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Martin Ulrich, co-developer of Ports of Call, has passed away (03. Jun. 2025)
Martin Ulrich, the co-developer of the Amiga classic Ports of Call, passed away on 31 March 2025 at the age of 76. The sad news was announced by his long-time developer colleague Rolf-Dieter Klein. Ulrich was born on 22 October 1948. Together with Klein, ...

AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.1 (02. Jun. 2025)
Three weeks ago, Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand released version 1.1.0 of the integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). The update to version 1.1.1 (video) provides the following chan...

Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v1.00 (02. Jun. 2025)
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler "Bolminok's Kingdom 2" requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for free at itch.io, but requires ownership and successful completion of the first part. The recently released version 1.00 offers a revi...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.06.01 (02. Jun. 2025)
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 2025.06.01 fixes a crash when loading ROM in ZuluSCSI Blaster and enables physical eject b...

Hunkster: Amiga and Linux versions (01. Jun. 2025)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has created an Amiga and a Linux version of the program Hunkster by 'RetroNick'. The Amiga version also has a MUI interface. The program can be used to load media files as hunk files into the Amiga's working memory, also specific...

PowerPC hardware: video showing MorphOS 3.20 running on Mirari motherboard (31. May. 2025)
The Mirari team has released a video showing the "1st beta test" of MorphOS on the recently announced PPC hardware....

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.52 (31. May. 2025)
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 ...

Game engine: Sevgi Engine v0.177 (30. May. 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 0.177 is available providing the fol...

Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 40.3 (30. May. 2025)
After several beta versions, Thomas 'Thor' Richter released the first stable version of his universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" at the end of March, which supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective ...

YouTube client for all Amiga systems: Source code of AmiTube released (30. May. 2025)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (amiga-news.de reported). The author has now published the source code of the tool under the CC0 licence on GitH...

MP3 decoder for AA3000 prototypes: DSP3210MPEG (29. May. 2025)
Thanks to 'Wrangler', an MP3 decoder is now also available for the DSP on the AA3000/A3000+ models that never went into series production: DSP3210MPEG is an implementation of the mpeg.device that uses the DSP for decoding. According to the author, the sof...

Print/PDF magazine: BrewOtaku, #6 (29. May. 2025)
The magazine 'BrewOtaku' presents and tests new games for old computers. The current issue contains 76 colour pages featuring news on around 120 games, including 10 Amiga titles. Additionally, there are reviews of the Amiga releases Sky Shapers (AGA), Yoo...

RetroArch port for AmigaOS in progress (28. May. 2025)
Steffen Häuser is working on a port of RetroArch for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 - this is a modular emulator system in which only the cores for the different systems are exchanged. After completion, the conversion will be available free of charge in Amine...

Linux: Kernel 6.15.0 for X1000/e5500 (27. May. 2025)
Parallel to the release of Linux kernel 6.15.0, Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has finalized the compilation for AmigaOne X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs). The X1000/e5500-specific changes: adaption of the ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 170 (Italian/English) (27. May. 2025)
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. Furth...

New game engine: Sevgi Engine (26. May. 2025)
Sevgi Engine is a new open source video game engine which provides the required tools and generates the boilerplate code to create high performing Amiga games using only the C programming language (video). It is built around the ScrollingTricks archive by...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made V0.9 / Video interview (26. May. 2025)
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, which creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video, amiga-news.de reported). Version 0....

Programming competition: Winners of the AmiGameJam 2024 (26. May. 2025)
Voting for the AmiGameJam 2024 started at the beginning of December 2024 (amiga-news.de reported). The winners have now been announced in a live show on Twitch: 1st place: Fast Food 2 by 'acidbottle' 2nd place: Master of Minefields by 'Reborn80' 3rd ...

Anniversary: Amigaland.de turns 25 (25. May. 2025)
On amigaland.de, Mirko Engelhardt makes formerly commercial software available for download with permission. He can now look back on a quarter of a century and writes (translation): "The time has come. Amigaland.de is 25 years old, what an achievemen...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 25 (24. May. 2025)
The current issue 25 (May 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available as a printed or digital edition (via Amazon). The topics of the issue include: Reviews of 11 new Amiga games: Burger Time, ...