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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28.Aug.2025
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New Commodore owner: third video in the "Let's buy Commodore!" series
In the third episode of his "Let's buy Commodore" series, YouTuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson shows footage of the contract signing three weeks ago in Amsterdam, as well as recordings of various video calls with well-known personalities from the Commodore scene who want to support Simpson in an advisory capacity.
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28.Aug.2025
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Video tutorial with source code: Recreating an arcade game in AMOS
In his latest video, Keith 'Yawning Angel' Elcombe shows how he recreates the arcade game "Space Race" in AMOS. The source code is available on his website.
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28.Aug.2025
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Preview video: AMail 0.0.6 email program
There is another preview video for Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton's project to write a modern e-mail program for AmigaOS 3.2 called "AMail" that supports IMAP and SMTP. For example, deleting e-mails on the server now works, and a configuration window and address book are planned next.
A first release is scheduled for next month, as the programmer wants to participate in the Amiga 40 Tools Jam.
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28.Aug.2025
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QEMU front end for launching AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 1.3.1
George Sokianos' QEMU front end "Kyvos" is designed to significantly simplify the setup and
launch of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS under QEMU (amiga-news.de reported).
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26.Aug.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 176 - previews and excerpts
The reading samples and previews of issue 176 (September/October 2025) of Amiga Future are now online. The issue features the following topics, among others:
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26.Aug.2025
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 08/25 of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a sixth demo has been released for the game.
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25.Aug.2025
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Turn-based strategy: August 2025 update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegels' latest update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" offers a whole range of bug fixes, minor changes and adjustments that improve the gaming experience, as well as ambient sounds.
For example, the micromanagement required to supply the population has been reduced. And the native tribes now react much more strongly to the presence of human actors, which can lead to conflicts with them more quickly.
In addition, nature and sound effects are now played depending on the terrain fields that the player sees on the map. This requires a fast hard drive, as two sound channels need to be constantly fed with new sounds. There are three sound effects for almost every terrain field on the map. The sounds are played slightly quieter than the normal sounds, but you can change the volume using the + and - keys on the numeric keypad.
Last but not least, the developer has created a German-language Let's-Play video to make the game more accessible to users.
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25.Aug.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Package management apt-os4 for clib4 packages
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has released version 0.1 of apt-os4, a package manager for clib4 packages. The aim is to make installing, updating and managing packages on AmigaOS 4 as easy and reliable as on modern Linux systems.
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25.Aug.2025
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Video: Converting a GameCube MiSter into an Amiga 3000 MiSter
In a video, Wolfgang Kierdorf demonstrates how he converts a GameCube MiSTer into an Amiga 3000 MiSTer.
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25.Aug.2025
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Emu68: Debugging manual
Michal Schulz has added a chapter on debugging to the open source PiStorm accelerator manual.
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25.Aug.2025
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Puzzle game: AmiKlotski
Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has released a new puzzle game called AmiKlotski (video), in which you have to move a blue block to the target area in a rectangular playing field in order to complete the levels. To do this, other blocks must be moved accordingly. The game runs on any Amiga with Kickstart 1.3 or higher.
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25.Aug.2025
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Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 2.22
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. The update to version 2.22 supports the recently released WHDLoad version. In addition, the intro can now be skipped.
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