26.Jun.2025
a1k.org (Webseite)
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PC extension: mount HD partition from "KCS Power PC Board" on AmigaOS
The KCS Power PC Board equips an A500 or A2000 with a miniature DOS PC - the computer can then be operated alternatively in Amiga or PC mode. Sander von der Burg has succeeded in developing a simple device driver for AmigaOS that mounts any DOS partitions created by the PC on AmigaOS. The developer describes the problem and his solution in a blog entry, version 0.0.1 of the driver as well as the corresponding source code are available on Github. (cg)
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26.Jun.2025
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.52 for Bluetooth adapter
The firmware for the BlueLink Bluetooth adapter from 7-bit has been updated again. Version 0.52 offers the following new features:
- AutoFire for Fire1 and Fire2 buttons
- support for Atari 8-bit computers
- support for Nintendo Wii U Pro
- support for Nintendo Wii Remote
- support for Razer Basilisk X Hyperspeed
- support for Microsoft Bluetooth Ergonomic Mouse
- support for Apple A1657
(cg)
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25.Jun.2025
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)
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AmiKit In A Box: Raspberry Pi 5 with Workbench distribution
The well-known Workbench distribution AmiKit is now also available for purchase together with a fully configured Raspberry Pi 5 mini-computer - only the operating system itself still needs to be added as usual.
Read below our translation of the official press release:
AmiKit In A Box
AmiKit is now available as a complete system (Workbench 3.x and a Kickstart ROM are additionally required, for example from Amiga Forever or an AmigaOS 4.1 CD - alternatively AmigaOS XL/3.5/3.9/3.1.4 is also possible).
What is AmiKit?
AmiKit is a Workbench distribution that runs via AmiBerry on a Raspberry Pi 5, and can also run AmigaOS 3.x right at boot time, so that unlike a UAE/AmiBerry system on a PC, AmigaOS 3.x is started directly. In addition to AmigaOS 3.1, AmigaOS 3.2 is also supported (in the latter case, AmigaOS 3.1 must be installed first, after which the update to AmigaOS 3.2 takes place).
What do you get?
A set-up Raspberry Pi 5 in a stylish case (with AmiKit logo), equipped with storage medium, power supply and active cooling, everything already assembled. The storage medium is already flashed so that you can boot directly and install AmigaOS 3.x (e.g. via a USB stick). In addition to the AmigaOS version, you also need a USB mouse and a USB keyboard (keyboards from AmigaOne systems or the Apollo Vampire do also work).
AmiKit is a very professional workbench distribution. During the installation process, this distribution (which, as already mentioned, also requires an AmigaOS 3.x license and a corresponding installation medium) is installed, which contains a comprehensive software package.
"AmiKit In A Box" is the fastest hardware solution for AmigaOS 3.x available. Heretic 2, for example, runs at a resolution of 640x480 pixels at around 50 fps (faster than the PowerPC version on an AmigaOne x1000 with software rendering, and also significantly faster than on all other Raspberry-based 68k solutions). With moderate overclocking, the frame rate for games such as Heretic 2 goes up to 56 fps (for comparison: 63 fps with software renderer and 640x480 pixels on an AmigaOne x5000). The system is also used by Steffen 'MagicSN' Häuser to test his 68k game developments (e.g. Heretic 2, Gorky 17, RetroArch).
Further informationen can be found at the title link as well as on YouTube:
AmiKit In A Box is available for 239,95 EUR (incl. VAT). (snx)
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25.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDK Addon 1.4
For the official AmigaOS 4 developer package, George 'walkero' Sokianos has published a supplement at the title link that adds newer versions of the GCC compiler (11 and 6, as of May 14) and clib4 (V1.6.0) for AmigaOS 4 to the SDK. (snx)
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25.Jun.2025
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Web browser: AmiFox source code published
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
On Sunday, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has published the source code also for this one of his programs on GitHub. (snx)
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25.Jun.2025
Reddit (ANF)
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Video: Amiga in ITX Form? Building the Denise – Part 1
After Tim's Retro Corner, also Neil from Retro4U has published a video about the mini-ITX Amiga Denise at the title link.
Denise is an Amiga 500+ replacement in mini-ITX format with two Zorro II slots, a 72-pin SIMM for the 2 MB Chip RAM as well as connections for a standard ATX power supply and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. (snx)
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25.Jun.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 171 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English translation as well as the original Italian version. The REV'n'GE game reviews compare, where available, the conversions of classic games between different platforms of the time. An attempt is also made to pick out lesser-known retro games.
Amiga-related, the latest issue focuses on PJusk, Phantasm and Myst. (snx)
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25.Jun.2025
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Video: Impressions of the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention 2025 (German)
Last saturday, the Amiga-Ruhrpott-Convention 2025 took place in the Friedenskirche in Duisburg-Rheinhausen. In the video at the title link, 'Propheus' presents his impressions. (snx)
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25.Jun.2025
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Demo scene: Posadas Demoparty 2025
Deep in the south of Europe, the demoscene has been celebrating irregularly since 1995 at the Posadas party in the city of the same name north-east of Seville - this year from next friday to sunday.
The Posadas has its origins in the Amiga demo scene, and this is also reflected in the current competitions: only entries for Amiga/OCS or Amiga/AGA are permitted in the demo, intro and cracktro competitions. (snx)
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24.Jun.2025
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Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Phil Gaskell (Psygnosis)
In the latest episode 485 of the English-language podcast "The Retro Hour", entitled "Psygnosis to PSN: Phil Gaskell on Shaping Sony's Early PlayStation Era", Phil Gaskell talks about his career – from his early days with BASIC on the ZX81 to his work at Psygnosis and his formative role during the early days of PlayStation under Sony.
Gaskell shares numerous fascinating anecdotes in the interview, ranging from canceled game projects and salary issues to curious connections to the Gizmondo affair. He also talks about the revival of iconic titles such as Lemmings and Super Stardust HD. (nba)
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24.Jun.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Physical edition of Dr. Dangerous now available
A physical box edition of the action game "Dr. Dangerous - Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan" from HooGames2017 (amiga-news.de reported), which was released last year, is now available. The collector's edition comes with numerous new features and improvements.
The revised version of the disk edition offers new difficulty levels (Easy, Medium and Hard), which provide more variety with adapted game mechanics. For the first time, checkpoints can be set at any time in Easy mode, making the game more accessible and easier to play. At the same time, the classic appeal for pros remains fully intact in Hard mode.
Four brand new levels expand the adventure and provide additional fun. The music has also been revised: Barry Leitch (known for Lotus Turbo Challenge, among others) and ZEKAVEO, who has already made a name for himself with the soundtrack to the Android game "The Mystical Quest", are responsible for the new soundscape and give the game a dense, atmospheric soundscape.
In addition, minor visual adjustments have been made to make certain sections even more harmonious, and loading times have also been significantly improved. Finally, the game is now available in German, French and Spanish as well as English.
The boxed version of Dr. Dangerous including download option is now offered for 29,00 Euro. (nba)
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24.Jun.2025
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin (ANF)
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Snork 0.1: New Tracer/Logger for AmigaOS 4
Snork, a new tool for monitoring and logging function calls in system libraries, is now available to AmigaOS 4 users. The tool is aimed at developers and experienced users who want to debug applications or analyze the behavior of the system.
Inspired by Snoopy, a popular 68k debugger by Gerson Kurz from 1994, Snork follows a similar, script-based approach. While the original relied on SetFunction and does not work on AmigaOS 4, Snork uses modern mechanisms such as IExec->SetMethod to specifically monitor current library interfaces.
In contrast to existing tools such as glSnoop by Capehill or Snoopy by Colin Wenzel, which focus on specific libraries, Snork is designed to support a wide range of system libraries in the future. The current first version includes support for dos.library and intuition.library; functions with a variable number of arguments are not yet supported, but are planned for future updates, as is support for additional libraries.
Download: Snork 0.1 (86 KB) (nba)
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24.Jun.2025
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Seq 3.2: MIDI sequencer for AmigaOS 4
The new version 3.2 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 (amiga-news.de reported).
All changes of versions 3.1 and 3.2 summarised:
- FIXED drawing onetime track steps
- NOTE! Changed how MIDI devices are selected, changes to the project file format
- requires re-saving all projects
- loading project will try go get the correct MIDI device selection automatically
- NOTE! CAMD might put your multiple MIDI devices to different order after each boot/power on, that's the reason to change how to set the devices! This way one will need to change the devices in one place only.
Seq is offered as freeware and can be downloaded from OS4Depot. (nba)
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23.Jun.2025
jPV RNO (E-Mail)
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Event: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at Vectorama 2025
From 5 to 8 June, Vectorama 2025 took place in Oulu, Finland, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages. The Finnish Amiga Users Group was also there, organising an Amiga stand and several gaming competitions at the event. They report:
"There were a high score competition in Lotus 2 and multiplayer tournaments in Stunt Car Racer and Lotus 2 with null-modem linked Amigas. The prizes included medals and freshly printed copies of the PDF computer magazine Saku: the latest issue 52, with 248 pages, had just been published. The stand featured six A1200 setups (with Blizzard 1230 accelerators and PiStorm32-lite), A500 with Gotek, THEA500 Mini, and two MorphOS setups for entering scores and displaying a live leaderboard and other information. The event was successful with about 2000 people attending, and there wasn't a moment without anyone playing on Amigas."
All released videos and photos can be found at the title link. (dr)
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23.Jun.2025
Reddit
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macOS: Amiga tools Send2adf and ADF.inder v1.0.494
With Send2adf and ADF.inder, macOS users are provided with two small programs with which all files in a selected directory can be written to an ADF file or the contents of an ADF file can be displayed (amiga-news.de reported). The developer has now made some improvements. Changes:
In generel
- create blank images
- add files
- set volume's name
File management is now complete
- open OFS/FFS images
- add files
- delete files/folders/
- create folders/subfolders
- rename files/folder
- save as
- recently opened disks support
Utilities
- view file content with hex/text viewer
- Sorting A-Z & Z & A
- Sorting by file size
- Export files
- Text editor
Disk Management
- Disk stats
- Open multiple disks using tabs within the same window or isolated windows
Preferences
- Remember window size and location
- Default to tab view
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23.Jun.2025
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Mingo's Commodore Blog: The Gotek drive in detail - parts 3 (German)
Following the first two parts (amiga-news.de reported), South Tyrolean Domingo Fivoli shows how to configure and use the Gotek drive in the third part of his series. (dr)
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23.Jun.2025
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Video: Downsizing the Disk Backup Station
Two years ago, Robert Smith presented his "Disk Backup Station," which can back up floppy disks to ADF or SCP using the Greaseweazle board. In his latest video, he shows how he is changing the design and making the station smaller. (dr)
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23.Jun.2025
Mastodon
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Video: Creating a new 3D engine for Apollo Vampire (part 1)
The Finn 'Proton' is a musician, graphic designer, programmer and member of the demoscene groups Finnish Gold and Komplex. He has now started a new tutorial series on Twitch on creating a 3D engine for Apollo Vampire in Assembler. Source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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22.Jun.2025
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Aminet uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to Aminet:
WhatMightHaveBeen.lha demo/aga 117K OS3 What Might Have Been de...
Rouflaquette.lha demo/misc 581K OS3 Little demo by Robin^Pu...
asm-kurs_ram_jam.zip dev/asm 6.6M GEN Assembly course, German
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 17K OS3 A global SegList tracki...
Radeon.lha driver/vid 13K OS3 Radeon P96 driver
cyberTRON.adf game/2play 880K OS3 a tron lightcycles game...
Mandel_DSP.lha gfx/fract 21K OS3 Mandelbrot generator fo...
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...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 419K OS3 Updated HippoPlayer
MMULib.lha util/libs 812K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.1M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
CPU-A.lha util/moni 472K OS3 System Information Tool
DSPmeter.lha util/wb 2K OS3 DSPmeter for DSP3210 ch...
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22.Jun.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 450kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
smb2fs.lha net/sam 163kb 4.1 Filesystem for accessing files u...
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22.Jun.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to AROS Archives:
filesysbox-v54.7.i386-aro... lib/mis 54kb A FUSE compatible file system layer
smb2fs-v53.9.i386-aros.lha net/sam 85kb SMB2/3 file system client
smb2fs-v53.9.x86_64-aros-... net/sam 94kb SMB2 file system client
ccd2cue-v01.x86_64-aros-v... uti/fil 60kb Converts CloneCD CCD to CUE format
dopus5_92_i386-aros.zip uti/fil 5Mb Directory Opus 5 : File Manager
finder-v3.1.x86_64-aros-v... uti/fil 62kb MUI File Search Tool
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22.Jun.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.06.2025
The following files have been added until 21.06.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL2-Piano_1.0.lha Audio/Misc A virtual piano program
AmiArcadia_34.40.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
iGame_2.6.0.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Mahjong_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of a simple Mahjon...
rezerwar_0.4.2.lha Games/Think Port of rezerwar (C-SDL1)
Wayfarer_10.1.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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21.Jun.2025
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Video: integrated development environment 'Codecraft'
Camilla Boemann presents the possibilities of her integrated development environment Codecraft in detail in a video. (cg)
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21.Jun.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2.1
In version 4.2.1 of his Amiga emulator, Dirk Hoffmann has fixed a bug that prevented the correct mounting of disc images when loading a "workspace". (cg)
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21.Jun.2025
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Developer tool: Iff2Bpl converts ILBM files
The open source tool Iff2Bpl converts ILBM image files into raw (interleaved) bitplanes, which can then be integrated into games or applications by developers. The author only provides the source code, interested parties must build the executable version themselves. (cg)
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21.Jun.2025
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Hardware project: Parallel port sampler "Amiga Stereo Audio Digitizer 1.3"
The "Amiga Stereo Audio Digitizer" converts one or two analog audio signals into uncompressed 8-bit audio streams. According to the developer, it should be compatible with "most" corresponding Amiga software; it was tested with Audio Master IV. (cg)
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21.Jun.2025
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Chip development: Marine, an open-source replica of Amber
Marine is a CPLD based replica of the 'Amber' chip, which is used in the A3000 and Commodore's A2320 extension as a flicker fixer and converts interlace screen modes into a regular screen modes. The developer also presents his project in detail in a series of videos: 1, 2, 3. (cg)
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20.Jun.2025
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 10.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released the first update for version 10 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). The changes:
- Fixed blob:// file downloads
- Fixed a crash in CSS blending (reported on vw.pl, swisspost.ch)
- Fixed not being able to restart Wayfarer after a crash
- Improved WebKit assert logging
(dr)
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20.Jun.2025
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Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.48.1 for Linux, macOS and Windows
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.48.1 provides the following changes:
New or improved features
- Remembers the last used format when creating a new image.
- Can now specify the disc title when creating a new image.
- When run from the console/command line with no parameters, it will open the console automatically without the -c or --console paramter being specified.
- Added a new console/command line parameter, '-g' or '--gui', to force the application to start in GUI mode.
Bug fixes
- There were possibilities where a blank title, version or copyright string could be applied when updating an ROM FS Header.
- Create a blank !Spark file produced an invalid ZIP file.
- When files were added to a !Spark file, it created a new ZIP file with only this file inside.
- When importing files, sometimes a directory would not be created unless it was ADFS or Amiga.
- Importing files from one system to another sometimes failed as the path structure is different.
- Selecting a file on the directory listing sometimes resulting the details of another file being displayed.
- Creating a new sub-directory, or adding a file, to a sub-directory of the root on an Amiga format image would appear to fail.
- Importing from DFS to a directory capable system, apart from ADFS or Amiga, would not create any subdirectories.
- Adding to a ZIP file would sometimes crash the application.
The author also provides a detailed PDF manual. (dr)
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20.Jun.2025
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Emulator hardware: Update 46.1.1131 for A1200NG and A600GS
Another software update has been released for AmigaKit's A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard. It is available for download to registered AmiSphere customers and includes the following changes:
The video playback feature (amiga-news.de reported) is now released in this update along with a new version of PlayMP3 and UnArchiver. Detailed changelog:
SystemV46
- Add PlayVideo version 46.4
- Update PlayMP3 to version 46.6
- Update UnArchiver to version 46.3
- Update smb2fs to version 53.10
- Update FileSysBox to version 54.6
- regina.library updated to 4.0 along with associated RexxMast
Programs
- Add Viva_Amiga_trailer.mp4
- PPaint updated to better support regina based REXX . Work in progress
A600GS/A1200NG
- Add ArmMPGFile backend for playing avcodec supported video formats.
- Updates to installation system to enable remote install of avcodec and dependencies
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