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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 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

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.

As announced today on the project's website - along with photos showing the Ambient desktop booting on Mirari - MorphOS is already running on the Mirari hardware. There is no information yet on the exact status of the port, but the board designers thank MorphOS team member Frank Mariak for his "relentless hard work and unwavering dedication" that made this result possible. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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19.May.2025
Krzysztof Donat (ANF)

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: GoSnap V0.15 (update)
The second entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam was submitted by Krzysztof Donat: GoSnap enables the function known from other operating systems for snapping windows to the edges of the screen (video).
GoSnap creates 8 active zones on the Workbench screen: 4 screen corners and 4 edges. When a window is dragged to one of these zones, it is automatically resized and repositioned. The zones work as follows:

4 corners - dragging a window into a corner will resize it to 1/4 of the screen size and position it in that corner.
Left, right, and bottom edges - dragging a window to one of these edges will resize it to 1/2 of the screen size and snap it to the corresponding edge.
Top edge - dragging a window to the top edge of the screen will maximize it to fill the entire screen.

GoSnap respects the minimum and maximum window sizes defined by the application's developer, as well as whether a window is resizable at all. If a window is not resizable, GoSnap will only reposition it without changing its size.

The program runs as a commodity and can be managed through the system Exchange utility, where it can be paused or disabled.

The program requires AmigaOS version 3.1.4 or newer, AmigaOS 3.2 is recommended. In the system preferences (IControl), the option to allow windows to be dragged beyond the screen edge should be enabled. GoSnap should also work under AmigaOS 4.1.

GoSnap was written in Amiga E using the E-VO compiler and is freeware. However, donations are welcome.

Update: (23.05.2025, 22:15, dr)

Version 0.15 is now available, which among other things fixes the snapping non-resizable windows. (dr)

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19.May.2025
tukinem

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made v0.8
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, that creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video).

If a single IFF file is loaded, the program creates an icon with one image. If two IFF files are loaded, the tool creates an icon with two images that change as soon as you click on the icon. Further features:

NTSC compatible
Preview function
Creation of DISK, DRAWER, TOOL, PROJECT and Trashcan icons
IFF images with a maximum of 256 colours and a resolution of 640x200 can be loaded, whereby only the first 2 bitplanes (4 colours) are ever read
If the ".info" extension is forgotten to be added during saving, the program recognises it and adds it itself
Support for 8-colour MagicWB icons

(dr)

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19.May.2025
deadwood

AROS distribution: AROS One portable 2.8 (x86)
In addition to the AROS distribution "AROS One" for x86 computers, which is available as a DVD ISO file or USB flash ("VHD") image (amiga-news.de reported), there is now a separate portable version for USB sticks (video), which contains AROS ONE 2.8 (32-bit) and can be run directly from it. This project was created for users who want to explore AROS without having to install it on a hard drive or for users who want to use AROS on their existing hardware instead of investing in dedicated other hardware.

System requirements:

(reasonably) up-to-date x86-64 (64-bit) computer hardware
USB 3.0 support
Screen resolution 1920 x 1080

(dr)

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14.May.2025
MorphZone (Forum) MorphOS: CellBasics announced (update)
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 spreadsheet. Apparently, rows and columns can already be inserted or deleted at the current stage of development, and CSV is used as the storage format.

Update: (16:55, 14.05.25, snx)
As Jacek Piszczek has since explained, the standard Excel syntax has already been implemented, but the common functions still need to be programmed. Standard mathematical operations or referencing other cells or cell ranges do already work, though. CellBasics is an almost completely self-written program, only the formula parser and the routines for loading xlsx files would be ports of open source libraries. (snx)

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