10.Jul.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.1.0 and Amiberry-lite 5.8.10
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator based on the current WinUAE version, while its little brother Amiberry-lite is based on WinUAE 4.4 and is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 7.1.0 of Amiberry is now available, Amiberry-lite has arrived at Version 5.8.10. (cg)
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09.Jul.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AROS: Progress in May/June 2025
At the title link Nick Andrews has summarized the progress of the open source, AmigaOS 3.1 API compatible operating system AROS in the last two months.
For example, a TIFF datatype has been implemented, the gfx.hidd has been extended by SSE/AVX-optimized conversion routines and the GCC patches have been updated to GCC 15. (snx)
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08.Jul.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 38
The new issue 38 of the British magazine Amiga Addict (June 2025) is dedicated to the long-established company HiSoft Systems. HiSoft was not only known for legendary developer tools such as Devpac and HiSoft BASIC, but also brought hardware such as the Squirrel SCSI interface and various media drives to market. In the magazine, Phil South talks to co-founder Andy Pennell (now Principal Software Engineer at Xbox) about the exciting early days of the company and its significance for the Amiga community.
In addition, this issue features a big "Amiga Shopper" retrospective with many former editors, a free cover disc download with Top Hat Willy, a special on influential role-playing games on the Amiga, and reviews of the new games Aminer, Pjusk, and LightTheLEDs. Classics such as Exile and Bump 'n' Burn are also covered in detail. In addition, the editorial team takes a look at the AMIGApril livestream event, Frank Gasking launches a new series on Games That Weren't with a feature on Dennis and Gnasher, and the Creative Revolution section focuses on vector art with Fantavision. Ravi Abbott also presents the possibilities of virtual desktops on the Amiga.
Amiga Addict 38 is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsagents. (nba)
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08.Jul.2025
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3D printable: Amiga 1200 External USB Keyboard Plug Mount
Dennis "0xDB" Busch has presented the 3D printing project "Amiga 1200 External USB Keyboard Plug Mount 3D printable" on itch.io, which can be used to print a mount for external USB keyboards for the Amiga 1200. The mount is designed so that it can be mounted on the top of the case without damaging it and fits into the moldings of the original case. USB adapters such as Jamie Retro's USB KBD Adapter are supported. The files are for private use only; commercial resale is prohibited. The STL data can be downloaded in exchange for a voluntary donation. (nba)
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08.Jul.2025
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Emu68: Status update by developer Michael Schulz
About the Emu68 project, an emulation of the Motorola 68k processor, amiga-news.de first reported in March 2024. Now developer Michal Schulz has posted a status update on Patreon. Under the title "I'm not dead!", Schulz assures that development is still active, even if things have been quiet lately. He reports progress on planned features and promises version 1.1. (nba)
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07.Jul.2025
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Demo party: Results of the Posadas game competition (update)
At the beginning of March, the Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave launched a programming competition for the game construction kit RedPill (amiga-news.de reported), whose entries were presented - together with two other games (The Last Door und Apagón!) - and awarded prizes at the Posadas demo party (video tour) held north of Seville last weekend. The results:
The downloads are available on Scene.org.
Update: (20:14, 20.07.25, snx)
Video of top seed added. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Picture collection: Amiga Graphics Archive updated
This time, the Amiga Graphics Archive has been expanded to include a large collection of "Color Cycling" images: this technique changes the colours of the images in such a way that it creates the impression of animation. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Platformer: CD32 image of Krogharr available
The platformer Krogharr was released a week ago (amiga-news.de reported). Now there is also a CD32 image of this game. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Arcade shooter: Demo version of ZorkLand
Amiten Games (among others AmiSeaFox) has released a demo version of an arcade shooter that was started back in 2013 (video). Using the Extra Halfbrite mode, up to 64 colours can be displayed simultaneously. At least 1 MB of chip RAM (2 MB recommended) and a 68020 processor are required. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, version 1.7
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files. Since version 1.6, the Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000 and 4000 models, as well as the Amiga 4000CR and Amiga 3000T, are supported.
The newly released version 1.7 offers the following changes:
hostsmash
- Fixed bug where merging 512KB Amiga ROMs resulting in 1 MB image to write. This is not desirable because AmigaOS ROM images are doubled.
- Enhanced ROM write to no longer check if area is erased, but to just prompt user for erase approval.
- Fixed hostsmash "--clock" argument alias for "-c"
ROM switcher
- Fixed bug introduced in 1.6 ROM switcher which can cause motherboard fast memory to go missing.
- Fixed bank switch timeout to not abort unexpectedly at startup.
- Fixed potential Blitter initialization bug.
- Added polygon fill so the rendering of Kicksmash is not just line art.
Kicksmash FW
- Fixed bug where crash could happen at long reset if longreset bank is not set
- Fixed pin test bug where SOCKET_OE=1 might cause SOCKET_D31=1
- Worked around M29F160 flash chip bug which prevented AmigaOS 2.04 from being flashed. Value 0x90 was being written to address 0x55, which put the flash in "READ CFI QUERY" mode, causing programming to fail.
- Added "address" pattern to Kicksmash "patt" command.
- Added "random" pattern to Kicksmash "patt" command.
- Added Flash OEWE test of Q2 and Q3 based on speed of those parts. This test was implemented because AO34000A parts populated on the Rev 6a boards cause programming from the Amiga to fail because they are too slow.
- Fixed walking bits tests in "test" command.
- Increased Amiga UART buffer from 1024 bytes to 2048 bytes.
- Fixed potential false error at 100% when hostsmash is writing a ROM.
- Eliminated some variable latency in Kicksmash-Amiga CPU command replies.
smash
- Improved flash ID test (6) to report values on failure.
- Code to return flash to read mode now tries extra hard. This may fix crashes with "smash erase" and "smash write" commands.
- Minor help text improvements.
- Improved 'flash id' test failure recovery to be less likely to hang Amiga.
- Implemented flash command sync retry when Kicksmash is late with flash command. This will hopefully resolve "flash id" test and other flash
command failures.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed bug in wdikicksmash.bat, which was fetching the wdi-simple.exe using a bad filename.
Documentation
- Added warning about Kicksmash1200 incompatibility with TF1260.
- Minor documentation updates.
PCBs
- Rev Kicksmash1200 to version 7.1 (fix USB-C cutout)
(dr)
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06.Jul.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to Aminet:
sqlite-3.34.0.a-amiga.lha biz/dbase 20M VAR SQL database engine
less-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M VAR Viewer program similar ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 5.2M MOS Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 5.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.9M OS3 Multi-game Character Ed...
Hundra.lha game/jump 897K OS3 Hundra
HundraWHD.lha game/jump 905K OS3 Hundra WHD
SwitcherBoy.lha game/jump 1.1M OS3 A clever platform puzzl...
AbuSimbelTFAv12.lha game/misc 6.2M OS3 Abu Simbel Profanation ...
Temptations.lha game/misc 230M OS3 Temptations FULL v1.0 F...
Level9.lha game/text 95K OS3 Level 9 text adventure ...
Team17TributePart1.lha game/think 897K OS3 Puzzle think game
AGF-01.lha mags/misc 26M GEN Amiga Germany Fanzine
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.9M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
legioncreep.zip mods/crash 2.5M GEN Dark Drone 6ch 16bit xm
thoh.zip mods/crash 2.6M GEN Ambient 16bit 8ch xm
Long_Time_Coming-Fl1N.zip mods/med 793K GEN Long Time Coming, Posad...
avalanche.lha util/arc 125K VAR ReAction unarchive GUI ...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 7K GEN German catalog for Aval...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 9K GEN German translation of A...
GoSnap.lha util/cdity 8K OS3 Snaps windows to screen...
GrabScreen.lha util/cdity 13K OS3 Take a screenshot of ac...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 4.0M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.6M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.5M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.1M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
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06.Jul.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line&a...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 6Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
grafx2.lha gra/edi 6Mb 4.1 Pixel paint program (like DPaint...
amissl.lha lib/mis 4Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
avalanche.lha uti/arc 125kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
litexl2.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
yt.lha vid/mis 939kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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06.Jul.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to AROS Archives:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha net/sam 117kb SMB2/3 file system client
smb2fs-v53.10.x86_64-aros... net/sam 129kb SMB2 file system client
installerlg-v1.0.3.x86_64... uti 194kb Commodore Installer replacement
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06.Jul.2025
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads bis 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
MissDriller2_0.1.lha Games/Misc Port of MissDriller2, a...
Doom64EX-Plus_4.1.0.1.lha Games/Shoot3D An improved modern vers...
Doom64EX-Plus_4.1.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D An improved modern vers...
Wayfarer_10.2.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
ytSearch_1.5.lha Multimedia Search/Play YouTube videos
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06.Jul.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.07.2025
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 05.07.2025:
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05.Jul.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Amiga show: Amiga40 moves to a new location
Press release: Some of you have probably already noticed that the event will no longer take place in the Kunstwerk in Mönchengladbach, but in the REDBOX (soon to be called 'NEW Box'). So please note the corresponding new address for Amiga40 on 18 and 19 October 2025:
REDBOX (soon: NEW Box)
Am Nordpark 299
41069 Mönchengladbach
The REDBOX / NEW Box near Borussia Park is not only easily accessible by car, but also by public transport. Bus routes 025 and 015 offer you the opportunity to travel here from the main railway station at Europaplatz in Mönchengladbach. Choose one of these bus lines and get off at the bus stop "Mönchengladbach Weg zum Nordpark". After a short walk of 5 minutes you have reached the REDBOX / NEW Box. In the coming months there will be at least one additional line to the REDBOX / NEW Box - please note the corresponding information on our homepage or in the well-known Amiga forums.
Of course, all tickets will remain valid - however, should anyone wish to return their tickets due to the new venue, which is approx. 10 kilometres away from the Kunstwerk in Wickrath, we will allow a deadline of 15 August 2025. Anyone who has already printed out their tickets can continue to use them - and will not need new ones!
At the REDBOX / NEW Box there are 4000 parking spaces available in P4 - a daily charge of 5 euros (no guarantee). With a little patience and a short walk, you can also find free parking spaces in the immediate vicinity.
Fortunately, cash payment for food and drinks will again be possible in the REDBOX / NEW Box.
Otherwise, everything remains the same: A colorful stage program, lots of Amiga fun, exhibitors, user tables and much more! The opening hours also remain as previously communicated, and we even have a little more space available in the REDBOX / NEW Box so that we can not only offer more tables, but also 100 additional tickets for Saturday and Sunday from 2 July 2025!
We are now looking forward to pushing ahead with the planning for Amiga40 at full speed in the coming weeks! You can expect a great anniversary event for the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga!
(cg)
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05.Jul.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 175
The English and German issue 175 (July/August 2025) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Topics covered in this issue include:
- Review Aminer
- Review Board Game vs. Amiga: Ramses
- Review AmigaOS 3.2.3
- Review Mechanical Keyboard Amiga 1200
- Workshop Knowledge 8: The third dimension: 3D graphics on the Amiga
- Workshop Setting Up Samba
- Special Beyond the Screen: Cinemaware
- Special Amiga HAM-E
- 40 Years of Amiga - Part 2
- Interview Jon Bohmer Part 2
- Interview Tim Wright
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05.Jul.2025
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.8r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George “walkero” Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. Version 2.1.8r1 is based for the first time on the current generation of the SDL library 'SDL3', and as a result runs about 10-15 percent slower than previous releases. The author has made extensive analyses of his code and informed the Lite XL team as well as the maintainers of SDL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS about any optimisation potential he found.
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05.Jul.2025
Frank Neumann (E-Mail)
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Tetris variant: A100
In the Tetris variant "A100" (Video), new bricks are placed by the player on a square playing field, eliminating the "pieces falling down" mechanism of the original game. Once all positions in a column or row are occupied, the column/row is emptied. The game should run on any Amiga with at least 512 KB chip RAM. (cg)
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05.Jul.2025
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.58
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Now version 2.58 has been released. Changes since our last news item:
- Recompiled using the latest AmiSSL SDK, so now it should use the latest libraries.
- Some servers (in this case Cloudfare) requiring authentication did NOT adhere to the RFC
regarding the WWW-Authention header, and the case sensitive search failed. This has now been
changed to a non-case-sensitive search, and should hopefully fix problems with servers
requiring authentication.
- All components have been recompiled but with no other functional changes.
- Another issue has arisen with regards to WWW realms. This time a quote enclosed realm was
leading to a duplicate entry in the sitelist. The quotes are now removed before the
authentication check and should now work as expected.
- Fixed yet another Cloudfare issue, this time with supplied headers.
- Found an issue whilst updating the SSL routines, which led to a crash when trying to
download from a website that uses SSL.
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04.Jul.2025
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.5 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.5:
- Improve editing of files - file structure is now maintained
- Add ability to easily (un)lock the GUI for archive modifications via drag'n'drop
- Add correct extension if missing on new archive name
- Improve version checks and allow immediate download
Download: avalanche.lha (125 KB)
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