09.Jul.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AROS: Progress in May/June 2025
At the title link Nick Andrews has summarized the progress of the open source, AmigaOS 3.1 API compatible operating system AROS in the last two months.
For example, a TIFF datatype has been implemented, the gfx.hidd has been extended by SSE/AVX-optimized conversion routines and the GCC patches have been updated to GCC 15.
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08.Jul.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 38
The new issue 38 of the British magazine Amiga Addict (June 2025) is dedicated to the long-established company HiSoft Systems. HiSoft was not only known for legendary developer tools such as Devpac and HiSoft BASIC, but also brought hardware such as the Squirrel SCSI interface and various media drives to market. In the magazine, Phil South talks to co-founder Andy Pennell (now Principal Software Engineer at Xbox) about the exciting early days of the company and its significance for the Amiga community.
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08.Jul.2025
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3D printable: Amiga 1200 External USB Keyboard Plug Mount
Dennis "0xDB" Busch has presented the 3D printing project "Amiga 1200 External USB Keyboard Plug Mount 3D printable" on itch.io, which can be used to print a mount for external USB keyboards for the Amiga 1200. The mount is designed so that it can be mounted on the top of the case without damaging it and fits into the moldings of the original case. USB adapters such as Jamie Retro's USB KBD Adapter are supported. The files are for private use only; commercial resale is prohibited. The STL data can be downloaded in exchange for a voluntary donation.
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08.Jul.2025
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Emu68: Status update by developer Michael Schulz
About the Emu68 project, an emulation of the Motorola 68k processor, amiga-news.de first reported in March 2024. Now developer Michal Schulz has posted a status update on Patreon. Under the title "I'm not dead!", Schulz assures that development is still active, even if things have been quiet lately. He reports progress on planned features and promises version 1.1.
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07.Jul.2025
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Demo party: Results of the Posadas game competition
At the beginning of March, the Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave launched a programming competition for the game construction kit RedPill (amiga-news.de reported), whose entries were presented - together with two other games (The Last Door und Apagón!) - and awarded prizes at the Posadas demo party (video tour) held north of Seville last weekend. The results:
The downloads are available on Scene.org.
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07.Jul.2025
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Picture collection: Amiga Graphics Archive updated
This time, the Amiga Graphics Archive has been expanded to include a large collection of "Color Cycling" images: this technique changes the colours of the images in such a way that it creates the impression of animation.
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07.Jul.2025
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Platformer: CD32 image of Krogharr available
The platformer Krogharr was released a week ago (amiga-news.de reported). Now there is also a CD32 image of this game.
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07.Jul.2025
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Arcade shooter: Demo version of ZorkLand
Amiten Games (among others AmiSeaFox) has released a demo version of an arcade shooter that was started back in 2013 (video). Using the Extra Halfbrite mode, up to 64 colours can be displayed simultaneously. At least 1 MB of chip RAM (2 MB recommended) and a 68020 processor are required.
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07.Jul.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, version 1.7
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files. Since version 1.6, the Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000 and 4000 models, as well as the Amiga 4000CR and Amiga 3000T, are supported.
The newly released version 1.7 offers the following changes:
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06.Jul.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to Aminet:
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06.Jul.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to OS4Depot:
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06.Jul.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to AROS Archives:
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06.Jul.2025
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads bis 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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06.Jul.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.07.2025
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 05.07.2025:
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05.Jul.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Amiga show: Amiga40 moves to a new location
Press release: Some of you have probably already noticed that the event will no longer take place in the Kunstwerk in Mönchengladbach, but in the REDBOX (soon to be called 'NEW Box'). So please note the corresponding new address for Amiga40 on 18 and 19 October 2025:
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05.Jul.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 175
The English and German issue 175 (July/August 2025) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Topics covered in this issue include:
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05.Jul.2025
ko-fi
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.8r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George “walkero” Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. Version 2.1.8r1 is based for the first time on the current generation of the SDL library 'SDL3', and as a result runs about 10-15 percent slower than previous releases. The author has made extensive analyses of his code and informed the Lite XL team as well as the maintainers of SDL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS about any optimisation potential he found.
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05.Jul.2025
Frank Neumann (E-Mail)
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Tetris variant: A100
In the Tetris variant "A100" (Video), new bricks are placed by the player on a square playing field, eliminating the "pieces falling down" mechanism of the original game. Once all positions in a column or row are occupied, the column/row is emptied. The game should run on any Amiga with at least 512 KB chip RAM.
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05.Jul.2025
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.58
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Now version 2.58 has been released. Changes since our last news item:
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04.Jul.2025
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.5 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.5:
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[News message: 04. Jul. 2025, 22:42] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jul.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.53
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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04.Jul.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Further development steps for the clib4 library
With clib4 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè is working on a variant of the official ADTools clib2, which should be specific for AmigaOS 4 in order to be easier to maintain and above all to add functions that are difficult to implement on original Amigas. At the end of April, he released version 1.6.0 of the library (amiga-news.de reported).
In a detailed development report, he describes the important changes and improvements that have been made in recent weeks to optimise and improve the library's performance in terms of speed and resource management, especially for more complex software such as the Odyssey Web Browser (amiga-news.de reported).
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04.Jul.2025
digituba
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Emulator: WinUAE 6.0.0
Version 6.0.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. As the developer wrote, this release is a "major update to custom chipset emulation. Internally almost everything in main chipset emulation has been rewritten. Fastest possible/JIT mode chipset timing/sync had major changes which can cause side-effects. Bugs are very possible, especially in very rarely used features." All changes:
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03.Jul.2025
Evoke
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Demo party: Evoke 2025 featuring a real-time competition "Copper Showdown"
This year's edition of the "Evoke" demo party will take place in Cologne from 15 to 17 August. For the first time, a competition for real-time programming of the Copper will take place: Using an IDE with an integrated Amiga emulator, participants will have to program so-called 'Copperlists' live on stage and create demo effects based exclusively on the use of the Copper.
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03.Jul.2025
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto releases Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 11
Press release: July 3, 2025 - Cloanto today released version 11 (build 11.0.22.0) of
Amiga Forever
and C64 Forever, the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation and support suites for Windows.
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03.Jul.2025
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Analysis: Were there serious attempts to licence Amiga Unix to Sun?
In 'The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: Deal or no deal?' Carl Svensson summarises the rumours and sources about the alleged attempt to license Amiga Unix to Sun, goes into detail about Sun's product range at the beginning of the nineties and analyses how likely an attempted licensing of Amiga Unix actually was.
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03.Jul.2025
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Video: How an Owl ruled the world - The Story of Psygnosis
In the first of two parts of a complete history of Psygnosis, the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" sheds light on the beginnings of the British software company, starting with its quasi-predecessor Imagine.
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