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04.Feb.2025



Demoparty: Pågadata 2025 (1-3 August 2025)
The Pågadata 2025 demoscene party will take place from 1 to 3 August 2025 in Teckomatorp in southern Sweden. Entry is free, but donations are welcome. Participants can stay overnight on site.

The event is open to newcomers and veterans of the demo scene, and is not limited to any particular platform. In addition to competitions for C64 and Wild Competitions, there will also be competitions for the Amiga: AMOS demo, demo, music and graphics. An Amiga 500 with 512 KB and Kickstart 1.3 and an Amiga 1200 with 68060 processor and AmigaOS 3.1.4 will be used as computers for the competitions.

Further information, including the registration list and the option to register, can be found on the official website. (nba)

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04.Feb.2025
bitplan (ANF)


Managing system variables: GoVars 2.1 (update)
GoVars, developed by Krzysztof Donat (bitplan), is an easy-to-use editor for Amiga environment variables, which is now available in version 2.0. This tool offers a user-friendly interface for managing those system variables in AmigaOS 3.x.

The most important new feature in this version is a dynamic search filter that allows users to quickly find variables by name or value, making workflows more efficient.

GoVars is available free of charge (freeware).

Update: (07.02.2025, 21:10, dr)

Version 2.1, which is now available, contains the following changes:
  • Fixed broken scroller (arrow keys were not working)
  • Disabled editing of variables identified as regular files (e.g., binary preference files)
  • Improved calculation of windows size and position
  • Shortened variable labels
(nba)

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03.Feb.2025



Review: Checkmate Retro Monitor
The Kickstarter campaign initiated by Stephen Jones to fund his Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor was successfully completed at the end of 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). The Lyonsden Blog has now published a review in which, among other things, various connection variants were tested. (dr)

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03.Feb.2025



Children's game: New demo version of "The Young Salzgitter Icefighter"
New name, new level: the children's game originally called "The Young Icefighter" (amiga-news.de reported) has now been renamed "The Young SALZGITTER Icefighter", as the ice hockey club "Salzgitter Icefighters" has given permission to use the logo and name of their youth department for the game. In addition, a new level, Chicken World, was created and a new demo version released. (dr)

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03.Feb.2025
MiDWaN


Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.8.3 and Amiberry 7.0.2
Amiberry and Amiberry-Lite are Amiga emulators.
While Amiberry is based on the current WinUAE version and is recommended for all platforms that are faster than RPI4 - including all macOS and x86_64 platforms - Amiberry-lite is based on WinUAE 4.4 and is recommended for slower hardware (up to RPI4), or if JIT for ARM is to be used (Which version should I pick?).

Amiberry now has been updated to version 7.0.2 and Amiberry-lite to version 5.8.3, both of which offer bug fixes and improvements. (dr)

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02.Feb.2025



Aminet uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha         dev/misc   6.4M  OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...            
Amiga_500_Guide_V2.0.pdf       docs/help  4.6M  GEN Amiga 500 beginners gui...       
The_Bible.zip                  docs/misc   10M  GEN The Bible (Polish)                       
lide-update.lha                driver/med  74K  OS3 Open source IDE driver ...         
AbsoluteZero.lha               game/jump  1.3M  OS3 AGA puzzle platformer g...               
G-WARS.lha                     game/shoot 7.9M  OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ...           
DesignWorks.lha                gfx/edit   387K  OS3 Structured drawing and ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha              misc/emu    10M  MOS Signetics-based machine...        
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip        mus/edit    13M  ARO Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...             
sidid.lha                      mus/misc    59K  VAR HVSC playroutine identi...        
(snx)

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02.Feb.2025



OS4Depot uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 11Mb  4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha                emu/uti 15kb  4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
sdl3.lha                 lib/mis 9Mb   4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 3
videovortex.lha          vid/pla 5Mb   4.1 A frontend for YT to search/view...
(snx)

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02.Feb.2025



AROS Archives uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr.i386-aros.zip      aud/tra 13Mb  Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
protrekkr.x86_64-aros-v11... aud/tra 19Mb  Advanced Tracker Program
demoeffects.x86_64-aros-v... dem/mis 4Mb   Many Demo Effects
(snx)

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02.Feb.2025



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
sidid-1.09.lha            Audio/Misc                HVSC playroutine identi...
boost-1.87.0.lha          Development/Library       Boost 1.87.0 for MorphOS 
AmiArcadia_33.90.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Defblade_1.0.lha          Games/Platform            Port of DefBlade by Pap...
AmiSpeedTest_0.8.lha      Network/Test              Network speed test utility
PerCIMan_0.7.6.lha        Office/Organizer          A program to manage con...
(snx)

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02.Feb.2025



WHDLoad: New installers until 01.02.2025
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 01.02.2025: (snx)

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02.Feb.2025



AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
  • Super Twintris (8mix)
  • Flashback - Ending theme
(snx)

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02.Feb.2025
Mastodon (ANF)


Music: Crowdfunding of the FastLoaders album "Amiga Rocks Harder"
FastLoaders (Facebook) is a C64 and Amiga remix metal band from Bergen, Norway. As a sequel to their 2020 album, "Amiga Rocks", more than thirty soundtracks of classic Amiga games will be recorded as hard rock versions for "Amiga Rocks Harder". Money is now being collected for this at the title link. (snx)

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02.Feb.2025



Event: AUGS meeting 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland)
On the weekend of March 15/16, 2025, the next meeting of the Amiga Users Group Switzerland will take place for participants with hardware as well as visitors. Venue is the Hottingen Community Center, which is ten minutes by tram from Zurich main station. (snx)

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02.Feb.2025



AmigaOS 4: VideoVortex - GUI for searching and watching YouTube videos
Video Vortex is a graphical user interface for YT.rexx for searching and viewing YouTube videos. YT.rexx is a script that provides direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. VideoVortex, on the other hand, saves the user the cumbersome and tedious task of editing various configuration files and offers a clear and easy-to-use user interface that was written with Hollywood and the MUIRoyale plugin.


With the help of the full version of the media player "Emotion" (amiga-news.de reported) the videos can be played directly. Thomas 'TearsOfMe' Kölsch uses the alternative YouTube frontend Invidious for the search. The author has already gained experience in dealing with Hollywood in his previous projects such as AmigaTText or A Little Remember Game.

Even if some users have already installed YT.rexx on their computer, it is recommended to download it (again) when starting VideoVortex for the first time. Emotion should also have already been started once so that an "APPDIR:" entry can be found. (dr)

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02.Feb.2025
tukinem


Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video) as follows:
  • we can at any time during the game switch the color scheme between the original color palette from the PC version of CGA, and the 32-color version
  • the game code has been refined so that the game runs on the weakest Amiga 1000 (with additional fast RAM)
  • all animations from the original have been faithfully ripped
  • we have the possibility to create a tournament for 2-4 players with the possibility to save the game
  • we have a board editor for levels 51-99
  • we have atmospheric music playing in the background by E!ghtBM
(dr)

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