14.Aug.2025
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Brand exploitation: "Commodore" fan at Media Markt
The Austrian "KSR Group" has been selling everyday appliances such as vacuum cleaners with a slightly modified Commodore logo for years. According to a press release at the time ("Return of a cult brand"), the aim is to "carry on the Commodore spirit – a playful and easy introduction to a new world" in the field of smart homes and household robotics.
Now, for the first time, one of the Commodore products has made it into the web shop of Media Markt - a large multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics: the COMMODORE 143318 3D fan promises 24 watts of power and 12 speed settings and it can be controlled by remote control.
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14.Aug.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.20
Capehill provides version 3.2.20 of the SDL multimedia library, which offers only one change compared to the previous version: "Changed iostream to unbuffered by default".
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14.Aug.2025
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Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.6
Mame106Minimix is a port of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator to AmigaOS 3, which requires a very fast 68k computer - the author is primarily targeting PiStorm cards. Changes in version 1.6:
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14.Aug.2025
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Shoot'em Up: "Rex and the Galactic Plague" 1.01
Rex and the Galactic Plague (video) is a vertical scrolling shooter developed using the Scorpion Engine. Version 1.01 includes minor changes and fixes several bugs:
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14.Aug.2025
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Pac Man clone with a twist: Gemdalus 1.1
Gemdalus (video) is a Pac-Man clone with a twist: the player character is constantly connected to the starting point in the center of the screen by a kind of rubber band that neither the player nor opponents can pass through. Version 1.1 includes the following changes:
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13.Aug.2025
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 10.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released a fifth update for version 10 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. It is now based on the latest stable WebKitGTK version 2.48.5.
Download: wayfarer.lha (55 MB)
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13.Aug.2025
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Livecoding tool: Copper Showdown Editor 0.21 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
The Copper Showdown Editor is a live coding tool for demonstrating Copper effects. It enables programming of Copper usuing the the LUA scripting language, and the result is displayed on the screen in real time. Under the hood, the program uses the emulator vAmiga.
A competition will be held with it at this year's Evoke demo party. Using the ADF export, the result can then be executed directly on an Amiga 500 with 512 KB of RAM. The program is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux and requires a 3D accelerator.
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13.Aug.2025
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Podcast: The Retro Hour - The Story of Worms with Andy Davidson
For episode 492 of The Retro Hour podcast, an interview with Andy Davidson, the programmer of the game Worms, which is about to receive an update, was conducted at the title link.
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12.Aug.2025
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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Real Time Strategy: Settlers II - Gold Edition can be preordered
Press release:
Two legends finally unite - The Settlers II conquers the Amiga
Düsseldorf, August 12, 2025
After almost 30 years, The Settlers II will finally be available on the Amiga starting October 18, 2025! Officially licensed by Ubisoft Entertainment, the Gold Edition of this legendary city-building strategy game has been faithfully and insightfully ported by Look Behind You, proving that true classics are timeless.
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12.Aug.2025
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40 Years of The Amiga: Cover story issue of the British magazine Retro Gamer
The British magazine Retro Gamer, licensor of the German spin-off, has focused its current issue 275 on the Amiga. Under the title "40 Years of The Amiga", the editorial team takes an in-depth look at revolutionary technology, legendary games, and breathtaking scene demos. The magazine is available in British newsagents and via order.
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12.Aug.2025
Allister Brimble on Bandcamp
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Music album: "Amiga 40" by Allister Brimble
Allister Brimble, composer of countless Amiga game titles, has released his new album "Amiga 40" - a musical tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Commodore Amiga.
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12.Aug.2025
Dániel Völkel via Facebook
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 25-01
The fifth issue of the German and English disk magazine "Amiga Rulez" comes with TRON as its cover story and a colorful mix of game topics, interviews, and the conclusion of the article series on Warlord, the sysop of the Celtic Cross BBS, and Radio PARALAX.
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12.Aug.2025
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Resurrected Commodore: "Amiga is also on our radar"
Under the leadership of influencer Christian "Perifractic" Simpson, the Commodore brand is back in business, including 47 original Commodore trademarks, which have now been acquired by the newly founded Commodore International Corporation (amiga-news.de reported). The first commercial product of the new era is the C64 Ultimate Edition, an FPGA-based replica of the popular 8-bit computer. In a recent tweet on X, Simpson emphasizes that the Amiga is "also on the radar" of the company – an indication that future projects related to the Amiga and possibly collaborations with companies active in the Amiga market are not out of the question, without giving any specific details.
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11.Aug.2025
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Game announcement: Isometric arcade adventure game Lumo
For over a year now, we have reported on several occasions about a game project initiated by Nivrig Games: the porting of an isometric arcade adventure game to the Amiga. Now Thalamus Digital and the developer have announced that this is the porting of the game Lumo.
According to Nivrig Games, the Amiga port is about 50% complete, with over 200 rooms and 50 different object types to interact with (latest preview video). However, he cannot yet give an exact release date. Developer diaries are published regularly on Thalamus Digital's Patreon page.
The game currently runs with 32 colours on an A500 with 1 MB of chip RAM. The final version will probably require 2 MB of total RAM.
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11.Aug.2025
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.22 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.22 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.5.2 (5.8.2025) of OpenSSL.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.22-OS3.lha (4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.22-OS4.lha (3,6 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.22-SDK.lha (2,5 MB)
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[News message: 11. Aug. 2025, 21:37] [Comments: 1 - 13. Aug. 2025, 17:57]
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11.Aug.2025
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Music tips
To kick off the new week, we would like to present our readers with a few music recommendations:
LukHash is a musician based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He describes his music as "fusion of digital 8-bit chaos and 80s-inspired synthesiser music, combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics". His latest chiptune release is called Patch It!.
Alex Menchi wrote the track "Positive Mind" for this year's revision. (video).
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including music from Amiga games. This time from the game The Ninja Warriors - video.
Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann has remixed an incomplete album of Jim Power music and released three tracks so far.
Last but not least, Carlos Gimeno has released the track "30 years of party" for this year's Posadas demo party (video).
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11.Aug.2025
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AI chatbot: AmigaGPT 2.9.0
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.
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10.Aug.2025
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Aminet uploads until 09.08.2025
The following files have been added until 09.08.2025 to Aminet:
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10.Aug.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.08.2025
The following files have been added until 09.08.2025 to OS4Depot:
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10.Aug.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.08.2025
The following files have been added until 09.08.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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10.Aug.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Monday (Vision Factory 1)
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10.Aug.2025
AmigaBill (ANF)
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Amiga/040th: Replica of the Amiga booth at CES 1984 (video)
Last weekend, the Amiga/040th celebrated the Amiga anniversary in Mountain View, California, embedded into the VCF West.
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10.Aug.2025
Amigasystem (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.1 64-bit with latest ABI v11 update
Following Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's release of the AROS ABIv11 20250418-1-U1 version yesterday, as part of his work on the 64-bit version of the operating system, it is now also included in the version 1.1 update of the distribution AROS One.
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10.Aug.2025
AmigaKit (ANF)
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A600GS and A1200NG: System update including pre-release version of AmiBrowser
AmigaKit regularly releases system updates for its emulation-based A600GS and A1200NG systems, which existing customers receive directly via the built-in Live Updater, which is why we only report on this in exceptional cases.
However, it is worth mentioning that the recently announced AmiBrowser was included in the latest update as a pre-release version. Further details about the update can be found in the Amigans.net forum.
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10.Aug.2025
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Desktop Wiki: MPW 0.2 now with image support
Marcus ‘ALB42’ Sackrow's desktop wiki MPW, whose content is written in Markdown, is now available in version 0.2. As the author describes in his blog, images can now be added, and a template directory has been added.
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10.Aug.2025
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Heise: 40 years of Amiga - The quiz about the cult machine (German)
To mark the Amiga anniversary, Heise has published a German ten-question quiz at the title link, which will only elicit a weary smile from long-time fans of this computer, but will challenge users from days long past who are participating out of pure nostalgia.
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10.Aug.2025
Dirk Hoffmann (E-Mail)
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macOS: RetroVisor – Simulation of a CRT monitor display (also) for emulato
Dirk Hoffmann, known for the vAmiga emulator for macOS, has also written a program called RetroVisor for that operating system, which is designed to make a selected screen area appear as if it was displayed by a cathode ray tube - e.g. for the visually "too perfect" display of emulated Amiga games.
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09.Aug.2025
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QEMU front end for launching AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 1.2.0
George Sokianos' QEMU front end ‘Kyvos’ is designed to significantly simplify the setup and
launch of AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS under QEMU.
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09.Aug.2025
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 26
The current issue 26 (July 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available in print or digital format (via Amazon). Topics covered in this issue include:
- Reviewed 11 new video games for the Amiga: Hundra, AmiSeaFox, BOH Advance, Krogharr, Bolminok's Kingdom 2, BreakHack, Echoes of the Future, NeonWorld, Mundialito, Gemdalus and Space Patrol
- Preview: Tomb Raider on Amiga
- Reports from Commodore Day 2025
- Special: Amiga Day 2025 Passion
- Interviews: Jogeir Liljedahl and The Return of Thalamus
- Tech: Printing with AmigaOS 4.1
- Columns: Aminet's Treasures, The Shepherd's Attic - CDTV add-on and New Talents
- Plus: Games news, Tech news...
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08.Aug.2025
EntwicklerX (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Starfall Defenders released
Press release: EntwicklerX (Patreon link) has released Starfall Defenders (trailer), a tower defense game for AmigaOS 4.
Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defence game. It features an in-game shop system where players can purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and acquire special items such as atomic bombs, splash bombs, and air supplies. Players earn coins for the shop by defeating boss enemies, letting as few enemies pass as possible, and unlocking new maps.
Compared to previous games such as "M.A.C.E. Tower Defense" or "Swamp Defense 2", the graphics have been completely modernised with smoke and light effects. The game offers 70 newly designed, challenging levels for hours of gaming fun.
System requirements: An AmigaOS4.1-compatible computer with a Warp3D Nova-compatible graphics card is required.
The game is now available from Alinea Computer, AmiStore and itch.io for around ¤20.
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08.Aug.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.3
Following the beta version, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.3 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. The file system navigator now includes a boot command for managing boot blocks. macOS 13.5 or higher is required.
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[News message: 08. Aug. 2025, 21:18] [Comments: 0]
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08.Aug.2025
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Event: Amiga demos at Assembly 2025
The Assembly demo party has been held in Helsinki since 1992, and this year's edition took place last weekend. Two Amiga productions also placed in the "Oldskool Demo" category:
- 8th place: "Sigil of Valhalla" by Depth and Zymosis (video)
- 9th place: "RIP Bill Atkinson" by Hackers Media Industries (video)
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