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• Post #4394509

  The website @gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world provides documentation on "Rimini, Mare Azzurro", an early project by the Italian developer Simulmondo from 1988. The planned graphic adventure was to be set in a seaside resort on the Adriatic in the 1950s and feature digitized graphics in a murder mystery setting. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00027-EN.html #Amiga #games #retrogaming

• Post #4381903

  Out-of-court settlement between Amiga and Hyperion is publicly available This morning, Amiga Corporation and Hyperion announced that they had signed an out-of-court settlement. The reason for this announcement was apparently that the signed agreement was made public today as part of a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in the United States: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00022-EN.html #Amiga #Hyperion #AmigaOS3 #AmigaOS4 #legaldispute

• Post #4344743

  NetBSD, a Unix-based operating system, is now available in version 11.0. The nineteenth major release of NetBSD is also available as a native port for PowerPC Amigas (experimental) and 68k Amigas. Regarding the Motorola 680x0 architecture, in addition to improved floating-point emulation, there is a new port called virt68k for running the Motorola 68000 port using the QEMU emulator with paravirtualized devices. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00010-EN.html #NetBSD #Amiga

• Post #4269463

  In a blog post, Carl Svensson reviews numerous graphical and text-based user interfaces from applications with roots in the demo scene. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00146-EN.html #blog #demoscene

• Post #4132392

  "Tower of the World" is an unreleased fantasy role-playing game from Poland, whose development was halted in 1996. @gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world has compiled numerous screenshots of the game from Polish magazines, and there is also a Polish video interview with the developers. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00119-EN.html #Amiga #PC #games

• Post #3884713

  Integrated Development Environment: AmiBlocks IDE AmiBlocks IDE is an integrated development environment (IDE) for C(++) programmers, inspired by Code::Blocks, which the developer promotes as follows: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00076-EN.html #Amiga #IDE #programming

• Post #3818630

  MorphOS: Word Processor Stylos 2.0 In mid-April,, we introduced Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy’s word processor ‘Stylos’ for MorphOS. Now he has released version 2.0 providing the following features: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00062-EN.html #MorphOS #wordprocessor

• Post #3763710

  Amiga Games That Weren't: Playable Prototypes of "Ninjanimal" "Ninjanimal" by Titus was intended to be a side-scrolling beat 'em up for various 8- and 16-bit platforms, but it was never completed. @gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world has now tracked down playable prototypes of the Amiga and ST versions and made them available for download. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00047-EN.html #Amiga #Atari #games

• Post #3566830

  Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 26-01 The sixth issue of the floppy disk magazine "Amiga Rulez," published in German and English, once again features various game reviews, reports from the demo scene, interviews, and more. In addition, the "Community Reports" section includes six articles submitted by readers. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00005-EN.html #Amiga #diskmag #floppy

• Post #3566823

  Linux/macOS: Emu68-Hatcher 0.5.0 Christopher Reemts' Emu68-Hatcher creates ready-to-run SD cards with preconfigured AmigaOS 3 for Amiga computers equipped with a PiStorm CPU card, running on macOS or Linux. New in version 0.5.0: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00006-EN.html #Linux #macOS #Emu68 #PiStorm #Amiga #retrocomputing

• Post #3566821

  AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib4 version 2.2 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè's "clib4" is a C runtime library developed specifically for AmigaOS 4; as such, it is designed to be easier to maintain and to facilitate the implementation of missing clib2 functions. Changes in version 2.2: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00010-EN.html #AmigaOS4 #clib4

• Post #3566818

  Music album: "Echoes of Kindness", created entirely on the Amiga All 13 tracks on "Echoes of Kindness" were created on an Amiga 1200. All proceeds from the album, which is sold digitally for 3.50 GBP, will go to animal shelters for farm animals that rescue them from slaughter and provide them with a place to live out their days. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-07-00008-EN.html #Amiga #music #album

• Post #3530437

  @gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world has added an Amiga version of the vertical shooter Raiden to its archive. The arcade hit, released in 1990 by Seibu Kaihatsu and ported to numerous platforms, was also in development by Imagitec Design for AGA Amigas and the Atari Falcon in the mid-1990s. However, neither of these ports ever made it to market. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00133-EN.html #Amiga #games

• Post #3492888

  Word processing: AmigaOS version of FinalWriter 7.3 available For the equivalent of around 44 euros, users receive a new spell-checker, improved support for multilingual environments, updated RTF support, native PDF output and direct printing via FTP/IPP. Updates and bug fixes are also included until the next version is released. A 68020 CPU is the minimum requirement, but a 68040 or 68060 CPU and a graphics card are strongly recommended. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00132-EN.h...

• Post #3492870

  ZZ9000 Graphics Card: Firmware and driver version 2.2.0 The new firmware release adds the SDK-service firmware that the ZZ9000 SDK v2 builds on, on-card cryptographic acceleration, a cold-boot fast-RAM fix, and a wave of reliability hardening. The new driver release bundles the new ZZ9000 SDK v2 runtime and per-CPU accelerated AmiSSL into the installer, and adds GUI/CLI firmware-update tooling. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00130-EN.html #Amiga #gfx #graphicscard #zz9000

• Post #3477543

  Unofficial refresh of the Doom clone: GloomReforged AGA 1.4 Since our first report on this, numerous bugs have been fixed and, in the latest version 1.4, the reflections on weapons and upgrades, amongst other things, have been refined. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00128-EN.html #Amiga #games #doom #AGA

• Post #3477540

  System information: xSysInfo 0.9.0 The main focus of version 0.9.0 was on "compatibility, benchmark stability, and cleaner UI refresh behavior. It improves Kickstart 1.3 support, avoids several requester and library-version traps, makes fast-system benchmarks more stable, and reduces unnecessary redraws." https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00127-EN.html #Amiga #xsysinfo

• Post #3450808

  Mouse and Keyboard inputs over the network: l3-netkeys With l3-netkeys, you can replace the keyboard and mouse on an Amiga, provided you have a network connection, a Raspberry Pi and a USB mouse or keyboard. The Raspberry Pi then transmits the inputs to the Amiga via the UDP network protocol. However, this does not work with programs that bypass the input.device. AmigaOS 3.x is required. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00119-EN.html #Amiga #keyboard

• Post #3450794

  Java 8 runtime for AmigaOS 4: Java-OS4 0.5.4 Java-OS4 is a Java 8 runtime for AmigaOS 4, including JamVM 2.0 and the OpenJDK 8 class library, with native AWT/Swing GUI toolkits. The current version is still labeled "Beta" by the developer, users are told to expect "rough edges, gaps, and changes between releases". https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00118-EN.html #Java #AmigaOS4

• Post #3450609

  PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 182 (Italian/English) The game reviews in REV'n'GE compare the implementations of classics across different platforms of the time. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00117-EN.html #retrogaming #magazine #AppleII #Amstrad #ZXspectrum #C64 #Amiga #CD32 #ZX81 #MSX

• Post #3450608

  Do it yourself: Using Bluetooth LE mice and joysticks on an Amiga AmiBLEHID is an adapter for the joystick port that allows you to use mice and gamepads that support Bluetooth Low Energy on the Amiga. Standard Bluetooth, however, cannot be used. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00120-EN.html #Amiga #Bluetooth #joystick

• Post #2536379

  MorphOS: airScanner 0.65 Tomasz Paul's airScanner - for devices that use the eSCL protocol ("AirScan") versions 2.5 and 2.62 - now allows users to adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness and the black-and-white threshold in version 0.65, provided the scanner supports these features. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00038-EN.html #MorphOS #scanner

• Post #2536378

  Amiga emulator: Amiberry 8.1.6 Amiberry is an Amiga emulator by @midwan based on WinUAE that offers full Amiga compatibility on ARM and x86 hardware. Version 8.1.6 focuses on platform support, JIT stability, RTG/graphics improvements, Android and libretro fixes as well as safer configuration handling. It also includes upstream WinUAE syncs through 6100b5 and refreshed release CI/package targets. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00037-EN.html #Amiga #emulator

• Post #2536377

  Windows: Level editor for Gloom/ZGloom (beta version) ZGloom Editor is a Windows program to use modern system features for easier creation of levels for the Amiga first-person shooters Gloom and Gloom Deluxe. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00036-EN.html #Amiga #leveleditor #Gloom #zgloom #firstpersonshooter

• Post #2536376

  System information: xSysInfo 0.6.1 xSysInfo is a comprehensive system information utility for AmigaOS. It provides detailed insights into the hardware and software configuration of the Amiga system as well as benchmarking capabilities. Version 0.6.1 provides the following changes: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00045-EN.html #Amiga #system #Xsysinfo

• Post #2536375

  Hollywood: AHX-Plugin 1.4, DigiBooster-Plugin 1.2 and XMP-Plugin 1.1 Press release: Minor updates for the AHX, DigiBooster and XMP plugins have just been released. They contain a few fixes and enhancements and also support macOS arm64 and Linux arm64 now. You can download them from the official Hollywood portal. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00046-EN.html #Amiga #Windows #Linux #macOS #MorphOS #AROS #programming #Hollywood

• Post #2536374

  Juha 'capehill' Niemimäki has released version 3.4.8 and version 2.32.10 of the SDL multimedia library for AmigaOS 4. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00050-EN.html https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00035-EN.html #AmigaOS4 #SDL2 #SDL3

• Post #2536373

  The open-source file manager Directory Opus 5 is being further developed by @midwan Version 5.101 is a maintenance and portability release featuring FTP/SFTP upgrades, fixes for file system compatibility, revised documentation, and several improvements to the user interface and stability. AROS is now supported for the first time. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00049-EN.html #Amiga #filemanager #DOPUS5 #AROS #AmigaOS3 #AmigaOS4 #MorphOS

• Post #2536372

  ASM-editor is a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code (and MIPS, RISC-V, X86), which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language. Since our last news item, among other things, an introductory course on general assembly languages and an AI assistant in each editor that takes control of the editor and the emulator have been added. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00048-EN.html #Amiga #assembly #m68k #MIPS #RISCV #x86

• Post #2536371

  "SEUCK" game: Shoot'm Eup Bomberplanes "Bomberplanes" is a shooter game created back in 1994 using the Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit, which the author is now releasing for free via itch.io. A floppy disk image and a WHDLoad installer are available. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00034-EN.html #Amiga #games #shootemup