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Archive 06/2025

`03.Jun.2025`	Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2b2 Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.2b2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which includes the following changes: Enhancement: Names of imported or exported files are properly sanitized Bug fixes: Querying the mouse button state via the POTxDAT registers is now possible (nba) [News message: 03. Jun. 2025, 18:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2025` Rolf-Dieter Klein	Martin Ulrich, co-developer of Ports of Call, has passed away Martin Ulrich, the co-developer of the Amiga classic Ports of Call, passed away on 31 March 2025 at the age of 76. The sad news was announced by his long-time developer colleague Rolf-Dieter Klein. Ulrich was born on 22 October 1948. Together with Klein, he developed the popular economic simulation game in the late 1980s, in which players build up a shipping company and lead it to success through skilful route planning and freight trading. Ports of Call was first released in 1987 for the Amiga, later also for other systems, and quickly became one of the best-known and longest-running titles in the genre and one of the flagship games of German game developers. To this day, the game enjoys cult status among retro fans. (nba) [News message: 03. Jun. 2025, 15:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2025`	Tool: EmptyADF 2.0 EmptyADF is an easy-to-use tool with a graphical user interface for creating empty ADF disk images on Amiga systems for use on classic Amigas (with AmigaOS 3.2.x), in Amiga emulators or for backups. The tool can be used to create DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images with the OFS or FFS file systems. Images with or without a system boot block and images with custom disk labels are also possible. The date of creation or last modification can be assigned. EmptyADF, which is available as freeware, is now available in version 2.0 for Amigas with Kickstart 2.0+ (with GadTools GUI) or with Kickstart 3.0+ (with ReAction GUI). The new version also runs under AmigaOS 4.x. (nba) [News message: 03. Jun. 2025, 01:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2025`	Worth a read: The Meaning of Icons In his latest blog post on datagubbe.se entitled "The Meaning of Icons", Carl Svensson explores how we interpret icons in graphical user interfaces – and why their meaning is often less obvious than we think. Using numerous examples – from Amiga programs to modern applications such as Microsoft Outlook – Svensson shows that many icons only become understandable through repeated use and cultural influence. He discusses how excessive stylisation and cultural differences can make interpretation difficult and argues for a return to clearer, visually distinguishable symbols. The blog article is a fascinating journey through the history and design of icons, with a special focus on classic systems such as the Amiga. (nba) [News message: 03. Jun. 2025, 01:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2025` Stefan Hoeltgen	Scene World Podcast Episode #215 - Torsten Roeder talks about Diskmags.de In the latest episode 215 of the Scene World podcast, the hosts spoke with Torsten Roeder about the diskmags.de project. This comprehensive online archive for floppy disk magazines (diskmags) is dedicated to preserving these digital publications for future generations. Diskmags were magazines published on floppy disks in the 1980s and 1990s that contained articles, graphics, music and even software. Many of these magazines were distributed exclusively within the demo scene and are difficult to find today. The diskmags.de project catalogues and archives these historical artefacts to ensure their accessibility and preservation. The interview with Torsten Roeder starts at minute 27:36 in the podcast episode. (nba) [News message: 03. Jun. 2025, 01:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2025`	AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.1 Three weeks ago, Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand released version 1.1.0 of the integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). The update to version 1.1.1 (video) provides the following changes: Fixed two issues with bsdsocket.library Fixed issue with stretching in 16bit AGA screens Created accelerator.library The source code is available on GitHub. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2025, 22:17] [Comments: 1 - 03. Jun. 2025, 10:29] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2025`	Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.4a The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC frequencies and note conversion from C-1 to B-3 for ProTracker. The versions 1.4 and 1.4a released today should fix all previously reported bugs in the workflow. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2025, 17:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2025`	Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v1.00 Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler "Bolminok's Kingdom 2" requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for free at itch.io, but requires ownership and successful completion of the first part. The recently released version 1.00 offers a revised menu screen and improved resolution switching. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2025, 17:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2025`	Essay: A Box is not just a Box: Game packaging in the course of time In a richly illustrated essay, author Beat Suter looks at the development of game packaging over the decades, with a special focus on Swiss games that were available on the open market. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2025, 07:44] [Comments: 2 - 04. Jun. 2025, 05:13] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2025`	Shoot'em up: Demo version of AmiSeaFox "Amiten Games" has created a conversion of the shoot'em up classic Seafox for the Amiga (video) and has now released a first demo version. Using a submarine, you have to destroy the entire enemy before the torpedoes or fuel run out. The game runs on an Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion, an Amiga 1200 is recommended. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2025, 06:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2025`	SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.06.01 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 2025.06.01 fixes a crash when loading ROM in ZuluSCSI Blaster and enables physical eject button for ZuluSCSI V1.2. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2025, 05:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2025`	Aminet uploads until 31.05.2025 The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to Aminet: zbbslister.lha comm/bbs 6K OS3 a BBS lister for the Ze... amigaget.lha comm/net 203K OS3 get https files for the... curl-amigaget.lha comm/tcp 1.0M OS3 File and data transfer ... HugeNostalgicDemo.lha demo/mega 61M OS3 Huge Nostalgic Demo by ... Sevgi_Engine.lha dev/c 841K OS3 open source video game ... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s... MCC_TabGroup.lha dev/mui 95K OS3 Dynamic tab group custo... DiskFlush.lha disk/misc 14K OS3 Flush all filesystem bu... EmptyADF.lha disk/misc 27K OS3 Creates blank ADF disk ... rdrprep.lha disk/misc 36K MOS Submit jobs to a Hercul... openpci68k.lha driver/oth 177K OS3 PCI driver for all brid... G-WARS.lha game/shoot 31M OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine... morsconv.lha text/misc 12K OS3 Modular Morse code gene... unify16.lha util/cli 6K OS3 CLI utility to unify tw... unify8.lha util/cli 6K OS3 CLI utility to unify tw... iGame.lha util/misc 455K VAR Front-end for WHDLoad (snx) [News message: 01. Jun. 2025, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2025`	OS4Depot uploads until 31.05.2025 The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to OS4Depot: libsdl3_gfx.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Drawing and graphical effects ex... libsdl3_image.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 SDL3 image file loading library libsdl3_ttf.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL3 arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line&a... uae.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Classic Amiga Emulation (JIT + A... retroarch_cores_insta... emu/gam 348Mb 4.1 Cores for soon to be released Re... breakhack.lha gam/rol 17Mb 4.1 Breakhack is a small roguelike game tmscolor.lha gra/con 388kb 4.0 Converter from BMP to TMS9928 fo... igame.lha uti/mis 455kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad rdrprep.lha uti/mis 59kb 4.0 Submit jobs to a Hercules reader (snx) [News message: 01. Jun. 2025, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2025`	AROS Archives uploads until 31.05.2025 The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to AROS Archives: arrakis.x86_64-aros-v11.zip dem/sce 3Mb Arrakis demo x86_64 by Kakiarts/... nano.x86_64-aros-v11.zip dem/sce 4Mb nano demo x86_64 by Kakiarts (snx) [News message: 01. Jun. 2025, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2025`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.05.2025 The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage: ScummVM_2.9.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve... iGame_2.5.1.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching... (snx) [News message: 01. Jun. 2025, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2025` ALB42 Blog (ANF)	Hunkster: Amiga and Linux versions Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has created an Amiga and a Linux version of the program Hunkster by 'RetroNick'. The Amiga version also has a MUI interface. The program can be used to load media files as hunk files into the Amiga's working memory, also specifically into the chip or fast RAM. When writing C or Pascal programs, their addresses in memory can then be transferred to a variable or an array and used for playback in order to integrate them into the executable file during compilation. The source code of Hunkster is available on GitHub. (snx) [News message: 01. Jun. 2025, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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