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Livecoding tool: Copper Showdown Editor 0.21 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) (13. Aug. 2025)
The Copper Showdown Editor is a live coding tool for demonstrating Copper effects. It enables programming of Copper usuing the the LUA scripting language, and the result is displayed on the screen in real time. Under the hood, the program uses the emulato...

Podcast: The Retro Hour - The Story of Worms with Andy Davidson (13. Aug. 2025)
For episode 492 of The Retro Hour podcast, an interview with Andy Davidson, the programmer of the game Worms, which is about to receive an update, was conducted at the title link....

40 Years of The Amiga: Cover story issue of the British magazine Retro Gamer (12. Aug. 2025)
The British magazine Retro Gamer, licensor of the German spin-off, has focused its current issue 275 on the Amiga. Under the title "40 Years of The Amiga", the editorial team takes an in-depth look at revolutionary technology, legendary games, and breatht...

Resurrected Commodore: "Amiga is also on our radar" (12. Aug. 2025)
Under the leadership of influencer Christian "Perifractic" Simpson, the Commodore brand is back in business, including 47 original Commodore trademarks, which have now been acquired by the newly founded Commodore International Corporation (amiga-news.de r...

Game announcement: Isometric arcade adventure game Lumo (11. Aug. 2025)
For over a year now, we have reported on several occasions about a game project initiated by Nivrig Games: the porting of an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga. Now Thalamus Digital and the developer have announced that this is the porting of th...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (10. Aug. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added: Monday (Vision Factory 1) ...

Amiga/040th: Replica of the Amiga booth at CES 1984 (video) (10. Aug. 2025)
Last weekend, the Amiga/040th celebrated the Amiga anniversary in Mountain View, California, embedded into the VCF West. For this purpose, Dale Luck from the original development team and other enthusiasts recreated the exhibition stand where th...

AROS distribution: AROS One 1.1 64-bit with latest ABI v11 update (10. Aug. 2025)
Following Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's release of the AROS ABIv11 20250418-1-U1 version yesterday, as part of his work on the 64-bit version of the operating system, it is now also included in the version 1.1 update of the distribution ARO...

A600GS and A1200NG: System update including pre-release version of AmiBrowser (10. Aug. 2025)
AmigaKit regularly releases system updates for its emulation-based A600GS and A1200NG systems, which existing customers receive directly via the built-in Live Updater, which is why we only report on this in exceptional cases. However, it is worth menti...

Desktop Wiki: MPW 0.2 now with image support (10. Aug. 2025)
Marcus ‘ALB42’ Sackrow's desktop wiki MPW, whose content is written in Markdown, is now available in version 0.2. As the author describes in his blog, images can now be added, and a template directory has been added....

macOS: RetroVisor – Simulation of a CRT monitor display (also) for emulato (10. Aug. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann, known for the vAmiga emulator for macOS, has also written a program called RetroVisor for that operating system, which is designed to make a selected screen area appear as if it was displayed by a cathode ray tube - e.g. for the visually "...

Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 26 (09. Aug. 2025)
The current issue 26 (July 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available in print or digital format (via Amazon). Topics covered in this issue include: Reviewed 11 new video games for the Amiga: Hu...

AmigaOS 4: Starfall Defenders released (08. Aug. 2025)
Press release: EntwicklerX (Patreon link) has released Starfall Defenders (trailer), a tower defense game for AmigaOS 4. Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defence game. It features an in-game shop system where players can purchase better towers, ...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.3 (08. Aug. 2025)
Following the beta version, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.3 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. The file system navigator now includes a boot command for managing boot blocks. macOS 13.5 or higher is required....

Emulator hardware: AmiBrowser announced for A1200NG and A600GS (update) (06. Aug. 2025)
AmigaKit has announced its own web browser for its A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard, which would be available shortly (press release as PDF file). "AmiBrowser" runs on AmigaKit's desktop AmiBench, which is based on the rei...

Spillhistorie: Interview with Magnetic Fields about Super Cars (06. Aug. 2025)
Hans Arne Jacobsen conducted another interview for the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, this time with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern from Magnetic Fields about their game Super Cars and its 1991 sequel, Super Cars II....

AmigaRemix: Further file added (03. Aug. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added: ShockWave ...

AROS: Month in review, July 2025 (03. Aug. 2025)
In his blog at the title link, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month....

Shoot'em Up: Third demo version of "Wings of Fear" (01. Aug. 2025)
Roar Tjørhom is using the Scorpion Engine game construction kit to create a small shoot 'em up game for the Amiga and has now released a third and probably final demo version (video). It contains three levels, three bonus levels and three bosses. In addit...

Pacman variant: Deluxe Collector's Edition of Fast Food 2 (AGA) (01. Aug. 2025)
In November 2024, the Pacman variant "Fast Food 2" (video) was released as the unofficial successor to the Codemaster classic Fast Food (amiga-news.de reported). The game, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine, can now also be pre-ordered...