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Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made v0.8 (19. May. 2025)
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, that creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video). If a single IFF file is loaded, th...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.51 (19. May. 2025)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.10.1, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations re...

AROS distribution: AROS One portable 2.8 (x86) (19. May. 2025)
In addition to the AROS distribution "AROS One" for x86 computers, which is available as a DVD ISO file or USB flash ("VHD") image (amiga-news.de reported), there is now a separate portable version for USB sticks (video), which contains AROS ONE 2.8 (32-b...

Aminet uploads until 17.05.2025 (18. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to Aminet: amigaget.lha comm/net 166K OS3 get https files for the... amigassh.lha comm/net 144K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga DollMak...

OS4Depot uploads until 17.05.2025 (18. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to OS4Depot: faac.lha aud/con 80kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder faad2.lha aud/con 217kb 4.1 FAAD2 AAC decoder libfaac.lha dev/lib 990kb 4.1 Freew...

WHDLoad: New installers until 17.05.2025 (18. May. 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 17.05.2025: 2025-05-13 new: Tactical Transmiss...

Gail Wellington passed away (18. May. 2025)
On Thursday Gail Wellington passed away at the age of 85. Born on January 14, 1940 in Yonkers, New York, she was one of Commodore International's best-known personalities through her work as head of the "Commodore Applications and Technical Support" (CATS...

Virtual desktops for the Workbench: GoVD 2.4 with AmigaOS 4.1 compatibility (18. May. 2025)
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 or higher. It is possible to specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the screens. The current version 2.4 ...

FreePascal: Video of Markdown usage on the Amiga (18. May. 2025)
Markdown is a format in which structured documents can be created with plain text. Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has now used the Markdown processor for FreePascal to write down notes in Markdown format in the browser and convert them into HTML to display them a...

Print magazine: Issue 148 of Amiga Future available online (17. May. 2025)
The English and German issue 148 (January/February 2021) of the print magazine ‘Amiga Future’ can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine and a higher-resolutio...

Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.4 (17. May. 2025)
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 2.4 adds an options form to declutter the main form, changes t...

Tool: identify library 45.0 now recognizes PCI cards (17. May. 2025)
Richard “Shred” Körber's identify.library collects all kinds of system parameters and provides the user with information on CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency, etc., for example. Version 45.0 includes support for PCI cards for the first time. T...

Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.2 for Windows, Linux and macOS (16. May. 2025)
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported)...

Demoparty: Xenium 2025 in Poland (21.-24.08.) (16. May. 2025)
This year's edition of the Xenium demoparty will take place from 21 to 24 August in Łódź, Poland, under the theme of Fables for Robots: a series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, first printed in 1964...

Programming competition: Amiga 40 Tools Jam (15. May. 2025)
On the occasion of the Amiga's 40th birthday, a programming competition is being organized on itch.io with cash prizes to be won. The actual prize money can still change until the end of the competition, Amiga fans are called upon to help with donations. ...

Amiga Games That Weren't: screenshots for "The King's Ransom" (15. May. 2025)
'The King's Ransom' was supposed to be an arcade adventure in the style of 'Wrath of the Demon', but was cancelled so that the developers could work on a console game that was considered more urgent. The entry at 'Amiga Games That Weren't' has now been su...

Video: MiSTer Multisystem 2 (14. May. 2025)
The MiSTer Multisystem² is an FPGA-based retro console in a 3D-printed case (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link 'More Fun Making It' is unboxing and testing it....

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.1.1 (13. May. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann has released Version 4.1.1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS with the following changes: Bug fixes: Fixed a bug that left the emulator window untitled after saving a workspace Fixed a bug related to RTC emulation Fixed a bu...

In memoriam: Manfred Kleimann, ASM editor-in-chief, has passed away (13. May. 2025)
The German computer games industry mourns the passing of Manfred Kleimann, who died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 69. As the creative mind behind the magazine "ASM – Aktueller Software Markt", he is considered one of the pioneers of German games ...

Video: Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games (13. May. 2025)
Lemmings is considered one of the most important milestones in video game history. The video "Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games" highlights the Amiga classic from 1991. The video by the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" offers a detaile...