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Podcast: The Retro Hour meets Petro Tyschtschenko (17. Jun. 2025)
In the latest episode of the English-language podcast "The Retro Hour’" (episode 484), Petro Tyschtschenko, former president of Amiga Technologies, talks about the turbulent period immediately following Commodore's collapse. The interview, entitled ...

7-bit: Firmware version 0.45 for Bluetooth adapter (16. Jun. 2025)
The firmware version for the BlueLink control pad adapter from 7-bit has been updated again. Among other things, Amiga, AtariST and C64 joystick ports working with three fire buttons are now also supported....

Background: cURL continues to support AmiSSL (16. Jun. 2025)
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs, reported in a recent blog post that the cURL project has a long tradition of supporting a number of different third-party libraries: by May 2025, t...

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.2.0 for Windows, macOS and Linux (update) (16. Jun. 2025)
The image editor PyDPainter is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as ...

Preview video: Breakout clone Freak-Out (16. Jun. 2025)
Michael Kafke already presented a preview version of his breakout clone "Freak-Out" at the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention (ARC) in Germany in 2023 (amiga-news.de reported). Now he shows in a new preview video the current state of his game, which is to run on a...

Legal dispute: Hyperion can be held liable for copyright infringements (13. Jun. 2025)
In April 2023, Hyperion won the first lawsuit with Mike Battilana and his partners: The judge had essentially ruled that the plaintiffs Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. could not sue for breach of contract or copyright infringement and that the only party en...

Unofficial successor: Action Replay software 5.1.0 (13. Jun. 2025)
An improved Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga 500 and WinUAE has been developed using reverse engineering. The hardware component is DeMoN, the software is called Action Replay 5 (amiga-news.de reported), which has now been updated to version 5.1...

7-bit: Firmware version 0.44 for Bluetooth adapter (11. Jun. 2025)
Already one week ago firmware version 0.44 for the BlueLink control pad adapter from 7-bit was released. As the manufacturer announces at the title link, the Bluetooth adapter is now also available from Alinea....

RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.21 for P96 (10. Jun. 2025)
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96. AmigaOS 3.2 or newer is required. Since our last report on P96Prefs almost two years ago, numerous updates have been made, including support for...

Game engine: Sevgi Engine v0.179 (10. Jun. 2025)
Sevgi Engine is a new open source game engine for creating of powerful Amiga games using the C programming language (video) and based on the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 0.179 is available providing the fol...

Amiga emulator for the Web: vAmigaWeb 4.2.1 (09. Jun. 2025)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.2. In addition, file exchange between Amiga and host computer is now only possible via ZIP archive. In principle, you no long...

Hardware analysis: boards.library 3.122 (09. Jun. 2025)
The boards.library decodes manufacturer IDs and product IDs of Amiga computers and shows what is installed in the Amiga and by whom. It is used, for example, by tools such as WhichAmiga and ReportPlus or AmigaOS' own ShowConfig (V46+). Starting with vers...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2 (09. Jun. 2025)
After two beta versions, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which offers FileSystem code clean-ups. At least macOS 13.5 is required....

AmigaRemix: Further file added (08. Jun. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added: The B!tch of Death ...

Operating system for the Amiga: Fourth alpha version of Serena OS (08. Jun. 2025)
Dietmar Planitzer is working on an experimental operating system for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). Now a fourth alpha version is available, which now also boots on an Amiga 1200. In addition, for the first time there are Windows versions of the...

AmigaOS 4: Status update on WebKit porting (08. Jun. 2025)
At the title link, Andrea Palmatè describes the latest attempt to port the WebKit-based browser Odyssey to AmigaOS 4 in a contemporary form based on the MorphOS and AROS adaptations. Previously, George ‘walkero’ Sokianos had been working on th...

Evercade handheld console: Roguecraft DX announced (06. Jun. 2025)
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported). Now a special version of the Amiga rogue-like game Roguecraft (amiga-news.de reported) has been announced: Roguecraft D...

Shoot'em Up: Second demo version of "Wings of Fear" (06. Jun. 2025)
Roar Tjørhom is in the process of creating a small shoot'em up for the Amiga with the help of the game construction kit Scorpion Engine and has now released a second demo version (video), which offers the following changes compared to the first version: ...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Scalexx converts Scala MM 400 presentations to MM 300 format (05. Jun. 2025)
Scalexx, which was developed for the Amiga Tools Jam, is an Arexx-script for making Scala scripts made with Scala MM400 compatible with Scala MM300....

Filesysbox.library: Version 54.7 for AmigaOS and AROS/x86 (update) (04. Jun. 2025)
The FUSE compatible filesysbox.library, which is used by the SMB2 handler, has been updated for AmigaOS 3.x and AROS/x86. Changes in version 54.6 can be found at the title link. Update: (11.06.2025, 05:48, dr) Version 54.7 is now available, ...