11.Jun.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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7-bit: Firmware version 0.44 for Bluetooth adapter
Already one week ago firmware version 0.44 for the BlueLink control pad adapter from 7-bit was released. As the manufacturer announces at the title link, the Bluetooth adapter is now also available from Alinea. (snx)
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11.Jun.2025
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Discord channel freely accessible / Exchange with IRC server
Since mid-May, the instant messaging provider Discord (Wikipedia) does also have a MorphOS server. After initially requiring an invitation to participate, access is now possible directly.
As Frank 'cyfm' Mariak explains at the title link, it is also possible to communicate in languages other than English in the "MorphOS Babylon" area. In addition, some channels are also mirrored to the IRC server on libera.chat so that you can also participate in them via IRC. Accordingly, the official MorphOS IRC channel is linked to its Discord counterpart as well.
The following Discord-IRC links exist:
- MorphOS general -> #morphos
- MorphOS hardware -> #morphos-hardware
- MorphOS faq -> #morphos-faq
- MorphOS help -> #morphos-help
- MorphOS Software main-pool -> #morphos-software
- MorphOS Software games -> #morphos-games
(snx)
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11.Jun.2025
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Video: AMOS game to insert and eject real floppy disks
In a two-part video, Robert Smith demonstrates how he created an AMOS game with five real floppy disk drives in which you are asked to insert and eject floppy disks into randomly selected drives. (snx)
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11.Jun.2025
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WHDLoad: Reinhold Kloth passed away
Reinhold 'Stingray' Kloth passed away already in November, shortly after his 50th birthday, as has only now become known. In addition to many demoscene productions as part of his membership in groups such as Scoopex, Scarab and Desire, he was also one of the most eager contributors to the WHDLOad project: 847 installations were created by him alone, and he was involved in 247 more.
Scoopex is planning a demo production in his memory and invites those who knew him to contribute a short text message at the title link. (snx)
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10.Jun.2025
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RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.21 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96. AmigaOS 3.2 or newer is required. Since our last report on P96Prefs almost two years ago, numerous updates have been made, including support for environment variables, Matrox and Radeon card drivers, and PCI-based S3ViRGE graphics cards.
The following changes have been made in the last two years and are included in the current version 47.21:
- 47.21: Added support for the Matrox and Radeon card driver. Fixed handling of ALT+Cursor key combination in the mode edit window, adjusting the blank borders around the frame.
- 47.20: Added support for new environment variables appearing in P96 3.6.0.
- 47.19: Added support for the tool types of the Matrox P96 video driver.
- 47.18: The "Interlace" gadget in the mode GUI is now disabled for boards that do not support interlace.
- 47.17: P96Prefs is now aware of S3ViRGE based PCI cards and the latest S3ViRGE driver. If all modes of a resolution are enabled, and the resolution is enabled, then it also enables those modes that could be verified. P96Prefs now also supports Matrox drivers, though possibly not yet all tooltypes the driver offers.
- 47.16: P96Prefs is now aware of the Voodoo card and the latest Voodoo driver on Aminet.
- 47.15.1: The P96Prefs binary is unchanged, but this release contains an updated Italian catalog by Samir and an updated Spanish catalog by Javier. Thanks folks!
- 47.15: This release adds support for the new VA2000 driver and recognizes its tool types and some card pecularities.
- 47.14: P96Prefs re-evaluates now the double scan and interlace flags from the board driver, and thus cooperates nicer with the A2410 driver which turns off the double scan it does not support.
- 47.13: Only very minor changes have been made in this release, this version is now more verbose in case it cannot open its window and prints error messages if opening the window fails. Note that P96Prefs is designed for classical Amiga Systems, it will not work on PPC systems.
- 47.12.1: The binaries remained unchanged, just catalogs had been updated. Thanks again to Samir and Javier!
- 47.12: P96Prefs now requests a reboot in case a board assignment changed implicitly because an installed board was assigned to an already existing preferences setting. P96Prefs now also loads the monitor dimensions from the EDID data and fills them in. Setting the knob position of numerical tool types was not always set to scale correctly.
- 47.11: In case a board is ghosted, P96Prefs now prints a reason under the (assumed) board name, either providing information that the board driver is not loaded, the monitor icon was not found, or the settings are not assigned to a board.
- 47.10: One GUI glitch in the German translation was fixed where one string in the control panel for numerical elements was taking too much space.
(nba)
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10.Jun.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Viking by New Deal Productions
A new article on Games That Weren't is dedicated to the game "Viking", an ambitious but never released project by New Deal Productions for Amiga and Atari ST from 1990.
Instead of a linear story, players would take on the role of Viking heroes such as Erik, Leif or Thorwald, setting out to discover the world with their ship and crew and creating their own quests. The plan was to create a huge geographical setting with 13 seas, 72 rivers and over 200 cities – including trade, sea battles, sieges of historic cities and magical tasks. The graphics and scope seemed extremely promising at the time. Why development was discontinued and the game never released remains unknown. (nba)
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10.Jun.2025
Retrogamingpappa (ANF)
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Worth a read: The creation of Boulder Dash
A new article on Spillhistorie tells the story of how the legendary game Boulder Dash was created. In an interview with Canadian developer Peter Liepa, one of the game's co-developers, we learn about the background to the game – from Liepa's early experiences with computers to his groundbreaking approaches to level design.
The original Boulder Dash was developed in 1984 by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray for 8-bit Ataris, followed by conversions for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and many other platforms. In early 2025, the anniversary edition Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary was released for modern gaming platforms.
The article shows that the combination of a clever puzzle idea, fast-paced gameplay and user-friendly design contributed significantly to its worldwide success. (nba)
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10.Jun.2025
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Game engine: Sevgi Engine v0.179
Sevgi Engine is a new open source game engine for creating of powerful Amiga games using the C programming language (video) and based on the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 0.179 is available providing the following changes:
- Fix the crash when opening an image bank in Image Editor on a native display
- Fix cybergraphics.library dependency of Sevgi Editor
- Fix exiting with an invalid current dir when Sevgi Editor is ran from shell
(nba)
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09.Jun.2025
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Amiga emulator for the Web: vAmigaWeb 4.2.1
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for web browsers or as a progressive web app. The new version is now based on the core of vAmiga 4.2. In addition, file exchange between Amiga and host computer is now only possible via ZIP archive. In principle, you no longer need HDF files, as file exchange via ZIP archive is much easier and you don't need any extra tools to read HDF files. (dr)
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09.Jun.2025
Richard 'Shred' Körber
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Hardware analysis: boards.library 3.122
The boards.library decodes manufacturer IDs and product IDs of Amiga computers and shows what is installed in the Amiga and by whom. It is used, for example, by tools such as WhichAmiga and ReportPlus or AmigaOS' own ShowConfig (V46+).
Starting with version 3.120 the boards.library now checks the identify.library V45.0 and higher (amiga-news.de reported) for unknown boards and vice versa. Thus both libraries should be installed. (dr) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jun.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.2
After two beta versions, Dirk Hoffmann has now released the final version 4.2 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS, which offers FileSystem code clean-ups.
At least macOS 13.5 is required. (dr)
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08.Jun.2025
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Aminet uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to Aminet:
AmiBlitzCodeExamples00.lha dev/blitz 9K GEN AmiBlitz3 Code Examples...
hunkster.lha dev/misc 248K OS3 Create hunks to embed i...
DiskFlush.lha disk/misc 10K OS3 Flush all filesystem bu...
EmptyADF.lha disk/misc 27K OS3 Creates blank ADF disk ...
fat95patch10.lha disk/misc 13K OS3 Convert l:fat95 to Engl...
FamousAmigaUses.lha docs/lists 5.8M GEN A guide about famous Am...
rkrm-dos.pdf docs/misc 1.6M GEN RKRM AmigaDOS
openpci68k.lha driver/oth 177K OS3 PCI driver for all brid...
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 89K OS3 P96 Preferences Editor
Radeon.lha driver/vid 13K OS3 Radeon P96 driver
Voodoo.lha driver/vid 25K OS3 Voodoo P96 driver
HansKloss.lha game/actio 7.2M MOS Action game
G-WARS.lha game/shoot 31M OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ...
TFS.lha game/shoot 197K OS3 Tie Fighter Simulator, ...
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...
Mame106MiniMix1.4.lha misc/emu 6.9M OS3 MAME 0.106 MiniMix R1.4
fungi.lha mus/midi 39K OS3 DX7/TX7 genetic algo fa...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha util/libs 54K ARO A FUSE compatible file ...
filesysbox.m68k-amigaos.lha util/libs 100K OS3 A FUSE compatible file ...
ChkAll.lha util/misc 7K OS3 Check basic configurati...
iGame.lha util/misc 455K VAR Front-end for WHDLoad
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08.Jun.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 449kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
libfribidi.lha dev/lib 576kb 4.1 Free Unicode Bidirectional Algor...
libicu.lha dev/lib 59Mb 4.1 International Components for Uni...
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
retroarch_cores_insta... emu/gam 615Mb 4.1 Cores for soon to be released Re...
deepl.lha uti/tex 3Mb 4.0 DeepL tool / incl. sourcecode
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08.Jun.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to AROS Archives:
screentest-v1.x86_64-aros... dem/mis 33kb Tests the stability of your screen
planethively.x86_64-aros-... dem/mus 275kb A musicdisk about HivelyTracker
dose2.x86_64-aros-v11.zip dem/sce 5Mb Pulsating demo with bawdy humor ...
boy.x86_64-aros-v11.zip dem/sce 7Mb Port of OpenGL demo from Icons &...
timeless.x86_64-aros-v11.zip dem/sce 390kb SDL port of Tran's Timeless...
cabextract1.11.x86_64-aro... uti/arc 1Mb Utility to extract from CAB files
unshield-1.6.2.i386-aros.zip uti/arc 4Mb Utility to extract files from In...
unshield1.6.2.x86_64-aros... uti/arc 2Mb Utility to extract files from In...
rman-v3.3.x86_64-aros-v11... uti/tex 220kb Converting Txt files into variou...
rtf-riddle-v3.97b.x86_64-... uti/tex 163kb Rich Text Format to HTML5 converter
(snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.06.2025
The following files have been added until 07.06.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Amidon_1.3.lha Communication A Mastodon client for M...
nrg4iso_1.0.lha Files/Convert Convert Nero image file...
OpenLara_1.1.lha Games/Action Classic Tomb Raider ope...
OpenLara_1.2.lha Games/Action Classic Tomb Raider ope...
HansKloss_0.20.11.lha Games/Platform Hans Kloss is a secret ...
OpenMoHAA_0.82.lha Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.82 for Morp...
Shifty-Pills_1.0.lha Games/Tetris Port of Shifty-Pills (S...
TMSColor-3.1.lha Graphics/Convert Converter from BMP to T...
rdrprep-0.3.lha Misc Submit jobs to a Hercul...
voxelspace_0.8.lha Misc A little technical demo...
(snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.06.2025
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 07.06.2025:
- 2025-06-06 improved: IK+ (Archer MacLean) interrupt patches can be disabled, added manual/icons (Info)
- 2025-06-06 new: Works Team Rally (Zeppelin Games) done by DJ Mike (Info)
(snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 file has been added:
(snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Operating system for the Amiga: Fourth alpha version of Serena OS
Dietmar Planitzer is working on an experimental operating system for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). Now a fourth alpha version is available, which now also boots on an Amiga 1200. In addition, for the first time there are Windows versions of the developer tools to compile Serena OS itself and programs for it. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
EmuTOS (ANF)
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Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.4
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.4. Using ROM files based on this, EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turbo cards or the THEA500Mini.
Amiga-related, new features include support for NTSC computers. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Windows: GUI for Greaseweazle Tools - ADFDiskBox 2.5
ADFDiskBox is a graphical user interface for the Greaseweazle Host Tools and is intended to simplify the reading and writing of Amiga disks and disk images (ADF, SCP:AmigaDOS, RawSCP).
Version 2.5 fixes a bug when writing floppy disks and there is an abort option in case of faulty floppy disks. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Status update on WebKit porting
At the title link, Andrea Palmatè describes the latest attempt to port the WebKit-based browser Odyssey to AmigaOS 4 in a contemporary form based on the MorphOS and AROS adaptations. Previously, George ‘walkero’ Sokianos had been working on this alone and suggested that other developers get involved. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Event: The Amiga at 40 (Cambridge)
Another event to mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga will be hosted by The Center for Computer History in Cambridge, England, on July 19. (snx)
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08.Jun.2025
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Youtuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
Years ago, Sean Donohue acquired the rights to the x86-based Commodore 64x nostalgia computer from the bankruptcy estate of Commodore USA and attempted a Kickstarter-funded remake with his British company My Retro Computer Ltd., which was founded specifically for this purpose. Due to the allegedly very high licence fees, the computer was initially sold without a Commodore licence as "My 64".
The YouTube channel "Retro Recipes" presented this new edition to a wider audience six months ago in a very euphoric video. According to the channel itself, this video, which has since been viewed more than a million times, led to an agreement between the current owner of the Commodore brand and My Retro Computer Ltd: The latter now genuinely offers its keyboard computer as the "Commodore 64x", a statement from Commodore Corporation B.V. published on the website is said to confirm the proper licensing of the brand.
Now "Retro Recipes" is speaking out again via video: spurred on by the success of the C64x coverage, he has developed the plan to acquire a kind of swarm-financed "general licence" from Commodore Corporation in order to be able to distribute all possible existing and future products with a Commodore logo. For a company to be founded specifically for this purpose, he himself was to be the managing director and Sean Donohue the head of operations. Leo Nigro, who had already fulfilled this role at Commodore USA and was currently responsible for updating the Linux distribution Commodore OS Vision, which was created at the time, would be the technical director.
The video ends with a real cliffhanger: Perifractic from Retro Recipes claims that the reply from the Commodore Corporation does not simply offer him a far-reaching licence, but proposes the sale of the entire company to the YouTube entrepreneur and his partners. However, he only wants to explain further details in a later video, part 1 of the series "Can We Save Commodore?" ends at exactly this point.
Editor's note: Commodore Corporation B.V. only owns the rights to the "Commodore" brand and the well-known "Chickenhead" logo. Software rights such as firmware ROMs or AmigaOS are owned by the Italian Mike Battilana or his Amiga Corporation, the same applies to various brands from the Amiga sector. Rumours that the Commodore Corporation would like to get rid of the trademark rights have been circulating for some time. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Text editor DumbPad 0.3
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin wanted to create a simple and stable text editor with "DumbPad". It is his first Reaction-based project, version 0.3 already supports tabs and notifications uses AISS for menu and button graphics. The project "definitely has bugs" but already runs quite stably. The developer would be grateful for tests of the editor on other systems.
The following features have already been implemented:
- AISS for toolbar and RMB menu
- Features : New, Open, Save, SaveAs, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Search, SelectAll, Delete
- Drag-and-drop support for opening files.
- Complex logic to handle application exit with unsaved data (for single and multiple tabs).
- Command-line argument support for opening files.
- Iconification support for Workbench.
- ARGB bitmap support for internal clicktab images.
- AmigaOS versioning support.
- Support for opening empty files.
- Warning requester when a file is in use by another application during saving.
- Skipped NULL bytes to enable opening binary files.
- Pop-up menu with Close/Iconify/Snapshot/Jump to Screen functionality
- Status bar at bottom, using button.gadget, shows line and column numbers.
- Advanced Find/FindNext Functionality: Supports input interrupts for additional keys and aligns with the logic of modern editors. For example, while the editor is active, pressing F3 triggers FindNext, seamlessly searching the entire file without interruption. Additionally, if text is found, reopening he search window recalls the last search term.
- If the user tries to paste with an empty clipboard, we trigger IIntuition->DisplayBeep() for feedback.
- Font selection: Prioritizes a monospaced (fixed) font from the "Prefs:Font/System Default". If unavailable or proportional, falls back to the one from "Prefs:Font/Screen Font". If both are unavailable, defaults to the goold old Topaz/10.
Once DumbPad has reached a certain level of maturity, the source code will be released. (cg)
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06.Jun.2025
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Evercade handheld console: Roguecraft DX announced
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported). Now a special version of the Amiga rogue-like game Roguecraft (amiga-news.de reported) has been announced: Roguecraft DX (video).
In contrast to the Amiga version of Roguecraft, "the DX version offers five new levels with new visuals to enjoy, a variety of new room layouts, several new musical tracks by tracker music legend Jogeir Liljedahl to accompany the action as you progress through the dungeon, more potion effects, new types of monster and a brand-new achievements system."
Roguecraft DX can now be pre-ordered for about 24 euros and is scheduled for release at the end of August 2025. (dr)
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06.Jun.2025
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Shoot'em Up: Second demo version of "Wings of Fear"
Roar Tjørhom is in the process of creating a small shoot'em up for the Amiga with the help of the game construction kit Scorpion Engine and has now released a second demo version (video), which offers the following changes compared to the first version:
- More colours. Now there are 64 instead of 32.
- New smaller planes, but now with shadow.
- New and more correct backgrounds, top down perspective instead of isometric.
- Animations and objects in the background.
- New and improved boss.
- More variations in the sound effects
- 3 additional pickups: 1Up, energy and energy and repare.
Recommended system requirements are an AGA Amiga with 68020 processor, 2 MB chip RAM and 2 MB FAST RAM. (dr)
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05.Jun.2025
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Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2025 started
The motto of this year's edition of the AmigaGameJam programming competition is 'Return of the Arcade': The task is to create a title that could be set in a typical Arcade and "would be worthy of being given its own arcade cabinet". The deadline for developers is December 1st, and only original game ideas are permitted - no ports. The development of submitted games must not have begun before 1 June. (cg)
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05.Jun.2025
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Amiga 40 Tools Jam: Scalexx converts Scala MM 400 presentations to MM 300 format
Scalexx, which was developed for the Amiga Tools Jam, is an Arexx-script for making Scala scripts made with Scala MM400 compatible with Scala MM300. (cg)
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