02.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.1
Three weeks ago, Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand released version 1.1.0 of the integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). The update to version 1.1.1 (video) provides the following changes:
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02.Jun.2025
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Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.4a
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC frequencies and note conversion from C-1 to B-3 for ProTracker. The versions 1.4 and 1.4a released today should fix all previously reported bugs in the workflow.
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02.Jun.2025
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Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v1.00
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler "Bolminok's Kingdom 2" requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for free at itch.io, but requires ownership and successful completion of the first part. The recently released version 1.00 offers a revised menu screen and improved resolution switching.
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02.Jun.2025
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Essay: A Box is not just a Box: Game packaging in the course of time
In a richly illustrated essay, author Beat Suter looks at the development of game packaging over the decades, with a special focus on Swiss games that were available on the open market.
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02.Jun.2025
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Shoot'em up: Demo version of AmiSeaFox
"Amiten Games" has created a conversion of the shoot'em up classic Seafox for the Amiga (video) and has now released a first demo version. Using a submarine, you have to destroy the entire enemy before the torpedoes or fuel run out. The game runs on an Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion, an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
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02.Jun.2025
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.06.01
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2025.06.01 fixes a crash when loading ROM in ZuluSCSI Blaster and enables physical eject button for ZuluSCSI V1.2.
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01.Jun.2025
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Aminet uploads until 31.05.2025
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to Aminet:
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01.Jun.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.05.2025
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
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01.Jun.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.05.2025
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to AROS Archives:
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01.Jun.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.05.2025
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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01.Jun.2025
ALB42 Blog (ANF)
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Hunkster: Amiga and Linux versions
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has created an Amiga and a Linux version of the program Hunkster by 'RetroNick'. The Amiga version also has a MUI interface.
The program can be used to load media files as hunk files into the Amiga's working memory, also specifically into the chip or fast RAM. When writing C or Pascal programs, their addresses in memory can then be transferred to a variable or an array and used for playback in order to integrate them into the executable file during compilation. The source code of Hunkster is available on GitHub.
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31.May.2025
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Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2b1
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.2b1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which includes the following changes:
- vAmiga now supports folder import for hard drives (#904)
- Improved file inspector (#910)
- The file system creator uses the correct OFS / FFS block ordering (#909)
- Fixed some O(n^2) performance bottlenecks in the MutableFileSystem class (#908)
- RetroShell can manage shader settings
- Shader settings are saved to workspaces
- Bug fix: Fixed a bug in the polling click detector (#907)
- Bug fix: Fixed an issue with the white-noise effect (#911)
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[News message: 31. May. 2025, 11:42] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2025
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PowerPC hardware: video showing MorphOS 3.20 running on Mirari motherboard
The Mirari team has released a video showing the "1st beta test" of MorphOS on the recently announced PPC hardware.
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31.May.2025
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Picture collection: Amiga Graphics Archive updated
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" has been supplemented by further pictures from the German "Amiga Magazin": The illustrations come from a "Colour Cycling" competition from July 1988.
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[News message: 31. May. 2025, 11:28] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2025
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DeepL frontend: sourcecode for AmiTranslate available
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has made the source code of his DeepL frontend "AmiTranslate" available under a public domain licence. If you want to compile the code, you first need a free API key from the DeepL operator; the source code must then be supplemented with this key.
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[News message: 31. May. 2025, 11:25] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2025
Pär Boberg (ANF)
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List of "Famous Amiga Uses" updated
‘Famous Amiga Uses’ is a list of well-known companies and organisations that have used Amiga computers. The list, which is already 25 years old, has been updated again and will soon be made available again on Aminet.
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[News message: 31. May. 2025, 11:21] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2025
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.52
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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[News message: 31. May. 2025, 06:13] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2025
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Game engine: Sevgi Engine v0.177
Sevgi Engine is a new open source game engine for creating of powerful Amiga games using the C programming language (video) and based on the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 0.177 is available providing the following changes:
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[News message: 30. May. 2025, 08:55] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2025
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 40.3
After several beta versions, Thomas 'Thor' Richter released the first stable version of his universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" at the end of March, which supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 40.3 fixes a bug in the PCI preferences which caused the device list not to be searched correctly for suitable devices and thus could cause a crash.
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[News message: 30. May. 2025, 08:38] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2025
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow
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YouTube client for all Amiga systems: Source code of AmiTube released
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (amiga-news.de reported). The author has now published the source code of the tool under the CC0 licence on GitHub. The MUIClass library is required for compilation.
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[News message: 30. May. 2025, 08:25] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2025
Hackaday.com (Website)
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MP3 decoder for AA3000 prototypes: DSP3210MPEG
Thanks to 'Wrangler', an MP3 decoder is now also available for the DSP on the AA3000/A3000+ models that never went into series production: DSP3210MPEG is an implementation of the mpeg.device that uses the DSP for decoding. According to the author, the software currently still has several known errors and limitations, but these may still change: For example, only MP3 files with a maximum bit rate of 96 Kbit/s are currently played.
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29.May.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: BrewOtaku, #6
The magazine 'BrewOtaku' presents and tests new games for old computers. The current issue contains 76 colour pages featuring news on around 120 games, including 10 Amiga titles. Additionally, there are reviews of the Amiga releases Sky Shapers (AGA), Yoomp! (OCS) and Wizonk! Magic Arena (OCS), and there is also a 'story' on the "Lotus Turbo Challenge" series.
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[News message: 29. May. 2025, 23:38] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2025
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Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.4
Mame106Minimix is a port of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator to AmigaOS 3, which requires a very fast 68k computer - the author primarily has PiStorm cards in mind. Version 1.4 fixes bugs and contains optimisations and improvements to the user interface.
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[News message: 29. May. 2025, 23:25] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2025
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WHDLoad frontend: iGame 2.5.2 for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS (update)
iGame is a MUI based frontend for launching WHDLoad titles. George 'walkero' Sokianos has again contributed some changes to the open source program:
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[News message: 29. May. 2025, 23:19] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2025
Reddit (forum)
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Mac OS: Amiga tools Send2adf and ADF.inder
With Send2adf and ADF.inder, Mac OS users are provided with two small programs at the title link with which all files in a selected directory can be written to an ADF file or the contents of an ADF file can be displayed.
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[News message: 28. May. 2025, 08:32] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2025
Rafał Zabdyr (Mail)
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MorphOS: Preview video of Hans Kloss - Agent J-23
"Hans Kloss - Agent J-23" is a fan project based on the Polish platform game "Hans Kloss", which was released in 1992/93 for Atari home computers and the C64.
The new edition is to be released for MorphOS, Windows and Linux. A preview video has been published at the title link.
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[News message: 28. May. 2025, 08:31] [Comments: 1 - 08. Jun. 2025, 09:25]
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28.May.2025
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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RetroArch port for AmigaOS in progress
Steffen Häuser is working on a port of RetroArch for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 - this is a modular emulator system in which only the cores for the different systems are exchanged. After completion, the conversion will be available free of charge in Aminet and OS4Depot, the latter already contains a package with the first cores. He writes (translation) about his port:
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27.May.2025
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Module-player: NostalgicPlayer 3.0.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a tool for playing music files on Windows that supports a wide range of formats, including Amiga-specific file types such as MOD (Protracker, Noisetracker) and MED (OctaMED), as well as modern formats such as MP3 and FLAC. The player was first developed by Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, and later continued on BeOS and Windows. NostalgicPlayer requires Windows 10 or 11, .NET Desktop Runtime 9, and, of course, a sound chip or sound card in your PC.
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[News message: 27. May. 2025, 18:29] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2025
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Winner demo: Dead Ahead by Flex & Ephidrena (68k Inside 2025)
At this year's demoscene party 68k Inside 2025 in Finland (May 23-25), the Amiga demo "Dead Ahead" by the groups Flex and Ephidrena took first place in the Combined Demo Competition. The technically and visually impressive work combines classic 68000 demo aesthetics with modern design elements - a highlight for demoscene enthusiasts. Rloaderro (code), evilryu (shader code), farfar (3D/2D graphics) and heetach (analogue gfx) were responsible for the production. Further information about the demo and the rest of the party results can be found on the demoscene website Pouet.net.
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27.May.2025
gitlab (ANF)
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Coding-tool: Copper Showdown Editor 0.0.2
Copper Showdown Editor is a live coding tool for demonstrating Copper effects. Copper lists are programmed in the LUA scripting language, and the result is then displayed on the screen in real time. Under the hood, the tool uses the vAmiga emulator. With the help of ADF export, the result can then be run directly on an A500 with 512 KB. Copper Showdown Editor is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux and requires a 3D accelerator.
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[News message: 27. May. 2025, 17:24] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2025
Erik 'earok' Hogan (E-Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.2
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Version 2024.2 was released today with numerous new features and updates.
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[News message: 27. May. 2025, 17:17] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (E-Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.15.0 for X1000/e5500
Parallel to the release of Linux kernel 6.15.0, Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has finalized the compilation for AmigaOne X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs). The X1000/e5500-specific changes:
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[News message: 27. May. 2025, 11:07] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 170 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
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