25.Apr.2025
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2025.04.25
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2025.04.25 extends the recently released ZuluSCSI Blaster with Wi-Fi DaynaPORT/SC Ethernet emulation support. (dr)
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25.Apr.2025
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Tool: Audio decompression with QoaToAiff 0.2
The relatively new "Quite OK Audio Format" (QOA) is a lossy audio compression format: audio signals (44100hz, stereo) are encoded at 278 kbits/s, exactly 1/5 of the bits required for an uncompressed WAV file (amiga-news.de reported).
Grzegorz Kraszewski has written a decoder that converts QOA files into uncompressed AIFF (source code on GitHub). In version 0.2, he has implemented output buffering and the hard disc operations are now faster. (dr)
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24.Apr.2025
deadwood
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First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the first version of AROS for x86-64, labelled "stable". The basic system is available in two versions: as a bootable ISO file or in a 'hosted' edition that runs under Linux. Virtual machines (VMware, Virtualbox or QEMU) are recommended as a test environment for this first release: Audio, video and network drivers have been improved and tested for this use case.
In the coming months, a 64-bit version of the Odyssey Web Browser with a significantly more up-to-date version of the WebKit engine is to be released, and the 'latest Amiga emulation cores' are also to be equipped with a 64-bit JIT and better integrated into the system. AROS distributions based on the now published base system are also already in development.
A corresponding thread has been opened on arosworld.org for discussions about this 64-bit version of AROS. (cg)
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24.Apr.2025
AmigaKit
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Emulator hardware: "A1200 NG" has been shipping to end customers since this week
Amigakit announces that it has started shipping the "A1200 NG" emulator solution after Easter. The company is working on an 'overclocking kit' that will soon be available and should increase computing power by up to 20 per cent. There will also be a port of A-EON's 'AmiStore' app store for A1200NG/A600GS in the summer. (cg)
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24.Apr.2025
GitHub
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.3
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 2.3 now offers an 'Options' dialogue and, according to the author, has generally become more user-friendly. (cg)
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24.Apr.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 174 - Preview and reading samples
The reading samples and previews of issue 174 (May/June 2025) of Amiga Future are now online. The issue features the following topics, among others:
- Special: 40 Years Amiga - Part 1: The Amiga 1000 takes the stage
- Interview Jon Bohmer (Scala)
- Interview Oldenburger Computer-Museum.
- Preview Amiga 40 Germany
- Preview ARC 2025
- Review Trapped in the Tomb
- Review Absolute Zero
- Review GemRB RPG Pack
- Review SkillGrid
- Review Yoomp!
- Review Soko-Ban
- Beyond the Screen: The history of Ports of Call,
- Special Asterix on the Amiga,
- Special: Amiga 1000 Rejuvenator
- Workshop: Knowledge 7: 8-way scrolling
- Workshop: A new SSD for your Amiga.
(cg)
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23.Apr.2025
Balaton (Mail)
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Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who clearly summarises the possibilities on a specially created and now redesigned website.
QEMU is now available in version 10.0.0, Windows installers are provided as usual by Stefan Weil.
Version 0.8 of the bootloader "bboot" for loading AmigaOS 4 on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, which was released by Zoltan Balaton about a month ago, requires the options -kernel, -initrd and -append for the amigaone machine, which are now available in QEMU 10.0. This makes it easier to use and is similar to pegasos2. Older bboot versions still require the -device loader options and will not work with -kernel on amigaone. Since the amigaone emulation might have less problems than pegasos2 (and is still available), according to Zoltan Balaton this might be a better choice now.
Finally, the developer has created a new subpage on VFIO device drivers under Linux: VFIO is a device driver that is used to assign virtual machines to devices and thus enable full access to a specific GPU, for example.
As he adds to us, the use of a GPU with VFIO on qemu-system-ppc is currently still experimental and would take some effort to set up. However, some users have managed to achieve usable results: it is therefore possible in principle, even if it is not easy to implement. (dr)
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23.Apr.2025
Amigans.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Beta version of Open Medal of Honor
Open Medal of Honor is a reimplementation of the first-person shooter "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" by Electronic Arts from 2002. The Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions are also supported.
A beta version of the game, which is still in beta itself, is now available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Download information is available at the title link. (snx)
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23.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #27 (Polish/English)
Komoda & Amiga plus is a Polish print and PDF magazine about the C64 and the Amiga, which is also distributed in an English version. The magazine in A4 format comprises 82 pages.
Topics of the current 27th issue include reviews of Fast Food 2, Tale of Evil and Amiga Yoomp, an article on data transfer between Amiga and Macintosh and an interview with Tommi 'Electric' Musturi. (snx)
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23.Apr.2025
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Development tool: vasm 2.0b
Frank Wille has updated vasm, a portable assembler for numerous CPUs with various syntax and output modules. In addition to various bug fixes, the changes include a new CPU backend for the SPC700, which was used in the SuperFamicom and SNES for sound processing, and the new option "-no-msrcdebug"; the latter disables source-level debugging within a macro context. (snx)
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22.Apr.2025
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.7
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 3.7 adds external IRQ/DMA processing and expanded its C compiler support. Maintenance work has also been done for future releases. The software is available free of charge on GitHub, including the source code. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 37
The new issue 37 of British magazine Amiga Addict is dedicated to Team 17's classic game Worms, exploring its origins with creator Andy Davidson and offering exciting insights into the very first pre-release version of the game.
This issue also includes reviews of Absolute Zero, Zool, Super Stardust and Chuck Rock II (CD32), an interview with the developer of DeMoN, a new version of the classic Action Replay, a collection of the best game over screens on the Amiga, and a report on creative DJing with the Amiga using the NASP software.
Issue 37 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsagents. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter 1.30 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x
3D Object Converter is a tool for wireframe objects that was first released last year (amiga-news.de reported). The software is available as shareware at a price of 40 euros for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. The innovations of version 1.30 since the last news update at a glance:
New modules
- ASPRS LAS
- Black Shade
- CloudCompare Binary v1
- CloudCompare Simple Binary Format
- Heroes of Annihilated Empires
- Invizimals: Battle Hunters
- Loksim3D
- OpenBVE
- Point Cloud Data ASCII
- Point Cloud Data Binary
- PolyNova3D
- Screamer 4x4
- Skoki Narciarskie 2006
- Skunks
Upgraded modules
New general features
- Scale to fit
- Texture converters
New AmigaOS features
- Batch converter
- Geometry transformation
- Set the default texture file extension in the material table
- Texture converters
(nba)
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22.Apr.2025
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Worth a read: Why computers were more fun before
In his latest article, "Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before", published on Datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson reflects on the development of computer use and argues that computers were more fun before they became accessible to everyone. He argues that the complexity of the technology at the time and the need to engage intensively with it fostered a deeper connection and greater understanding of the devices.
The article highlights how the simplification and commercialisation of technology have led to many users today having only superficial knowledge and losing their former enthusiasm for discovering and understanding technology.
A worthwhile read for anyone interested in the history of computer use and cultural changes in the digital world. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
Spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Spillhistorie: Interview with the creators of Roguecraft
In an interview with Spillhistorie.no, Norwegian developer duo Badger Punch Games provided exciting insights into the creation of their award-winning Amiga game Roguecraft. The two developers, Ricki Sickenger and Henning Ludvigsen, met in the demo scene in the 1990s and later worked together on the MMORPG Darkfall Online. With Roguecraft, they have successfully returned to the roots of retro gaming.
They report on the positive response to Roguecraft, which recently won the award for best retro game at the Debug Indie Game Awards in Brighton, England. They also provide an outlook on future projects, including possible ports of Roguecraft to platforms such as Sega Mega Drive, NES and modern systems such as Steam and Nintendo Switch. (nba)
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22.Apr.2025
Indie Retro News
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Dungeon Crawler: Sir Redford Knights Adventure currently in development
Sir Redford Knights Adventure is an upcoming dungeon crawling game for the Amiga, developed by Juen, Koyot1222 and JMD. The game won first place in the RAM#3 competition and already offers a playable demo with five randomly generated levels. Expansions with additional items and statistics are planned. The game will run on a standard Amiga 500, and a video provides a first glimpse of the gameplay. (nba)
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21.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Results of the Revision 2025
This year's edition of the Revision demo party took place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are:
Amiga Intro
Amiga Demo
In addition, there were also two Amiga entries in the "Game" category: "Billionaires in Space" by FiNitY and Zymosis (video) took 7th place (download link), "Noisy Rabbit" by Robert Smith - which we already reported on today - took 8th place. (dr)
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21.Apr.2025
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Easter game: Noisy Rabbit
After 2023 with "Hop to the Top!" and 2024 with "Bunnys Boing Ball Bounty", Robert Smith has also released an Easter game this year: in "Noisy Rabbit" (video), you have to collect large and small eggs in Pacman style. However, these are difficult to recognise as they are drawn in black and white, just like the playing field. The source code is included. (dr)
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20.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to Aminet:
zbbslister.lha comm/bbs 5K OS3 ZBBSLister is a BBS lis...
apccomm.lha comm/misc 205K OS3 transfers files between...
amigaget.lha comm/net 246K OS3 get https files for the...
fd2pragma-mos.lha dev/misc 339K VAR V2.198 create pragma, i...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
Amifish_AROS.lha game/board 3.6M ARO Chess program UCI compa...
Amifish_MorphOS.lha game/board 3.5M MOS Chess program UCI compa...
Amifish_OS4.lha game/board 3.8M OS4 Chess program UCI compa...
SysBlaster.lha game/shoot 18K OS3 (S)VGA promotable Shoot...
PolarPaint_68k.lha gfx/edit 2.0M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.5M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_68k.lha gfx/edit 1.8M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.0M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.0M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.3M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_small_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M WUP Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.3M WUP Paint program made with...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
Sacrifice.lha mods/8voic 400K GEN 16bit 16ch Up-Tempo Amb...
imp3.lha mus/play 50K OS3 Do stuff on Amiga!
MisterMartin.zip text/tfont 146K GEN Mister Martin - Truetyp...
aiostreams.lha util/batch 229K GEN Stream video from major...
gicriptofilex.lha util/crypt 131K OS3 Encrypt files using 128...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 4.0M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.6M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.5M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
containers.lha util/libs 24K OS3 Provides containers + r...
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20.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
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
amifish.lha gam/boa 4Mb 4.0 Chess program compatible with UC...
baccarat.lha gam/car 7Mb 4.0 A card game from Dr. No and Casi...
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 3Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
polarpaint_small.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.0 Paint program made with Hollywood
amissl.lha lib/mis 4Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
deark.lha uti/arc 7Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 229kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
yt.lha vid/mis 873kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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20.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.04.2025
The following files have been added until 19.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
metemp3_v1.5.i386-aros.zip aud/pla 601kb a Mp3,Flac,Wav Player
amifish.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 4Mb Chess program compatible with UC...
baccarat.lha gam/car 7Mb A card game from Dr. No and Casi...
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
polarpaint_small_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
kensv4_program_drawer.zip gra/ico 299kb application and drawer icon kens...
arsfsdoctor11.i386-aros.zip uti/fil 415kb SFS Recovery Application
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