09.Aug.2025
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QEMU front end for launching AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 1.2.0
George Sokianos' QEMU front end "Kyvos" is designed to significantly simplify the setup and
launch of AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS under QEMU.
In version 1.2.0, the configuration has been expanded to include a section for experienced users, which allows more control over various settings. Additional systems are supported (MorphOS on Pegasos 2, AmigaOS 4 on Sam460, AROS i386/x64) and SMB file shares can be accessed now. In addition, virtual machines are now protected against accidental deletion. (cg)
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09.Aug.2025
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 26
The current issue 26 (July 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available in print or digital format (via Amazon). Topics covered in this issue include:
- Reviewed 11 new video games for the Amiga: Hundra, AmiSeaFox, BOH Advance, Krogharr, Bolminok's Kingdom 2, BreakHack, Echoes of the Future, NeonWorld, Mundialito, Gemdalus and Space Patrol
- Preview: Tomb Raider on Amiga
- Reports from Commodore Day 2025
- Special: Amiga Day 2025 Passion
- Interviews: Jogeir Liljedahl and The Return of Thalamus
- Tech: Printing with AmigaOS 4.1
- Columns: Aminet's Treasures, The Shepherd's Attic - CDTV add-on and New Talents
- Plus: Games news, Tech news...
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08.Aug.2025
EntwicklerX (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Starfall Defenders released
Press release: EntwicklerX (Patreon link) has released Starfall Defenders (trailer), a tower defense game for AmigaOS 4.
Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defence game. It features an in-game shop system where players can purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and acquire special items such as atomic bombs, splash bombs, and air supplies. Players earn coins for the shop by defeating boss enemies, letting as few enemies pass as possible, and unlocking new maps.
Compared to previous games such as "M.A.C.E. Tower Defense" or "Swamp Defense 2", the graphics have been completely modernised with smoke and light effects. The game offers 70 newly designed, challenging levels for hours of gaming fun.
System requirements: An AmigaOS4.1-compatible computer with a Warp3D Nova-compatible graphics card is required.
The game is now available from Alinea Computer, AmiStore and itch.io for around ¤20. (dr)
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08.Aug.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.3
Following the beta version, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.3 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. The file system navigator now includes a boot command for managing boot blocks. macOS 13.5 or higher is required. (dr)
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08.Aug.2025
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Event: Amiga demos at Assembly 2025
The Assembly demo party has been held in Helsinki since 1992, and this year's edition took place last weekend. Two Amiga productions also placed in the "Oldskool Demo" category:
- 8th place: "Sigil of Valhalla" by Depth and Zymosis (video)
- 9th place: "RIP Bill Atkinson" by Hackers Media Industries (video)
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07.Aug.2025
EntwicklerX (E-Mail)
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Mini game: EntwicklerX released "Dodge These Balls"
Press release: We, the developers at EntwicklerX, have just released our first game for classic Amiga computers: Dodge These Balls. In this mini-game, you have to dodge the grey balls for as long as possible with a red ball. These balls increase in number from time to time, making the game more difficult and inevitably ending in a collision. The longer you last, the more points you get.
The mini-game is intended as a fun diversion and a way to compare high scores between games. A local high score list helps to compare points.
Why this game?
Dodge These Balls is a little mini-game for Amiga users that we hope you will enjoy. For us, it lays the foundation for development on classic Amigas. On the technical side, an early version of the game engine was used, which implements features such as blitter objects, collision, sound, loading and saving local high scores, and displaying and moving graphic objects.
On the graphics side, we first had to learn how to create pixel graphics and save them with the necessary palette so that they could be used in the game. The target was the Amiga ECS chipset with its limited palette compared to AGA. All graphics were created in Deluxe Paint 4, which was an additional challenge, but simply more fun.
Since we had to start from scratch from a technical and graphical point of view on the classic Amigas, Dodge These Balls may be a small mini-game for Amiga users, but for EntwicklerX it is a big step forward and paves the way for further developments for the Amiga.
In addition, we have launched a Patreon page to share early information about game development, with a focus on games for AmigaOS4 and classic Amigas. Development for the original Amiga computers will gradually progress from free mini-games to larger commercial products. The small games serve as a basis for larger projects and integrate new features that will be incorporated into the more extensive games. Every bit of support allows us to invest more time in the projects and drive them forward. (dr)
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06.Aug.2025
AmigaKit (E-Mail)
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Emulator hardware: AmiBrowser announced for A1200NG and A600GS (update)
AmigaKit has announced its own web browser for its A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard, which would be available shortly (press release as PDF file).
"AmiBrowser" runs on AmigaKit's desktop AmiBench, which is based on the reimplementation of AmigaOS components, supplemented by AROS components. The browser supports HTML 5, has a MUI/Zune graphical user interface and is compiled for the 680x0 architecture - although rendering is done natively using the appropriate ARM libraries.
Update: (08.08.2025, 06:01, dr)
The YouTube channel "Proteque-CBN" shows a video of how an early version of the browser runs on the A600GS.
(snx)
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06.Aug.2025
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Cordoomceps: Doom on a PiStorm Amiga using Linux
Cordoomceps is an approach by Matthew Garrett to run the game Doom on an Amiga with PiStorm extension, not by emulating the AmigaOS hardware, but by having the actual image generation performed by Linux running natively on the ARM processor and simply passing the finished result to the Amiga.
His Doom port is based on Chocolate Doom, and he makes his source code available under the title link. He describes the project in detail in his blog as a graphically slightly flawed version of Doom that runs without sound and is displayed on an Amiga whose brain has been replaced by a parasitic Linux. (snx)
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06.Aug.2025
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Spillhistorie: Interview with Magnetic Fields about Super Cars
Hans Arne Jacobsen conducted another interview for the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, this time with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern from Magnetic Fields about their game Super Cars and its 1991 sequel, Super Cars II. (snx)
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05.Aug.2025
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Retro Area at gamescom 2025: A travel back in time
gamescom 2025, the world's largest video game trade fair, will take place in Cologne from August 20 to 24, 2025. A centerpiece of the event is the traditional Retro & Family Area, where retro fans will get their money's worth. The Retro Area in Hall 10.2 will feature numerous playable computer and console classics as well as arcade machines, many of them with new games and homebrew software. Visitors can take part in live events and stage interviews with scene legends and be entertained by chiptune artists, quiz rounds, and live music. The Retro Area is perfect for anyone looking for a break from the current AAA blockbuster program and wanting to immerse themselves in the vibrant history of digital gaming instead.
The following exhibitors will be participating in the Retro Area at gamescom this year:
- 8Bit Sport Games Contest & Party
- ABBUC e.V.
- Adventure Clicks
- AMIGA
- Annette Oefner
- BBG Entertainment
- Bitte-8-Bit
- Chris Huelsbeck Productions
- Classic Videogames
- Computerspielemuseum Berlin
- Controller Bandits
- Creative ReMote
- Dr. Wuro Industries
- Dragonbox Shop
- ejagfest – European Atari Jaguar Festival
- Factor 5
- FlippArena – Vöcklabrucker FlipperSportVerein
- Flipper-Frank
- Fox-Assembly
- gamehistorymuseum.com
- GamePlan
- GamersGlobal
- German Remix Group
- Haus der Computerspiele
- IMAGINARY
- Internationale Computerspielesammlung
- KAIKO
- Look Behind You
- ModRetro
- MogelPower
- Männerquatsch Podcast
- Nerdistan
- nerds-on-line
- Nerds and Geeks
- OSA-Stick
- Quantum Arcade
- Radio PARALAX
- Retr-O-Mat
- Retro-Connection
- Retro-Konsolen.de
- Retro Computer
- Retro Gamer
- Retro Games Ltd.
- RetroArts
- retrospiel
- RETURN
- Scene World
- Simple Siegen
- Spectrumania
- Stabyourself.net
- Step Revolution
- Vectrex Mini
(nba)
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05.Aug.2025
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Worth a read: More retrocomputing, less nostalgia
Swedish developer and blogger Carl Svensson has published a new article on datagubbe.se. In "More retrocomputing, less nostalgia", he takes a critical look at the concept of retro nostalgia. He questions the widespread assumption that old technology was inherently better or more honest, and argues for a more nuanced view of retro fascination and technological development.
Datagubbe regularly offers insightful and personal articles about the Amiga and related topics, which we have reported on several times. (nba)
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05.Aug.2025
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Video: PiStorm68K - Update Version 1.4
The PiStorm68k is compatible various models of the Raspberry Pi generations 3 and 4 and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. It is possible to switch between the emulated and the real CPU using a simple switch. Developer Ranko Rodic has published another video in which he gives insights into parasitic powering issues and improvements in the upcoming v1.5 PCB design. (nba)
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04.Aug.2025
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Video: Modification of an Amiga 500, part 1
Last October, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' won an Amiga 500 at the Workbench 2024 event in England. In the first part of a video series, he replaces the case and keycaps with new ones from A1200.net. (dr)
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04.Aug.2025
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AI chatbot: AmigaGPT 2.8.1 (update)
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 2.8.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- Add "Fixed width fonts" item in the "View" menu to toggle fixed width fonts for the chat input and chat output
- Add "User text alignment" and "Assistant text alignment" items in the "View" menu to set the alignment of user and assistant messages in the chat
Update: (04.08.2025, 21:46, dr)
The newly released version 2.8.1 offers the following changes:
- Fixed some menu items not working
- The window position and size is now remembered between sessions
- Fixed license label in the About AmigaGPT window
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,26 MB) (dr)
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03.Aug.2025
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Aminet uploads until 02.08.2025
The following files have been added until 02.08.2025 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 89K OS3 P96 Preferences Editor
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 37M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia ...
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...
emutos.lha misc/emu 342K OTH EmuTOS - Amiga version
50.lha mods/32bit 2.3M GEN 16bit 4ch Pop Jazz Rock...
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 1.7M OS4 A PDF generator
WinUAE_Mounter_32.lha util/batch 320K OS3 Mount CD + floppy disk ...
GoSnap.lha util/cdity 13K OS3 Snaps windows to screen...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.3M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 9.1M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
vbrCheck.zip util/misc 3K OS3 Check if vectorbase is ...
tbc253.lha util/wb 51K OS3 WB2.0/3.0 Digital Clock...
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03.Aug.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.08.2025
The following files have been added until 02.08.2025 to OS4Depot:
aurafly.lha aud/mis 24Mb 4.1 auraFly helps focus better and f...
qt6demos.lha dev/cro 106Mb 4.1 Just a few demos of Qt6 for OS4.1
retroarchcores_instal... emu/gam 578Mb 4.1 Cores for soon to be released Re...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 37Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
compression.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.1 A PDF generator
xorsearch.lha uti/mis 49kb 4.0 Search for a XOR encoded string ...
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03.Aug.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.08.2025
The following files have been added until 02.08.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
WebRadio_3.2.lha Ambient/Screenbar A sbar plugin to listen...
FrozenLiquid_1.3.lha Audio/MIDI Soft audio synthetiser ...
AmiArcadia_34.70.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
RetroArch-Cores.lha Emulation Cores for RetroArch
unshield-1.6.2.lha Files/Archive Extract/list InstallShi...
vmsbackup-4.3.lha Files/Backup This program reads a VM...
loderunner-ng_0.1.1.lha Games/Platform Port of loderunner-ng (...
fheroes2_1.1.10.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Lite-XL_2.1.8r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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03.Aug.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.08.2025
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 02.08.2025:
(snx)
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03.Aug.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added:
(snx)
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03.Aug.2025
commodore-news
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Crowdfunding: The Amiga Cheat Codes book
Dan Nielsen is raising money on Kickstarter for the book "The Amiga Cheat Codes", which will be published as a PDF file, printed with ring binding and as a softcover paperback. According to the illustrations, the book promises an pleasant design with an image from each game and the actual cheat codes that make it easier to avoid an early "game over".
No exact number of the games included is given, but it aims to cover "hundreds" of games, from "Ace the Space Race to Zoom!, from 3D Pool to 4D Sports Diving" in alphabetical order. Nielsen mentions to have curated these cheats for decades and would now want to give them back to the Amiga community in an appropriate and preservative form. (snx)
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03.Aug.2025
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Month in review, July 2025
In his blog at the title link, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month. (snx)
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03.Aug.2025
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Programming: C++ on the Amiga without the standard library using GCC 2.95.3
At the title link, Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski discusses the possibility of writing C++ programs for the Amiga with the GCC 2.95 compiler without using the standard library interface of the AmigaOS API.
This approach results in more compact (by about 50 kB) and, in some cases, faster programs that are better integrated into the system and can make more extensive use of AmigaOS-specific features. (snx)
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