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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...

WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.5.0 (12. May. 2025)
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games. George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.5 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The new information window provides more information about the selected game/demo, such as t...

Video: RGB2HDMI with audio support (12. May. 2025)
Robert Smith had recently bought an Amiga 600 and wanted to add RGB2HDMI support to it. Whilst looking for software updates, he came across the beta version of RGBtoHDMI, which allows audio to be added directly via the Pi. In his latest video, he shows wh...

Video: Redesign of the THEA500 mini gamepad for classic Amigas (12. May. 2025)
The YouTube channel 'CRG' shows in its video how the gamepad available for the THEA500 Mini is redesigned and customised for the classic Amigas to be more like the CD32 gamepad....

AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.0 (12. May. 2025)
Ten years have passed since Álmos Rajnai released version 1.0.0 of his integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). Now Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand has released version 1.1.0 in OS4De...

Aminet uploads until 10.05.2025 (11. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to Aminet: amigaget.lha comm/net 175K OS3 get https files for the... CVBasic.lha dev/cross 476K VAR BASIC compiler for Cole... gasm80.lha ...