10.Apr.2025
AmigaBill (ANF)
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Video of Amiga 40 Roundtable and Lorraine at VCF East 2025
Former Amiga and Commodore employees Dale Luck, Ron Nicholson, Glenn Keller, Randell Jesup, Peter Cherna, Andy Finkel, and Jeff Porter talk about the history of the Amiga on a roundtable at the VCF East 2025 Amiga 40 celebration moderated by Dave McMurtrie and Dan Wood (cg)
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09.Apr.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 1200
KickSmash32 is a Kickstart ROM replacement module that can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files. With version 1.6, after the Amiga 3000 and 4000, the Amiga 1200 is now also supported in addition to the Amiga 4000CR and the Amiga 3000T. (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
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Do it yourself: RetroPlayer for Amiga music modules in a wooden case
Skilled hobbyists who want a small player for Amiga music modules in an attractive wooden case with a rotary control and display will find a finished project with a list of all the components required at the title link. (There is also an English description below the Japanese one). (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: ZZAP! Amiga, issue 21
The March/April issue of the magazine "ZZAP! Amiga" contains 60 color pages in A5 size. A look at the table of contents can be found at the Amiga Magazine Rack website. (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.22 LTS for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.22 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Information on the X1000/X5000-specific changes can be found at the title link. (snx)
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09.Apr.2025
ACube Systems (Mail)
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards
Press release: Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 08 April 2025
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the UBoot firmware for its Sam460 line of motherboards.
For the first time in Amiga history, it is now possible to boot from an NVMe SSD.
This groundbreaking achievement marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Amiga platform. Thanks to recent advancements, users can now experience dramatically improved boot speeds and data access times by utilizing modern NVMe solid-state drives—bringing the Amiga into a new era of performance and reliability.
This development not only enhances the capabilities of current NG systems but also demonstrates the ongoing innovation and dedication within the Amiga community. Booting from an NVMe SSD was once considered impossible - today, it is a reality.
This update is completely free for all users. We are excited to announce a new version packed with important features and improvements - available as a free download. New in this release:
- NVMe SSD driver – For the first time ever, you can boot from an NVMe drive using a standard NVMe-to-PCIe adapter.
- PCIe SATA2 support – Added driver for the Silicon Image 3132 controller, allowing booting from both SATA SSDs and DVD drives.
- DDR2 timing adjustments – Fine-tune DDR2 RAM timings for faster memory access.
- Customizable USB stack – Choose between EHCI (faster for mass storage) or OHCI (greater compatibility with keyboards).
- Enhanced "sata" command – Now displays more detailed information about drivers and connected devices.
- Improved serial console navigation – Navigate menu items using W and S keys.
- General bug fixes and improvements.
- Unified source code – Now streamlined for both 460ex and 440ep platforms.
- An updated installation guide is included, covering the standard ISO image method as well as alternative installation methods via TFTP and USB.
You can download the updater tool directly here: Sam460_updater_2015d.zip (8 MB)
If you are not comfortable installing UBoot yourself, we also offer fully updated UBoot chips through our online store.
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL (download of the source code). (dr)
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08.Apr.2025
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Source code editor: Hollywood 10 support for Visual Studio Code 10.0.2
For Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), "hw4vsc" is an extension that enables the development of Hollywood programmes with the free source code editor (amiga-news.de reported). The developer Micha J. has adapted his extension for the latest Hollywood 10 version and has just released hw4vsc v10.0.2.
Although the version number was only increased on the patch level, this is a massive release. It adds improved intellisense/code completion with proper code completion and quick info for all inbuilt Hollywood 10 functions, preprocessor commands and including constants (no quick info/help here, unfortunately). The README.md shows an example of intellisense in action.
The author asks you to use the Github bug tracker in case of problems. (nba)
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07.Apr.2025
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Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer"
"Last Minute Creations", a Polish group of Amiga game developers (e.g. GermZ or Chaos Arena), spent more than six years working on their mining strategy game "Aminer": set in the Soviet era, the aim is to fulfil the planned economic extraction plans and mine precious metals such as silver for the Ministry of Mining and Fossil Fuels:
"Last Minute Creations" consists of 'KaiN', who writes the code, 'Luc3k', who is responsible for the music and 'Softiron', who is responsible for all graphic tasks.
We asked the coder 'KaiN' how the idea for the project came about and why Aminer, which was presented at the Polish retro party RAM#3 last weekend, took so long to develop:
"We started the project approximately a month before the RetroKomp 2018 party, for the game compo. We were working on OpenFire at that time, but I thought that it'd be cool to show something new at the party, so I've quickly came up with a game I wanted to tackle for some time now.
At this point it was a silly little game where you just dig through the ground without any objective and collect the resources, and also had a challenge mode where the camera goes at the constant speed towards the finish line and you must collect the resources to get the high score.
The idea behind the game was that I really liked the Motherload game from the Flash games era, and I wanted to do a semi-infinite Y scroll on Amiga hardware, so it was mostly a tech demo wrapped together as a RK18 game compo entry - it scored 2nd place and you can see on Pouet.net that it looked a bit differently back then.
Still, the audio was very buggy, because it was my groups first entry to even have audio code at all - we used my own ACE library, which I'm developing for 11 years now and those 6.5 years ago it lacked some serious features - it's now a lot more better since it got all the features needed to create the Aminer.
The game is written entirely in C, with one small part written in C++ for convenience, using the ACE library as I've mentioned. 'Softiron' uses Pro Motion NG for his pixels. For audio of the game compo version, I used sfxr to have some basics blips and blops. After all those years the pickup sound is still from the original version.
At this point we even didn't have an audio guy in our roster, but then we found Lucek on the Polish forums, and he did an amazing job of creating the matching soundtrack for the game. He also did the remaining audio stuff.
One of the main challenges was to determine what do we want to do with this game - we basically had no idea. After we did the demo for compo, 'Softiron' wasn't too happy with the state of the game and wanted to expand it a bit more. We've brainstormed a bit, I came with a little bit of ideas - mostly mimicking the Motherload game, so vehicle part upgrades, underground bases for convenience and that's about it. 'Softiron' on the other hand took that thing to the next level by inventing the whole soviet setting and adding a lot of side mechanics not really related with the digging itself - it's funny because you can finish the whole game without digging too much.
The other challenge was to stay on target and that's mostly because of me. During the pandemic, I thought it'd be nice to release another game to the Revision game compo, so we've started working on GermZ. We've missed the deadline, it then took us a whole lot of time to make this game enjoyable. We've also released two other games for game compos in the meantime: Atarenium Falkon (with code by 'Lucek!') and Chaos Arena, both released in Decrunch party game compos. As you can see we just can't leave a compo without an entry.
Another challenge was to settle on final features. 'Softiron' had lots of ideas for this game, including adding a way to go to moon and dig there, and we had to cut many of them to release the game at foreseeable time. We've also had the hard time with balancing the gameplay due to a lot of different allowed playstyles, mechanics and lots of content. It also became not so simple game, so it no longer would be enjoyed by younger or less demanding audiences. I've mitigated that by adding a Sandbox mode in final weeks, which resembles the free digging mode from the compo version with some basic limited move count mechanics. The most difficult thing for me personally was to get the mood right. Since the game is set in the soviet era in not-so-fictional country, and touches on totalitarian regimes of the past, I hope the game won't be viewed as making those things "cool", because they really aren't. And we shouldn't forget about this, especially now that one of them is coming back from hiatus.
Besides all these explanations, why did it ultimately take so long? Well, we did:
- 3 kilometers of the underground mine to explore
- 8 NPCs
- 7 distinct endings
- 3 underground bases with base building mechanics
- 18 achievements
- 3 game modes and a co-op variant of each mode
- 2 language versions
- more than 20 minutes of soundtrack
- definitely no secrets
- all that crammed into a single floppy disk, if you want to torture yourself with loading times
If you want to take on the task and dig through the earth, you need an OCS Amiga with 1MB chip RAM and 1MB other RAM. The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.13.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Mame MFI writer : Fix memory allocation error/crashes.
- Kryoflux writer : The default sample frequency can be changed with the
KFRAWEXPORT_SAMPLE_FREQUENCY variable. (patch by uru2)
- Kryoflux Stream Loader : Support different sample rate setting from the
KFInfo string.
(dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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Point'n Click adventure: Demo version of Soltys released
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has released a short demo version of the point'n click adventure game "Soltys" (video), which was originally developed by the Polish studio LK Avalon and released for MS-DOS in 1995 (Wikipedia).
However, as the author emphasises, his game is not a port, but a completely rewritten version of the original game. In addition to Polish subtitles, there are also English, German, Spanish and Italian subtitles. An Amiga computer with AGA chipset, at least 1 MB Fast RAM and harddisk are required. (dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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Arcade action: New demo version V0.98 of Ghosts'n'Goblins
At the end of 2024 'Skyzoo73' released a handsome practice study to show how Ghosts 'n Goblins can be ported to the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The now updated demo version offers a lot of corrections and optimisations and requires an AGA Amiga with Fast RAM and CD32 joypad (or similar). (dr)
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06.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to Aminet:
Codecraft.adf dev/misc 880K OS3 Integrated Development ...
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.2M OS3 Multi-game Character Ed...
Galactica.lha game/wb 24K OS3 Port of strategical Lin...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 67K OS3 Create your own backdro...
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_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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 414K OS3 Updated HippoPlayer
AvalancheSPA.lha util/arc 2K GEN Spanish catalog for Ava...
fix1980.lha util/arc 1K GEN Fix an lha with timesta...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 2.1M OS3 free icon.library in op...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.2M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
IgameSPA.lha util/misc 2K GEN Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 881K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 699K OS3 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 775K MOS Multipurpose utility
GoVD.lha util/wb 31K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
losmalditos.lha gam/adv 22Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click R.P.G.
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
image.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Fast image viewer with simple fu...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
wormhole.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Network file transfer utility
reportplus.lha uti/mis 881kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
losmalditos.lha gam/adv 22Mb Adventure point and click R.P.G.
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
flx_play.x86_64-aros-v11.... vid/pla 74kb Simple FLI/FLC/FLX Animation Player
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06.Apr.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
LosMalditos_1.10.lha Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
PolarPaint_1.0.lha Graphics/Draw Paint program made with...
BouncingBall_1.0.lha Misc Port of BouncingBall (S...
AmigaGPT_2.4.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.04.2025
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 05.04.2025:
- 2025-04-05 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold) high scores are saved to a separate file (Info)
- 2025-04-02 improved: North & South (Infogrames) 2nd button/joypad support fixed, more icons, new install script (Info)
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Crowdfunding: Psygnosis - Games People Play (Volume 1)
Following the book "Demoscene: The Amiga Renaissance", Éditions64K is now planning a two-volume publication on the history of the games company Psygnosis (e.g. Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast).
The first volume covers the years 1980 to 1993, i.e. the period from the company's foundation to its takeover by Sony. The second volume, which is due to be published next year, will be dedicated to the PlayStation era up to the end of the games publisher in 2012.
In contrast to the previous campaign, the book is almost finished and will be ready for printing by the end of the crowdfunding period on May 11. Shipping should begin around June 15. (snx)
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.11.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the HAM format of the Amiga and is now available in version 1.11.0.
New features include an MSX2+ screen 10 conversion, an improved MSX2+ screen 12 conversion, an MSX Basic image file export and bug fixes. Mode 10 allows 12,499 simultaneously displayable colors, mode 12 even 19,268. (snx)
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05.Apr.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Start for ticket sales for "Amiga40"
Press release: Amiga40 Germany - 40 years of Amiga, a celebration for everyone!
17 - 19 October 2025 - a very special date for everyone who loves the legendary Commodore Amiga: We celebrate 40 years of Amiga with a big anniversary event in Mönchengladbach! Amiga40 Germany will be THE meeting place for fans, technology enthusiasts, retro lovers from all over the world - and for families who want to go on a journey through time together.
Tickets go on sale today, 5 April, at 6 pm CET via our ticket shop at amigaevent.de/ticket!
Come along - celebrate with us 40 years of Amiga cult and a time when computers still had personality!
We look forward to your visit! (cg)
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05.Apr.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.4.0
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 can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.4.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- ARexx port added to allow issuing AmigaGPT commands from another app or from a script
- Fixed bug where the About AmigaGPT window wouldn't display all the text correctly
- Latest OpenAI chat models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech voices added
- Can now give instructions to the OpenAI voice to change how it sounds (only works for the gpt-4o-mini-tts model)
- Chat now uses the new Responses endpoint instead of the Chat Completions one to allow for future expansion
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB) (dr)
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05.Apr.2025
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Video tutorial: 3D Shooter proof of concept with AMOS
The latest video from retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' follows on from his last one about creating simple anaglyph 3D graphics in AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) and continues it as a program for a 3D shooter proof of concept. (dr)
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