08.Jun.2025
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Operating system for the Amiga: Fourth alpha version of Serena OS
Dietmar Planitzer is working on an experimental operating system for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). Now a fourth alpha version is available, which now also boots on an Amiga 1200. In addition, for the first time there are Windows versions of the developer tools to compile Serena OS itself and programs for it. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
EmuTOS (ANF)
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Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.4
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.4. Using ROM files based on this, EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turbo cards or the THEA500Mini.
Amiga-related, new features include support for NTSC computers. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.5
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga disks and disk images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP).
Version 2.5 fixes a bug when writing floppy disks and there is an abort option in case of faulty floppy disks. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Status update on WebKit porting
At the title link, Andrea Palmatè describes the latest attempt to port the WebKit-based browser Odyssey to AmigaOS 4 in a contemporary form based on the MorphOS and AROS adaptations. Previously, George ‘walkero’ Sokianos had been working on this alone and suggested that other developers get involved. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Event: The Amiga at 40 (Cambridge)
Another event to mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga will be hosted by The Center for Computer History in Cambridge, England, on July 19. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Youtuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
Years ago, Sean Donohue acquired the rights to the x86-based Commodore 64x nostalgia computer from the bankruptcy estate of Commodore USA and attempted a Kickstarter-funded remake with his British company My Retro Computer Ltd., which was founded specifically for this purpose. Due to the allegedly very high licence fees, the computer was initially sold without a Commodore licence as "My 64".
The YouTube channel "Retro Recipes" presented this new edition to a wider audience six months ago in a very euphoric video. According to the channel itself, this video, which has since been viewed more than a million times, led to an agreement between the current owner of the Commodore brand and My Retro Computer Ltd: The latter now genuinely offers its keyboard computer as the "Commodore 64x", a statement from Commodore Corporation B.V. published on the website is said to confirm the proper licensing of the brand.
Now "Retro Recipes" is speaking out again via video: spurred on by the success of the C64x coverage, he has developed the plan to acquire a kind of swarm-financed "general licence" from Commodore Corporation in order to be able to distribute all possible existing and future products with a Commodore logo. For a company to be founded specifically for this purpose, he himself was to be the managing director and Sean Donohue the head of operations. Leo Nigro, who had already fulfilled this role at Commodore USA and was currently responsible for updating the Linux distribution Commodore OS Vision, which was created at the time, would be the technical director.
The video ends with a real cliffhanger: Perifractic from Retro Recipes claims that the reply from the Commodore Corporation does not simply offer him a far-reaching licence, but proposes the sale of the entire company to the YouTube entrepreneur and his partners. However, he only wants to explain further details in a later video, part 1 of the series "Can We Save Commodore?" ends at exactly this point.
Editor's note: Commodore Corporation B.V. only owns the rights to the "Commodore" brand and the well-known "Chickenhead" logo. Software rights such as firmware ROMs or AmigaOS are owned by the Italian Mike Battilana or his Amiga Corporation, the same applies to various brands from the Amiga sector. Rumours that the Commodore Corporation would like to get rid of the trademark rights have been circulating for some time. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Text editor DumbPad 0.3
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin wanted to create a simple and stable text editor with "DumbPad". It is his first Reaction-based project, version 0.3 already supports tabs and notifications uses AISS for menu and button graphics. The project "definitely has bugs" but already runs quite stably. The developer would be grateful for tests of the editor on other systems.
The following features have already been implemented:
- AISS for toolbar and RMB menu
- Features : New, Open, Save, SaveAs, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Search, SelectAll, Delete
- Drag-and-drop support for opening files.
- Complex logic to handle application exit with unsaved data (for single and multiple tabs).
- Command-line argument support for opening files.
- Iconification support for Workbench.
- ARGB bitmap support for internal clicktab images.
- AmigaOS versioning support.
- Support for opening empty files.
- Warning requester when a file is in use by another application during saving.
- Skipped NULL bytes to enable opening binary files.
- Pop-up menu with Close/Iconify/Snapshot/Jump to Screen functionality
- Status bar at bottom, using button.gadget, shows line and column numbers.
- Advanced Find/FindNext Functionality: Supports input interrupts for additional keys and aligns with the logic of modern editors. For example, while the editor is active, pressing F3 triggers FindNext, seamlessly searching the entire file without interruption. Additionally, if text is found, reopening he search window recalls the last search term.
- If the user tries to paste with an empty clipboard, we trigger IIntuition->DisplayBeep() for feedback.
- Font selection: Prioritizes a monospaced (fixed) font from the "Prefs:Font/System Default". If unavailable or proportional, falls back to the one from "Prefs:Font/Screen Font". If both are unavailable, defaults to the goold old Topaz/10.
Once DumbPad has reached a certain level of maturity, the source code will be released. (cg)
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06.Jun.2025
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Evercade handheld console: Roguecraft DX announced
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 DX (video).
In contrast to the Amiga version of Roguecraft, "the DX version offers five new levels with new visuals to enjoy, a variety of new room layouts, several new musical tracks by tracker music legend Jogeir Liljedahl to accompany the action as you progress through the dungeon, more potion effects, new types of monster and a brand-new achievements system."
Roguecraft DX can now be pre-ordered for about 24 euros and is scheduled for release at the end of August 2025. (dr)
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06.Jun.2025
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Shoot'em Up: Second demo version of "Wings of Fear"
Roar Tjørhom is in the process of creating a small shoot'em up for the Amiga with the help of the game construction kit Scorpion Engine and has now released a second demo version (video), which offers the following changes compared to the first version:
- More colours. Now there are 64 instead of 32.
- New smaller planes, but now with shadow.
- New and more correct backgrounds, top down perspective instead of isometric.
- Animations and objects in the background.
- New and improved boss.
- More variations in the sound effects
- 3 additional pickups: 1Up, energy and energy and repare.
Recommended system requirements are an AGA Amiga with 68020 processor, 2 MB chip RAM and 2 MB FAST RAM. (dr)
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05.Jun.2025
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Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2025 started
The motto of this year's edition of the AmigaGameJam programming competition is 'Return of the Arcade': The task is to create a title that could be set in a typical Arcade and "would be worthy of being given its own arcade cabinet". The deadline for developers is December 1st, and only original game ideas are permitted - no ports. The development of submitted games must not have begun before 1 June. (cg)
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05.Jun.2025
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Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Scalexx converts Scala MM 400 presentations to MM 300 format
Scalexx, which was developed for the Amiga Tools Jam, is an Arexx-script for making Scala scripts made with Scala MM400 compatible with Scala MM300. (cg)
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04.Jun.2025
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Filesysbox.library: Version 54.7 for AmigaOS and AROS/x86 (update)
The FUSE compatible filesysbox.library, which is used by the SMB2 handler, has been updated for AmigaOS 3.x and AROS/x86.
Changes in version 54.6 can be found at the title link.
Update: (11.06.2025, 05:48, dr)
Version 54.7 is now available, which fixes a bug in V54.6.
Download: filesysbox.i386-aros.lha (54 Kb)
filesysbox.m68k-amigaos.lha (100 Kb) (snx)
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03.Jun.2025
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Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2b2
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 POTxDAT registers is now possible
(nba)
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03.Jun.2025
Rolf-Dieter Klein
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Martin Ulrich, co-developer of Ports of Call, has passed away
Martin Ulrich, the co-developer of the Amiga classic Ports of Call, passed away on 31 March 2025 at the age of 76. The sad news was announced by his long-time developer colleague Rolf-Dieter Klein. Ulrich was born on 22 October 1948. Together with Klein, he developed the popular economic simulation game in the late 1980s, in which players build up a shipping company and lead it to success through skilful route planning and freight trading. Ports of Call was first released in 1987 for the Amiga, later also for other systems, and quickly became one of the best-known and longest-running titles in the genre and one of the flagship games of German game developers. To this day, the game enjoys cult status among retro fans. (nba)
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03.Jun.2025
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Tool: EmptyADF 2.0
EmptyADF is an easy-to-use tool with a graphical user interface for creating empty ADF disk images on Amiga systems for use on classic Amigas (with AmigaOS 3.2.x), in Amiga emulators or for backups.
The tool can be used to create DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images with the OFS or FFS file systems. Images with or without a system boot block and images with custom disk labels are also possible. The date of creation or last modification can be assigned.
EmptyADF, which is available as freeware, is now available in version 2.0 for Amigas with Kickstart 2.0+ (with GadTools GUI) or with Kickstart 3.0+ (with ReAction GUI). The new version also runs under AmigaOS 4.x. (nba)
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03.Jun.2025
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Worth a read: The Meaning of Icons
In his latest blog post on datagubbe.se entitled "The Meaning of Icons", Carl Svensson explores how we interpret icons in graphical user interfaces – and why their meaning is often less obvious than we think.
Using numerous examples – from Amiga programs to modern applications such as Microsoft Outlook – Svensson shows that many icons only become understandable through repeated use and cultural influence. He discusses how excessive stylisation and cultural differences can make interpretation difficult and argues for a return to clearer, visually distinguishable symbols.
The blog article is a fascinating journey through the history and design of icons, with a special focus on classic systems such as the Amiga. (nba)
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03.Jun.2025
Stefan Hoeltgen
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Scene World Podcast Episode #215 - Torsten Roeder talks about Diskmags.de
In the latest episode 215 of the Scene World podcast, the hosts spoke with Torsten Roeder about the diskmags.de project. This comprehensive online archive for floppy disk magazines (diskmags) is dedicated to preserving these digital publications for future generations.
Diskmags were magazines published on floppy disks in the 1980s and 1990s that contained articles, graphics, music and even software. Many of these magazines were distributed exclusively within the demo scene and are difficult to find today. The diskmags.de project catalogues and archives these historical artefacts to ensure their accessibility and preservation.
The interview with Torsten Roeder starts at minute 27:36 in the podcast episode. (nba)
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02.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.1
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 changes:
- Fixed two issues with bsdsocket.library
- Fixed issue with stretching in 16bit AGA screens.
- Created accelerator.library
The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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02.Jun.2025
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Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.4a
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 frequencies and note conversion from C-1 to B-3 for ProTracker. The versions 1.4 and 1.4a released today should fix all previously reported bugs in the workflow. (dr)
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02.Jun.2025
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Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v1.00
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, but requires ownership and successful completion of the first part. The recently released version 1.00 offers a revised menu screen and improved resolution switching. (dr)
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02.Jun.2025
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Essay: A Box is not just a Box: Game packaging in the course of time
In a richly illustrated essay, author Beat Suter looks at the development of game packaging over the decades, with a special focus on Swiss games that were available on the open market. (dr)
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