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RetroArch port for AmigaOS in progress (28. May. 2025)
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 Amine...

Module-player: NostalgicPlayer 3.0.0 for Windows (27. May. 2025)
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 wa...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.2 (27. May. 2025)
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 ed...

New game engine: Sevgi Engine (26. May. 2025)
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...

Tool: morsconv 3.0 generates Morse code (26. May. 2025)
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: AUDIO - Outputs Morse code as realtime audio using audio.device. CON – ...

Preview video: New e-mail client "AMail" (26. May. 2025)
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 ...

Aminet uploads until 24.05.2025 (25. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to Aminet: Global_War.zip comm/cnet 296K OS3 Global War amigassh.lha comm/net 151K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.05.2025 (25. May. 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: 2025-05-19 updated: Battle Command...

Anniversary: Amigaland.de turns 25 (25. May. 2025)
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): "The time has come. Amigaland.de is 25 years old, what an achievemen...

Tool: png2iff 0.1 for Windows (23. May. 2025)
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....

Mingo's Commodore Blog: The Gotek drive in detail - parts 1 and 2 (German) (21. May. 2025)
In his latest blog entry, Domingo Fivoli from South Tyrol continues his detailed and richly illustrated examination of the Gotek drive. His German two-part guide is about making the drive suitable for Amiga and installing some modifications. The current s...

Retro soccer game: "Mundialito" (update) (20. May. 2025)
Mundialito, a new retro-style arcade soccer game, is coming soon, and a new preview video has been released. The game, which is reminiscent of similar games from the 1980s, will feature action-packed 1-on-1 duels, power-ups, corners, free kicks, penalty k...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: GoSnap V0.15 (update) (19. May. 2025)
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...

Aminet uploads until 17.05.2025 (18. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to Aminet: amigaget.lha comm/net 166K OS3 get https files for the... amigassh.lha comm/net 144K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga DollMak...

Gail Wellington passed away (18. May. 2025)
On Thursday Gail Wellington passed away at the age of 85. Born on January 14, 1940 in Yonkers, New York, she was one of Commodore International's best-known personalities through her work as head of the "Commodore Applications and Technical Support" (CATS...

Virtual desktops for the Workbench: GoVD 2.4 with AmigaOS 4.1 compatibility (18. May. 2025)
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 or higher. It is possible to specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the screens. The current version 2.4 ...

Programming competition: Amiga 40 Tools Jam (15. May. 2025)
On the occasion of the Amiga's 40th birthday, a programming competition is being organized on itch.io with cash prizes to be won. The actual prize money can still change until the end of the competition, Amiga fans are called upon to help with donations. ...

Video: PiStorm68K - Update Version 1.3 (15. May. 2025)
The PiStorm68k is compatible various models of the Raspberry Pi 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. It is possible to switch between the emulated and th...

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...

Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.1 (13. May. 2025)
Version 3.10.1 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, some users have reported bugs that are to be fixed with this version. Changes: PED fixed a problem doing the IDE layout remo...