18.May.2025
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Aminet uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to Aminet:
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18.May.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
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18.May.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to AROS Archives:
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18.May.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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18.May.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.05.2025
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 17.05.2025:
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18.May.2025
Mike Battilana (Facebook)
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Gail Wellington passed away
On Thursday Gail Wellington passed away at the age of 85. Born on January 14, 1940 in Yonkers, New York, she was one of Commodore International's best-known personalities through her work as head of the "Commodore Applications and Technical Support" (CATS) department, which was founded for her, and her involvement in the Amiga CDTV.
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18.May.2025
ANF
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Virtual desktops for the Workbench: GoVD 2.4 with AmigaOS 4.1 compatibility
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 or higher. It is possible to specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the screens. The current version 2.4 now also offers improved compatibility with AmigaOS 4.1.
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18.May.2025
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FreePascal: Video of Markdown usage on the Amiga
Markdown is a format in which structured documents can be created with plain text. Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has now used the Markdown processor for FreePascal to write down notes in Markdown format in the browser and convert them into HTML to display them as a web page. A video demonstrates this.
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17.May.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 148 of Amiga Future available online
The English and German issue 148 (January/February 2021) of the print magazine ‘Amiga Future’ can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine and a higher-resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher.
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17.May.2025
GitHub
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.4
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga discs and disc images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP). Version 2.4 adds an options form to declutter the main form, changes the disk type names and adds a button to load the HxC Software.
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17.May.2025
Richard 'Shred' Körber (Mail)
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Tool: identify library 45.0 now recognizes PCI cards
Richard “Shred” Körber's identify.library collects all kinds of system parameters and provides the user with information on CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency, etc., for example. Version 45.0 includes support for PCI cards for the first time. The author explains the new features in this release as follows:
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16.May.2025
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Preview video: Arcade game "Gemdalus"
RETREAM is about to create "Gemdalus" (video), an arcade game in which the player has to collect all the gems scattered around the labyrinths. Inspired by Snake, the player leaves behind a kind of band of light when collecting gems, which he himself is not allowed to break through. However, like a stretched rubber band, it is possible to snap back.
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16.May.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.2 for Windows, Linux and macOS
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 0.10.2:
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16.May.2025
demoparty.net
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Demoparty: Xenium 2025 in Poland (21.-24.08.)
This year's edition of the Xenium demoparty will take place from 21 to 24 August in Łódź, Poland, under the theme of Fables for Robots: a series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, first printed in 1964.
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15.May.2025
AROSONE (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.0 64Bit (ABI v11)
Press release: AROS 64-bit (ABIv11) is the result of several years of development by numerous AROS developers and the last six months of intensive testing, debugging and stabilisation. This initial release offers improved support for virtual environments (VirtualBox, VMware and QEMU) and for some, but not yet all, of the hardware components supported by the 32-bit version. To learn more about the developments planned for the coming months, please consult our Development Plan .
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15.May.2025
ppa.pl (Webseite)
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Programming competition: Amiga 40 Tools Jam
On the occasion of the Amiga's 40th birthday, a programming competition is being organized on itch.io with cash prizes to be won. The actual prize money can still change until the end of the competition, Amiga fans are called upon to help with donations.
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15.May.2025
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Video: PiStorm68K - Update Version 1.3
The PiStorm68k is compatible various models of the Raspberry Pi generations 3 and 4 and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. It is possible to switch between the emulated and the real CPU using a simple switch. Developer Ranko Rodic has published another video in which he presents the current version 1.3 of his project and explains the differences to the previous revision.
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15.May.2025
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Music-Disk: "Fat Tracks Vol. 10" von Artstate
"Fat Tracks Vol. 10" (Video) is a music disc from Artstate with 13 tracks by musicians such as Jogeir Liljedahl, Virgil, Slash and Alex Menchi.
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15.May.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: screenshots for "The King's Ransom"
'The King's Ransom' was supposed to be an arcade adventure in the style of 'Wrath of the Demon', but was cancelled so that the developers could work on a console game that was considered more urgent. The entry at 'Amiga Games That Weren't' has now been supplemented by numerous recently surfaced screenshots.
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14.May.2025
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: CellBasics announced (update)
MorphOS developer Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek announces his "CellBasics" program in the MorphZone with just one screenshot. The screenshot shows the entry of addresses as in a simple database, but the name and the appearance are more reminiscent of a spreadsheet. Apparently, rows and columns can already be inserted or deleted at the current stage of development, and CSV is used as the storage format.
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14.May.2025
Robert Smith (ANF)
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Video: MiSTer Multisystem 2
The MiSTer Multisystem² is an FPGA-based retro console in a 3D-printed case (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link 'More Fun Making It' is unboxing and testing it.
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13.May.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.1.1
Dirk Hoffmann has released Version 4.1.1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS with the following changes:
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13.May.2025
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.1
Version 3.10.1 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, some users have reported bugs that are to be fixed with this version. Changes:
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13.May.2025
Hans Ippisch
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In memoriam: Manfred Kleimann, ASM editor-in-chief, has passed away
The German computer games industry mourns the passing of Manfred Kleimann, who died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 69. As the creative mind behind the magazine "ASM – Aktueller Software Markt", he is considered one of the pioneers of German games journalism.
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13.May.2025
TSA (ANF)
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Music: "DJ N-4ceR 02" vinyl announced by T.S.A.
The demoscene, retro, and makerspace group T.S.A (The Solaris Agency) has announced the new record "DJ N-4ceR 02 - TSA Friends & Chris Huelsbeck", which is a collaboration between six musicians. The 12" vinyl features tracks by CoRe (Karsten Klewer), AMItac (Andre Klaus Otto), rimmler (Markus Schmidt), Chris Huelsbeck, DJ N-4ceR (Markus Zeller), and Skyrunner_bc (Frank Scheffel). The record is currently in production and will be available from July 2025, but can already be pre-ordered for Euro 39.99.
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13.May.2025
repeatro
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Video: Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
Lemmings is considered one of the most important milestones in video game history. The video "Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games" highlights the Amiga classic from 1991. The video by the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" offers a detailed insight into the gameplay and special features of the game, which was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis.
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12.May.2025
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.5.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games. George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.5 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The new information window provides more information about the selected game/demo, such as the year of release, the company/demo group that released it, the required chipset, etc. To be able to open links in the information with a browser, Urltext.mcc is required for MUI 3.x. It is already included in MUI 5.x. The changes in the overview:
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12.May.2025
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Video: RGB2HDMI with audio support
Robert Smith had recently bought an Amiga 600 and wanted to add RGB2HDMI support to it. Whilst looking for software updates, he came across the beta version of RGBtoHDMI, which allows audio to be added directly via the Pi. In his latest video, he shows whether it works.
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12.May.2025
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Demoparty: Nordlicht 2025 in Bremen, Germany (25.-27.07)
Nordlicht demoparty 2025 will take place from 25 to 27 July at BürgerHaus Obervieland (BGO) in Bremen (Germany). And of course, various competitions will be held again, including in the categories "512 Byte Competition", "GFX Competition (Oldschool)", "ASCII / ANSI Competition", "Gravedigger Competition", "Executable Music Competition" and "Realtime Demo Competition". Tickets are available for Saturday only for 45 euros or for the whole weekend for 80 euros.
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12.May.2025
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Video: Redesign of the THEA500 mini gamepad for classic Amigas
The YouTube channel 'CRG' shows in its video how the gamepad available for the THEA500 Mini is redesigned and customised for the classic Amigas to be more like the CD32 gamepad.
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12.May.2025
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AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.0
Ten years have passed since Álmos Rajnai released version 1.0.0 of his integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). Now Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand has released version 1.1.0 in OS4Depot (after he had fixed the archive uploaded early Sunday), which offers changes by him as well as by Josef Wegner and Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom. The most important changes:
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