25.Feb.2026
|
Bomberman clone: Demo version 1.1 of Kaboomania for AGA Amigas
The demo version 1.1 of Axel Friedrich's Bomberman-style game Kaboomania is now available. It includes the first ten levels of the single-player campaign and, with the update, has received a new piece of music by Chris Hülsbeck for the game over screen. (snx)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2026, 09:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
25.Feb.2026
|
Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.11.3
Sven 'honitos' Dröge has released further updates for his BlitzBasic successor "AmiBlitz". In addition to bug fixes, versions 3.11.2 and 3.11.3 now offer support of the identify.library.
Download: AmiBlitz3.11.3.lha (11 MB) (snx)
[News message: 25. Feb. 2026, 09:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Feb.2026
|
Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.40
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey and Wayfarer). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS or via this PayPal Link.
Version 0.40 includes the following new features:
- Tribute to AmiBench:
- new preset "AmiBench"
- "Preferences":
- new patterns "AmiBench Backdrop a" to "... l" (for WB) and "AmiBench Pattern" (for windows)
- new OS version
- new iconset
- new window layout
- new pointer
- new option "No screen dragging" (activated for the "AmiBench" preset)
- MagicMenuPrefs: new entry «AmiBench» for "Style"
- "Workbench" preferences: new setting "Title bar" with the following options:
- Visible: Title bar always displayed (default value for all "AmigaOS" presets)
- Hidden: Title bar always concealed
- Automatic: Mouse pointer makes title bar appear (default value for the "AmiBench" preset)
- Simulation of AmiBench specific details:
- Boot animation
- On startup, one of the AmiBench backdrops is randomly chosen.
- adjusted icons positions on startup
- adjusted menu structure
- Filesystem windows can be iconified (and none else).
- Icons are deselected after drag'n'drop.
- Adjusted keyboard control:
- Entering text selects all icons that still match the current textinput (without icon blinking)
- Shift-click selects or deselects (like Ctrl-click on AmigaOS)
- Return key executes the selected icon (ignoring a multiple selection)
- Disabled functionality:
- Ctrl-click (on AmigaOS: selects or deselects)
- Alt-click (on AmigaOS: deselects)
- click on closer gadget while holding RAmiga (or with TAWS: RAlt) key (on AmigaOS: closes all directory filesystem windows)
- icon dragging while holding RAmiga (or RAlt) key (on AmigaOS: locks X or Y position)
- Adjusted layout of the following form elements:
- CheckBox
- Cycle (button on the right, centered text
- ListBox
- horizontal scrollbar
- Requester are centered on screen and their caption is "AmiBench Request".
- Shell: caption is "AmiBench-Shell".
- adjusted layout for the "AROS Early Startup Control"
- AROS kickstart animation
- adjusted Boot Shell
- Reboot menu
- Power down animation (with SFX)
- AmiBrowser instead of IBrowse:
- located at "System:Utilities"
- splash screen
- adjusted layout
- adjusted window's default size
- window's position according to current mouse pointer's position
- "Quit" withoug user request but slightly delayed
- support for the following special addresses:
- about:
- chrome:
- chrome://version/
- chrome://license/
- RAM size is set according to the selected OS version:
- OS 1.0: 512 KB Chip, 0 KB Fast
- OS 1.x: 512 KB Chip, 512 KB Fast
- OS 2.x: 1 MB Chip, 2 MB Fast
- OS 3.x: 2 MB Chip, 16 MB Fast
- OS 4.x: 256 MB Video, 2 GB
- AmiBench: 2 MB Chip, 1 GB Fast
- OS 3.2:
- adjusted file «RAM:syslog» for OS 3.2.3 (only present if option «Enable System Log» in «Amiga Early Startup Control» has been activated)
- The Preferences windows' position is set according to the current pointer position.
- Adjusted layout of the following form elements:
- ListBox
- horizontal scrollbar
- OS 4.1: Version adjusted for "Final Edition Update 3" at:
- Workbench / About...
- Kickstart image
- Boot Shell
- MultiView / About...
- General speed boost for OS 4.x (lower "setTimeout" values when listing icons, reset WB, etc.):
- OS 4.0: 1.5 times as fast
- OS 4.1: twice as fast
- HippoPlayer: added support for recoloring the horizontal and vertical scrollbars according to the "Palette" preferences.
- Menu: optimised vertical alignment of option checks and radios to its text.
- Bugfixes:
- Menu background: on some occasions, the menu disabled pattern was not colored correctly according to the chosen background color on startup.
- MagicMenu: option «Highlight disabled menu items» was not applied to the menupoints of the first order.
- MagicMenuPrefs: in some special cases the separator's look in the preview section was incorrect.
- Icon / Leave out: correction when calculating the icon's position on the Workbench, especially when the screen has been moved horizontally (only possible with OS 4.x).
- Amiga Early Startup Control / Boot Options: corrected device names and the linked deactivation of the «Test Suite» and «Work» drives.
- MultiView / About: correction of date format
- Palette: fixed a JavaScript error when switching to the HSB color (bug since v.0.39).
- All preferences windows: their windows' positions are newly calculated when started once more.
- Form element «horizontal scrollbar»: correction of selection color
- Fixed some pointer colors for:
- Afa One
- AmiKit X
- OS 1.3
- OS 3.2 Sizer
(dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2026, 06:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Feb.2026
|
Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.4b7
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.4b7 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. Since the last beta version, mainly bugs have been fixed and minor changes made.
Among other things, the bug fixes include ensuring that mouse clicks are no longer dropped on MacOS Tahoe. In addition, the live memory view has been revised and now resizes correctly.
Among the changes, the border color in full-screen mode has been changed to black.
In addition, some features have been removed: The Disk and Volume Inspector tools have been removed, as their functionality is now provided by the recently integrated RetroVault app. The Quick Look plugin has also been removed, but may return at a later date once Apple provides the appropriate interfaces. (nba)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2026, 00:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Feb.2026
|
Creating Amiga ISO files using Windows: ISOCD-Win 1.3.6.0
ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for the native Amiga ISOCD application. It creates bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 and CDTV (amiga-news.de reported).
The software has been further updated since our last report. In the current version 1.3.6.0, the feature for checking ISO images for WinUAE has been completed. In addition, an error in the description of a button has been corrected. (nba)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2026, 00:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
23.Feb.2026
|
Status report of the Warp3D driver for the PiStorm32 (PI4/CM4)
In an update from yesterday, Steffen Häuser describes the current status of the project to create a 3D library for PiStorm systems equipped with Pi4 and Pi CM4 (amiga-news.de reported).
The work of developer Dennis Boon on this project is not easy, as unlike the Pi3 GPU, there is no official documentation for the Pi4 GPU. Nevertheless, Boon hopes to be able to present a first working "primitive example" in a few weeks, which will not yet be a complete library or similar. Subsequently, many library functions would be implemented.
What where the big issues (which have been resolved, often with a lot of experimenting):
- Memory Layout between VC4 and VC6 differed
- MMU Differences VC4 vs. VC6 (VC6 uses physical addresses, not bus addresses, this was only found out quite recently that this difference was the reason for nothing working)
- Little Endian stuff which needed to be resolved for Big Endian
- issues around Assembler (talking of QPU Assembler here - the Shader stuff)
(dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2026, 21:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
23.Feb.2026
|
Windows: Emu68-Imager 2.1.1.7
The Emu68 Imager enables PiStorm users to prepare an SD card with the Motorola 68K emulation Emu68 and a preconfigured AmigaOS 3 installation under Windows. The new version 2.1.1.7 (the zip archive is labelled "Source Code" but contains the PowerShell script) includes the following changes compared to our last news item:
- Fixed issue where there was an error if Roadshow was not installed
- Fixed issue with paths where destination path was the root folder
- Revised handling for imported files
- Forced Unicam settings to be lowercase to prevent issues with FrameThrower
- Update to fix issue where non-English Windows reported 64 bits rather than 64-bit resulting in false detection of non 64 bit Windows
(dr)
[News message: 23. Feb. 2026, 06:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
