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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...

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...

OS4Depot uploads until 07.06.2025 (08. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to OS4Depot: seq.lha aud/mis 449kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer libfribidi.lha dev/lib 576kb 4.1 Free Unicode Bidirectional Algor... libicu.lha dev/lib 59Mb 4.1 In...

AROS Archives uploads until 07.06.2025 (08. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to AROS Archives: screentest-v1.x86_64-aros... dem/mis 33kb Tests the stability of your screen planethively.x86_64-aros-... dem/mus 275kb A musicdisk about HivelyTracker dose2.x86_64-aros-v11.zi...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.06.2025 (08. Jun. 2025)
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to MorphOS-Storage: Amidon_1.3.lha Communication A Mastodon client for M... nrg4iso_1.0.lha Files/Convert Convert Nero image file... OpenLara_1.1.lha ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...