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dpa: 40 years of the Amiga - The beginning of the multimedia age (German) (19. Jul. 2025)
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...

Interview: Markus Tillmann about the Warhol connection and amiga40-highlights (13. Jul. 2025)
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 u...

New Commodore owners with new website and first products (update) (12. Jul. 2025)
Two weeks ago, Youtuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson ...

Group of investors represented by Youtuber Perifractic buys Commodore (28. Jun. 2025)
Three weeks ago, Youtuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson announced in a video that he had received an offer to take over Commodore B.V., the owner of the remaining Commodore trademark rights. In a second video published today he now announces the complet...

ASM - Das Computer-Spiel: Solution booklet available / English version announced (18. Jun. 2025)
Press release: "You have finished "ASM - Das Computer-Spiel" and your highscore still only shows 57 %? In this case we have something for you! In this booklet we take you to every corner of the ASM office und show you how to complete the game with a ...

Emulator hardware: ARM accelerated video playback for A1200NG and A600GS (18. Jun. 2025)
As announced by AmigaKit, the next update will install the PlayVideo tool, enabling ARM accelerated video playback. (video). MPEG video files can be played either on the AmiBench screen or in full-screen mode. They can also be started using the correspon...

RetroArch: WarpOS and MorphOS versions announced (17. Jun. 2025)
RetroArch is a modular retro emulator system, which was first featured on amiga-news.de on 28 May 2025. Following the previously announced versions for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) and AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC), developer Steffen Häuser has now also announced ports for Wa...

Music album: Remute² announced for the Amiga (17. Jun. 2025)
Electronic musician Remute (Denis Karimani) has announced Remute², his first album to be produced entirely on the Commodore Amiga. The release coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Amiga. Remute² features 15 new tracks and includes a specially p...

7-bit: Firmware version 0.44 for Bluetooth adapter (11. Jun. 2025)
Already one week ago firmware version 0.44 for the BlueLink control pad adapter from 7-bit was released. As the manufacturer announces at the title link, the Bluetooth adapter is now also available from Alinea....

Evercade handheld console: Roguecraft DX announced (06. Jun. 2025)
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported). Now a special version of the Amiga rogue-like game Roguecraft (amiga-news.de reported) has been announced: Roguecraft D...

Martin Ulrich, co-developer of Ports of Call, has passed away (03. Jun. 2025)
Martin Ulrich, the co-developer of the Amiga classic Ports of Call, passed away on 31 March 2025 at the age of 76. The sad news was announced by his long-time developer colleague Rolf-Dieter Klein. Ulrich was born on 22 October 1948. Together with Klein, ...

PowerPC hardware: video showing MorphOS 3.20 running on Mirari motherboard (31. May. 2025)
The Mirari team has released a video showing the "1st beta test" of MorphOS on the recently announced PPC hardware....

Programming competition: Winners of the AmiGameJam 2024 (26. May. 2025)
Voting for the AmiGameJam 2024 started at the beginning of December 2024 (amiga-news.de reported). The winners have now been announced in a live show on Twitch: 1st place: Fast Food 2 by 'acidbottle' 2nd place: Master of Minefields by 'Reborn80' 3rd ...

Hardware emulators: ARM-native MP3 decoding for A1200NG and A600GS (24. May. 2025)
As Amigakit announces in a post on amigaworld.net, they have released "ArmMP3File.library" that uses native ARM code to decode MP3 files. In addition to the text-based player already available, it is hoped that an MP3 player with a graphical user interfac...

PPC hardware: MorphOS successfully boots on the "Mirari" motherboard (23. May. 2025)
Three weeks ago, the PPC-based motherboard "Mirari", developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning, was presented to the public for the first time. According to our information, the MorphOS team contacted the Mirari team for the first time right after this annou...

MorphOS: CellBasics announced (update) (14. May. 2025)
MorphOS developer Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek announces his "CellBasics" program in the MorphZone with just one screenshot. The screenshot shows the entry of addresses as in a simple database, but the name and the appearance are more reminiscent of a sprea...

Music: "DJ N-4ceR 02" vinyl announced by T.S.A. (13. May. 2025)
The demoscene, retro, and makerspace group T.S.A (The Solaris Agency) has announced the new record "DJ N-4ceR 02 - TSA Friends & Chris Huelsbeck", which is a collaboration between six musicians. The 12" vinyl features tracks by CoRe (Karsten Klewer), AMIt...

Emulator hardware: CPU Boost Kit available for "A1200 NG" (02. May. 2025)
As announced a good week ago, AmigaKit is now offering a CPU Boost Kit for the "A1200 NG" emulator solution for around 24 euros, which increases the performance of the board by up to 20 per cent by boosting the CPU from 1.5 GHz to 1.7 GHz. After activatin...

New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, FPGA (Update 3) (30. Apr. 2025)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presented a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Some time later, Kanning himself started posting in our comments section and supplied a pretty extens...

AmigaOS 4: clib4 1.6.0 (28. Apr. 2025)
With clib4 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè is working on a variant of the official ADTools clib2, which should be specific for AmigaOS 4 in order to be easier to maintain and above all to add functions that are difficult to implement on original Amigas. ...