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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...

Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2b2 (03. Jun. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.2b2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which includes the following changes: Enhancement: Names of imported or exported files are properly sanitized Bug fixes: Querying the mouse button state via the POTx...

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...

Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.4a (02. Jun. 2025)
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC fr...

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...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.05.2025 (01. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage: ScummVM_2.9.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve... iGame_2.5.1.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching... ...

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...

WHDLoad frontend: iGame 2.5.2 for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS (update) (29. May. 2025)
iGame is a MUI based frontend for launching WHDLoad titles. George 'walkero' Sokianos has again contributed some changes to the open source program: Added: Added a file requester in the Properties window, which can be used to set a different WHDLoad ...

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...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.2 (27. May. 2025)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Tool: morsconv 3.0 generates Morse code (26. May. 2025)
With Grzegorz Kraszewski's tool " morsconv" it is possible to convert text into various forms of Morse code using shell commands. The following output modes are supported: AUDIO - Outputs Morse code as realtime audio using audio.device. CON – ...

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 ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.05.2025 (25. May. 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 24.05.2025: 2025-05-19 updated: Battle Command...

Tool: png2iff 0.1 for Windows (23. May. 2025)
Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written a small command line tool for Windows which converts indexed or truecolour PNG files into the classic Amiga IFF format. Colour quantisation, palette remapping and several dithering modes are supported....

Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v0.90 (23. May. 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 and continues the story of its predecessor (amiga-news.de reported). The current version 0.90 now offers music. The s...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor 6.2.0 (23. May. 2025)
ASM-editor is a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language (amiga-news.de reported, source code on GitHub). The tool now supports not only 68k and x...

Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Echo Fighter" (6) (23. May. 2025)
With the sixth preview video of its shoot'em up "Echo Fighter" (amiga-news.de reported), 'pixelplop' shows the progress made recently: the player is now greeted with a scaling "Wave" and "Get Ready" text at the start of the level. The inertia of the ship'...