13.Jun.2025
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Legal dispute: Hyperion can be held liable for copyright infringements
In April 2023, Hyperion won the first lawsuit with Mike Battilana and his
partners: The judge had essentially ruled that the plaintiffs Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. could not sue for breach of contract or copyright infringement and that the only party entitled to sue - Amiga Corporation - should not be added as a plaintiff to the current proceedings due to a technicality and that it would have to sue separately. The so-called
"Amiga parties" appealed against all three decisions.
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13.Jun.2025
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Unofficial successor: Action Replay software 5.1.0
An improved Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga 500 and WinUAE has been developed using reverse engineering. The hardware component is DeMoN, the software is called Action Replay 5 (amiga-news.de reported), which has now been updated to version 5.1.0. The changes:
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12.Jun.2025
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Shoot'em Up: new demo version of "AmiSeaFox"
AmiSeaFox (Video) is a clone of the 8-bit classic Seafox. The second demo version released two days ago features two new levels.
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12.Jun.2025
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Jump'n Run: first demo version of Robot Jet Action 2
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's Robot Jet Action 2 is the Scorpion-based conversion of the C64 title Robot Jet Action by the same author. A first demo version Video is now available, which includes 8 levels but is still described by the developer as a "early WIP version": Some things
are still simplified, others might not be working properly yet. Users should also expect "bugs or rough edges".
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12.Jun.2025
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Open Hardware: Amiga Serial Midi Adaptor 1.3
The "Amiga Serial Midi Adapter" upgrades the MIDI interfaces on an Amiga. According to the developer, it converts the RX and TX signals of the serial port into the MIDI TTL standard and should therefore be compatible with (quote) "most Amiga MIDI software". Power is supplied directly via the serial port. All the necessary documentation for building the adaptor is available on Github.
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12.Jun.2025
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Demoparty: Evoke from 15 to 17 August in Cologne
This year's edition of the demoparty "Evoke" will take place from 15 to 17 August at the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne. In addition to various demo competitions for modern platforms, there will also be a competition for "alternative platforms", which explicitly includes retro computers. There are also competitions for pixel graphic artists and tracker musicians. Tickets can only be purchased directly on site; there are no plans to buy them in advance via the Internet.
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12.Jun.2025
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SMB2 handler: smb2fs version 53.9 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols. New features in version 53.9:
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11.Jun.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.44 for Bluetooth adapter
Already one week ago firmware version 0.44 for the BlueLink control pad adapter from 7-bit was released. As the manufacturer announces at the title link, the Bluetooth adapter is now also available from Alinea.
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11.Jun.2025
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Discord channel freely accessible / Exchange with IRC server
Since mid-May, the instant messaging provider Discord (Wikipedia) does also have a MorphOS server. After initially requiring an invitation to participate, access is now possible directly.
As Frank 'cyfm' Mariak explains at the title link, it is also possible to communicate in languages other than English in the "MorphOS Babylon" area. In addition, some channels are also mirrored to the IRC server on libera.chat so that you can also participate in them via IRC. Accordingly, the official MorphOS IRC channel is linked to its Discord counterpart as well.
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11.Jun.2025
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Video: AMOS game to insert and eject real floppy disks
In a two-part video, Robert Smith demonstrates how he created an AMOS game with five real floppy disk drives in which you are asked to insert and eject floppy disks into randomly selected drives.
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11.Jun.2025
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WHDLoad: Reinhold Kloth passed away
Reinhold 'Stingray' Kloth passed away already in November, shortly after his 50th birthday, as has only now become known. In addition to many demoscene productions as part of his membership in groups such as Scoopex, Scarab and Desire, he was also one of the most eager contributors to the WHDLOad project: 847 installations were created by him alone, and he was involved in 247 more.
Scoopex is planning a demo production in his memory and invites those who knew him to contribute a short text message at the title link.
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10.Jun.2025
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RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.21 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96. AmigaOS 3.2 or newer is required. Since our last report on P96Prefs almost two years ago, numerous updates have been made, including support for environment variables, Matrox and Radeon card drivers, and PCI-based S3ViRGE graphics cards.
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10.Jun.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Viking by New Deal Productions
A new article on Games That Weren't is dedicated to the game "Viking", an ambitious but never released project by New Deal Productions for Amiga and Atari ST from 1990.
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10.Jun.2025
Retrogamingpappa (ANF)
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Worth a read: The creation of Boulder Dash
A new article on Spillhistorie tells the story of how the legendary game Boulder Dash was created. In an interview with Canadian developer Peter Liepa, one of the game's co-developers, we learn about the background to the game – from Liepa's early experiences with computers to his groundbreaking approaches to level design.
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10.Jun.2025
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Game engine: Sevgi Engine v0.179
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 0.179 is available providing the following changes:
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09.Jun.2025
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Amiga emulator for the Web: vAmigaWeb 4.2.1
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.2. In addition, file exchange between Amiga and host computer is now only possible via ZIP archive. In principle, you no longer need HDF files, as file exchange via ZIP archive is much easier and you don't need any extra tools to read HDF files.
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09.Jun.2025
Richard 'Shred' Körber
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Hardware analysis: boards.library 3.122
The boards.library decodes manufacturer IDs and product IDs of Amiga computers and shows what is installed in the Amiga and by whom. It is used, for example, by tools such as WhichAmiga and ReportPlus or AmigaOS' own ShowConfig (V46+).
Starting with version 3.120 the boards.library now checks the identify.library V45.0 and higher (amiga-news.de reported) for unknown boards and vice versa. Thus both libraries should be installed.
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09.Jun.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2
After two beta versions, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which offers FileSystem code clean-ups.
At least macOS 13.5 is required.
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08.Jun.2025
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Aminet uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to Aminet:
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08.Jun.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to OS4Depot:
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08.Jun.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to AROS Archives:
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08.Jun.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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08.Jun.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.06.2025
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 07.06.2025:
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08.Jun.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added:
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08.Jun.2025
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Operating system for the Amiga: Fourth alpha version of Serena OS
Dietmar Planitzer is working on an experimental operating system for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). Now a fourth alpha version is available, which now also boots on an Amiga 1200. In addition, for the first time there are Windows versions of the developer tools to compile Serena OS itself and programs for it.
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08.Jun.2025
EmuTOS (ANF)
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Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.4
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.4. Using ROM files based on this, EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turbo cards or the THEA500Mini.
Amiga-related, new features include support for NTSC computers.
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08.Jun.2025
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.5
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga disks and disk images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP).
Version 2.5 fixes a bug when writing floppy disks and there is an abort option in case of faulty floppy disks.
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08.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Status update on WebKit porting
At the title link, Andrea Palmatè describes the latest attempt to port the WebKit-based browser Odyssey to AmigaOS 4 in a contemporary form based on the MorphOS and AROS adaptations. Previously, George ‘walkero’ Sokianos had been working on this alone and suggested that other developers get involved.
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08.Jun.2025
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Event: The Amiga at 40 (Cambridge)
Another event to mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga will be hosted by The Center for Computer History in Cambridge, England, on July 19.
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08.Jun.2025
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Youtuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
Years ago, Sean Donohue acquired the rights to the x86-based Commodore 64x nostalgia computer from the bankruptcy estate of Commodore USA and attempted a Kickstarter-funded remake with his British company My Retro Computer Ltd., which was founded specifically for this purpose. Due to the allegedly very high licence fees, the computer was initially sold without a Commodore licence as "My 64".
The YouTube channel "Retro Recipes" presented this new edition to a wider audience six months ago in a very euphoric video. According to the channel itself, this video, which has since been viewed more than a million times, led to an agreement between the current owner of the Commodore brand and My Retro Computer Ltd: The latter now genuinely offers its keyboard computer as the "Commodore 64x", a statement from Commodore Corporation B.V. published on the website is said to confirm the proper licensing of the brand.
Now "Retro Recipes" is speaking out again via video: spurred on by the success of the C64x coverage, he has developed the plan to acquire a kind of swarm-financed "general licence" from Commodore Corporation in order to be able to distribute all possible existing and future products with a Commodore logo. For a company to be founded specifically for this purpose, he himself was to be the managing director and Sean Donohue the head of operations. Leo Nigro, who had already fulfilled this role at Commodore USA and was currently responsible for updating the Linux distribution Commodore OS Vision, which was created at the time, would be the technical director.
The video ends with a real cliffhanger: Perifractic from Retro Recipes claims that the reply from the Commodore Corporation does not simply offer him a far-reaching licence, but proposes the sale of the entire company to the YouTube entrepreneur and his partners. However, he only wants to explain further details in a later video, part 1 of the series "Can We Save Commodore?" ends at exactly this point.
Editor's note: Commodore Corporation B.V. only owns the rights to the "Commodore" brand and the well-known "Chickenhead" logo. Software rights such as firmware ROMs or AmigaOS are owned by the Italian Mike Battilana or his Amiga Corporation, the same applies to various brands from the Amiga sector. Rumours that the Commodore Corporation would like to get rid of the trademark rights have been circulating for some time.
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07.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Text editor DumbPad 0.3
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin wanted to create a simple and stable text editor with "DumbPad". It is his first Reaction-based project, version 0.3 already supports tabs and notifications uses AISS for menu and button graphics. The project "definitely has bugs" but already runs quite stably. The developer would be grateful for tests of the editor on other systems.
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