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AROS: The Register reports on the portable AROS distribution (23. May. 2025)
The Register is an online portal offering news and analyses from the world of technology companies. A current article is dedicated to the recently released portable AROS distribution (amiga-news.de reported) and explores how this live distribution works. ...

AmigaOS 4: User report on the SATA PCI card from Rabbit Hole (19. May. 2025)
In mid-March, George 'walkero' Sokianos published a review of the SATA PCI Hard Card from Rabbit Hole under AmigaOS 4 on IntuitionBase (amiga-news.de reported). This card comes with a 256 GB M.2 SSD, which is already connected and ready for use. Now Dani...

AROS distribution: AROS One portable 2.8 (x86) (19. May. 2025)
In addition to the AROS distribution "AROS One" for x86 computers, which is available as a DVD ISO file or USB flash ("VHD") image (amiga-news.de reported), there is now a separate portable version for USB sticks (video), which contains AROS ONE 2.8 (32-b...

Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.2 for Windows, Linux and macOS (16. May. 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)...

AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.0 64Bit (ABI v11) (15. May. 2025)
Press release: AROS 64-bit (ABIv11) is the result of several years of development by numerous AROS developers and the last six months of intensive testing, debugging and stabilisation. This initial release offers improved support for virtual environments ...

Video: MiSTer Multisystem 2 (14. May. 2025)
The MiSTer Multisystem² is an FPGA-based retro console in a 3D-printed case (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link 'More Fun Making It' is unboxing and testing it....

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.1 (13. May. 2025)
Version 3.10.1 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, some users have reported bugs that are to be fixed with this version. Changes: PED fixed a problem doing the IDE layout remo...

AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.0 (12. May. 2025)
Ten years have passed since Álmos Rajnai released version 1.0.0 of his integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). Now Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand has released version 1.1.0 in OS4De...

Crowdfunding: Psygnosis - Games People Play (Volume 1), final day (11. May. 2025)
Today the crowdfunding for volume 1 of the Psygnosis book by Éditions64K will end. This volume covers the years from 1980 to 1993 (amiga-news.de reported). At the time of writing, the project is just around 430 euros short of the first of its defined...

Amiga history: Will the real Joe Pillow please stand up (07. May. 2025)
Almost every Amiga fan will be familiar with "Joe Pillow", be it as a nickname for Dale Luck or with regard to the story that the developers of the Amiga transported a prototype of the computer on an airplane in its own seat due to its sensitivity, which ...

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...

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 ...

Java program: ham_convert 1.11.1 (03. May. 2025)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based programme ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format. Changes in version 1.11.1: Higher quality Lanczos image resizing. Older Bicubic was too blurry Support for additional input formats: we...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Mars Cops (02. May. 2025)
At the end of September last year, the website Games That Weren't reported on the space shooter "Mars Cops" planned by Arcana Software at the end of the 1980s. Pete Galey informed the editors of the website that there was a demo version of the Amiga versi...

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)...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 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 26.04.2025: 2025-04-25 improved: Academy: Tau ...

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...