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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.6.0 (06. May. 2025)
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...

The Doll Maker: New text adventure for the Amiga under development (06. May. 2025)
The Doll Maker is a dark, text-based adventure game currently in development for the Amiga, as reported by Indie Retro News. The game from Remanence Studio is a tribute to interactive graphic text adventures such as Guild of Thieves and The Pawn. It combi...

Programming help: Assembly for the Amiga (500) (05. May. 2025)
Keith 'Akuyou' offers on his website Assembly Tutorial help on how to program the hardware of many popular systems, including the Amiga. All lessons have a text document, a matching Youtube video and an entry in the discussion forum, so you can learn by r...

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 ...

OS4Depot uploads until 03.05.2025 (04. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 03.05.2025 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line&a... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator xiangqi.lha g...

FPGA-based retro console: MiSTer Multisystem² (04. May. 2025)
A new retro console based on the MiSTer is available from Tuesday, emulating a variety of systems using its Cyclone-V FPGA chip - including a TG68/020 with AGA or RTG, a Toccata and plenty of Fast RAM using the Minimig core. The MiSTer Multisystem² (vi...

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...

Video: Amiga Talk - Die Reise geht weiter! (German) (01. May. 2025)
A (German) video discussion was published on Paddy's retro channel, in which Chris Hülsbeck, Michael Spindler, Dennis Pauler, MIGs Yesterchips and Matthias Heinrichs were guests. Michael Spindler, for example, developed his own Akiko32 board and his own A...

Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.3 (01. May. 2025)
The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimi...

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...

AmigaOS 4: clib4 1.6.0 (28. Apr. 2025)
With clib4 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè is working on a variant of the official ADTools clib2, which should be specific for AmigaOS 4 in order to be easier to maintain and above all to add functions that are difficult to implement on original Amigas. ...

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)...

Video: Game Construction Kit "RedPill" supports HAM images (28. Apr. 2025)
A few days ago, version 0.9.50 of the game construction kit "RedPill" was released on Aminet: among other things, the option to use HAM images as cover images was added. The developer Carlos Peris demonstrates this in a short video....

OS4Depot uploads until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to OS4Depot: imp3.lha aud/pla 50kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga! vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 262kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 257kb 4....

Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.5.0 (25. Apr. 2025)
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...

7-bit: Bluetooth adapter for control pads (25. Apr. 2025)
7-Bit has created a Bluetooth adapter called Ryś BlueLink, with which wireless control pads from Microsoft (X Box One), Sony (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3) and Nintendo (Joy-Con) can be used with an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200. Ryś BlueLink has an O...

Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.2 (25. Apr. 2025)
The relatively new "Quite OK Audio Format" (QOA) is a lossy audio compression format: audio signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded at 278 kbits/s, exactly 1/5 of the bits required for an uncompressed WAV file (amiga-news.de reported). Grzegorz Kraszews...

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...

Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.3 (24. Apr. 2025)
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga discs and disc images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP). Version 2.3 now offers an 'Options' dialogue and, according to the aut...

Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8 (23. Apr. 2025)
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This support is ...