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28.May.2025
Reddit (forum)


Mac OS: Amiga tools Send2adf and ADF.inder
With Send2adf and ADF.inder, Mac OS users are provided with two small programs at the title link with which all files in a selected directory can be written to an ADF file or the contents of an ADF file can be displayed. (snx)

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28.May.2025
Rafał Zabdyr (Mail)


MorphOS: Preview video of Hans Kloss - Agent J-23
"Hans Kloss - Agent J-23" is a fan project based on the Polish platform game "Hans Kloss", which was released in 1992/93 for Atari home computers and the C64.

The new edition is to be released for MorphOS, Windows and Linux. A preview video has been published at the title link. (snx)

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28.May.2025
Steffen Häuser (ANF)


RetroArch port for AmigaOS in progress
Steffen Häuser is working on a port of RetroArch for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 - this is a modular emulator system in which only the cores for the different systems are exchanged. After completion, the conversion will be available free of charge in Aminet and OS4Depot, the latter already contains a package with the first cores. He writes (translation) about his port:
more ... (snx)

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27.May.2025



Module-player: NostalgicPlayer 3.0.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a tool for playing music files on Windows that supports a wide range of formats, including Amiga-specific file types such as MOD (Protracker, Noisetracker) and MED (OctaMED), as well as modern formats such as MP3 and FLAC. The player was first developed by Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, and later continued on BeOS and Windows. NostalgicPlayer requires Windows 10 or 11, .NET Desktop Runtime 9, and, of course, a sound chip or sound card in your PC. more ... (nba)

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27.May.2025



Winner demo: Dead Ahead by Flex & Ephidrena (68k Inside 2025)
At this year's demoscene party 68k Inside 2025 in Finland (May 23-25), the Amiga demo "Dead Ahead" by the groups Flex and Ephidrena took first place in the Combined Demo Competition. The technically and visually impressive work combines classic 68000 demo aesthetics with modern design elements - a highlight for demoscene enthusiasts. Rloaderro (code), evilryu (shader code), farfar (3D/2D graphics) and heetach (analogue gfx) were responsible for the production. Further information about the demo and the rest of the party results can be found on the demoscene website Pouet.net. (nba)

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27.May.2025
gitlab (ANF)


Coding-tool: Copper Showdown Editor 0.0.2
Copper Showdown Editor is a live coding tool for demonstrating Copper effects. Copper lists are programmed in the LUA scripting language, and the result is then displayed on the screen in real time. Under the hood, the tool uses the vAmiga emulator. With the help of ADF export, the result can then be run directly on an A500 with 512 KB. Copper Showdown Editor is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux and requires a 3D accelerator. (nba)

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27.May.2025
Erik 'earok' Hogan (E-Mail)


Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.2
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Version 2024.2 was released today with numerous new features and updates. more ... (nba)

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27.May.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (E-Mail)


Linux: Kernel 6.15.0 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: more ... (nba)

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27.May.2025
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 170 (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. more ... (nba)

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26.May.2025



New game engine: Sevgi Engine
Sevgi Engine is a new open source video game engine which provides the required tools and generates the boilerplate code to create high performing Amiga games using only the C programming language (video). It is built around the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger and has the following features: more ... (dr)

[News message: 26. May. 2025, 22:53] [Comments: 1 - 27. May. 2025, 10:20]
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26.May.2025



Tool: morsconv 3.0 generates Morse code
With Grzegorz Kraszewski's tool " morsconv" it is possible to convert text into various forms of Morse code using shell commands. The following output modes are supported: more ... (dr)

[News message: 26. May. 2025, 22:13] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2025
Ryan Stapleton (Mastodon)


Preview video: New e-mail client "AMail"
A fortnight ago Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton had already presented his project in a first video: "AMail" is to be a modern e-mail client for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP. The second video now published shows how the client communicates with its local IMAP server and sends emails via SMTP. (dr)

[News message: 26. May. 2025, 06:21] [Comments: 1 - 27. May. 2025, 14:45]
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26.May.2025



Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made V0.9 / Video interview
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, which creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video, amiga-news.de reported).

Version 0.9 now runs on a separate OCS Intuition screen or on a window in WB: the latter allows the tool to be used with graphics cards. In addition, a simple help window has been added. more ... (dr)

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26.May.2025



Programming competition: Winners of the AmiGameJam 2024
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: Congratulations to all the winners! (dr)

[News message: 26. May. 2025, 05:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025



Aminet uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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25.May.2025



OS4Depot uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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25.May.2025



AROS Archives uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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25.May.2025



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.05.2025
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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25.May.2025



WHDLoad: New installers until 24.05.2025
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 24.05.2025: more ... (snx)

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25.May.2025



Arcade game: Gemdalus released
The aim of Gemdalus (story of origin) is to collect all the gems scattered around a labyrinth. In doing so, however, you are dragging a kind of rubber band behind you that cannot be crossed. However, it is possible to snap the rubber band back to take a different path.

The AMOS game, which can be purchased for five US dollars, requires the AGA chipset and 1.6 MB of chip RAM as well as 320 KB of additional RAM. (snx)

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25.May.2025
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)


Anniversary: Amigaland.de turns 25
On amigaland.de, Mirko Engelhardt makes formerly commercial software available for download with permission. He can now look back on a quarter of a century and writes (translation):
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[News message: 25. May. 2025, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2025



AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.6 and 3.2.14
The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is now available for AmigaOS 4 in versions 2.32.6 and 3.2.14.

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. (snx)

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24.May.2025



Desktop wiki: MPW 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow is writing a desktop wiki whose content is written in Markdown. The wiki starts a local web server, which can then be accessed from any web browser (Video). File and image uploads are still causing problems, but the wiki is already usable. For the time being, Sackrow is only providing an AmigaOS 3 build for testing. (cg)

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24.May.2025
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)


Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 25
The current issue 25 (May 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available as a printed or digital edition (via Amazon). The topics of the issue include: more ... (cg)

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24.May.2025



Shoot'em Up: final demo for "Rex and the Galactic Plague"
'Rex and the Galactic Plague' is a vertically scrolling shooter developed with the help of the Scorpion Engine. The "final" demo version now released contains three playable levels and shows the current status after the developer had to make quote some changes to make the title playable from Floppy Discs. (cg)

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24.May.2025
AmigaKit (Mail)


Hardware emulators: ARM-native MP3 decoding for A1200NG and A600GS
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 interface using the library will be released soon. (cg)

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23.May.2025



Tool: png2iff 0.1 for Windows
Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written a small command line tool for Windows which converts indexed or truecolour PNG files into the classic Amiga IFF format. Colour quantisation, palette remapping and several dithering modes are supported. (dr)

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23.May.2025



Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v0.90
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 (amiga-news.de reported). The current version 0.90 now offers music. The story has also been improved and many minor bugs have been fixed. (dr)

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23.May.2025



Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor 6.2.0
ASM-editor is a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language (amiga-news.de reported, source code on GitHub).

The tool now supports not only 68k and x86 assembly language, but also RISC-V and offers assembly courses for learning assembly. (dr)

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23.May.2025



Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Echo Fighter" (6)
With the sixth preview video of its shoot'em up "Echo Fighter" (amiga-news.de reported), 'pixelplop' shows the progress made recently: the player is now greeted with a scaling "Wave" and "Get Ready" text at the start of the level. The inertia of the ship's movement has been added and the power-ups are now mostly functional, although more are planned.

more ... (dr)

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23.May.2025



PPC hardware: MorphOS successfully boots on the "Mirari" motherboard
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 announcement and received one of the few prototypes produced to date. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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23.May.2025
Holly (Mastodon)


AROS: The Register reports on the portable AROS distribution
The Register is an online portal offering news and analyses from the world of technology companies. A current article is dedicated to the recently released portable AROS distribution (amiga-news.de reported) and explores how this live distribution works. It also reports on the history of AmigaOS and other current projects such as ApolloOS or A600GS. (dr)

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22.May.2025



Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.1.2
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.1.2 of his Amiga emulator 'vAmiga' for macOS, which should no longer a crash when switching the host computer to standby mode. (cg)

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