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Aminet uploads until 03.05.2025 (04. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 03.05.2025 to Aminet: nscanz10.lha comm/bbs 11K OS3 Scans FTN nodellist, di... amigaget.lha comm/net 264K OS3 get https files for the... AmiBlitz3_Cheat_Shee...

OS4Depot uploads until 03.05.2025 (04. May. 2025)
The following files have been added until 03.05.2025 to OS4Depot: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line&a... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator xiangqi.lha g...

FPGA-based retro console: MiSTer Multisystem² (04. May. 2025)
A new retro console based on the MiSTer is available from Tuesday, emulating a variety of systems using its Cyclone-V FPGA chip - including a TG68/020 with AGA or RTG, a Toccata and plenty of Fast RAM using the Minimig core. The MiSTer Multisystem² (vi...

Java program: ham_convert 1.11.1 (03. May. 2025)
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based programme ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format. Changes in version 1.11.1: Higher quality Lanczos image resizing. Older Bicubic was too blurry Support for additional input formats: we...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Mars Cops (02. May. 2025)
At the end of September last year, the website Games That Weren't reported on the space shooter "Mars Cops" planned by Arcana Software at the end of the 1980s. Pete Galey informed the editors of the website that there was a demo version of the Amiga versi...

SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death 1.0 (02. May. 2025)
At the end of November, 'Quantum Code Monk' released a first pre-release version of its Scala MM game conversion "The Angel of Death" for AmiGameJam 2024, which is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game released by Sierra in 1987. As...

Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.3 (01. May. 2025)
The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimi...

New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, FPGA (Update 3) (30. Apr. 2025)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presented a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Some time later, Kanning himself started posting in our comments section and supplied a pretty extens...

Worth a read: Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO (29. Apr. 2025)
American journalist and author David L. Farquhar regularly writes about computer and IT history on his website "The Silicon Underground". In a recent article, he outlines the short but eventful tenure of Thomas Rattigan as CEO of Commodore. Rattigan was l...

Podcast: The Retro Hour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Amiga (29. Apr. 2025)
The latest episode (476) of the English-language podcast The Retro Hour is all about the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. Recorded live at VCF East in New Jersey, host Dan Wood presents stories about Amiga developers and computer pioneers Dale Luck, ...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Alien Olympics (29. Apr. 2025)
Alien Olympics was a sports game planned by Mindscape for 1994 for the Amiga (OCS, 1 MB) and the CD32. Although it was never released, the website "Games That Weren't" has now discovered an early version of the game that is about 30% complete and made it ...

AmigaOS 4: clib4 1.6.0 (28. Apr. 2025)
With clib4 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè is working on a variant of the official ADTools clib2, which should be specific for AmigaOS 4 in order to be easier to maintain and above all to add functions that are difficult to implement on original Amigas. ...

Managing ADF files: adflib V0.10.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS (update) (28. Apr. 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)...

Video: Game Construction Kit "RedPill" supports HAM images (28. Apr. 2025)
A few days ago, version 0.9.50 of the game construction kit "RedPill" was released on Aminet: among other things, the option to use HAM images as cover images was added. The developer Carlos Peris demonstrates this in a short video....

Aminet uploads until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to Aminet: cstat11z.lha comm/bbs 13K OS3 ZeusBBS Callersstats, B... FILEDIR.lha comm/bbs 16K OS3 FileBase like Excelsior... lcall13.lha ...

OS4Depot uploads until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to OS4Depot: imp3.lha aud/pla 50kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga! vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 262kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 257kb 4....

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 2025)
The following files have been added until 26.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage: fd2pragma_2.198.lha Development/Misc A tool to create pragma... AmiArcadia_34.20.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... Baccarat_2.05.lha...

WHDLoad: New installers until 26.04.2025 (27. Apr. 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 26.04.2025: 2025-04-25 improved: Academy: Tau ...

AmigaGuide magazine: "WhatIFF?", issue 16 (26. Apr. 2025)
"WhatIFF?" is an English-language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the 16th issue are: Reviews: AKUA Amiga Keyboard to USB Adapter OpenPSX2Amiga Pad Adapter AMI-RGB2VGA Ultimate Tikus USB Mouse/Joystick Adapter TechnoSound Tu...

Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.5.0 (25. Apr. 2025)
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool...