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Emulator hardware: AmiBrowser announced for A1200NG and A600GS (update) (06. Aug. 2025)
AmigaKit has announced its own web browser for its A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard, which would be available shortly (press release as PDF file). "AmiBrowser" runs on AmigaKit's desktop AmiBench, which is based on the rei...

Cordoomceps: Doom on a PiStorm Amiga using Linux (06. Aug. 2025)
Cordoomceps is an approach by Matthew Garrett to run the game Doom on an Amiga with PiStorm extension, not by emulating the AmigaOS hardware, but by having the actual image generation performed by Linux running natively on the ARM processor and simply pas...

Spillhistorie: Interview with Magnetic Fields about Super Cars (06. Aug. 2025)
Hans Arne Jacobsen conducted another interview for the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, this time with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern from Magnetic Fields about their game Super Cars and its 1991 sequel, Super Cars II....

Retro Area at gamescom 2025: A travel back in time (05. Aug. 2025)
gamescom 2025, the world's largest video game trade fair, will take place in Cologne from August 20 to 24, 2025. A centerpiece of the event is the traditional Retro & Family Area, where retro fans will get their money's worth. The Retro Area in Hall 10.2 ...

Worth a read: More retrocomputing, less nostalgia (05. Aug. 2025)
Swedish developer and blogger Carl Svensson has published a new article on datagubbe.se. In "More retrocomputing, less nostalgia", he takes a critical look at the concept of retro nostalgia. He questions the widespread assumption that old technology was i...

Video: Modification of an Amiga 500, part 1 (04. Aug. 2025)
Last October, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' won an Amiga 500 at the Workbench 2024 event in England. In the first part of a video series, he replaces the case and keycaps with new ones from A1200.net....

AI chatbot: AmigaGPT 2.8.1 (update) (04. Aug. 2025)
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...

Aminet uploads until 02.08.2025 (03. Aug. 2025)
The following files have been added until 02.08.2025 to Aminet: REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s... P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 89K OS3 P96 Preferences Editor ...

OS4Depot uploads until 02.08.2025 (03. Aug. 2025)
The following files have been added until 02.08.2025 to OS4Depot: aurafly.lha aud/mis 24Mb 4.1 auraFly helps focus better and f... qt6demos.lha dev/cro 106Mb 4.1 Just a few demos of Qt6 for OS4.1 retroarchcores_instal... e...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (03. Aug. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added: ShockWave ...

Crowdfunding: The Amiga Cheat Codes book (03. Aug. 2025)
Dan Nielsen is raising money on Kickstarter for the book "The Amiga Cheat Codes", which will be published as a PDF file, printed with ring binding and as a softcover paperback. According to the illustrations, the book promises an pleasant design with an i...

Programming: C++ on the Amiga without the standard library using GCC 2.95.3 (03. Aug. 2025)
At the title link, Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski discusses the possibility of writing C++ programs for the Amiga with the GCC 2.95 compiler without using the standard library interface of the AmigaOS API. This approach results in more compact (by about...

Shoot'em Up: Third demo version of "Wings of Fear" (01. Aug. 2025)
Roar Tjørhom is using the Scorpion Engine game construction kit to create a small shoot 'em up game for the Amiga and has now released a third and probably final demo version (video). It contains three levels, three bonus levels and three bosses. In addit...

Pacman variant: Deluxe Collector's Edition of Fast Food 2 (AGA) (01. Aug. 2025)
In November 2024, the Pacman variant "Fast Food 2" (video) was released as the unofficial successor to the Codemaster classic Fast Food (amiga-news.de reported). The game, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine, can now also be pre-ordered...

Shoot'em Up: "Rex and the Galactic Plague" released (01. Aug. 2025)
"Rex and the Galactic Plague" is a vertical scrolling shooter developed using the Scorpion Engine (video). After several demo versions, the full version has now been released. According to the developer, the game's origins date back to 1993. It was t...

On focus: Three Core Design games (01. Aug. 2025)
Core Design was a British computer game developer and occasional publisher that existed from 1988 to 2006. The website "Ephemeral Enigmas" takes a closer look at three games that were also released for the Amiga: Wolfchild (released in 1992) Curse o...

Background: Maniac Mansion was released 37 years ago (01. Aug. 2025)
In 1987, Lucasfilm Games released the point-and-click adventure Maniac Mansion, initially for the C64 and later for the Amiga and Atari ST, among others. The website "Home Computer" has published a detailed background article on this game, which set new s...

RTG driver: P96 3.6.0 (31. Jul. 2025)
Press release: The new version 3.6.0 of the Amiga-RTG system P96 contains new drivers for Matrox cards (thanks to Tim Schattkowski!), Radeon R200 cards by ATI, and the budget version of RageXL cards with 32-bit memory interface, which are available for an...

AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" - July 2025 (31. Jul. 2025)
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has published another monthly summary of all events and releases around AmigaOS 4....

Amiga Future: Amiga40 Special Edition / Offer for Programmers (30. Jul. 2025)
As with the last two events, Amiga Future will once again be publishing a special edition for Amiga40 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, which will be distributed free of charge to all visitors. To support programmers, they can submit a screenshot of their a...