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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 25 (24. May. 2025)
The current issue 25 (May 2025) of the Italian magazine ‘Passione Amiga’ contains 48 colour pages and is available as a printed or digital edition (via Amazon). The topics of the issue include: Reviews of 11 new Amiga games: Burger Time, ...

Hardware emulators: ARM-native MP3 decoding for A1200NG and A600GS (24. May. 2025)
As Amigakit announces in a post on amigaworld.net, they have released "ArmMP3File.library" that uses native ARM code to decode MP3 files. In addition to the text-based player already available, it is hoped that an MP3 player with a graphical user interfac...

Tool: png2iff 0.1 for Windows (23. May. 2025)
Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written a small command line tool for Windows which converts indexed or truecolour PNG files into the classic Amiga IFF format. Colour quantisation, palette remapping and several dithering modes are supported....

Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v0.90 (23. May. 2025)
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler 'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for free at itch.io and continues the story of its predecessor (amiga-news.de reported). The current version 0.90 now offers music. The s...

Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor 6.2.0 (23. May. 2025)
ASM-editor is a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language (amiga-news.de reported, source code on GitHub). The tool now supports not only 68k and x...

Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Echo Fighter" (6) (23. May. 2025)
With the sixth preview video of its shoot'em up "Echo Fighter" (amiga-news.de reported), 'pixelplop' shows the progress made recently: the player is now greeted with a scaling "Wave" and "Get Ready" text at the start of the level. The inertia of the ship'...

AROS: The Register reports on the portable AROS distribution (23. May. 2025)
The Register is an online portal offering news and analyses from the world of technology companies. A current article is dedicated to the recently released portable AROS distribution (amiga-news.de reported) and explores how this live distribution works. ...

Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.1.2 (22. May. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.1.2 of his Amiga emulator 'vAmiga' for macOS, which should no longer a crash when switching the host computer to standby mode. ...

Mingo's Commodore Blog: The Gotek drive in detail - parts 1 and 2 (German) (21. May. 2025)
In his latest blog entry, Domingo Fivoli from South Tyrol continues his detailed and richly illustrated examination of the Gotek drive. His German two-part guide is about making the drive suitable for Amiga and installing some modifications. The current s...

Blog entry: Desktop Icons of Yore (21. May. 2025)
Following his thoughts on why computers used to be more fun, Carl Svensson has now published a short blog entry on the evolution of desktop icons from Xerox via e.g. Amiga and NextStep to BeOS....

Event: Tech Conference Hamburg (June 3/4, Germany) (21. May. 2025)
Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has already been mentioned in various news items regarding articles about the Amiga demo scene in his Heckmeck blog. Now he will be giving a talk at the Tech Conference Hamburg in Germany o...

PTWeekender IX: Online party with tracker music and DJ sets (20. May. 2025)
On June 6 and 7, 2025, PTWeekender returns - an online event dedicated to Amiga tracker music and retro DJ culture. On Friday, June 6, the weekend kicks off with a Tracked Music Compo and the so-called Prekender sets. Saturday, June 7, will then be dedica...

Retro soccer game: "Mundialito" (update) (20. May. 2025)
Mundialito, a new retro-style arcade soccer game, is coming soon, and a new preview video has been released. The game, which is reminiscent of similar games from the 1980s, will feature action-packed 1-on-1 duels, power-ups, corners, free kicks, penalty k...

AmigaOS 4: User report on the SATA PCI card from Rabbit Hole (19. May. 2025)
In mid-March, George 'walkero' Sokianos published a review of the SATA PCI Hard Card from Rabbit Hole under AmigaOS 4 on IntuitionBase (amiga-news.de reported). This card comes with a 256 GB M.2 SSD, which is already connected and ready for use. Now Dani...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: GoSnap V0.15 (update) (19. May. 2025)
The second entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam was submitted by Krzysztof Donat: GoSnap enables the function known from other operating systems for snapping windows to the edges of the screen (video). GoSnap creates 8 active zones on the Workbench screen: 4...

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...