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AmigaOS 4: Text editor DumbPad 0.3 (07. Jun. 2025)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin wanted to create a simple and stable text editor with "DumbPad". It is his first Reaction-based project, version 0.3 already supports tabs and notifications uses AISS for menu and button graphics. The project "definitely has bugs" but...

Evercade handheld console: Roguecraft DX announced (06. Jun. 2025)
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported). Now a special version of the Amiga rogue-like game Roguecraft (amiga-news.de reported) has been announced: Roguecraft D...

Shoot'em Up: Second demo version of "Wings of Fear" (06. Jun. 2025)
Roar Tjørhom is in the process of creating a small shoot'em up for the Amiga with the help of the game construction kit Scorpion Engine and has now released a second demo version (video), which offers the following changes compared to the first version: ...

Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2025 started (05. Jun. 2025)
The motto of this year's edition of the AmigaGameJam programming competition is 'Return of the Arcade': The task is to create a title that could be set in a typical Arcade and "would be worthy of being given its own arcade cabinet". The deadline for devel...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Scalexx converts Scala MM 400 presentations to MM 300 format (05. Jun. 2025)
Scalexx, which was developed for the Amiga Tools Jam, is an Arexx-script for making Scala scripts made with Scala MM400 compatible with Scala MM300....

Filesysbox.library: Version 54.7 for AmigaOS and AROS/x86 (update) (04. Jun. 2025)
The FUSE compatible filesysbox.library, which is used by the SMB2 handler, has been updated for AmigaOS 3.x and AROS/x86. Changes in version 54.6 can be found at the title link. Update: (11.06.2025, 05:48, dr) Version 54.7 is now available, ...

Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2b2 (03. Jun. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.2b2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which includes the following changes: Enhancement: Names of imported or exported files are properly sanitized Bug fixes: Querying the mouse button state via the POTx...

Martin Ulrich, co-developer of Ports of Call, has passed away (03. Jun. 2025)
Martin Ulrich, the co-developer of the Amiga classic Ports of Call, passed away on 31 March 2025 at the age of 76. The sad news was announced by his long-time developer colleague Rolf-Dieter Klein. Ulrich was born on 22 October 1948. Together with Klein, ...

Tool: EmptyADF 2.0 (03. Jun. 2025)
EmptyADF is an easy-to-use tool with a graphical user interface for creating empty ADF disk images on Amiga systems for use on classic Amigas (with AmigaOS 3.2.x), in Amiga emulators or for backups. The tool can be used to create DD (880 KB) or HD (1...

Worth a read: The Meaning of Icons (03. Jun. 2025)
In his latest blog post on datagubbe.se entitled "The Meaning of Icons", Carl Svensson explores how we interpret icons in graphical user interfaces – and why their meaning is often less obvious than we think. Using numerous examples – fro...

AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.1 (02. Jun. 2025)
Three weeks ago, Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand released version 1.1.0 of the integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). The update to version 1.1.1 (video) provides the following chan...

Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.4a (02. Jun. 2025)
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC fr...

Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2 v1.00 (02. Jun. 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, but requires ownership and successful completion of the first part. The recently released version 1.00 offers a revi...

Shoot'em up: Demo version of AmiSeaFox (02. Jun. 2025)
"Amiten Games" has created a conversion of the shoot'em up classic Seafox for the Amiga (video) and has now released a first demo version. Using a submarine, you have to destroy the entire enemy before the torpedoes or fuel run out. The game runs on an Am...

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.06.01 (02. Jun. 2025)
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2025.06.01 fixes a crash when loading ROM in ZuluSCSI Blaster and enables physical eject b...

Aminet uploads until 31.05.2025 (01. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to Aminet: zbbslister.lha comm/bbs 6K OS3 a BBS lister for the Ze... amigaget.lha comm/net 203K OS3 get https files for the... curl-amigaget.lha ...

OS4Depot uploads until 31.05.2025 (01. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 31.05.2025 to OS4Depot: libsdl3_gfx.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Drawing and graphical effects ex... libsdl3_image.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 SDL3 image file loading library libsdl3_ttf.lha dev...

Hunkster: Amiga and Linux versions (01. Jun. 2025)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has created an Amiga and a Linux version of the program Hunkster by 'RetroNick'. The Amiga version also has a MUI interface. The program can be used to load media files as hunk files into the Amiga's working memory, also specific...

Amiga-Emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2b1 (31. May. 2025)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.2b1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which includes the following changes: vAmiga now supports folder import for hard drives (#904) Improved file inspector (#910) The file system creator uses the correct ...

Picture collection: Amiga Graphics Archive updated (31. May. 2025)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" has been supplemented by further pictures from the German "Amiga Magazin": The illustrations come from a "Colour Cycling" competition from July 1988....