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Video: Board assembly of the Mini-ITX Amiga Denise (Part 1) (11. May. 2025)
In the video at the title link, episode 89 of Tim's Retro Corner shows the first part of the assembly of a Denise board. Denise is an Amiga 500+ replacement in Mini-ITX format with two Zorro II slots, a 72-pin SIMM for the 2 MB of Chip RAM and con...

Amiga emulator for the Web: vAmigaWeb 4.1 (09. May. 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 4.1. In addition to various bug fixes, the latest AROS ROMs are now used (from Feb. 2025) and more information on selected AGNU...

AmigaDOS RKRM now available for free on Aminet (06. May. 2025)
Thomas Richter has provided his "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" for free download on Aminet. The printed book was available for pre-order (amiga-news.de reported) and is now completely sold out. The English-language PDF is a comprehensive so...

AROS: Month in review April 2025 (06. May. 2025)
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month at the title link....

The Doll Maker: New text adventure for the Amiga under development (06. May. 2025)
The Doll Maker is a dark, text-based adventure game currently in development for the Amiga, as reported by Indie Retro News. The game from Remanence Studio is a tribute to interactive graphic text adventures such as Guild of Thieves and The Pawn. It combi...

Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: "BDTZ" released (05. May. 2025)
After two demo versions (amiga-news.de reported), the full version of BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) has now been released: a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze ...

AmigaRemix: Further files added (04. May. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added: Stardust, Title Screen Music (Extended Remix) Lotus III, Miami Ice (Special Remix) Galoonia ...

Developer log: Amiga Isometric #10 (02. May. 2025)
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de berichtete). In the tenth issue (video), he reports on the remaining creation of Zone 2 and a bonus zone....

SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death 1.0 (02. May. 2025)
At the end of November, 'Quantum Code Monk' released a first pre-release version of its Scala MM game conversion "The Angel of Death" for AmiGameJam 2024, which is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game released by Sierra in 1987. As...

Emulator hardware: CPU Boost Kit available for "A1200 NG" (02. May. 2025)
As announced a good week ago, AmigaKit is now offering a CPU Boost Kit for the "A1200 NG" emulator solution for around 24 euros, which increases the performance of the board by up to 20 per cent by boosting the CPU from 1.5 GHz to 1.7 GHz. After activatin...

New articles on Obligement website (01. May. 2025)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News from ...

Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.3 (01. May. 2025)
The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimi...

New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, FPGA (Update 3) (30. Apr. 2025)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presented a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Some time later, Kanning himself started posting in our comments section and supplied a pretty extens...

Podcast: The Retro Hour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Amiga (29. Apr. 2025)
The latest episode (476) of the English-language podcast The Retro Hour is all about the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. Recorded live at VCF East in New Jersey, host Dan Wood presents stories about Amiga developers and computer pioneers Dale Luck, ...

AmigaOS 4: clib4 1.6.0 (28. Apr. 2025)
With clib4 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè is working on a variant of the official ADTools clib2, which should be specific for AmigaOS 4 in order to be easier to maintain and above all to add functions that are difficult to implement on original Amigas. ...

Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (update) (28. Apr. 2025)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported)...

Shooter: Update to Anguish (AGA) (28. Apr. 2025)
For the AmiGameJam 2024, 'lionagony' released his idea of a sequel to Agony for AGA Amigas (video). Now he has released a small update for Anguish, which gives the playable first level new graphics and a slightly reduced difficulty level. There is also a ...

Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 04/25 of "Ecliptic" (25. Apr. 2025)
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 ...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.04.25 (25. Apr. 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 2025.04.25 extends the recently released ZuluSCSI Blaster with Wi-Fi DaynaPORT/SC Ethernet...

Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.2 (25. Apr. 2025)
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 Kraszews...