10.Jul.2025
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Emu68: Imager Tool 1.0.5.2 for Windows
The "Imager Tool" enables PiStorm users to prepare an SD card with the Motorola68K emulation Emu68 and a preconfigured AmigaOS 3 installation. Changes since our last news item:
- 1.0.5.2: Improved the Online script to better handle where connections do not work. Where connections have failed but WirelessManager remains connected, WirelessManager is closed so the log can be accessed on the Amiga (previously the log was inaccessible as WirelessManager locks the file). The logs for WirelessManager, AddInterface from Roadshow and sntp are all concatenated and written to RAM:WirelessLogs.Txt so the user can see all the information in one place for troubleshooting
- 1.0.5.1: Added check for encrypted Cloanto Kickstart ROMs so the user is alerted if they have chosen this ROM since it will not work on PiStorm without being decrypted
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10.Jul.2025
Amiga Kit (E-Mail)
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Emulator hardware: Update 46.1.1151 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:
- Upgrade PlayVideo to 46.7 Avoids using NewMinList() as this is version 50 or above only. Now put up information requester if start without avcodec backend present.
- Integrate latest builds of PeterKs icon.library for enhanced PNG datatype loading and other bugs fixes.
- Zune: fix up behaviour of MUIV_Window_Width_MinMax()
- Zune: Fix incorrect parsing of underscores in escape sequences resulting in the incorrect shortcut key in SimpleButtons and else where.
- Zune: Fix duplicate GoActive methods sent to already active objects
- Upgrade to Assign 46.11
- Update to UnArchiver 46.4 29/06/2025
- Update filesysbox.library to 54.7
- Update smbfs handler to 53.10
- Checking of license keys for add-on functionality like the CPU Boost product now takes place immediately after the first login after registration, so no longer requires autologin to be enabled.
Amigakit reccomends to disable the auto install of avcodec on startup: most users seem to upgrade with ease, but a few are having issues resulting in an update loop. To install avcodec suite manually, go to the advanced update section and choose it from the list. (cg)
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10.Jul.2025
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Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.5
Mame106Minimix is a port of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator to AmigaOS 3, which requires a very fast 68k computer - the author primarily has PiStorm cards in mind. Changes in version 1.5:
- Vector graphics games are implemented (starwars,asteroid,startrek, cosmic chasm,... more or less 20 games.)
- Vector screens have specific configuration to tune resolution, remanence, and a special glow effect for vector screens
- StarWars, Gauntlet, 720 degree, and all games using the "POKEY" sound chip (Atari) got 30% or 40% accelerated
- "Turbo OutRun" and "F1GP Star 1&2" gets the same treatment as outrun and chasehq: input menu panel with more explicit controls, wheel and gear optionnaly displayed
- MUI supports dedicated appicon (skin/appicon.info) , and amigaguide can be opened from help key
- driver list can now be correctly sorted by screen mode, it's useful to sort vector games
- In-game menu "Game Information" now tells the actual Intuition Screen Mode found
- Amigaguide Documentation updated
- corrections for some screen rotation cases
- the little bitmaps in menu does not crash on big resolution anymore
- some colors trashed in 8bit screens corrected
- Numerous little corrections here and there
(cg)
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10.Jul.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.1.0 and Amiberry-lite 5.8.10
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator based on the current WinUAE version, while its little brother Amiberry-lite is based on WinUAE 4.4 and is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 7.1.0 of Amiberry is now available, Amiberry-lite has arrived at Version 5.8.10. (cg)
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09.Jul.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AROS: Progress in May/June 2025
At the title link Nick Andrews has summarized the progress of the open source, AmigaOS 3.1 API compatible operating system AROS in the last two months.
For example, a TIFF datatype has been implemented, the gfx.hidd has been extended by SSE/AVX-optimized conversion routines and the GCC patches have been updated to GCC 15. (snx)
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08.Jul.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 38
The new issue 38 of the British magazine Amiga Addict (June 2025) is dedicated to the long-established company HiSoft Systems. HiSoft was not only known for legendary developer tools such as Devpac and HiSoft BASIC, but also brought hardware such as the Squirrel SCSI interface and various media drives to market. In the magazine, Phil South talks to co-founder Andy Pennell (now Principal Software Engineer at Xbox) about the exciting early days of the company and its significance for the Amiga community.
In addition, this issue features a big "Amiga Shopper" retrospective with many former editors, a free cover disc download with Top Hat Willy, a special on influential role-playing games on the Amiga, and reviews of the new games Aminer, Pjusk, and LightTheLEDs. Classics such as Exile and Bump 'n' Burn are also covered in detail. In addition, the editorial team takes a look at the AMIGApril livestream event, Frank Gasking launches a new series on Games That Weren't with a feature on Dennis and Gnasher, and the Creative Revolution section focuses on vector art with Fantavision. Ravi Abbott also presents the possibilities of virtual desktops on the Amiga.
Amiga Addict 38 is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsagents. (nba)
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08.Jul.2025
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3D printable: Amiga 1200 External USB Keyboard Plug Mount
Dennis "0xDB" Busch has presented the 3D printing project "Amiga 1200 External USB Keyboard Plug Mount 3D printable" on itch.io, which can be used to print a mount for external USB keyboards for the Amiga 1200. The mount is designed so that it can be mounted on the top of the case without damaging it and fits into the moldings of the original case. USB adapters such as Jamie Retro's USB KBD Adapter are supported. The files are for private use only; commercial resale is prohibited. The STL data can be downloaded in exchange for a voluntary donation. (nba)
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08.Jul.2025
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Emu68: Status update by developer Michael Schulz
About the Emu68 project, an emulation of the Motorola 68k processor, amiga-news.de first reported in March 2024. Now developer Michal Schulz has posted a status update on Patreon. Under the title "I'm not dead!", Schulz assures that development is still active, even if things have been quiet lately. He reports progress on planned features and promises version 1.1. (nba)
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07.Jul.2025
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Demo party: Results of the Posadas game competition
At the beginning of March, the Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave launched a programming competition for the game construction kit RedPill (amiga-news.de reported), whose entries were presented - together with two other games (The Last Door und Apagón!) - and awarded prizes at the Posadas demo party (video tour) held north of Seville last weekend. The results:
The downloads are available on Scene.org. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Picture collection: Amiga Graphics Archive updated
This time, the Amiga Graphics Archive has been expanded to include a large collection of "Color Cycling" images: this technique changes the colours of the images in such a way that it creates the impression of animation. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Platformer: CD32 image of Krogharr available
The platformer Krogharr was released a week ago (amiga-news.de reported). Now there is also a CD32 image of this game. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Arcade shooter: Demo version of ZorkLand
Amiten Games (among others AmiSeaFox) has released a demo version of an arcade shooter that was started back in 2013 (video). Using the Extra Halfbrite mode, up to 64 colours can be displayed simultaneously. At least 1 MB of chip RAM (2 MB recommended) and a 68020 processor are required. (dr)
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07.Jul.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, version 1.7
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files. Since version 1.6, the Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000 and 4000 models, as well as the Amiga 4000CR and Amiga 3000T, are supported.
The newly released version 1.7 offers the following changes:
hostsmash
- Fixed bug where merging 512KB Amiga ROMs resulting in 1 MB image to write. This is not desirable because AmigaOS ROM images are doubled.
- Enhanced ROM write to no longer check if area is erased, but to just prompt user for erase approval.
- Fixed hostsmash "--clock" argument alias for "-c"
ROM switcher
- Fixed bug introduced in 1.6 ROM switcher which can cause motherboard fast memory to go missing.
- Fixed bank switch timeout to not abort unexpectedly at startup.
- Fixed potential Blitter initialization bug.
- Added polygon fill so the rendering of Kicksmash is not just line art.
Kicksmash FW
- Fixed bug where crash could happen at long reset if longreset bank is not set
- Fixed pin test bug where SOCKET_OE=1 might cause SOCKET_D31=1
- Worked around M29F160 flash chip bug which prevented AmigaOS 2.04 from being flashed. Value 0x90 was being written to address 0x55, which put the flash in "READ CFI QUERY" mode, causing programming to fail.
- Added "address" pattern to Kicksmash "patt" command.
- Added "random" pattern to Kicksmash "patt" command.
- Added Flash OEWE test of Q2 and Q3 based on speed of those parts. This test was implemented because AO34000A parts populated on the Rev 6a boards cause programming from the Amiga to fail because they are too slow.
- Fixed walking bits tests in "test" command.
- Increased Amiga UART buffer from 1024 bytes to 2048 bytes.
- Fixed potential false error at 100% when hostsmash is writing a ROM.
- Eliminated some variable latency in Kicksmash-Amiga CPU command replies.
smash
- Improved flash ID test (6) to report values on failure.
- Code to return flash to read mode now tries extra hard. This may fix crashes with "smash erase" and "smash write" commands.
- Minor help text improvements.
- Improved 'flash id' test failure recovery to be less likely to hang Amiga.
- Implemented flash command sync retry when Kicksmash is late with flash command. This will hopefully resolve "flash id" test and other flash
command failures.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed bug in wdikicksmash.bat, which was fetching the wdi-simple.exe using a bad filename.
Documentation
- Added warning about Kicksmash1200 incompatibility with TF1260.
- Minor documentation updates.
PCBs
- Rev Kicksmash1200 to version 7.1 (fix USB-C cutout)
(dr)
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06.Jul.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to Aminet:
sqlite-3.34.0.a-amiga.lha biz/dbase 20M VAR SQL database engine
less-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M VAR Viewer program similar ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 5.2M MOS Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 5.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.9M OS3 Multi-game Character Ed...
Hundra.lha game/jump 897K OS3 Hundra
HundraWHD.lha game/jump 905K OS3 Hundra WHD
SwitcherBoy.lha game/jump 1.1M OS3 A clever platform puzzl...
AbuSimbelTFAv12.lha game/misc 6.2M OS3 Abu Simbel Profanation ...
Temptations.lha game/misc 230M OS3 Temptations FULL v1.0 F...
Level9.lha game/text 95K OS3 Level 9 text adventure ...
Team17TributePart1.lha game/think 897K OS3 Puzzle think game
AGF-01.lha mags/misc 26M GEN Amiga Germany Fanzine
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 3.9M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
legioncreep.zip mods/crash 2.5M GEN Dark Drone 6ch 16bit xm
thoh.zip mods/crash 2.6M GEN Ambient 16bit 8ch xm
Long_Time_Coming-Fl1N.zip mods/med 793K GEN Long Time Coming, Posad...
avalanche.lha util/arc 125K VAR ReAction unarchive GUI ...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 7K GEN German catalog for Aval...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 9K GEN German translation of A...
GoSnap.lha util/cdity 8K OS3 Snaps windows to screen...
GrabScreen.lha util/cdity 13K OS3 Take a screenshot of ac...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 4.0M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.6M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.5M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.1M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
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06.Jul.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
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
mce.lha gam/uti 6Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
grafx2.lha gra/edi 6Mb 4.1 Pixel paint program (like DPaint...
amissl.lha lib/mis 4Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
avalanche.lha uti/arc 125kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
litexl2.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
yt.lha vid/mis 939kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to AROS Archives:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha net/sam 117kb SMB2/3 file system client
smb2fs-v53.10.x86_64-aros... net/sam 129kb SMB2 file system client
installerlg-v1.0.3.x86_64... uti 194kb Commodore Installer replacement
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads bis 05.07.2025
The following files have been added until 05.07.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
MissDriller2_0.1.lha Games/Misc Port of MissDriller2, a...
Doom64EX-Plus_4.1.0.1.lha Games/Shoot3D An improved modern vers...
Doom64EX-Plus_4.1.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D An improved modern vers...
Wayfarer_10.2.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
ytSearch_1.5.lha Multimedia Search/Play YouTube videos
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06.Jul.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.07.2025
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 05.07.2025:
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05.Jul.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Amiga show: Amiga40 moves to a new location
Press release: Some of you have probably already noticed that the event will no longer take place in the Kunstwerk in Mönchengladbach, but in the REDBOX (soon to be called 'NEW Box'). So please note the corresponding new address for Amiga40 on 18 and 19 October 2025:
REDBOX (soon: NEW Box)
Am Nordpark 299
41069 Mönchengladbach
The REDBOX / NEW Box near Borussia Park is not only easily accessible by car, but also by public transport. Bus routes 025 and 015 offer you the opportunity to travel here from the main railway station at Europaplatz in Mönchengladbach. Choose one of these bus lines and get off at the bus stop "Mönchengladbach Weg zum Nordpark". After a short walk of 5 minutes you have reached the REDBOX / NEW Box. In the coming months there will be at least one additional line to the REDBOX / NEW Box - please note the corresponding information on our homepage or in the well-known Amiga forums.
Of course, all tickets will remain valid - however, should anyone wish to return their tickets due to the new venue, which is approx. 10 kilometres away from the Kunstwerk in Wickrath, we will allow a deadline of 15 August 2025. Anyone who has already printed out their tickets can continue to use them - and will not need new ones!
At the REDBOX / NEW Box there are 4000 parking spaces available in P4 - a daily charge of 5 euros (no guarantee). With a little patience and a short walk, you can also find free parking spaces in the immediate vicinity.
Fortunately, cash payment for food and drinks will again be possible in the REDBOX / NEW Box.
Otherwise, everything remains the same: A colorful stage program, lots of Amiga fun, exhibitors, user tables and much more! The opening hours also remain as previously communicated, and we even have a little more space available in the REDBOX / NEW Box so that we can not only offer more tables, but also 100 additional tickets for Saturday and Sunday from 2 July 2025!
We are now looking forward to pushing ahead with the planning for Amiga40 at full speed in the coming weeks! You can expect a great anniversary event for the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga!
(cg)
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05.Jul.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 175
The English and German issue 175 (July/August 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. Topics covered in this issue include:
- Review Aminer
- Review Board Game vs. Amiga: Ramses
- Review AmigaOS 3.2.3
- Review Mechanical Keyboard Amiga 1200
- Workshop Knowledge 8: The third dimension: 3D graphics on the Amiga
- Workshop Setting Up Samba
- Special Beyond the Screen: Cinemaware
- Special Amiga HAM-E
- 40 Years of Amiga - Part 2
- Interview Jon Bohmer Part 2
- Interview Tim Wright
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05.Jul.2025
ko-fi
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.8r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George “walkero” Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. Version 2.1.8r1 is based for the first time on the current generation of the SDL library 'SDL3', and as a result runs about 10-15 percent slower than previous releases. The author has made extensive analyses of his code and informed the Lite XL team as well as the maintainers of SDL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS about any optimisation potential he found.
(cg)
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05.Jul.2025
Frank Neumann (E-Mail)
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Tetris variant: A100
In the Tetris variant "A100" (Video), new bricks are placed by the player on a square playing field, eliminating the "pieces falling down" mechanism of the original game. Once all positions in a column or row are occupied, the column/row is emptied. The game should run on any Amiga with at least 512 KB chip RAM. (cg)
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05.Jul.2025
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.58
AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Now version 2.58 has been released. Changes since our last news item:
- Recompiled using the latest AmiSSL SDK, so now it should use the latest libraries.
- Some servers (in this case Cloudfare) requiring authentication did NOT adhere to the RFC
regarding the WWW-Authention header, and the case sensitive search failed. This has now been
changed to a non-case-sensitive search, and should hopefully fix problems with servers
requiring authentication.
- All components have been recompiled but with no other functional changes.
- Another issue has arisen with regards to WWW realms. This time a quote enclosed realm was
leading to a duplicate entry in the sitelist. The quotes are now removed before the
authentication check and should now work as expected.
- Fixed yet another Cloudfare issue, this time with supplied headers.
- Found an issue whilst updating the SSL routines, which led to a crash when trying to
download from a website that uses SSL.
(dr)
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04.Jul.2025
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.5 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.5:
- Improve editing of files - file structure is now maintained
- Add ability to easily (un)lock the GUI for archive modifications via drag'n'drop
- Add correct extension if missing on new archive name
- Improve version checks and allow immediate download
Download: avalanche.lha (125 KB)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.53
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.10.1, which allows the development of games from various genres. 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.
The new version 0.9.53 contains many corrections and improvements. The developer uses three videos – 1, 2 and 3 – to show how these improvements also simplify working with older projects. All changes in detail:
- Added Spawn tiles functionality in Tile Properties screen. Now when tiles
appear in a level they can automatically spawn non static objects. Check the
Amigaguide file for more info.
- Added support for games in Dutch language.
- Added condition trigger Last Tile Collided to check if the object collided
with a tile in the last frame.
- Added a new action trigger Change Col Tile to change the last tile the object
collided with.
- Added a new action trigger Mouse Follow me that makes the object position be
controlled by the Mouse.
- Added an action trigger Stamp Frame to stamp a frame in the screen using the
object position.
- Now scrolling is allowed to go twice as fast (half a tile each frame).
- Updated shotemup, ex_mapenemies and blockbreaker projects with the new map
and trigger possibilities. (check Youtube)
- In Object screen, press space to display only the objects that are present in
the current level.
- Loading screens can now be bigger, the code will center them automatically.
- Different fixes in the profiler screen.
- Reduced the logo size in the distribution executable to save some memory.
- Small optimizations in object drawing.
- Optimizations when using a big amount of variables.
- Fixed an issue in object initialization that could lead to crashes.
- Fix (I hope) for the editor not starting right in RTG configurations.
- Fix in audio 3D export not working in distribution.
- Fix for palette being the wrong one in some cases when getting back to the
main menu.
(dr)
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AmigaOS 4: Further development steps for the clib4 library
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. At the end of April, he released version 1.6.0 of the library (amiga-news.de reported).
In a detailed development report, he describes the important changes and improvements that have been made in recent weeks to optimise and improve the library's performance in terms of speed and resource management, especially for more complex software such as the Odyssey Web Browser (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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04.Jul.2025
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Emulator: WinUAE 6.0.0
Version 6.0.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. As the developer wrote, this release is a "major update to custom chipset emulation. Internally almost everything in main chipset emulation has been rewritten. Fastest possible/JIT mode chipset timing/sync had major changes which can cause side-effects. Bugs are very possible, especially in very rarely used features." All changes:
Custom chipset rewrite
- Custom chipset emulation (Agnus/Alice and Denise/Lisa) almost completely rewritten. Almost every part of chipset emulation is now internally cycle accurate.
- Custom chipset Denise/Lisa emulation is now running in separate thread for large performance increase in accurate emulation modes compared to previous versions.
- VPOSW/VHPOSW tricks are now cycle-accurately emulated without restrictions.
- Horizontal and vertical blanking and sync start/end, csync, csync equalization pulses, etc are now fully cycle-accurately emulated, both hardwired and programmed. Mixing of hardwired and programmed is fully supported. Agnus/Alice hardwired PAL/NTSC sync generator is almost logic gate level emulated.
- "Display" and Agnus/Alice vertical and horizontal counters are now fully separately emulated, display emulation now works correctly even if Agnus vertical or horizontal is moved backwards or forwards or anywhere (even outside of normal display range), unlimited times per line and/or field.
- All screenmodes (including "Fake" NTSC or similar mode) now count total number of "display" lines and uses it to setup display height. These modes now work even if they do multiple V(H)POSW modifications.
- Interlace detection now uses vsync timing like real displays.
- BPLCON0 ERSY=1 without connected genlock sync stop timing is now accurate. This was faked previously.
- Full AGA hires/shres bitplane and sprite horizontal granularity support. Separate subpixel mode does not exist anymore.
- ECS Agnus/AGA UHRES bitplane and sprite RGA DMA slots (0x78, 0x7a) emulated. Completely useless feature because UHRES can only do some DMA transfers to nowhere. It needs extra hardware that was never implemented. UHRES needs to be emulated because (possibly accidentally enabled) UHRES DMA can steal cycles from copper, blitter and CPU.
- NTSC LOL (long line) state is accurately emulated. Mismatched STRLONG strobe and LOL state now causes correct lores pixel wide horizontal shift. (Mismatched = for example CPU writing to STRLONG when line is not long)
- Blitter channel sequencer should be 100% accurate now, except possibly line to non-line mid operation switch. Blitter "micro-operation" timings are not yet 100%: when exactly it applies A shift, B shift etc. This will be tested and implemented in the future. Only affects blitter result if BLTxDAT/shifts/etc are modified mid-blit. Channel enable/fill mode/desc/minterm/BLTxMOD/BLTxPT mid-blit changes should be already fully accurate.
- Collision emulation is now very fast. Collision mode default changed to Full collision.
- Ultra extreme debug mode now shows normally hidden bitplane and sprite pixels inside horizontal and vertical blanking periods. Previously only background color was fully visible.
- DMA debugger has much more detailed information available.
Other new features
- Low level keyboard emulation. Emulates keyboard microcontroller internal ROM code and keyboard matrix, optionally with or without NKRO. All 3 keyboard MCU variants supported. (CSG 6570-036, 68HC05C and D8039HLC. 6500-1 used in A1000 keyboards is same as 6570-036 but with older ROM code. 6500-1 ROM is not yet dumped). Caps lock led state is fully emulated in low level keyboard emulation modes, including demos that flash caps lock led. Chipset panel “Keyboard connected” checkbox replaced with Keyboard mode (“Disconnected”, “UAE high level keyboard” and list of different low level emulated keyboard models)
- PCI Matrox Millennium, Millennium II, Mystique and Mystique 220 emulation from 86box (originally from PCem)
- Merged Voodoo 3 emulation updates from 86box.
- Added 512kWOM A1000 512k WOM expansion emulation. Option in Expansions->Built-in expansions.
- Added RIPPLE IDE controller emulation.
Fixes
- Prometheus FireStorm PCI bridge PCI IO mapping fixed.
- Fixed Mediator 1200TX second PCI window mapping logic.
- Fixed TekMagic onboard RAM config type.
- Do not reject (reject = not hardware accelerated, lets Picasso96 software fallback to handle it) uaegfx Picasso96 blit operation if RenderInfo BytesPerRow field is zero. Zero BPR is allowed.
- GDI mode didn’t free all resources when switching between native and RTG mode.
- If selected graphics API is not supported, test all other options. Previously failing D3D9 switched to GDI, even if D3D11 was available.
- Fast/non-accurate emulation mode and writing to CIA high timer register didn’t load timer from latch immediately in oneshot mode if timer was already running (Introduced in 4.9.x)
- uaegfx RTG vertical blank interrupt might have been duplicated or lost in some situations (very old bug), depending on RTG panel refresh rate setting.
- Passthrough printing mode fix for v4+ Windows printer drivers.
- Fixed FDI disk image support.
- JIT FPU mode FPU registers lost some accuracy when FPU registers were read/written to/from memory with FMOVEM.
- Removing last sound device on the fly (for example USB sound card without enabled on-board sound device) crashed in WASAPI mode.
- Added A1000 EHB Denise and non-EHB Denise models to Chipset panel. Also renamed existing entries.
- Fixed strange window movement when clicking on title bar and keeping it pressed and "Automatically capture mouse when window is activated" was enabled.
- Expansion panel SCSI controller ID selection enable/disable/selection fixed. (For example A4091)
Updates
- Default configuration is now cycle-exact A500. Previously default was approximate A500.
- Query PC drive/network drive/removable drive status only after confirming drive type first. For example if "Add PC drives at startup" or "CDFS automount" is only ticked, don't query status of possible network drives that might not be mapped or available, causing boot delays.
- CD32 CD reads should be more real optical drive friendly, when CD32 is reading data sequentially (playing CD streaming animation or video), host side CD sector reads are now also sequential, without periodically re-reading part of previously read sectors.
- Disabled annoying CD audio playback aOSD led flicker.
- When exiting debugger, restore focus back to previously active window.
- If real HD/memory card has Windows supported partition table and partition metadata can be queried without administrator privileges but administrator privileges are needed to read/write partition data, list partition(s) in Add Harddrive dialog with "ACCESS DENIED" text. Previously partition(s) were not listed.
- Added Amiga GPT partition type support. Works the same as 0x76 partition type with MBR partitioned drives.
- Add harddrive Lock option didn't lock all partitions if drive had MBR partition table + one or more Windows supported partition types.
- GUI Configurations file list’s expanded tree nodes are now stored in registry/ini and are loaded and expanded automatically in following sessions.
- Hide expansion device "autoboot disabled" checkbox when device does not have any autoboot jumpers. (or have nothing to do with storage devices)
- Integer scale horizontal/vertical resolution aspect ratio correction should now work more sanely (for example if superhires + vertical doubling, output will be always vertically doubled first, after doubling, integer scaling ratio is selected). Supports also programmed doublescan modes.
- TV Overscan options now work when combined with most filter modes.
- Added (config file only currently, "rtg_noautomodes=true") option that disables uaegfx automatically generated screen modes. With Picasso96 v3.4+ and P96Prefs new modes can be created manually, just like when using real hardware. Note: Older Picasso96 versions and PicassoMode utility don’t support manual uaegfx modes.
- Added 3840×1080 to known uaegfx automatically generated resolution list (“known” = gets static mode id)
- Fixed crash when doubleclicking config tree view root node.
- Subpixel emulation option removed. Emulation is now always subpixel accurate in accurate emulation modes.
- On the fly chipset type switching improved (For example AGA colors are now preserved, not all registers were preserved fully previously)
- Added line count and type to bottom border status line (for example 313p or 625i), fully supports all weird modes.
- Obsolete 16-bit host color depth support removed.
- All software filters removed. Removal of 16-bit host screen depth support and always-enabled temporary graphics buffer (new chipset emulation does not need it anymore) makes software filter support unnecessarily complex and they are obsolete anyway. In the future better shader filter support will be implemented.
- Serial port TCP/IP mode uses now TCP_NODELAY flag to reduce latency.
- If selected WASAPI sound channel mode is not supported, try all possible channel modes until supported mode is found, or until all combinations have been tested. Also if channel count needs changing from stereo to higher channel count (for example sound device only supports 6 or 8 CH modes internally), use 6/8 channel cloned stereo variant because user might only have stereo speakers.
- Limit initial Windows to Amiga clipboard copy to max 30k (initial = when Amiga is booted and Windows clipboard is not empty) if clipboard sharing is enabled. This prevent slow startup if clipboard sharing is enabled and configuration is not fast and Windows clipboard has some random large image.
- Added address and length to sample ripper file names.
(dr)
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