28.Jun.2025
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Group of investors represented by Youtuber Perifractic buys Commodore
Three weeks ago, Youtuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson announced in a video that he had received an offer to take over Commodore B.V., the owner of the remaining Commodore trademark rights. In a second video published today he now announces the completed takeover: A group of unnamed angel investors has acquired the company for a low seven-figure sum. He himself is now the acting CEO, but the purchase price has not yet been paid - the company is still looking for investors.
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27.Jun.2025
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Demoparty: Results of Nova 2025
Two weeks ago, the NOVA Demoparty 2025 took place in England, where various competitions were held. From an Amiga perspective, the results in the categories "Old School Graphics" and "Old School Music" are particularly interesting, as the first two places were taken in each of these categories:
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26.Jun.2025
a1k.org (Webseite)
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PC extension: mount HD partition from "KCS Power PC Board" on AmigaOS
The KCS Power PC Board equips an A500 or A2000 with a miniature DOS PC - the computer can then be operated alternatively in Amiga or PC mode. Sander von der Burg has succeeded in developing a simple device driver for AmigaOS that mounts any DOS partitions created by the PC on AmigaOS. The developer describes the problem and his solution in a blog entry, version 0.0.1 of the driver as well as the corresponding source code are available on Github.
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26.Jun.2025
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.52 for Bluetooth adapter
The firmware for the BlueLink Bluetooth adapter from 7-bit has been updated again. Version 0.52 offers the following new features:
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25.Jun.2025
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)
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AmiKit In A Box: Raspberry Pi 5 with Workbench distribution
The well-known Workbench distribution AmiKit is now also available for purchase together with a fully configured Raspberry Pi 5 mini-computer - only the operating system itself still needs to be added as usual.
Read below our translation of the official press release:
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25.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDK Addon 1.4
For the official AmigaOS 4 developer package, George 'walkero' Sokianos has published a supplement at the title link that adds newer versions of the GCC compiler (11 and 6, as of May 14) and clib4 (V1.6.0) for AmigaOS 4 to the SDK.
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25.Jun.2025
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Web browser: AmiFox source code published
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
On Sunday, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has published the source code also for this one of his programs on GitHub.
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25.Jun.2025
Reddit (ANF)
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Video: Amiga in ITX Form? Building the Denise – Part 1
After Tim's Retro Corner, also Neil from Retro4U has published a video about the mini-ITX Amiga Denise at the title link.
Denise is an Amiga 500+ replacement in mini-ITX format with two Zorro II slots, a 72-pin SIMM for the 2 MB Chip RAM as well as connections for a standard ATX power supply and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
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25.Jun.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 171 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English translation as well as the original Italian version. The REV'n'GE game reviews compare, where available, the conversions of classic games between different platforms of the time. An attempt is also made to pick out lesser-known retro games.
Amiga-related, the latest issue focuses on PJusk, Phantasm and Myst.
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25.Jun.2025
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Video: Impressions of the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention 2025 (German)
Last saturday, the Amiga-Ruhrpott-Convention 2025 took place in the Friedenskirche in Duisburg-Rheinhausen. In the video at the title link, 'Propheus' presents his impressions.
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25.Jun.2025
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Demo scene: Posadas Demoparty 2025
Deep in the south of Europe, the demoscene has been celebrating irregularly since 1995 at the Posadas party in the city of the same name north-east of Seville - this year from next friday to sunday.
The Posadas has its origins in the Amiga demo scene, and this is also reflected in the current competitions: only entries for Amiga/OCS or Amiga/AGA are permitted in the demo, intro and cracktro competitions.
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24.Jun.2025
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Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Phil Gaskell (Psygnosis)
In the latest episode 485 of the English-language podcast "The Retro Hour", entitled "Psygnosis to PSN: Phil Gaskell on Shaping Sony's Early PlayStation Era", Phil Gaskell talks about his career – from his early days with BASIC on the ZX81 to his work at Psygnosis and his formative role during the early days of PlayStation under Sony.
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24.Jun.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Physical edition of Dr. Dangerous now available
A physical box edition of the action game "Dr. Dangerous - Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan" from HooGames2017 (amiga-news.de reported), which was released last year, is now available. The collector's edition comes with numerous new features and improvements.
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24.Jun.2025
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin (ANF)
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Snork 0.1: New Tracer/Logger for AmigaOS 4
Snork, a new tool for monitoring and logging function calls in system libraries, is now available to AmigaOS 4 users. The tool is aimed at developers and experienced users who want to debug applications or analyze the behavior of the system.
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24.Jun.2025
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Seq 3.2: MIDI sequencer for AmigaOS 4
The new version 3.2 of the MIDI sequencer Seq by Tuomas Hokka is now available for AmigaOS 4. This simple tool allows you to create and edit MIDI sequences and is aimed at musicians who want to use their Amiga as a compositional tool (amiga-news.de reported).
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23.Jun.2025
jPV RNO (E-Mail)
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Event: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at Vectorama 2025
From 5 to 8 June, Vectorama 2025 took place in Oulu, Finland, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages. The Finnish Amiga Users Group was also there, organising an Amiga stand and several gaming competitions at the event. They report:
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23.Jun.2025
Reddit
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macOS: Amiga tools Send2adf and ADF.inder v1.0.494
With Send2adf and ADF.inder, macOS users are provided with two small programs 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 (amiga-news.de reported). The developer has now made some improvements. Changes:
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23.Jun.2025
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Mingo's Commodore Blog: The Gotek drive in detail - parts 3 (German)
Following the first two parts (amiga-news.de reported), South Tyrolean Domingo Fivoli shows how to configure and use the Gotek drive in the third part of his series.
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23.Jun.2025
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Video: Downsizing the Disk Backup Station
Two years ago, Robert Smith presented his "Disk Backup Station," which can back up floppy disks to ADF or SCP using the Greaseweazle board. In his latest video, he shows how he is changing the design and making the station smaller.
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23.Jun.2025
Mastodon
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Video: Creating a new 3D engine for Apollo Vampire (part 1)
The Finn 'Proton' is a musician, graphic designer, programmer and member of the demoscene groups Finnish Gold and Komplex. He has now started a new tutorial series on Twitch on creating a 3D engine for Apollo Vampire in Assembler. Source code is available on GitHub.
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22.Jun.2025
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Aminet uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to Aminet:
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22.Jun.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to OS4Depot:
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22.Jun.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to AROS Archives:
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22.Jun.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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