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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – March 2025
Hi,
Welcome to a new edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! 🙂
This time we’ll have a look at what has been happening on the platform in March 2025.
Thanks for reading and for visiting my blog. Hope you’ll enjoy the news!
Software News
Andrea Palmatè has created the Waffle Floppy Disk Reader. This enables you to read floppy disks using an Arduino. It supports various disk formats and provides a simple interface for reading and writing data. Waffle Copy Professional is now available for everyone.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Creating-Waffle-An-Arduino-Floppy-Disk-Reader-for-Z8Z11BLU6M
You can buy it starting from 3,99€ on his Ko-Fi page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR6R0ly8MHw
Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are pleased to present the GemRB RPG package in version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4.
Screenshot by MagicSNSteffen Häuser is responsible for porting and making the package easy to install.
Screenshot by MagicSNGemRB allows you to play the famous PC role-playing games Baldur’s Gate 1, Baldur’s Gate 2 (often called “the best PC RPG of all time”), Icewind Dale 1, and Planescape: Torment on an Amiga running AmigaOS 4.
More information can be found on Amigans.net.
You can buy the package from Alinea Computer here:
GemRB RPG package (0.8.8) for AmigaOS 4/WOS – Amiga Shop
The price is 19,95 EUR. It is available for AmigaOS 4 and WarpOS.
Lazi has released version 1.03 of MailSender, a program created to reduce the effort needed to send files or images by email. It can convert image files to the JPG format, resize them on the fly, and optionally pack them to a ZIP archive, or even create a PDF document before sending. A download, as well as more information, is available here:
Ryan Dixon a.k.a rjd324 is working on a port of Open Medal of Honor for AmigaOS 4. It is currently in the BETA stage. More information is available in the appropriate thread on Amigans.net.
Open Medal of Honor (BETA) [AmigaOS4] – The Amigans website
Version 2.9 of Prism II, a driver for 11 Mbps wireless network cards, was uploaded to OS4Depot on March 6th. This driver supports PCI cards in all AmigaOS 4 systems (according to the readme). It has WPA and WPA2 encryption, including both TKIP and CCMP/AES modes. There have been a lot of changes since the last version, which you can read via the link below:
SDL 3.2.8 has been released for AmigaOS 4. Changes have been made since the last time:
- Fix issue with window size after SetWindowPosition
- Prefs: add AISS images to menus (#48)
- Ignore destination alpha for target textures (#150)
- Remove constructor / destructor workarounds
- Improve OS4_DebugPrintF
- sdl3benchmark: reset random seed before every test
- Support SDL_PROP_APP_METADATA_NAME_STRING and SDL_HINT_APP_NAME (#115)
- Improve timer resolution from milliseconds to microseconds
- Cleanup code and makefiles
https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL/releases/tag/v3.2.8-amigaos4
The source code for Blender 2.48 has been uploaded to OS4Depot. More information can be found on OS4Depot.
In previous reports, I’ve written about Seq, a MIDI sequencer, by Tuomas Hokka. A new update is out with the following changes:
3.0 (1st March 2025):
– FIXED one major bug in saving project: Too many bytes were written so it was filled with zero bytes and that will break reading one integer value in the project file. This will be fixed automatically in loading project. User will be prompted to choose to save the project immediately after.
– Fixed bugs
– New song (long) mode to One time track, added One time banks
– Increased number of song steps to 96, project files version increased to 9
– Added more settings to alt/double note
– Alt notes displayed in steps better
– Some font sizes increased
– Added new tooltype to set large font
– Refactored some parts of the source code for better maintainability and to avoid bugs
Apart from the program above, Hokka also released version 2.1 of Viivi, a picture viewer. Changes can be found below:
2.1 (8th February 2025):
– Fixed iconification/uniconification in full screen mode
– Fixed drag&drop with multiple files
– Don’t show popup menu when activating the window if it was inactive
You can download the program on OS4Depot.
Video Vortex is a frontend GUI for YT (.rexx) to search and view YouTube videos. It is developed by Thomas Kölsch and version 1.1 is now available for download from OS4Depot.
Version 1.5 of AmigaTText, which makes it possible to view ARD/ZDF teletext from the Internet, has been released. It is being developed by TearsOfMe. The author has fixed HR3 and WDR sites.
PNG 2 Amiga is a program that converts PNG icons to Amiga icon format. The utility was developed by Kjetil Hvalstrand. Version 1.3 is available for download at OS4Depot.
Version 0.51 of the PDF generator Compression has been released. This tool is being developed by Achim Pankalla. The goal is to make a PDF generator that is complete with WYSIWYG. Progress has been made since the last version and many errors have been fixed. You can download it from OS4Depot, where there’s also information about all of the recent changes to the program.
AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 by Cameron Armstrong (Nightfox). Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling. Version 2.3.1 became available for download on OS4Depot on March 30th.
Features:
- Generates text based on input prompts
- Generates images based on input prompts
- UI customization
- Full conversation history
- Text-to-speech
Changes:
- Fix broken error requester in MorphOS
- Fix incorrect language name for English-British for OS4
- Running the “Version” command on the AmigaGPT executable will now report the version and build date
- The installer in MorphOS will now properly ask where you want to install the readme
On March 30th, DRIDI released version 6.1 of the Arabic Console Device. The author has been trying to fix a regression – 0xA6 becomes 0xE1 when double input alif suscrit on a letter d (0x4A) before.
Version 34.1 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
Screenshot by Puni – From an older versionAccording to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Signetics TWIN minicomputer (1976);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples include ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, and windowed and fullscreen modes. Other features are CPU tracing, trainer, and drag and drop support. Additionally, it offers graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, and frame skipping, among many other features!
Changes since V34.02:
- Tape deck subwindow: added waveform display
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
AmiArcadia is free to download. You can get it from OS4Depot via the link below:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha
Misc
A brand new issue of the Polish magazine AmigaNG has been released.
https://sklep.amiga.org.pl/wp/produkt/magazyn-amiga-ng-nr-12/
You can read about the Sam460LE, the A1222 Plus, THEA500 Mini, and much more. It is in Polish language.
Celebrate 40 Years of Amiga Innovation at the Computer History Museum! On Amigans.net we can read that the AMIGA/040th Silicon Valley organizing team is excited to announce, in partnership with VCF West, an epic event on August 1st and 2nd, 2025, at the renowned Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. More information is available here.
The English and German issue 173 (March/April 2025) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been published. It can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future or from various Amiga shops stocking it. In this issue, you’ll find reviews of games such as Super Star Blast and Battle Squadron 2, as well as an interesting article called AmigaOS 4.1: The Troubled Life of a Beta Tester.
Screenshot by PuniGeorge Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero has published a review of the Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA card on the IntuitionBase website.
The Norwegian Amiga musician Helge Kvalheim is back with more music for us to listen to. Two new videos were released on his YouTube channel in March. One of these is a recreation of the theme from the film Karate Kid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCy6oSmvE9c
McFly PPC has created a new video about WormHole, a program for easy transfer of data from one system to another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbS0_n5rxic
TJ Ferreira has published a ton of videos lately, some containing AmigaOS 4-related content. Please have a look via this link:
https://www.youtube.com/@MacSociety/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKt9VkTTR54
Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel published two videos in March. One about WormHole, another about DosBox-Staging with 3dfx (Voodoo) support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZZnjKB104w
The winner of the gaming competition at Amigans.net for February and March 2025 was 328gts with 8,805 points. Players competed in the game A Frog Game from EntwicklerX.
Until next time
You’ve now reached the end of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup for March.
Many thanks to all readers and supporters out there for visiting my blog and for reading the AmigaOS 4 Monthly roundup. Huge thanks as always for all the feedback, comments and encouragement.
Have a great day everyone! 🙂
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
#Amiga #AmigaNews #AmigaOS4 #AmigaOS4MonthlyRoundup #AmigaOS41
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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – January 2025
AmigaOS 4 News – January 2025
Hi,
Welcome to a new edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! 🙂 Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you’ll enjoy the news!
New year, new opportunities. Let’s have a look at what happened on the platform in January.
Software News
Screenshot by PuniIn earlier monthly roundups, we’ve read a lot about the FlashMandelNG tool. Dino Papararo and Edgar Schwan are once again back with an update. Version 5.3 sees the following changes:
- Reworked and speededup color remapping algorithms
- Fixed parsing of “COLORSREMAP” ToolType
Smart Filesystem 1.279 by Jörg Strohmayer is available to download on OS4Depot. This version, however, is an older one. The newest is only available through the Enhancer Software package from A-EON Technology. Still, it can be useful for those not using Enhancer. Here is the link to the download.
Frank Wille has released updated version of vasm m68k std, vasm PPC std, and vasm 68k mot. vasm is a portable and re-targetable assembler to create linkable objects in various formats and absolute code. Multiple CPU-, syntax, and output-modules can be selected. More information is available here:
http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/
Now here is an interesting one. Anyone into the field of genealogy? If yes, then you might find the following software helpful. The application is called AmiGen and it is a genealogist program developed by R. Florac. The author states the documentation and the catalogue is in French only at the moment. If you’d like to AmiGen, here is the download link.
AmiTranslate by Marcus Sackrow is a DeepL interface for Amiga systems with text print and PDF output. Version 0.5 is now available on OS4Depot.
René W. Olsen is back with version 2.12 of ReSrc4, an Mc680x0 disassembler. It was tested against the Amiga game Civilization (ECS) and LightwaveFP for FPU support. The source is available here:
https://github.com/rolsen74/resrc4
Lite XL in action – Screenshot by PuniA new version of the lightweight text-editor Lite XL has been released for AmigaOS 4.1. This time it is version 2.1.7R2. The png16 library has now been added to the AmigaOS 4 archive.
The port is being maintained by George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero. The program itself was created by Francesco Abbate and the Lite XL team.
Version 1.34 of the AFA-Viewer from A. Pankalla has been released. With this program, you can use the Amiga Future Archive-DVD in a very effective and easy way. Find the item you are searching for, then double-click on the right line to read it straight away.
Image by McFlyGeorge Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero had released a new game port for AmigaOS 4. This time he brought over Jazz Jackrabbit to the platform! This is a fun and entertaining platform game series that was created and started by Epic Megagames back in 1994. After the first game, others in the series followed such as Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and Jazz Jackrabbit 3. You can read more about this on Wikipedia.
Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by PuniWalkero writes in the documentation:
This is the port of openjazz to AmigaOS 4.
OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit(TM)
games.To play, you will need the files from one of the original games.
With the demise of DOS-based operating systems, it has become necessary to use
emulators to play old DOS games. Jazz Jackrabbit(TM) deserves more – and would
benefit greatly from new features.about:blank
Jazz Jackrabbit(TM) is a PC platform game. Produced by Epic Games (then Epic
MegaGames), it was first released in 1994. The fast-paced, colourful gameplay
proved popular, and the game won PC Format’s Arcade Game of the Year award.
Many people still fondly recall the shareware versions.If you want to download the AmigaOS 4 port, please head over to OS4Depot by clicking here.
Screenshot by PuniKeep in mind that you’ll need the data files. Walkero has tested the port with the data files from the games from GOG (Good Old Games). They currently have a -84% discount on the Jazz Jackrabbit Collection right now if you are interested.
Roman “Kas1e” Kargin created a port of this game series back in 2012. Since then, the OpenJazz project has received several updates. It now uses SDL2 for example. Due to problems with the bonus stage on many platforms, it has been disabled in the new OpenJazz version. This stage works fine in Kas1e’s old port.
If you are happy about George Sokianos work, you can support him on Ko-Fi. There he shares news and other interesting information about his projects. 🙂
Maijestro has created a video of OpenJazz running on his AmigaOne X5040:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHHA-uGDyI
IconDesigner has uploaded AOS-AmigaGPT-Icons to OS4Depot. Please click here to check them out.
Ulrich Beckers has released an update to PerCIMan. PerCIMan is a program for managing contacts. It allows you to store phone numbers, birthdays, image files, and so forth. People can be marked as friends, relatives, business contacts, alumni, etc. In the new version, 0.7.6, the beta version validity restriction has been removed.
A minor update has been done to glUAE by Simone Bevilacqua. Legal terms have been clarified in the readme.
Video Vortex is a frontend GUI for YT (.rexx) to search and view YouTube videos. It is developed by Thomas Kölsch and vesion 1.0 is now available for download from OS4Depot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ0xD_SchY4
On January 29th DRIDI released version 5.0Final of the Arabic Console Device.
(version 5.0Final) input in raw mode (Stevie editor) is better during heavy
multitasking, under ArabicLauncher input at beginning with pipes works better.
It remains ARABCON: [hard litterate] to adapt [to parameterize] to ARABCON2:
ARABCON3: .. ARABCONX: in plus.c : “| pl 1” at the end of an ‘Arabic’ pipe,
under “ArabicLauncher [ARABCONX:]”.You can download it by clicking here.
Screenshot lent from HunoPPC’s websiteDragon Memory NG is a game developed by Santiago Radeff Leria in 2011. HunoPPC has now ported it to AmigaOS 4.1. You can download it from his website here:
http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/dragon-memory-ng-full-version
amiga-news.de reports that Juha Niemimaki a.k.a. Capehill is working on the new SDL 3.2.0. A release candidate is available. More information can be found here.
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00111-EN.html
Version 33.9 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Signetics TWIN minicomputer (1976);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples include ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, and windowed and fullscreen modes. Other features are CPU tracing, trainer, and drag and drop support. Additionally, it offers graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, and frame skipping, among many other features!
Misc
Hyperion Entertainment has posted the following news on their website:
New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – New Director Appointed
Brussels – January 21, 2025
At a general assembly held on December 18, 2024, organized and convened by the temporary administrator, the shareholders of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA appointed Timothy De Groote as the company’s new director.
The general assembly also instructed the new directors to prioritize consolidating the company’s financial situation and restarting development of AmigaOS.
The general assembly followed the bankruptcy of Hyperion Entertainment’s largest shareholder, Ben Hermans BV, which, under Belgian law, resulted in the annulment of its shares.
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/
They also state that they are back on social media platforms:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HyperionEntertainment
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/hyperionentertain.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@CreatorsOfAmigaOSAmiga WARP is back one again with a brand new calendar, this time for the year 2025. Please check it out on their website by clicking here.
The Norwegian musician Helge Kvalheim is back with a new song called Pra for LA, which was created on an AmigaOne X5000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4WpxZlI69Q
Maijestro, who runs the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube, has uploaded several videos recently. One of these shows Dosbox in action on the AmigaOne X5000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVFiR3KqZQ
The Polish Amiga user Muf has released a new video about the game from Entwickler-X, Super Star Blast. You can watch it below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzJ_AoOB6ls
Ghettofinger Gamer shows his new A1222+ in a recently released YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK5OHRtGto
Until next time
You’ve now reached the end of this month’s news summary.
Thanks to all readers and supporters out there for visiting my blog and for reading the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! It is much appreciated! 🙂
I wish you all a great day and a good weekend!
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – January 2025
AmigaOS 4 News – January 2025
Hi,
Welcome to a new edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! 🙂 Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you’ll enjoy the news!
New year, new opportunities. Let’s have a look at what happened on the platform in January.
Software News
Screenshot by PuniIn earlier monthly roundups, we’ve read a lot about the FlashMandelNG tool. Dino Papararo and Edgar Schwan are once again back with an update. Version 5.3 sees the following changes:
- Reworked and speededup color remapping algorithms
- Fixed parsing of “COLORSREMAP” ToolType
Smart Filesystem 1.279 by Jörg Strohmayer is available to download on OS4Depot. This version, however, is an older one. The newest is only available through the Enhancer Software package from A-EON Technology. Still, it can be useful for those not using Enhancer. Here is the link to the download.
Frank Wille has released updated version of vasm m68k std, vasm PPC std, and vasm 68k mot. vasm is a portable and re-targetable assembler to create linkable objects in various formats and absolute code. Multiple CPU-, syntax, and output-modules can be selected. More information is available here:
http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/
Now here is an interesting one. Anyone into the field of genealogy? If yes, then you might find the following software helpful. The application is called AmiGen and it is a genealogist program developed by R. Florac. The author states the documentation and the catalogue is in French only at the moment. If you’d like to AmiGen, here is the download link.
AmiTranslate by Marcus Sackrow is a DeepL interface for Amiga systems with text print and PDF output. Version 0.5 is now available on OS4Depot.
René W. Olsen is back with version 2.12 of ReSrc4, an Mc680x0 disassembler. It was tested against the Amiga game Civilization (ECS) and LightwaveFP for FPU support. The source is available here:
https://github.com/rolsen74/resrc4
Lite XL in action – Screenshot by PuniA new version of the lightweight text-editor Lite XL has been released for AmigaOS 4.1. This time it is version 2.1.7R2. The png16 library has now been added to the AmigaOS 4 archive.
The port is being maintained by George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero. The program itself was created by Francesco Abbate and the Lite XL team.
Version 1.34 of the AFA-Viewer from A. Pankalla has been released. With this program, you can use the Amiga Future Archive-DVD in a very effective and easy way. Find the item you are searching for, then double-click on the right line to read it straight away.
Image by McFlyGeorge Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero had released a new game port for AmigaOS 4. This time he brought over Jazz Jackrabbit to the platform! This is a fun and entertaining platform game series that was created and started by Epic Megagames back in 1994. After the first game, others in the series followed such as Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and Jazz Jackrabbit 3. You can read more about this on Wikipedia.
Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by PuniWalkero writes in the documentation:
This is the port of openjazz to AmigaOS 4.
OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit(TM)
games.To play, you will need the files from one of the original games.
With the demise of DOS-based operating systems, it has become necessary to use
emulators to play old DOS games. Jazz Jackrabbit(TM) deserves more – and would
benefit greatly from new features.about:blank
Jazz Jackrabbit(TM) is a PC platform game. Produced by Epic Games (then Epic
MegaGames), it was first released in 1994. The fast-paced, colourful gameplay
proved popular, and the game won PC Format’s Arcade Game of the Year award.
Many people still fondly recall the shareware versions.If you want to download the AmigaOS 4 port, please head over to OS4Depot by clicking here.
Screenshot by PuniKeep in mind that you’ll need the data files. Walkero has tested the port with the data files from the games from GOG (Good Old Games). They currently have a -84% discount on the Jazz Jackrabbit Collection right now if you are interested.
Roman “Kas1e” Kargin created a port of this game series back in 2012. Since then, the OpenJazz project has received several updates. It now uses SDL2 for example. Due to problems with the bonus stage on many platforms, it has been disabled in the new OpenJazz version. This stage works fine in Kas1e’s old port.
If you are happy about George Sokianos work, you can support him on Ko-Fi. There he shares news and other interesting information about his projects. 🙂
Maijestro has created a video of OpenJazz running on his AmigaOne X5040:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHHA-uGDyI
IconDesigner has uploaded AOS-AmigaGPT-Icons to OS4Depot. Please click here to check them out.
Ulrich Beckers has released an update to PerCIMan. PerCIMan is a program for managing contacts. It allows you to store phone numbers, birthdays, image files, and so forth. People can be marked as friends, relatives, business contacts, alumni, etc. In the new version, 0.7.6, the beta version validity restriction has been removed.
A minor update has been done to glUAE by Simone Bevilacqua. Legal terms have been clarified in the readme.
Video Vortex is a frontend GUI for YT (.rexx) to search and view YouTube videos. It is developed by Thomas Kölsch and vesion 1.0 is now available for download from OS4Depot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ0xD_SchY4
On January 29th DRIDI released version 5.0Final of the Arabic Console Device.
(version 5.0Final) input in raw mode (Stevie editor) is better during heavy
multitasking, under ArabicLauncher input at beginning with pipes works better.
It remains ARABCON: [hard litterate] to adapt [to parameterize] to ARABCON2:
ARABCON3: .. ARABCONX: in plus.c : “| pl 1” at the end of an ‘Arabic’ pipe,
under “ArabicLauncher [ARABCONX:]”.You can download it by clicking here.
Screenshot lent from HunoPPC’s websiteDragon Memory NG is a game developed by Santiago Radeff Leria in 2011. HunoPPC has now ported it to AmigaOS 4.1. You can download it from his website here:
http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/dragon-memory-ng-full-version
amiga-news.de reports that Juha Niemimaki a.k.a. Capehill is working on the new SDL 3.2.0. A release candidate is available. More information can be found here.
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00111-EN.html
Version 33.9 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Signetics TWIN minicomputer (1976);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples include ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, and windowed and fullscreen modes. Other features are CPU tracing, trainer, and drag and drop support. Additionally, it offers graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, and frame skipping, among many other features!
Misc
Hyperion Entertainment has posted the following news on their website:
New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – New Director Appointed
Brussels – January 21, 2025
At a general assembly held on December 18, 2024, organized and convened by the temporary administrator, the shareholders of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA appointed Timothy De Groote as the company’s new director.
The general assembly also instructed the new directors to prioritize consolidating the company’s financial situation and restarting development of AmigaOS.
The general assembly followed the bankruptcy of Hyperion Entertainment’s largest shareholder, Ben Hermans BV, which, under Belgian law, resulted in the annulment of its shares.
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/
They also state that they are back on social media platforms:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HyperionEntertainment
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/hyperionentertain.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@CreatorsOfAmigaOSAmiga WARP is back one again with a brand new calendar, this time for the year 2025. Please check it out on their website by clicking here.
The Norwegian musician Helge Kvalheim is back with a new song called Pray for LA, which was created on an AmigaOne X5000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4WpxZlI69Q
Maijestro, who runs the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube, has uploaded several videos recently. One of these shows Dosbox in action on the AmigaOne X5000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVFiR3KqZQ
The Polish Amiga user Muf has released a new video about the game from Entwickler-X, Super Star Blast. You can watch it below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzJ_AoOB6ls
Ghettofinger Gamer shows his new A1222+ in a recently released YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK5OHRtGto
Until next time
You’ve now reached the end of this month’s news summary.
Thanks to all readers and supporters out there for visiting my blog and for reading the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! It is much appreciated! 🙂
I wish you all a great day and a good weekend!
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
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