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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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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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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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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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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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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20.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to Aminet:
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20.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
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20.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
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20.Apr.2025
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Database: Amigamap.com now also catalogs A600GS and THEA500 Mini
On Amigamap.com, Mario Wilkens catalogs all Amiga systems still in use, including MorphOS and AROS (amiga-news.de reported). At the suggestion of Michael Rupp, owners of a THEA500 Mini or an A600GS can now also register their device there.
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19.Apr.2025
Oliver Achten / Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Announcement and pre-order campaign: AmiGUS sound card
After 1 year of development time, we are proud to announce a new and exciting piece of hardware for the Amiga in 2025:
the AmiGUS soundcard.
Oliver Achten is responsible for the hardware development of the card. He developed the card with passion and attention to detail and also perfected the drivers in collaboration with his software team. Alinea Computer will be responsible for the production and support of the card.
GUS stands for "Great Unbelievable Sound", and that is exactly what we will be offering - a quantum leap in quality for Amiga sound cards.
No less than 24-bit, 192kHz is the premise here, and the good news is that this quality can be achieved on any Amiga,
thanks to a fully featured hardware synth and mixing engine and CODEC chip for compressed sound formats.
Our goal is to bring high quality music production and reproduction back to the Amiga, making it an enjoyable experience for everyone.
AmiGUS Feature List
- Zorro II card for Amiga 2000 / 3000 /4000 computers, or compatible bus boards.
- Standard RCA stereo output, 192kHz @24-bit.
- TOSLINK optical output, supporting 48kHz, 96kHz & 192kHz @24-bit.
- 3x analogue audio inputs (PAULA, CD-ROM, EXTERNAL), sampled at 192kHz @24-bit.
- High-quality digital mixer which operates at full 192kHz @24-bit resolution.
- AHI buffered stream interface, supporting 8-/16- & 24-bit modes for playback and recording.
- MP3/OGG/FLAC/WMA hardware decoder (VLSI VS1063), enhanced by a powerful DMA stream buffer.
- 32 channel wavetable engine - featuring per voice:
8-/16-bit sample support, 192kHz @24-bit mixing rate.
- Sample start, stop and loop pointer for effective one-shot or continuous playback modes.
- 32-bit sample phase accumulators for extra fine grained pitch definition.
- Optional per-voice sample interpolation for smooth sounds.
- Channel independent left / right stereo panning.
- Hardware ADSR evelope generator.li>
- 32 MB on-board sample memory - ready to be used for Multichannel Sample Tracking or MIDI.
- Flash-based mixer settings which are automatically loaded on start-up.
- Open Hardware - Software, Platinen Gerber-Dateien und FPGA Bitstream frei verfügbar.
- Upgradable FPGA Core via JTAG, or Amiga-based flash tool.
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- Open Hardware - Software, PCB Gerbers and FPGA Bitstream freely available.
Supported Drivers
Minimum Amiga Configuration
- Amiga 2000
- 68000 @7.09MHz
- 1 MB Chip / 4 MB Fast
- AmigaOS 1.3
Recommended Amiga Configuration
- Amiga 2000 / 3000 / 4000
- 68030 @25Mhz
- 2 MB Chip / 16 MB Fast
- AmigaOS 3.9 or 3.2.2<(li>
Included
- AmiGUS card
- Printed manual in German and English
- Video slot Paula adapter
The AmiGUS is expected to be released on 21 June 2025 at the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg.
The open hardware release is available for all Amiga tinkerers and hobbyists who take pride in the experience of
building and creating your own hardware - either alone or as part of the Amiga community experience.
In addition to the open hardware version, AmiGUS will also be available on sale from Alinea Computer as a complete
package, build from high quality components, manual and packaging designed by the card's creator.
We are offering a pre-order promotion for the launch. The card can be pre-ordered until 2 May at a special price of 380 euros in the Alinea Computer Shop (see title link). The final price after the promotion will be 399 Euro. We look forward to your pre-orders!
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19.Apr.2025
AmiKit (ANF)
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AmiKit 12.8.3 with support for AmigaOS 3.2.3
The latest AmiKit update contains tools to install AmigaOS 3.2.3 under Amikit or to update an existing AmigaOS 3.2.x installation.
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[News message: 19. Apr. 2025, 23:22] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2025
AmigaBill (ANF)
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Video: Amiga engineers and executives discussing Commodore, VCF East 2025
In this 2nd panel (part 1) from VCF East 2025's Amiga 40 celebration, Commodore engineers and execs Dave Haynie, David John Pleasance, Hedley Davis, Greg Berlin, Don Gilbreath, Robert Miranda, and Jeff Bruette reunite to share their stories from behind the scenes of the Amiga era.
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[News message: 19. Apr. 2025, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2025
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Aiostreams V1.7.8: Scripts for streaming videos (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
"All In One streams" (aiostreams) is a pack of scripts, written in Python, that can be used to stream and watch videos from different online networks, like Twitch.tv, YouTube and Vimeo.com. All the scripts are developed and fully tested under AmigaOS 4.1 FE and MorphOS 3.x. which are the target systems of George 'walkero' Sokiano's project. Changes of version 1.7.8:
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19.Apr.2025
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Shoot'em Up: Demo version of "Wings of Fear"
Around a week ago, we reported on the preview video for the shoot'em up "Wings of Fear". Now the developer has released a demo version of his game, which is still in the alpha phase and is being created using the Scorpion Engine. He wants to use it to gather constructive feedback and suggestions on how he can improve his game.
The minimum requirements are an ECS Amiga with 1 MB Fast RAM, 1 MB Chip RAM and a 68000 CPU, with which the game runs "painfully slowly" according to the author. AGA, 2MB chip RAM and 1 MB fast RAM as well as a 68020 CPU are recommended.
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19.Apr.2025
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Video tutorial: The AMOS Pro extension "AMCAF"
In his latest video, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' takes a look at the installation of the AMCAF extension for AMOS-Pro, which provides up to 200 new commands and functions.
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17.Apr.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Real-time strategy game "HiWar"
At "Amiga Games that Weren't" there is information and a preview version of "HiWar", a Red Alert clone that was later released as "Tridonis" on the PC.
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17.Apr.2025
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Warcraft-2-Engine: Stratagus 3.3.3 for AmigaOS 4
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to be able to offer another port by Steffen Häuser. Steffen has taken care of the porting of the latest version 3.3.3 and the installation routines for easy installation under AmigaOS 4. Stratagus is the port of the engine in version 3.3.3, which makes it possible to play the game Warcraft 2 from Blizzard Entertainment natively on the Amiga under AmigaOS 4.
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17.Apr.2025
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Tutorial: Building a 14-Mhz accelerator card for the Amiga 500 (German)
In a German-language detailed article, Mingo shows how he rebuilds the 14mhz-accelerator available on Github.
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16.Apr.2025
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Scala game: The Hobbitron Chronicles
The Hobbitron Chronicles is a point-and-click version of the text adventure Adventure 3 created with Scala MM400. Accordingly, the Scala Player (or Scala) is required to play the game.
The aim of the game is to find and destroy three magical rings hidden in different eras: the past, the present and the future.
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16.Apr.2025
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Demoscene: Compression optimization
At the title link, Alexander Grupe describes how he saves a few bytes in the boot block in order to have more space for demoscene productions.
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15.Apr.2025
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam440ep flex and mini-itx
Pressemitteilung Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 14 April 2025
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its Sam440 line of motherboards.
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15.Apr.2025
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Paint program: Multipaint 2025 for Windows/Linux/Mac
Multipaint is a paint program that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and specialises in retro pixel art. The tool, which is now available in version 3.2.2025, supports the creation of graphics under the colour restrictions of classic 8- and 16-bit platforms - not only the Amiga, but also other retro systems such as C64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, CPC and Atari ST.
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[News message: 15. Apr. 2025, 01:09] [Comments: 0]
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15.Apr.2025
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Passione Amiga Day 2025
Passione Amiga Day is a gathering for Amiga users organised by the Italian magazine Passione Amiga. The event features commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests, and a flea market. Following the success of the first four events, Passione Amiga Day 2025 will take place on 7 September with free admission.
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15.Apr.2025
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iComp: ACA1240/1260 now available for all customers
ACA from iComp (individual Computers) is a modern turbocard series for various classic Amiga models. The fast version for the Amiga 1200 holding a 68040 or 68060 processor has been available to interested parties for a few days now. The card was first mentioned at the end of 2018 and has already been delivered to iComp's existing customers since February of this year.
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