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RetroArch port for AmigaOS in progress (28. May. 2025)
Steffen Häuser is working on a port of RetroArch for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 - this is a modular emulator system in which only the cores for the different systems are exchanged. After completion, the conversion will be available free of charge in Amine...

Module-player: NostalgicPlayer 3.0.0 for Windows (27. May. 2025)
NostalgicPlayer is a tool for playing music files on Windows that supports a wide range of formats, including Amiga-specific file types such as MOD (Protracker, Noisetracker) and MED (OctaMED), as well as modern formats such as MP3 and FLAC. The player wa...

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.2 (27. May. 2025)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the ed...

Linux: Kernel 6.15.0 for X1000/e5500 (27. May. 2025)
Parallel to the release of Linux kernel 6.15.0, Christian ‘xeno74’ Zigotzky has finalized the compilation for AmigaOne X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs). The X1000/e5500-specific changes: adaption of the ...

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 170 (Italian/English) (27. May. 2025)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furth...

New game engine: Sevgi Engine (26. May. 2025)
Sevgi Engine is a new open source video game engine which provides the required tools and generates the boilerplate code to create high performing Amiga games using only the C programming language (video). It is built around the ScrollingTricks archive by...

Tool: morsconv 3.0 generates Morse code (26. May. 2025)
With Grzegorz Kraszewski's tool " morsconv" it is possible to convert text into various forms of Morse code using shell commands. The following output modes are supported: AUDIO - Outputs Morse code as realtime audio using audio.device. CON – ...

Preview video: New e-mail client "AMail" (26. May. 2025)
A fortnight ago Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton had already presented his project in a first video: "AMail" is to be a modern e-mail client for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP. The second video now published shows how the client communicates with its ...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made V0.9 / Video interview (26. May. 2025)
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch had submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, which creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video, amiga-news.de reported). Version 0....

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 ...

OS4Depot uploads until 24.05.2025 (25. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 24.05.2025 to OS4Depot: libid3tag.lha dev/lib 640kb 4.1 ID3 tag manipulation library libmad.lha dev/lib 796kb 4.1 MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder libmpg123.lha dev/lib 7Mb 4.1 ...

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.05.2025 (25. 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 24.05.2025: 2025-05-19 updated: Battle Command...

Arcade game: Gemdalus released (25. May. 2025)
The aim of Gemdalus (story of origin) is to collect all the gems scattered around a labyrinth. In doing so, however, you are dragging a kind of rubber band behind you that cannot be crossed. However, it is possible to snap the rubber band back to take a d...

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 ...

Shoot'em Up: final demo for "Rex and the Galactic Plague" (24. May. 2025)
'Rex and the Galactic Plague' is a vertically scrolling shooter developed with the help of the Scorpion Engine. The "final" demo version now released contains three playable levels and shows the current status after the developer had to make quote some ch...

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...

PPC hardware: MorphOS successfully boots on the "Mirari" motherboard (23. May. 2025)
Three weeks ago, the PPC-based motherboard "Mirari", developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning, was presented to the public for the first time. According to our information, the MorphOS team contacted the Mirari team for the first time right after this annou...