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11.-14.09.25 • Classic Computing 2025 • Hof (Germany)
17.-19.10.25 • Amiga40 • Mönchengladbach (Germany)
31.10.-02.11.25 • Amiga-Meeting 2025 • Neumünster (Germany)
14.-16.11.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)

02.Sep.2025



DIY: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, version 1.9
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS or via USB-C with Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files. Since version 1.6, the Amiga1200, Amiga 3000, and 4000 models, as well as the Amiga 4000CR and Amiga 3000T, are supported.

The recently published version 1.9 offers the following changes:

Kicksmash FW
  • Added support for M29F160TB
  • When the Amiga is off, SOCKET_OE is now driven high by firmware. This should reduce the amount of backpower provided to a powered off Amiga
  • When the Amiga is off, prom access will now fail rather than be attempted "Amiga is not powered on" will be reported. This will help people understand the cause of hostsmash failing to program a powered off Amiga.
  • Added new config "board_rev"
  • Fixed message buffer bug where large transfers might be partially re-sent.
  • Fixes smashfs and smashftp bug when the Amiga sends a file > 2KB in size
  • Added "prom log full" and "prom log stats" options
  • Added support for MX29F800Cx, MX29LV160Cx, and M29W160Ex
  • More work is still required for MX29F800Cx support
  • Write fails at 0x154 wrote=040041f9 read=00f000f0
  • snoop of Amiga ROM accesses should now work better over USB connection
  • Added "what" command to re-display recent output
  • Fixed BIGROM support for A4000T by disabling pull down on address pin
ROM Switcher
  • Fixed MED "aconfig" command to handle Z3 board configured in Z2 space
  • Added MED "what" command to MED command line
  • Added debug command line on exception and unexpected interrupt
  • Added 68k disassembler to MED command line ("dis" command)
  • Changed blitter init to hopefully be more resilient to odd register state
  • Serial input is now interrupt-driven
  • Added register display and stack dump on unexpected interrupt or hang detection
  • Added CPU cache initialization and enable. This will hopefully resolve the occasional cold poweron bug that I've been tracking. First 16 MB of RAM will not be cached for 040+. 68030 has data cache off.
  • Made minor changes to Amiga chipset init to improve startup reliability.
  • Added MED "cpu" command with fault injection, CPU identify, and CACR control
  • Removed FLASH_RP from pin tests, since it's no longer connected on Rev8 boards
  • Improved spurious interrupt handling and reporting
  • Improved handling of ECLK tick failure
  • Dump on unexpected interrupt is now less likely to cause VBlank timeout
  • Rearranged MED "cpu fault" and "cpu reg" commands
  • Added several processor-specific registers to "cpu reg" command
  • Early init is now protected from unexpected interrupt
  • Fixed command history bug where line was not being redisplayed correctly
  • Screen DIWSTOP fix so that vertical scan stops at a reasonable position
  • Interrupt register display code now reports the vector name
  • Added support for 68030 "cpu reg tt0" and "cpu reg tt1"
  • Moved ROM version string near the beginning of the file and added $VER string
  • Power LED now goes bright during early initialization
hostsmash
  • Fixed '--clock set' to get and report the correct time on Windows
  • The issue was that the Windows code was not computing the UTC offset.
  • Added Windows command line editing keystroke support for term mode
  • Fixed smashfs/smashftp bug on Windows where binary files failed to transfer
  • Fixed bug where app service state would time out on large file transfers
  • Improved error recovery in some failure cases (still needs more improvement)
  • Fixed bug where length (-l) is ignored when merging ROM files: Closes #31
smashfs
  • Fixed bug where copy from write-protected file could fail
  • FINDINPUT and FINDUPDATE now try open a second time with only read permission
smash
  • Added support for MX29F800Cx, MX29LV160Cx, and M29W160Ex
  • Added support for compatible flash parts
  • Eliminated debug "Cleariog atou" message
PCBs
  • KicksmashAPCI added
  • Kicksmash4KCR updated to Rev8
Documentation
  • Minor fixes for address range of 512 KB extension ROM area
(nba)

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02.Sep.2025
Puni (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" - August 2025
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has published another monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4. Among other things, he reports on the latest software announcements and new products, as well as updates, including The Settlers 2 Gold Edition, Starfall Defenders, Janggi, RNOSoundboard, AmiArcadia, Rave, RetroArch, and ShaderNova. (nba)

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02.Sep.2025
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
  • News from July/August 2025
  • Old articles from Génération 4 48 to 53: News: Les 4 D'Or FNAC/Génération 4 1992, Interview with Brett Sperry, Review of Superhero, News: Street Fighter 2 pre-release, Review of Legends of Valour, Review of Tearaway Thomas, Interview with Ian Hetherington, Interview with Joel Billings, File: Les manettes de jeu (1992), Report: ECTS Automne 1992, Review of Gobliins 2, etc.
  • Interview with Steffen Häuser (Amiga developer)
  • Interview with Jon St. John (voice actor, voice of Duke Nukem)
  • Hardware: A1200BG (update)
  • Hardware: SATA PCI Hard Card
  • Hardware: RAMesses
  • DIY: Extracting Amiga components, put down that screwdriver!
  • DIY: AmigaOne XE - part 3, PCI bus hardware interrupts
  • DIY: AmigaOne XE - part 4, with a new core
  • DIY: Controlling HippoPlayer with a remote control
  • Articles from floppy disk magazine ZINE #3 (February 1990)
  • File: History of the development of Vroom
  • File: Working with Andy Warhol, Jeff Bruette's memories
  • File: History of the development of PixelMachine
  • File: Amiga Corporation products for the Atari 2600 (update)
  • Tutorial: Tips and tricks for ClassicWB
  • Programming: asl.library and GFA Basic
  • Programming: Assembler - Display sprites and BOBs on Amiga OCS and AGA
  • Special quiz about the names of Amiga games
(nba)

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01.Sep.2025



Managing ADF files: adflib v0.10.4 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 0.10.3:
  • unadf on Windows: fix extracting binary files
Update: (03.09.2025, 22:11, dr)

Meanwhile version 0.10.4 has been released. Changes:
  • unadf on Windows: fix extracting binary files with -p (pipe)
  • make all operations on entries with too long filenames fail (instead of truncating the name)
  • dump device: fail opening if writing not possible (instead of silently opening read-only)
  • command-line tools: add showing build and runtime versions of the lib
  • added and updated tests (ie. for the bug and the changes mentioned above)
(dr)

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01.Sep.2025



Do it yourself: Ripple IDE update, revision A5
Matt 'LIV2' Harlum's Ripple IDE is an IDE interface for Zorro II based Amiga models (Amiga 2000/3000/4000; amiga-news.de reported). Revision A5 fixes up the R10/R11 silkscreen which had been inadvertently swapped at Rev_A3. (dr)

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01.Sep.2025



Platformer: Krogharr Beer Glass Set (Limited Edition)
The platform game Krogharr was released at the end of June (amiga-news.de reported). For collectors, the online shop poly.play is now offering a beer glass set for 25 Euro (plus shipping), which contains the following:
  • 1 x Beer glass with handle (beer mug/beer stein)
    • With Krogharr logo engraving
    • Height: 130 mm
    • Diameter: 73 mm
    • Total capacity: 0.36 l
    • Capacity up to calibration mark: 0.3 l
  • 10 x beer coasters (2 types)
    • 5 x Krogharr Amiga diskette
    • 5 x Krogharr CD32 CD-ROM
(dr)

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01.Sep.2025



Arcade adventure: First demo version of "The Gate"
About two years ago, we presented Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's game "The Gate", written entirely in AMOS Professional, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts (video). Now he has released a first demo version, which should offer about 1.5 hours of gaming fun.


In "The Gate", you take on the role of private detective Kal, who must solve the disappearance of a scientist at a research facility. The author tested the game under AmigaOS 3.1 and 2 MB of Fast RAM. (dr)

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31.Aug.2025



Aminet uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to Aminet:
North.lha                      dev/blitz  352K  OS3 A game template for Ami...           
REDPILLGameCreator.lha         dev/misc   8.4M  OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...            
Warp3D-AllocPch.lha            driver/vid  11K  OS3 Fix Warp3D Texture Allo...            
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...        
RNOSoundboard.lha              mus/play    10M  MOS Soundboard application                   
RNOSoundboard_AROS.lha         mus/play    10M  ARO Soundboard application                   
RNOSoundboard_OS4.lha          mus/play    11M  OS4 Soundboard application                   
u64SidPlayer.lha               mus/play    61K  OS3 Ultimate64 / II+ SID Pl...              
ASE2019_2.1.lha                text/edit  209K  OS3 Text editor                              
IdentifyDev.lha                util/libs   71K  OS3 Identify hardware and m...               
IdentifyPci.lha                util/libs  176K  OS3 Identify hardware and m...               
IdentifyUsr.lha                util/libs  106K  OS3 Identify hardware and m...               
(snx)

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31.Aug.2025



OS4Depot uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha                 aud/edi 2Mb   4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
rnosoundboard.lha        aud/pla 11Mb  4.1 Soundboard application
sndfile.lha              dev/lib 1Mb   4.1 Library for reading/writing vari...
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
retroarch.lha            emu/gam 293Mb 4.1 a modular Emulation System
sdl3.lha                 lib/mis 10Mb  4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 3
(snx)

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31.Aug.2025



AROS Archives uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to AROS Archives:
rnosoundboard.i386-aros.lha  aud/pla 10Mb  Soundboard application
tiltnroll.x86_64-aros-v11... gam/act 2Mb   OpenGL and SDL ball-rolling game
(snx)

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31.Aug.2025



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOSoundboard_1.0.lha     Audio/Players             Soundboard application
Caveman_1.03.lha          Games/Misc                Adaptation of Caveman g...
Foundation-patch.lha      Games/Patch               A patch that fixes some...
Block-puzzle_1.0.lha      Games/Tetris              Block-puzzle_1.0.lha
(snx)

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31.Aug.2025



WHDLoad: New installers until 30.08.2025
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 30.08.2025: (snx)

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31.Aug.2025
Amiga Future (website)


Amiga40: Voting for the Community Award / Presentation of the Mirari Board
Following last month's Geit@Home meeting, the Mirari Board will be presented to a wider audience for the first time at Amiga40 in Mönchengladbach. It will be on display at the MorphOS booth by developers Dave 'Skateman' Koelman and Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning.

Meanwhile, voting for the Community Award has begun and will continue until September 30 in four categories (hardware, software, games, miscellaneous). Registration is required to participate. (snx)

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31.Aug.2025



AmigaOS 4: ShaderNova 1.1 for post-processing effects
ShaderNova uses the Warp3D Nova library (version 54.16) for AmigaOS 4 to mirror content from other windows and render it using fragment shaders. The source window must not be obscured, though. If running on its own screen, ShaderNova can also be used in full-screen mode. Normal keyboard and mouse events are passed through to the original window. (snx)

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31.Aug.2025
MorphZone (forum)


MorphOS: Beta version 6 of the SDK-Explorer
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's SDK-Explorer is used to display the documentation included in the MorphOS developer package. However, the beta version 6 now available does not yet have the ability to display also the source code from the SDK (or third-party documents). Minor issues still to be resolved include the search function's case sensitivity and the consistent display of document titles in bold.

Download: SDK-Explorer_1.0-beta6.lha (2 MB) (snx)

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31.Aug.2025



Blog: Epsilon's World on installing a magnetic tape and ZIP drive in the A4000T
In his latest blog entry, 'Epsilon' describes the successful installation of a magnetic tape drive in his Amiga 4000T. A ZIP drive is also installed. (snx)

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31.Aug.2025
Amiga Future (website)


AI image generator: AmiDream 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiDream uses the Stable Diffusion language model to generate images from text descriptions. The program is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.

The update fixes bugs and introduces a randomly generated image every day, including a list of random images from previous days, as this seems to be the most used feature according to the author and can therefore be loaded faster for everyone now. (snx)

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30.Aug.2025
Marcin Spoczynski (E-Mail)


Remote control of an Ultimate 64: u64SidPlayer and u64ctl
Marcin Spoczynski has released two tools, u64SidPlayer and u64ctl, which allow an Amiga to control the FPGA-based C64 and 1541 clones Ultimate 64 and Ultimate II via a home network.

u64SidPlayer is a dedicated SID music player with full playlist management, HVSC song database integration, multi-subsong navigation and dual-SID detection. It features a MUI interface, search/filter capabilities, shuffle/repeat modes, and automatic song length database downloads from HVSC servers.


u64ctl is a Ultimate64/Ultimate-II control suite including a CLI tool for scripting, a MUI graphical interface and a developer library. It provides remote control for disk image mounting (D64/G64/D71/G71/D81), PRG/CRT loading, memory read/write, machine control (reset/reboot/power), keyboard input, and basic SID/MOD playback. (cg)

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30.Aug.2025
Steffen Häuser (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: modular multi-plattform emulator "RetroArch"
Steffen Häuser writes: After a long development period, the modular emulator system RetroArch for AmigaOS 4 was released today on os4depot. Unlike single emulators, RetroArch has the advantage that it is easier to implement/port a 'core' and that you don't have to implement things like video refresh, sound and gamepad support from scratch every time, because the main executable already does that – and is highly optimised. And the end user gets a common GUI for all emulations.

A large number of cores are already available.

Versions for WarpOS, MorphOS and 68k (and possibly AROS x86 in the future; the AROS version's GUI is already running, but the cores are not yet) are still in development (donors via PayPal to tirionareonwe@gmail.com can already receive the beta for WOS/MOS/68k). MorphOS and WarpOS versions will probably be the next to be released, but it is not yet known exactly how long this will take. (cg)

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30.Aug.2025



AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.8
Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka has released version 1.8 of his audio editor "Rave". To load and save audio files, the programme now uses the Linux library libsndfile, which was recently ported to an AmigaOS shared library by Jedlicka himself and was also released today. The changes in Rave 1.8 in detail:
  • The program now uses sndfile.library (needs to be installed in LIBS:) for sample loading and saving, instead of a custom module.
  • Added support for Microsoft ADPCM compression in the loader and saver code.
  • New function in the Edit menu: "Set selection", which allows making precise selections based on user input or pre-defined ranges.
  • The item "Extend selection" in the Edit menu has been renamed to "Modify selection", and its submenu contains two new commands, "Halve" and "Double".
  • Fixed the "Create new drawer" function in the file requester, which would cause a lockup if the "Enter created drawer" option was selected.
  • Fixed a small bug introduced in V1.7 which would leave certain menu commands available even if no sample was loaded.
  • Across all program components, reworked memory allocations to make them more consistent and less error-prone.
  • When loading the list of recently opened files, Rave now checks the list and removes all items that are no longer available.
  • In the file requester, the file name gadget wouldn't accept more than 127 characters; the limit has been increased to MAX_DOS_NAME (255 characters) to support long file names in modern filesystems.
  • Various other smaller improvements and fixes.
  • Updated documentation.
(cg)

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29.Aug.2025



Programming challenge: Demos without using CPU
At this year's Evoke demo party, the demo "No-CPU Challenge" by Demostue Allstars took first place in the "Alternative Platforms" category (amiga-news.de reported) and also served as an invitation to a programming challenge: the creation of demos that run entirely on Amiga custom chips without using the CPU.

The linked repository contains the challenge rules and a runner application for launching no-CPU demos. (dr)

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29.Aug.2025



Soundplayer: RNOSoundboard v1.0 released (AROS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
RNOSoundboard is an application that can play audio files with keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks. The program offers the following features:
  • MUI GUI for arranging sound sets
  • Full screen soundboard mode with graphical buttons
  • Loads embedded cover images from MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files for soundboard button graphics
  • Internal playlist loading and saving
  • Teachable hotkeys, also looping and volume options for each audio file
  • Drag'n'drop support for loading files, directories, and playlists
  • Supports MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AIFF, WAV, Protracker, DigiBooster, SID, AHX, FastTracker II, ScreamTracker, OctaMED, The Player, NoisePacker, ProRunner, Oktalyzer, Impulse Tracker, Ultra Tracker, Ice Tracker, Liquid Tracker, Quadra Composer, and many other formats
  • ARexx, Command Line, and tooltypes support
(dr)

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29.Aug.2025



Demoparty: Amiga productions of Xenium 2025
This year's edition of the Xenium demo party took place last weekend in Łódź, Poland (amiga-news.de reported). Several Amiga productions were shown:

Amiga Intro Oldschool GFX (dr)

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29.Aug.2025



Preview video: Emu68 V1.1 with Dumpster feature (update)
In a preview video, Michal Schulz uses the macOS 8.1 boot process to demonstrate how the Dumpster feature in the upcoming version 1.1 of Emu68 improves performance: with Dumpster disabled, the boot process took 84 seconds, but after enabling it, the boot time was reduced to 28 seconds.

And the developer explained: "Dumpster is a new way of destroying and re-using JIT instruction caches in Emu68. Instead of throwing them away right after cache flush, they are reused later if the memory of the JIT block has not changed.

The effect is visible here - macOS is constantly flushing CPU instruction cache, also the JIT cache of Emu68. With dumpster on, the boot time of macOS decreases drastically. The effect is even more pronounced on macOS 7.5.

This is a Work-In-Progress - there are still few things to do before it is going public."

Update: (29.08.2025, 20:11, dr)

The developer has now published the first part of a three-part series of articles in which he provides an overview of the upcoming version 1.1 of Emu68. The first part deals with changes to the JIT scheduler and hash tables. (dr)

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28.Aug.2025



New Commodore owner: third video in the "Let's buy Commodore!" series
In the third episode of his "Let's buy Commodore" series, YouTuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson shows footage of the contract signing three weeks ago in Amsterdam, as well as recordings of various video calls with well-known personalities from the Commodore scene who want to support Simpson in an advisory capacity.

Explaining whether there will be an official "Commodore Amiga" - a question allegedly posed to him "by precisely one million of you" – the new Commodore CEO states (minute 8:45 of the video): "Well, if I could snap my fingers and just make it so - I would. For now, what I can say is I had some positive meetings about it, but it's not all up to me: The ball is now firmly in others' courts, and they know my cartridge port is always open."

In a conversation with Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, Simpson hints at what products are still in the pipeline after the C64 Ultimate (minute 20:03 of the video): "We have a product roadmap with about 12 to 14 solid ideas for the next four years. We will try to do two things really well each year. One of them is calculators."

Editor's note: The "C64 Ultimate" is advertised as a ready-to-use revival of the C64, but the product description in the shop still states that the required ROM images may need to be installed manually "via guided ROM setup on first boot" - which suggests that the new Commodore has not yet acquired a licence for the C64 firmware from the rights holder Mike Battilana. Battilana would also be the contact person for licensing the Amiga brand and the Amiga operating system. (cg)

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28.Aug.2025



Video tutorial with source code: Recreating an arcade game in AMOS
In his latest video, Keith 'Yawning Angel' Elcombe shows how he recreates the arcade game "Space Race" in AMOS. The source code is available on his website. (snx)

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28.Aug.2025



Preview video: AMail 0.0.6 email program
There is another preview video for Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton's project to write a modern e-mail program for AmigaOS 3.2 called "AMail" that supports IMAP and SMTP. For example, deleting e-mails on the server now works, and a configuration window and address book are planned next.

A first release is scheduled for next month, as the programmer wants to participate in the Amiga 40 Tools Jam. (snx)

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28.Aug.2025



QEMU front end for launching AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 1.3.1
George Sokianos' QEMU front end "Kyvos" is designed to significantly simplify the setup and launch of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS under QEMU (amiga-news.de reported).

Version 1.3.1 now features a new output window that allows users to access the serial port output when running an AmigaOS 4 system (Pegasos2 and AmigaOne XE). This enables developers and beta testers to obtain crash reports and error information.

Kyvos now fully supports French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. If you encounter any awkward or incorrect translations, please create a ticket on GitHub.

It is now possible to change the emulated CPU for Pegasos 2 systems. This could be useful in situations where the standard CPU has compatibility issues with certain software. Similar functionality is also planned for AmigaOne systems.

Finally, you can rename the virtual machine, and the manual has been updated again in the FAQ section. (dr)

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26.Aug.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 176 - previews and excerpts
The reading samples and previews of issue 176 (September/October 2025) of Amiga Future are now online. The issue features the following topics, among others:
  • Preview: Playfield
  • Reviews of Krogharr, Dr. Dangerous (Boxed), Pjusk, Gemdalus, AmiSeaFox, Space Patrol, Amiga Forever 11, C64 Forever 11, WinUAE
  • Know-how: Raycasting
  • Special: Reboot of Commodore
  • Special: 40 years Amiga, part 3: Trials, tribulations, and dead ends
  • Beyond the Screen: Rings of Medusa & The Return of Medusa
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26.Aug.2025



Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 08/25 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.

The new update includes a new level to play through. On deck 5, your robots must battle another team that has been sent to capture the ship. A new video shows the current state of the game. (nba)

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