25.Apr.2025
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.04.25
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2025.04.25 extends the recently released ZuluSCSI Blaster with Wi-Fi DaynaPORT/SC Ethernet emulation support. (dr)
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25.Apr.2025
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Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.2
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 Kraszewski has written a decoder that converts QOA files into uncompressed AIFF (source code on GitHub). In version 0.2, he has implemented output buffering and the hard disc operations are now faster. (dr)
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24.Apr.2025
deadwood
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First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS
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, Virtualbox or QEMU) are recommended as a test environment for this first release: Audio, video and network drivers have been improved and tested for this use case.
In the coming months, a 64-bit version of the Odyssey Web Browser with a significantly more up-to-date version of the WebKit engine is to be released, and the 'latest Amiga emulation cores' are also to be equipped with a 64-bit JIT and better integrated into the system. AROS distributions based on the now published base system are also already in development.
A corresponding thread has been opened on arosworld.org for discussions about this 64-bit version of AROS. (cg)
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24.Apr.2025
AmigaKit
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Emulator hardware: "A1200 NG" has been shipping to end customers since this week
Amigakit announces that it has started shipping the "A1200 NG" emulator solution after Easter. The company is working on an 'overclocking kit' that will soon be available and should increase computing power by up to 20 per cent. There will also be a port of A-EON's 'AmiStore' app store for A1200NG/A600GS in the summer. (cg)
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24.Apr.2025
GitHub
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.3
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 author, has generally become more user-friendly. (cg)
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24.Apr.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 174 - Preview and reading samples
The reading samples and previews of issue 174 (May/June 2025) of Amiga Future are now online. The issue features the following topics, among others:
- Special: 40 Years Amiga - Part 1: The Amiga 1000 takes the stage
- Interview Jon Bohmer (Scala)
- Interview Oldenburger Computer-Museum.
- Preview Amiga 40 Germany
- Preview ARC 2025
- Review Trapped in the Tomb
- Review Absolute Zero
- Review GemRB RPG Pack
- Review SkillGrid
- Review Yoomp!
- Review Soko-Ban
- Beyond the Screen: The history of Ports of Call,
- Special Asterix on the Amiga,
- Special: Amiga 1000 Rejuvenator
- Workshop: Knowledge 7: 8-way scrolling
- Workshop: A new SSD for your Amiga.
(cg)
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23.Apr.2025
Balaton (Mail)
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Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8
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 provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who clearly summarises the possibilities on a specially created and now redesigned website.
QEMU is now available in version 10.0.0, Windows installers are provided as usual by Stefan Weil.
Version 0.8 of the bootloader "bboot" for loading AmigaOS 4 on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, which was released by Zoltan Balaton about a month ago, requires the options -kernel, -initrd and -append for the amigaone machine, which are now available in QEMU 10.0. This makes it easier to use and is similar to pegasos2. Older bboot versions still require the -device loader options and will not work with -kernel on amigaone. Since the amigaone emulation might have less problems than pegasos2 (and is still available), according to Zoltan Balaton this might be a better choice now.
Finally, the developer has created a new subpage on VFIO device drivers under Linux: VFIO is a device driver that is used to assign virtual machines to devices and thus enable full access to a specific GPU, for example.
As he adds to us, the use of a GPU with VFIO on qemu-system-ppc is currently still experimental and would take some effort to set up. However, some users have managed to achieve usable results: it is therefore possible in principle, even if it is not easy to implement. (dr)
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23.Apr.2025
Amigans.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Beta version of Open Medal of Honor
Open Medal of Honor is a reimplementation of the first-person shooter "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" by Electronic Arts from 2002. The Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions are also supported.
A beta version of the game, which is still in beta itself, is now available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Download information is available at the title link. (snx)
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23.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #27 (Polish/English)
Komoda & Amiga plus is a Polish print and PDF magazine about the C64 and the Amiga, which is also distributed in an English version. The magazine in A4 format comprises 82 pages.
Topics of the current 27th issue include reviews of Fast Food 2, Tale of Evil and Amiga Yoomp, an article on data transfer between Amiga and Macintosh and an interview with Tommi 'Electric' Musturi. (snx)
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23.Apr.2025
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Development tool: vasm 2.0b
Frank Wille has updated vasm, a portable assembler for numerous CPUs with various syntax and output modules. In addition to various bug fixes, the changes include a new CPU backend for the SPC700, which was used in the SuperFamicom and SNES for sound processing, and the new option "-no-msrcdebug"; the latter disables source-level debugging within a macro context. (snx)
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22.Apr.2025
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.7
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 3.7 adds external IRQ/DMA processing and expanded its C compiler support. Maintenance work has also been done for future releases. The software is available free of charge on GitHub, including the source code. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 37
The new issue 37 of British magazine Amiga Addict is dedicated to Team 17's classic game Worms, exploring its origins with creator Andy Davidson and offering exciting insights into the very first pre-release version of the game.
This issue also includes reviews of Absolute Zero, Zool, Super Stardust and Chuck Rock II (CD32), an interview with the developer of DeMoN, a new version of the classic Action Replay, a collection of the best game over screens on the Amiga, and a report on creative DJing with the Amiga using the NASP software.
Issue 37 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsagents. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.30 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.30 since the last news update at a glance:
New modules
- ASPRS LAS
- Black Shade
- CloudCompare Binary v1
- CloudCompare Simple Binary Format
- Heroes of Annihilated Empires
- Invizimals: Battle Hunters
- Loksim3D
- OpenBVE
- Point Cloud Data ASCII
- Point Cloud Data Binary
- PolyNova3D
- Screamer 4x4
- Skoki Narciarskie 2006
- Skunks
Upgraded modules
New general features
- Scale to fit
- Texture converters
New AmigaOS features
- Batch converter
- Geometry transformation
- Set the default texture file extension in the material table
- Texture converters
(nba)
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22.Apr.2025
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Worth a read: Why computers were more fun before
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 fun before they became accessible to everyone. He argues that the complexity of the technology at the time and the need to engage intensively with it fostered a deeper connection and greater understanding of the devices.
The article highlights how the simplification and commercialisation of technology have led to many users today having only superficial knowledge and losing their former enthusiasm for discovering and understanding technology.
A worthwhile read for anyone interested in the history of computer use and cultural changes in the digital world. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
Spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Spillhistorie: Interview with the creators of Roguecraft
In an interview with Spillhistorie.no, Norwegian developer duo Badger Punch Games provided exciting insights into the creation of their award-winning Amiga game Roguecraft. The two developers, Ricki Sickenger and Henning Ludvigsen, met in the demo scene in the 1990s and later worked together on the MMORPG Darkfall Online. With Roguecraft, they have successfully returned to the roots of retro gaming.
They report on the positive response to Roguecraft, which recently won the award for best retro game at the Debug Indie Game Awards in Brighton, England. They also provide an outlook on future projects, including possible ports of Roguecraft to platforms such as Sega Mega Drive, NES and modern systems such as Steam and Nintendo Switch. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
Indie Retro News
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Dungeon Crawler: Sir Redford Knights Adventure currently in development
Sir Redford Knights Adventure is an upcoming dungeon crawling game for the Amiga, developed by Juen, Koyot1222 and JMD. The game won first place in the RAM#3 competition and already offers a playable demo with five randomly generated levels. Expansions with additional items and statistics are planned. The game will run on a standard Amiga 500, and a video provides a first glimpse of the gameplay. (nba)
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21.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Results of the Revision 2025
This year's edition of the Revision demo party took place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are:
Amiga Intro
Amiga Demo
In addition, there were also two Amiga entries in the "Game" category: "Billionaires in Space" by FiNitY and Zymosis (video) took 7th place (download link), "Noisy Rabbit" by Robert Smith - which we already reported on today - took 8th place. (dr)
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21.Apr.2025
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Easter game: Noisy Rabbit
After 2023 with "Hop to the Top!" and 2024 with "Bunnys Boing Ball Bounty", Robert Smith has also released an Easter game this year: in "Noisy Rabbit" (video), you have to collect large and small eggs in Pacman style. However, these are difficult to recognise as they are drawn in black and white, just like the playing field. The source code is included. (dr)
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20.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 19.04.2025
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 comm/net 246K OS3 get https files for the...
fd2pragma-mos.lha dev/misc 339K VAR V2.198 create pragma, i...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
Amifish_AROS.lha game/board 3.6M ARO Chess program UCI compa...
Amifish_MorphOS.lha game/board 3.5M MOS Chess program UCI compa...
Amifish_OS4.lha game/board 3.8M OS4 Chess program UCI compa...
SysBlaster.lha game/shoot 18K OS3 (S)VGA promotable Shoot...
PolarPaint_68k.lha gfx/edit 2.0M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.5M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_68k.lha gfx/edit 1.8M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.0M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.0M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.3M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M WUP Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.3M WUP Paint program made with...
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
Sacrifice.lha mods/8voic 400K GEN 16bit 16ch Up-Tempo Amb...
imp3.lha mus/play 50K OS3 Do stuff on Amiga!
MisterMartin.zip text/tfont 146K GEN Mister Martin - Truetyp...
aiostreams.lha util/batch 229K GEN Stream video from major...
gicriptofilex.lha util/crypt 131K OS3 Encrypt files using 128...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 4.0M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.6M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.5M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
containers.lha util/libs 24K OS3 Provides containers + r...
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
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
amifish.lha gam/boa 4Mb 4.0 Chess program compatible with UC...
baccarat.lha gam/car 7Mb 4.0 A card game from Dr. No and Casi...
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 3Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
polarpaint_small.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.0 Paint program made with Hollywood
amissl.lha lib/mis 4Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
deark.lha uti/arc 7Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 229kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
yt.lha vid/mis 873kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
metemp3_v1.5.i386-aros.zip aud/pla 601kb a Mp3,Flac,Wav Player
amifish.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 4Mb Chess program compatible with UC...
baccarat.lha gam/car 7Mb A card game from Dr. No and Casi...
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
polarpaint_small_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
kensv4_program_drawer.zip gra/ico 299kb application and drawer icon kens...
arsfsdoctor11.i386-aros.zip uti/fil 415kb SFS Recovery Application
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20.Apr.2025
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Database: Amigamap.com now also catalogs A600GS and THEA500 Mini
On Amigamap.com, Mario Wilkens catalogs all Amiga systems still in use, including MorphOS and AROS (amiga-news.de reported). At the suggestion of Michael Rupp, owners of a THEA500 Mini or an A600GS can now also register their device there. (snx)
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19.Apr.2025
Oliver Achten / Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Announcement and pre-order campaign: AmiGUS sound card
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 and attention to detail and also perfected the drivers in collaboration with his software team. Alinea Computer will be responsible for the production and support of the card.
GUS stands for "Great Unbelievable Sound", and that is exactly what we will be offering - a quantum leap in quality for Amiga sound cards.
No less than 24-bit, 192kHz is the premise here, and the good news is that this quality can be achieved on any Amiga,
thanks to a fully featured hardware synth and mixing engine and CODEC chip for compressed sound formats.
Our goal is to bring high quality music production and reproduction back to the Amiga, making it an enjoyable experience for everyone.
AmiGUS Feature List
- Zorro II card for Amiga 2000 / 3000 /4000 computers, or compatible bus boards.
- Standard RCA stereo output, 192kHz @24-bit.
- TOSLINK optical output, supporting 48kHz, 96kHz & 192kHz @24-bit.
- 3x analogue audio inputs (PAULA, CD-ROM, EXTERNAL), sampled at 192kHz @24-bit.
- High-quality digital mixer which operates at full 192kHz @24-bit resolution.
- AHI buffered stream interface, supporting 8-/16- & 24-bit modes for playback and recording.
- MP3/OGG/FLAC/WMA hardware decoder (VLSI VS1063), enhanced by a powerful DMA stream buffer.
- 32 channel wavetable engine - featuring per voice:
8-/16-bit sample support, 192kHz @24-bit mixing rate.
- Sample start, stop and loop pointer for effective one-shot or continuous playback modes.
- 32-bit sample phase accumulators for extra fine grained pitch definition.
- Optional per-voice sample interpolation for smooth sounds.
- Channel independent left / right stereo panning.
- Hardware ADSR evelope generator.li>
- 32 MB on-board sample memory - ready to be used for Multichannel Sample Tracking or MIDI.
- Flash-based mixer settings which are automatically loaded on start-up.
- Open Hardware - Software, Platinen Gerber-Dateien und FPGA Bitstream frei verfügbar.
- Upgradable FPGA Core via JTAG, or Amiga-based flash tool.
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- Open Hardware - Software, PCB Gerbers and FPGA Bitstream freely available.
Supported Drivers
Minimum Amiga Configuration
- Amiga 2000
- 68000 @7.09MHz
- 1 MB Chip / 4 MB Fast
- AmigaOS 1.3
Recommended Amiga Configuration
- Amiga 2000 / 3000 / 4000
- 68030 @25Mhz
- 2 MB Chip / 16 MB Fast
- AmigaOS 3.9 or 3.2.2<(li>
Included
- AmiGUS card
- Printed manual in German and English
- Video slot Paula adapter
The AmiGUS is expected to be released on 21 June 2025 at the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg.
The open hardware release is available for all Amiga tinkerers and hobbyists who take pride in the experience of
building and creating your own hardware - either alone or as part of the Amiga community experience.
In addition to the open hardware version, AmiGUS will also be available on sale from Alinea Computer as a complete
package, build from high quality components, manual and packaging designed by the card's creator.
We are offering a pre-order promotion for the launch. The card can be pre-ordered until 2 May at a special price of 380 euros in the Alinea Computer Shop (see title link). The final price after the promotion will be 399 Euro. We look forward to your pre-orders!
(cg)
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19.Apr.2025
AmiKit (ANF)
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AmiKit 12.8.3 with support for AmigaOS 3.2.3
The latest AmiKit update contains tools to install AmigaOS 3.2.3 under Amikit or to update an existing AmigaOS 3.2.x installation. (cg)
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19.Apr.2025
AmigaBill (ANF)
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Video: Amiga engineers and executives discussing Commodore, VCF East 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 the scenes of the Amiga era. (cg)
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19.Apr.2025
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Aiostreams V1.7.8: Scripts for streaming videos (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
"All In One streams" (aiostreams) is a pack of scripts, written in Python, that can be used to stream and watch videos from different online networks, like Twitch.tv, YouTube and Vimeo.com. All the scripts are developed and fully tested under AmigaOS 4.1 FE and MorphOS 3.x. which are the target systems of George 'walkero' Sokiano's project. Changes of version 1.7.8:
Changed
- Changed the youtube script to support urls like https://youtu.be/AbcdefghiJk
- Changed the youtube script to return an error message when the url is not compatible
Fixed
- Fixed the version string removing the double "vv"
- Fixed the youtube script when searching for videos to not crash when the results do not have a videoid
As a companion to these scripts, he created the website AIOstreams which can be a fast way to discover Twitch videos. It is really fast and can be used on older browsers that do not support Javascript and CSS. This is a proxy website. No data is stored in any database, there is no tracking and no authentication is required. (dr)
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19.Apr.2025
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Shoot'em Up: Demo version of "Wings of Fear"
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 gather constructive feedback and suggestions on how he can improve his game.
The minimum requirements are an ECS Amiga with 1 MB Fast RAM, 1 MB Chip RAM and a 68000 CPU, with which the game runs "painfully slowly" according to the author. AGA, 2MB chip RAM and 1 MB fast RAM as well as a 68020 CPU are recommended. (dr)
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19.Apr.2025
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Video tutorial: The AMOS Pro extension "AMCAF"
In his latest video, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' takes a look at the installation of the AMCAF extension for AMOS-Pro, which provides up to 200 new commands and functions. (dr)
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17.Apr.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Real-time strategy game "HiWar"
At "Amiga Games that Weren't" there is information and a preview version of "HiWar", a Red Alert clone that was later released as "Tridonis" on the PC. (cg)
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17.Apr.2025
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Warcraft-2-Engine: Stratagus 3.3.3 for AmigaOS 4
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to be able to offer another port by Steffen Häuser. Steffen has taken care of the porting of the latest version 3.3.3 and the installation routines for easy installation under AmigaOS 4. Stratagus is the port of the engine in version 3.3.3, which makes it possible to play the game Warcraft 2 from Blizzard Entertainment natively on the Amiga under AmigaOS 4.
The archive contains an installer with which it is possible to install the game directly from the PC CD without pre-installing it on the PC. At least for the Warcraft 2 Classic PC CD, for the Battle.Net CD or the Gog version it is necessary to unpack a file with a Windows tool, but with the Classic CD you can install directly on the Amiga.
Warcraft 2 is one of the most famous strategy games of all time, practically the prequel to the famous MMO "World of Warcraft". In addition to the base game "Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness", the add-on CD "Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal" (already included in the Battle.Net CD and Gog version) is also supported.
Stratagus is based on the current "latest Git" version of the Stratagus project (version 3.3.3). In contrast to an earlier implementation, 3.3.3 offers the following features:
- Iconic game music and not just sound effects (the music files are only installed with the Warcraft 2 Classic CD and the Battle.net CD, but can be copied manually afterwards when using the Gog version).
- The game's video sequences (video sequences not available on AmigaOne A1222)
- A functional level editor
- Numerous bug fixes
Of course, the localisation of Warcraft 2 into different languages is also supported.
Stratagus is under GPL licence, the source code of the Amiga version will be integrated into the github of the PC version in the foreseeable future, but is also available as a request by e-mail (see readme for details).
The minimum requirements for Stratagus are:
- A computer with AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 or higher
- Special executables optimised for the respective platforms (x1000, x5000, Sam 440, Sam 460, G3 and A1222) can be selected during installation.
Note: This version only offers the single-player campaigns, without multiplayer. (cg)
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17.Apr.2025
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Tutorial: Building a 14-Mhz accelerator card for the Amiga 500 (German)
In a German-language detailed article, Mingo shows how he rebuilds the 14mhz-accelerator available on Github. (cg)
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16.Apr.2025
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles (ANF)
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Unofficial successor: Action Replay 5 DeMoN cartridge
An improved Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga 500 and WinUAE has been developed using reverse engineering. The hardware component is DeMoN, the software is called Action Replay 5.
The Action Replay III was a popular plug-in module for the Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 that offered developers and gamers various functions to access the system's hardware more deeply. The main function was the use of the hardware as a cheat module, with which the Amiga could be "slowed down" using a potentiometer in order to successfully master tricky game situations. Game data stored in the working memory of a currently running game could be changed, for example to give yourself more life. Bypassing copy protection mechanisms or "ripping" music, samples or images and many other functions were also possible with Action Replay III and its predecessors on the Amiga. (snx)
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16.Apr.2025
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Scala game: The Hobbitron Chronicles
The Hobbitron Chronicles is a point-and-click version of the text adventure Adventure 3 created with Scala MM400. Accordingly, the Scala Player (or Scala) is required to play the game.
The aim of the game is to find and destroy three magical rings hidden in different eras: the past, the present and the future. (snx)
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16.Apr.2025
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Demoscene: Compression optimization
At the title link, Alexander Grupe describes how he saves a few bytes in the boot block in order to have more space for demoscene productions. (snx)
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15.Apr.2025
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam440ep flex and mini-itx
Pressemitteilung Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 14 April 2025
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its Sam440 line of motherboards.
Following the recent update for the Sam460 (amiga-news.de reported), the Sam440 now also benefits from enhanced support, including compatibility with NVMe SSDs. Additionally, this update introduces support for Radeon RX and Radeon HD graphics cards.
This release represents a significant investment of time and resources. Nevertheless, we have chosen to offer it at the symbolic price of ¤3.99.
Highlights of this release include:
- Support for Radeon RX graphics cards (*)
- Improved support for Radeon HD graphics cards (*)
- NVMe SSD driver: boot directly from NVMe devices using a PCIe adapter (*)
- Driver for the PCIe SATA2 Silicon Image 3132 controller, with support for booting from SSDs and DVDs (*)
- Enhanced RAM access speed on Sam440ep-flex boards
- New graphical interface style
- Revised sata command, now displaying more detailed information about drivers and connected devices
- Serial console improvements: menu navigation via the W (up) and S (down) keys
- General bug fixes and overall improvements
- Unified source code for the 460ex and 440ep platforms
Features marked with an asterisk (*) require a PCI-to-PCIe bridge.
Radeon RX and Radeon HD graphics cards also require a specific driver (to be sold separately by A-EON Technology once available) for use with AmigaOS 4.
The update is available through our online store.
For those not comfortable performing the update themselves, we also offer pre-programmed, fully updated U-Boot chips.
Additional Information: UBoot makes use of GPL-licensed code and is therefore released under the terms of the GPL (download of UBoot source code, download of Parthenope source code). (dr)
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15.Apr.2025
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Paint program: Multipaint 2025 for Windows/Linux/Mac
Multipaint is a paint program that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and specialises in retro pixel art. The tool, which is now available in version 3.2.2025, supports the creation of graphics under the colour restrictions of classic 8- and 16-bit platforms - not only the Amiga, but also other retro systems such as C64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, CPC and Atari ST.
Multipaint features common drawing tools, color clash emulation, cut brushes, dither patterns, grid / snap, 30-step undo, spare page, magnify modes, direct executable export, export as source, import/export in native formats and much more.
Since our last report back from 24 February 2023, a number of improvements and bug fixes have been added to Multipaint, including enhanced compatibility, new file dialogs and incremental file naming. (nba)
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15.Apr.2025
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Passione Amiga Day 2025
Passione Amiga Day is a gathering for Amiga users organised by the Italian magazine Passione Amiga. The event features commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests, and a flea market. Following the success of the first four events, Passione Amiga Day 2025 will take place on 7 September with free admission.
The venue, in the historic centre of the town of Spoleto, is the ideal place to spend a weekend immersed in history, culture, food and wine. Spoleto has managed to combine modernity with its past, which can still be felt in its streets and squares and makes the town a unique place in the world. Its charm has led it to be chosen as the location for the TV series "Don Matteo". (nba)
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15.Apr.2025
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iComp: ACA1240/1260 now available for all customers
ACA from iComp (individual Computers) is a modern turbocard series for various classic Amiga models. The fast version for the Amiga 1200 holding a 68040 or 68060 processor has been available to interested parties for a few days now. The card was first mentioned at the end of 2018 and has already been delivered to iComp's existing customers since February of this year.
Jens Schönfeld mentions in the current announcement that not all planned features are yet included on the card. At this year's Revision demoparty in Saarbrücken, an Amiga 1200 with an ACA1260 at 100 MHz is running for the AGA/060 Demo Competition, according to iComp.
Sales of the ACA1240 and ACA1260 are limited to one card per customer. Interested parties must therefore register on the iComp website before purchasing. (nba)
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14.Apr.2025
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Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Echo Fighter"
Around a year ago, 'pixelplop' published the first preview video of its shoot'em up "Echo Fighter". The fourth preview video now shows improvements such as health bars and additional collision detection. You can now also collect power-ups (but they still don't do anything yet) and enemies and bullets can now cause damage. (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor 5.0.0
ASM-editor is a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language (amiga-news.de reported, source code on GitHub). The tool now supports not only 68k, but also x86 assembly language. (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
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Video: The Amiga emulator Amiberry and AmigaOS 3.2.3
In its latest video post, the YouTube channel 'Hold and Modify' reports on the Amiga emulator Amiberry and the latest update for AmigaOS 3.2. (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
Amiga France
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Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Wings of Fear"
Roar Tjørhom tries to create a little shoot'em up for the Amiga with the help of the game construction kit Scorpion Engine and has published a preview video. (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Edison 2025 in Sweden (18.-20. July 2025)
The computer art festival and multi-platform demo party "Edison" will take place this year in central Stockholm (Sweden) on board the M/S Borgila from 18 - 20 July. The two-day event offers competitions in programming, graphics and music as well as a social gathering. (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
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Rennspiel: Carmageddon update
A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga: the conversion of Artur 'Arcziii' Jarosik (video) is based on the original engine, was adapted for the 68k architecture and requires the original game data of Carmageddon (amiga-news.de reported).
He has now added a non-SDL, CGX, AGA and OCS/ECS HAM6 executable as well as the "joy2Key2" tool from Lorence Lombardo (with a gui created by him), which allows joypad and gamepad keys to be assigned as keyboard keys. (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.20 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.20 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.5.0 (8.4.2025) of OpenSSL. Detailed changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.5, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.5.0 (8.4.2025) version, which provides new features and improvements, including:
- PQC algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA)
- Central key generation in CMP
- Opaque symmetric key objects (EVP_SKEY)
- Server side QUIC (RFC 9000)
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle dated 25.2.2025.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.20-OS3.lha (4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.20-OS4.lha (3,6 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.20-SDK.lha (2,5 MB) (dr)
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14.Apr.2025
RastPort
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Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.1
The relatively new "Quite OK Audio Format" (QOA) is a lossy audio compression format: audio signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded at 278 kbits/s, or more precisely at 3.2 bits per sample - exactly 1/5 of the bits required for an uncompressed WAV file. It is therefore less complex than the well-known OGG Vorbis and MP3 formats, but still significantly smaller than lossless file formats (see also a corresponding German (siehe auch einen entsprechenden heise.de article).
According to Grzegorz Kraszewski, this could also be a good alternative for the Amiga in terms of computing effort, quality and file size. He has implemented a decoder in M68k assembler and written a tool that converts QOA files into uncompressed AIFF (source code on GitHub). The author points out that this version is not yet optimised and does not use 68020+ instructions. (dr)
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13.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 12.04.2025
The following files have been added until 12.04.2025 to Aminet:
amigaget.lha comm/net 74K OS3 get https files for the...
AmiBlitz3_Cheat_Sheet.lha dev/blitz 120K GEN AmiBlitz3 Cheat Sheet
TankMouse.lha driver/inp 15K OS3 Scroll-wheel driver for...
SoltysDemo.lha game/demo 1.6M OS3 Soltys demo. Only AGA.
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Ed...
speedhaste.lha game/race 319K OS3 Speed Haste / Circuit R...
3doc_m68020_v1.30.lha gfx/3d 2.3M OS3 3D Object Converter for...
ham_convert.zip gfx/conv 7.0M OTH HAM graphic converter
PolarPaint_68k.lha gfx/edit 2.0M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.5M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.3M WUP Paint program made with...
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
qoatoaiff.lha mus/misc 4K OS3 Decode Quite OK Audio t...
GF4RSIDF.zip pix/misc 77K GEN Grad. Fonts for RSI Dem...
NAFCYI1992S2-B01.zip text/bfont 1.2M GEN NAFCYI Summer 1992 (BMP...
NAFCYI1992S2-B02.zip text/bfont 1.3M GEN NAFCYI Summer 1992 (BMP...
containers.lha util/libs 24K OS3 Provides containers + r...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 68K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 102K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 916K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 734K OS3 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 7.9M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 101K OS3 External Virus Scanner ...
WBDock2SPA.lha util/wb 1K GEN Spanish translation WBD...
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.04.2025
The following files have been added until 12.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hle-pokercard.lha gam/car 8Mb 4.0 Guess the next card to appear in...
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks...
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
wormhole.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Network file transfer utility
reportplus.lha uti/mis 916kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
chklib.lha uti/scr 11kb 4.0 Checks libs for "WB1.2+".
flushmem.lha uti/scr 12kb 4.0 flushes memory on "1.x+"
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.04.2025
The following files have been added until 12.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
metemp3-1.5.i386-aros.zip aud/pla 633kb a Mp3,Flac,Wav Player
glfw_3.4.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 1Mb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
libglad.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 440kb OpenGL Extension Loader
miniaudio.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 608kb Audio playback and capture library
raudio.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 2Mb A simple and easy-to-use audio l...
raylib_5.5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 421kb A simple and easy-to-use library...
hle-pokercard.lha gam/car 8Mb Guess the next card to appear in...
untangle.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 59kb Untangle set of dots joined by l...
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb This is a SDK to make your decks...
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
zapperng.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/wor 55kb Change the behaviour of the zoom...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.04.2025
The following files have been added until 12.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
EasyRPG-Player_0.8.1.lha Emulation A program that allows t...
snes9x_1.63.0.lha Emulation Snes9x - Portable Super...
HLE-PokerCard_2.20.lha Games/Card Hi-Low-Equal Poker Card
CardsMakingKit_2.20.lha Games/Card A little kit to make yo...
MCE_15.31.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenRCT2_0.4.21.lha Games/Strategy OpenRCT2 is an open-sou...
Breaker_1.5.0.lha Games/Think Port of Breaker (SDL3)
PolarPaint_1.052.lha Graphics/Draw Paint program made with...
MoonDesk_1.0.lha Misc Show moon phase on your...
ReportPlus_8.63.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
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13.Apr.2025
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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:
- Harlequin Title Tune
- Galaxy II
- Alien Breed - Tower Assault
- Wizardry (Garden Eden Edit)
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13.Apr.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Waffle floppy disk reader now with installer and ReAction interface
Waffle is a device for reading Amiga floppy disks with a PC floppy disk drive under AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). While the previous user interface required a graphics card with hardware 3D acceleration, Andrea Palmatè now has added a ReAction interface and an installer. (snx)
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13.Apr.2025
Robert Smith (ANF)
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Video: Floppy emulator Big Box Amiga GoDRIvE
The floppy emulator GoDRIvE was initially only available for keyboard case Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). DigitalRetroBay now also offers it for the Amiga 2000 and Amiga 4000.
In contrast to the traditional Gotek disk emulators, the GoDrivE does not require the actual drive to be replaced, but you can switch between the two. In the video at the title link, Robert Smith demonstrates the Big Box Amiga GoDrivE by installing it in his Amiga 2000. (snx)
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13.Apr.2025
AmigaBlogs (website)
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Conversion of a standard power supply unit for the Amiga 500
At the title link, Keith Monahan describes how he converted a standard 50 Watt power supply unit, which costs around 50 euros, so that he can use it as a replacement power supply unit for his Amiga 500. The model used was the GP50A13D-R1B from Meanwell. (snx)
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12.Apr.2025
Fabio Trotta (ANF)
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tom's HARDWARE is covering AmigaOS 3.2.3
Mark Tyson reports in detail about the latest AmigaOS update on "tom's HARDWARE" and also gives a short overview of the development of AmigaOS and its descendants since the Commodore bankruptcy. (cg)
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Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.10
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes. Changes in version 5.10:
- _Static_assert could cause an internal error.
- A function call returning a struct with at least two internal layers of struct or union, immediately accessing a single element on return from the function call would result in an internal error.
- A bit-field of size 0 which fills out the current container, incorrectly caused an extra empty container to be allocated if the current one was not empty.
- Casting a static data address to a function pointer could in some situations cause an internal error.
- 68000: Bit-fields layout order is now big endian in the container, placing the first bit-field of the container in the leftmost position.
- Amiga: Correct the SysBase macro in the Amiga board support.
- 68080: Fix incorrect code generation using extub.l when it should have masked with a small constant instead.
- Amiga: Loading the FD file for the CIA library caused an internal error as it has multiple base addresses and pass them along as parameters instead of using a global variable.
- 6502/65816: The overloadable attribute caused a segmentation fault if the function type had address space qualifiers, e.g. __zpage on 6502 or __far on the 65816.
- 6502: Volatile address operands could in some situations cause an internal error.
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12.Apr.2025
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Emu68: Imager Tool 1.0.5 für Windows
The "Imager Tool" enables PiStorm users to prepare an SD card with the Motorola68K emulation Emu68 and a preconfigured AmigaOS 3 installation. New in version 1.0.5 is the support of AmigaOS 3.9, and various bugs have been various bugs have been fixed. (cg)
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11.Apr.2025
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Tool: identify-library 44.4
Richard Körber has released version 44.4 of the identify.library. It collects all kinds of system parameters and provides the user with information on CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency, etc., for example. The current version now also recognises AmigaOS 3.2.3. (dr)
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11.Apr.2025
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.8 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution, based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.8 for x86 computers. A DVD ISO file and a USB flash ("VHD") image are available for download. The VHD image can be used as a hard disk in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu.
This version integrates the last three years of AROS development and brings the 32-bit kernel to the same level as the upcoming 64-bit version of AROS.
The new kernel offers improved support for the latest hardware with ACPI support, as well as improvements to disk and network drivers, as well as updates to the core system libraries and more than 60 bug fixes in AROS programmes and libraries.
Additional work has also been done to stabilise drivers for virtual environments (VirtualBox, VMware and QEMU), so that AROS can be tested in a virtualised environment before deciding to purchase dedicated hardware. Changes:
Update AROS One OS System
- Wanderer Fixed and improved some Italian Catalogs
- 3GP Improved Datatypes Descriptor
- GIF Improved Datatypes Descriptor
- GIFAnim Improved Datatypes Descriptor
- Library Improved Datatypes Descriptor
- MP3 Datatypes Descriptor
- ArosOne Angel (New dedicated to AROS One v2.8)
- New Presets (Config-Appearance, Config-Wanderer, Skins-Apps)
- Created Aros One prefs (Choice of Wanderer or Magellan and vice versa)
- Created new buttons for Magellan and enriched with many preferences
- Wanderer (New mini DualPNG icons for "Detail" mode)
- Nuvi buttons for ArosPDF
- Dopus4 Improved and added new configurations
- ZuneARC (Improved config file)
- Created IA-Icons for IntallAROS Gui
Update AROS One Apps
- Fix_Amistart (new version)
- AmiTranslate v0.5
- Dopus5 Magellan v5.91
- smb2-handler v53.7
- filesysbox v54.5
- View Pubscreen
- 7zDec v9.13
- CLS v1
- Demac v0.1
- PixieView Viewer (still under development)
- iConecta v5.50
- ModExplorerCE v1.1
- ModExplorerNG v3. 82
- ProTrekkr v2.8.2
- PlayMidi (Script verbessert)
- Image2PDF v2.8
- SQLMan v0.6
- VAMP v3.2.0
- View Pubscreen v1.0
- ZapHod v1.2
- AnteDominum DemoScene
- FiatHomo DemoScene
- Neandertaler DemoScene
- Organica DemoScene
- SSRI DemoScene
- Stars DemoScene
- Pyramid Games
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11.Apr.2025
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Paint program: PolarPaint for all Amiga systems
PolarPaint is an experimental paint program written with Hollywood that requires a fast computer with RTG, at least a resolution of 1440x900x16 (program window is 1400x820), at least 40 MB free Fast RAM (64 MB or more recommended) and is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROSx86 and WOS.
As the author Anbjørn Myren explains when asked, he had read a thread in the Hollywood forum about how to draw a continuous line. He started experimenting with the examples in the thread and his original idea was to develop a kind of drawing/guessing game in the style of Telestrations.
And he continued to write to us: "For this I just needed a simple interface and the ability to draw a black and white sketch. This was in late 2023, but I was doing other stuff so I put it on hold for some time. In late 2024 I started to experiment some more with it, but instead of making it into an online game, I got more interested to see what drawing features I could add.
I was a bit unsure to release it on aminet, especially the 68k version since it requires more horsepower than usually found in 68k Amigas. But I figured it might run at a usable speed on NG Amigas and hopefully PiStorm or perhaps Vampire systems.
Testing it on WinUAE made me discover the high RAM consumption, which made me come up with the diskbuffer idea. This saves a lot of RAM for most operations, but might result in slowdowns when loading saving disk when changing workspaces. As a bonus the diskbuffering will make backups of your work and also the undo buffer, so if you quit the program it will load your images and undo buffers on next startup so you can start where you left off.
Another thing that can use a lot of RAM is the custom flood fill procedure. I made that procedure because I wanted to have a was to floodfill with a threshold setting, similar to what you can find in Gimp. When floodfilling with threshold set above 0 it will consume a lot of memory. As a workaround for this I made an additional setting so you can restrict how big area to fill in one operation. By default this is set to maximum 5% of the workspace area. This mean you will only fill a small area at the time, but hopefully you avoid to terminate the program with a out of memory error.
If you have more than around 150MB free RAM I guess you can get away with a 100% setting, but it will take a lot of time for larger areas to complete on slower systems." (dr)
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11.Apr.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.8 and Amiberry-lite 5.8.8
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator based on the current WinUAE version, while its little brother Amiberry-lite is based on WinUAE 4.4 and is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 7.0.8 of Amiberry is now available, Amiberry-lite has arrived at version 5.8.8. Both versions now also support the new AmigaOS 3.2.3 ROMs (amiga-news.de reported).
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10.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View), issue 6
Amiga Point of View is a 72-page PDF magazine. The sixth issue contains, among other things, a ten-page overview of games released in recent years, numerous game and hardware tests and a profile of the cyberpunk artist Tengushee. The PDF version is available for 2.50 USD, printed copies are available from 10 (UK) to 15 (Europe) dollars, including postage. (cg)
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10.Apr.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Free downloads: Dark Angel, Gravity Force 2, Legend of Falconia
The full versions of Dark Angel,
Gravity Force 2 and
Legend of Falconia can now be downloaded free of charge from Amiga Future. (cg)
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10.Apr.2025
AmigaBill (ANF)
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Video of Amiga 40 Roundtable and Lorraine at VCF East 2025
Former Amiga and Commodore employees Dale Luck, Ron Nicholson, Glenn Keller, Randell Jesup, Peter Cherna, Andy Finkel, and Jeff Porter talk about the history of the Amiga on a roundtable at the VCF East 2025 Amiga 40 celebration moderated by Dave McMurtrie and Dan Wood (cg)
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09.Apr.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 1200
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files. With version 1.6, after the Amiga 3000 and 4000, the Amiga 1200 is now also supported in addition to the Amiga 4000CR and the Amiga 3000T. (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
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Do it yourself: RetroPlayer for Amiga music modules in a wooden case
Skilled hobbyists who want a small player for Amiga music modules in an attractive wooden case with a rotary control and display will find a finished project with a list of all the components required at the title link. (There is also an English description below the Japanese one). (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: ZZAP! Amiga, issue 21
The March/April issue of the magazine "ZZAP! Amiga" contains 60 color pages in A5 size. A look at the table of contents can be found at the Amiga Magazine Rack website. (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.22 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.22 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Information on the X1000/X5000-specific changes can be found at the title link. (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
ACube Systems (Mail)
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards
Press release: Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 08 April 2025
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the UBoot firmware for its Sam460 line of motherboards.
For the first time in Amiga history, it is now possible to boot from an NVMe SSD.
This groundbreaking achievement marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Amiga platform. Thanks to recent advancements, users can now experience dramatically improved boot speeds and data access times by utilizing modern NVMe solid-state drives—bringing the Amiga into a new era of performance and reliability.
This development not only enhances the capabilities of current NG systems but also demonstrates the ongoing innovation and dedication within the Amiga community. Booting from an NVMe SSD was once considered impossible - today, it is a reality.
This update is completely free for all users. We are excited to announce a new version packed with important features and improvements - available as a free download. New in this release:
- NVMe SSD driver – For the first time ever, you can boot from an NVMe drive using a standard NVMe-to-PCIe adapter.
- PCIe SATA2 support – Added driver for the Silicon Image 3132 controller, allowing booting from both SATA SSDs and DVD drives.
- DDR2 timing adjustments – Fine-tune DDR2 RAM timings for faster memory access.
- Customizable USB stack – Choose between EHCI (faster for mass storage) or OHCI (greater compatibility with keyboards).
- Enhanced "sata" command – Now displays more detailed information about drivers and connected devices.
- Improved serial console navigation – Navigate menu items using W and S keys.
- General bug fixes and improvements.
- Unified source code – Now streamlined for both 460ex and 440ep platforms.
- An updated installation guide is included, covering the standard ISO image method as well as alternative installation methods via TFTP and USB.
You can download the updater tool directly here: Sam460_updater_2015d.zip (8 MB)
If you are not comfortable installing UBoot yourself, we also offer fully updated UBoot chips through our online store.
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL (download of the source code). (dr)
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08.Apr.2025
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Source code editor: Hollywood 10 support for Visual Studio Code 10.0.2
For Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), "hw4vsc" is an extension that enables the development of Hollywood programmes with the free source code editor (amiga-news.de reported). The developer Micha J. has adapted his extension for the latest Hollywood 10 version and has just released hw4vsc v10.0.2.
Although the version number was only increased on the patch level, this is a massive release. It adds improved intellisense/code completion with proper code completion and quick info for all inbuilt Hollywood 10 functions, preprocessor commands and including constants (no quick info/help here, unfortunately). The README.md shows an example of intellisense in action.
The author asks you to use the Github bug tracker in case of problems. (nba)
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07.Apr.2025
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Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer"
"Last Minute Creations", a Polish group of Amiga game developers (e.g. GermZ or Chaos Arena), spent more than six years working on their mining strategy game "Aminer": set in the Soviet era, the aim is to fulfil the planned economic extraction plans and mine precious metals such as silver for the Ministry of Mining and Fossil Fuels:
"Last Minute Creations" consists of 'KaiN', who writes the code, 'Luc3k', who is responsible for the music and 'Softiron', who is responsible for all graphic tasks.
We asked the coder 'KaiN' how the idea for the project came about and why Aminer, which was presented at the Polish retro party RAM#3 last weekend, took so long to develop:
"We started the project approximately a month before the RetroKomp 2018 party, for the game compo. We were working on OpenFire at that time, but I thought that it'd be cool to show something new at the party, so I've quickly came up with a game I wanted to tackle for some time now.
At this point it was a silly little game where you just dig through the ground without any objective and collect the resources, and also had a challenge mode where the camera goes at the constant speed towards the finish line and you must collect the resources to get the high score.
The idea behind the game was that I really liked the Motherload game from the Flash games era, and I wanted to do a semi-infinite Y scroll on Amiga hardware, so it was mostly a tech demo wrapped together as a RK18 game compo entry - it scored 2nd place and you can see on Pouet.net that it looked a bit differently back then.
Still, the audio was very buggy, because it was my groups first entry to even have audio code at all - we used my own ACE library, which I'm developing for 11 years now and those 6.5 years ago it lacked some serious features - it's now a lot more better since it got all the features needed to create the Aminer.
The game is written entirely in C, with one small part written in C++ for convenience, using the ACE library as I've mentioned. 'Softiron' uses Pro Motion NG for his pixels. For audio of the game compo version, I used sfxr to have some basics blips and blops. After all those years the pickup sound is still from the original version.
At this point we even didn't have an audio guy in our roster, but then we found Lucek on the Polish forums, and he did an amazing job of creating the matching soundtrack for the game. He also did the remaining audio stuff.
One of the main challenges was to determine what do we want to do with this game - we basically had no idea. After we did the demo for compo, 'Softiron' wasn't too happy with the state of the game and wanted to expand it a bit more. We've brainstormed a bit, I came with a little bit of ideas - mostly mimicking the Motherload game, so vehicle part upgrades, underground bases for convenience and that's about it. 'Softiron' on the other hand took that thing to the next level by inventing the whole soviet setting and adding a lot of side mechanics not really related with the digging itself - it's funny because you can finish the whole game without digging too much.
The other challenge was to stay on target and that's mostly because of me. During the pandemic, I thought it'd be nice to release another game to the Revision game compo, so we've started working on GermZ. We've missed the deadline, it then took us a whole lot of time to make this game enjoyable. We've also released two other games for game compos in the meantime: Atarenium Falkon (with code by 'Lucek!') and Chaos Arena, both released in Decrunch party game compos. As you can see we just can't leave a compo without an entry.
Another challenge was to settle on final features. 'Softiron' had lots of ideas for this game, including adding a way to go to moon and dig there, and we had to cut many of them to release the game at foreseeable time. We've also had the hard time with balancing the gameplay due to a lot of different allowed playstyles, mechanics and lots of content. It also became not so simple game, so it no longer would be enjoyed by younger or less demanding audiences. I've mitigated that by adding a Sandbox mode in final weeks, which resembles the free digging mode from the compo version with some basic limited move count mechanics. The most difficult thing for me personally was to get the mood right. Since the game is set in the soviet era in not-so-fictional country, and touches on totalitarian regimes of the past, I hope the game won't be viewed as making those things "cool", because they really aren't. And we shouldn't forget about this, especially now that one of them is coming back from hiatus.
Besides all these explanations, why did it ultimately take so long? Well, we did:
- 3 kilometers of the underground mine to explore
- 8 NPCs
- 7 distinct endings
- 3 underground bases with base building mechanics
- 18 achievements
- 3 game modes and a co-op variant of each mode
- 2 language versions
- more than 20 minutes of soundtrack
- definitely no secrets
- all that crammed into a single floppy disk, if you want to torture yourself with loading times
If you want to take on the task and dig through the earth, you need an OCS Amiga with 1MB chip RAM and 1MB other RAM. The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.13.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Mame MFI writer : Fix memory allocation error/crashes.
- Kryoflux writer : The default sample frequency can be changed with the
KFRAWEXPORT_SAMPLE_FREQUENCY variable. (patch by uru2)
- Kryoflux Stream Loader : Support different sample rate setting from the
KFInfo string.
(dr)
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Point'n Click adventure: Demo version of Soltys released
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has released a short demo version of the point'n click adventure game "Soltys" (video), which was originally developed by the Polish studio LK Avalon and released for MS-DOS in 1995 (Wikipedia).
However, as the author emphasises, his game is not a port, but a completely rewritten version of the original game. In addition to Polish subtitles, there are also English, German, Spanish and Italian subtitles. An Amiga computer with AGA chipset, at least 1 MB Fast RAM and harddisk are required. (dr)
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Arcade action: New demo version V0.98 of Ghosts'n'Goblins
At the end of 2024 'Skyzoo73' released a handsome practice study to show how Ghosts 'n Goblins can be ported to the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The now updated demo version offers a lot of corrections and optimisations and requires an AGA Amiga with Fast RAM and CD32 joypad (or similar). (dr)
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06.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to Aminet:
Codecraft.adf dev/misc 880K OS3 Integrated Development ...
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.2M OS3 Multi-game Character Ed...
Galactica.lha game/wb 24K OS3 Port of strategical Lin...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 67K OS3 Create your own backdro...
PolarPaint_68k.lha gfx/edit 2.0M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.5M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.3M WUP Paint program made with...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 414K OS3 Updated HippoPlayer
AvalancheSPA.lha util/arc 2K GEN Spanish catalog for Ava...
fix1980.lha util/arc 1K GEN Fix an lha with timesta...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 2.1M OS3 free icon.library in op...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.2M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
IgameSPA.lha util/misc 2K GEN Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 881K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 699K OS3 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 775K MOS Multipurpose utility
GoVD.lha util/wb 31K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
losmalditos.lha gam/adv 22Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click R.P.G.
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
image.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Fast image viewer with simple fu...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
wormhole.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Network file transfer utility
reportplus.lha uti/mis 881kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
losmalditos.lha gam/adv 22Mb Adventure point and click R.P.G.
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
flx_play.x86_64-aros-v11.... vid/pla 74kb Simple FLI/FLC/FLX Animation Player
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
LosMalditos_1.10.lha Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
PolarPaint_1.0.lha Graphics/Draw Paint program made with...
BouncingBall_1.0.lha Misc Port of BouncingBall (S...
AmigaGPT_2.4.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.04.2025
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 05.04.2025:
- 2025-04-05 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold) high scores are saved to a separate file (Info)
- 2025-04-02 improved: North & South (Infogrames) 2nd button/joypad support fixed, more icons, new install script (Info)
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Crowdfunding: Psygnosis - Games People Play (Volume 1)
Following the book "Demoscene: The Amiga Renaissance", Éditions64K is now planning a two-volume publication on the history of the games company Psygnosis (e.g. Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast).
The first volume covers the years 1980 to 1993, i.e. the period from the company's foundation to its takeover by Sony. The second volume, which is due to be published next year, will be dedicated to the PlayStation era up to the end of the games publisher in 2012.
In contrast to the previous campaign, the book is almost finished and will be ready for printing by the end of the crowdfunding period on May 11. Shipping should begin around June 15. (snx)
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.11.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the HAM format of the Amiga and is now available in version 1.11.0.
New features include an MSX2+ screen 10 conversion, an improved MSX2+ screen 12 conversion, an MSX Basic image file export and bug fixes. Mode 10 allows 12,499 simultaneously displayable colors, mode 12 even 19,268. (snx)
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05.Apr.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Start for ticket sales for "Amiga40"
Press release: Amiga40 Germany - 40 years of Amiga, a celebration for everyone!
17 - 19 October 2025 - a very special date for everyone who loves the legendary Commodore Amiga: We celebrate 40 years of Amiga with a big anniversary event in Mönchengladbach! Amiga40 Germany will be THE meeting place for fans, technology enthusiasts, retro lovers from all over the world - and for families who want to go on a journey through time together.
Tickets go on sale today, 5 April, at 6 pm CET via our ticket shop at amigaevent.de/ticket!
Come along - celebrate with us 40 years of Amiga cult and a time when computers still had personality!
We look forward to your visit! (cg)
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05.Apr.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.4.0
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 can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.4.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- ARexx port added to allow issuing AmigaGPT commands from another app or from a script
- Fixed bug where the About AmigaGPT window wouldn't display all the text correctly
- Latest OpenAI chat models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech voices added
- Can now give instructions to the OpenAI voice to change how it sounds (only works for the gpt-4o-mini-tts model)
- Chat now uses the new Responses endpoint instead of the Chat Completions one to allow for future expansion
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB) (dr)
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Video tutorial: 3D Shooter proof of concept with AMOS
The latest video from retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' follows on from his last one about creating simple anaglyph 3D graphics in AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) and continues it as a program for a 3D shooter proof of concept. (dr)
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04.Apr.2025
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Pre-order: New synth album ‘Home Arcade’ with Amiga track
'LukHash' describes his music as a "fusion of digital 8-bit chaos and 80s-inspired synthesiser music, combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His new album "Home Arcade" can now be pre-ordered and customers will also receive 'retro versions' of three tracks from the album: two covers in the form of SID tunes, one as a classic Amiga MOD, all three songs can be played on the original hardware. The finished album will be released on 2 May. (cg)
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04.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Revision 2025 is still looking for volunteers
The demo party ‘Revision’ will traditionally take place on the Easter weekend at the ‘E-Werk’ in Saarbrücken. However, the organisers are still looking for volunteers:
Press release: Revision is the biggest pure demoscene event in the world - and roundabout 70 volunteers make it possible. Come join us to have the best Easter weekend for you, us, and the demoscene! We are looking for people with the English skill and attitude that make them great working in a multi-national team, and who are as excited as we are to make this party great for everyone.
You'll need to be in the E Werk from super-latest Friday morning before Revision to the Monday, to help us build up and tear everything down as far as you can. Being on time and reliable is very important to everyone in your team, so we're able to share the workload fairly.
If you've been an orga at a demoparty before you'll know the score, but previous experience is not essential.
Are you interested, especially in the opening posted below? Then drop us a message at hotline-2025@revision-party.net!
Infoteam
They are the face of Revision, and for some the first impression they get of the demoscene at large. Embark on the fastest way to meet new people and make a lot of friends at a demoparty - Join our Infoteam!
Main Duties:
- Manage admission of visitors, answer questions, sell beverages
- First point of contact for the visitors, and distribute requests to all other teams (e.g. compo, recording, seminar, events, etc)
- Liaise with the security personnel and escalate any issues to the shift lead or main organisers
We are looking for someone who:
- Likes to engage with people, and is a creative, ad hoc problem solver
- Is fluent in English, additional languages are a plus (German is NOT needed)
- Is willing to work 4 shifts during the party (2x 4h + 2x 6h) with ca 5 other orgas
(cg)
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