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In memoriam: Manfred Kleimann, ASM editor-in-chief, has passed away (13. May. 2025)
The German computer games industry mourns the passing of Manfred Kleimann, who died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 69. As the creative mind behind the magazine "ASM – Aktueller Software Markt", he is considered one of the pioneers of German games ...
Aminet uploads until 10.05.2025 (11. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to Aminet:
amigaget.lha comm/net 175K OS3 get https files for the...
CVBasic.lha dev/cross 476K VAR BASIC compiler for Cole...
gasm80.lha ...
OS4Depot uploads until 10.05.2025 (11. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
frozenat.lha dev/deb 6kb 4.1 find out where a program is hang...
libfdk-aac.lha dev/lib 21Mb 4.1 Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library
libmp3lame.lha de...
Video tutorial: Selecting fonts with the help of AMCAF in AMOS (09. May. 2025)
In his latest video, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how you can select a font via a file requester and use it in your own program. The "Change Font" command of the AMCAF extension is used for this....
Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: "BDTZ" released (05. May. 2025)
After two demo versions (amiga-news.de reported), the full version of BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) has now been released: a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze ...
Aminet uploads until 03.05.2025 (04. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 03.05.2025 to Aminet:
nscanz10.lha comm/bbs 11K OS3 Scans FTN nodellist, di...
amigaget.lha comm/net 264K OS3 get https files for the...
AmiBlitz3_Cheat_Shee...
Java program: ham_convert 1.11.1 (03. May. 2025)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based programme ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format. Changes in version 1.11.1:
Higher quality Lanczos image resizing. Older Bicubic was too blurry
Support for additional input formats: we...
New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, FPGA (Update 3) (30. Apr. 2025)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presented a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Some time later, Kanning himself started posting in our comments section and supplied
a pretty extens...
Worth a read: Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO (29. Apr. 2025)
American journalist and author David L. Farquhar regularly writes about computer and IT history on his website "The Silicon Underground". In a recent article, he outlines the short but eventful tenure of Thomas Rattigan as CEO of Commodore. Rattigan was l...
Podcast: The Retro Hour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Amiga (29. Apr. 2025)
The latest episode (476) of the English-language podcast The Retro Hour is all about the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. Recorded live at VCF East in New Jersey, host Dan Wood presents stories about Amiga developers and computer pioneers Dale Luck, ...
Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (update) (28. Apr. 2025)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported)...
Aminet uploads until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to Aminet:
cstat11z.lha comm/bbs 13K OS3 ZeusBBS Callersstats, B...
FILEDIR.lha comm/bbs 16K OS3 FileBase like Excelsior...
lcall13.lha ...
AmigaGuide magazine: "WhatIFF?", issue 16 (26. Apr. 2025)
"WhatIFF?" is an English-language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the 16th issue are:
Reviews:
AKUA Amiga Keyboard to USB Adapter
OpenPSX2Amiga Pad Adapter
AMI-RGB2VGA Ultimate
Tikus USB Mouse/Joystick Adapter
TechnoSound Tu...
Turn-based strategy game: New demo version 04/25 of "Ecliptic" (25. Apr. 2025)
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a sixth demo has been released for ...
First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS (24. Apr. 2025)
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the first version of AROS for x86-64, labelled "stable". The basic system is available in two versions: as a bootable ISO file or in a 'hosted' edition that runs under Linux. Virtual machines (VMware, Vir...
Worth a read: Why computers were more fun before (22. Apr. 2025)
In his latest article, "Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before", published on Datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson reflects on the development of computer use and argues that computers were more f...
Aminet uploads until 19.04.2025 (20. Apr. 2025)
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to Aminet:
zbbslister.lha comm/bbs 5K OS3 ZBBSLister is a BBS lis...
apccomm.lha comm/misc 205K OS3 transfers files between...
amigaget.lha ...
Announcement and pre-order campaign: AmiGUS sound card (19. Apr. 2025)
After 1 year of development time, we are proud to announce a new and exciting piece of hardware for the Amiga in 2025:
the AmiGUS soundcard.
Oliver Achten is responsible for the hardware development of the card. He developed the card with passion ...
Video: Amiga engineers and executives discussing Commodore, VCF East 2025 (19. Apr. 2025)
In this 2nd panel (part 1) from VCF East 2025's Amiga 40 celebration, Commodore engineers and execs Dave Haynie, David John Pleasance, Hedley Davis, Greg Berlin, Don Gilbreath, Robert Miranda, and Jeff Bruette reunite to share their stories from behind th...
Shoot'em Up: Demo version of "Wings of Fear" (19. Apr. 2025)
Around a week ago, we reported on the preview video for the shoot'em up "Wings of Fear". Now the developer has released a demo version of his game, which is still in the alpha phase and is being created using the Scorpion Engine. He wants to use it to gat...
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