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Legal dispute: Hyperion can be held liable for copyright infringements (13. Jun. 2025)
In April 2023, Hyperion won the first lawsuit with Mike Battilana and his partners: The judge had essentially ruled that the plaintiffs Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. could not sue for breach of contract or copyright infringement and that the only party en...

Unofficial successor: Action Replay software 5.1.0 (13. Jun. 2025)
An improved Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga 500 and WinUAE has been developed using reverse engineering. The hardware component is DeMoN, the software is called Action Replay 5 (amiga-news.de reported), which has now been updated to version 5.1...

Open Hardware: Amiga Serial Midi Adaptor 1.3 (12. Jun. 2025)
The "Amiga Serial Midi Adapter" upgrades the MIDI interfaces on an Amiga. According to the developer, it converts the RX and TX signals of the serial port into the MIDI TTL standard and should therefore be compatible with (quote) "most Amiga MIDI software...

SMB2 handler: smb2fs version 53.9 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (12. Jun. 2025)
Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols. New features in version 53.9: smb2-handler 53.9 (12.6.2025): Added a version compiled for the 68060 CPU Added support for the DOMAIN argument. smb2-handler 53....

7-bit: Firmware version 0.44 for Bluetooth adapter (11. Jun. 2025)
Already one week ago firmware version 0.44 for the BlueLink control pad adapter from 7-bit was released. As the manufacturer announces at the title link, the Bluetooth adapter is now also available from Alinea....

RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.21 for P96 (10. Jun. 2025)
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96. AmigaOS 3.2 or newer is required. Since our last report on P96Prefs almost two years ago, numerous updates have been made, including support for...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Viking by New Deal Productions (10. Jun. 2025)
A new article on Games That Weren't is dedicated to the game "Viking", an ambitious but never released project by New Deal Productions for Amiga and Atari ST from 1990. Instead of a linear story, players would take on the role of Viking heroes such a...

Worth a read: The creation of Boulder Dash (10. Jun. 2025)
A new article on Spillhistorie tells the story of how the legendary game Boulder Dash was created. In an interview with Canadian developer Peter Liepa, one of the game's co-developers, we learn about the background to the game – from Liepa's early e...

Game engine: Sevgi Engine v0.179 (10. Jun. 2025)
Sevgi Engine is a new open source game engine for creating of powerful Amiga games using the C programming language (video) and based on the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 0.179 is available providing the fol...

Amiga emulator for the Web: vAmigaWeb 4.2.1 (09. Jun. 2025)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.2. In addition, file exchange between Amiga and host computer is now only possible via ZIP archive. In principle, you no long...

Hardware analysis: boards.library 3.122 (09. Jun. 2025)
The boards.library decodes manufacturer IDs and product IDs of Amiga computers and shows what is installed in the Amiga and by whom. It is used, for example, by tools such as WhichAmiga and ReportPlus or AmigaOS' own ShowConfig (V46+). Starting with vers...

Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2 (09. Jun. 2025)
After two beta versions, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which offers FileSystem code clean-ups. At least macOS 13.5 is required....

Aminet uploads until 07.06.2025 (08. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to Aminet: AmiBlitzCodeExamples00.lha dev/blitz 9K GEN AmiBlitz3 Code Examples... hunkster.lha dev/misc 248K OS3 Create hunks to embed i... DiskFlus...

AmigaRemix: Further file added (08. Jun. 2025)
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added: The B!tch of Death ...

Operating system for the Amiga: Fourth alpha version of Serena OS (08. Jun. 2025)
Dietmar Planitzer is working on an experimental operating system for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). Now a fourth alpha version is available, which now also boots on an Amiga 1200. In addition, for the first time there are Windows versions of the...

Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.4 (08. Jun. 2025)
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.4. Using ROM files based on this, EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turbo cards or the THEA500Mini. Amiga-related, new features include support for NT...

Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.5 (08. Jun. 2025)
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga disks and disk images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP). Version 2.5 fixes a bug when writing floppy disks and there is...

AmigaOS 4: Status update on WebKit porting (08. Jun. 2025)
At the title link, Andrea Palmatè describes the latest attempt to port the WebKit-based browser Odyssey to AmigaOS 4 in a contemporary form based on the MorphOS and AROS adaptations. Previously, George ‘walkero’ Sokianos had been working on th...

Event: The Amiga at 40 (Cambridge) (08. Jun. 2025)
Another event to mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga will be hosted by The Center for Computer History in Cambridge, England, on July 19....

Youtuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand (08. Jun. 2025)
Years ago, Sean Donohue acquired the rights to the x86-based Commodore 64x nostalgia computer from the bankruptcy estate of Commodore USA and attempted a Kickstarter-funded remake with his British company My Retro Computer Ltd., which was founded specific...