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Video: Amiga Tech - Bitplane Modulo Tricks (30. Jul. 2025)
At the title link and in a video, Jeroen Knoester shows various effects that were used for Amiga demos and games and are based on manipulating the bitplane modulo registers. The source code used is also provided....

Video: Der Amiga - Teil 1, Wie der Amiga entstand (German) (30. Jul. 2025)
Also the Stay Forever podcast is dedicating itself to the Amiga on the occasion of its anniversary. The first part of the German podcast, which is almost two hours long, is once again devoted to the Amiga's origins. Part two of the Amiga series then deals...

vAmigaDOS: Web-based tool for analysing andediting ADF and HDF files (30. Jul. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann, author of the Amiga emulator vAmiga, explains: "vAmigaDOS is a new, web-based tool that allows you to analyse and edit ADF and HDF files. To do this, simply drag an ADF or HDF file into the browser window. A text-based shell will then open,...

Demoparty: Results of Nordlicht 2025 (29. Jul. 2025)
Last weekend, the Nordlicht 2025 demo party took place in Bremen, where various competitions were held. Several Amiga productions were also submitted: Old School Demo 2nd place: Stonenautica by Stonehead 3rd place: The Only Way Is Up by Akronyme...

New puzzle game: Block Cannon has been published (29. Jul. 2025)
Block Cannon is the title of the latest puzzle game for the Amiga, which developer TheoTheoderich has just released (video). Block Cannon is all about using skillful joystick controls to place three or more blocks of the same color in a row so that t...

Retro computer meetup: Interface XLII near Kiel (August 16, 2025) (29. Jul. 2025)
On Saturday, August 16, 2025, the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH), and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK) invite you to the 42nd edition of Interface in Schwentinental near Kiel - a popular meeting place for fans of cl...

Game template based on AmiBlitz: North 2.00 has been published (29. Jul. 2025)
Developer Sami "8080" Vehmaas has published North 2.00, a revised version of his Amiga game template (amiga-news.de reported), which is based on AmiBlitz 3 and AGA hardware. While the original version is available free of charge, version 2.00 is a paid "n...

Linux: Kernel 6.16.0 for X1000/e5500 (29. Jul. 2025)
Parallel to the release of Linux kernel 6.15.0, Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has finalized the compilation for AmigaOne X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs). The X1000/e5500-specific changes: adaption of the...

QEMU frontend for booting AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: Kyvos V1.1.0 (28. Jul. 2025)
Just over a week ago, we reported on the cross-platform (Linux, macOS and Windows) QEMU front end "Kyvos" published by George Sokianos, which is designed to make it particularly easy for users to set up and start AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS with just a few clic...

Print magazine: Boing #10 (French/English) (28. Jul. 2025)
40 years of Amiga, 10 years of Boing Attitude: the publisher is celebrating these two anniversaries in a special way with the tenth issue of the Boing magazine. Instead of the usual 52 pages, there are now 104 pages of news and information about all Amiga...

AmigaOS 4: DTP program CompressionOS4 0.60 (beta) (28. Jul. 2025)
Achim Pankalla's DTP program CompressionOS4 allows graphics and text to be placed on pages and generates PDF documents from them; a German manual is included. New features since beta version 0.50: new feature chain-textboxes Optimizing Now there is...

Action adventure: Amiga 40 update of Castlevania AGA (28. Jul. 2025)
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga, Dante Mende has released a major update to his port of Konami's NES action-adventure game "Castlevania" (video), which offers features such as better color use, AGA gradients, animated backdrops, calibrated jump ...

Puzzle game: Master Of Minefields (AGA) v1.0 (28. Jul. 2025)
The puzzle game "Master of Minefields" (video) was originally written for AmiGameJam 2024 (amiga-news.de reported) and took second place there. It offers ten different game modes and 350 levels. The final version now released offers the following improvem...

Preview video: E-mail client "AMail" v0.0.5 (28. Jul. 2025)
At the end of May, we reported for the first time on Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton's project to write "AMail", a modern email client for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP. In a new preview video, he explains that the secure connection via AmiSSL now w...

Do it yourself: Ripple IDE update, revision A4 (28. Jul. 2025)
Matt 'LIV2' Harlum's Ripple IDE is an IDE interface for Zorro II based Amiga models (Amiga 2000/3000/4000; amiga-news.de reported). Revision A4 changes the flash package type from TSSOP to PLCC (examples), as the former is no longer available....

Aminet uploads until 26.07.2025 (27. Jul. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.07.2025 to Aminet: regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.3M GEN Alternative REXX interp... PcmciaCD.lha driver/med 14K OS3 ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver ... SAGADriver.lh...

OS4Depot uploads until 26.07.2025 (27. Jul. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.07.2025 to OS4Depot: vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 264kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 258kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmppc_std.lha ...

AROS Archives uploads until 26.07.2025 (27. Jul. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.07.2025 to AROS Archives: vamp.lha vid/pla 5Mb Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.07.2025 (27. Jul. 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 26.07.2025: 2025-07-26 improved: Dylan Dog 16:...

Nature sounds for relaxation: auraFly 1.1.1 (27. Jul. 2025)
George Sokianos' Hollywood program auraFly for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS/x86 allows you to mix different nature sounds to relax or work more focused (amiga-news.de reported). You can now save your selected sounds and volumes as presets, and five of these ...