19.May.2025
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Demoparty: Outline 2025 (Ommen/NL, 29.5.-01.6.)
Since 2004, the Outline has been celebrated as a demo party with DJs, live acts and demo competitions and, as every year, takes place on the long weekend around Ascension Day: this year from 29 May to 1 June in Ommen (Netherlands), near the border with Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Started as an Atari party and counterpart to Breakpoint, all platforms are now welcome, as the competitions show: the demo, intro, graphics and music competitions are almost completely open to so-called oldskool and newskool systems, but with a focus on 8-bit computers and PCs. (dr)
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18.May.2025
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Aminet uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to Aminet:
amigaget.lha comm/net 166K OS3 get https files for the...
amigassh.lha comm/net 144K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga
DollMaker.lha demo/misc 155K OS3 A screensaver of sorts
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
MCC_TabGroup.lha dev/mui 89K OS3 Dynamic tab group custo...
TheNetwork.lha docs/misc 109K GEN Classic AmigaOS Program...
SCANdalItaCat.lha driver/oth 10K GEN Italian catalog for SCA...
dsos.lha game/data 61K OS3 Custom maps to 'The...
hack-and-slay.lha game/role 43K OS3 Turn based dungeon craw...
tad.lha game/role 213K OS3 Point'n click adv. ...
ageocad078.lha gfx/misc 1.3M OS3 Geotechnical Cad Softwa...
FroggerNG_207.lha gfx/show 727K OS3 Ultimate MPEG video pla...
AlmaLibre.lha mods/8voic 176K GEN 16bit 6ch Mexican Guita...
IK25.lha mods/misc 61K GEN 16bit 4ch REMASTERED IK...
NAFCYI1992S4-B01.zip text/bfont 1.7M GEN NAFCYI Winter 1992-93 (...
WHDArchiveExtractor.lha util/arc 11K OS3 Automates extraction of...
CompareDirsItaCat.lha util/cli 47K GEN Italian catalog for Com...
gicriptofilex-i386-aros.zip util/crypt 368K ARO Encrypt files using 128...
gicriptofilex.lha util/crypt 131K OS3 Encrypt files using 128...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 71K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
IdentifyPci.lha util/libs 172K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 106K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
AmiKick.zip util/misc 54K OTH Check Kickstart images ...
iGame.lha util/misc 452K VAR Front-end for WHDLoad
ScoutItaCat.lha util/moni 52K GEN Italian catalog for Sco...
GoVD.lha util/wb 35K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
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18.May.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
faac.lha aud/con 80kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
faad2.lha aud/con 217kb 4.1 FAAD2 AAC decoder
libfaac.lha dev/lib 990kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder li...
libfaad.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) De...
libflac.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Free Lossless Audio Codec
libmikmod.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 Portable sound library (music mo...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 6Mb 4.1 Render mod music files as raw au...
libogg.lha dev/lib 430kb 4.1 Library for handling OGG files
libsdl2_mixer.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 Mixer library for Simple DirectM...
libspeex.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A free codec for free speech
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Libraries for handling Ogg Vorbi...
libtheora.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Theora Video Compression Codec
libsdl2_net.lha dev/lib 164kb 4.1 SDL2_net portable network library
libx264.lha dev/lib 12Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line&a...
uae.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Classic Amiga Emulation (JIT + A...
retroarch_cores_insta... emu/gam 244Mb 4.0 Cores for soon to be released Re...
comparedirs.lha uti/fil 362kb 4.1 Compare two dirs for different f...
igame.lha uti/mis 452kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
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18.May.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to AROS Archives:
boh.i386-aros.lha gam/act 29Mb Immersive and innovative dungeon...
gicriptofilex.i386-aros.zip uti/mis 368kb Encrypt files using 128 bit algo...
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18.May.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.05.2025
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
iGame_2.5.0.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Scalar_1.02.lha Games/Think Puzzle Game
Falling-Bricks_1.0.2.lha Games/Think Port of Falling-Bricks ...
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18.May.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.05.2025
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 17.05.2025:
(snx)
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18.May.2025
Mike Battilana (Facebook)
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Gail Wellington passed away
On Thursday Gail Wellington passed away at the age of 85. Born on January 14, 1940 in Yonkers, New York, she was one of Commodore International's best-known personalities through her work as head of the "Commodore Applications and Technical Support" (CATS) department, which was founded for her, and her involvement in the Amiga CDTV.
Her career in this field began in 1981 at Commodore UK, as a technical writer - starting with a manual about writing software manuals for external developers of programs for the Commodore PET - where she eventually became head of the software department. Three years later at Commodore Electronics Ltd, she took over software sales to and support for the independent distributors.
In spring of 1985, at the CeBIT computer exposition in Hanover, Germany, her supervisor, Bob Gleadow, asked her to travel to Los Gatos for three weeks to work with the Amiga developers whose company Commodore had bought in August. This turned into three months in which Gail Wellington mediated between the West Coast and Commodore's marketing department on the East Coast of the USA and kept the management up to date on progress and costs. During this time she was also involved in the planning and coordination of the official launch of the Amiga at Lincoln Center in New York on July 23rd, a major event with Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry, which, like many others, required her to work 7-day weeks and travel extensively.
Back in England at Commodore Electronics, she took charge of marketing and recruiting developers for the Amiga, which led to her return to the USA in October 1986 and appointment as worldwide Amiga Product Manager and in 1987 head of CATS, where she oversaw all worldwide developer activities, managed the Amiga DevCon events and ensured the successful sale of Commodore's products by ensuring the availability of high quality third party application software and hardware. CATS consisted of technical, administrative and marketing staff.
These assignments ended with Mehdi Ali's presidency of Commodore International, who made her Director of Special Projects. The first special project was the development and launch of the Amiga CDTV, code-named "Gail's Baby". Gail Wellington and her team oversaw the software side, while Don Gilbreath and his team were responsible for the hardware side. Her tasks included bringing software developers on board and conducting product demonstrations. However, the CDTV was not a commercial success and Gail Wellington was dismissed in 1992.
After a brief stint as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OptImage Interactive Services, which was involved with Philips' CD-i, she ended up working full-time at "Three Peas in a Pod Florist" in Pennsylvania, which she had previously purchased with her daughter. (snx)
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18.May.2025
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Virtual desktops for the Workbench: GoVD 2.4 with AmigaOS 4.1 compatibility
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 or higher. It is possible to specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the screens. The current version 2.4 now also offers improved compatibility with AmigaOS 4.1.
This means that it is now possible to use the full range of functions, including the GoVD-conf configuration program, under this operating system without any restrictions in terms of options and stability.
GoVD includes the following features:
- Up to eight independent virtual screens
- Freely positionable panel for switching between screens
- Keyboard shortcut support for quick screen switching and hiding
- Integration with the Exchange Commodity
GoVD is shareware and can be used unregistered for 20 minutes at a time. Registration is based on voluntary donations, developers of Aminet-listed programs can apply for free registration. (snx)
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18.May.2025
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FreePascal: Video of Markdown usage on the Amiga
Markdown is a format in which structured documents can be created with plain text. Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has now used the Markdown processor for FreePascal to write down notes in Markdown format in the browser and convert them into HTML to display them as a web page. A video demonstrates this. (snx)
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17.May.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 148 of Amiga Future available online
The English and German issue 148 (January/February 2021) of the print magazine ‘Amiga Future’ can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine and a higher-resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (cg)
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17.May.2025
GitHub
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.4
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga discs and disc images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP). Version 2.4 adds an options form to declutter the main form, changes the disk type names and adds a button to load the HxC Software. (cg)
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17.May.2025
Richard 'Shred' Körber (Mail)
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Tool: identify library 45.0 now recognizes PCI cards
Richard “Shred” Körber's identify.library collects all kinds of system parameters and provides the user with information on CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency, etc., for example. Version 45.0 includes support for PCI cards for the first time. The author explains the new features in this release as follows:
"In order to recognise PCI boards, the openpci.library by Thomas Richter must be installed. In addition, the database file "pci.db" from the new IdentifyPci package must be copied into the S: directory. The database is based on the work of The PCI ID Repository, but has been shrunk to a manageable floppy disc size. (I decided against using their "pci.ids" for reasons of space and performance).
The query is performed using the new IdPciExpansion() function, which works in a relatively similar way to IdExpansion() for the Zorro extensions. The supplied ListExp tool already uses the function, other tools must be extended.
PCI detection is still in the beta phase. I look forward to your feedback!
Another new feature is the category of "virtual extensions", which are not recognised at boot time but are added later. The openpci.library creates several such virtual extensions per PCI card, which quickly makes the list of Zorro extensions confusing. ListExp now only shows these extensions as a total ("+ 16 virtual extensions"). With the new VIRTUAL option, however, they can still be displayed as normal in the list.
What else? The new AmiGUS sound card is recognised. The new tag IDTAG_EmptyIfUnknown now returns an empty string for unknown manufacturers and boards (instead of the numeric ID). And I threw a few small errors out of the include files, one of them even dates back to the very early Amiga days. :D
As always, the release is already available at Codeberg or on AmiNet." (cg)
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16.May.2025
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Preview video: Arcade game "Gemdalus"
RETREAM is about to create "Gemdalus" (video), an arcade game in which the player has to collect all the gems scattered around the labyrinths. Inspired by Snake, the player leaves behind a kind of band of light when collecting gems, which he himself is not allowed to break through. However, like a stretched rubber band, it is possible to snap back. (dr)
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16.May.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.2 for Windows, Linux and macOS
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). The library is currently being developed under the responsibility of Tomasz Wolak. Changes in version 0.10.2:
- unadf: fix extracting tree for read-only directories
It is also pointed out with regard to the Windows binaries that these apparently had unexpected dependencies on debug versions of the Visual Studio runtime DLLs, which are missing on normal Windows (without Visual Studio installed). The current version should be free of this problem, but could not be tested in advance. If anyone has the possibility to verify this, please report it in the corresponding issue of the GitHub repository. (dr)
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16.May.2025
demoparty.net
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Demoparty: Xenium 2025 in Poland (21.-24.08.)
This year's edition of the Xenium demoparty will take place from 21 to 24 August in Łódź, Poland, under the theme of Fables for Robots: a series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, first printed in 1964.
In addition to various competitions - the organisers are providing an A1200 with a 060/50 turbo card, 128 MB RAM and AmigaOS 3.1 for Amiga entries - the event time table also includes seminars and concerts. More details will follow. (dr)
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15.May.2025
AROSONE (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.0 64Bit (ABI v11)
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 (VirtualBox, VMware and QEMU) and for some, but not yet all, of the hardware components supported by the 32-bit version. To learn more about the developments planned for the coming months, please consult our Development Plan .
AROS One v1.0 incorporates the entire AROS 64-bit Build (ABIv11), and also includes all software available on Arosarchive and all software from the Contrib package dedicated to AROS 64-bit (ABIv11). AROS One 64Bit is distributed with the graphical appearance, icons and scripts of version 2.8 of AROS One 32Bit. The download is available both as an ISO version and as a USB Image version (Live Pendrive).
(cg)
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15.May.2025
ppa.pl (Webseite)
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Programming competition: Amiga 40 Tools Jam
On the occasion of the Amiga's 40th birthday, a programming competition is being organized on itch.io with cash prizes to be won. The actual prize money can still change until the end of the competition, Amiga fans are called upon to help with donations.
The following rules apply to the competition:
- You may only submit something that was made during the time of this jam was open.
- You must state which category your entry belongs to, using 1 to 5 words.
- You may submit more than one entry to the jam, but please dont submit separate revisions of the same tool as new entries.
- Tools must work on a real/emulated Classic Amiga, e.g. Workbench 1.0-1.3, 2.0-2.1, 3.0-3.9, or Cloanto/AROS. No OS4.
- You may use any programming language and/or compiler to make your entry.
- You must include information about system requirements, bugs, WIPs, ToDOs etc.
- Documentation on how to install and/or use must be included.
- Topics such as soft and legal drug use, sexual innuendo, and faiths and religious tools ARE allowed.
- You may NOT submit anything that is malicious or harmful in content. For example, hard drug use, pornography, self harm, rape, or questionable psychological or religious manipulation tools (such as Racism, Provocation Speech, Extremism, Scientology, etc).
- You many NOT submit comments or tools which seem impolite, rude, or in bad taste. However, it is ok to submit tools which seem to go against a politically correct stance, if those tools are meant as a joke.
- The organizer has the right to kick and ban anything or anybody.
- The organizer's decision about the winners of the compo, based on user submitted votes only, is final.
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15.May.2025
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Video: PiStorm68K - Update Version 1.3
The PiStorm68k is compatible various models of the Raspberry Pi generations 3 and 4 and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. It is possible to switch between the emulated and the real CPU using a simple switch. Developer Ranko Rodic has published another video in which he presents the current version 1.3 of his project and explains the differences to the previous revision. (cg)
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15.May.2025
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Music-Disk: "Fat Tracks Vol. 10" von Artstate
"Fat Tracks Vol. 10" (Video) is a music disc from Artstate with 13 tracks by musicians such as Jogeir Liljedahl, Virgil, Slash and Alex Menchi. (cg)
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15.May.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: screenshots for "The King's Ransom"
'The King's Ransom' was supposed to be an arcade adventure in the style of 'Wrath of the Demon', but was cancelled so that the developers could work on a console game that was considered more urgent. The entry at 'Amiga Games That Weren't' has now been supplemented by numerous recently surfaced screenshots. (cg)
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14.May.2025
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: CellBasics announced (update)
MorphOS developer Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek announces his "CellBasics" program in the MorphZone with just one screenshot. The screenshot shows the entry of addresses as in a simple database, but the name and the appearance are more reminiscent of a spreadsheet. Apparently, rows and columns can already be inserted or deleted at the current stage of development, and CSV is used as the storage format.
Update: (16:55, 14.05.25, snx)
As Jacek Piszczek has since explained, the standard Excel syntax has already been implemented, but the common functions still need to be programmed. Standard mathematical operations or referencing other cells or cell ranges do already work, though. CellBasics is an almost completely self-written program, only the formula parser and the routines for loading xlsx files would be ports of open source libraries. (snx)
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