01.May.2025
Youtube: Paddys Retro Kanal (ANF)
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Video: Amiga Talk - Die Reise geht weiter! (German)
A (German) video discussion was published on Paddy's retro channel, in which Chris Hülsbeck, Michael Spindler, Dennis Pauler, MIGs Yesterchips and Matthias Heinrichs were guests. Michael Spindler, for example, developed his own Akiko32 board and his own Amiga laptop. Chris Hülsbeck answered questions that were put to him. (snx)
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01.May.2025
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Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.3
The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimix, which however requires a very fast computer (68060 processor with 64 MB or actually designed for PiStorm extensions).
The port of MAME version 0.106, which dates back to 2006, is now available in version 1.3 and offers further corrections regarding the AGA and OCS native modes and the emulation of various games. (snx)
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01.May.2025
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Video: A-Z Of Amiga Music
The approximately one-hour video "A-Z Of Amiga Music" presents the music of various Amiga titles in alphabetical order of the game names, from Alien Breed to Zone Warrior. (snx)
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01.May.2025
Mastodon (ANF)
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Event: Canberra Vintage Computer Exhibition 2025
On July 19/20, with the support of the Australian Computer Museum Society and the Vintage Computer Federation, the Canberra Vintage Computer Exhibition will take place for the fourth time - this time in the McCowage Hall of the Daramalan College in Dickson. (snx)
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30.Apr.2025
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New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, onboard FPGA (Update)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presents a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Koelman lists the following key specifications:
- CPU: QorIQ T1042 Power Processor - two or four 64-bit e5500 cores, the ones also used in the X5000 CPUs
- RAM: 1x DDR3 SODIMM
- 2x USB3, 4x USB2
- mass storage: 1x NVME, 1x NVME / Sata (wird per Jumper ausgewählt)
- slots: 1x PCIe X16, 1x PCIe X4, 1x PCIe X1
- Onboard GB NIC
- TRION FPGA
Onboard sound is not currently implemented, but is described as "work in progress": Koelman points out that the FPGA installed on the board will be used to implement sound.
A screenshot (see above) supposedly illustrates that the developer already has a version of the motherboard at hand that runs Linux. Asked if the board will be supported by AmigaOS 4, Koelman states he "hopes the board will run OS4 one day..." - but also notes that no OS4 support would be a "worst case scenario".
No information on the current development status, a possible manufacturer or even end customer prices is currently available.
Update: (30.04.2025, 23:20, cg)
The hardware designer made some additional statements in a Discord channel only accessible to registered users (Official Commodore Amiga, #next-gen):
- "Board is fully functional. So runs all available PPC Linux distro's (including the latest Chimera). This one is T1042 based for cost reasons.
So 4x e5500 cores. But the board is fully compatible with the 8 threaded e6500 based T2081. Other things to highlight are 2x NVMe (Linux boots
and runs from NVMe) and USB3.2 Gen1".
- "Target for the T1042 based version is to be the lowest cost mainboard PPC board on sale."
- "Target is to run both OS4 and MorphOS. But this is not up to us of course. We can do so much what we can control. And that is the hardware
including u-boot. If those in control of OS4 ultimately do not want to cooperate than at least we had the fun. And proved that low cost PPC
hardware is possible."
- "The T1042 supports either 1.35V DDR3L or DDR4. The T2081 supports either 1.5V DDR3 or 1.35V DDR3L. Hence the choice for a 1.35V sodimm.
For the T2081 I could opt for 1.5V DDR3. Then it can be clocked up to DDR-2133"
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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29.Apr.2025
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Worth a read: Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO
American journalist and author David L. Farquhar regularly writes about computer and IT history on his website "The Silicon Underground". In a recent article, he outlines the short but eventful tenure of Thomas Rattigan as CEO of Commodore. Rattigan was lured away from Pepsi to Commodore in 1985 and initially took on the role of COO. He is credited with initiating the successful A500 and A2000 models and returning the company to profitability.
On 23 April 1987, just over a year after being appointed CEO of Commodore (on 1 April 1986), Thomas Rattigan had his abrupt end at Commodore – he was dismissed by Irving Gould and escorted out of the building by security guards without being given the opportunity to take any personal belongings with him.
Farquhar recounts the background to this spectacular episode in Commodore's company history and shows how Rattigan ended up having the last laugh. (nba)
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29.Apr.2025
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Podcast: The Retro Hour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Amiga
The latest episode (476) of the English-language podcast The Retro Hour is all about the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. Recorded live at VCF East in New Jersey, host Dan Wood presents stories about Amiga developers and computer pioneers Dale Luck, Jeff Porter, Andy Finkel and others. They share exclusive insights and anecdotes from the early days of the legendary home computer.
This episode also features news for retro nerds, including information about a new homebrew racing game for the Sega Saturn, the return of Compute's Gazette, the limited edition of the Doom I & II collection, the new update 3.2.3 for AmigaOS, and the game "Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict". (nba)
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29.Apr.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Alien Olympics
Alien Olympics was a sports game planned by Mindscape for 1994 for the Amiga (OCS, 1 MB) and the CD32. Although it was never released, the website "Games That Weren't" has now discovered an early version of the game that is about 30% complete and made it runnable. The game, which was converted to Amiga by Mark Greenshields, is reminiscent of Track & Field, but with eight unique alien characters and humorous disciplines. (nba)
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28.Apr.2025
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AmigaOS 4: clib4 1.6.0
With clib4 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè is working on a variant of the official ADTools clib2, which should be specific for AmigaOS 4 in order to be easier to maintain and above all to add functions that are difficult to implement on original Amigas.
Now version 1.6.0 was released with the following changes:
- Merge master to development
- Code improvements
- Split stubs
- Fix problems with spawnvpe and pthreads
- Added a script to check offset values for stubs
- Patches for spawnv and popen (qt6)
- Fix memory allocator
- Fix waitpid and popen + some details
- Added test for hints->ai_socktype == 0 in getaddrinfo.c (qt6)
- Fix stack size code in pthread_create.c
- sigtimedwait & sigwaitinfo implemented
- Converted all line endings to LF (Linux)
- Set dicord announcements on PRs
- Removed uneeded call to flush
- More line endings changes
- clib4 requirements in crtbegin was using a wrong PrintF
- Modifications to flock.c
- Fixed iconv problem on dcngettext. Added Amiga-1251 charset on iconv
- Added dlopen example to test shared objects along rpath and soname
- Version files changes by the github bot
- Fix scp in GitHub actions
- Make announcements smaller
- Added static_assert on assert.h
- Reverted flock.c changes
- Changed back (again..) flock.c
- Added NETBSD getvfsstat function amd missing blkcnt_t in sys/types.h
- __time_delay was not working if wasn't in main thread
- tzset() reworked
- Added baserel support to clib4
- Moved constructors and destructors on libOpen
- Implemented getpriority and setpriority
- Implemented unixPathsEnabled
- Merge all the latest changes to master and prepare the next release
(dr)
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28.Apr.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (update)
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 0.10.0:
- improved device support (hard disks, size limits, predefined types)
- write support: fixed bug on (lack of) OFS data block header update on appending
- native devices: fixed Linux native driver (opening the device was failing)
- renamed and improved command-line utilities
- enabled native devices on read-only tools: adfinfo, unadf
- fixed minor bugfixes in unadf (setting file permissions and timestamps on directories)
Update: (29.04.2025, 14:10, dr)
Version 0.10.1 is now available, which fixes test scripts to work also on FreeBSD. (dr)
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28.Apr.2025
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Video: Game Construction Kit "RedPill" supports HAM images
A few days ago, version 0.9.50 of the game construction kit "RedPill" was released on Aminet: among other things, the option to use HAM images as cover images was added. The developer Carlos Peris demonstrates this in a short video. (dr)
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28.Apr.2025
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Shooter: Update to Anguish (AGA)
For the AmiGameJam 2024, 'lionagony' released his idea of a sequel to Agony for AGA Amigas (video). Now he has released a small update for Anguish, which gives the playable first level new graphics and a slightly reduced difficulty level. There is also a bonus level, which is played in the finished game after the first level. (dr)
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27.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to Aminet:
cstat11z.lha comm/bbs 13K OS3 ZeusBBS Callersstats, B...
FILEDIR.lha comm/bbs 16K OS3 FileBase like Excelsior...
lcall13.lha comm/bbs 10K OS3 Zdoor to show last call...
lfl10.lha comm/bbs 28K OS3 Lightning Filelister v1...
MENUBAR10Z.lha comm/bbs 21K OS3 Generates a nice 3D loo...
zeus-ctrl-codes.lha comm/bbs 6K OS3 ZeusBBS: Control codes ...
Zeus_BBS_release_1.7.lha comm/bbs 5.1M OS3 ZeusBBS. Full release 1...
zfserv300.lha comm/bbs 113K OS3 file request handler fo...
zsysop.lha comm/bbs 15K OS3 SysOp / CoSysop Menus f...
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 67K OS3 Search+play online radi...
amigaget.lha comm/net 247K OS3 get https files for the...
Void-Dreams42.zip demo/misc 474K OS3 AGA Pack - Revision 202...
DanceDiverse3.lha demo/sound 4.5M OS3 Suburban Base: Dance Di...
Void-90sRewind-CDTV.zip demo/sound 54M OS3 CDTV Music-Disk Revisio...
OpenMedalOfHonor.lha game/shoot 23M OS4 Open Medal of Honour Al...
Astone.lha gfx/show 6.4M VAR picviewer inspired by f...
WhatIFF4.16.lha mags/misc 12M GEN What IFF? #4.16-April-2025
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
qoatoaiff.lha mus/misc 5K OS3 Decodes Quite OK Audio ...
NAFCYI1992S3-B01.zip text/bfont 1.0M GEN NAFCYI Fall 1992 (BMP F...
NAFCYI1992S3-B02.zip text/bfont 806K GEN NAFCYI Fall 1992 (BMP F...
KeyReq_07.lha util/boot 84K OS3 Cool requester improver...
MMULib.lha util/libs 811K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6...
SoftIEEE.lha util/libs 128K OS3 math lib&881/882 FP...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.2M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.0M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
yt_rexx.lha util/rexx 2.0M VAR yt.rexx with MorphOS ad...
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27.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
imp3.lha aud/pla 50kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga!
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 262kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 257kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 217kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line&a...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 The Siete y Media card game.
amicraftnova_src.rar gam/mis 128kb 4.0 AmiCraftNova source code
astone.lha gra/vie 6Mb 4.1 Pic viewer inspired by famous Wi...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
privoxy.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Web proxy to protect privacy
wormhole.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Network file transfer utility
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27.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 3Mb The Siete y Media card game.
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27.Apr.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.04.2025
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
fd2pragma_2.198.lha Development/Misc A tool to create pragma...
AmiArcadia_34.20.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Baccarat_2.05.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca...
Siete-y-Media_2.00.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca...
Stratagus_3.3.3.lha Games/Strategy A MorphOS port of Strat...
Amifish_2.1.lha Games/Think Chess program compatibl...
Wetris_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of Wetris (SDL3)
PolarPaint_1.055.lha Graphics/Draw Paint program made with...
YouTube-Extractor_3.4.lha Multimedia YT.rexx is a script for...
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27.Apr.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.04.2025
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 26.04.2025:
- 2025-04-25 improved: Academy: Tau Ceti II (CRL Group/ComTek) keyboard fixed, 68000 crash fixed, blitter waits added, OSEmu removed (Info)
- 2025-04-24 improved: Xenomorph (Pandora) another version supported, RawDIC imager, music bugs fixed, trainers added (Info)
- 2025-04-23 new: Quicksilva (Entactogenic Design) done by paraj (Info)
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27.Apr.2025
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Video: Assembling an FPGA "Amiga 1200" using only new components
In the video at the title link, 'Proteque-CBN' assembles an Amiga 1200 replacement using only new components, from the case to the internals. The centerpiece is a Mister/DE10 Nano with the Mistress 1200 breakout board, the injection-molded case comes from A1200.net and the Amiga 1200-compatible keyboard from Amigastore. (snx)
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26.Apr.2025
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Article series: GUI Wonderland #8 - Amiga Workbench, the Multimedia revolution
In the eighth episode of the "GUI Wonderland" series, the author presents the "multimedia wonder" Workbench 1.x. In addition to a detailed description of the development of the first Amiga model, there is a detailed description of the computer's graphical user interface. (cg)
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26.Apr.2025
https://sites.google.com/view/retro-emulator-vision-and-game (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 169 (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 169 includes tests of "Archon" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" for CDTV. (cg)
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26.Apr.2025
Timo Paul (ANF)
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AmigaGuide magazine: "WhatIFF?", issue 16
"WhatIFF?" is an English-language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the 16th issue are:
Reviews:
- AKUA Amiga Keyboard to USB Adapter
- OpenPSX2Amiga Pad Adapter
- AMI-RGB2VGA Ultimate
- Tikus USB Mouse/Joystick Adapter
- TechnoSound Turbo Re-release
- Amiga OS3.2 Reference Manual
Guides:
- Upgrade a PiStorm32 with Raspberry Pi3A+ to PiCM4 Module
- OpenURL - setting up OpenURL in AmigaGuide
- DigiPaint: Basics Part 1
- Accessing BBSs Without a Modem
Articles:
- DELL Monitors and 15Khz - Part 1: Will It Work?
- The Amiga, you, us, the community
- ChatGPT and Amiga: How Wrong Can It Get It?
- Increase interest in your pixel art
Interviews:
- Paul Vince (Amiga Game Selector)
- Rob Cranley (SOLAS _)
- Timothy Deters (FinalWriter)
Cover Disk:
- Example pixel art
- Disk label PDF
- New music in the playlist drawer
- Audio Samples
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25.Apr.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.5.0
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.
The new version 2.5.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- Added an ARexx menu to allow you to run your own scripts. ARexx is not yet implemented in MorphOS so you can try installing the 68k version of ARexx and see if that works.
- Added sample scripts
- Status bar background colour adjusted to improve readability
- Latest OpenAI chat models added (gpt-4.1, o3, o4-mini)
- The menu has been rewritten and now gets built dynamically. It will now automatically create menu options for all the available models. This will make adding new models much easier and quicker
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB) (dr)
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25.Apr.2025
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 04/25 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 sixth demo has been released for the game.
As the developer reports in his developer diary, this is "a pretty big update to Ecliptic - it includes a whole new level."
According to the developer, the game will not run on a simple A500 with 512K chip/512K slow RAM. It is his intention that this is possible, but it is not a high priority as the game already requires a harddrive. An Amiga 1200 with HD is recommended. (dr)
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25.Apr.2025
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7-bit: Bluetooth adapter for control pads
7-Bit has created a Bluetooth adapter called Ryś BlueLink, with which wireless control pads from Microsoft (X Box One), Sony (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3) and Nintendo (Joy-Con) can be used with an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200. Ryś BlueLink has an OLED display that allows the user to configure the device and update the firmware via WiFi.
As the developer Artur Gadawski tells us, users had specifically asked for an interface that supports wireless XBox and Playstation pads and is specially tailored to the Amiga. He uses the licensed BTstack from BlueKitchen for this. The biggest challenge was to keep the device compact and the energy consumption as low as possible.
It is currently only available from the Polish allegro for the equivalent of around 60 euros (plus shipping). (dr)
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25.Apr.2025
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.04.25
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2025.04.25 extends the recently released ZuluSCSI Blaster with Wi-Fi DaynaPORT/SC Ethernet emulation support. (dr)
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25.Apr.2025
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Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.2
The relatively new "Quite OK Audio Format" (QOA) is a lossy audio compression format: audio signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded at 278 kbits/s, exactly 1/5 of the bits required for an uncompressed WAV file (amiga-news.de reported).
Grzegorz Kraszewski has written a decoder that converts QOA files into uncompressed AIFF (source code on GitHub). In version 0.2, he has implemented output buffering and the hard disc operations are now faster. (dr)
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