15.May.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: screenshots for "The King's Ransom"
'The King's Ransom' was supposed to be an arcade adventure in the style of 'Wrath of the Demon', but was cancelled so that the developers could work on a console game that was considered more urgent. The entry at 'Amiga Games That Weren't' has now been supplemented by numerous recently surfaced screenshots. (cg)
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14.May.2025
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MorphOS: CellBasics announced (update)
MorphOS developer Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek announces his "CellBasics" program in the MorphZone with just one screenshot. The screenshot shows the entry of addresses as in a simple database, but the name and the appearance are more reminiscent of a spreadsheet. Apparently, rows and columns can already be inserted or deleted at the current stage of development, and CSV is used as the storage format.
Update: (16:55, 14.05.25, snx)
As Jacek Piszczek has since explained, the standard Excel syntax has already been implemented, but the common functions still need to be programmed. Standard mathematical operations or referencing other cells or cell ranges do already work, though. CellBasics is an almost completely self-written program, only the formula parser and the routines for loading xlsx files would be ports of open source libraries. (snx)
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14.May.2025
Robert Smith (ANF)
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Video: MiSTer Multisystem 2
The MiSTer Multisystem² is an FPGA-based retro console in a 3D-printed case (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link 'More Fun Making It' is unboxing and testing it. (snx)
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13.May.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.1.1
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 bug in the directory importer
Both the executable and the source code are available for free download. At least macOS 13.5 is required. (nba)
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13.May.2025
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.10.1
Version 3.10.1 of the AmiBlitz programming language has just been released. As the developer Sven 'honitos' Dröge writes, some users have reported bugs that are to be fixed with this version. Changes:
PED
- fixed a problem doing the IDE layout
- removed WFLG_WBENCHWINDOW as PED is no wbench-window :-)
- fixed a source positioning error when cutting a block that included the last source line
- fixed as crash when using auto syntax completion for functions/statements
- fixed loading problem with textfiles other than blitz sourcefiles (ab2/ab3)
- fixed corrupt source printing when moving out left and display of sourceline started within a string literal
- fixed icon creation code: produced icons where corrupt
- fixed bug in Definition Browser: search for constans and variables where case sensitive
Compiler
- finally got "Dim KEEP..." workng again: it is possible to resize a dim'd array again (!!!)
- added "KEEP" as a token so it will be syntax highlighted
Blitzlibs
- printlib: fpumode is being checked only once at init, not in every sub anymore
- sortlib: disassembled and converted to ab3
- moved "FillArray"-command from linkedlistlib to sortlib to "bundle" all new array commands in one lib
- renamend "FillArray"-command to "ArrayFill"
- added array functions "ArraySize", "ArrayElements", "ArrayDatatype"
general
- updated icons again to look well on all OS versions
Download: AmiBlitz3101.lha (11 MB) (dr)
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13.May.2025
Hans Ippisch
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In memoriam: Manfred Kleimann, ASM editor-in-chief, has passed away
The German computer games industry mourns the passing of Manfred Kleimann, who died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 69. As the creative mind behind the magazine "ASM – Aktueller Software Markt", he is considered one of the pioneers of German games journalism.
Originally coming from the field of urban and landscape planning, Kleimann discovered his enthusiasm for language, media, and technology early on. In the mid-1980s, he recognized the potential of the still young medium of computer games and developed ASM, one of the first magazines aimed not only at programmers but explicitly at gamers, with its own stylistic devices, sections, and unmistakable tone.
From 1986 to 1991, he shaped the profile of the magazine published by Tronic Verlag as its editor-in-chief – and thus also the self-image of a growing gaming community. Kleimann knew how to combine technical fascination, editorial curiosity, and linguistic ease – a style that set a precedent and paved the way for later magazines such as Power Play and Amiga Joker.
He remained connected to the industry even after his time at ASM, working as a product manager at Konami, as a freelance editor, and later as a translator and proofreader.
Manfred "Manni" Kleimann was not a loud representative of the scene, but he was an influential one. His keen sense for topics, his editorial style, and his courage to think up new formats leave a lasting impression.
An online condolence book has been set up in memory of Manfred Kleimann. (nba)
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13.May.2025
TSA (ANF)
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Music: "DJ N-4ceR 02" vinyl announced by T.S.A.
The demoscene, retro, and makerspace group T.S.A (The Solaris Agency) has announced the new record "DJ N-4ceR 02 - TSA Friends & Chris Huelsbeck", which is a collaboration between six musicians. The 12" vinyl features tracks by CoRe (Karsten Klewer), AMItac (Andre Klaus Otto), rimmler (Markus Schmidt), Chris Huelsbeck, DJ N-4ceR (Markus Zeller), and Skyrunner_bc (Frank Scheffel). The record is currently in production and will be available from July 2025, but can already be pre-ordered for Euro 39.99. (nba)
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13.May.2025
repeatro
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Video: Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
Lemmings is considered one of the most important milestones in video game history. The video "Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games" highlights the Amiga classic from 1991. The video by the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" offers a detailed insight into the gameplay and special features of the game, which was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. (nba)
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12.May.2025
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.5.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games. George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.5 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The new information window provides more information about the selected game/demo, such as the year of release, the company/demo group that released it, the required chipset, etc. To be able to open links in the information with a browser, Urltext.mcc is required for MUI 3.x. It is already included in MUI 5.x. The changes in the overview:
Added
- Added a new "Information" window that includes the "Released date", the "Released by", the "Chipset", the links to external websites and most of the fields from the properties window.
- Added the option to use repositories based on assigns
Changed
- The "Properties" window has only the tooltypes of the selected item available to change.
Fixed
- Fixed a potential crash on exit, happening mostly on AmigaOS 3.1 systems
Direct download: iGame-v2.5.0-20250512.lha (452 Kb) (dr)
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12.May.2025
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Video: RGB2HDMI with audio support
Robert Smith had recently bought an Amiga 600 and wanted to add RGB2HDMI support to it. Whilst looking for software updates, he came across the beta version of RGBtoHDMI, which allows audio to be added directly via the Pi. In his latest video, he shows whether it works. (dr)
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12.May.2025
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Demoparty: Nordlicht 2025 in Bremen, Germany (25.-27.07)
Nordlicht demoparty 2025 will take place from 25 to 27 July at BürgerHaus Obervieland (BGO) in Bremen (Germany). And of course, various competitions will be held again, including in the categories "512 Byte Competition", "GFX Competition (Oldschool)", "ASCII / ANSI Competition", "Gravedigger Competition", "Executable Music Competition" and "Realtime Demo Competition". Tickets are available for Saturday only for 45 euros or for the whole weekend for 80 euros. (dr)
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12.May.2025
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Video: Redesign of the THEA500 mini gamepad for classic Amigas
The YouTube channel 'CRG' shows in its video how the gamepad available for the THEA500 Mini is redesigned and customised for the classic Amigas to be more like the CD32 gamepad. (dr)
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12.May.2025
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AmigaOS 4: E-UAE PowerPC JIT 1.1.0
Ten years have passed since Álmos Rajnai released version 1.0.0 of his integration of a just-in-time compiler into the Amiga emulator E-UAE for PowerPC systems (amiga-news.de reported). Now Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand has released version 1.1.0 in OS4Depot (after he had fixed the archive uploaded early Sunday), which offers changes by him as well as by Josef Wegner and Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom. The most important changes:
- Picasso96 support for AmiGFX output
- Drag and Drop support
- BSDSocket support
- Caps library 4.2 support
- Large hard filesupport
Not included are changes that were not made until the end of 2022. The source code is available on GitHub (alternative). (dr)
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11.May.2025
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Aminet uploads until 10.05.2025
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to Aminet:
amigaget.lha comm/net 175K OS3 get https files for the...
CVBasic.lha dev/cross 476K VAR BASIC compiler for Cole...
gasm80.lha dev/cross 81K VAR Generic assembler for Z...
zmac.lha dev/cross 378K VAR Z80 Macro Cross Assembl...
F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 7K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP
adv2remake.lha game/role 588K OS3 Point'n click adv. ...
TMSColor.lha gfx/conv 99K VAR Converter from BMP to T...
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 2.1M 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 2.4M WUP Paint program made with...
WhatIFF4.16.lha mags/misc 15M GEN What IFF? #4.16-April-2025
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip mus/edit 13M ARO Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...
Protrekkr_MOS.lha mus/edit 12M MOS Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...
Protrekkr_MOS.zip mus/edit 12M MOS Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...
qoatoaiff.lha mus/misc 7K OS3 Decodes Quite OK Audio ...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.2M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.0M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
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11.May.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 10.05.2025
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to OS4Depot:
frozenat.lha dev/deb 6kb 4.1 find out where a program is hang...
libfdk-aac.lha dev/lib 21Mb 4.1 Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library
libmp3lame.lha dev/lib 999kb 4.0 MP3 LAME encoding engine
giflib.lha dev/lib 623kb 4.1 A library for processing GIF ima...
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libharfbuzz.lha dev/lib 11Mb 4.1 HarfBuzz text shaping engine
libjpeg.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Lib for handling JPEG images
libmpeg2.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 MPEG2 video decompression library
libpng.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Lib for handling PNG files
libsdl_image.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 SDL image file loading library
libsdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL
libsdl2_gfx.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Drawing and graphical effects ex...
libsdl2_image.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 SDL2 image file loading library
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
libsmpeg2.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 SDL2 MPEG Player Library (SMPEG2)
libtiff.lha dev/lib 17Mb 4.1 Lib for handling Tag Image File ...
libwebp.lha dev/lib 9Mb 4.1 lib for handling WebP images
libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simpl...
openjpeg.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 Open-source JPEG 2000 codec
libcurl.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 22Mb 4.1 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS
librtmp.lha dev/lib 592kb 4.1 A support library for RTMP streams
libz.lha dev/lib 377kb 4.1 zlib data compression library
sqlite.lha dev/lib 6Mb 4.1 SQL database engine
videoslotmachine.lha gam/boa 5Mb 4.0 A slot video game playing your v...
tmscolor.lha gra/con 136kb 4.0 Converter from BMP to TMS9928 fo...
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 3Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
polarpaint_small.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
fractalnova.lha gra/mis 121kb 4.1 Calculates the Mandelbrot set us...
libxml2.lha lib/xml 15Mb 4.1 The XML C parser and toolkit of ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
curl.lha net/mis 683kb 4.1 Command line URL file transfer
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11.May.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 10.05.2025
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr.x86_64-aros-v11... aud/edi 13Mb Tracker Synth hybrid Program
videoslotmachine.lha gam/boa 5Mb A slot video game playing your v...
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
polarpaint_small_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
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11.May.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.05.2025
The following files have been added until 10.05.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
ProTrekkr_2.8.3PRE4.lha Audio/Tracker Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...
zmac-18oct2022.lha Development/Cross Z80 Macro Cross Assembler
CVBasic-0.8.0.lha Development/Cross BASIC compiler for Cole...
NoWinED-0.83-source.lha Development/Sources TextEditor multipage (M...
AmiArcadia_34.30.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
VideoSlotMachine_1.20.lha Games/Misc A slot machine game
BreakHack_4.2.0.lha Games/Role A casual coffee-break r...
FreeCG-Launcher_1.0.lha Games/Shoot2D Port of FreeCG (SDL2)
Stratagus_3.3.3.lha Games/Strategy A MorphOS port of Strat...
1oom_1.11.6.lha Games/Strategy 1oom is a Master of Ori...
fheroes2_1.1.8.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
TMSColor-3.0.lha Graphics/Convert Converter from BMP to T...
PolarPaint_1.057.lha Graphics/Draw Paint program made with...
ReportPlus_8.65.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
AmigaGPT_2.6.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
NoWinED_0.83.lha Text/Edit A MUI-based TextEditor ...
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11.May.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 10.05.2025
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 10.05.2025:
- 2025-05-06 new: Challenge Golf (On-line) done by DJ Mike (Info)
- 2025-05-04 new: Transputor (Actual Screenshots) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2025-05-04 improved: Elf (Ocean) supports spanish version (Info)
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11.May.2025
heckmeck (website)
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Developer's diary: Effects in the "Enchanted Glitch" demo
The Amiga demo "Enchanted Glitch" by Cosmic Orbs was shown at Revision 2025. At the title link, its main programmer Jobbo describes how he created the effects. (snx)
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11.May.2025
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Crowdfunding: Psygnosis - Games People Play (Volume 1), final day
Today the crowdfunding for volume 1 of the Psygnosis book by Éditions64K will end. This volume covers the years from 1980 to 1993 (amiga-news.de reported). At the time of writing, the project is just around 430 euros short of the first of its defined targets. (snx)
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11.May.2025
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Wings of Fear: Preview video of the revised version
Feedback to the demo version of his Scorpion Engine game "Wings of Fear" led to a revised version of Roar Tjørhom's shoot'em up. The new version now requires AGA chipset now and 2 MB of Fast RAM.
The text accompanying the preview video at the title link lists the changed features. (snx)
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