the Apollo Team announces the End of Support (EoS) for the Vampire V2 family of accelerators.
Despite our original intent to continue maintaining the V2 line, it has become increasingly impractical to backport modern V4 developments. The technical gap between the V2 and V4 compile environments has grown significantly, and the Cyclone III FPGA used in the V2 boards is now fully utilized, and unsupported by the official Altera toolchain, leaving no room for further core or feature updates.
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26.Oct.2025
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Do it yourself: Two-handed tank mouse exo-frame
Since Dennis Busch found it too tiring to control simulation games with the mouse over long periods of time, he designed a 3D print template to operate an Amiga tank mouse with joysticks using both hands instead.
The mouse itself is not modified, but simply inserted into the device. Both the classic model and the newer wireless optical mice are supported. Alternatively, he is now also working on the feasibility of a steering wheel.
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26.Oct.2025
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Puzzle game: Wordz
In Wordz, the aim is to identify German or English terms in rectangular letter fields. In this puzzle, however, the words are not only arranged vertically, horizontally or diagonally, but also around corners.
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26.Oct.2025
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Sound tool: FxBox 1.15
The real-time multi-loop processor and editor FxBox, written in AMOS, is now available in version 1.15. Among the numerous new features are the loading of 24-bit files, which are automatically converted when opened, and support for long file names in the file selection window.
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25.Oct.2025
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Emu68 will be expanded to include PowerPC emulation
Michal Schulz explains in a blog entry that he is constantly being asked whether his ARM-based M68K processor emulator "Emu68" could be expanded to include the ability to execute native ARM code. He says he does not like this idea because it would contribute to fragmentation within the Amiga scene due to the imminent emergence of Emu68-specific programs, and because there is no such thing as a single ARM architecture anyway. Instead, he has decided to use the second unused core in an ARM processor to emulate a PowerPC processor. Since both processors are RISC architectures and modern compilers optimize code very well for the many registers of a Power processor, the emulated processor is surprisingly fast.
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25.Oct.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Documentary: APC&TCP releases "Amiga38" DVD
Press release: APC&TCP is pleased to announce that the Amiga38 DVDs are available from today. The Amiga38 DVDs release is actually two pressed data DVD9 discs with the following content:
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25.Oct.2025
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 174 (English/Italian)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English translation as well as the original Italian version. Where available, REV'n'GE's game reviews compare the implementations of classics between different platforms of the time. It also attempts to seek out lesser-known retro games. Among other things, the new issue deals with the Amiga game "Pinball Wizard" and includes a review of "Return to the Roots" (Windows, macOS, Linux).
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25.Oct.2025
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Email client: Second test version 0.1.2 of AMail available
Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton has released a second test version 0.1.2 of "AMail", his implementation of a modern email client for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP (video).
The latest version of "AMail", Stapleton's contribution to the Amiga 40 Tools Jam, offers performance updates and moves some actions to the background:
- Sending mail now a background process
- Deleting a message now a background process
- Loading a message now checks the local cache and displays if it exists
- Code cleanup
- Couple of Bug fixes
At least AmiSSL 5.22 or later is required.
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