08.Oct.2025
Amigasystem (forum)
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Manual for installing AROS One using VMware now also in Spanish and German
The manual for installing AROS One 1.1 64-bit on VMware, which has been previously published in Italian and Eglish is now also available in Spanish and German. (snx)
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08.Oct.2025
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Workbench replacement for Kickstart 1.3: Old Blue Workbench
With "Old Blue Workbench" Mats Eirik Hansen has written a Workbench replacement for Kickstart 1.3 that offers, among other things, improved menus similar to Workbench 2.0. There are also "browser windows" with the file path, as well as docks and default icons. (snx)
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08.Oct.2025
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Adventure: Geo's Quest - "There Be Cows"
The announced sequel "There Be Cows" to Paul Golian's graphic adventure "Geo's Quest" is now available. The final chapter is dedicated to the time after Escom, i.e. Gateway and beyond - new characters thus include Boss Cow Waitt, Bill Morphdog Buck and his Genesi gang, McEwen & Moss and many more.
To conclude his six years of work, the author has announced that he will make all three games (with appropriate compromises) run on 1 MB Amigas and adapt the graphics of Geo's Quest 2: "In Search of Queen Lorraine" to the level of those in the two following parts. The corresponding version, "GQ2 Enhanced", is scheduled for release at the end of the year. (snx)
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08.Oct.2025
English Amiga Board (Thomas Richter)
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RTG driver: P96 3.6.1
The Amiga RTG system P96 has received a minor update. It includes the drivers that have been released on Aminet in the meantime and also fixes a bug in rtg.library that affected the filling of rectangles in YUV422 modes.
Delivery to existing customers continues to be made by e-mail. (snx)
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08.Oct.2025
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Beta versions: ScummVM update for WarpOS & AmigaOS 4, RetroArch for AROS/64 Bit
Steffen Häuser's current beta versions of his ScummVM and RetroArch ports are available to interested parties for testing, as usual, by donating to his PayPal account tirionareonwe@gmail.com. He writes (translation):
"I recently created a few new things:
- A ScummVM 3.0.0git (i.e., latest GitHub status) for AmigaOS 4 (currently only software rendering, no 3DHW) and one for WarpOS on the same version (also without 3DHW)
- A port of RetroArch for 64-bit AROS (not all cores recompiled yet, but quite a few of them); whether there will also be a port for 32-bit AROS later depends a little on whether 32-bit AROS is of any interest to AROS users at all (I was told that 64-bit is more interesting, so I did that first).
- I'll see if I can get ScummVM recompiled on AROS, but no guarantees. For the AmigaOS 4 version, I definitely want to see if it still works with 3DHW.
These are all still beta versions, so no releases yet.
Oh yes – I ran RetroArch cores with high CPU requirements in a comparison test 'AmigaOne x5000 vs. AROS/64-bit'. The x5000 ran at about the same level as it did on an i5 with AROS/64 Bit. The sound was a little 'cleaner' on the Sega x32 on the AmigaOne (no interference; there was slight interference with AROS, but faster cores ran without interference), but the pure fps on the i5 were minimally higher." (snx)
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07.Oct.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Path of the Little Dragon
Games That Weren't features Path of the Little Dragon, a previously unknown beat 'em up project from Imagitec dating back to 1988/89. The game was supposed to be released on the Amiga 500 and used dual playfields, parallax scrolling, and hardware sprites to tell a story of combat in ancient China.
Developer Che Guevara John, who was responsible for code and design, planned a mixture of Far Eastern mythology and arcade action before the project was shelved. Thanks to rediscovered floppy disks, a playable prototype has now been restored, providing insights into the ambitious but unfinished game. (nba)
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07.Oct.2025
68000
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New Shell tool: ShowProc 37.1 for AmigaOS
ShowProc is a new command line tool for AmigaOS that displays information about all active Shell and CLI processes. The application is intended as a modern replacement for the status command contained in the SYS:C system folder.
The first published version 37.1 displays information in a table for improved readability, supports wildcards to be used when using the COMMAND keyword to search for a process, and provides additional details such as the amount of stack currently in use, the FAILAT level and the return code of the last program executed.
ShowProc requires a Shell/CLI with a width of 80 characters to display the full information. The tool runs on AmigaOS 2.04 and above and has also been tested with the current version 3.2.3.
The source code for ShowProc, written in SAS/C 6.5, is available on the GitHub page.
Download: ShowProc37.1.lha (9,48 KB) (nba)
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07.Oct.2025
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Video: High-density disk drives in the Amiga and how they work
The new YouTube tech video "Commodore vs. Clone: High Density Floppy Drive Showdown" by RobSmithDev compares how Commodore implemented high-density floppy support in the Amiga and how a third-party manufacturer achieved the same goal in its drive in a completely different way.
This video clearly shows the technical "hack" Commodore used to make HD floppy disks readable and explains the differences in signal processing and hardware logic between the two approaches. It also outlines how data is fundamentally encoded and stored on floppy disks. (nba)
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06.Oct.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.58
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.10.1, which allows the development of games from various genres. RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
The new version 0.9.58 provides many fixes and improvements (video):
- When two Play Animation triggers are used simultaneously if the first one is
non-interruptible the second one will be ignored.
- Changed internal code to make internal usage of memory less prone to
fragmentation and to run out of memory.
- Importing and exporting maps in Tiled format now allows to add an offset to
the tile number.
- Tiled exporting now exports the map size and tile size.
- Change tile and Change last tile collided now have an extra parameter that
allows to set the tile or add a value to the affected tile.
- Added some improvements when loading and saving files.
- When adding frames to a spritesheet the frame offsets were the old ones, this
has been fixed.
- Fix for collision box visualization when using the FX layer.
- Fix for FX layer being cleared when using Change Tiles trigger.
- Improvements when copy&pasting projects.
- Refactoring in the code that handles enemies vs enemies collisions.
- Improved formula for memory calculation in Mem Info.
- Collision box visualization in the editor has been optimized.
- Optimization and extra checks in level tiles handling.
- Contains Tile Tag and Change Tile Area trigger optimization.
- Absolute Zero loading image is fixed.
- Fixes in Astro example project.
- Fixes to the UIBars example project.
- Fix for trigger comments not being memory safe.
(dr)
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06.Oct.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: The Blues Brothers - Jukebox Adventure
In 1991, the platform game The Blues Brothers was also released for the Amiga. As reported on the website "Games That Weren't", Joystick magazine published a full review of the sequel, "The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure", in 1994, but the game was never released for the Amiga.
Denis Lechevalier has now provided the website with an extremely rare preview of the game. According to Lechevalier, he found a copy in a set of floppy disks on eBay. Titus had released it in an extremely limited edition and sent it to magazines at the time. This means that some levels are available to play, as well as some music. (dr)
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06.Oct.2025
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Editor: MUI-Vim v9.1.1840 for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS (2nd update)
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features.
Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported version 9.1.1831 of VIM and released it for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. The AmigaOS 4 version was created with Newlib instead of Clib2 for performance reasons. In general, the srand() and rand() functions have been improved.
Update: (02:57, 08.10.25, dr)
Version 9.1.1834 is now available, which fixes the broken VIM: path.
2. Update: (06:17, 09.10.25, dr)
Version 9.1.1840 fixes the broken translation path.
Downloads:
Vim_9.1-ppc-amigaos.lha (16,5 MB)
Vim_9.1-PPC-morphos.lha (16,2 MB)
Vim_9.1-i386-aros.lha (15,6 MB)
Vim_9.1-x86_64-aros.lha (15,7 MB) (dr)
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06.Oct.2025
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Programming: Assembler development environment ASMotor 1.3.3
ASMotor is a portable and generic assembler engine and development system, consisting of a number of ISA specific assemblers, the librarian and the linker. The package can be used as either a cross or native development system.
Output formats include Amiga linker objects and Amiga executables (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.3.3 has now been released with the following changes:
Assembler
- Improved error message sort order.
- Allow BANK with scope symbols.
- Out of range constants will no longer early fail assembly.
- Fixed dependency file might end up with date later than main output file, causing unnecessary rebuilds with make.
- Improved paths in generated dependency file.
- String interpolation would sometimes fail in rare cases.
- GROUP directive would generate a syntax error.
- BANK is now resolved properly when writing binary file.
- Section size tracking in the assembler is redundant and has been removed. This enables >64 KiB sections with 8-bit processors.
- Fix size of RS structures when last entries have no symbol name.
680x0
- Amiga HUNK_EXT hunk could be written incorrectly in some circumstances.
(dr)
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06.Oct.2025
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Command line audio player: QoaPlay 0.7 (update)
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. Following on from the QoaToAiff decoder (amiga-news.de reported), Grzegorz Kraszewski has now released a player called QoaPlay (source code on Codeberg) for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam 2025.
According to the developer, the following hardware requirements should be met for real-time playback:
- 68030@25 for Stereo 44,1 kHz.
- 68020@25 for Stereo 22,05 kHz oder Mono 44,1 kHz.
- 68020@14 or 68000@33 for Mono 22,05 kHz.
Currently, QoaPlay uses audio.device for 8-bit playback and does not check the maximum sample rate. This can result in distortion, for example, when playing a 44.1 kHz file on an Amiga in PAL mode. Automatic halving of the sample rate will be implemented later. A 16-bit AHI output mode is planned.
Update: (04:33, 08.10.25, dr)
Version 0.7 is now available: QoaPlay now performs the announced automatic halving of the sampling rate if the QOA file has a sampling rate above 27 kHz.eist. (dr)
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05.Oct.2025
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Aminet uploads until 04.10.2025
The following files have been added until 04.10.2025 to Aminet:
Void-Fizzleboot.zip demo/intro 4K OS3 1K bootblock intro
vbcc_bin_amigaos68k.lha dev/c 2.4M OS3 Optimizing ISO C compil...
vbcc_bin_amigaosppc.lha dev/c 2.8M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compil...
vbcc_bin_morphos.lha dev/c 2.7M MOS Optimizing ISO C compil...
IntyBASIC.lha dev/cross 775K MOS BASIC compiler for Inte...
xlink.lha dev/misc 1.0M OS3 Virtual linking of Amig...
daynascsi.lha driver/net 7K OS3 DaynaPORT SCSI Sana-II ...
SwitcherBoy_AGA_1.1.lha game/jump 840K OS3 A clever plataform puzz...
Soltys_patch.lha game/patch 182K OS3 Soltys
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 657K OS3 Amiga port of Duke Nuke...
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 657K OS3 Amiga port of Duke Nuke...
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 387K OS3 Amiga port of Dune 2 (O...
IntyColor.lha gfx/conv 277K VAR Converter from BMP/PNG ...
TMSColor.lha gfx/conv 289K VAR Converter from BMP/PNG ...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 11M MOS Signetics-based machine...
twoserpents.zip mods/crash 1.4M GEN Dark Amen breaks. 6 cha...
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K GEN French catalog for Aval...
Avalanche_SPA.lha util/arc 11K GEN Spanish catalog for Ava...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 4.0M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.7M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.5M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
WebRadio_sbar.lha util/wb 398K MOS A sbar plugin to listen...
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05.Oct.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.10.2025
The following files have been added until 04.10.2025 to OS4Depot:
mediavault.lha aud/mis 4Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations a...
resrc4.lha dev/mis 134kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sdl3.lha lib/mis 10Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 3
litexl2.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 56Mb 4.1 Video and audio converter
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05.Oct.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.10.2025
The following files have been added until 04.10.2025 to AROS Archives:
dosbox.x86_64-aros-v11.zip emu/com 4Mb Dosbox x86_64
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05.Oct.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.10.2025
The following files have been added until 04.10.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
vbcc_0.9h.lha Development/C A highly optimizing por...
Xash3D_1.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Xash3D port
TMSColor-3.2.lha Graphics/Convert Converter from BMP to T...
ReportPlus_8.68.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Lite-XL_2.1.8r2.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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05.Oct.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.10.2025
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 04.10.2025:
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05.Oct.2025
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Still echoing
- R-Type Live Performance
- Paranoimia Cracktro - Super Cars
- Super Cars II - Intro
- Test Drive 2 (Chill Out Edit)
- Apprentice - Story 02 (The Shop)
- Echoing
- Lethal Weapon (Zuviel Hitze)
- Prince Of Persia - Intro
- Heimdall - Introduction
- English Country Garden
- Wings of death - Stage 7 - Xandrilia's Domain
- Weird Dreams Title (2025 Remix)
- Beams Of Light
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05.Oct.2025
Peter Sznapka from Sordan.ie (ANF)
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TS500 & TS1200: New Mechanical Keyboards for Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200
Press release: The Sordan store's offering has been updated with the first batch of 200 units of TS500 mechanical keyboards (designed for the Amiga 500) and TS1200 (for the Amiga 1200).
Online sales will begin after the official launch, which will take place on October 18-19 at the Amiga 40 Germany in Mönchengladbach.
The TS500 and TS1200 keyboards are complete, ready-to-use sets (including keycaps and cable).
They are available in white-grey or black keycaps, with a choice of switches:
- Red switches: Silent, with a smooth, soft feel and no click sound
- Blue switches: Offer a discernible tactile bump and a loud, audible click
The TS500 keyboard is equipped with its own controller. This eliminates the need to transfer the controller from the old keyboard. Additionally, the controller allows the keyboard to be connected to a PC (in USB mode).
The keyboards feature keycaps with legends created using Dye-Sublimation technology. This technique embeds the graphic into the keycap plastic, making the markings exceptionally durable and indelible, unlike the less durable tampography (pad printing).
23 extra keycaps are included with every set, allowing you to configure one of three layouts: US, UK, or DE.
The price for one keyboard is 139.99 Euro + VAT (according to the rate of the destination country).
The Sordan store also plans to introduce the TS600 keyboard for the Amiga 600 to its offer in the near future. (snx)
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05.Oct.2025
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Blog: Working with the Amiga's RAM and RAD disks
In his latest blog entry, Carl Svensson pays tribute to the Amiga's RAM and RAD disk and recalls that the latter was used, for example, for the pinball game Slam Tilt: Since there would be too little RAM left after the Workbench had been fully loaded when starting from the hard disk on an unexpanded Amiga 1200, the latter is avoided by performing a minimalistic restart of the computer. (snx)
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05.Oct.2025
Hoffman
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Video: Demo coder Blueberry talks about the "No-CPU Challenge"
Following enrichment of the demo scene with productions that do not use the main processor (amiga-news.de reported), Ian 'h0ffman' Ford discusses this topic in the video at the title link with demo scene legend Aske Simon 'Blueberry' Christensen. (snx)
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04.Oct.2025
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File transfer via MIDI: AmigaMidiRec
AmigaMidiRec uses any available MIDI adapters and cables to transfer files from modern computers to the Amiga. The transfer speed is limited by the MIDI standard; the author specifies a duration of 15 minutes for the transfer of a 1.6 MB file. Although Workbench 1.3 is supported, the Amiga used must have more RAM than the size of the file to be transferred. The current status of the software is described as "experimental". (cg)
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04.Oct.2025
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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Final version of AROS Vision for UAE
Olaf Schönweiß writes: "I have published the final version of AROS Vision for UAE on my website. AROS Vision is based on AROS 68k and combines AROS components with software from the Amiga world, e.g. applications, GUIs and libraries. In addition, the Wanderer, Magellan and Scalos desktops are integrated. You can switch between them. The integration of common Amiga solutions creates a convenient solution. A selection of the new features and characteristics:
- from AROS: Network, RTG (cybergraphX), USB (Poseidon), MUI (Zune), AHI, Windows outside of the visible screen area, Themeing, XAD/XFD (Packer)
- WHDLoad (aros ROMs preinstalled, works with a lot of Slaves)
- Up-to-date Datatypes (24bit)
- DiskImage Device (mount ADF und ISO images)
- a lot of libraries added
- a lot of filetypes added (show or play them via doubleclick or context menus)
- time syncrhonisation
- IMP3 integrated
- radiostreams (Tunefinder)
- using Hollywood for various features like displaying TEX or PDF
- large number of commodities and tools preinstalled
- tons of online help files simply accessible via ALT-H
- file format specific context menus with many predefined options, like converting between formats
- open or extract archives via a doubleclick
- Wanderer, Magellan and Scalos desktops are included. you can switch between these desktops
- ...and a lot more
This distribution serves as the basis for an Apollo version and a 3.1 ROM-based version. Further details and downloads are available on my website. (cg)
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04.Oct.2025
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Amiga Shell on Windows: Windows Subsystem for Amiga (WSA)
The "Windows Subsystem for Amiga" (WSA) is a Python-based replica of the Amiga Shell that recreates the classic Amiga command line with its commands and keyboard shortcuts on modern computers – under Windows, drive C: can be accessed as DH0:, for example. There is also an implementation for the WWW that can be executed in the browser, but it lags significantly behind the other versions in terms of functionality. (cg)
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04.Oct.2025
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A500 puzzle game: YEET 1.02
In ‘YEET’ (video), the aim is to push runes off the playing field according to certain rules so that only one rune remains on the playing field. There are 50 levels, and the game can be played on any Amiga with Kickstart 1.3 and 512 KB RAM. Two updates have been released in the meantime, which fix the following bugs:
- Version 1.0.1: Fixed a bug that sometimes happen in the Enter Code screen when using a joystick.
- Version 1.0.2:Removed some debug code that caused an issue on A4000.
(cg)
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04.Oct.2025
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.8r2 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. Version 2.1.8.r2 includes various changes to increase working speed, additional plugins have been integrated, and the OpenGL shading language "GLSL" is now supported. (cg)
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04.Oct.2025
HAJ (ANF)
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Interview with cover illustrator Roger Dean (Psygnosis)
Spillhistorie.no has published an interview with illustrator Roger Dean, who has not only designed numerous game covers but is also responsible for the well-known owl logo of publisher Psygnosis. (cg)
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04.Oct.2025
The OASIS BBC
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Video: Trevor Dickinson at Vintage Computer Festival
At the beginning of August, the Vintage Computer Festival West took place in Mountain View, California (USA), where Trevor Dickinson gave a speech on the topic "What is an Amiga in 2025?". A recording of the presentation is now available on YouTube. (cg)
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04.Oct.2025
Darren Coiles (ANF)
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Amiga E compiler: E-VO 3.9.1
"E-VO Amiga E Compiler" is a derivative of the original E-compiler by Wouter van Oortmerssen, adding new features, bug fixes and optimisations. New features in version 3.9.1:
- Fixed issue with TextF function crashing
- Add cheeck for declaring exported variable that references a private object
- Added support for PTR to imported object types in modules
- Fixed issue with BYTE and WORD declarations followed by comma
- Array of char/int/long etc declared in module caused crash
- Array of object declared in module was not allocated the correct amount of stack space
- Added NOPROGRESS command line switch to disable printing of progress line numbers during compilation
- Updated to module format version 16
- Added EVO_3_9_1 define
- FindModule wasn't displaying PTR types correctly in older module versions
- FindModule was showing signed / unsigned types reversed
- FindModule: Add support for PTR to imported object types
- FindModule: updated to more correctly handle private objects and private globals
- ShowModule wasn't displaying PTR types correctly in older module versions
- ShowModule was showing signed / unsigned types reversed
- ShowModule: Add support for PTR to imported object types
- ShowModule: updated to more correctly handle private objects and private globals
- Added version string to FindModule
- Fixed installer script incorrectly removing assigns
- Updated module libraries/cybergraphics.m
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04.Oct.2025
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Amiga IFF to Bitplane converter: iff2bpl 1.0
FF2bpl converts IFF-ILBM images into various formats that are important for programmers or pixel artists:
- Raw bitplane data (.bpl) - Interleaved format for Amiga hardware (default)
- Palette data (.pal) - 16-bit words in Amiga colour register format
- Chunky pixel data (.chk) - 8-bit per pixel chunky format (optional)
- Non-interleaved planar data (.bpf) - All rows of plane 0, then plane 1, etc. (optional)
A pre-compiled binary is available for Windows; users of other operating systems must build the tool themselves from the source code. (cg)
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03.Oct.2025
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vAmigaWeb: Problem with Safari browser v26 resolved
Last Sunday, we reported that problems were occurring when using the Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb with version 26 of the Safari browser. The developers have now been able to locate the problem: it is related to the LinkerFlags used in the vAmigaCore builds.
To resolve the issue, the optimisation level was downgraded to -O2, which maintains a high level of performance while ensuring compatibility with Safari 26.0. An automatic upgrade mechanism has been implemented: when an app is launched and detects that it was built with a version older than 4.3.1 (the first version with -O2), it automatically triggers an update to fix the issue. (dr)
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03.Oct.2025
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SCALA-MM game: Lefty's - Stirred, not solved
Following The Angel of Death, 'Quantum Code Monk' has now released another Scala MM game adaptation as a point-and-click adventure based on Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Police Quest 1, entitled Lefty's - Stirred, not solved. The player takes on the role of police officer Sonny Bonds, who investigates missing persons reports at the notorious Lefty's Bar and uncovers a prostitution ring, leading to a deadly confrontation with his old nemesis Jessie Bains.
AmigaOS 3.x as well as Scala or the Scala Player are required. Also 4 MB RAM and a minimum resolution of 640x256. (dr)
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03.Oct.2025
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Sound tool: FxBox 1.14
The FxBox sound tool for 68k Amigas running AmigaOS 1.3 or higher is a real-time multi-loop processor and editor developed using AMOS BASIC. FxBox imports various file formats, supports AMOS sample banks and allows mono, stereo, quad and 4-channel multitrack editing, which is also possible in real time on accelerated machines (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.14:
- time division for any time signature Edit >> Frame >> Time Division
- metronome and beat left/right updated for time divisions
- "update macros" macro added
- macros and arexx now pass through the direct mode command processor
- added B= command (B=1..256) bank swap
- added M= command (M=1..4) mode swap
- added D= command (D=2..640) set number of divisions
- added R= command (R=1..D) choose division range
- "mixdown multi/stereo", "quad to multi" and "multi to quad" macros added
- dc offset auto scan _DCSCAN and added auto correction for lowpass
- can now play from range to end when range is a single line
- extended fxbox.cfg file
- ntsc screen corruption fixed
- perfect looping now works and also works for range/display play
- added logical shift right for correct 14bit conversion
- improved mouse wheel zoom
- bug fixes
(dr)
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03.Oct.2025
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Mahjong clone: BlitzWays v1.3
In 2020, Sebastian Ivo Hartmann completed "BlitzWays" (video), a Mahjong-inspired puzzle game, after 28 years (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has not only released the source code on GitHub, but also fixed two minor bugs and updated the archives accordingly. (dr)
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02.Oct.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" for September 2025
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has once again published a monthly summary of all events and releases related to AmigaOS 4. (cg)
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02.Oct.2025
Duncan Murray
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Event: Workbench 2025 (25 October, Chipping Sodbury, England)
On 25 October, the annual meeting of the British Southwest Amiga Group (SWAG) will take place at Dodington Parish Hall in Chipping Sodbury, England. Guests will include Stoo Cambridge from Sensible Software, Tony Warriner (Revolution Software), musician Allister Brimble, and David Pleasance from the old and new Commodore. There will also be a Stunt Car Racer tournament and a raffle. Tickets for the event can already be purchased via the SWAG website. (cg)
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02.Oct.2025
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Interactive story as an Amiga guide: "Dark City Detective - Project Fenris"
"Dark City Detective - Project Fenris" is a 30-year-old, unfinished detective story that was developed on the author's Amiga computer at the time. After recently backing up the contents of all his Amiga disks from that period, the unfinished story has been transformed, through various twists and turns and with the help of Claude.ai, into an interactive narrative that can be played in a browser or in the form of an Amiga guide document.
The author points out that he is not a storyteller and that large parts of the story are 30 years old – essentially, he is simply playing around with new technology and has chosen the old story as a suitable test object. (cg)
[News message: 02. Oct. 2025, 22:22] [Comments: 0]
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