05.Sep.2025
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Web browser: NetSurf developer version 3.12, build 6872 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
In mid-July, Artur Jarosik released version 3.11 of his Amiga port of the NetSurf web browser. His implementation uses SDL, with only the default settings being MUI-based. In contrast, Chris Young's NetSurf version is ReAction-based. With the release today of developer version 6872 of version 3.12 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4, Chris Young has completed his work on a series of bug fixes for the time being, which significantly enhance the AmigaOS 3 version in particular.
This should fix most of the image errors in the OS3 version for 16/24-bit screens and improve image processing in general. Colours have also been corrected and alpha blending added in 8-bit mode (and for JPEGs).
According to our initial test (Amiga 1200 with PiStorm-lite), the version runs very stably and relatively quickly, even if it does not quite match the performance of IBrowse. In the test, working on a 16-bit Workbench screen felt faster than on an 8-bit screen. Colours and backgrounds are displayed correctly. Scrolling has also been improved, although unlike the OS4 version, it is not possible to move the window content continuously. (dr)
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05.Sep.2025
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Immortal Joystick V2: Pre-order of Flight Stick and Self-Build kit
While version 2 of the Immortal Joystick, as reported, can still be pre-ordered (delivery date still to be confirmed), the shop also has two new offers:
At around 127 Euro, the Self-Build Kit is approximately 35 Euro cheaper than the pre-assembled version. The package contains all the parts required to build the joystick, as well as step-by-step assembly instructions and a link to an assembly video. Assembly involves soldering a circuit board to the back of the button connectors.
Another new addition to the range is the Flight-Stick Mini, which is also available for 127 Euro. It is designed for those who previously preferred joysticks such as the Quickshot. The photos on the website show the current prototype, which is still undergoing some improvements. (dr)
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05.Sep.2025
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Graphic Designer 0.6k (beta demo 1)
In mid-July, we reported on an early version of Graphic Designer: a graphics programme that allows users to design images by combining elements in up to twelve layers, which can then be saved as IFF image files (or ongoing projects).
These permanently freely placeable elements can be images, brushes, text or image overlays and brush stamps. However, all image elements must already use the same palette; an automatic adjustment is not planned. The first beta version is now available, featuring the following changes compared to the alpha version:
- Palette Editor added.
- Light/Dark features added to palette editor.
- Layer Down fixed. Resize Brush H/V. Splash screen.
- Added colour cycling. Palette editor size fix.
- Scripting started. Save Project started. Transitions box.
- Cycles moved to new box. Script working.
- More work on Cycles box, seems done.
- Text layers added. Move Text, and Text 2 Brush working.
- Development of text entry box, 50% done.
- Added shadow and outline to text box. Fixed button bugs.
- Text box done. Typer effect for text in preview mode.
- Bug fix pic load. Text Layer Move Up working.
- Text Layer move Down working.
- Bug Fix. Save Brush. Screen Modes Started.
- Text Effects box. Default Palette Path edit box.
- Experiments running the tool on WB screen, 1280 x 512.
- Added Sys Info and Layer Info, and Screen to Back.
- Clip region, preview clip, and paste clip working.
- Debug clip brush, and layer select buttons.
- Pick backdrop colour added, timer debugger.
- Save buffer as 16 colour icon added. Line draw test.
- Line Draw Paint mode working. App Font menu item.
- Box Draw Paint tool added. Save clip buffer as IFF.
- Filled Box and Flood Fill added. Draw colours working.
- Doc experiment. Circle and filled working.
- Experiments with HAM mode. Layer pick fixes.
- Paint mode coordinates editor started.
- Rhomboid paint mode and single dot. Redrew paint icons.
- Oval and Triangle paint. Coords Editor 30% done.
- Coords editor now 65% done.
(dr)
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05.Sep.2025
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Accelerator board: PiStorm68K
Since the beginning of this year, we have been reporting on Ranko Rodic's turbo card project "PiStorm68K" (video): a special edition of the PiStorm turbo card which, unlike the original, can accommodate a Raspberry Pi as a 68000 CPU emulator as well as a physical Motorola -68000 CPU (neither included), allowing users to switch between emulated and real CPU operation with a convenient physical switch. He is now offering the first ten units (currently eight still available) for the equivalent of around 81 Euro in his shop. Key features:
- Dual CPU Capability: Effortlessly toggle between a Raspberry Pi-powered 68000 CPU emulator and a genuine Motorola 68000 CPU using an onboard physical switch, providing maximum compatibility and versatility.
- Premium 6-Layer PCB with ENIG Gold Immersion: Crafted with a high-quality 6-layer printed circuit board featuring Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold (ENIG) for superior conductivity, durability, and corrosion resistance.
- Enhanced Power Management: Equipped with a resettable fuse and improved decoupling for stable and reliable power delivery, ensuring optimal performance under demanding workloads.
- LED Indicators: Monitor power status at a glance with dedicated LED indicators for +5V, +3.3V, and +1.8V (when required), simplifying troubleshooting and system diagnostics.
- Optimized Design for Larger Raspberry Pi Boards: The board’s thoughtful layout ensures easy connectivity for larger Raspberry Pi models, with connectors positioned to avoid interference and streamline installation.
- Iconic AmiCube Aesthetics: Showcasing the signature AmiCube design, the PiStorm68K combines functionality with a visually striking look that complements retro systems like the Minimig.
- Open-Source Commitment: The PiStorm68K is an open-source project, with Gerber files to be released soon, empowering the community to build and customize their own boards.
As the developer writes, the PiStorm68K has not yet been tested with the Amiga 500 or Amiga 2000, but only with the Minimig. (dr)
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05.Sep.2025
Ron's Computer Videos
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Video: Interview with Lauren Elliott (Brøderbund)
The YouTube channel "Ron's Computer Videos" conducted an interview with former American video game designer Lauren Elliott. During his time at the American software company Brøderbund, he was also responsible for the Amiga games Wings of Fury, Prince of Persia and Myst (dr)
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04.Sep.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Amiga Public Domain Disks preserved
This time, "Games that weren't" has not preserved a game believed to be lost for posterity, but rather nine previously unknown PD disks containing music demos and PD catalogues. (cg)
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04.Sep.2025
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.54 for Bluetooth adaptor BlueLink
The firmware for the BlueLink Bluetooth adapter from 7-bit has been updated. Version 0.54 offers the following new features:
- experimental support for CD32 pad emulation
- WiFi configuration reset function from the device menu
- Fixed: Problem with "escaping" mouse pointer for Microsoft Bluetooth Ergonomic Mouse
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03.Sep.2025
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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News from Alinea Computer: Langley 1200 multifunctional adapter
Press release: "No sooner said than done, we fired up our layout programme and programming environment for you and ended up with a small but fine piece of hardware called Langley. In response to many customer requests, we managed to build a Kickstart switch that switches directly via the keyboard and does so at runtime: We are pleased to present the new multifunctional hardware Langley 1200.
The current main function of the adapter is to switch the 4 banks (Kickstarts) on the two KickRom flash modules of the Amiga 1200 with the help of the keyboard. For this, however, the switch package for the Amiga 1200 with two cables and two connection adapters is also required, which was also used with the previous switches.
The special thing about switching via the Langley is that the Amiga does not have to be switched off for this, as was the case with earlier solutions. After the switchover, only a reset has to be carried out and another Kickstart is loaded.
In addition, the Langley can record and play back inputs via the keyboard (macro function). Up to 10 different input sequences can be saved and played back.
Further interesting functions are being planned and can be implemented by updating the firmware. These include keyboard adapter functionalities and also the control of LED lighting and much more.
The hardware is simply installed on the CIA chip of the Amiga 1200 and is also compatible with the Indivision MK3 from iComp.
Further Langley variants for the Amiga 600 and 500 are already being planned and will have the same or at least similar functions.
The Langley 1200 adapter can be ordered from the online shop for 29.95 euros without the switch package. With the switch package, the package costs 34.95 euros." (snx)
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03.Sep.2025
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Open source A4091 software package: Version 42.34
For ReA4091, the open source replica of Commodore's Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, a software package is available, which is also open source and includes AmigaOS drivers, a ROM image, a test program and software for debugging the driver.
The update to version 42.34 fixes a bug in device detection. (snx)
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03.Sep.2025
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AROS: Month in review, August 2025
In his blog at the title link, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month. (snx)
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03.Sep.2025
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Video: Every Commodore Amiga Model Ever Made
At the title link Chris Edwards presents in a one-hour video the following Amiga models:
- 0:00 Amiga 1000 (July 1985)
- 6:15 Amiga 500 (Jan 1987)
- 10:25 Amiga 500 Plus (1992)
- 12:03 Amiga 2000 (March 1987)
- 15:09 Amiga 3000 (June 1990)
- 19:23 Amiga 3000 UX (June 1990)
- 23:04 Commodore CDTV (March 1991)
- 29:00 Amiga 3000 Tower (October 1991)
- 34:04 Amiga 600 (March 1992)
- 37:40 Amiga 1200 (October 1992)
- 41:48 Amiga 4000 (October 1992 040 April 1993 CR030)
- 43:49 Amiga 4000 Tower (Escom/QuikPak April 1997)
- 51:24 Elbox Mediator Power Tower 4000 (1993-present)
- 55:19 Amiga CD32 (September 1993)
(snx)
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02.Sep.2025
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DIY: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32, version 1.9
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS or via USB-C with Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files.
Since version 1.6, the Amiga1200, Amiga 3000, and 4000 models, as well as the Amiga 4000CR and Amiga 3000T, are supported.
The recently published version 1.9 offers the following changes:
Kicksmash FW
- Added support for M29F160TB
- When the Amiga is off, SOCKET_OE is now driven high by firmware. This should reduce the amount of backpower provided to a powered off Amiga
- When the Amiga is off, prom access will now fail rather than be attempted "Amiga is not powered on" will be reported. This will help people understand the cause of hostsmash failing to program a powered off Amiga.
- Added new config "board_rev"
- Fixed message buffer bug where large transfers might be partially re-sent.
- Fixes smashfs and smashftp bug when the Amiga sends a file > 2KB in size
- Added "prom log full" and "prom log stats" options
- Added support for MX29F800Cx, MX29LV160Cx, and M29W160Ex
- More work is still required for MX29F800Cx support
- Write fails at 0x154 wrote=040041f9 read=00f000f0
- snoop of Amiga ROM accesses should now work better over USB connection
- Added "what" command to re-display recent output
- Fixed BIGROM support for A4000T by disabling pull down on address pin
ROM Switcher
- Fixed MED "aconfig" command to handle Z3 board configured in Z2 space
- Added MED "what" command to MED command line
- Added debug command line on exception and unexpected interrupt
- Added 68k disassembler to MED command line ("dis" command)
- Changed blitter init to hopefully be more resilient to odd register state
- Serial input is now interrupt-driven
- Added register display and stack dump on unexpected interrupt or hang detection
- Added CPU cache initialization and enable. This will hopefully resolve the occasional cold poweron bug that I've been tracking. First 16 MB of RAM will not be cached for 040+. 68030 has data cache off.
- Made minor changes to Amiga chipset init to improve startup reliability.
- Added MED "cpu" command with fault injection, CPU identify, and CACR control
- Removed FLASH_RP from pin tests, since it's no longer connected on Rev8 boards
- Improved spurious interrupt handling and reporting
- Improved handling of ECLK tick failure
- Dump on unexpected interrupt is now less likely to cause VBlank timeout
- Rearranged MED "cpu fault" and "cpu reg" commands
- Added several processor-specific registers to "cpu reg" command
- Early init is now protected from unexpected interrupt
- Fixed command history bug where line was not being redisplayed correctly
- Screen DIWSTOP fix so that vertical scan stops at a reasonable position
- Interrupt register display code now reports the vector name
- Added support for 68030 "cpu reg tt0" and "cpu reg tt1"
- Moved ROM version string near the beginning of the file and added $VER string
- Power LED now goes bright during early initialization
hostsmash
- Fixed '--clock set' to get and report the correct time on Windows
- The issue was that the Windows code was not computing the UTC offset.
- Added Windows command line editing keystroke support for term mode
- Fixed smashfs/smashftp bug on Windows where binary files failed to transfer
- Fixed bug where app service state would time out on large file transfers
- Improved error recovery in some failure cases (still needs more improvement)
- Fixed bug where length (-l) is ignored when merging ROM files: Closes #31
smashfs
- Fixed bug where copy from write-protected file could fail
- FINDINPUT and FINDUPDATE now try open a second time with only read permission
smash
- Added support for MX29F800Cx, MX29LV160Cx, and M29W160Ex
- Added support for compatible flash parts
- Eliminated debug "Cleariog atou" message
PCBs
- KicksmashAPCI added
- Kicksmash4KCR updated to Rev8
Documentation
- Minor fixes for address range of 512 KB extension ROM area
(nba)
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02.Sep.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" - August 2025
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has published another monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4. Among other things, he reports on the latest software announcements and new products, as well as updates, including The Settlers 2 Gold Edition, Starfall Defenders, Janggi, RNOSoundboard, AmiArcadia, Rave, RetroArch, and ShaderNova. (nba)
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02.Sep.2025
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News from July/August 2025
- Old articles from Génération 4 48 to 53: News: Les 4 D'Or FNAC/Génération 4 1992, Interview with Brett Sperry, Review of Superhero, News: Street Fighter 2 pre-release, Review of Legends of Valour, Review of Tearaway Thomas, Interview with Ian Hetherington, Interview with Joel Billings, File: Les manettes de jeu (1992), Report: ECTS Automne 1992, Review of Gobliins 2, etc.
- Interview with Steffen Häuser (Amiga developer)
- Interview with Jon St. John (voice actor, voice of Duke Nukem)
- Hardware: A1200BG (update)
- Hardware: SATA PCI Hard Card
- Hardware: RAMesses
- DIY: Extracting Amiga components, put down that screwdriver!
- DIY: AmigaOne XE - part 3, PCI bus hardware interrupts
- DIY: AmigaOne XE - part 4, with a new core
- DIY: Controlling HippoPlayer with a remote control
- Articles from floppy disk magazine ZINE #3 (February 1990)
- File: History of the development of Vroom
- File: Working with Andy Warhol, Jeff Bruette's memories
- File: History of the development of PixelMachine
- File: Amiga Corporation products for the Atari 2600 (update)
- Tutorial: Tips and tricks for ClassicWB
- Programming: asl.library and GFA Basic
- Programming: Assembler - Display sprites and BOBs on Amiga OCS and AGA
- Special quiz about the names of Amiga games
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01.Sep.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib v0.10.4 for Windows, Linux and macOS (update)
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). The library is currently being developed under the responsibility of Tomasz Wolak. Changes in version 0.10.3:
- unadf on Windows: fix extracting binary files
Update: (03.09.2025, 22:11, dr)
Meanwhile version 0.10.4 has been released. Changes:
- unadf on Windows: fix extracting binary files with -p (pipe)
- make all operations on entries with too long filenames fail (instead of truncating the name)
- dump device: fail opening if writing not possible (instead of silently opening read-only)
- command-line tools: add showing build and runtime versions of the lib
- added and updated tests (ie. for the bug and the changes mentioned above)
(dr)
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01.Sep.2025
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Do it yourself: Ripple IDE update, revision A5
Matt 'LIV2' Harlum's Ripple IDE is an IDE interface for Zorro II based Amiga models (Amiga 2000/3000/4000; amiga-news.de reported). Revision A5 fixes up the R10/R11 silkscreen which had been inadvertently swapped at Rev_A3. (dr)
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01.Sep.2025
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Platformer: Krogharr Beer Glass Set (Limited Edition)
The platform game Krogharr was released at the end of June (amiga-news.de reported). For collectors, the online shop poly.play is now offering a beer glass set for 25 Euro (plus shipping), which contains the following:
- 1 x Beer glass with handle (beer mug/beer stein)
- With Krogharr logo engraving
- Height: 130 mm
- Diameter: 73 mm
- Total capacity: 0.36 l
- Capacity up to calibration mark: 0.3 l
- 10 x beer coasters (2 types)
- 5 x Krogharr Amiga diskette
- 5 x Krogharr CD32 CD-ROM
(dr)
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01.Sep.2025
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Arcade adventure: First demo version of "The Gate"
About two years ago, we presented Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's game "The Gate", written entirely in AMOS Professional, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts (video). Now he has released a first demo version, which should offer about 1.5 hours of gaming fun.
In "The Gate", you take on the role of private detective Kal, who must solve the disappearance of a scientist at a research facility. The author tested the game under AmigaOS 3.1 and 2 MB of Fast RAM.
(dr)
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31.Aug.2025
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Aminet uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to Aminet:
North.lha dev/blitz 352K OS3 A game template for Ami...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
Warp3D-AllocPch.lha driver/vid 11K OS3 Fix Warp3D Texture Allo...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine...
RNOSoundboard.lha mus/play 10M MOS Soundboard application
RNOSoundboard_AROS.lha mus/play 10M ARO Soundboard application
RNOSoundboard_OS4.lha mus/play 11M OS4 Soundboard application
u64SidPlayer.lha mus/play 61K OS3 Ultimate64 / II+ SID Pl...
ASE2019_2.1.lha text/edit 209K OS3 Text editor
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 71K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
IdentifyPci.lha util/libs 176K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 106K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
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31.Aug.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 2Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
rnosoundboard.lha aud/pla 11Mb 4.1 Soundboard application
sndfile.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Library for reading/writing vari...
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
retroarch.lha emu/gam 293Mb 4.1 a modular Emulation System
sdl3.lha lib/mis 10Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 3
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31.Aug.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to AROS Archives:
rnosoundboard.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 10Mb Soundboard application
tiltnroll.x86_64-aros-v11... gam/act 2Mb OpenGL and SDL ball-rolling game
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31.Aug.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.08.2025
The following files have been added until 30.08.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOSoundboard_1.0.lha Audio/Players Soundboard application
Caveman_1.03.lha Games/Misc Adaptation of Caveman g...
Foundation-patch.lha Games/Patch A patch that fixes some...
Block-puzzle_1.0.lha Games/Tetris Block-puzzle_1.0.lha
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31.Aug.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.08.2025
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 30.08.2025:
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31.Aug.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Amiga40: Voting for the Community Award / Presentation of the Mirari Board
Following last month's Geit@Home meeting, the Mirari Board will be presented to a wider audience for the first time at Amiga40 in Mönchengladbach. It will be on display at the MorphOS booth by developers Dave 'Skateman' Koelman and Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning.
Meanwhile, voting for the Community Award has begun and will continue until September 30 in four categories (hardware, software, games, miscellaneous). Registration is required to participate. (snx)
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31.Aug.2025
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AmigaOS 4: ShaderNova 1.1 for post-processing effects
ShaderNova uses the Warp3D Nova library (version 54.16) for AmigaOS 4 to mirror content from other windows and render it using fragment shaders. The source window must not be obscured, though. If running on its own screen, ShaderNova can also be used in full-screen mode. Normal keyboard and mouse events are passed through to the original window. (snx)
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31.Aug.2025
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Beta version 6 of the SDK-Explorer
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's SDK-Explorer is used to display the documentation included in the MorphOS developer package. However, the beta version 6 now available does not yet have the ability to display also the source code from the SDK (or third-party documents). Minor issues still to be resolved include the search function's case sensitivity and the consistent display of document titles in bold.
Download: SDK-Explorer_1.0-beta6.lha (2 MB) (snx)
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31.Aug.2025
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Blog: Epsilon's World on installing a magnetic tape and ZIP drive in the A4000T
In his latest blog entry, 'Epsilon' describes the successful installation of a magnetic tape drive in his Amiga 4000T. A ZIP drive is also installed. (snx)
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31.Aug.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AI image generator: AmiDream 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiDream uses the Stable Diffusion language model to generate images from text descriptions. The program is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
The update fixes bugs and introduces a randomly generated image every day, including a list of random images from previous days, as this seems to be the most used feature according to the author and can therefore be loaded faster for everyone now. (snx)
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30.Aug.2025
Marcin Spoczynski (E-Mail)
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Remote control of an Ultimate 64: u64SidPlayer and u64ctl
Marcin Spoczynski has released two tools, u64SidPlayer and u64ctl, which allow an Amiga to control the FPGA-based C64 and 1541 clones Ultimate 64 and Ultimate II via a home network.
u64SidPlayer is a dedicated SID music player with full playlist management, HVSC song database integration, multi-subsong navigation and dual-SID detection. It features a MUI interface, search/filter capabilities, shuffle/repeat modes, and automatic song length database downloads from HVSC servers.
u64ctl is a Ultimate64/Ultimate-II control suite including a CLI tool for scripting, a MUI graphical interface and a developer library. It provides remote control for disk image mounting (D64/G64/D71/G71/D81), PRG/CRT loading, memory read/write, machine control (reset/reboot/power), keyboard input, and basic SID/MOD playback. (cg)
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30.Aug.2025
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: modular multi-plattform emulator "RetroArch"
Steffen Häuser writes: After a long development period, the modular emulator system RetroArch for AmigaOS 4 was released today on os4depot. Unlike single emulators, RetroArch has the advantage that it is easier to implement/port a 'core' and that you don't have to implement things like video refresh, sound and gamepad support from scratch every time, because the main executable already does that – and is highly optimised. And the end user gets a common GUI for all emulations.
A large number of cores are already available.
Versions for WarpOS, MorphOS and 68k (and possibly AROS x86 in the future; the AROS version's GUI is already running, but the cores are not yet) are still in development (donors via PayPal to tirionareonwe@gmail.com can already receive the beta for WOS/MOS/68k). MorphOS and WarpOS versions will probably be the next to be released, but it is not yet known exactly how long this will take. (cg)
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30.Aug.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.8
Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka has released version 1.8 of his audio editor "Rave". To load and save audio files, the programme now uses the Linux library libsndfile, which was recently ported to an AmigaOS shared library by Jedlicka himself and was also released today. The changes in Rave 1.8 in detail:
- The program now uses sndfile.library (needs to be installed in LIBS:) for
sample loading and saving, instead of a custom module.
- Added support for Microsoft ADPCM compression in the loader and saver code.
- New function in the Edit menu: "Set selection", which allows making precise
selections based on user input or pre-defined ranges.
- The item "Extend selection" in the Edit menu has been renamed to "Modify
selection", and its submenu contains two new commands, "Halve" and "Double".
- Fixed the "Create new drawer" function in the file requester, which would
cause a lockup if the "Enter created drawer" option was selected.
- Fixed a small bug introduced in V1.7 which would leave certain menu commands
available even if no sample was loaded.
- Across all program components, reworked memory allocations to make them more
consistent and less error-prone.
- When loading the list of recently opened files, Rave now checks the list and
removes all items that are no longer available.
- In the file requester, the file name gadget wouldn't accept more than 127
characters; the limit has been increased to MAX_DOS_NAME (255 characters) to
support long file names in modern filesystems.
- Various other smaller improvements and fixes.
- Updated documentation.
(cg)
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