25.Mar.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 168 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
The latest issue 168 contains an MSXdev24 special as well as reviews of four Amiga games: Apocalypse, Super Raid IV, Maths Adventure and Helm. (nba)
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25.Mar.2025
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Puzzle game: Level-Editor for Pjusk
An official level editor has now been released for the recently published game Pjusk (amiga-news.de reported, video). The game, in which players have to find their way through a maze strategically, has thus gained a new creative component.
Developer Zoopendan hopes to "see lots of brilliant levels made by the community". Exciting: anyone who submits a level that makes it onto the planned expansion disc will be named in the game.
So now it's up to the community – create levels and become part of the game! (nba)
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25.Mar.2025
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Seq 3.0: MIDI sequencer for AmigaOS 4 has been updated
The new version 3.0 of the MIDI sequencer Seq by Tuomas Hokka is now available for AmigaOS 4. This simple tool allows you to create and edit MIDI sequences and is aimed at musicians who want to use their Amiga as a compositional tool. The current update includes numerous improvements, including to the user interface and MIDI output.
All changes to version 3.0 summarised:
- FIXED one major bug in saving project: Too many bytes were written so it was filled with zero bytes and that will break reading one integer value in the project file. This will be fixed automatically in loading project. User will be prompted to choose to save the project immediately after.
- Fixed bugs
- New song (long) mode to One time track, added One time banks
- Increased number of song steps to 96, project files version increased to 9
- Added more settings to alt/double note
- Alt notes displayed in steps better
- Some font sizes increased
- Added new tooltype to set large font
- Refactored some parts of the source code for better maintainability and to avoid bugs
Seq is offered as freeware and can be downloaded from OS4Depot. (nba)
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25.Mar.2025
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Worth a read: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS
In the latest blog post on Datagubbe.se, entitled "BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS", Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson takes a look at an often-overlooked detail of AmigaDOS: using the rarely documented terms BRA and KET, the article shows how to easily embed variables in strings. (nba)
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25.Mar.2025
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A1200NG: New blog and release date
The British developer and distributor AmigaKit has set up a new blog for the announced ARM-based motherboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported) to provide information about the product.
The motherboard was originally scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2025, but the shop now lists April as the release date. The regular price for the board with a 64 GB MicroSD card is the equivalent of around 192 euros.
It is noticeable that the motherboard is referred to as "The A1200 NG" instead of the original announced "A1200NG" in various places on the blog and on the homepage. However, the project has nothing in common with the retro computer THE A1200 announced by Retro Games Ltd. and recently postponed due to legal uncertainties. (nba)
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24.Mar.2025
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Checkmate 19" IPS monitor : Pre-order from German dealer
The German mail order company DragonBox has been offering Checkmate products since 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, you can also pre-order the Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor, which was successfully financed via Kickstarter at the end of 2022, as a "Scalar Pack" for 939 Euros.
Monitors and accessories are expected to be delivered in mid-May 2025. Only the Scalar Packs or the Mister/DE10 and Raspberry Pi installation kits (pods) can be pre-ordered as part of the first batch. The Starter Packs for 709 Euros will only be available with the second batch, which will be produced as soon as the first batch is sold out.
The Scalar Pack consists of the Starter Pack and the Scalar Pod. The Checkmate 19" IPS monitor offers a modular slot system that provides space for three different extensions, called pods. A standard pod is included, which offers A/V and HDMI inputs. The Scalar Pod offers additional inputs such as EGA, SCART, Component and RF. (dr)
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24.Mar.2025
HoysterGames
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Shoot'em Up: Demo update for "Rex and the Galactic Plague"
"Rex and the Galactic Plague" (video) is a vertically scrolling shooter that the developer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before switching to the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of the new demo version:
- Difficulty options (easy / normal / hard) - some enemies only appear in normal or hard modes, attack patterns can vary and various other gameplay elements are affected
- Continues (the amount you get depends on the difficulty you choose)
- New bosses for both levels
- New or tweaked enemy attack patterns
- New animations for some enemies
- Updated sound effects
- Level two extended and remixed
- Difficulty has been balanced
- Rex now becomes briefly invulnerable after taking a hit
- Increased base speed for Rex
- Reworked smart bomb function
- Smart bombs available from the start (different number according to the difficulty selected)
- Improvements to the shield power up
- Energy bars for bosses
- Four fantastic new music tracks
- Updated title screen with options including controls and credits
- New story screens between levels, plus other presentation screens
- Some general nips and tucks to improve performance
(dr)
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24.Mar.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.12.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- New Writer : Mame MFI files.
- FLTK updated to v1.4.2
- CI : Fix Windows XP x86 support
(dr)
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24.Mar.2025
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SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5.1
Version 5.1 of the SCSI2Pi emulation software has been released. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode (amiga-news.de reported).
Changes in version 5.1:
- The INQUIRY product data (vendor, product, revision) for the device type SCSG (e.g. SCSI-to-USB bridge) are configurable, just like they are for other types. The configured data replace the actual data reported by the USB device.
- The sector cache has been optimized.
- s2pdump in case of errors supports retries when saving/restoring hard drive images.
The software can be downloaded from the SCSI2Pi-website. (dr)
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23.Mar.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.3.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately. Changes of the new version:
- New installer for easy and customisable installation
- Localisation support for 22 languages
- Removed close gadgets from API Key and Chat System requester windows
- Chat system requester text entry field is now multiline and supports clipboard
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,2MB) (dr)
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23.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 22.03.2025
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to Aminet:
Butterfly2.lha dev/c 5.2M MOS Music and drawing in C ...
F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 7K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP
Mega-ATcad.lha gfx/edit 1.6M OS3 2D-CAD-Program
Fractel24.lha gfx/misc 1.2M OS3 Fractel24 generates ima...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
logikus-simulator.zip misc/emu 82K OS3 LOGIKUS-Simulator incl....
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 127K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pen...
KarateKidTheme.lha mods/8voic 2.6M GEN 16bit 14ch Karate Kid A...
MultiCX_148.lha util/cdity 16K OS3 MultiCX Commodity v1.48...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.6M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
Pi_Demos.zip util/shell 94K GEN Calculate PI in pure AM...
GoVD.lha util/wb 30K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
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23.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.03.2025
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lfi-png2amiga.lha gra/ico 230kb 4.1 convert PNG icons to Amiga icon ...
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23.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.03.2025
The following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to AROS Archives:
minislug.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/act 8Mb a metal slug game
minislug.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/act 8Mb a metal slug game
hocoslamfy.x86_64-aros-v1... gam/mis 3Mb SDL Flappy Bird clone.
openjazz.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/pla 751kb open-source version of the class...
biniax2.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 4Mb Simple and child friendly logica...
gnurobbo.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 3Mb open source reimplementation of ...
tinytris.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 3Mb a clone of the classic game Tetris
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23.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.03.2025
The following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_3.2.8.lha Development/Library Simple Directmedia Laye...
butterfly2.lha Development/SDL2 Music and drawing in C ...
AmiArcadia_34.1.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
BreakHack_4.1.2.lha Games/Role A casual coffee-break r...
SpaceDrifterDX_1.0.lha Games/Shoot2D SpaceDrifterDX port
Blips_2.0.lha Games/Think Port of Blips (SDL3)
Easy2Install_1.0.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
Markdown-Viewer_1.1.lha Network/Web Allow to view markdown ...
AmigaTText_1.5.lha Network/Web Shows GER Teletext Site...
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23.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.03.2025
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 22.03.2025:
- 2025-03-21 improved: Black Dawn II (Andrew Campbell) support Ross fixed version (Info)
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23.Mar.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Turrican 3 Payment Day Title Music
- Deep Core (Remastered)
- OutRun Passing Breeze Live Performance
- Shadow of the Beast, Aarbron's Revenge (Vandahlia Special Remix)
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23.Mar.2025
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Game: Battleship
After almost thirty years, Turkish Amiga.org member 'hggurak' has improved his game "Battleship" and translated it into English. It has been written in AMOS in 1996 on his Amiga 500. (snx)
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22.Mar.2025
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Monochrome arcade game: Go! Tony Go!
In "Go! Tony Go!" (video) from Monochrome Productions, the aim is to avoid obstacles and collect bonus items by jumping or ducking. Like Tony Montezuma's Gold from the same development team, the game is designed entirely in black and white. (cg)
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22.Mar.2025
BeWorld
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MorphOS: BreakHack 4.1.2
BreakHack is a SDL-based Roguelike. The MorphOS port was done by 'BeWorld' and is the first game to use the updated implementation of the SDL libraries from the same author. (cg)
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21.Mar.2025
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.2.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.2.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools v1.22 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item about version 5.2.1:
- Device/COM: Refresh button "?"
- Multiple connected "devices/COM" (e.g. COM3 and COM4 available): Buttons "Reset", "Bandwidth", "Info" and delays "Info"
- Greaseweazle: Hardware select: Support for Adafruit RP2040 for e.g. "--device COM6"
- GUI: Resizing to minimum values
- Read/Write/Convert: Usage of all arguments now only if "View|Show all arguments" is checked
- Menu: Renamed "View" "Show/Use all arguments"
- GUI: Host scaling setting (e.g. 125%) fixes
(dr)
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21.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.6 for Linux and macOS
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator based on the current WinUAE version for Linux and macOS. The new version 7.0.6 offers several improvements and bug fixes. (dr)
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21.Mar.2025
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Worth a read: A history of user interface design
The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson analyzes the development of user interfaces in a new article on Datagubbe.se entitled "Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design" - with a special focus on futuristic interface designs of past decades.
Starting with a look at old books on user guidance and GUI design, the author asks how the often lofty visions of the future from back then (such as touchscreen workstations or holographic interfaces) have developed in reality - or not. Particular attention is paid to the question of whether today's interfaces have actually become simpler and more accessible, or whether they are merely based on new models without really being more efficient.
The blog post is both informative and tongue-in-cheek – and offers exciting insights for anyone interested in design history, interface philosophy or simply digital nostalgia. (nba)
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20.Mar.2025
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Retro Games: new Amiga 'console' delayed, will be called "THE A1200"
Press release: As everyone knows, it has long been our intention to release a full-size sequel to THE A500 mini in Q1 of 2025. Despite the best efforts of our team and partners, this will sadly not be possible within that timeline.
Unfortunately, the ongoing legal disputes between Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga parties are preventing us from proceeding with manufacturing. Many of you in 'The Amiga scene' will recall that Hyperion initiated legal action against the Amiga parties in 2018, and in 2019 they even tried, unsuccessfully, to challenge the release of THE A500 Mini, despite such interference being a "Hyperion Prohibited Action" under their 2009 Settlement Agreement.
Our friends at Amiga and Cloanto, who have supported us throughout the development of THEC64, THEVIC20, and THE A500 mini, have been working tirelessly to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible. However, our manufacturing and retail partners have chosen to postpone the release of our full-sized machine until the legal situation is fully resolved. We appreciate the disappointment and frustration that these delays cause, but unfortunately the situation is completely beyond our control.
In the near future, we will share more details about the machine itself, including images, features and software line-up, including one brand new game that will make its debut on the machine. We will also issue a revised release date which will be as soon as is practically possible.
Thank you for your continued patience and support. We do understand that you are as frustrated as we are. Whilst these legal issues do not directly involve us, they do of course have an effect on what we do. Everyone is working hard to resolve these issues as quickly as possible, and we believe that a resolution is in sight.
In the light of the ongoing delays, we think it's only fair to share with you that the machine is to be called... 'THE A1200'
Update: (21.03.2025, 15:00, cg)
In a statement on Facebook, Hyperion responds to the press release from Retro Games Limited (screenshot):
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA
Hi Retro Games,
As you know, Hyperion Entertainment underwent a change in ownership and management in December last year.
So far, we — the new owners and management — have not been contacted by you in any way.
That is how it is, but just to set the record straight: We have nothing against what you want to do and would be happy to start discussions.
Have a nice day!
Best regards,
Hyperion Entertainment
(cg)
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20.Mar.2025
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Tutorial: converting WAV samples to IFF
Fabio Falcucci describes in his latest blog post how he converts WAV samples into the Amiga specific IFF format. (cg)
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19.Mar.2025
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Event: FAQ released regarding Classic Computing 2025 in Hof (Germany)
As reported, the next Classic Computing, organized by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.", will take place from September 11-14 in the Freiheitshalle Hof (Bavaria, Germany). A FAQ collection with details of the event has now been published at the title link. (snx)
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19.Mar.2025
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Event: Brief report from AUGS meeting 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland)
Last weekend the latest meeting of the Amiga Users Group Switzerland took place in Zurich (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link, the association briefly looks back on it. (snx)
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19.Mar.2025
Amigatronics (ANF)
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Demoscene: SampleMind interviews Hoffman
At the title link 'SampleMind' has conducted a half-hour interview with the musician, DJ, coder and demoscener 'Hoffman'. It covers his career, his approach to chiptune composing, the influence of the Amiga on his path and his latest projects. (snx)
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19.Mar.2025
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Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.09 / Boxed version / Review
Amiga Yoomp! is the conversion of an Atari 8-bit title from 2007. Version 1.09 has now been released, which adds a music mode menu so that additional music tracks can be selected.
Collectors can also purchase the game in a box from the Polish Komoda & Amiga plus magazine. Tony 'AmigaGuru' Aksnes has written a review of this version in his blog. (snx)
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18.Mar.2025
viddi (ANF)
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Pre-order campaign: The Piano Collection III with Allister Brimble
Following the successful releases of the two albums Piano Collection and Piano Collection II with Chris Hülsbeck (amiga-news.de reported) the pianist and music producer Patrick Nevian returns with a possible third album in the series - this time in collaboration with another legendary Amiga composer: Allister Brimble.
Brimble, known for his iconic soundtracks to games such as Alien Breed, Superfrog and Project-X, is providing a selection of his most famous works for this album. The tracks are reimagined by Patrick Nevian on the piano and arranged in an intimate, classical style, similar to the previous piano collection series.
The official announcement is made via a YouTube video that gives a first teaser of the upcoming album.
Fans now have the opportunity to register their interest in a limited physical release. To be included, send an email to Patrick Nevian with the subject "Allister Brimble TPC III" by 17 April 2025 at the latest.
The following options are available:
- audio CD for 25 EUR incl. shipping
- audio CD plus limited USB stick for 59 EUR incl. shipping
The physical album will be available exclusively through this campaign. The release is planned for the third quarter of 2025. (nba)
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18.Mar.2025
Indie Retro News
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Speed Haste: MS-DOS racing game ported to the Amiga
The fun shareware racing game Speed Haste, originally developed by NoriaWorks for MS-DOS, has now been successfully ported to the Amiga by Szilard Biro. The game, which gained great popularity in the 90s, offers classic arcade action with Formula 1 and stock car racing, twelve different vehicles and eight different tracks.
The Amiga port requires powerful hardware and at least a 68040 or 68060 processor with FPU, as well as AGA or a graphics card and 4 MB of Fast RAM. The keyboard, joystick or CD32 pad can be used for control. Due to the game's shareware status, only a few tracks and vehicles are available; registration of the game is no longer possible. Nevertheless, it is worth taking a closer look at the game and giving it a few goes.
In addition to the Amiga port published on Aminet, you need three files (SPEED.CFG, RECORDS. LST, SPEEDH.JCL and CR.JCL) from the DOS version of Speed Haste, which have to be copied into the game directory on the Amiga. (nba)
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18.Mar.2025
Electric Black Sheep
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Game: New update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
The team at Electric Black Sheep has updated its space opera "Star Dust Wars – Director's Cut" on a technical level.
The animations have been reprocessed using a new method, which means they are the same size but in slightly better quality. The length of one level in the CD32 version has been shortened by 20%, bringing the ISO size down to under 1CD-700MB, but it is still not recommend to play it on real hardware because of the reading speed. A bug in the AMOS animation player is being fixed, so the problem that the size of a frame cannot exceed 32 KB has been resolved. Thanks to this and the new processing method, the size of the EHB version has been significantly reduced (from 1.63 GB to 1.23 GB)!
Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut ideally requires an Amiga 1200 with a hard disc, accelerator card and Fast RAM, and can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation. (nba)
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17.Mar.2025
Hacker News
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Blog: Amiga 600 - The Amiga no one wanted
Dave Farquhar is a computer security expert who runs the blog "Silicon Underground?" where he writes about computers that aren't usually in the spotlight.
In his latest blog post, he writes about the Amiga 600 and why it became a symbol of everything that was wrong with Commodore and the product line. (dr)
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17.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.8.7
Amiberry-lite is an Amiga emulator based on WinUAE 4.4 and, in contrast to its big brother Amiberry (amiga-news.de reported), is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 5.8.7 has been released here. (dr)
[News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:28] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2025
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Video: The AlgoMusic music program
AlgoMusic is a complex music program that randomly generates and plays a song from a series of algorithms in a techno/house style. In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the program, which was written by Thomas Schürger in 1995, and takes a look at his later work SoundHelix.
Finally, he provides information on the "state of the art" in artificially generated computer music. (dr)
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17.Mar.2025
Acneproduction
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Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: New playable demo of "BDTZ"
BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) is a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze of streets. Ammunition is scarce and shots attract more zombies (amiga-news.de reported).
The new demo version offers a new intro, improved graphics, a newly introduced female zombie character, new sound effects and minor bug fixes. You can choose from three levels and in order to play it, you need both adf files.
The game is still in development, but two playable demos have already been released in the last two weeks. BDTZ should run on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of RAM. (dr)
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16.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to Aminet:
AmigaTText-m68k-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.0M OS3 Shows GER Teletext Site...
AmigaTText-ppc-amigaos.lha comm/misc 2.7M OS4 Shows GER Teletext Site...
AmigaTText-ppc-morphos.lha comm/misc 2.4M MOS Shows GER Teletext Site...
AmigaTText-ppc-warpup.lha comm/misc 2.3M WUP Shows GER Teletext Site...
amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga
anaiis.lha driver/oth 256K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas...
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 261K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 85K OS3 Massive / rMassstorage....
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 414K OS3 Driver for G3/G4 PCI ca...
Nightshade.adf game/actio 880K OS3 A game inspired by A.C....
AbsoluteZero.lha game/jump 1.4M OS3 AGA puzzle platformer g...
silhouette-threat-AGA-HD.lha game/jump 438K OS3 Level 1 of Platformer S...
speedhaste.lha game/race 318K OS3 Speed Haste / Circuit R...
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...
OkinawaTeaCer.lha mods/32bit 1.4M GEN 16bit 6ch Karate Kid 2 ...
OkinawaTeaCer.zip mods/8voic 32K GEN 16bit 6ch Karate Kid 2 ...
pfetch.lha util/moni 23K GEN Pretty fetch for MorphO...
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 450kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lfi-png2amiga.lha gra/ico 224kb 4.1 convert PNG icons to Amiga icon ...
viivi.lha gra/vie 323kb 4.1 Picture viewer
afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
videovortex.lha vid/pla 5Mb 4.1 A frontend for YT to search/view...
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16.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Asylum_0.3.2.lha Games/Platform Port of Asylum
Stockfish-17.lha Games/Think Port of Stockfish 17
LoadModel_1.0.lha Graphics/3D Port of OpenGL LoadModel
cmark-gfm-0.29.0.gfm.1... Text/Convert Port of cmark-gfm
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16.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.03.2025
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 15.03.2025:
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16.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives: New URL
Following conservation of the forum AROS-Exec, AROS Archives continued to be accessible via the domain aros-exec.org. Now that it has expired, also this file collection can be found via AROSWorld at the title link (as an alias for arosarchives.os4depot.net). (snx)
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16.Mar.2025
Howard Price (ANF)
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Amiga disassembler with emulator: Aira Force 0.9.2 (Windows, Linux, macOS & RPi)
By version 0.9.0 Howard Price released a major update of his disassembler Aira Force for Amiga programs under Windows/64-Bit, Windows/32-Bit, macOS, Linux/64-Bit an the Raspberry Pi. Version 0.9.2 (video) adds blitter fill mode, which is essential for many demos and games such as Another World and F/A-18 Interceptor. It also adds improved DMA debugging and fixes many compatibility issues.
Highlights of the new version:
- Blitter onedot line mode and fill mode = filled vector graphics
- Add DMA window and improve DMA overlay
- Emulator compatibility improvements
- Find hex bytes
- Fix watchpoints
(snx)
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15.Mar.2025
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Simon variant in the style of International Karate: International Kopicat Plus
"International Kopicat Plus" (video) is a variant of the classic electronic game Simon, which has been upgraded with animated graphics in the style of International Karate+. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2025
Paulee Bow (ANF)
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Rare sound cards: AD516 and One Stop Music Shop
In a short video, Paulee Bow presents the two rare sound cards "AD516" and "One Stop Music Shop" installed in his A3000. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.19 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.19 LTS (“long-term support”), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The X1000/X5000-specific changes are:
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Mar.2025
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Blog: Copyright and the Demo Scene
In a blog post, Carl Svensson takes a look at the demo scene and its relationship to copyright, including a foray into the history of the (Amiga) scene. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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14.Mar.2025
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Platformer: First demo version of Phantom Leap
HooGames 2017 is currently working on several projects: after a first preview video of a Zelda-like game (amiga-news.de reported), a first demo version of the platformer "Phantom Leap" (video) developed with the Scorpion Engine was released today: in typical Giana Sisters style, you make your way through initially four playable levels and try to "head out" and collect as many coins as possible. The game runs on any Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion. (dr)
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14.Mar.2025
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.0
Version 3.10.0 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, he has put a lot of effort into the stability of the overall package and fixed many bugs. The changes at a glance:
PED
- fixed problem when reloading source file with same file name but different paths
- fixed a gotoline bug, gotoline now displays the current line number instead of "0"
- fixed several mungwall hits reported by MuGuardianAngel
- rewrite of printing routines, source drawing ia now much faster
- rewrite of block selection routine
- killing a block selection will now join both lines enclosing the selection
- improved rendering of cursor
- removed support for italic remarks
- changed behaviour of "Save & Create executable": if the filenames are known, PED will not ask for them each time
- added wheelmouse support to sourcebrowser window
- added tooltip on file tab
- added symbols for debugging mode and tokenization mode in message line
- added feature if mouse click is done with LSHIFT, a block will be selected
REDDebugger
- fixed bug that did not show error messages in status area anymore
- fixed bug crashing on Kick 2.0 due to usage of HelpControl() that is only available with Kick2.1
- started to improve GUI by switching to gadtools for some windows
Compiler
- fixed "Could not allocate memeory" bug in CLI-mode
- fixed bug that corrupted the cli-structure of the shell in CLI-mode
- fixed bug that prevented upper case file extentions
- fixed an openlibrary call before adding local libs-directory to LIBS:-assign
- fixed several mungwall hits reported by MuGuardianAngel
- new feature for userlibs: if a lib is placed in that drawer that libnumber is already loaded, it will replace the already loaded blitzlib. That simplifies testing libchanges a lot
Blitzlibs
- disassembled RIPacklib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled RIFNSlib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled blitzoslib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled maxlenlib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled maxslib converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled lotanmemlib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- disassembled datalib and converted to ab3 compatible source
- improved example for RIFNSlib and recompiled lib to work again
- added example code for blitzoslib
- updated ptplayerlib to version 6.4 and updated example
- added warp3dlib and autodocs
other
- fixed icons to be shown nicely with every Workbench version
- fixed AB3FDConvert utility to work with current blitzlibs drawer structure
Download: Amiblitz3100.lha (11 MB) (dr)
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Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 2.21 (update)
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 2.2 - tagged as the "final release" by the author - offers the following new features:
- New weapon (gravity bomb): missile which creates a point of high gravity, which attracts only your opponent. Contact with that point recudes energy of your opponent.
- problems with the speed of the intro screen solved.
- extended main music tune
- A new nasty gimmick, which inverts left/right of your Joystick for a short time.
- Extended game intro
- Bugfixes
Hyper Wings has been optimised for the Amiga 500 (1 MB RAM, OCS), but also runs on all other Amigas.
Update: (14.03.2025, 22:10, dr)
Version 2.21 offers better performance and stability.
(dr)
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13.Mar.2025
mithrendal (E-Mail)
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Amiga emulator for the web: vAmigaWeb 4.0
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.0 and therefore also supports "Workspaces": these are resource packages that contain the complete Amiga configuration, installed ROMs, floppy disks and hard disks and, unlike the previous "Snapshot" format, are no longer tied to specific versions of vAmiga but will work with all future versions.
In the future, it is planned to export all created workspaces to a ZIP file and import such a file so that all created configurations can be easily backed up and shared with several devices. (cg)
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12.Mar.2025
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DiagROM 2.0 Alpha and (German) Tutorial for usage of the DiagROM
DiagROM is a diagnostic software that is burned into an EPROM by the user and then replaces the regular Kickstart ROM of an Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The alpha version 2.0 has now been released at the title link.
At the same time, Domingo Fivoli has published a two-part German tutorial for the previous version 1.3 on his blog. (snx)
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12.Mar.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Review of the SiI3112 PCI SATA card from Rabbit Hole
George 'walkero' Sokianos has published a review of the SATA PCI card from Rabbit Hole under AmigaOS 4 at the title link at IntuitionBase. The card is based on the SiI3112 chip from Silicon Image. (snx)
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12.Mar.2025
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Puzzle game: Pjusk
The aim of Pjusk is to find your way through a labyrinth by tackling enemies in a carefully considered sequence in order to open doors and collect resources.
The game comprises 24 levels and requires at least an Amiga 500 with 512 KB of additional slow mem. (snx)
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11.Mar.2025
amiga.org
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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.106 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.106 since the last news update at a glance:
New modules
- ASPRS LAS *.LAS Load
- CloudCompare Binary v1 *.BIN Save
- CloudCompare Simple Binary Format *.SBF/SBF.DATA Save
- Heroes of Annihilated Empires *.C2M Load
- Loksim3D *.L3DOBJ Load
- OpenBVE *.B3D Load
- Point Cloud Data ASCII *.PCD Save
- Point Cloud Data Binary *.PCD Save
- PolyNova3D *.SCN Load
- Screamer 4x4 *.SPL Load
- Skoki Narciarskie 2006 *.XBN Load
New features
- Texture converter: DirectDraw Surface .dds (DXT1,DXT5) to Skoki Narciarskie 2006 .texture converter
- Texture converter: Skoki Narciarskie 2006 .texture to DirectDraw Surface .dds (DXT1,DXT5) converter
- Texture converter: Skoki Narciarskie 2006 .texture to DirectDraw Surface .dds (DXT1,DXT5) converter
- Geometry transformation (Tools/Geometry transformation)
Texture converters
- Ridge Racer Unbounded (.bmap) to DirectDraw Surface (.dds) converter
- Microsoft Windows Bitmap (.bmp) to Laghaim (.wxy) converter
- Kill la Kill IF .cvt to .dds (DXT5) converter
- DirectDraw Surface .dds (DXT1,DXT5) to Abyss Engine .aei converter
- DirectDraw Surface (.dds) (DXT1,DXT3,DXT5) to Aika Online (.jit) converter
- Aika Online (.jit) to DirectDraw Surface (.dds) (DXT1,DXT3,DXT5) converter
- Fantasy Tennis .tex to DirectDraw Surface .dds (DXT1,DXT3,DXT5) converter
- Custom Maid 3D 2 .tex to Portable Network Graphics .png converter
- Fast and Furious 8 .zbp to Better Portable Graphics .bpg converter
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10.Mar.2025
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Music tips
To kick off the new week, we would like to present our readers with a few music tips:
The Swedish software and hardware developer 'mbitsnbites', who for example has published SoundBox, a synth music tracker and editor written in HTML5 for creating music for small JavaScript demos, had written an Amiga song called Old Fashion as a teenager in the early 90s, which he gave a "Facelifting".
One of Metin Seven's favourite Amiga tracker music modules is Piggie's Hut, released by Romeo Knight in 1993: according to Seven, it is an energetic composition that uses various heavy metal-style sound samples. And it shows that "computers don't just produce bleeps and bloops".
Tell Me Lies (video) by XCOPY was created on a Commodore Amiga with ProTracker 2.3f. As the author writes: "There is no beginning or end, you can listen on loop. Let synesthesia emerge."
'LukHash' is a musician based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He describes his music as a "fusion of digital 8-bit chaos and 80s-inspired synthesiser music, combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." He created his current Chiptune Raster Bar on a C64 with Evo64 and SID Wizard (plus FL Studio on the PC). And even though no Amiga was involved, it's a fantastic feel-good song. Listen to it (and buy it)! (dr)
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Project introduction: Floppy disk reader for AmigaOS 4
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has adapted Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (amiga-news.de reported) for reading Amiga floppy disks with the help of an Arduino board so that it can now also be used under AmigaOS 4 (GitHub project page). Above all, he had to make changes to the USB communication.
There will most likely also be a commercial version of the "Waffle Reader" for a few euros, although the project will remain open source. (dr)
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10.Mar.2025
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 03/25 of "Ecliptic"
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 fifth demo has been released for the game.
As the developer reports, the game now offers three complete levels. At the start, the player can decide which one they want to begin with.
The game requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM. (dr)
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10.Mar.2025
Thalamus Digital
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft 1.5
The Rogue-like game Roguecraft (video, amiga-news.de reported) has been updated to version 1.5, providing the following changes:
- There is now a Highscore screen.
- The high scores are saved when exiting the Highscore screen after Game Over or completing the game.
- Faster transitions between rooms. On a stock A500 you will notice a delay after the transition, but for faster CPUs the transitions will be faster. Transition is hiding unpacking and was timed to A500. Now it is timed to A1200.
- Some changes to the end boss to make it more of a challenge.
- The Teleport ability of Rogue does not cost a turn anymore.
- The Teleport ability and potion now teleports to a random door area, so it is more useful to get out of a tight situation.
- Monsters that walk into traps actually walk into the traps instead of just getting insta-killed.
- Added sparkles on the title screen!
- Updated Wizard animation (less crooked back and improved walk animation)
- Updated Gluthulhu animation (an animation was played backward in previous version)
- Updated wall tiles for secret rooms. These should be a little more visible now!
- Updated main font.
- Updated some level graphics assets.
- Some minor text tweaks where there was inconsistent casing.
- Also fixed some gfx garbage in transitions between screens.
(dr)
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09.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 08.03.2025
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to Aminet:
amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga
HHH-AmTechLQ.adf demo/sound 880K OS3 Borschtsch - Amerikansk...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
prism2v2.lha driver/net 412K VAR Driver for 11Mbps wirel...
F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 7K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M OS3 Implementation of Tunne...
untangle.lha game/wb 36K OS3 Untangle set of dots jo...
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip mus/edit 13M ARO Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...
NAFCYI1992S1-00.zip text/bfont 1.7M GEN NAFCYI Spring 1992 (BMP...
vma.lha util/arc 113K MOS VMARC Utility
GetMimeType.lha util/cli 1K MOS Get MimeType of a file ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.6M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 100K OS3 External Virus Scanner ...
ColorPicker.lha util/wb 12K OS3 get color from Workbenc...
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.03.2025
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
prism2.lha dri/net 412kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo...
blender-src.tar.bz2 gra/ray 36Mb 4.1 Blender Source
sdl3.lha lib/mis 10Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 3
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.03.2025
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
vma-22.204a.lha Files/Archive VMARC Utility
Tower-of-Hanoi_1.1.lha Games/Think Port of Tower-of-Hanoi
Untangle_1.2.lha Games/Think A logic puzzle, where t...
3D-Chess_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of 3D-Chess with S...
GetMimeType_1.1.lha System/Shell Get MimeType of a file ...
AMUIDiff_1.2.lha Text/Compare Displays differences of...
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09.Mar.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- The Seven Gates Of Jambala
- A Prehistoric Tale - Title
- Eggciting As Duck (Qwak Intro + Level 2 Music, Fusion Remix)
- R-Type
- Wings of death - Stage 4 - A scape of fire (MadmaX StyLE)
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09.Mar.2025
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Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Command line programs Amiga-Tools 1.0
At the title link Robert 'Pyrdacor' Schneckenhaus has provided "Amiga-Tools" for current computer systems. Specifically, these are two command line commands for Windows, Linux or Mac OS; a user interface is planned. They can be used to create, modify, display and unpack ADF disk images or LHA archives. (snx)
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09.Mar.2025
Amigablogs (ANF)
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Video: Doom clone Grind 0.6
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The level "DevArena" shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new opponents and functions and actually serves as a stress test for the Grind engine. For this reason, at least an A1200 with Fast RAM is recommended for DevArena.
The new features of version 0.6 are listed in detail in the video description. (snx)
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08.Mar.2025
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Flip screen platformer: Trapped in the Tomb, also as a Boxed Edition
"Trapped in the Tomb" (video) is a flip-screen platformer in which the items to be collected and the player's starting position are chosen randomly each time the game is started. The game runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM and at least Kickstart 1.3, but a 68020 processor is recommended.
A download is available free of charge or for an optional donation from itch.io. A boxed edition, which is also presented in the linked video, is also available and costs 25 euros plus shipping. (cg)
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08.Mar.2025
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.8
Version 12.8 of the Workbench distribution "Amikit" is available to all registered users free of charge. The software collection has been expanded to include the Jump'n Run "Absolute Zero" and the "World Construction Set" as well as a utility that enables the use of joypads. You can now switch between different windows with the key combination LeftAmiga-Tab. (cg)
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08.Mar.2025
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Hardware project: Bluetooth-based Kickstart switch "AmigaBlueKick"
"AmigaBlueKick" is a Kickstart switch that does not require any soldering work on the motherboard or a mechanical switch: Switching between the different Kickstart ROMs is done via Bluetooth. To do this, a ready-made ESP32S3 or ESP32C3 Wifi/Bluetooth module is connected to four pins of a Kickstart EPROM (5V, ground, A18, A19). If you do not want to trigger a reset manually after every Kickstart switch, you must also connect a cable to the reset line of the Amiga.
Any Bluetooth explorer can be used for control, but the developer also offers a self-developed iOS app. The software for the Bluetooth module and the iOS app are available under a free license and the source code is available on Github. (cg)
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07.Mar.2025
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Logic game: Untangle V1.2
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so that no line intersects another (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2 offers 25 new levels - 200 in total - and Polish localisation.
Download: untangle-1.2.lha (36 Kb) (dr)
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07.Mar.2025
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Programming competition: Developing of a RedPill game
The Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave has organised a programming competition for the RedPill game construction kit, which runs until 28 June: The main aim of the competition is to promote the use of REDPILL.
All games that have been developed with RedPill and have not yet been released may take part in the competition and will be presented at the Posadas Party 2025. Prizes include an Amiga 500 Plus with power supply and mouse or a THEA500 Mini. (dr)
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06.Mar.2025
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Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.9
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes. Changes in version 5.9:
- Addsupport for 68060 by omitting instructions not present on this variant. This includes 64-bit divide and multiply,movep, chk2, cmp2, cas2andcas`. A separate set of 68060 libraries is now included.
- Parameter numbering in inline assembly now correctly starts the input list with %0 when there is no output.
- Correct a code generator bug that could occur in some situations when a register variable was used twice in the same expression.
- 6502: Incorrect offset could be used for calculations being made of an argument to a function call. There were a series of conditions for this. 1) There were other byte sized arguments stored in the zero page area later in the argument list; 2) The expression calculation accessed a local variable on the simulated C stack; and 3) Typically the expression called a library routine such as divide and multiply. In such situation the access to the local variable on the C stack could be accessed at the wrong offset.
- MEGA65: Fixed an internal error with banked function pointers used as initializers.
- Some code generator improvements to 6502 and MEGA65.
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06.Mar.2025
Amiga 40th Silicon Valley Organisatoren (ANF)
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Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West
The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical artifacts from the collection of Dale Luck" and "current innovations from the Amiga community" is announced. There will also be a series of Amiga-focused presentations, but no details have yet been announced. (cg)
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06.Mar.2025
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Antivirus software: xvs.library version 33.48
Georg Wittmann provides version 33.48 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Changes since the last release:
- Fixed recognition of 'Disk-Doktors' and 'Suicide Machine' boot viruses to avoid false alarms with harmless bootblocks. The new pattern for 'Disk-Doktors' recognizes all clones too, therefore removed entries 'Disk Doktors BJH', 'Disk Doktors NoFast' and 'Magic Ultra'. Thanks to Jan Andersen of VHT-DK for the sample bootblocks.
- Added 'Mosh 3.0' bootvirus. Thanks to Crashdisk for sending it.
- Added 'Silicon Penetration' bootvirus (actually just a malicious bootblock formatting the disk). Thanks again to Crashdisk for sending that stuff.
- Fixed recognition of 'Xeno' linkviruses to find modified copies too. Thanks again to Crashdisk for the report and an example file.
- Fixed recognition of 'Traveling Jack' linkvirus, the shortest strain hasn't been detected correctly. Thanks once again to Crashdisk for the example file.
- Removed 'Adam Brierley' from the bootvirus brain. This bootblock actually is just some kind of boot-loader and harmless. Thanks to Jan Andersen for the report.
- Fixed recognition of 'VKill' bootvirus to detect damaged copies too that will crash, but at least install parts in memory. Thanks again to Jan Andersen for the example bootblock.
- Added 'Disk-Doktors 2' bootvirus. This is a fixed version of the original virus that works with all Kickstart releases. Thanks to Crashdisk again for the sample.
- Fixed recognition of 'XCopy2' bootvirus to detect modified copies too. Actually this isn't a real virus as it cannot spread, but it modifies pointers and though can be harmful for other programs. Thanks to Crashdisk once again for sending the sample.
- Added 'Nemesis' bootvirus. This one I got from Crashdisk too.
- Added 'Warhawk 1 Aniga' bootvirus, another Warhawk clone found by Crashdisk.
(cg)
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06.Mar.2025
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Multiplatform emulator: Clock Signal 2025-03-05 (macOS, Linux)
Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to various 8- and 16-bit systems, the Amiga is also emulated. In version 2025-03-05, a bug was fixed that could lead to a crash under macOS when creating a new virtual machine. (cg)
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06.Mar.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.8
Version 3.2.8 of the multimedia library SDL is now available, which brings the following platform-specific innovations:
- Fix issue with window size after SetWindowPosition
- Prefs: add AISS images to menus
- Ignore destination alpha for target textures
- Remove constructor / destructor workarounds
- Improve OS4_DebugPrintF
- sdl3benchmark: reset random seed before every test
- Support SDL_PROP_APP_METADATA_NAME_STRING and SDL_HINT_APP_NAME
- Improve timer resolution from milliseconds to microseconds
- Cleanup code and makefiles
(cg)
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06.Mar.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.17 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.17 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Newly added is the support for Renesas xHCI controllers with firmware, in return Kexec is no longer supported on the X1000, KVM is temporarily disabled on the X5000. (cg)
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06.Mar.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.48
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
In the new version 0.9.48, the possibility of realistically resolving circular collisions has been added, among other things (video). All changes:
- Includes trigger help in PDF, thanks to Andres De Pedro.
- First version of the thumbnail system, for screen to screen games, in Level
Properties screen.
- Action trigger Play Anim now supports playing an animation backwards.
- Added new action trigger Resolve Col(lisions) for realistic circle collision
behaviour.
- Added example ex_action_resolve to show how to use the new trigger
- Added actiton Set Text Image to set an image to be used in the dialogs, the
face of a character or an item, for example.
- Updated ex_UI_bars project to show Set Text Image trigger usage.
- Changes in scroll to allow bigger sprites.
- Image to tiles improvements.
- Changes in file requesters to improve RTG compatibility.
- More safe code when parent of an object is being deleted in the editor.
- Fix for action trigger impact.
- Fix for pick frame in spritesheets bigger than zero.
- Fix for show tile collisions not being updated during runtime.
- Now particles are cleaned when moving to another level.
- UI improvements
- Code refactor
- Amigaguide helper corrections, thanks to Joaquin Ferrero.
(dr)
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05.Mar.2025
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: GemRB RPG package 0.8.8
Press release (translation): Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are very pleased to present the GemRB RPG package version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and the easy installation.
GemRB makes it possible to play the famous PC role-playing games Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate 2 (called "the best PC role-playing game of all time" by many), Icewind Dale 1 and Planescape: Torment on an Amiga equipped with AmigaOS 4.
Original data from the PC version (on CD or DVD) is required for installation. A PC is not required, the installer makes it possible to install the four games directly on the Amiga. An installation of "Gog" data is also possible as an alternative, but then a "pre-installation" on a PC is necessary - which is why the CD/DVD installation is recommended, as a PC is not required then.
This version of GemRB is based on GemRB 0.8.8 and contains many bug fixes compared to the older version 0.7.2. No manual installation of libraries or editing of configuration files is necessary - the included installer takes care of everything.
This new version is highly optimized and also contains executable files that are specially optimized for certain Amiga models. The following frame rates are achieved:
- AmigaOne x5000 2 GHz - 30 fps at 1024x768
- AmigaOne x1000 1,8 GHz - 25 fps at 800x600
- AmigaOne A1222 1,2 GHz - 18 fps at 640x480
- Sam 440 666 MHz - 15 fps at 640x480
- MicroAmigaOne 800 MHz - 10 fps at 640x480
Special versions exist for the x5000, x1000, Sam 440, Sam 460 and A1222 models, plus an executable file that runs on all systems. The minimum configuration is a Sam 440, the recommended configuration is a Sam 460 or higher.
The add-ons "BG1: Tales of the Swordcoast", "BG2: Throne of Bhaal" and "IWD: Heart of Winter" are also playable (and can be installed using the installer).
The games were tested with the German, English, multi-language (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish) and Polish versions. The versions of BG1, BG2 and ID1 on the Computerbild games cover DVD (bg1:12/2008, bg2:12/2008 Gold and id1:03/2009) and of Torment on the GameStar cover DVD (07/2006) can also be installed with the installer.
In addition to the AmigaOS 4 version, a WarpOS version will be released soon as well, which has already been successfully tested with 25 fps (640x480) on a Ragnarök PCI-PPC card overclocked to 1 GHz. Whether it is possible to create a version for PiStorm and Vampire is still being evaluated.
The game package is available as a digital download from the Alinea Computer online store at the title link.
Screenshots:
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05.Mar.2025
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Video: Feeding the audio signal into an RGB2HDMI adapter
In the video at the title link, Robert Smith demonstrates how he installs an HDMI audio embedder in his Amiga 500 in order to output also sound via an RGB2HDMI adapter. (snx)
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05.Mar.2025
Akustikrausch (E-Mail)
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Podcast: Amiga's Lost Future - The Secrets Commodore Never Told You
The latest episode of the Binary Beats podcast looks at Commodore's unreleased projects such as the AAA chipset, Hombre and other failed innovations. (snx)
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05.Mar.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 173
The English and German issue 173 (March/April 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.
Content of the current issue includes, besides several reviews, for example an interview with Richard Leinfellner and a special about the life of an AmigaOS 4 betatester. (snx)
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