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Hardware project: Bluetooth-based Kickstart switch "AmigaBlueKick" (08. Mar. 2025)
"AmigaBlueKick" is a Kickstart switch that does not require any soldering work on the motherboard or a mechanical switch: Switching between the different Kickstart ROMs is done via Bluetooth. To do this, a ready-made ESP32S3 or ESP32C3 Wifi/Bluetooth modu...

Logic game: Untangle V1.2 (07. Mar. 2025)
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so ...

Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.9 (06. Mar. 2025)
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source c...

Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West (06. Mar. 2025)
The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical...

Antivirus software: xvs.library version 33.48 (06. Mar. 2025)
Georg Wittmann provides version 33.48 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Changes since the last release: Fixed recognition of 'Disk-Doktors' and 'Suicide Machine' boot viruses to avoid false alarms with harmless bootblocks. The new pa...

Multiplatform emulator: Clock Signal 2025-03-05 (macOS, Linux) (06. Mar. 2025)
Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to vario...

AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.8 (06. Mar. 2025)
Version 3.2.8 of the multimedia library SDL is now available, which brings the following platform-specific innovations: Fix issue with window size after SetWindowPosition Prefs: add AISS images to menus Ignore destination alpha for target textures ...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.48 (06. Mar. 2025)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, 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 requ...

AmigaOS 4: GemRB RPG package 0.8.8 (05. Mar. 2025)
Press release (translation): Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are very pleased to present the GemRB RPG package version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and the easy installation. GemRB makes it possible to play...

Podcast: Amiga's Lost Future - The Secrets Commodore Never Told You (05. Mar. 2025)
The latest episode of the Binary Beats podcast looks at Commodore's unreleased projects such as the AAA chipset, Hombre and other failed innovations....

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 173 (05. Mar. 2025)
The English and German issue 173 (March/April 2025) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes, bes...

Short film: "Another World - The Film" on YouTube (04. Mar. 2025)
A tribute to the action adventure game "Another World", developed by Delphine Software and released in 1991, was posted on YouTube by filmmaker Riccardo Carletti. The short film was produced with the permission of Eric Chahi, the creator of the original g...

Fast file and image transfer: MailSender 1.03 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (04. Mar. 2025)
MailSender minimises the effort required to send files and images by e-mail and offers a user-friendly interface. The new program from Zoltan Lazar offers the following functions, among others: image conversion: automatic conversion of images to JPG fo...

Video: Forgotten Town - A story of early German Hardcore Techno (03. Mar. 2025)
The video documentary "Forgotten Town - A story of early German Hardcore Techno" (vimeo link) tells the story of the origins of the scene magazine "Hakke" (webarchive link), which was produced in Chemnitz (Germany) in the 1990s . All issues of the magazin...

Emulator: Denise v2.5 (03. Mar. 2025)
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Version 2.5, which has now been released, offers the f...

Aminet uploads until 01.03.2025 (02. Mar. 2025)
The following files have been added until 01.03.2025 to Aminet: MailSender_MOS.lha comm/mail 6.0M MOS send pictures and/or fi... MailSender_OS4.lha comm/mail 6.6M OS4 send pictures and/or fi... amigassh.lha ...

Photos and video of the special exhibition "40 years of Amiga" in Karlsruhe (02. Mar. 2025)
As reported, a special exhibition "40 years of Amiga" can be visited on Saturdays in Karlsruhe (Germany). An illustrated short report from the vernissage on January 10 can now be seen at the title link, and a video recording of Petro Tyschtschenko's speec...

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive (01. Mar. 2025)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" has been supplemented by numerous pictures from graphics competitions of the German Amiga magazine. Since there were already some more pictures from this magazine in the archive, there is also a new overview page with all pixe...

Individual Computers: ACA1260Tool 0.98 (01. Mar. 2025)
"ACA1260Tool" is used to configure the ACA1240/1260 turbo cards from Individual Computers and can be started both from the Workbench and from the shell. Version 0.98, which has now been released, contains the following changes: added commandline opti...

Open source A4091 software package: A4091 version 42.31 (01. Mar. 2025)
For ReA4091, the open source replica of Commodore's Fast SCSI2 controller "A4091", there is now also an open source software package available, which contains AmigaOS drivers, a ROM image, a test utility and software for debugging the driver. Version 42.3...