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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...

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...

Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Icon-Made v0.8 (19. May. 2025)
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has submitted the first entry for the Amiga 40 Tools Jam with "Icon-Made": a simple tool, still under development, that creates standard icons from IFF image files for the Workbench (video). If a single IFF file is loaded, th...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.51 (19. May. 2025)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.10.1, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations re...

AROS distribution: AROS One portable 2.8 (x86) (19. May. 2025)
In addition to the AROS distribution "AROS One" for x86 computers, which is available as a DVD ISO file or USB flash ("VHD") image (amiga-news.de reported), there is now a separate portable version for USB sticks (video), which contains AROS ONE 2.8 (32-b...

Demoparty: Outline 2025 (Ommen/NL, 29.5.-01.6.) (19. May. 2025)
Since 2004, the Outline has been celebrated as a demo party with DJs, live acts and demo competitions and, as every year, takes place on the long weekend around Ascension Day: this year from 29 May to 1 June in Ommen (Netherlands), near the border with Lo...

Aminet uploads until 17.05.2025 (18. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to Aminet: amigaget.lha comm/net 166K OS3 get https files for the... amigassh.lha comm/net 144K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga DollMak...

OS4Depot uploads until 17.05.2025 (18. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 17.05.2025 to OS4Depot: faac.lha aud/con 80kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder faad2.lha aud/con 217kb 4.1 FAAD2 AAC decoder libfaac.lha dev/lib 990kb 4.1 Freew...

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...

Preview video: Arcade game "Gemdalus" (16. May. 2025)
RETREAM is about to create "Gemdalus" (video), an arcade game in which the player has to collect all the gems scattered around the labyrinths. Inspired by Snake, the player leaves behind a kind of band of light when collecting gems, which he himself is no...

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)...

AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.0 64Bit (ABI v11) (15. May. 2025)
Press release: AROS 64-bit (ABIv11) is the result of several years of development by numerous AROS developers and the last six months of intensive testing, debugging and stabilisation. This initial release offers improved support for virtual environments ...

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. ...

Video: PiStorm68K - Update Version 1.3 (15. May. 2025)
The PiStorm68k is compatible various models of the Raspberry Pi generations 3 and 4 and contains an integrated WLAN module and a real-time clock as well as a DIP64 slot to accommodate a 68000 processor. It is possible to switch between the emulated and th...

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...