04.Apr.2025
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Pre-order: New synth album ‘Home Arcade’ with Amiga track
'LukHash' describes his music as a "fusion of digital 8-bit chaos and 80s-inspired synthesiser music, combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His new album "Home Arcade" can now be pre-ordered and customers will also receive 'retro versions' of three tracks from the album: two covers in the form of SID tunes, one as a classic Amiga MOD, all three songs can be played on the original hardware. The finished album will be released on 2 May. (cg)
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04.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Revision 2025 is still looking for volunteers
The demo party ‘Revision’ will traditionally take place on the Easter weekend at the ‘E-Werk’ in Saarbrücken. However, the organisers are still looking for volunteers:
Press release: Revision is the biggest pure demoscene event in the world - and roundabout 70 volunteers make it possible. Come join us to have the best Easter weekend for you, us, and the demoscene! We are looking for people with the English skill and attitude that make them great working in a multi-national team, and who are as excited as we are to make this party great for everyone.
You'll need to be in the E Werk from super-latest Friday morning before Revision to the Monday, to help us build up and tear everything down as far as you can. Being on time and reliable is very important to everyone in your team, so we're able to share the workload fairly.
If you've been an orga at a demoparty before you'll know the score, but previous experience is not essential.
Are you interested, especially in the opening posted below? Then drop us a message at hotline-2025@revision-party.net!
Infoteam
They are the face of Revision, and for some the first impression they get of the demoscene at large. Embark on the fastest way to meet new people and make a lot of friends at a demoparty - Join our Infoteam!
Main Duties:
- Manage admission of visitors, answer questions, sell beverages
- First point of contact for the visitors, and distribute requests to all other teams (e.g. compo, recording, seminar, events, etc)
- Liaise with the security personnel and escalate any issues to the shift lead or main organisers
We are looking for someone who:
- Likes to engage with people, and is a creative, ad hoc problem solver
- Is fluent in English, additional languages are a plus (German is NOT needed)
- Is willing to work 4 shifts during the party (2x 4h + 2x 6h) with ca 5 other orgas
(cg)
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02.Apr.2025
Vinnny (ANF)
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Operating system: AmigaOS 3.2.3
Press release: Brussels – April 2, 2025. Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is proud to provide the third free update for AmigaOS 3.2. This update includes two years’ worth of fixes and enhancements to AmigaOS 3.2.2 since the previous update.
Some of the highlights in Update 3:
- ReAction classes have received numerous updates
- TextEditor now allows users to define a custom menu with macros
- 12 KB of Chip RAM is no longer reserved
- A new Kickstart 3.2.3 ROM
- At least 50 other fixes, including updates to DiskDoctor and HDToolbox
Registered users can download Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2 here.
Thank you for your continuing support of AmigaOS. (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
Mark 'Pnutttz' Nuttall (ANF)
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Crowd funding: Card game Amiga Trumps Powerplay
The financing of an Amiga "top trumps" game was initiated on Kickstarter and has already been achieved. "Amiga Trumps Powrplay" comprises thirty characters from Amiga games and will go into production at the end of April once the campaign is complete. The card game can be used independently or as an expansion for its predecessor "Amiga Trumps". (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
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Event: ZZAP! Live 2025 in Kenilworth (England)
On May 17/18, the third "ZZAP! Live" event for all Commodore and Amiga systems will take place for the first time over two days at the Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England), organized by Fusion Retro Books, the Arcade Club, Retro Games Ltd, the South West Amiga Group and the Retro Computer Museum. (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of March 2025
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link. (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
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AROS: Month in review March 2025
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month at the title link. (snx)
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01.Apr.2025
Ján Zahurancík, Philipp Lonke (ANF)
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20 years of AmiKit: The AmiKit Museum is now open
This year, the popular AmiKit celebrates its 20th birthday. The first coverage of the project appeared on amiga-news.de on 14 July 2005 ("Emulation: First Preview of the AmiKit Complete System"). The AmiKit Museum has now been set up as a thank you to Amikit's loyal fans. All Windows installers for the Workbench distribution - from AmiKit 1 to 11 - can be downloaded and tested free of charge, all fully functional. It's an interesting resource for all computer archaeologists, enthusiasts and collectors. (nba)
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01.Apr.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky
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Linux: Kernel 6.14.0 for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.14.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The X1000/X5000-specific changes are:
- Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support -- phoronix.com
- Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop -- phoronix.com
- Changes according to the Linux Kernel 6.14.0-final log
- X1000: ABIv2 kernels (CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2)
- DRM fixes (including Radeon fix):
- Networking fixes
- MMC host fixes
- Linux Git log
(nba)
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01.Apr.2025
violet
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Swedish demoscene recognised as UNESCO cultural heritage
The demoscene has been acknowledged as an intangible cultural heritage in Sweden. This underlines the cultural significance of this digital art form, which has existed since the 1980s and includes an active community in Sweden with numerous demoparties and internationally recognised groups such as The Silents, Phenomena, Triad or Fairlight.
This decision follows similar ones in other countries: in Finland, the demoscene was recognised as national intangible cultural heritage in 2020, and in Germany, it was included in the federal directory of intangible cultural heritage in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). This means that the demoscene is also part of UNESCO's world cultural heritage.
The Swedish "Institutet för språk och folkminnen" - a governmental organisation for the preservation of language and cultural heritage, comparable to a Ministry of Culture in other countries - announced the listing. (nba)
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01.Apr.2025
Dennis "Psyria" Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New music album by Chris Hülsbeck released on Bandcamp
On 28 March 2025, Chris Hülsbeck released his latest music album compilation entitled "Desert-Love-Mirage" on Bandcamp. He writes on Bandcamp and X: "This album is my latest work (not related to video games), in which I created music in all kinds of styles that I felt inspired to do at the time. This was all made possible by my Patreon supporters, and I invite everyone to join my project at www.patreon.com/chris_huelsbeck, where you can find detailed background stories for each piece of music and more." Dennis "Psyria" Lohr comments: "Sound, composition, sound and style. If it were a picture, you would probably say: 'Yes, a real Hülsbeck!'." (nba)
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01.Apr.2025
John Brett
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GUI for Greaseweazle tools: ADFDiskBox 2.2
ADFDiskBox is an application with a graphical user interface that serves as a comfortable frontend for the Greaseweazle V4 tools (reported). Developed in C#, the tool is aimed primarily at users who regularly work with Amiga-DOS disks. ADFDiskBox simplifies Amiga-DOS batch read and write operations (for ADF, 82-track ADF, SCP:Amiga-DOS and RawSCP). Devices and drives can be selected to easen the simultaneous use of multiple Greaseweazle devices.
In the newly released version 2.2, developer John Brett has added the "Options" form to make the main GUI clearer.
ADFDiskBox runs on Windows 10/11 (32-bit and 64-bit) and requires the.NET Framework 4.8. In addition to the executable program, the source code is also available for free download. (nba)
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31.Mar.2025
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Video: The 75 worst Amiga games
In his latest video, Kim Justice presents what he considers to be the 75 worst Amiga games. The game Top Banana from the developer "Hex" from 1992 has made it to first place. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir v1.2
The point'n click adventure game "NEONnoir" (video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private detective, the player has to track down a drug-addicted daughter from a good family (amiga-news.de reported).
Originally, the developers had planned to release the game in a boxed version, but this could not be realised. However, the German and Italian translations that have already been completed, as well as a manual, will now at least benefit users of the digital version. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 40.2
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas 'Thor' Richter has released version 40.2, the first stable version of his universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI", which supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. On request, the author kindly explained the background and idea behind the project in our German-language news item. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.7 for Linux and macOS
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for Linux and macOS based on the current WinUAE version. The new Version 7.0.7 mainly fixes bugs. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.49
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written now in Amiblitz 3.10.0, 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 requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
In the new version 0.9.49, among other things, the option to cycle colors in the palette has been added (video). All changes:
- Action trigger Color Cycle to cycle colors in the palette.
- Added example for color cycle, ex_colorcycling.
- Action trigger Set Text Image to set the image to be used in the dialog.
- Added help for particle editor.
- Maximum number of song modules increased from 16 to 24.
- Optimization for lateral scrolling games.
- Particles are now cleaned when switching levels in runtime.
- Now compiled with AmiBlitz 3.10.0.
- Fix when exporting images in multilaguage games.
- Fix for show tile collisions in level editor.
- Fix for pick frame when spritesheet is not the first one.
- Fixes in frame editor, pick frame and copy and paste frame.
- Fixes in dialog engine.
- Fixes in the thumbnail system.
- Fix for selecting game objects above 78.
- Updated documentation.
(dr)
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30.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 29.03.2025
The following files have been added until 29.03.2025 to Aminet:
CestinoGlobale.lha dev/blitz 53K OS3 Italian global trashcan...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 8.4M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
openpci68k.lha driver/oth 177K OS3 PCI driver for all brid...
F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 7K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP
G-WARS.lha game/shoot 9.1M OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 66K OS3 Create your own backdro...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 10M MOS Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.9M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
pOS-w64.zip misc/emu 24M VAR WinUAE-Launcher USB
pOS_w64.jpg pix/misc 834K GEN WinUAE-Launcher Screens...
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 1.7M OS4 A PDF generator
DOpusRxTrash.lha util/dopus 29K GEN Global trashcan for DOp...
filesysbox.lha util/libs 97K MOS A FUSE compatible file ...
filesysbox.m68k-amigaos.lha util/libs 99K OS3 A FUSE compatible file ...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.2M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.7M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
vbrCheck.zip util/misc 1K OS3 Check if Vectorbase is ...
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30.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.03.2025
The following files have been added until 29.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
compression.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.1 A PDF generator
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30.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.03.2025
The following files have been added until 29.03.2025 to AROS Archives:
opentyrian.x86_64-aros-v1... gam/act 4Mb open-source port of the DOS game...
hydracastle.x86_64-aros-v... gam/pla 56Mb metroidvania-style action platfo...
reminiscence.x86_64-aros-... gam/pla 1Mb Flashback engine reimplementation
xrick.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/pla 2Mb a clone of Rick Dangerous
blips.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 1Mb a sokoban style puzzle
sokobangp2x.x86_64-aros-v... gam/puz 7Mb a Sokoban engine
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 54kb A FUSE compatible file system layer
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30.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.03.2025
The following files have been added until 29.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_34.2.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Doom3_1.5.5pre.lha Games/Shoot3D Doom3 ProjectUAC
OpenMoHAA_0.81.1-beta2... Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.81.1 for Mo...
fheroes2_1.1.7.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Minesweeper_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of Minesweeper (SDL3)
Tensy_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of Tensy game (SDL3)
AmigaGPT_2.3.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
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