27.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to Aminet:
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27.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
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27.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
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27.Apr.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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27.Apr.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.04.2025
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 26.04.2025:
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2025, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2025
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Video: Assembling an FPGA "Amiga 1200" using only new components
In the video at the title link, 'Proteque-CBN' assembles an Amiga 1200 replacement using only new components, from the case to the internals. The centerpiece is a Mister/DE10 Nano with the Mistress 1200 breakout board, the injection-molded case comes from A1200.net and the Amiga 1200-compatible keyboard from Amigastore.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2025, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2025
reddit
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Article series: GUI Wonderland #8 - Amiga Workbench, the Multimedia revolution
In the eighth episode of the "GUI Wonderland" series, the author presents the "multimedia wonder" Workbench 1.x. In addition to a detailed description of the development of the first Amiga model, there is a detailed description of the computer's graphical user interface.
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2025, 23:56] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2025
https://sites.google.com/view/retro-emulator-vision-and-game (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 169 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
The latest issue 169 includes tests of "Archon" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" for CDTV.
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2025, 23:50] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2025
Timo Paul (ANF)
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AmigaGuide magazine: "WhatIFF?", issue 16
"WhatIFF?" is an English-language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the 16th issue are:
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2025, 23:47] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.5.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.5.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- Added an ARexx menu to allow you to run your own scripts. ARexx is not yet implemented in MorphOS so you can try installing the 68k version of ARexx and see if that works.
- Added sample scripts
- Status bar background colour adjusted to improve readability
- Latest OpenAI chat models added (gpt-4.1, o3, o4-mini)
- The menu has been rewritten and now gets built dynamically. It will now automatically create menu options for all the available models. This will make adding new models much easier and quicker
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB)
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2025, 22:34] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2025
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 04/25 of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a sixth demo has been released for the game.
As the developer reports in his developer diary, this is "a pretty big update to Ecliptic - it includes a whole new level."
According to the developer, the game will not run on a simple A500 with 512K chip/512K slow RAM. It is his intention that this is possible, but it is not a high priority as the game already requires a harddrive. An Amiga 1200 with HD is recommended.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2025, 20:32] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2025
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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7-bit: Bluetooth adapter for control pads
7-Bit has created a Bluetooth adapter called Ryś BlueLink, with which wireless control pads from Microsoft (X Box One), Sony (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3) and Nintendo (Joy-Con) can be used with an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200. Ryś BlueLink has an OLED display that allows the user to configure the device and update the firmware via WiFi.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2025, 18:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2025
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.04.25
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2025.04.25 extends the recently released ZuluSCSI Blaster with Wi-Fi DaynaPORT/SC Ethernet emulation support.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2025, 09:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2025
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Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.2
The relatively new "Quite OK Audio Format" (QOA) is a lossy audio compression format: audio signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded at 278 kbits/s, exactly 1/5 of the bits required for an uncompressed WAV file (amiga-news.de reported).
Grzegorz Kraszewski has written a decoder that converts QOA files into uncompressed AIFF (source code on GitHub). In version 0.2, he has implemented output buffering and the hard disc operations are now faster.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2025, 09:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2025
deadwood
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First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the first version of AROS for x86-64, labelled "stable". The basic system is available in two versions: as a bootable ISO file or in a 'hosted' edition that runs under Linux. Virtual machines (VMware, Virtualbox or QEMU) are recommended as a test environment for this first release: Audio, video and network drivers have been improved and tested for this use case.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2025, 22:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2025
AmigaKit
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Emulator hardware: "A1200 NG" has been shipping to end customers since this week
AmigaKit announces that it has started shipping the "A1200 NG" emulator solution after Easter. The company is working on an 'overclocking kit' that will soon be available and should increase computing power by up to 20 per cent. There will also be a port of A-EON's 'AmiStore' app store for A1200NG/A600GS in the summer.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2025, 19:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2025
GitHub
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.3
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 2.3 now offers an 'Options' dialogue and, according to the author, has generally become more user-friendly.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2025, 18:42] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 174 - Preview and reading samples
The reading samples and previews of issue 174 (May/June 2025) of Amiga Future are now online. The issue features the following topics, among others:
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2025, 18:36] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2025
Balaton (Mail)
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Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who clearly summarises the possibilities on a specially created and now redesigned website.
QEMU is now available in version 10.0.0, Windows installers are provided as usual by Stefan Weil.
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[News message: 23. Apr. 2025, 21:56] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2025
Amigans.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Beta version of Open Medal of Honor
Open Medal of Honor is a reimplementation of the first-person shooter "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" by Electronic Arts from 2002. The Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions are also supported.
A beta version of the game, which is still in beta itself, is now available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Download information is available at the title link.
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23.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #27 (Polish/English)
Komoda & Amiga plus is a Polish print and PDF magazine about the C64 and the Amiga, which is also distributed in an English version. The magazine in A4 format comprises 82 pages.
Topics of the current 27th issue include reviews of Fast Food 2, Tale of Evil and Amiga Yoomp, an article on data transfer between Amiga and Macintosh and an interview with Tommi 'Electric' Musturi.
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[News message: 23. Apr. 2025, 20:22] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2025
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Development tool: vasm 2.0b
Frank Wille has updated vasm, a portable assembler for numerous CPUs with various syntax and output modules. In addition to various bug fixes, the changes include a new CPU backend for the SPC700, which was used in the SuperFamicom and SNES for sound processing, and the new option "-no-msrcdebug"; the latter disables source-level debugging within a macro context.
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[News message: 23. Apr. 2025, 20:22] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2025
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.7
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 3.7 adds external IRQ/DMA processing and expanded its C compiler support. Maintenance work has also been done for future releases. The software is available free of charge on GitHub, including the source code.
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2025, 16:24] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 37
The new issue 37 of British magazine Amiga Addict is dedicated to Team 17's classic game Worms, exploring its origins with creator Andy Davidson and offering exciting insights into the very first pre-release version of the game.
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2025, 16:10] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2025
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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.30 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.30 since the last news update at a glance:
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2025, 16:02] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2025
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Worth a read: Why computers were more fun before
In his latest article, "Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before", published on Datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson reflects on the development of computer use and argues that computers were more fun before they became accessible to everyone. He argues that the complexity of the technology at the time and the need to engage intensively with it fostered a deeper connection and greater understanding of the devices.
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22.Apr.2025
Spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Spillhistorie: Interview with the creators of Roguecraft
In an interview with Spillhistorie.no, Norwegian developer duo Badger Punch Games provided exciting insights into the creation of their award-winning Amiga game Roguecraft. The two developers, Ricki Sickenger and Henning Ludvigsen, met in the demo scene in the 1990s and later worked together on the MMORPG Darkfall Online. With Roguecraft, they have successfully returned to the roots of retro gaming.
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22.Apr.2025
Indie Retro News
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Dungeon Crawler: Sir Redford Knights Adventure currently in development
Sir Redford Knights Adventure is an upcoming dungeon crawling game for the Amiga, developed by Juen, Koyot1222 and JMD. The game won first place in the RAM#3 competition and already offers a playable demo with five randomly generated levels. Expansions with additional items and statistics are planned. The game will run on a standard Amiga 500, and a video provides a first glimpse of the gameplay.
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2025, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Results of the Revision 2025
This year's edition of the Revision demo party took place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are:
Amiga Intro
Amiga Demo
In addition, there were also two Amiga entries in the "Game" category: "Billionaires in Space" by FiNitY and Zymosis (video) took 7th place (download link), "Noisy Rabbit" by Robert Smith - which we already reported on today - took 8th place.
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[News message: 21. Apr. 2025, 16:06] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2025
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Easter game: Noisy Rabbit
After 2023 with "Hop to the Top!" and 2024 with "Bunnys Boing Ball Bounty", Robert Smith has also released an Easter game this year: in "Noisy Rabbit" (video), you have to collect large and small eggs in Pacman style. However, these are difficult to recognise as they are drawn in black and white, just like the playing field. The source code is included.
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