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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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01.Aug.2025
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Shoot'em Up: Third demo version of "Wings of Fear"
Roar Tjørhom is using the Scorpion Engine game construction kit to create a small shoot 'em up game for the Amiga and has now released a third and probably final demo version (video). It contains three levels, three bonus levels and three bosses. In addition, Frank Ewil 'Curt_Cool' Larsen has composed a new song for his game: "Wings of Hear".
The recommended system requirements are an AGA Amiga with a 68020 processor, 2 MB of chip RAM and 2 MB of FAST RAM.
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01.Aug.2025
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Pacman variant: Deluxe Collector's Edition of Fast Food 2 (AGA)
In November 2024, the Pacman variant "Fast Food 2" (video) was released as the unofficial successor to the Codemaster classic Fast Food (amiga-news.de reported). The game, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine, can now also be pre-ordered as a physical Deluxe Collector's Edition for around 46 euros.
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01.Aug.2025
Frank Mariak (Mail)
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Updated chronology of MorphOS
Back in 2010, Mickaël 'BatteMan' Pernot created a chronology for the tenth anniversary of MorphOS, which he has now updated and expanded to mark the 25th anniversary.
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01.Aug.2025
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Shoot'em Up: "Rex and the Galactic Plague" released
"Rex and the Galactic Plague" is a vertical scrolling shooter developed using the Scorpion Engine (video). After several demo versions, the full version has now been released.
According to the developer, the game's origins date back to 1993. It was the first game he ever created, and he had to familiarise himself with the Scorpion Engine, pixel art and animation creation. What originally started with four small levels grew over time to nine, with new enemies, bosses, dangers and weapons.
The current release requires an Amiga 1200 due to memory requirements, but a version for the Amiga 500 is also planned.
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01.Aug.2025
Ephemeral Enigmas
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On focus: Three Core Design games
Core Design was a British computer game developer and occasional publisher that existed from 1988 to 2006. The website "Ephemeral Enigmas" takes a closer look at three games that were also released for the Amiga:
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01.Aug.2025
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Background: Maniac Mansion was released 37 years ago
In 1987, Lucasfilm Games released the point-and-click adventure Maniac Mansion, initially for the C64 and later for the Amiga and Atari ST, among others. The website "Home Computer" has published a detailed background article on this game, which set new standards with its user interface and cinematic sequences.
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31.Jul.2025
English Amiga Board (Thomas Richter) (ANF)
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RTG driver: P96 3.6.0
Press release: The new version 3.6.0 of the Amiga-RTG system P96 contains new drivers for Matrox cards (thanks to Tim Schattkowski!), Radeon R200 cards by ATI, and the budget version of RageXL cards with 32-bit memory interface, which are available for an affordable price.
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31.Jul.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" - July 2025
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has published another monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 31. Jul. 2025, 20:38] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jul.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Amiga40 Special Edition / Offer for Programmers
As with the last two events, Amiga Future will once again be publishing a special edition for Amiga40 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, which will be distributed free of charge to all visitors.
To support programmers, they can submit a screenshot of their application or game for a corresponding gallery in the magazine. You can find more details at the title link.
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30.Jul.2025
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Tetris variant: A100 - Version 1.03 and source code
In the Tetris variant "A100" new blocks are placed by the player on a square playing field; the falling blocks of the original game are omitted. Once all positions in a column or row are filled, that column or row is cleared.
In version 1.03, the short delay when repeatedly pressing the same key has been eliminated. In addition, the source code for the game is now available.
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30.Jul.2025
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Video: Amiga Tech - Bitplane Modulo Tricks
At the title link and in a video, Jeroen Knoester shows various effects that were used for Amiga demos and games and are based on manipulating the bitplane modulo registers.
The source code used is also provided.
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30.Jul.2025
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Video: Der Amiga - Teil 1, Wie der Amiga entstand (German)
Also the Stay Forever podcast is dedicating itself to the Amiga on the occasion of its anniversary. The first part of the German podcast, which is almost two hours long, is once again devoted to the Amiga's origins. Part two of the Amiga series then deals with the introduction of the computer, its reception by the market, and the technology that sets it apart.
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30.Jul.2025
Dirk Hoffmann (Mail)
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vAmigaDOS: Web-based tool for analysing andediting ADF and HDF files
Dirk Hoffmann, author of the Amiga emulator vAmiga, explains: "vAmigaDOS is a new, web-based tool that allows you to analyse and edit ADF and HDF files. To do this, simply drag an ADF or HDF file into the browser window. A text-based shell will then open, offering several commands for analysis and editing. You can get an overview of the commands by pressing the TAB key twice. An online help window will appear, explaining all the commands.
If you want more information, e.g. about the file command, simply type file and press the TAB key twice again. The shell also supports autocompletion for file names, which makes navigation much easier. Under the hood, vAmiga provides all file system functions. The tool is currently at version 0.9.4, and I hope to get lots of beta testers."
This version is a pre-release version. Bug reports can be submitted on GitHub.
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29.Jul.2025
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Demoparty: Results of Nordlicht 2025
Last weekend, the Nordlicht 2025 demo party took place in Bremen, where various competitions were held. Several Amiga productions were also submitted:
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29.Jul.2025
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New puzzle game: Block Cannon has been published
Block Cannon is the title of the latest puzzle game for the Amiga, which developer TheoTheoderich has just released (video).
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29.Jul.2025
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Retro computer meetup: Interface XLII near Kiel (August 16, 2025)
On Saturday, August 16, 2025, the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH), and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK) invite you to the 42nd edition of Interface in Schwentinental near Kiel - a popular meeting place for fans of classic computers and console systems.
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29.Jul.2025
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Game template based on AmiBlitz: North 2.00 has been published
Developer Sami "8080" Vehmaas has published North 2.00, a revised version of his Amiga game template (amiga-news.de reported), which is based on AmiBlitz 3 and AGA hardware. While the original version is available free of charge, version 2.00 is a paid "name your price" download. New in version 2.00:
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29.Jul.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.16.0 for X1000/e5500
Parallel to the release of Linux kernel 6.15.0, Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has finalized the compilation for AmigaOne X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs). The X1000/e5500-specific changes:
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28.Jul.2025
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Flickerfixer/scandoubler: Indivision ECS V4 software 1.1 (beta), P96 driver
Individual Computers is providing a software update for the Indivision ECS V4 scandoubler/flickerfixer, which has been available since this month. Jens Schönfeld writes:
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28.Jul.2025
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QEMU frontend for booting AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: Kyvos V1.1.0
Just over a week ago, we reported on the cross-platform (Linux, macOS and Windows) QEMU front end "Kyvos" published by George Sokianos, which is designed to make it particularly easy for users to set up and start AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS with just a few clicks, without having to delve deep into the configuration.
With the update to version 1.1.0, it is now possible, among other things, to set up up to three different hard disk images in a virtual system via the "Media" tab. In addition, 26 pages have been added to the manual, including a brand new section on AmigaOS 4.1 FE and all the steps required to update it with the latest available software.
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28.Jul.2025
Boing Attitude
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Print magazine: Boing #10 (French/English)
40 years of Amiga, 10 years of Boing Attitude: the publisher is celebrating these two anniversaries in a special way with the tenth issue of the Boing magazine. Instead of the usual 52 pages, there are now 104 pages of news and information about all Amiga systems, not only in French, but also in English for the first time!
Among other things, readers can look forward to initial statements from Timothy De Groote, the new head of Hyperion Entertainment BV, and a comparison between THEA500 Mini and A600GS. Including shipping costs, the magazine can be ordered for ¤25.49, with shipping scheduled to start this week.
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28.Jul.2025
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AmigaOS 4: DTP program CompressionOS4 0.60 (beta)
Achim Pankalla's DTP program CompressionOS4 allows graphics and text to be placed on pages and generates PDF documents from them; a German manual is included. New features since beta version 0.50:
- new feature chain-textboxes
- Optimizing
- Now there is a frame when you insert a page-number
- No more a defective document, when you abort a termination of compression
- Hopely no longer a defective lasso-selection
- Reminde of last ARexx-Selection
- Now it is not possible to start twice
- Now also PPaint7 is supported with ARexx
- Only in the size changeable objects have two marker
- If you leave the page when size an object, the old size will be recovered
- Correct an error in the lasso-function
- If you move an object and leave the page, the old position will be recovered
- If you have multiple objects moved, every object will be deleted what is leaving the page
- If you move objects and leave the page, all positions will be reset to original position
- Little frame around the page
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28.Jul.2025
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Action adventure: Amiga 40 update of Castlevania AGA
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga, Dante Mende has released a major update to his port of Konami's NES action-adventure game "Castlevania" (video), which offers features such as better color use, AGA gradients, animated backdrops, calibrated jump physics, menu toggle for weapons release method and new music tracks by IM76 and DJ Metune.
And the author points out: "Since this is a fairly big update, it's expected that it may fail in different hardware configurations or produce unexpected results. Known issues: may play the wrong animation while on stairs, or get stuck, specially if you use up/down. Prefer to use left/right and treat stairs as if they are a terrain slope (which they are, internal engine-wise)."
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28.Jul.2025
The Oasis BBS
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Puzzle game: Master Of Minefields (AGA) v1.0
The puzzle game "Master of Minefields" (video) was originally written for AmiGameJam 2024 (amiga-news.de reported) and took second place there. It offers ten different game modes and 350 levels. The final version now released offers the following improvements over the AmiGameJam version:
- Enhanced visual and audio effects
- Full mouse support and ability to use multiple controls at once
- Refined music tracks by Simone 'JMD' Bernacchia
- Smoother graphics and sound
- Rebalanced gameplay across all modes
- Fully working Hardcode mode
- Versus mode with dual mouse support (one of the few Amiga titles to allow gameplay with two mice :)!)
- Full NTSC support
- Extensive code optimizations and tons of bug fixes
You will need an Amiga with an AGA chipset and approximately 1.5 MB of free Chip RAM. A version for the CD32 is also available. Cost: just under seven euros.
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28.Jul.2025
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Preview video: E-mail client "AMail" v0.0.5
At the end of May, we reported for the first time on Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton's project to write "AMail", a modern email client for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP. In a new preview video, he explains that the secure connection via AmiSSL now works, which took him a lot of time.
He also describes what is not yet working – emails are not stored locally, and the ability to delete emails on the server still needs to be implemented – and which features he would like to add. He expects to release a pre-alpha version by the end of September.
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28.Jul.2025
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Do it yourself: Ripple IDE update, revision A4
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 A4 changes the flash package type from TSSOP to PLCC (examples), as the former is no longer available.
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27.Jul.2025
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Aminet uploads until 26.07.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.07.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 26.07.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.07.2025
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27.Jul.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.07.2025
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 26.07.2025:
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27.Jul.2025
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Nature sounds for relaxation: auraFly 1.1.1
George Sokianos' Hollywood program auraFly for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS/x86 allows you to mix different nature sounds to relax or work more focused (amiga-news.de reported). You can now save your selected sounds and volumes as presets, and five of these mixes are already included.
In addition, the window size has been significantly reduced to take up less space on the screen. However, the program can also be iconified without interrupting playback.
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27.Jul.2025
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MorphOS: MIDI soft synthesizer FrozenLiquid 1.3
Antoine 'Tcheko' Dubourg's FrozenLiquid is a command line program for MorphOS that plays incoming MIDI signals as sounds without requiring the corresponding hardware. CAMD and Reggae are required. The sound synthesis is based on FluidLite.
Version 1.3 now uses FluidSynth 2.4.7, updated by Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille. In addition, the task priority has been increased to "1" to improve playback. The name of the Reggae class has also been corrected.
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26.Jul.2025
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Linux: Kernel 5.10.240 LTS for X1000/X5000
A week after the release of the Linux kernel 5.10.240 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Information on the X1000/X5000-specific changes can be found at the title link.
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26.Jul.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #28 (Polish/English)
Komoda & Amiga plus is a Polish Print and PDF magazine about the C64 and the Amiga, which is also distributed in an English version. The magazine in A4 format comprises 82 pages, the main topic of this issue is games with a wild west theme.
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26.Jul.2025
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Emu68: Imager Tool 1.0.6.2 for Windows (2nd update)
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:
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26.Jul.2025
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"Hst Amiga": Reading and writing Amiga partition tables, v0.5.196
Henrik Nørfjand Stengaard's "Hst Amiga" (see also his HstWB Installer) is a library for reading and writing Amiga partition table, file systems, data types and is available as a Nuget package for .Net and a console application for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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25.Jul.2025
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.6.3
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga disks and disk images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP).
With version 2.6.3, saving settings should now work again.
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25.Jul.2025
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Spillhistorie: Interview with Fredrik Liljegren zu Pinball Dreams (englisch)
The Norwegian games magazine Spillhistorie has published an interesting interview with Fredrik Liljegren, in which the co-founder of Digital Illusions (later DICE) talks in detail about the development of the Amiga classic Pinball Dreams. Liljegren takes a close look at the game's beginnings, from its origins in the demo scene to the technical concept and the selection of a publisher.
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25.Jul.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 172 (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.
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25.Jul.2025
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Exhibitors announced for amiga40
The list of exhibitors featuring some big names has now been published for amiga40, which will take place on October 18 and 19, 2025, in Mönchengladbach:
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25.Jul.2025
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9.3
AKReal can already works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas (AGA/RTG). The update from the previous versions 9.1 or 9.2 is for free and can be installed via LiveUpdate. New users have to pay 9.99 Euro for the download. Changes:
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24.Jul.2025
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 10.4
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released a fourth update for version 10 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS.
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24.Jul.2025
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.47 / Contacts 1.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.47 of his e-mail program Iris and version 1.5 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. The changes in detail:
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23.Jul.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Web browser: NetSurf 3.11 (68k)
Version 3.11 of the web browser NetSurf has been released for AmigaOS 4 at the end of 2023. Now the program has also been updated for AmigaOS/68k.
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22.Jul.2025
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Sensible Days 2025: Official SWOS World Cup on July 26–27, 2025
The Sensible Days 2025, the official competition of the legendary Sensible World of Soccer, will take place on July 26 and 27, 2025, in Schokland (NL). This is where the SWOS World Cup for Amiga and PC versions of the classic game will be held. The venue is "De Pionier", which offers accommodation and full board for the entire weekend for participants and spectators, just one hour from Amsterdam.
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22.Jul.2025
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Event: Presentations at the "Amiga 40th Anniversary" (Silicon Valley)
Details about the planned presentations for the "AMIGA/040th" event, which will take place during VCF West on August 1–2, 2025, in Mountain View, California, have been released:
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22.Jul.2025
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Retro Games publishes new roadmap for product launches in 2025/2026
In a humorous video, Retro Games Ltd has presented its roadmap for new products in 2025 and 2026, explicitly naming next year as the release date for the previously announced THEA1200. Amiga-News.de expects the release in the first quarter of 2026 and a presentation of the device at gamescom (August 20-25, 2025) and amiga40 (October 18-19, 2025). The THEA1200 is said to feature a full-size case with a working keyboard. Further details have not yet been announced.
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Kyvos: New QEMU frontend for booting AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George Sokianos has released Kyvos, a new application that serves as a user-friendly front end for QEMU. The cross-platform tool for Linux, macOS, and Windows is designed to make it particularly easy for users to set up and start AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS with just a few clicks, without having to delve deeply into the configuration.
Additionally a manual of 70+ pages is provided with all the details and the steps to setup AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
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Seligenstadt Pinball and Arcade Museum: Fundraising campaign for reopening
The Flipper and Arcade Museum in Seligenstadt is calling for support: Due to roof damage and the associated risk of collapse, the museum has had to close temporarily. While the exhibits have been moved to an external warehouse, the non-profit association For Amusement Only e.V. is in urgent need of funds.
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Retro Gaming Week 2025 on How-To Geek
How-To Geek magazine is dedicating its Retro Gaming Week 2025, from July 21 to 27, 2025, entirely to the classics of video game history. During this themed week, numerous articles, recommendations, and background reports on retro consoles and games will be published.
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21.Jul.2025
Indie Retro News
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Whispers of the Woods: New action RPG for the Amiga currently in development
Developer Hoogames2017, known for the Scorpion Engine game "Dr. Dangerous", is currently working on a new game called "Whispers of the Woods". The atmospheric action RPG for the Amiga is still in the prototype stage, but a video on YouTube already gives a promising impression. The prototype can be played and takes players into an enchanted forest full of puzzles, mystical creatures, and dark legends - much in the style of Zelda or Speris Legaxy. An Amiga with OCS/ECS and 1 MB RAM is required.
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20.Jul.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.07.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.07.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.07.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.07.2025
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 19.07.2025:
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19.Jul.2025
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Blog: The problem with modern software and big endian
In his blog post "Why Modern Software Struggles on AmigaOS PowerPC", Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè explains why the different endianness of the PowerPC is increasingly making software porting a problem, why he is therefore advocating a processor change, and what he is doing to combat the problem.
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19.Jul.2025
AROSWorld (Forum)
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AROS: Update on the further development of the 64-bit operating system
Since almost two years Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz is reporting on his AROS-related projects in the AROSWorld forum at the title link. In his latest article, he writes about the current status in the three areas of browser/software/hardware and gives an outlook on the goal of advancing the 64-bit version of the free operating system.
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dpa: 40 years of the Amiga - The beginning of the multimedia age (German)
In view of its 40th birthday next Wednesday, the German Press Agency (dpa) is also paying tribute to the Amiga, so that its article can be found not only on Heise at the title link, but also on Welt.de, for example.
Heise itself has also announced that it will be launching a series of articles on architecture, games, music and other topics to mark this anniversary from July 23, 2025.
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DualPNG icons: Infinite Icons Theme Pack
The Infinite Icons Theme Pack, available from today, contains almost 6,000 new DualPNG icons, which are primarily intended for AmigaOS 4, but are also suitable for the AmiKit distribution and other platforms that support this icon format.
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.8 and 3.2.18
The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is now available for AmigaOS 4 in versions 2.32.8 and 3.2.18.
SDL 3, which was introduced in January of this year as version 3.2, offers an extended programming interface (for the GPU, system dialogs, the file system and webcams, among others) and an extensively revised audio interface compared to its predecessor.
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18.Jul.2025
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Emulator: Denise v2.6
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). The newly released version 2.6 offers, among other things, support for the Hires Denise chip (ECS) and hard drive support for the first time on the Amiga side. All changes:
- Amiga: added harddisk emulation
- built-In HD Controller
- M-Tec AT 500
- VHD support for dynamic HDFs
- Amiga: added ECS Denise emulation (A500+/A600)
- Amiga: added option to overclock CPU
- Amiga: support for floppy disks in SCP format
- Amiga: added CD32 gamepad support
- Amiga: added option to show Caps Lock LED in status bar
- Windows 10/11: added dark UI mode
- added LHA support: added option to convert LHA archives to Amiga native filesystem (ADF, HD-ADF or HDF)
- APP can be used fully or partially portable
- added file history to make it easier to re-insert files
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Event: futuRETRO 2025 in Augsburg (Germany, 2./3. August)
This year's futuRETRO will take place on 2 and 3 August at the Technical University of Augsburg and aims to bring together people who are interested in the creative use of historical computers and calculating machines. The Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Augsburg invites you to attend lectures, workshops, exchanges, discussions and to experience historical hardware and software.
Among others, Richard Löwenstein will give a talk on his reshoot Reshoot Proxima 3 at 10:30 a.m. on 2 August: "Five reasons why you should hate retro game development". Stefan Höltgen's talk at 2:30 p.m. is likely to be just as interesting: "Computing in museums? Exhibition concept for Commodore home computers".
Amiga hardware on display will include an Amiga 3000 and 4000, as well as Michael Spindler's Akiko32, his Amiga in mini ITX format (amiga-news.de reported).
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16.Jul.2025
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Graphic Designer 0.1e (pre-alpha demo)
Graphic Designer is neither a painting program nor a desktop publishing or presentation application, but uses individual approaches from these by enabling the design of images by combining elements in currently up to twelve layers, which can then be saved as an IFF image file (or updatable project).
These permanently freely placeable elements can be images, brushes, text or image overlays and brush stamps. However, all image elements must already use the same palette; an automatic adjustment is not planned.
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16.Jul.2025
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IFFChunkTool
IFFChunkTool is a command line tool for editing IFF files in relation to individual data segments, be it images, catalog files or 8SVX audio files. Thus for example samples can be extracted from the latter or the author can be replaced in catalog files or the palette of an image can be replaced. It is primarily intended for automated processing.
Supported are files in IFF FORM format only, the program requires AmigaOS 3.x.
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Development tool: vasm 2.0c
Frank Wille has updated vasm, a portable assembler for numerous CPUs with various syntax and output modules. A list of the changes in version 2.0c can be found at the title link.
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Blog: Installation of NetBSD and Debian Linux on an Amiga 4000
NetBSD and Linux are known to also run on the Amiga. How they are installed on an Amiga 4000 today, Sander van der Burg describes in two entries of his blog for Debian 3.1 and NetBSD 10.1.
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15.Jul.2025
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Blog Epsilon's World: AmigaOne A1222 in 2025
In his latest, thoroughly detailed blog entry, Epsilon takes a fresh look at the AmigaOne A1222 - this time focusing on its status in 2025.
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15.Jul.2025
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auraFly: New tool for focusing using sounds
AuraFly is a new tool developed by George Sokianos that helps users focus better, work or study in a more relaxed manner, and create a personal atmosphere of well-being. The program combines up to three natural sounds, such as wind, summer night, campfire, or white noise, to create a customized soundscape.
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14.Jul.2025
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0.5.1
Michal Schulz has released an update to his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.0.5.1 offers two important changes, which Michal Schulz writes about:
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User interface for BlueSCSI on Amiga: BlueSCSIUI V1.0
In early 2024, Robert Smith used his DaynaPORT driver to create a SANA II driver for the Amiga based on Lukas F. Hartmann's MNT ZZ9000 network driver and using the BlueScsi v2 WIFI version to enable the Amiga to access the Internet (video, amiga-news.de reported).
Now, with version 1.0 of BlueSCSIUI, he has released a user interface for BlueSCSI for AmigaOS 2.0 and higher that supports configuration and diagnosis of the DynaPORT driver.
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14.Jul.2025
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Preview video: AGA port of HyperSports
Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre has taken on the porting of Konami's arcade machine Hyper Sports as his next project and presents a first short preview video, still without sound.
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Mingo's Commodore Blog: Commodore and Easter Eggs (German)
In a new post on his "Mingo's Commodore Blog," South Tyrolean Domingo Fivoli has compiled a list of Easter eggs in various C16, C64, and Amiga games, such as "Lotus Espirit Turbo Challenge 2 and 3" and "Arkanoid."
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13.Jul.2025
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Interview: Markus Tillmann about the Warhol connection and amiga40-highlights
Organizer Markus Tillmann talks to amiga-news.de about the upcoming amiga40 event in October and why the Amiga still has such a vibrant community 40 years after its launch. He also reveals what visitors can expect at the next event, including previously undisclosed guests of honor. The interview was conducted by Nico Barbat.
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Aminet uploads until 12.07.2025
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13.Jul.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.07.2025
The following files have been added until 12.07.2025 to OS4Depot:
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13.Jul.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.07.2025
The following files have been added until 12.07.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Jul.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.07.2025
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 12.07.2025:
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13.Jul.2025
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Music album: Remute² available for the Amiga
The album Remute² by Denis 'Remute' Karimani, which runs and has been composed on the Amiga, is now available as a CD or for download. The Amiga CD³² is recommended, the Amiga 1200 or 4000 with CD-ROM drive as well as common emulators are also supported.
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12.Jul.2025
Mr Cool
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New Commodore owners with new website and first products (update)
Two weeks ago, Youtuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson announced that an unnamed group of investors had taken over Commodore and that he would be the new CEO. Today, the "new" Commdore is advertising its first product in a short video: The "C64 Ultimate", available in three different editions, combines a breadbox case - presumably from RetroFuzion - with the FPGA-based C64 replica Ultimate 64 Elite-II and an unknown USB keyboard with a C64 look. The devices should be available from October or November, but interested parties can already order and pay for the devices now - which are limited to 10,000 or 6400 units, depending on the version.
A FAQ on the new website is intended to clarify some open questions, while the team section gives an overview over the people involved or working as consultants.
Update: (13.07.2025, 9:45, cg)
In the Free Edition of the new "Compute's Gazette", a very euphoric summary of the Commodore takeover, obviously written in close co-operation with Simpson, mentions a purchase price of USD 2.16 million.
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12.Jul.2025
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Preview video: M.I.L.V. - Danmaku #9 (bullet hell shooter)
"M.I.L.V." ("Missile Intercepting Lethal Vehicle") is the current name of the bullet hell shooter, which originally had the working titles "Hyperborea" and "Danmaku" and is being developed by Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (code), Holger Crome (graphics) and Roland 'Triace' Voss (music). The ninth preview video is intended to illustrate the current status; according to Müßener, the following changes have been made since the last version:
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12.Jul.2025
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Print magazine: Issue 149 of Amiga Future available online
The English and German issue 149 (March/April 2021) of the print magazine ‘Amiga Future’ can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine and a higher-resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher.
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12.Jul.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, Version 1.8
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 1.8 offers the following changes:
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11.Jul.2025
Reddit
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macOS: Picture Viewer PixDeluxe and QuickLook plugin for iff files
The developer of Send2adf and ADF.inder (amiga-news.de reported) offers another two tools for macOS:
PixDeluxe makes it possible to browse through large collections of Amiga iff image files and convert them to PNG format if required. It also offers a new plugin for QuickLook, with which iff files can now be viewed again without having to open them.
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11.Jul.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.3b1
Version 4.3b1 of Dirk Hoffmann's Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS offers the following changes:
- RetroShell has a new navigator console for inspecting the file system of floppy disks and hard drives. To enter the console, open Retro shell and type "navigator" or use Shift-TAB to cycle through consoles
- The Shift Lock key now works as a warp-mode override switch
- Fixed a A1000 related WOM bug
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11.Jul.2025
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Tetris variant: A100, version 1.02
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. (amiga-news.de reported). Now a WHDLoad version is offered as well. Besides, version 1.02 fixes a bug in the ADF version when quitting the game.
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11.Jul.2025
Reddit
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Video: TheMiniCD32 as hobby project
In a video, 'Toolzzi Games' presents the current status of its self-developed "TheMiniCD32" project, a miniaturised version of the CD32. It is based on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a self-written start interface. PUAE is used as the emulator because, as the developer explains, it processes games with CDDA audio much better. Once all the development work has been completed, it is planned to offer the project as a self-assembly kit.
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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