09.Apr.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 1200
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. With version 1.6, after the Amiga 3000 and 4000, the Amiga 1200 is now also supported in addition to the Amiga 4000CR and the Amiga 3000T.
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09.Apr.2025
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Do it yourself: RetroPlayer for Amiga music modules in a wooden case
Skilled hobbyists who want a small player for Amiga music modules in an attractive wooden case with a rotary control and display will find a finished project with a list of all the components required at the title link. (There is also an English description below the Japanese one).
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09.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: ZZAP! Amiga, issue 21
The March/April issue of the magazine "ZZAP! Amiga" contains 60 color pages in A5 size. A look at the table of contents can be found at the Amiga Magazine Rack website.
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09.Apr.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.22 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.22 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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09.Apr.2025
ACube Systems (Mail)
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards
Press release: Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 08 April 2025
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the UBoot firmware for its Sam460 line of motherboards.
For the first time in Amiga history, it is now possible to boot from an NVMe SSD.
This groundbreaking achievement marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Amiga platform. Thanks to recent advancements, users can now experience dramatically improved boot speeds and data access times by utilizing modern NVMe solid-state drives—bringing the Amiga into a new era of performance and reliability.
This development not only enhances the capabilities of current NG systems but also demonstrates the ongoing innovation and dedication within the Amiga community. Booting from an NVMe SSD was once considered impossible - today, it is a reality.
This update is completely free for all users. We are excited to announce a new version packed with important features and improvements - available as a free download. New in this release:
- NVMe SSD driver – For the first time ever, you can boot from an NVMe drive using a standard NVMe-to-PCIe adapter.
- PCIe SATA2 support – Added driver for the Silicon Image 3132 controller, allowing booting from both SATA SSDs and DVD drives.
- DDR2 timing adjustments – Fine-tune DDR2 RAM timings for faster memory access.
- Customizable USB stack – Choose between EHCI (faster for mass storage) or OHCI (greater compatibility with keyboards).
- Enhanced "sata" command – Now displays more detailed information about drivers and connected devices.
- Improved serial console navigation – Navigate menu items using W and S keys.
- General bug fixes and improvements.
- Unified source code – Now streamlined for both 460ex and 440ep platforms.
- An updated installation guide is included, covering the standard ISO image method as well as alternative installation methods via TFTP and USB.
You can download the updater tool directly here: Sam460_updater_2015d.zip (8 MB)
If you are not comfortable installing UBoot yourself, we also offer fully updated UBoot chips through our online store.
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL (download of the source code).
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08.Apr.2025
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Source code editor: Hollywood 10 support for Visual Studio Code 10.0.2
For Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), "hw4vsc" is an extension that enables the development of Hollywood programmes with the free source code editor (amiga-news.de reported). The developer Micha J. has adapted his extension for the latest Hollywood 10 version and has just released hw4vsc v10.0.2.
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07.Apr.2025
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Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer"
"Last Minute Creations", a Polish group of Amiga game developers (e.g. GermZ or Chaos Arena), spent more than six years working on their mining strategy game "Aminer": set in the Soviet era, the aim is to fulfil the planned economic extraction plans and mine precious metals such as silver for the Ministry of Mining and Fossil Fuels:
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07.Apr.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.13.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
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07.Apr.2025
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Point'n Click adventure: Demo version of Soltys released
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has released a short demo version of the point'n click adventure game "Soltys" (video), which was originally developed by the Polish studio LK Avalon and released for MS-DOS in 1995 (Wikipedia).
However, as the author emphasises, his game is not a port, but a completely rewritten version of the original game. In addition to Polish subtitles, there are also English, German, Spanish and Italian subtitles. An Amiga computer with AGA chipset, at least 1 MB Fast RAM and harddisk are required.
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07.Apr.2025
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Arcade action: New demo version V0.98 of Ghosts'n'Goblins
At the end of 2024 'Skyzoo73' released a handsome practice study to show how Ghosts 'n Goblins can be ported to the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The now updated demo version offers a lot of corrections and optimisations and requires an AGA Amiga with Fast RAM and CD32 joypad (or similar).
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06.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.04.2025
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06.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.04.2025
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06.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.04.2025
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06.Apr.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.04.2025
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06.Apr.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.04.2025
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 05.04.2025:
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Crowdfunding: Psygnosis - Games People Play (Volume 1)
Following the book "Demoscene: The Amiga Renaissance", Éditions64K is now planning a two-volume publication on the history of the games company Psygnosis (e.g. Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast).
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.11.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the HAM format of the Amiga and is now available in version 1.11.0.
New features include an MSX2+ screen 10 conversion, an improved MSX2+ screen 12 conversion, an MSX Basic image file export and bug fixes. Mode 10 allows 12,499 simultaneously displayable colors, mode 12 even 19,268.
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05.Apr.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Start for ticket sales for "Amiga40"
Press release: Amiga40 Germany - 40 years of Amiga, a celebration for everyone!
17 - 19 October 2025 - a very special date for everyone who loves the legendary Commodore Amiga: We celebrate 40 years of Amiga with a big anniversary event in Mönchengladbach! Amiga40 Germany will be THE meeting place for fans, technology enthusiasts, retro lovers from all over the world - and for families who want to go on a journey through time together.
Tickets go on sale today, 5 April, at 6 pm CET via our ticket shop at amigaevent.de/ticket!
Come along - celebrate with us 40 years of Amiga cult and a time when computers still had personality!
We look forward to your visit!
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05.Apr.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.4.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.4.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- ARexx port added to allow issuing AmigaGPT commands from another app or from a script
- Fixed bug where the About AmigaGPT window wouldn't display all the text correctly
- Latest OpenAI chat models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech voices added
- Can now give instructions to the OpenAI voice to change how it sounds (only works for the gpt-4o-mini-tts model)
- Chat now uses the new Responses endpoint instead of the Chat Completions one to allow for future expansion
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB)
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05.Apr.2025
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Video tutorial: 3D Shooter proof of concept with AMOS
The latest video from retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' follows on from his last one about creating simple anaglyph 3D graphics in AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) and continues it as a program for a 3D shooter proof of concept.
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04.Apr.2025
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Pre-order: New synth album ‘Home Arcade’ with Amiga track
'LukHash' describes his music as a "fusion of digital 8-bit chaos and 80s-inspired synthesiser music, combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His new album "Home Arcade" can now be pre-ordered and customers will also receive 'retro versions' of three tracks from the album: two covers in the form of SID tunes, one as a classic Amiga MOD, all three songs can be played on the original hardware. The finished album will be released on 2 May.
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04.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Revision 2025 is still looking for volunteers
The demo party ‘Revision’ will traditionally take place on the Easter weekend at the ‘E-Werk’ in Saarbrücken. However, the organisers are still looking for volunteers:
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02.Apr.2025
Vinnny (ANF)
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Operating system: AmigaOS 3.2.3
Press release: Brussels – April 2, 2025. Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is proud to provide the third free update for AmigaOS 3.2. This update includes two years’ worth of fixes and enhancements to AmigaOS 3.2.2 since the previous update.
Some of the highlights in Update 3:
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02.Apr.2025
Mark 'Pnutttz' Nuttall (ANF)
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Crowd funding: Card game Amiga Trumps Powerplay
The financing of an Amiga "top trumps" game was initiated on Kickstarter and has already been achieved. "Amiga Trumps Powrplay" comprises thirty characters from Amiga games and will go into production at the end of April once the campaign is complete. The card game can be used independently or as an expansion for its predecessor "Amiga Trumps".
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02.Apr.2025
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Event: ZZAP! Live 2025 in Kenilworth (England)
On May 17/18, the third "ZZAP! Live" event for all Commodore and Amiga systems will take place for the first time over two days at the Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England), organized by Fusion Retro Books, the Arcade Club, Retro Games Ltd, the South West Amiga Group and the Retro Computer Museum.
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02.Apr.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of March 2025
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link.
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02.Apr.2025
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AROS: Month in review March 2025
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month at the title link.
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01.Apr.2025
Ján Zahurancík, Philipp Lonke (ANF)
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20 years of AmiKit: The AmiKit Museum is now open
This year, the popular AmiKit celebrates its 20th birthday. The first coverage of the project appeared on amiga-news.de on 14 July 2005 ("Emulation: First Preview of the AmiKit Complete System"). The AmiKit Museum has now been set up as a thank you to Amikit's loyal fans. All Windows installers for the Workbench distribution - from AmiKit 1 to 11 - can be downloaded and tested free of charge, all fully functional. It's an interesting resource for all computer archaeologists, enthusiasts and collectors.
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01.Apr.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky
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Linux: Kernel 6.14.0 for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.14.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The X1000/X5000-specific changes are:
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01.Apr.2025
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Swedish demoscene recognised as UNESCO cultural heritage
The demoscene has been acknowledged as an intangible cultural heritage in Sweden. This underlines the cultural significance of this digital art form, which has existed since the 1980s and includes an active community in Sweden with numerous demoparties and internationally recognised groups such as The Silents, Phenomena, Triad or Fairlight.
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01.Apr.2025
Dennis "Psyria" Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New music album by Chris Hülsbeck released on Bandcamp
On 28 March 2025, Chris Hülsbeck released his latest music album compilation entitled "Desert-Love-Mirage" on Bandcamp. He writes on Bandcamp and X: "This album is my latest work (not related to video games), in which I created music in all kinds of styles that I felt inspired to do at the time. This was all made possible by my Patreon supporters, and I invite everyone to join my project at www.patreon.com/chris_huelsbeck, where you can find detailed background stories for each piece of music and more." Dennis "Psyria" Lohr comments: "Sound, composition, sound and style. If it were a picture, you would probably say: 'Yes, a real Hülsbeck!'."
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01.Apr.2025
John Brett
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GUI for Greaseweazle tools: ADFDiskBox 2.2
ADFDiskBox is an application with a graphical user interface that serves as a comfortable frontend for the Greaseweazle V4 tools (reported). Developed in C#, the tool is aimed primarily at users who regularly work with Amiga-DOS disks. ADFDiskBox simplifies Amiga-DOS batch read and write operations (for ADF, 82-track ADF, SCP:Amiga-DOS and RawSCP). Devices and drives can be selected to easen the simultaneous use of multiple Greaseweazle devices.
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31.Mar.2025
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Video: The 75 worst Amiga games
In his latest video, Kim Justice presents what he considers to be the 75 worst Amiga games. The game Top Banana from the developer "Hex" from 1992 has made it to first place.
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2025, 19:25] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2025
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir v1.2
The point'n click adventure game "NEONnoir" (video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private detective, the player has to track down a drug-addicted daughter from a good family (amiga-news.de reported).
Originally, the developers had planned to release the game in a boxed version, but this could not be realised. However, the German and Italian translations that have already been completed, as well as a manual, will now at least benefit users of the digital version.
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31.Mar.2025
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 40.2
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas 'Thor' Richter has released version 40.2, the first stable version of his universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI", which supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. On request, the author kindly explained the background and idea behind the project in our German-language news item.
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2025, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.7 for Linux and macOS
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for Linux and macOS based on the current WinUAE version. The new Version 7.0.7 mainly fixes bugs.
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2025, 06:11] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.49
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written now in Amiblitz 3.10.0, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). 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.
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30.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 29.03.2025
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30.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.03.2025
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30.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.03.2025
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30.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.03.2025
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30.Mar.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.3.1
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.3.1 has now been released with the following changes:
- Fix broken error requester in MorphOS
- Fix incorrect language name for english-british for OS4
- Running the "Version" command on the AmigaGPT executable will now report the version and build date
- The installer in MorphOS will now properly ask where you want to install the readme
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB)
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29.Mar.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 147 of Amiga Future available online
The English and German issue 147 (November/December 2020) 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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29.Mar.2025
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Individual Computers: ACA1260Tool 0.99
"ACA1260Tool" is used to configure the ACA1240/1260 turbo cards from Individual Computers; it can be started both from the Workbench and from the shell. Version 0.99, which has now been released, contains the following changes:
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[News message: 29. Mar. 2025, 22:13] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2025
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AROS/x86: Update of the ABI v0 version
Press release: This version 20250313 integrates last three years of AROS development and brings 32-bit kernel to the same level as upcoming 64-bit AROS release. New kernel brings improved support for newer, ACPI-enabled hardware, complemented by improvements to disk and network drivers as well as updates to core system libraries and more than 60 bug fixes across AROS programs and libraries.
Additional work has been put in stabilizing drivers for virtual environment (VirtualBox, VMware and QEMU) so that you can try AROS first in virtualization before deciding on purchasing a dedicated hardware.
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2025, 18:23] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2025
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.9
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 14.2 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Changes of version 1.7.9:
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2025, 17:59] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2025
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci
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Developer diary: Generic RPG Engine - Dev Log #1
Fabio ‘Allanon’ Falcucci wants to develop an RPG engine with Hollywood in order to create his first RPG. In the first entry of his planned developer diary, he presents the current status as well as his programming techniques and tools used.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 23:13] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2025
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FPGA based Amiga clone: AmiCube, Board-Layout Version 1.1
Ranko Rodic presents the current status of his FPGA-based Amiga clone AmiCube F1200 in a video. The changes made are explained using a rendering of version 1.1 of the board layout:
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27.Mar.2025
Edwin van den Oosterkamp (Mail)
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Paperback: Classic AmigaOS Programming - The Network
After Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction and Bare Metal Amiga Programming, Edwin Van Den Oosterkamp presents his third paperback on Amiga programming called Classic AmigaOS Programming: The Network. It is about adding network and Internet functionality to Amiga programs and is aimed at people who have some experience with writing software for the Amiga, but have no experience with IP networking. Like its predecessors, the title is self-published via Amazon, a digital edition is not available.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 23:01] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2025
Sami Vehmaa
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Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler 'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for free at itch.io and continues the story of its predecessor.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 22:54] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2025
Franck Charlet
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Module packer: ptvpack 1.2 (Windows/AmigaOS)
PtvPack is a packer for Noise-/Pro- and Fasttracker modules ("mods"), which is aimed at Vampire-based systems: Up to twelve channels with up to five octaves are supported. The packer is available as a command line tool for Windows and AmigaOS and there is also a playback routine provided as m68k assembler sourcecode.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 22:51] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2025
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Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.2b (update)
The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimix, which however requires a very fast computer (68060 processor with 64 MB or actually designed for PiStorm extensions).
The port of MAME version 0.106, which dates back to 2006, is now available in version 1.2 and offers various optimizations, bug fixes and improvements, such as an optional “NewLowLevel” patch, which is required for some Amiga 2000 configurations.
Update: (28.03.2025, 06:10, dr)
Version 1.2b is now available.
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2025, 09:44] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2025
Amigasystem (ANF)
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Video: AROS One 68k 2.0 Tutorial
The AROS One distribution is currently available for x86 computers. A 68k version will also be available shortly. The video at the title link should give you a foretaste, the graphical appearance corresponds to that of the x86 version.
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26.Mar.2025
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Game announcement: Krogharr to be released end of April
There is now more information about Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann's platform game Krogharr. When it is released at the end of April, the game will run on an Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM and will contain the following features:
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2025, 09:44] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 168 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
The latest issue 168 contains an MSXdev24 special as well as reviews of four Amiga games: Apocalypse, Super Raid IV, Maths Adventure and Helm.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 18:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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Puzzle game: Level-Editor for Pjusk
An official level editor has now been released for the recently published game Pjusk (amiga-news.de reported, video). The game, in which players have to find their way through a maze strategically, has thus gained a new creative component.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 18:35] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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Seq 3.0: MIDI sequencer for AmigaOS 4 has been updated
The new version 3.0 of the MIDI sequencer Seq by Tuomas Hokka is now available for AmigaOS 4. This simple tool allows you to create and edit MIDI sequences and is aimed at musicians who want to use their Amiga as a compositional tool. The current update includes numerous improvements, including to the user interface and MIDI output.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 11:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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Worth a read: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS
In the latest blog post on Datagubbe.se, entitled "BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS", Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson takes a look at an often-overlooked detail of AmigaDOS: using the rarely documented terms BRA and KET, the article shows how to easily embed variables in strings.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 11:06] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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A1200NG: New blog and release date
The British developer and distributor AmigaKit has set up a new blog for the announced ARM-based motherboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported) to provide information about the product.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 10:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
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Checkmate 19" IPS monitor : Pre-order from German dealer
The German mail order company DragonBox has been offering Checkmate products since 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, you can also pre-order the Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor, which was successfully financed via Kickstarter at the end of 2022, as a "Scalar Pack" for 939 Euros.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 07:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
HoysterGames
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Shoot'em Up: Demo update for "Rex and the Galactic Plague"
"Rex and the Galactic Plague" (video) is a vertically scrolling shooter that the developer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before switching to the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of the new demo version:
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.12.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 06:07] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
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SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5.1
Version 5.1 of the SCSI2Pi emulation software has been released. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 06:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.3.0
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. Changes of the new version:
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 09:00] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 22.03.2025
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to Aminet:
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.03.2025
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
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23.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.03.2025
The following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to AROS Archives:
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23.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.03.2025
The following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.03.2025
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 22.03.2025:
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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Game: Battleship
After almost thirty years, Turkish Amiga.org member 'hggurak' has improved his game "Battleship" and translated it into English. It has been written in AMOS in 1996 on his Amiga 500.
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22.Mar.2025
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Monochrome arcade game: Go! Tony Go!
In "Go! Tony Go!" (video) from Monochrome Productions, the aim is to avoid obstacles and collect bonus items by jumping or ducking. Like Tony Montezuma's Gold from the same development team, the game is designed entirely in black and white.
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22.Mar.2025
BeWorld
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MorphOS: BreakHack 4.1.2
BreakHack is a SDL-based Roguelike. The MorphOS port was done by 'BeWorld' and is the first game to use the updated implementation of the SDL libraries from the same author.
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21.Mar.2025
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.2.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.2.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools v1.22 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item about version 5.2.1:
- Device/COM: Refresh button "?"
- Multiple connected "devices/COM" (e.g. COM3 and COM4 available): Buttons "Reset", "Bandwidth", "Info" and delays "Info"
- Greaseweazle: Hardware select: Support for Adafruit RP2040 for e.g. "--device COM6"
- GUI: Resizing to minimum values
- Read/Write/Convert: Usage of all arguments now only if "View|Show all arguments" is checked
- Menu: Renamed "View" "Show/Use all arguments"
- GUI: Host scaling setting (e.g. 125%) fixes
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2025, 22:12] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.6 for Linux and macOS
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator based on the current WinUAE version for Linux and macOS. The new version 7.0.6 offers several improvements and bug fixes.
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2025, 21:59] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2025
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Worth a read: A history of user interface design
The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson analyzes the development of user interfaces in a new article on Datagubbe.se entitled "Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design" - with a special focus on futuristic interface designs of past decades.
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2025, 11:21] [Comments: 0]
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20.Mar.2025
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Retro Games: new Amiga 'console' delayed, will be called "THE A1200"
Press release: As everyone knows, it has long been our intention to release a full-size sequel to THE A500 mini in Q1 of 2025. Despite the best efforts of our team and partners, this will sadly not be possible within that timeline.
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[News message: 20. Mar. 2025, 22:39] [Comments: 1 - 21. Mar. 2025, 15:15]
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20.Mar.2025
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Tutorial: converting WAV samples to IFF
Fabio Falcucci describes in his latest blog post how he converts WAV samples into the Amiga specific IFF format.
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[News message: 20. Mar. 2025, 20:59] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2025
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Event: FAQ released regarding Classic Computing 2025 in Hof (Germany)
As reported, the next Classic Computing, organized by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.", will take place from September 11-14 in the Freiheitshalle Hof (Bavaria, Germany). A FAQ collection with details of the event has now been published at the title link.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2025
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Event: Brief report from AUGS meeting 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland)
Last weekend the latest meeting of the Amiga Users Group Switzerland took place in Zurich (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link, the association briefly looks back on it.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2025
Amigatronics (ANF)
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Demoscene: SampleMind interviews Hoffman
At the title link 'SampleMind' has conducted a half-hour interview with the musician, DJ, coder and demoscener 'Hoffman'. It covers his career, his approach to chiptune composing, the influence of the Amiga on his path and his latest projects.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2025
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Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.09 / Boxed version / Review
Amiga Yoomp! is the conversion of an Atari 8-bit title from 2007. Version 1.09 has now been released, which adds a music mode menu so that additional music tracks can be selected.
Collectors can also purchase the game in a box from the Polish Komoda & Amiga plus magazine. Tony 'AmigaGuru' Aksnes has written a review of this version in his blog.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2025
viddi (ANF)
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Pre-order campaign: The Piano Collection III with Allister Brimble
Following the successful releases of the two albums Piano Collection and Piano Collection II with Chris Hülsbeck (amiga-news.de reported) the pianist and music producer Patrick Nevian returns with a possible third album in the series - this time in collaboration with another legendary Amiga composer: Allister Brimble.
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2025, 18:47] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2025
Indie Retro News
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Speed Haste: MS-DOS racing game ported to the Amiga
The fun shareware racing game Speed Haste, originally developed by NoriaWorks for MS-DOS, has now been successfully ported to the Amiga by Szilard Biro. The game, which gained great popularity in the 90s, offers classic arcade action with Formula 1 and stock car racing, twelve different vehicles and eight different tracks.
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2025, 18:11] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2025
Electric Black Sheep
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Game: New update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
The team at Electric Black Sheep has updated its space opera "Star Dust Wars – Director's Cut" on a technical level.
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2025, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2025
Hacker News
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Blog: Amiga 600 - The Amiga no one wanted
Dave Farquhar is a computer security expert who runs the blog "Silicon Underground?" where he writes about computers that aren't usually in the spotlight.
In his latest blog post, he writes about the Amiga 600 and why it became a symbol of everything that was wrong with Commodore and the product line.
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:38] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.8.7
Amiberry-lite is an Amiga emulator based on WinUAE 4.4 and, in contrast to its big brother Amiberry (amiga-news.de reported), is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 5.8.7 has been released here.
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:28] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2025
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Video: The AlgoMusic music program
AlgoMusic is a complex music program that randomly generates and plays a song from a series of algorithms in a techno/house style. In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the program, which was written by Thomas Schürger in 1995, and takes a look at his later work SoundHelix.
Finally, he provides information on the "state of the art" in artificially generated computer music.
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2025
Acneproduction
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Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: New playable demo of "BDTZ"
BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) is a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze of streets. Ammunition is scarce and shots attract more zombies (amiga-news.de reported).
The new demo version offers a new intro, improved graphics, a newly introduced female zombie character, new sound effects and minor bug fixes. You can choose from three levels and in order to play it, you need both adf files.
The game is still in development, but two playable demos have already been released in the last two weeks. BDTZ should run on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of RAM.
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:05] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to Aminet:
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2025, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2025, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.03.2025
The following files have been added until 15.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2025, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.03.2025
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 15.03.2025:
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2025, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives: New URL
Following conservation of the forum AROS-Exec, AROS Archives continued to be accessible via the domain aros-exec.org. Now that it has expired, also this file collection can be found via AROSWorld at the title link (as an alias for arosarchives.os4depot.net).
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2025, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2025
Howard Price (ANF)
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Amiga disassembler with emulator: Aira Force 0.9.2 (Windows, Linux, macOS & RPi)
By version 0.9.0 Howard Price released a major update of his disassembler Aira Force for Amiga programs under Windows/64-Bit, Windows/32-Bit, macOS, Linux/64-Bit an the Raspberry Pi. Version 0.9.2 (video) adds blitter fill mode, which is essential for many demos and games such as Another World and F/A-18 Interceptor. It also adds improved DMA debugging and fixes many compatibility issues.
Highlights of the new version:
- Blitter onedot line mode and fill mode = filled vector graphics
- Add DMA window and improve DMA overlay
- Emulator compatibility improvements
- Find hex bytes
- Fix watchpoints
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2025, 07:33] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2025
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Simon variant in the style of International Karate: International Kopicat Plus
"International Kopicat Plus" (video) is a variant of the classic electronic game Simon, which has been upgraded with animated graphics in the style of International Karate+.
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2025, 22:02] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2025
Paulee Bow (ANF)
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Rare sound cards: AD516 and One Stop Music Shop
In a short video, Paulee Bow presents the two rare sound cards "AD516" and "One Stop Music Shop" installed in his A3000.
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2025, 21:48] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.19 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.19 LTS (“long-term support”), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The X1000/X5000-specific changes are:
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2025, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2025
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Blog: Copyright and the Demo Scene
In a blog post, Carl Svensson takes a look at the demo scene and its relationship to copyright, including a foray into the history of the (Amiga) scene.
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2025, 21:36] [Comments: 1 - 16. Mar. 2025, 18:51]
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14.Mar.2025
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Platformer: First demo version of Phantom Leap
HooGames 2017 is currently working on several projects: after a first preview video of a Zelda-like game (amiga-news.de reported), a first demo version of the platformer "Phantom Leap" (video) developed with the Scorpion Engine was released today: in typical Giana Sisters style, you make your way through initially four playable levels and try to "head out" and collect as many coins as possible. The game runs on any Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion.
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[News message: 14. Mar. 2025, 22:23] [Comments: 0]
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14.Mar.2025
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.0
Version 3.10.0 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, he has put a lot of effort into the stability of the overall package and fixed many bugs. The changes at a glance:
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14.Mar.2025
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Asteroids-style dogfights: Hyper Wings 2.21 (update)
Christian Geldmann's "Hyper Wings" (video) is a shooter developed in assembler, in which two human or computer-controlled combatants fight each other with a control system borrowed from Asteroids. Version 2.2 - tagged as the "final release" by the author - offers the following new features:
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[News message: 14. Mar. 2025, 05:33] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2025
mithrendal (E-Mail)
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Amiga emulator for the web: vAmigaWeb 4.0
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.0 and therefore also supports "Workspaces": these are resource packages that contain the complete Amiga configuration, installed ROMs, floppy disks and hard disks and, unlike the previous "Snapshot" format, are no longer tied to specific versions of vAmiga but will work with all future versions.
In the future, it is planned to export all created workspaces to a ZIP file and import such a file so that all created configurations can be easily backed up and shared with several devices.
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[News message: 13. Mar. 2025, 17:47] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2025
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DiagROM 2.0 Alpha and (German) Tutorial for usage of the DiagROM
DiagROM is a diagnostic software that is burned into an EPROM by the user and then replaces the regular Kickstart ROM of an Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The alpha version 2.0 has now been released at the title link.
At the same time, Domingo Fivoli has published a two-part German tutorial for the previous version 1.3 on his blog.
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[News message: 12. Mar. 2025, 10:40] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Review of the SiI3112 PCI SATA card from Rabbit Hole
George 'walkero' Sokianos has published a review of the SATA PCI card from Rabbit Hole under AmigaOS 4 at the title link at IntuitionBase. The card is based on the SiI3112 chip from Silicon Image.
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[News message: 12. Mar. 2025, 10:40] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2025
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Puzzle game: Pjusk
The aim of Pjusk is to find your way through a labyrinth by tackling enemies in a carefully considered sequence in order to open doors and collect resources.
The game comprises 24 levels and requires at least an Amiga 500 with 512 KB of additional slow mem.
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[News message: 12. Mar. 2025, 10:39] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2025
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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.106 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.106 since the last news update at a glance:
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[News message: 11. Mar. 2025, 17:16] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2025
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Music tips
To kick off the new week, we would like to present our readers with a few music tips:
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[News message: 10. Mar. 2025, 22:10] [Comments: 1 - 12. Mar. 2025, 15:11]
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10.Mar.2025
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Project introduction: Floppy disk reader for AmigaOS 4
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has adapted Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (amiga-news.de reported) for reading Amiga floppy disks with the help of an Arduino board so that it can now also be used under AmigaOS 4 (GitHub project page). Above all, he had to make changes to the USB communication.
There will most likely also be a commercial version of the "Waffle Reader" for a few euros, although the project will remain open source.
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[News message: 10. Mar. 2025, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2025
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 03/25 of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a fifth demo has been released for the game.
As the developer reports, the game now offers three complete levels. At the start, the player can decide which one they want to begin with.
The game requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM.
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[News message: 10. Mar. 2025, 13:08] [Comments: 0]
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10.Mar.2025
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft 1.5
The Rogue-like game Roguecraft (video, amiga-news.de reported) has been updated to version 1.5, providing the following changes:
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[News message: 10. Mar. 2025, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 08.03.2025
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to Aminet:
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[News message: 09. Mar. 2025, 07:51] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.03.2025
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
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09.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.03.2025
The following files have been added until 08.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 09. Mar. 2025, 07:50] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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[News message: 09. Mar. 2025, 07:50] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2025
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Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Command line programs Amiga-Tools 1.0
At the title link Robert 'Pyrdacor' Schneckenhaus has provided "Amiga-Tools" for current computer systems. Specifically, these are two command line commands for Windows, Linux or Mac OS; a user interface is planned. They can be used to create, modify, display and unpack ADF disk images or LHA archives.
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[News message: 09. Mar. 2025, 07:50] [Comments: 0]
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09.Mar.2025
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Video: Doom clone Grind 0.6
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The level "DevArena" shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new opponents and functions and actually serves as a stress test for the Grind engine. For this reason, at least an A1200 with Fast RAM is recommended for DevArena.
The new features of version 0.6 are listed in detail in the video description.
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