26.May.2025
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New game engine: Sevgi Engine
Sevgi Engine is a new open source video game engine which provides the required tools and generates the boilerplate code to create high performing Amiga games using only the C programming language (video). It is built around the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger and has the following features:
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[News message: 26. May. 2025, 22:53] [Comments: 1 - 27. May. 2025, 10:20]
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26.May.2025
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Tool: morsconv 3.0 generates Morse code
With Grzegorz Kraszewski's tool " morsconv" it is possible to convert text into various forms of Morse code using shell commands. The following output modes are supported:
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(dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2025, 22:13] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2025
Ryan Stapleton (Mastodon)
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Preview video: New e-mail client "AMail"
A fortnight ago Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton had already presented his project in a first video: "AMail" is to be a modern e-mail client for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP. The second video now published shows how the client communicates with its local IMAP server and sends emails via SMTP.
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[News message: 26. May. 2025, 06:21] [Comments: 1 - 27. May. 2025, 14:45]
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26.May.2025
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Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made V0.9 / Video interview
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, which creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video, amiga-news.de reported).
Version 0.9 now runs on a separate OCS Intuition screen or on a window in WB: the latter allows the tool to be used with graphics cards. In addition, a simple help window has been added.
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[News message: 26. May. 2025, 06:00] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2025
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Programming competition: Winners of the AmiGameJam 2024
Voting for the AmiGameJam 2024 started at the beginning of December 2024 (amiga-news.de reported). The winners have now been announced in a live show on Twitch:
Congratulations to all the winners!
(dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2025, 05:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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Aminet uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to Aminet:
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.05.2025
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 24.05.2025:
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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Arcade game: Gemdalus released
The aim of Gemdalus (story of origin) is to collect all the gems scattered around a labyrinth. In doing so, however, you are dragging a kind of rubber band behind you that cannot be crossed. However, it is possible to snap the rubber band back to take a different path.
The AMOS game, which can be purchased for five US dollars, requires the AGA chipset and 1.6 MB of chip RAM as well as 320 KB of additional RAM.
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Anniversary: Amigaland.de turns 25
On amigaland.de, Mirko Engelhardt makes formerly commercial software available for download with permission. He can now look back on a quarter of a century and writes (translation):
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.6 and 3.2.14
The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is now available for AmigaOS 4 in versions 2.32.6 and 3.2.14.
SDL 3, which was introduced in January of this year as version 3.2, offers an extended programming interface (for the GPU, system dialogs, the file system and webcams, among others) and an extensively revised audio interface compared to its predecessor.
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:29] [Comments: 1 - 25. May. 2025, 12:56]
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24.May.2025
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Desktop wiki: MPW 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow is writing a desktop wiki whose content is written in Markdown. The wiki starts a local web server, which can then be accessed from any web browser (Video). File and image uploads are still causing problems, but the wiki is already usable. For the time being, Sackrow is only providing an AmigaOS 3 build for testing.
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[News message: 24. May. 2025, 23:59] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2025
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)
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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 25
The current issue 25 (May 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available as a printed or digital edition (via Amazon). The topics of the issue include:
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[News message: 24. May. 2025, 23:59] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2025
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Shoot'em Up: final demo for "Rex and the Galactic Plague"
'Rex and the Galactic Plague' is a vertically scrolling shooter developed with the help of the Scorpion Engine. The "final" demo version now released contains three playable levels and shows the current status after the developer had to make quote some changes to make the title playable from Floppy Discs.
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[News message: 24. May. 2025, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2025
AmigaKit (Mail)
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Hardware emulators: ARM-native MP3 decoding for A1200NG and A600GS
As Amigakit announces in a post on amigaworld.net, they have released "ArmMP3File.library" that uses native ARM code to decode MP3 files. In addition to the text-based player already available, it is hoped that an MP3 player with a graphical user interface using the library will be released soon.
(cg)
[News message: 24. May. 2025, 23:49] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2025
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Tool: png2iff 0.1 for Windows
Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written a small command line tool for Windows which converts indexed or truecolour PNG files into the classic Amiga IFF format. Colour quantisation, palette remapping and several dithering modes are supported.
(dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2025, 23:00] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2025
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Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v0.90
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 and continues the story of its predecessor (amiga-news.de reported). The current version 0.90 now offers music. The story has also been improved and many minor bugs have been fixed.
(dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2025, 22:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2025
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor 6.2.0
ASM-editor is a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language (amiga-news.de reported, source code on GitHub).
The tool now supports not only 68k and x86 assembly language, but also RISC-V and offers assembly courses for learning assembly.
(dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2025, 22:39] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2025
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Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Echo Fighter" (6)
With the sixth preview video of its shoot'em up "Echo Fighter" (amiga-news.de reported), 'pixelplop' shows the progress made recently: the player is now greeted with a scaling "Wave" and "Get Ready" text at the start of the level. The inertia of the ship's movement has been added and the power-ups are now mostly functional, although more are planned.
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[News message: 23. May. 2025, 22:31] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2025
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PPC hardware: MorphOS successfully boots on the "Mirari" motherboard
Three weeks ago, the PPC-based motherboard "Mirari", developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning, was presented to the public for the first time. According to our information, the MorphOS team contacted the Mirari team for the first time right after this announcement and received one of the few prototypes produced to date.
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[News message: 23. May. 2025, 15:17] [Comments: 2 - 25. May. 2025, 00:32]
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23.May.2025
Holly (Mastodon)
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AROS: The Register reports on the portable AROS distribution
The Register is an online portal offering news and analyses from the world of technology companies. A current article is dedicated to the recently released portable AROS distribution (amiga-news.de reported) and explores how this live distribution works. It also reports on the history of AmigaOS and other current projects such as ApolloOS or A600GS.
(dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2025, 06:37] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2025
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Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.1.2
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.1.2 of his Amiga emulator 'vAmiga' for macOS, which should no longer a crash when switching the host computer to standby mode.
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[News message: 22. May. 2025, 22:07] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2025
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Mingo's Commodore Blog: The Gotek drive in detail - parts 1 and 2 (German)
In his latest blog entry, Domingo Fivoli from South Tyrol continues his detailed and richly illustrated examination of the Gotek drive. His German two-part guide is about making the drive suitable for Amiga and installing some modifications. The current sequel is dedicated to the UART method for flashing the drive, which was initially omitted due to the amount of information.
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[News message: 21. May. 2025, 08:58] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2025
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Blog entry: Desktop Icons of Yore
Following his thoughts on why computers used to be more fun, Carl Svensson has now published a short blog entry on the evolution of desktop icons from Xerox via e.g. Amiga and NextStep to BeOS.
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[News message: 21. May. 2025, 08:58] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2025
heckmeck (website)
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Event: Tech Conference Hamburg (June 3/4, Germany)
Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has already been mentioned in various news items regarding articles about the Amiga demo scene in his Heckmeck blog. Now he will be giving a talk at the Tech Conference Hamburg in Germany on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, on the topic of "Auf zu neuen Dimensionen: Retro to the power of three".
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20.May.2025
demoparty.net
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PTWeekender IX: Online party with tracker music and DJ sets
On June 6 and 7, 2025, PTWeekender returns - an online event dedicated to Amiga tracker music and retro DJ culture. On Friday, June 6, the weekend kicks off with a Tracked Music Compo and the so-called Prekender sets. Saturday, June 7, will then be dedicated to the main event with live sets from numerous big names on the scene. Around 12 to 13 Amiga DJs are scheduled to perform, including well-known names such as Crtix, H0ffman, DJ Formula, Teo, Amiga Junglism, DJ Nest, Tytus, Breakbob, and many more. The event will take place exclusively on YouTube.
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[News message: 20. May. 2025, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2025
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Retro soccer game: "Mundialito" (update)
Mundialito, a new retro-style arcade soccer game, is coming soon, and a new preview video has been released. The game, which is reminiscent of similar games from the 1980s, will feature action-packed 1-on-1 duels, power-ups, corners, free kicks, penalty kicks, and ten national teams, each with their own playing style. As things stand, Mundialito will require an Amiga 1200 with 2 MB RAM, can be played alone or in two-player mode, and is set to be published free of charge on itch.io shortly.
Update: (22.05.2025, 22:15, cg)
Mundialito can now be downloaded free of charge or for a small donation. Any Amiga with 2 MB RAM is required, but an A1200 is recommended for "better performance" - games against a human opponent require the latter configuration anyway. On the A500 Mini a compatibility problem has already been discovered, a separate fix is provided by the developer in the form of the file 'Mundialito_ol.uae.'
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