05.Feb.2025
AmigaKit (E-Mail)
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A1200NG: New photos of the emulator-based mainboard
At the title link AmigaKit has published further photos of its ARM- and emulator-based mainboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported). The latest and probably final revision of the hardware, which corresponds to the Amiga 1200 mainboard in terms of dimensions, has a sound mixing circuit and a CDDA feed, as well as a connection for a 12-volt power supply and the option of connecting SATA and IDE drives to internal USB headers.
Greaseweazle technology for reading and writing various floppy disk formats has been integrated. On the software side, AmiBench is used as the desktop interface, as with the A600GS, and FinalWriter 7.2 will be one of the included application programs - which A600GS owners will receive as a free update. Different operating systems and ROMs can then be used on the A1200NG.
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05.Feb.2025
Obligement (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Simon Neumann (Alinea Computer)
At the title link, David Brunet has conducted an interview for Obligement with the graduate engineer Simon Neumann, managing partner of the Amiga dealer Alinea Computer and partner of the publisher Look Behind You.
In it, he reports that he is able to make a living from these two ventures and announces that the Octodapter - an extension that allows up to ten joysticks to be used for appropriately designed games - will definitely be launched on the market this year. As a publisher, he is disappointed with the sales figures for the Amiga 3.2 Reference Manual, with the German edition in particular falling short of expectations.
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[News message: 05. Feb. 2025, 20:32] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2025
Spillhistorie (ANF)
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Spillhistorie: Interview with game designer Steve Meretzky (Infocom)
For the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, Joachim Froholt, with the support of Hans Arne Jacobsen, conducted another interview - this time with Steve Meretzky, who designed various text adventures for Infocom, which were then also ported to the Amiga, such as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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04.Feb.2025
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Demoparty: Pågadata 2025 (1-3 August 2025)
The Pågadata 2025 demoscene party will take place from 1 to 3 August 2025 in Teckomatorp in southern Sweden. Entry is free, but donations are welcome. Participants can stay overnight on site.
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04.Feb.2025
bitplan (ANF)
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Managing system variables: GoVars 2.1 (update)
GoVars, developed by Krzysztof Donat (bitplan), is an easy-to-use editor for Amiga environment variables, which is now available in version 2.0. This tool offers a user-friendly interface for managing those system variables in AmigaOS 3.x.
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[News message: 04. Feb. 2025, 11:17] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2025
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Review: Checkmate Retro Monitor
The Kickstarter campaign initiated by Stephen Jones to fund his Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor was successfully completed at the end of 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). The Lyonsden Blog has now published a review in which, among other things, various connection variants were tested.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2025, 19:57] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2025
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Children's game: New demo version of "The Young Salzgitter Icefighter"
New name, new level: the children's game originally called "The Young Icefighter" (amiga-news.de reported) has now been renamed "The Young SALZGITTER Icefighter", as the ice hockey club "Salzgitter Icefighters" has given permission to use the logo and name of their youth department for the game. In addition, a new level, Chicken World, was created and a new demo version released.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2025, 18:10] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2025
MiDWaN
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.8.3 and Amiberry 7.0.2
Amiberry and Amiberry-Lite are Amiga emulators.
While Amiberry is based on the current WinUAE version and is recommended for all platforms that are faster than RPI4 - including all macOS and x86_64 platforms - Amiberry-lite is based on WinUAE 4.4 and is recommended for slower hardware (up to RPI4), or if JIT for ARM is to be used (Which version should I pick?).
Amiberry now has been updated to version 7.0.2 and Amiberry-lite to version 5.8.3, both of which offer bug fixes and improvements.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2025, 06:22] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.2025
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Aminet uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to Aminet:
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02.Feb.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to OS4Depot:
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02.Feb.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to AROS Archives:
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02.Feb.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.02.2025
The following files have been added until 01.02.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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02.Feb.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.02.2025
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 01.02.2025:
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[News message: 02. Feb. 2025, 08:43] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.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:
- Super Twintris (8mix)
- Flashback - Ending theme
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[News message: 02. Feb. 2025, 08:43] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.2025
Mastodon (ANF)
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Music: Crowdfunding of the FastLoaders album "Amiga Rocks Harder"
FastLoaders (Facebook) is a C64 and Amiga remix metal band from Bergen, Norway. As a sequel to their 2020 album, "Amiga Rocks", more than thirty soundtracks of classic Amiga games will be recorded as hard rock versions for "Amiga Rocks Harder". Money is now being collected for this at the title link.
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02.Feb.2025
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Event: AUGS meeting 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland)
On the weekend of March 15/16, 2025, the next meeting of the Amiga Users Group Switzerland will take place for participants with hardware as well as visitors. Venue is the Hottingen Community Center, which is ten minutes by tram from Zurich main station.
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02.Feb.2025
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AmigaOS 4: VideoVortex - GUI for searching and watching YouTube videos
Video Vortex is a graphical user interface for YT.rexx for searching and viewing YouTube videos. YT.rexx is a script that provides direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. VideoVortex, on the other hand, saves the user the cumbersome and tedious task of editing various configuration files and offers a clear and easy-to-use user interface that was written with Hollywood and the MUIRoyale plugin.
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02.Feb.2025
tukinem
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Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2: Soko-Ban
Based on a game originally available for MS-DOS with 53 levels, Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had published a Sokoban prototype in October 2022, which he had written from scratch in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2 (amiga-news.de reported). He has now updated it (video) as follows:
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[News message: 02. Feb. 2025, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2025
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Video: Booting from Amiga floppy disk with the A600GS
In October, Amigakit released an update for its Linux-based Amiga emulator A600GS that enables the loading of real Amiga disks via DrawBridge. In a video, an A600GS user now demonstrates this exact function: His emulated Amiga 1200 boots from floppy disk directly into the game Roguecraft.
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[News message: 01. Feb. 2025, 23:51] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2025
2Bit Combo
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Run'n Gun: new playable demo for "Operation Steel Rain"
"Operation Steel Rain" is a Run'n Gun for AGA computers, developed with the help of the Scorpion Engine. Inspired by mecha-style games such as "Assault Suits Valken" (SNES) or "Ranger-X" (Megadrive), the game brings a platform shooter feeling to the Amiga screen. The updated demo version offers the following new features, among others:
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[News message: 01. Feb. 2025, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Cult of Speed
"Amiga Games That Weren't" now features information about "Cult of Speed", a bloody motorcycle race that should be set in the Warhammer universe.
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[News message: 01. Feb. 2025, 23:31] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printmagazin: issue 146 of Amiga Future can be read online
The German and English issue 146 (September/October 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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[News message: 01. Feb. 2025, 23:27] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" for January 2025
The blog 'Gaming on AmigaOS 4' has again published a monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4.
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01.Feb.2025
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Individual Computers: known customers can preorder ACA1240/1260
Press release: In recent years, the start of production and sales of the ACA1240/1260 had to be postponed again and again. Last week the time had finally come and we opened pre-orders. Not all of the card's features have been fully developed yet, which is why all models are currently being offered at a reduced price of EUR 59.50 (incl. VAT). As soon as these features are available, they can be retrofitted free of charge with a simple flash update.
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[News message: 01. Feb. 2025, 23:21] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2025
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Image editor: PyDPainter 2.1.0 for Windows
The image editor PyDPainter (new video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.1.0, among others, implements animbrushes:
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2025, 06:15] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2025
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Sound editor: ProTrekkr 2.8.1 for AROS and MorphOS (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.8.1 has now been released for AROS (and other systems). Changes:
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2025, 06:02] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jan.2025
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Video: PiStorm68K - Dual 68000 CPU & PiStorm with Physical Switch Demo (update)
The PiStorm68k can accommodate any Raspberry Pi of the 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. Using a simple switch, it is possible to switch between the emulated and the real CPU.
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[News message: 29. Jan. 2025, 09:16] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jan.2025
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Do it yourself: Retro joystick USB adapter DualJoy
DualJoy is a firmware for the Rapsberry Pi Pico that turns it into a USB adapter for two D-Sub 9 joysticks, as they are used with the Amiga.
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[News message: 29. Jan. 2025, 09:16] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jan.2025
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Restoration report: The first perfect computer - Amiga 1000
At the title link, Celso Martinho describes in a longer report with many photos how he restored and upgraded a second-hand Amiga 1000.
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[News message: 29. Jan. 2025, 09:16] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jan.2025
Facebook
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Announcement: New issue of German print magazine Amiga Joker in October 2025
After the revivals of 2017 and 2019, another special issue of the German print magazine "Amiga Joker" is going to be published in October. They are still looking for letters to the editor, picture contributions for the gallery and a few articles. Interested parties can contact them by e-mail at joker@spieleschreiber.de.
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