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Programming competition: Winners of the AmiGameJam 2024 (26. May. 2025)
Voting for the AmiGameJam 2024 started at the beginning of December 2024 (amiga-news.de reported). The winners have now been announced in a live show on Twitch: 1st place: Fast Food 2 by 'acidbottle' 2nd place: Master of Minefields by 'Reborn80' 3rd ...

Aminet uploads until 24.05.2025 (25. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to Aminet: Global_War.zip comm/cnet 296K OS3 Global War amigassh.lha comm/net 151K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga ...

Anniversary: Amigaland.de turns 25 (25. May. 2025)
On amigaland.de, Mirko Engelhardt makes formerly commercial software available for download with permission. He can now look back on a quarter of a century and writes (translation): "The time has come. Amigaland.de is 25 years old, what an achievemen...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.6 and 3.2.14 (25. May. 2025)
The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is now available for AmigaOS 4 in versions 2.32.6 and 3.2.14. SDL 3, which was introduced in January of this year as version 3.2, offers an extended programming interface (for the GPU, system d...

Desktop wiki: MPW 0.1 (24. May. 2025)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow is writing a desktop wiki whose content is written in Markdown. The wiki starts a local web server, which can then be accessed from any web browser (Video). File and image uploads are still causing problems, but the wiki is already ...

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...