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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – April 2026

Introduction

Hi, and welcome to another edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup!

This time we’ll have a look at what has been going on in the community and on the platform in April.

Without further ado, let us head over to the news!

Software News

AirPrint

This is a printer utility for AmigaOS 4.

According to the author:

“This is only released through the Forum of http://www.amigans.net for Alpha testing. Still early stage, but work is ongoing.”

Release 0.36A:

1. Printer spooler directory should work properly now, this caused a lot of
problems.

2. Printers was found trough search function, but printer properties was not
added correctly or not found. Should be working better now.

3. Added SSL support, but require that you have AmiSSL installed, link to
Os4Depot above. For some of the debug logs I got from you, the printers required
SSL.

4. In the search window I added the possibility to search by manual ip address
in case your printer is located on another subnetwork and my auto search does
not find it.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/print/airprint.lha

AirScan

Version 0.2 of AirScan has been released. This is an Amiga scanner utility based on the ESCL protocol. You can search for scanners in your network with the MDNS protocol. You can also add scanners by their IP address. Works with eSCL 2.5 and 2.62 devices. Tested on Epson XP-322 and Epson ET L3160.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/print/airscanner.lha

AmiArcadia

Version 36.11 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!

You can read about the latest changes and download the package here:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha

AmigaDiskBench v2.8

Derfs is back again with an update to AmigaDiskBench.

AmigaDiskBench is a modern, high-performance disk benchmarking utility specifically designed for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.

It provides a robust, ReAction-based GUI to measure, analyze, and visualize the performance of various storage devices, filesystems, and hardware configurations.

v2.9 (Current)

– Fixed: Random 4K Write, Random 4K Read, and Mixed R/W 70/30 tests failed on all hardware. ChangeFilePosition() returns -1 on some systems/filesystems despite the seek succeeding. Seek error detection now uses IoErr() instead of the return value.
– S.M.A.R.T. attribute name table expanded from 36 to 68 known attributes. Added SSD-specific attributes (Samsung, Intel, Micron, Kingston), HDD mechanical attributes, extended LBA counters, and missing ID 11 (Calibration Retry Count).
– Build identification: startup banner always prints version and build timestamp to the debug console.
– Module-selective debug: DEBUG_THIS_MODULE opt-in mechanism for focused serial debug output during diagnosis.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/benchmark/amigadiskbench.lha

AmiSSL

Version 5.27 of AmiSSL has been released. As mentioned in earlier editions of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, the AmiSSL project is a collaborative effort to develop a port of OpenSSL in a shared library for Amiga-based systems. It is a must-have if you use AmigaOS 4 to browse the web!

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/amissl.lha

The following archive contains developer files and example programs.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/misc/amissl-sdk.lha

Arabic Console Device

DRIDI has released version 15.0Final of the Arabic Console Device.

Changes are as follows:

(version 15.0Final) “Version education&legacy” finished – [Arabic] algorithms:
rigorous and handcrafted – Vowels (and tanwin) before alif maqsura + alif suscrit enhanced. The handcrafted
algo[ed, ArabicLauncher] is less rigorous! If the Scribe wants other combination, he can use Capital[starting from 0xC0-0xDF] : an underline begins the arabic word.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/arabic_console_devicepro2.lha

Audio Convert Manager

Juan Carlos Herrán Martín has released version 1.06 of this utility. You can use this to convert sound files. It supports a wide range of formats, such as 8svx, aiff, mod, med, dbm, mp3, wav, and many more.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/convert/acm.lha

Audiocast Remote

As can be read in the readme:

“Audiocast Remote is a standalone graphical controller for DLNA-enabled Audiocast and compatible audio streaming devices in your local network. It offers basic playback control (play, pause, next, previous, stop) and volume slider. Settings and last used IP address are saved in a simple text file for convenience. Preset buttons for station stored in mobile app.”

Features:

– Play, Pause, Next, Previous, Stop for DLNA device
– Fast volume control via slider
– Remembers last used IP/port in config file
– Simple start with Preset button (station must be stored in mobile app first)
– Simple, clean RapaGUI interface

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/misc/audiocast.lha

Axion

VirtualAssets is developing a new 3D strategy game called Axion. Amitopia has a long article covering it, which you can find here:

https://amitopia.com/axion-brings-fully-3d-tactical-combat-to-the-amiga/

Ghettofinger Gaming made a video showing the game running on his AmigaOne X5000/040:

Baphomet Screensaver

First up in April is the Baphomet Screensaver by Juan Carlos Herrán Martín. It has a gothic theme with demons and angels, depicting the eternal battle of good and evil on your screen.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/baphomet.lha

Depscan

The utility was created by Lorence Lombardo. Version 2.0 is now out and available for download.

Depscan was based on Megacz’s “Depstrack”, but was not translated at all, and was written entirely from scratch.

Depscan is intended for future use with bgpk’s extended information scripts.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/shell/depscan.lha

Dopus5ByAI

A new fork of Dopus 5 has been established. Please read below for more information.

“Directory Opus 5.100 – All Amigas

A modern, actively-maintained fork of Directory Opus 5 Magellan II, the legendary Amiga file manager, ported and updated for all Amiga-like platforms.

This fork (dopus5allamigas) picks up where the 2012 APL open-source release left off, adding bug fixes, new features, and continued platform support.

Supported platforms
– AmigaOS 3 (m68k, including OS3.9/OS3.2)
– AmigaOS 4 (PPC)
– MorphOS (PPC)
– AROS (i386, ARM, and other architectures)”

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/filetool/dopus5.lha

Grimorium PDF

Grimorium PDF is a utility you can use to open PDF documents, such as invoices, receipts, blueprints, and so forth.

It can export the pages to formats such as JPG and GIF. Version 2.60 is out now. It has now been compiled with Hollywood 112.0, using the new plugin PDF 2.0.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/text/misc/grimoriumpdf.lha

HollyTris

If you like Tetris, you’ll probably be happy to read that a new clone has been released!

It is called HollyTris and was developed by A500Fan. You can download it for free via the link below:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/puzzle/hollytris.lha

Hwp_HTTPStreamer

In the readme over on OS4Depot, we can read the following:

“This plugin enables Hollywood to open and stream files from HTTP sources as if they were stored on a local drive. Once this plugin has been activated, all Hollywood functions that deal with files will “automagically” be able to open files from HTTP sources as well. Starting with version 2.0, HTTP Streamer also supports the hURL plugin, which makes it possible to stream data using lots of other protocols, such as HTTPS or FTP.

HTTP Streamer uses a sophisticated multi-threaded design for highly efficient
streaming. Each connection is managed by a dedicated thread for optimal performance. The
plugin also supports Hollywood 6.0’s new streaming APIs, which means that you will be able to
stream audio and video files from HTTP sources with plugins like avcodec.hwp.”

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/hollywood/httpstreamer.lha

Hwp_hURL

Another nice plugin for Hollywood.

“hURL is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to transfer data using many different protocols. Based on curl, hURL supports an incredibly wide range of transfer protocols, e.g., DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. Furthermore, hURL supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more. It really is the ultimate data transfer engine for Hollywood, leaving nothing to be desired.”

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/hollywood/hurl.lha

iConecta

This is a small and handy utility that can be used to test your Internet connection. It is being developed by Juan Carlos Herrán Martín.

For the new version, the author has removed the Miniwood system due to visual problems with the clock.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=network/misc/iconecta.lha

MCC_HTMLView

“HTMLview.mcc is a MUI custom class that renders HTML inside any MUI application. The class supports the bulk of HTML 4 and is fast enough to drop into mail readers, news readers, and help browsers without a noticeable parse step.”

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/mui/mcc_htmlview.lha

NodeAmiga

A complete JavaScript engine and runtime environment for classic Amiga computers. Built from scratch in C, targeting MC68000 and AmigaOS 2.0+. Inspired by Node.js, adapted for the Amiga platform.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/language/nodeamiga.lha

PolarPaint

PolarPaint is an experimental paint program made in Hollywood by Anbjørn Myren. Version 1.381 was uploaded to OS4Depot and became available on April 17th.

There are currently two versions available, one regular and one small. More information about all changes can be found on OS4Depot.

– Fix – Check that filename is not same as input file when saving with delay
– RMB button change when switching mode
– Missing filters in save fil requestors

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/edit/polarpaint.lha
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/edit/polarpaint_small.lha

RapaTank

With this application, depending on your address, a list of gas stations can be found. A navigation aid is also offered. Version 1.7 is now available for download.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/rapatank.zip

Rave

Daniel Jedlicka has released an updated version of Rave, his sound editor for AmigaOS 4-compatible computers. It provides functionality for manipulating and storing digital audio files.

Changes since the previous release are as follows:

– A configurable ruler above the waveform display now shows time or sample
position.

– Fixed: After changing the font in the Settings, the font name gadget could
show garbage in certain circumstances.

– Fixed: An off-by-one error introduced in sndeditor.gadget 1.5 could freeze the
system when click-dragging past the gadget’s right border.

– Added a workaround for a bug in button.gadget <54.3 that could trigger a race
condition and result in a crash on AmigaOne X1000 computers.

– Based on a user request, lowered the minimum supported sample rate to 4000 Hz.

– Various other smaller improvements and fixes.

– Updated documentation.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/edit/rave.lha

ScummVM

Maijestro, who runs the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube, is working hard to improve the AmigaOS 4 port of ScummVM and keep it up to date. No easy task for sure, but he is doing a great job so far! I’m happy that this version runs fine on my A1222+.

ScummVM is a program that allows you to run many classic point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have the game data files. ScummVM replaces the executables shipped with the original games, allowing you to play them on modern hardware.

This is a native AmigaOS4 PPC port of ScummVM, built with GLES2 support via Warp3D Nova. It runs on AmigaOne X5000 and compatible hardware. For QEMU and Pegasos2 users, Wazp3D is required as a software OpenGL replacement:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/graphics/wazp3d.lha

VERSION HISTORY:
2026.2.0-AmigaOS4 – Major update

– Updated to ScummVM 2026.2.0
– 92 engines included (up from 26)
– Vulkan support removed (not needed, GLES2 via gl4es used)
– Mouse Grab support added (Ctrl+M to toggle)
– Startup time reduced to ~1 second
– shaders.dat caching added
– All debug output removed (clean release build)
– Version string cleaned up (no git hash)
– Binary stripped (22MB)
– clib4.library V2.1 included
– FluidSynth MIDI driver added and confirmed working on X5000 (SoundFont .sf2 files go in the soundfonts/ folder in PROGDIR:)
– TiMidity MIDI driver added and confirmed working on X5000
– MM1 (Might & Magic 1) engine enabled
– SCI32 engine enabled (Blue Force, PQ4, SQ6, Phantasmagoria)
– GUI fix: Override settings (Audio/MIDI/Graphics) now correctly initialized when opening Edit Game dialog
– GUI fix: GM Device and MT-32 Device dropdowns are now correctly enabled when the MIDI override is active in per-game settings
– CAMD: MIDI port selection now correctly lists all available ports
– BUG FIX: GUI Scale crash fixed &#8212; switching scale in fullscreen mode no longer causes “Surface::transBlitFrom: bytesPerPixel must be 1, 2, 4” error and quit (3bpp surface is now correctly converted to 32bit)
– BUG FIX: GUI Scale default set to 100% on first launch &#8212; GUI is now fully functional on first start without a config file
– BUG FIX: False “Unknown Level 9 game or version” detection fixed &#8212; games like Necronomicon no longer show a spurious Level 9 entry in the game list. Root cause was a logic error in the Level 9 scanner (present in all ScummVM platforms) which has been corrected.

SerialShell

In the documents, we can read the following:

SerialShell is a lightweight TCP server that runs on AmigaOS 4 and enables remote command execution, file transfer, and program output capture from a host machine.  It is designed for developers who use QEMU or real Amiga hardware and want to automate build-deploy-test workflows from their development PC.

Key features:

– Execute AmigaOS shell commands remotely and capture output
– Upload and download files over TCP (binary safe)
– Run clib4/-athread=native programs with output capture
– Minimal footprint (~70 KB), no external dependencies
– Auto-starts at boot via S:User-Startup

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/utility/serialshell.lha

Snoopy

If you’d like to have a peek at what actually goes on behind the curtains on your AmigaOS 4 desktop, the utility called Snoopy will be able to help you. Created by Colin Wenzel, this is a SnoopDos-like program that will reveal all kinds of information about what is happening.

Snoopy 54.129 (16-04-2026): CJW
– Bumped Snoopy DOS update version warning to 54.155

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/filetool/snoopy.lha

Vintage Song Player

This is a music player created by Juan Carlos Herrán Martín. It supports a wide range of formats, such as MP3, MOD, MED, XM, S3M, and so forth.

Version 2.75 is out now. The option to raise or lower the volume has been included at the request of Helmut Haake.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/play/vintagesongplayer.lha

VirtIO SCSI Device Driver for AmigaOS 4.1 FE

Derf has released version 1.8 of this driver. Virtioscsi.device is a device driver for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition that gives the operating system access to VirtIO SCSI virtual disks in QEMU virtual machines.

He writes as follows:

“This driver was developed with Claude AI (Anthropic) acting as the primary engineer – writing all C code, designing the architecture, debugging hardware-level issues, and navigating the AmigaOS 4.1 SDK. It is a
practical demonstration of AI-assisted low-level systems programming on a niche, legacy platform with minimal AI training data available.”

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/storage/virtioscsi.lha

WipeOut-RE Fantomas Edition

HunoPPC announced the final version of this game:

“Hello Amigans, Here is the final version of WipeOut-RE Fontômas edition Normal and SPE version. 

This version speeds up the engine by 2.5x and you will be able to take advantage of shaders with effects (CRT, etc.). 

On A1222 + RX480 8GO (native screen) = 200 fps 70% of CPU 

On X5000 + RX560 3GO (native screen) = 400 fps 40% of CPU 

This version is in Beta on my FTP server (named: wipegame_egl). 

This version is hybrid (Normal and SPE) and uses the new version of EGL_Wrap (W.I.P. not distributed). 

The final version should be released soon, and you will be able to fully enjoy it on your NG machines. 

Thank you for your support and patience, as this is a colossal undertaking, especially since I am the only one writing the code and fixing the problems. Have a good day!”

https://ko-fi.com/post/WipeOut-RE-Fontomas-edition-NORMALSPE-Core-final-O4O71WKDTG

On April 27th he announced:

“We’re finally here!! We’re on the home stretch before the release of WipeOut-RE Shaders and WipeOut-RE Fantômas Edition.

Three months of work to achieve this result in my free time

These two versions will be officially released this weekend and will be available for download on my website.”

https://ko-fi.com/post/WipeOut-RE-Shaders-and-WipeOut-RE-Shaders-Fantomas-D1D21YJIW6

Looks like brilliant work once again from HunoPPC!

Miscellaneous News

Amiga Music from Norway

The Norwegian Amiga musician Helge Kvalheim is back with more music!

As far as I know, he made three songs in April, which he uploaded to his YouTube channel. Here is one of them. Enjoy!

Lady Noir – Middle Big Room Reverb (HKvalhe’s 16bit 6ch Amiga Soft Jazz Swing) – Helge Kvalheim

Amiga Future

Issue 180 of Amiga Future has been released!

This May and June issue contains reviews of El Asesino Que Nadie Escucho (EAQNE), Kyvos, Lüttje Bookholler 1.89, and much more!

More information, as well as the opportunity to order, can be found via the link below:

https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=11054

Rewriting clib4’s I/O Layer: A Newlib-Inspired stdio for AmigaOS 4

Andrea Palmatè, Amigasoft.net, has published a new post on his Ko-fi-page. Check it out here:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Rewriting-clib4s-IO-Layer-A-Newlib-Inspired-std-P5P11XTKA2

New, QEMU-specific graphics card driver for AmigaOS 4

Amiga-news.de reports that QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton has released ATIRadeon.chip, a replacement for the graphics card driver included with AmigaOS 4. Please visit amiga-news.de to get the full news.

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-04-00107-EN.html

Huenison by Retream Games Competition

A game competition in Huenison by Retream is currently taking place on Amigans.net.

The contest is being arranged by 328gts. The goal is to score as many points as possible. Everyone is welcome to join in. You can find more details here:

https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=10088

Kyvos 2.1.0

George Sokianos has released a new version of Kyvos. This is a user-friendly graphical frontend for QEMU, which makes it much easier to set up and run AmigaOS 4 on different platforms.

More information can be found via the link below:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Kyvos-2-1-0-hot-released-G2G31YIJTU

Here is a video showing the installation process of Kyvos v2.

YouTube

I Smelled Smoke! First Power On of a RARE AmigaOne XE by BlueBarnTech

AmigaOne XE Repair Part 2: New Parts, Serial Ports, and Zero Luck. (Help!) by BlueBarnTech

Amiga NG na dopingu!!! X1000 – chłodniej – ciszej – szybciej….

nowy80Retro #219, Wings Battlefield – AmigaOS4.1, Pegasos II, PPC 1000MHz, Radeon 9000 Pro

nowy80Retro #220, AmigaOS4.1, Pegasos II PPC z Tunerem TV AVerMedia AVerTV Studio

QEMU 11 – AOS4 A1 Installing the system from the Voodoo3 development device by Marek Glogowski

AmigaOne X5000 Gameplay Los Malditos del Valle del Cerro + Bonus Turrican II (Remake) on AmigaOS 4.1

Until next time

You’ve now reached the end of another AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. 🙂 Hope you enjoyed the news, and that you found out about something you didn’t know about from before.

Thanks to all of you for reading, and I wish you a great May!

Yours,

Puni / AmigaOldskooler

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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – October 2025

Introduction

Hi everyone,

Thanks for visiting my blog, and for checking out this new issue of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup!

If you are new to this series (hi, and welcome!), it’s essentially a summary that covers the previous month’s news related to the AmigaOS 4 platform.

This month, October, has been jam-packed with events and news, almost too much to keep up with! News is spread on many channels, so there is a lot to keep track of, but that is part of the fun, and the reason they end up in a roundup like this. 😉

Anyway, October has been a FANTASTIC month for the AmigaOS 4 community, I dare to state that. It will be hard to top this for a while, I think!

Without further ado, let’s dive into what October was like in the world of AmigaOS 4!

Software News

First up is ReSrc4 from René W. Olsen. This is a portable Amiga 68k hunk file disassembler. The source code is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/rolsen74/resrc4

The archive can be fetched from OS4Depot:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/misc/resrc4.lha

AmiBrixx is a puzzle game for the Amiga, ported from the PC version called Joemine. It was brought over by Joerg Renkert. Version 2.31 is now available for download from OS4Depot. It supports skins, which means that you can change how the game looks in many ways!

In a field of stacked stones, your target is to eliminate groups of stones of the same color. Thereby, the other stones will fall down and form new groups. The game ends when no more groups can be eliminated.

The game works very well, and I enjoyed testing it. I recommend that you give it a try if you enjoy puzzle games like this!

Version 35.31 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!

The new version contains miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. To read more about this, or to download the game, please head over to OS4Depot:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha

Now for some really big news… Are you ready? Hyperion Entertainment is back! Yes, they are back in full gear with a brand new update to AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition! This time it is Update 3. Let us have a look at what this one has to offer us:

Brussels, Saturday, October 18, 2025

Hyperion Entertainment BV is proud to announce the release of Update 3 for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. Update 3 is a maintenance and stability update for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and includes more than 60 new features, 70 updates, and over 135 bug fixes across the system.

Some of the most notable improvements include:

The TCP/IP stack Roadshow has been updated to version 1.15, which among many other things greatly improves network stability and speed.

New, updated kernels for the X5000, X1000, AmigaOne, Pegasos II, Sam460, Sam440, and Classic Amiga systems, featuring upgraded cache handling and DMA operation on supported hardware.

An updated and improved USB stack which, among many other new features, performance improvements and bug fixes, now supports isochronous transfers for streaming devices.

An updated version of AmigaDOS with new features, enhancements, and numerous bug fixes.

An updated graphics library that now supports automatic detection of 4K/UHD monitors.

Updated versions of elf.library, intuition.library, and newlib.library, all featuring many new functions and bug fixes.

And many, many more new features, updates, and bug fixes.

Update 3 is available via AmiUpdate. Registered users can also download Update 3 from the download section at www.hyperion-entertainment.com.

Hyperion Entertainment would like to thank all the hardworking developers and testers for their dedication to this release. You keep the dream alive!

People who enjoy Minecraft and games similar to it should be happy to read that HunoPPC and the group titled “AOS4 fans from Mars” have brought ClassiCube to AmigaOS 4!

This is a custom Minecraft Classic-compatible client written in C from scratch. It aims to replicate the 2009 Minecraft Classic, while offering optional enhancements to improve the gameplay. Two versions are currently available for download: EGL_wrap and SPE. The SPE version is aimed at A1222+.

On the website of HunoPPC, you’ll find more information about the game, as well as downloads, and an option to support his work.

https://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/classicube-amigaos4-version-aos4-fans-mars-and-hunoppc

Here is a video of ClassiCube running on the A1222, courtesy of Mr Byte:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTUC11uhBQ

HunoPPC has also released a new version of wipEout Rewrite Enhanced Fantômas Edition for AmigaOS 4.1. This time it is version 1.0.6. For those of you not aware, this is basically a re-implementation of the classic Playstation 1 game wipEout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDIVwgkerqE

Changes are as follows:

Now working with Shaders, NORMAL or CRT mode
Fixed change resolution on live
Added shakers on shaders mode
Fixed opengl filter on shaders mode
Added 3D objects : Mouse, keyboard and joypad of WipeOut2097 datas
Added 1 letter of name saved on list of score
Added mouse support (W.I.P)
Saves prefs for ForceFeedback and mouse support added
Online scores

You can find more information, as well as the download here:

https://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/wipeout-rewrite-enhanced-fant%C3%B4mas-edition-amigaos-41

Juan Carlos Herrán Martín is an active software developer for platforms like AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and AROS. We’ve seen many releases from him in the previous roundups. Now he has returned with a new version of the game, Los Malditos. It is a free adaptation of the mythical books from Timun Mas from the 1980s and 1990s. These books are related to Dungeons & Dragons. The author is a fan of these works. It is now available for download at OS4Depot.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/adventure/losmalditos.lha

Changes for the new version is as follows:

The extended the story for the chapter 1,  with new enemies  and places to visit.
Removed bugs.
Rewrote the dialogues to better suit the personality of each hero/heroine.
New graphics and sounds.

If you’d like to have a closer look at what goes on behind the curtains on AmigaOS 4, the utility called Snoopy will be an excellent choice. Created by Colin Wenzel, this is a SnoopDos like program that will reveal all kinds of information about what is happening when you run a program, for example.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/filetool/snoopy.lha

A new version of the lightweight and powerful text editor Lite XL has been released for AmigaOS 4.1. This time it is version 2.1.8r2.

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.

Changes are as follows:

Added support for the GLSL language
Added the dragdropselected plugin
Added the tab_switcher plugin
Added the titleize plugin
Added the togglesnakecamel plugin
Added the typingspeed plugin
Added the unboundedscroll plugin
Added the wordcount plugin

The program is available for download from OS4Depot:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/text/edit/litexl2.lha

George Sokianos’ Ko-Fi page is available here:

https://ko-fi.com/walkero/posts

Kevin Taddeucci has released version 2.6 of his program VideoClipper in October. This is an extensive update, and it contains a wide range of bug fixes and changes.

VideoClipper version 2.6 includes enhancements to help speed up encoding. MPlayer v1.5 is now supported. Also supports .ass format subtitle file encoding. Many other user-requested enhancements and a few bug fixes are included. See below for the full list of changes.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/edit/videoclipper.lha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCq2o-BKKJU

Liblua 5.4.8 and Libffmpeg 8.0 have been uploaded to OS4Depot by Michael Trebilcock. Downloads are available below:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/misc/libffmpeg.lha

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/language/liblua.lha

DRIDI has released version 14.3Final of the Arabic Console Device. Changes are as follows:

(version 14.3Final) “Version education&legacy” finished (for me) –
ArabicLauncher – Concurrency with run and cmd on error – Almost perfect!

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/arabic_console_devicepro2.lha

A new build of FFmpeg 8.0 from Michael Trebilcock has been released. This one will only run on the A1222, but it is not e500 / SPE optimized. Despite this, it is significantly faster than the generic FPU build when run on the A1222.

FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/convert/ffmpeg_a1222.lha

Kikems is back with version 1.0R7 of the next generation pixel editor for Amiga called Pixy. The original concept was created by Sinisrus, who worked on it in the years 2016 to 2020. Kimens from AmigaWave is now improving it further.

Pixy is a drawing program dedicated to pixel art and graphics with alpha channel transparency. It allows you to create several animations in a single project, and each image of each animation sequence contains its own layers. This makes it possible to work on all the animations of a character when creating video games, for example. The interface is intentionally inspired by Photoshop.

More information about Pixy, as well as a download, can be found here:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/edit/pixy.lha

A new update to SDL3 is out, more precisely version 3.2.24. More information is available here:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/sdl3.lha

On GitHub:

https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL

The Settlers is now out for AmigaOS 4 (and other Amiga platforms)! It is available for purchase from Look Behind You:

https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/thesettlers2amiga/

From their website, we can read:

The Settlers II is regarded as the pinnacle of the series and a milestone in the building strategy genre. The game perfected everything that made the first part awesome: the bustling inhabitants, the complex economic chains, and the unique charm. Now, finally, it’s where it belongs – on the Amiga.

The story

A storm casts Roman captain Octavius onto a mysterious island. From a simple emergency shelter, you build a powerful empire. Starting with a single tent, you develop a complex civilization with over 30 building types and just as many professions.
Extensive game content

thousands of lovingly animated settlers
over 30 different professions, including 6 types of soldiers
4 different races with different character types: Romans, Asians, Nubians, and Vikings
various landscapes such as lava, ice fields, swamps, forests, and much more, including the stunning winter scenery from The Settlers II Mission CD
10 Roman campaigns and 9 world campaigns
130 free bonus maps
integrated in-game help and optimized game interface
4 languages: fully in English and German, with French and Polish available in-game

Three editions for everyone who loves the Amiga

Box Edition (available from October 18, 2025): This physical edition will feature a classic box format with a slip lid for € 49.90 and will include a DVD plus download option, the colored world atlas, manuals in German and English, as well as four exclusive and collectible retro-design postcards.

Collector’s Edition (available from December 1, 2025): The game’s deluxe version will be available for € 99.90 as a wooden box in the original Settlers II design; it will be limited to 100 copies and will also include an exclusive metal magnet (8×5 cm) with the iconic castle motif from the first Settlers game—a real gem for every Amiga enthusiast and box collector.

Digital Edition (available from October 18, 2025): For immediate gaming fun, a download-only version will also be available for € 29.90.

PowerPC version

Minimum system requirements PPC version:

PPC Amiga with AmigaOS 4.1 or AmigaOS 3.1 with WarpUP
603e/175 MHz
32 MB RAM
AmigaOS 3.1 with WarpUP or AmigaOS 4.1
AHI
500 MB free hard disk space

Recommended system requirements PPC version:

PPC Amiga with AmigaOS 4.1 or AmigaOS 3.2 with WarpUP
G3 800 MHz or higher
for resolutions higher than 640×480, a graphics card (PCI, AGP, or PCIe) is recommended
64 MB RAM
AmigaOS 3.2 with WarpUP or AmigaOS 4.1
AHI
500 MB free hard disk space

Ola Söder has released InstallerLG version 1.03:

A reimplementation of the ‘Installer’ utility included with AmigaOS as of version 2.1. InstallerLG aims to be fully compatible with the original as described in the V44.10 documentation. Most resource limitations found in the Commodore implementation are gone, and the GUI has been replaced by a MUI / Zune based one.

https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/sys/InstallerLG.ppc-amigaos

The text editor Vim has also received an update from Ola Söder, bumping it to 9.1.1869. It is available for download from Aminet:

https://os4.aminet.net/package/text/edit/Vim_9.1-ppc-amigaos

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are:

persistent, multi-level undo tree
extensive plugin system
support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats
powerful search and replace
integrates with many tools

Please note that this is not a straight port of the upstream version. It includes a full MUI GUI with most of the bells and whistles found in Vim on any of the major platforms.

The source code is available here:

https://github.com/sodero/MUI-Vim
https://codeberg.org/sodero/MUI-Vim
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mui-vim/

On Aminet, we can also see that A. Pankalla has released a set of special mouse drivers. He writes as follows:

This mouse drivers based on open-source code from diverse authors and was changed in two manners.

First, some functions are changed, because they deprecrated and second i changed some lines of codes to fit to severale mouse types. The changed source code you find in the source directory, it is based on the xero-driver from W. Hosemann. You can recompile it with different constants to genrate the special drivers.

The main new function of the driver’s is to provide a possibility to scroll also in horizontal direction, this is usesd, for example, in the directory windows or the notepad. This function is mapped to special hardware buttons. Check the hardware id’s with tools like usbinspector or devinfos(ng). the driver only works with this deticated hardware!

https://os4.aminet.net/package/driver/input/MouseDriver

Version 1.14i.1 of LHa for UNIX for AmigaOS 4 has been released! You can find it for download on Aminet:

https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/arc/LHa_4U4A-ppc-amigaos

Version 5.25 of AmiSSL has been released! As mentioned in earlier editions of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, the AmiSSL project is a collaborative effort to develop a port of OpenSSL in a shared library for Amiga-based systems. It is a must-have if you use AmigaOS 4 to browse the web!

https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/libs/AmiSSL-v5-OS4

The very active developer Steffen Häuser is working on porting ScummVM 3.0.0.git to AmigaOS 4. It is currently in beta state. You can find out more by visiting amiga-news.de, who published this news:

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-10-00042-EN.html

ACube Systems, the creators of the Sam 440 and Sam460, has announced the Sil3132 SATA2 driver for AmigaOS 4:

Bassano del Grappa, Italy – October 18, 2025

ACube Systems is proud to announce, as a special gift to the community on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the launch of the Amiga and during the Amiga40 Germany event in Mönchengladbach from October 17–19, 2025, the release of the AmigaOS4 driver for the SiI3132 SATA2 controller.

With the latest U-Boot update already adding support for the SiI3132 controller, this new driver – developed in collaboration with Alfredo Amendolagine – enables AmigaOS 4 to fully utilize the Silicon Image 3132 controller, featuring two SATA2 ports on a high-performance PCIe bus. It delivers top speeds and broad compatibility with modern SATA devices, including HDDs, SSDs, and CD/DVD drives.

Most importantly, this driver will be offered completely free of charge – an exclusive gift from ACube Systems to the entire Amiga community in celebration of this milestone.

You can download the driver from the “Latest files” section on our homepage or by directly clicking on this link:

https://acube-systems.biz/download.php?file=sii3132sata_dev_v1.0.lha

Enjoy Amiga40! We certainly will!

It is great to see ACube Systems actively support the platform, which they’ve done consistantly for many, many years! 🙂

Now, over to another piece of very interesting news. An alpha version of the web browser Odyssey has been released! Please read on for the full news as posted on Amigans.net:

Odyssey Web Browser is back on AmigaOS4, rebuilt and reborn with major under-the-hood improvements — now powered by the latest clib4 runtime library and GCC 11.

This is a first Alpha version, a big milestone toward a fully optimized and modern browsing experience on AmigaOS4.

Odyssey Web Browser is back on AmigaOS4, rebuilt and reborn with major under-the-hood improvements — now powered by the latest clib4 runtime library and GCC 11.

This is a first Alpha version, a big milestone toward a fully optimized and modern browsing experience on AmigaOS4.

What’s new in this Alpha build

Compiled with GCC 11 (with –enable-sjlj-exceptions disabled), resulting in a noticeable speed boost

Integrated with the new clib4 memory allocator, improving memory handling and stability

Several internal optimizations to make the browser smoother and faster

Audio and Video playback are currently disabled in this Alpha build

Important Notes

This is an Alpha version, and it’s still under active development.
That means some features may not work correctly or may cause crashes in specific conditions.

You can find the current list of known issues (and add your own reports) here:
https://github.com/AmigaLabs/OdysseyWebBrowser/issues

Please make sure to read the included README file for more detailed information about installation, usage, and limitations of this build.

Copy PROGDIR:Libs/clib4.library into LIBS: folder. If you are using already version 2.0 just overwrite older version.
If you are using the old 1.6 version, just backup it and copy new version

Your feedback is incredibly valuable — every issue reported helps make Odyssey better and faster for everyone in the Amiga community.

You can follow development here: https://github.com/AmigaLabs/OdysseyWebBrowser/
and get the latest build here: Odyssey_300a1.lha

I’ve installed it myself on the A1222+, and I’m looking forward to trying it out further. Congratulations, and thanks to Andrea for his hard work on this project!

In this video you can see the YouTuber TJ Ferreira checking it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMIWt5D6Zaw

Misc

There is currently a poll running on Amigans.net. The aim of this one is to gauge what systems people are running AmigaOS 4 on. The poll is on the front page, on the right-hand side. I just submitted my votes, and I hope you will do the same. I’m curious how this one will end up!

A new issue of Amiga Future is scheduled for release in November.

Issue 177 will contain information about Settlers II, a game which was released in October.

https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=10933

Michal Schulz, the man behind Emu68, made an announcement on his Patreon that has sparked a lot of discussion recently. Emu68 goes PowerPC! What this will mean for AmigaOS 4 remains to be seen, but it is intriguing to say the least! Please follow the link for the full post from Michal Schulz:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-more-thing-141985279

George Sokianos has released version 1.7.0 of Kyvos. This is a user-friendly graphical frontend for QEMU, which makes it much easier to set up and run AmigaOS 4 on various platforms.

Please head on over to Mr. Sokianos’ Ko-Fi page to get the full details on the new version:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Kyvos-1-7-0-released-R6R81NHQWD

The screenshots above is from his Patreon page.

AmiWest 2025 is scheduled to take place this upcoming weekend. A press release was recently published on Amigans.net in connection with this:

Oct 28th, 2025

SACRAMENTO, California – The Sacramento Amiga Computer Club is proud to present AmiWest 2025 on Nov 1st and 2nd. This is a special year for the Amiga Computer, launched by Commodore in 1985, marking the platform’s 40th anniversary. So far this year, Amiga enthusiasts have been treated to the AMIGA/040th in Silicon Valley and the Amiga40 in Germany, along with a host of other special events.

AmiWest, the longest-running Amiga show in the world, will be celebrating the Amiga’s 40th anniversary with a focus on the community. In place of a traditional show floor banquet, we will be traveling to a local Sacramento Burgers and Brew. In place of a conventional speaker, we will allow the attendees to share their Amiga Computer journeys and experiences.

The show floor will see several new exhibits joining our long-time supporters. We will have the Amiga “Lorraine” wire-wrap prototypes, the AMIGA/040th FutureWall, Tunefinder – Marcin Spoczynski, and more. We will also present AmigaOS 4 Update 3, the new Mirari PPC board, and AmigaOS 3.3 beta. To top it off, the A-Eon A1222+, motherboard and complete tower systems will be on sale at the AAA table!

For presentations, the show will have unique content:

Carl Sassenrath presents the history of the Amiga
Jason Neus talking about AmiPCI
A-eon updates from Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Lehman
Steven Solie is providing an update on AmigaOS 4 multicore
And more!

Like AmiWests in the past, we will have the Raffle, Games Competition, and live internet broadcast!

Check amiwest.net for the latest details on the show!

Contact: Jerry Gray
SACC Vice President
[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuyRmgkjT5E

The gaming competition on Amigans.net for October and November is currently ongoing. These months, we are playing the brilliant arcade shoot’em up game Blastaway from Retream!

This game is available for purchase here:

https://retream.itch.io/blastaway

At the moment, Walkero is in the lead, followed by 328gts. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that I’m currently in the last position, but that will hopefully change during November. 😉 Time will show!

If you’d like to take part in the competition or to read more about it, here is the link to the appropriate thread on Amigans.net:

https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9943

The show Amiga 40 was held in Germany from October 17th to 19th.

Many reports from the event have been published, but for us AmigaOS 4 enthusiasts, I recommend heading over to the Rear Window blog to read Trixie’s “Glad in Gladbach” post.

There, he gives us a detailed travel report, packed with photos of many people in our community attending the event, either as visitors or as exhibitors.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Glad-in-Gladbach-N4N21N487C

To complement this, there are many videos on YouTube covering the event. Here are a couple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFBXibOgrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MS8HCXVT8

Also, McFly PPC has released his video (part 1) of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RPPLdcGUs

I’d also like to mention that AmigaNG has created a great summary of the event, which you can find here:

https://amigang.com/amigaos3-3-os4-1-update-3-pistorm-ppc-coming-to-eu68-mirari-execsg-multicore-amiga40-event/

Now, at Amiga 40, we were presented with some very interested news concerning the Mirari, but also multicore. Please have a look at these two images:

This is for sure, great news, and very exciting! 🙂

Skateman, who is part of the Mirari project, shared some images to use in this roundup.

This shows the Mirari computer that has been shipped to Thomas Frieden, and the board to Steven Solie. Many thanks to Skateman for supporting the monthly roundup!

YouTube

TJ Ferreira has ventured out on more AmigaOS 4 adventures lately. In this video, he he takes a look at the Infinite Icons 1.1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYUNu8Sk0-k

Ghettofinger Gaming is very active on YouTube, promoting the Amiga and the AmiWest event. In one of his videos, he looks at game ports on his AmigaOne X5000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W5bRb_RVy4

Please visit his channel for many more AmigaOS 4-related videos. 🙂

Davebraco is back again with several nice videos. Have you, for example, seen 26 HD videos running at once on an AmigaOne X5000? Well, if not, here is your chance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neb4x3kWDlc

Another video he did was showing how you can do fast backups with the Mirror command on AmigaOS 4.1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-tjBq5u6YU

Marek Glogowski has also been very active as of late, and one of the videos can be found below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCEo7-KSRmk

Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel has published a new video – Serious Sam The First/Second Encounter Amiga 40:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYYQBHq9YU

If you’d like to see more of the AmigaOne X5000, Mufa has made a video in Polish, which you can find here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQv1novc-SU

Until next time

I say it again, what a month! 🙂 I’m sorry if I’ve missed some news this time, but I think I’ve managed to cram in all there is. 😉

That was all for this time. Hope you enjoyed the news for October 2025!

Thank for reading and for visiting my blog!

Also thanks to everyone who supports this initiative, it is very much appreciated! 

I wish you all a nice November, and see you in the next AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup!

Best regards,

Puni

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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – September 2025

Hi,

Thanks for visiting, and welcome to a new post here on the Old School Game Blog!

Today, on October 1st, it is once again time for a new AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

Many are probably looking forward to the Amiga40 event, which takes place in Germany on October 17th to 19th. More information is available here. I’m hoping for some news on the Mirari board and about AmigaOS 4 in general. 🙂

Now, let’s take a peek at the AmigaOS 4 news for September 2025.

Software News

The Settlers 2 is coming…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_WLwpWvmBg

On Paddy’s Retro Kanal, you can check out an interview with Steffen Häuser in relation to this game. This is a German podcast. Subtitles in English are available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzgl3xtzEZo

Amiga-news.de reports that a port of Serious Sam to AmigaOS 4 is in progress. Steffen Häuser is currently working on this. Please visit amiga-news.de for the full news. Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel has uploaded a video showing the beta version in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzPmPZhJ1Q

Next up is version 1.1 of ShaderNova from Juha Niemimäki. This application can mirror content from other windows and render it using fragment shaders. This enables various post-processing effects. Normal mouse and keyboard events are forwarded to the original window. The input window and shader program can be chosen using the RMB menus.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/misc/shadernova.lha

Domenico Lattanzi has released version 1.0 of the game Connect 4. It is powered by Fairy Stockfish, a multi-purpose engine derived from the famous Stockfish that was created for Chess. You can find the game for download here:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/board/connect4.lha

George Sokianos is back with a new release of Kyvos. This time it is version v1.5.0. This is a smaller release with a couple of features implemented and a reported bug fix. Sokianos created Kyvos as a means to make it easy to use AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS through QEMY.

Cppcheck 2.18.0 has been released. This is a static analysis tool for C and C++ code. It provides unique code analysis to detect bugs, focusing on identifying undefined behavior and hazardous coding constructs. The goal is to have very few false positives. Cppcheck is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax (common in embedded projects). It was developed by the Cppcheck team and ported to AmigaOS 4 by George Sokianos. It has now been synced with the latest upstream version.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/utility/cppcheck.lha

Would you like to have your Google Calendar displayed on AmigaOS 4? With the tool iCalVortex from Thomas Kölsch, this is now a possibility. Version 1.0 is out now, and the author has fixed an alarm and a time zone bug.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/icalvortex.lha

Steffen Gutmann released version 1.2 of BeeBase for AmigaOS 4. This is a relational, programmable database system with a GUI for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Amiga. It is well-suited for managing structured data with clear semantics that can be organized into tables and fields. It can be regarded as an application development environment. You can find more information about the program on its website. https://beebase.sourceforge.io/index.php.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=office/database/beebase.lha

DRIDI has released version 11.6Final of the Arabic Console Device. Changes are as follows:

(version 11.6Final) “Version education&legacy” finished (for me) –
L/arabcon-handler – bug with Ctrl_C in input stream fixed.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/arabic_console_devicepro2.lha

Version 53.4 of A1222Mix has been released by Lyle Hazelwood. This is an audio mixer for the A1222+.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/misc/a1222mix.lha

AmigaGPT is a versatile ChatGPT client for AmigaOS 3.x, 4.1, and MorphOS. It is being developed by Nightfox. This powerful tool brings the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT to your Amiga system, enabling text generation, question-answering, and creative exploration. AmigaGPT can also generate stunning images using DALL-E and includes support for speech output, making it easier than ever to interact with AI on your Amiga. Designed to integrate seamlessly with your system, AmigaGPT delivers modern AI technology while embracing the timeless Amiga experience. Version 2.11.2 is now available for download from OS4Depot.

Changes:

– Improve handling of server disconnections
– Fix occasional crash downloading chat responses
– Startup script for the daemon in AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS no longer causes errors
– The say.rexx script now works with the daemon

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=network/chat/amigagpt.lha

Version 5.23 of AmiSSL has been released! As mentioned in earlier editions of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, the AmiSSL project is a collaborative effort to develop a port of OpenSSL in a shared library for Amiga-based systems. It is a must-have if you use AmigaOS 4 to browse the web!

Here is the SDK for developers:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/misc/amissl-sdk.lha

Regular package for users:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/amissl.lha

Steffen Häuser a.k.a TheMagicSN has returned with a new version of RetroArch, 1.21.0R1.4, for AmigaOS 4! With RetroArch, you can enjoy many different systems on your computer, like the Nintendo Entertainment System, SEGA Genesis, and many, many more! It certainly opens up gaming possibilities on your computer!

New in this release:

– A version for QEmu is included (for QEmu Version 1.20.0 is used, for other OS4 Targets 1.21.0, 1.20.0 does not use Compositing and 16 Bit Color Depth). This version should also work for UAE OS4 Emulation.

Thumbnail Maker Amiga, created by David Woolley, is an application for creating thumbnails from a video. This is version 1.10, the first public release.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/misc/thumbnail_maker_amiga.lha

An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on September 24th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Changes since 8.67 are miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/reportplus.lha

VBCC is a portable and retargetable ISO/ANSI C compiler. Frank Wille has done version 0.9h patch2, which is available on Aminet.

https://aminet.net/package/dev/c/vbcc_bin_amigaosppc

Chris Young has released version 3.1 of Avalanche, a ReAction unarchive GUI for xfd/xadmaster. Please check out Aminet for the download.

https://aminet.net/package/util/arc/avalanche

Deepscan 1.5 lists dependencies in a binary. The utility was created by Lorence Lombardo. Deepscan was based on Megacz’s “Depstrack”, but was not translated at all, and was written entirely from scratch.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/shell/depscan.lha

MediaVault is an open-source desktop application for AmigaOS 4, which can be used to discover online audio and video content.

With MediaVault, you can discover radio stations and podcasts and listen to them using your audio player of choice. There are different ways to search and filter results, based on language and category/genre. The program has been developed by George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero. Version 1.6.0 is out now and contains the following changes:

v1.6.0 – 2025-09-27

– Added Autoinstall script for AmiUpdate
– Compiled with gcc11
– Disabled the self-update process
– Fixed the radio stations discovery
– Updated the list of supporters in the About window
– Updated used libraries

You can download the package from OS4Depot:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/misc/mediavault.lha

SDL3 has received an update, bumping it to version 3.2.22.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/sdl3.lha

Version 35.23 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!

Changes since V35.22:

Summary:

• Enhanced “Peripherals|Printer(s)…” subwindow.
• 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

Here are the links to the websites of the author:

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

FFmpeg is a fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high-quality polyphase filter. MickJT has released a new update that brings it to version 8.0. More information about the program is available on OS4Depot.

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/convert/ffmpeg.lha

Version 1.1 of the Infinite Icons Theme Pack by JTDigital Designs is now available for purchase from AmiKit.

https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/infiniteicons

The price for the package is 12.95 EUR.

That was the software news for this time. Let us move on to other news!

Misc

Issue 176 of Amiga Future has been released!

More information about the magazine can be found on the official website:

https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=10932

Hyperion Entertainment finally have made AmigaOS 4.1 FE for Pegasos 2 available digitally!

This is excellent news, especially for those interested in running AmigaOS 4 through QEMU as a Pegasos 2 setup. 

According to Hyperion, more AmigaOS 4 versions will follow as physical stock runs out in stores. A price adjustment has also been made.

Please read on for the press release published on their website:

AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Pegasos 2 is now available digitally

Brussels – September 9., 2025

Over the past few months, we have seen a massive increase in demand for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Pegasos 2. Since all physical copies are sold out, we have decided to make the ISO available for digital purchase.

The ISO can be purchased via 2Checkout. Once you have purchased your copy, you will receive a serial number that can be used to register at www.hyperion-entertainment.com.

As stock of the other versions of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition runs out, they will also be made available for digital download.

The price of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition has not been adjusted for almost 20 years, even though inflation and rising production costs have increased considerably. Therefore, the price of the digital download version of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Pegasos 2 is €39.95 including VAT.

The price of the digital version of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Classic has also been adjusted to €39.95 including VAT.

Thank you for your continued support of AmigaOS.

Ghettofinger Gaming has published many videos on his YouTube channel during September. He’s now doing a weekly show called Boing & Beyond, which takes place on Wednesdays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jivV1-sQh3g

Helge Kvalheim is back again with a brand new song called Your Beautiful Smile. This was composed using an AmigaOne X5000/020 running OctaMED SoundStudio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787wCGLKCzU

More AmigaOS 4 videos can be found on Maijestro’s Amiga Retro Channel. This month, he has uploaded a video showing Browservice in action, a trailer of Siedler 2 (The Settlers 29 and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter/First Encounter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzPmPZhJ1Q

In his latest video, Muf@ takes a look at the Nano Model 979 and how it works with Amiga NG. This video is in Polish, but you can turn on English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfs9UK_AGSM

Davebraco’s YouTube channel has been updated with several videos in September. One of these shows his A1222+ in action outdoors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6g3nTZqzF8

Hirudov has also been busy in September with many AmigaOS 4 related videos. In this one, we can see him emulating Windows 3.11 on his AmigaOne X1000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2sTgTJdYT8

Interested in how to build Raylib on AmigaOS 4? In this video from KSD – Amiga Corner, you can find out how to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LYzYgvrS4

Until next time

That was all for this time. Hope you enjoyed the news for September! 

Thank for reading and for visiting my blog! Also thanks to everyone who supports this initiative, it is very much appreciated! 

I wish you all a nice autumn, and see you in the next AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup!

Best regards,

Puni

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The Settlers II Gold Edition Comes to Amiga on October 18th 2025

Hi everyone,

Today I have some great news for all of you who are enjoy playing games on your Amiga! The Settlers II Gold Edition is scheduled for an Amiga release on October 18th 2025.

With an official license from Ubisoft Entertainment, the game will be available natively for the Amiga. Not as a quick port, but as an optimized version that shows what the Amiga is really capable of.

It will be available for both 68k based systems and PowerPC, such as systems running AmigaOS 4.1.

On amiga-news.de you can read the official press release that goes into details concerning this upcoming game.

Here is the link:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-08-00050-EN.html

Pre-order is now open.

That was all for now. Thanks for reading, and see you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog! 🙂

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Lite XL – Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing – Version 2.1.8r1 for AmigaOS 4.1 Released!

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

A new version of the lightweight and powerful text-editor Lite XL has been released for AmigaOS 4.1. This time it is version 2.1.68r1.

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.

George Sokianos writes as follows about the new release on his Ko-fi page:

This new version is the first one that uses SDL3, the latest version of the SDL framework that powers it. Unfortunately, with that, there comes some slowdown in the editor that is visible with an increased CPU usage and having the scrolling and animations being slower. I put great effort the past 3 weeks profiling the code and providing all the necessary information to the original Lite XL team, as well as Capehill who is responsible for the SDL3 port to AmigaOS 4, and BeWorld who does the same for MorphOS.

If you’re interested in getting the hold of the new version, it can be freely download from OS4Depot via the link below:

https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/text/edit/litexl2.lha

Thanks again for visiting my blog! See you in another post here on Old School Game Blog!

Best regards,

Puni

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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – April 2025

Hi,

Welcome to a new edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! 🙂

The month of May has arrived. Spring is in the air! It is time to look at what has been happening in the community during April.

Thanks for reading and for visiting my blog. Hope you’ll enjoy the news!

Software News

First up is some gaming news! Hold on to your horses!

Warcraft-2-Engine: Stratagus 3.3.3 for AmigaOS 4

Press release from amiga-news.de

Alinea Computer is pleased to be able to offer another port by Steffen Häuser. Steffen has taken care of the porting of the latest version 3.3.3 and the installation routines for easy installation under AmigaOS 4. Stratagus is the port of the engine in version 3.3.3, which makes it possible to play the game Warcraft 2 from Blizzard Entertainment natively on the Amiga under AmigaOS 4.

The archive contains an installer with which it is possible to install the game directly from the PC CD without pre-installing it on the PC. At least for the Warcraft 2 Classic PC CD, for the Battle.Net CD or the Gog version it is necessary to unpack a file with a Windows tool, but with the Classic CD you can install directly on the Amiga.

Warcraft 2 is one of the most famous strategy games of all time, practically the prequel to the famous MMO “World of Warcraft”. In addition to the base game “Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness”, the add-on CD “Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal” (already included in the Battle.Net CD and Gog version) is also supported.

Stratagus is based on the current “latest Git” version of the Stratagus project (version 3.3.3). In contrast to an earlier implementation, 3.3.3 offers the following features:

• Iconic game music and not just sound effects (the music files are only installed with the Warcraft 2 Classic CD and the Battle.net CD, but can be copied manually afterwards when using the Gog version).
• The game’s video sequences (video sequences not available on AmigaOne A1222)
• A functional level editor
• Numerous bug fixes

Of course, the localisation of Warcraft 2 into different languages is also supported.

Stratagus is under GPL licence, the source code of the Amiga version will be integrated into the github of the PC version in the foreseeable future, but is also available as a request by e-mail (see readme for details).

The minimum requirements for Stratagus are:

A computer with AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 or higher
Special executables optimised for the respective platforms (x1000, x5000, Sam 440, Sam 460, G3 and A1222) can be selected during installation.

https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-Software/Amiga-Games/Stratagus-3-3-3-for-AmigaOS-4::1412.html

Juan Carlos Herrán Martín is an active software developer for platforms like AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and AROS. We’ve seen many releases from him in the earlier monthly roundups. Now he is back with a new version of the game Los Malditos. It is a free adaption of the mythical books from Timun Mas from the 1980s and 1990s. These books are related to Dungeons & Dragons. The author is a fan of these works. It is now available for download at OS4Depot.

Improvements since the previous version:

• Improved on-screen text
• Improvement of the game speed, removing the delay refresh in the game window
• Bugs fixed
• Removed the option to exit the game when you are in a fight and you are in places preventing you from running away from the enemy
• New cover
• The game has been made free, but donations are welcome

He also released version Final2 of High-Low-Equal Poker. This is a special version to promote the game Los Malditos del Valle del Cerro and a way to show the possibilities of his games to promote magazines, books, movies, and other games and programs, even hardware.

• The game has the exclusive Baphomet deck with the Heroes from the game “Los Malditos’ del Valle del Cerro”
• Bug fixed with card engine
• Two game modes: A=1 Ace equals 1 and Poker A>K Ace as in poker is the highest card
• Now the game cans open and play with Baphomet decks
• New screen to exit the game instead of the window requester
• Small improvements

If that was not enough, he updated his utility Cards Making Kit to version 2.20. With this program, you can make your decks for the following games:

• HLE Poker Card (High-Low-Equal Poker Card)
• BlackJuan
• Siete y Media
• Baccarat
• BlackIvan Card

You can make your decks using pictures from your family, pets, hobbies, etc.

Here is another one from the same author. Version 2.05 of a game called Baccarat has been released. This is a tribute to the mythical card game, popularized by the James Bond movie Dr. No with Sean Connery. The author has added a new exit cover (more James Bond style), and fixed a bug with the Baphomet decks and the overload in the game screen that slowed down the game.

Blackjuan Poker Card has been updated to version 2.00. This is another card game from the author above. The development of the game started back in 2012. This release includes new graphics and bug fixes. The game now supports Baphomet decks.

Last, but not least, he has updated the game Siete y Media to version 2.00. This is a Spanish Blackjack version with a Spanish deck of 40 cards. The aim of the game is not to get 21 which is common in Blackjack, but the sum of 7.5. You can read more about this in the readme. An SDK is included for those interested in making their decks of cards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67WwNSgq3A

Amifish is a chess program made to play chess with Amiga-like systems. It exploits the power of one of the most powerful chess engines in the world: Stockfish. This engine was developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, and Gary Linscott. A chess engine is a console program that plays chess, receiving strings as commands and producing strings in output as a result of computation. Stockfish and many other engines are compatible with a standard named UCI (Universal Chess Interface). The name Amifish is obtained by joining the words ‘Amiga’ and ‘Stockfish’. However, the project is open to all engines compliant with the UCI standard. It is a light program for amateurs. It is made to have fun with chess. Only the most important options are implemented. Version 2.1 is out for AmigaOS 4 and can be downloaded from OS4Depot.

Version R19 of iMage, a fast image viewer by Lazi has been released. According to the author, it handles JPG files very fast.

MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 122 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 15.31, which provides miscellaneous improvements, as well as an enhanced Goal! Team editor.

Lorence Lombardo released version 1.0 of chklib. It is currently used in the “amiaudcomp” lib project. He also released version 1.0 of flushmem, which in theory flushes all flushable items from memory.

AmiSSL received an update to version 5.20. As mentioned in earlier editions of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, the AmiSSL project is a collaborative effort to develop a port of OpenSSL in a shared library for Amiga-based systems. The download is available here. If you are interested in the SDK, it can be found here. It is a must-have if you use AmigaOS 4 to browse the web!

An updated version, 3.4, of the YouTube URL Extractor Script by Michael Trebilcock was released on April 16th. YT.rexx is a script for providing direct video and audio links from YouTube URLs. Changes from the previous version include:

3.4 – 16th Apr 2025:

• Compatibility fixes.
• Removed MEDIACONNECT client as it was no longer supported.
• Added ANDROIDVR client. This is the default in a new YT.cfg. Please note that
  YouTube Kids videos are incompatible with this client.
• DualTagVid / DualTagAud settings in the .cfg can now have multiple tag
  numbers in order of priority, for use with the dualplay option.

More history within the archive.

PolarPaint is an experimental paint program made in Hollywood by Anbjørn Myren. Version 1.055 was uploaded to OS4Depot and became available on April 18th. If you are interested in checking it out, please click here. Another version called PolarPaint Small can be downloaded via this link.

Deark is an application that can extract data from a wide range of file formats. Developed by Jason Summers, this tool can help you get data from everything from AMOS ABK files to Doom WADs. You can read more about supported formats, as well as download the utility from OS4Depot. Version 1.7.0 became available on OS4Depot on April 18th.

George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero has released a new version of aiostreams. “All In One streams” (aiostreams) is a pack of scripts, written in Python, that can be used to stream and watch videos from different online networks, like Twitch.tv, YouTube, and Vimeo.com. Please click here to download it or to read the changelog.

Version 3.451 of IMP3, a utility created by Juen a.k.a Pawl Nowak, has been released! The program was originally meant for 68K but does run OK on AmigaOS 4. With IMP3, you can listen to over 168.000 music files through the Internet. These are ProTracker modules, SID tunes, and so forth. Besides this, it has cloud storage and Online gaming with high scores.

The source code for AmiCraftNova has been released to the public domain by Caras Ghant.

Frank Wille has released an 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.

AmigaGPT is a versatile ChatGPT client for AmigaOS 3.x, 4.1 and MorphOS. It is being developed by Cameron Armstrong a.k.a. Nightfox. This powerful tool brings the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT to your Amiga system, enabling text generation, question-answering, and creative exploration. AmigaGPT can also generate stunning images using DALL-E and includes support for speech output, making it easier than ever to interact with AI on your Amiga. Designed to integrate seamlessly with your system, AmigaGPT delivers modern AI technology while embracing the timeless Amiga experience. Version 2.5.0 is now available for download from OS4Depot.

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups, and other obnoxious Internet junk. It is being developed by Mark Mansnerus. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has applications for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. Version 3.0.6 is now out and available for download.

WormHole allows you to transfer files to another computer within the same LAN without having to make any adjustments. It is being developed by Lazi. The main advantage of using WormHole between Amiga systems is that it can handle icons and all AmigaOS file attributes in one step.

Main features:

• Transfers all Amiga file attributes
• Transfers icons automatically
• Zero configuration
• Transfers files bi-directional at the same time
• Transfer multiple files parallel at the same time
• Multiplatform

Version 0.5 has been released. Please click here to download it.

AStone is a picture viewer created in Hollywood by Sandro Barbagelata. Version 1.0 was released on April 26th. It is heavily inspired by the utility Fastone on Windows.

The AmigaOS 4 port of Open Medal of Honor is now available on OS4Depot. The porting has been done by Ryan Dixon a.k.a. rjd324. The main goal of OpenMoHAA is to ensure the future and continuity of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (including Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions) on all platforms/architectures by providing new patches/features.

The source code for the AmigaOS4 port can be found at:

https://github.com/3246251196/openmohaa

The download is available here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhvT-h2jk0

An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on April 27th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Recent changes since 8.64 include miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. More detailed information can be found on OS4Depot.

Version 34.3 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!

Here is a summary of the changes since the last version:

• TWIN: added emulation of high-speed papertape reader.
• CD2650, PHUNSY: added “Tools|Sprite/character editor/viewer…”
  command.
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Please click here to be taken to the download page.

Xiangqi is a chess program made to play Xiangqi (Chinese chess), by making use of chess engines UCI compatible with the moves played by computers. A chess engine is a console program that play chess, receiving strings as commands and producing strings in output as a result of computation. The program is developed by Domenico Lattanzi. More information is available on OS4Depot.

That was the software news for this time. Now let us move over to hardware! 🙂

Hardware

I first heard about the new PPC hardware on Discord and was very surprised, to say the least! amiga-news.de has an extensive article about the subject. It will explain the project much better than I would be able to do. 🙂 I recommend you pop over to them and have a look at what this new PPC hardware is about.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-04-00129-EN.html

Here are two announcements from ACube Systems about UBoot updates! 🙂

UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX / Sam460CR / Sam460LE boards available
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.
• Updater tool can be downloaded from:
  https://acube-systems.biz/download/Sam460_updater_2015d.zip

If you are not comfortable installing UBoot yourself, we also offer fully updated UBoot chips through our online store.

Additional information:
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL.

Sources can be downloaded from:

UBoot & UBoot updater
https://acube-systems.biz/download/u-boot-2015.d_prod.tar.gz

Parthenope
https://acube-systems.biz/download/ub2lb_0.94.tar.gz

UBoot 2015.d for Sam440ep mini-itx and Sam440ep flex boards available
Bassano del Grappa, Italy – 14 April 2025

ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its Sam440 line of motherboards.

Following the recent update for the Sam460, the Sam440 now also benefits from enhanced support, including compatibility with NVMe SSDs. Additionally, this update introduces support for Radeon RX and Radeon HD graphics cards.

This release represents a significant investment of time and resources. Nevertheless, we have chosen to offer it at the symbolic price of €3.99.

Highlights of this release include:

• Support for Radeon RX graphics cards () Improved support for Radeon HD graphics cards ()
  NVMe SSD driver: boot directly from NVMe devices using a PCIe adapter () Driver for the PCIe SATA2 Silicon Image 3132 controller, with support for booting from SSDs and DVDs ()
• Enhanced RAM access speed on Sam440ep-flex boards
• New graphical interface style
• Revised ‘sata’ command, now displaying more detailed information about drivers and connected devices
• Serial console improvements: menu navigation via the W (up) and S (down) keys
• General bug fixes and overall improvements
• Unified source code for the 460ex and 440ep platforms

Note:

Features marked with an asterisk (*) require a PCI-to-PCIe bridge.
Radeon RX and Radeon HD graphics cards also require a specific driver (to be sold separately by A-EON Technology once available) for use with AmigaOS 4.

Purchase the update:

The update is available through our online store.
For those not comfortable performing the update themselves, we also offer pre-programmed, fully updated U-Boot chips.

Additional Information:

UBoot makes use of GPL-licensed code and is therefore released under the terms of the GPL.

Source code downloads:

U-Boot:
https://acube-systems.biz/download/u-boot-2015.d_prod.tar.gz
Parthenope:
https://acube-systems.biz/download/ub2lb_0.94.tar.gz

YouTube

Marek Glogowski has published a new video showing Super Star Blast running on AmigaOS 4 through QEMU 10 and GPU Passthrough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd_a9kpbXtQ

HunoPPC shows DOSBox Enhanced running on AmigaOS 4 with 3dfx support and shader effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSCPkfZ-pVo

Here is a video of Baldur’s Gate running on AmigaOS 4. The video was created by anouk33.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UT8a-33z2o

Here is another video, but this time of WarCraft II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ktfyiK7o

And one of Quake II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewALudVmDRc

Amiga Wave has made a long video. It lasts for more than 2 hours and covers his experience with AmigaOS 4 on the Sam460LE. The video is in Spanish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nVsxjDwqHM

Mr. Byte shows Stratagus 3.3.3 running on his A1222+:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCJhZh_f_qY

The Lost C is back with a new video. This time he does a test of the A1222 with a Radeon HD7750. The vide is in Italian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLYq27YKxls

He also created a video with the A1222 and AmiCygnix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCDn4hMeabY

TJ Ferreira is back once again. This time, he takes us on a journey through his experience with playing Glubble on his AmigaOne X5000. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WX8T2Lsd4

Until next time

You’ve now reached the end of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup for April 2025. I had not expected it to be this extensive. There is a clearly a lot happening in the world of AmigaOS 4 and Amiga in general these days!

Thanks as always to all readers and supporters out there. Thanks for visiting my blog and see you in the next roundup! 🙂

Best regards,

Puni

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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

In 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

A 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.

George 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.

Walkero 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.

Keep 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.

Dragon 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/@CreatorsOfAmigaOS

Amiga 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.

https://www.amigawarp.org/

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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OpenJazz – Jazz Jackrabbit – Released for AmigaOS 4

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

When I visited OS4Depot today, I noticed that George 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.

Walkero 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.

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.

Keep 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. 🙂

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

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OpenJazz – Jazz Jackrabbit – Released for AmigaOS 4

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

When I visited OS4Depot today, I noticed that George 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.

Walkero 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.

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.

Keep 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. 🙂

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

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OpenJazz – Jazz Jackrabbit – Released for AmigaOS 4

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

When I visited OS4Depot today, I noticed that George 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.

Walkero 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.

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.

Keep 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. 🙂

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

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OpenJazz – Jazz Jackrabbit – Released for AmigaOS 4

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

When I visited OS4Depot today, I noticed that George 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.

Walkero 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.

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.

Keep 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. 🙂

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

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OpenJazz – Jazz Jackrabbit – Released for AmigaOS 4

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

When I visited OS4Depot today, I noticed that George 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.

Walkero 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.

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.

Keep 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. 🙂

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

#Amiga #AmigaOS4 #AmigaOS41 #EpicMegagames #games #georgeSokianos #JazzJackrabbit #OpenJazz #videoGames #walkero

Super Star Blast – An AmigaOS 4 Game Competition on Amigans.net for January 2025

Hi there,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

328gts, a user on Amigans.net, has launched a new game competition.

For the month of January 2025, you can join in and compete in the game Super Star Blast from EntwicklerX on AmigaOS 4.

Maijestro, who runs the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube, has posted a video of his attempt at getting the best result:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_K9cKtLrE

If you are interested in participating, please head over to Amigans.net to find more information. 🙂

Thanks for reading! Have a good weekend!

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Dir Me Up 4.10 released for AmigaOS 4

Hi,

Thanks for visiting Old School Game Blog. 🙂

Another piece of AmigaOS 4 related news today. At Amigans.net, we can read that a brand new version of Dir Me Up has been released!

This program allows users to explore and manipulate files, links, and drawers of their Amiga.

I’ve never tried this program before, but it does definitely look interesting!

Here is the news item as posted in the forum:

Dir Me Up 4.10 released for AmigaOS 4

The modern explorer for AmigaOS 4, Dir Me Up, is back in version 4.10 to celebrate Christmas… with the preview of MP3 tags and Unicode text files! Merry Christmas!

The list of new features is available on our dedicated page.

Dir Me Up is, of course, compatible with the brand-new A1222+ from A-EON Technology!

As usual, this update, free for all registered users, has been put online. To install it, just run Dir Me Up.

You can download a demo allowing (only) browsing here or there.

Dir Me Up, enhance your Amiga!

The price is 19.99 EUR. It is available in several languages, including French, English, Italian, German and many more. Requirements are AmigaOS 4.1 FE and a minimum desktop resolution of 1024×768.

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog! 🙂

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CatacombGL for AmigaOS 4

Hi there,

Thank you for visiting my blog. 🙂

George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero has returned with a brand new port! This time he has brought over Catacomb 3D and the Catacomb Adventure series to AmigaOS 4.

Catacomb 3D was originally released for PC back in 1991. It was developed by iD Software, Inc., known for classics like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. It is a first-person fantasy shooter.

The port for AmigaOS 4 requires the original data files, which can be obtained from GOG (Good Old Games):

https://www.mobygames.com/game/3120/catacomb-3-d/

Main features are as follows:

• Runs native on AmigaOS 4
• Hardware accelerated 3D rendering via OpenGL, supporting widescreen
  resolutions, a customizable field of view and an uncapped frame rate.
• Player, projectile and monster movement with floating point precision.
• Configurable mouse and keyboard controls.
• Supports all four Catacomb 3D games as included in the Catacombs Pack from
  GOG.com.
• Supports The Catacomb Abyss version 1.13 (shareware).

CatacombGL is available for download from OS4Depot.

If you’d like to read more about the port, please visit Walkero’s page on Ko-Fi.

Thanks for reading. See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

PS: Screenshots were lent from Walkero’s Ko-Fi-page. 🙂

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Super Star Blast for AmigaOS4.1 Released by EntwicklerX

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post tonight. 😉 Here is a news item I just read on Amigans.net. EntwicklerX has returned with a new game for AmigaOS 4.1! Please read on for their news release:

AmigaOS4: Super Star Blast – Space Shooter
Super Star Blast has been available on PC and consoles for a while now. We are pleased to finally be able to release the AmigaOS4 version of the game. You can get the game as digital download version on your favorite AmigaOS Shop: @AlineaComputer @A-Eon

Super Star Blast is a space based game with challenging levels of increasing difficulty. All enemies must be shot down to finish a level and go to the next one. A scanner around the player tells roughly where the enemies are located. The player ship can fly forwards to attack and backwards to fight during the retreat against the opponents. After clearing a level you can purchase equipment to boost the ship, as well as extra shields and firepower or more ships.

Features:
-Massive challenging levels of increasing difficulty
-Enemies with unique flying and fire characteristics
-Upgrade center (agility, fire power, shield, ships)
-Single player campaign
-Simple and clean 3D space graphics
-Quality and performance Settings
-Warp3D Nova / OpenGLES Support (required!)

Hardware Requirements:
AmigaOS 4.1 F.E. Computer with Warp3D Nova/OpenGLES compatible graphics card

Disclaimer:
Because of the many different configurations, it is difficult to cover all problems. Just send us an email to [email protected] and we will try to fix bugs. Also play with the quality and performance settings to adapt the game to your hardware. The “FPS” setting shows you the current frame rate. In the ToolTypes you can also activate your own screen mode. If the setting is put in brackets, the Workbench resolution is used.

Shop Links:
https://www.amiga-shop.net/Amiga-Softw … per-Star-Blast::1399.html
http://www.amistore.net
https://entwicklerx.itch.io/super-star-blast

Thanks for your support!

Great to see EntwicklerX out with a new release! 🙂

Thanks for reading and see you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog.

PS: The screenshots were taken from the news release from EntwicklerX.

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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – November 2024

AmigaOS 4 News – November 2024

Hi,

December 1st is here and it is (finally) time for a new post on this blog.

Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog and checking out this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

Some of you have noticed that I haven’t released any roundups for several months. There are many reasons, personal, health, and work-related, but now I’m back and ready to continue where I left off (almost). I’ve got less hardware than before, but I’m looking for a new, affordable setup to remedy the situation.

Now, let us have a look at the news. 🙂

Software News

First up in November was version 0.40 of the PDF generator Compression. 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 here.

TwinVNC is a VNC client, or viewer, allowing control of a computer running a VNC Server. A German catalog has been created for TwinVNC GUI by McFly.

http://twinvnc.free.fr/AuSujetDe.php?menu=2&lang=eng

Andy Broad has released version 1.8 of the driver for UGTABLET base tablets, such as XP-Pen. It has specifically been tested with the XP-Pen Deco01 tablet, and according to the author, other tables with the same ID should work.

SilkRAW is a program developed by Domenico Lattanzi that allows you to work with RAW files generated by digital SLR cameras, acting as an interface to the dcRAW program written by Dave Coffin. Version 3 is out now and can be downloaded from OS4Depot.

Features:

– Thumbnail thumbnail exports, individual RAW files or groups, with metadata extraction and rotation capabilities

– 25 dcRAW options supported

– Batch processing of RAW files, with saving in TIFF, PPM, JPG, PNG, ILBM

– Further postprocessing beyond dcRAW

An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on November 13th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Here are the recent changes:

Changes since V8.6:

– Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Details:

– f3: fixed incorrect library base name.

– os3: now linked with small.lib rather than amiga.lib.

– f7: fixed: unwrapping: some spaces were being converted to EOLs when they should not have been.

– f3: added import and export buttons.

– f3: improved error reporting for nonvolatile.library operations.

– f3: now user can deselect items.

– f3: revised gadget layout somewhat.

SDL2 for AmigaOS 4 has received an update. Version 2.30.9 is now available for download at OS4Depot.

For more information about the project, please visit the GitHub page:

https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL

mGBA is an emulator for running Game Boy Advance games by Jeffrey Pfau. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack. It also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. The port to AmigaOS 4 was done by Marek Glogowski and version 0.10.3 was released on November 21st. More information, as well as a download, is available at OS4Depot.

UHC Tools is a collection of programs and scripts for Amiga computers and their offspring to simplify daily usage and the Amiga more independent. The authors, Patrik Axelsson and David Eriksson released a new version in November.

Version 33.6 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 are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!

Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:

Changes since V33.5:

• Improved Galaxia emulation.
• Added ASM and DISGAME CLI arguments.
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Kevin Taddeucci has released version 1.6 of his script aimed at MediaVault 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 allowing the user to choose the stream player or to download a stream via a requester.

Version 1.6: (Nov. 25, 2024)

• Added “User Settings to choose ffplay display mode.

• 1 – Waveforms.  Used to much CPU on slower systems.

• 2 – Frequency band. Uses much less CPU time.

• Added “User Settings” to set ffplay window size.

• Made corrections to “User Settings” Player variable comments.

Added keyboard shortcuts to player requester.

The developer Kjetil Hvalstrand is back with a new utility. GIF2ABK is a program for converting GIF animations to AMOS ABK or BOBS.

He also released version 1.1 of IFF-Converter, a replica of a program created many years ago by Metallion of Kefrens. Hvalstrand has added major improvements including DataTypes support for filetypes like PNG, GIF, and others, as well as zooming and drag-and-drop support.

On November 26th, the Sacrificio Pagano magic tool from Juan Carlos Herran Martin became available on OS4Depot. This is a special program for people believing in the magic of Wiccan practices providing a virtual altar.

MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 121 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 15.23, which provides miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Misc News

Issue 171 of the Amiga Future magazine was released at the beginning of the month. There you can read articles such as A1222 from a Coder’s Perspective, Classic Reflections – Whatever Happened to Macrosystems? – Part 1, interviews, game reviews, news, and much more.

The magazine can be purchased from here:

The Amiga Future Website

Francis G. Loch, the author of PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4.1, has published a report about his experiences with the A1222+ on the website of amiga-news.de.

He presents solutions to problems others might encounter when first setting up and getting to know the computer. Highly worth checking out if you are a new A1222+ owner.

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-11-00057-EN.html

There is currently a games competition being held on Amigans.net. For November, participants compete to get the highest score in Mini Metal Slug, an action game brought to AmigaOS 4 by HunoPPC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vsYkOlqIEM

Currently in the lead is Mr_byte with a whopping 48,480 points!

Hans de Ruiter of KSD – Amiga Corner has published a new video on YouTube called Quick Guide: Cross-compiling to AmigaOS 4.x+ the easy way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5j6Ycc4-6o

The author writes: “Setting up a cross-compiler for AmigaOS 4 used to be a painful task because you had to build the cross-compiler yourself following complicated instructions. Now, there’s a much easier way: using pre-built Docker containers. This video shows you how it’s done…”

You can visit his website here.

The Amiga Retro Channel, hosted by Maijestro, has published a video looking at 3D gaming on the AmigaOne X5000. Here he shows games like Quake 3 and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy running.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpe4hiM9rPo

Maijestro recently bought an AmigaOne X5000 and informed us that he will be publishing more videos showing this computer in action in the future.

Skateman has written a post on his blog titled “rVNCd 1.38: A New Era of Remote AmigaOS4 Control”. You can read it here:

https://www.skateman.nl/index.php/2024/11/03/rvncd-1-38-a-new-era-of-remote-amigaos4-control/

Robert Bernardo has published many photos from the AmiWest 2024 event on his blog:

http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/11/more-amiwest-show-2024-photos.html

Not only that, you can watch his videos from the same event on his YouTube-channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsvqR_fyXaA

https://www.youtube.com/@BIOSJERBIL/videos

Well worth checking out for sure! 🙂

Until Next Time

You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

The next one is scheduled for January 2025, a new year with new possibilities!

I wish you all a nice December and see you soon in other post here on the Old School Game Blog. 🙂

Take care everyone!

Best regards,

Puni

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AmigaOS 4 News – April 2024

Hi everyone,

Thanks for visiting my blog and the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. 🙂

Another month has soon passed and May will be upon us. As I write this it is April 30th and I’ve just finished writing the monthly roundup. There was a lot to report this time and it has taken a good amount of time to compile the report. I enjoy it a lot and it is fun to discover and learn about all that is happening in our community. Big thanks to all the developers, users, and enthusiasts who keep the flame burning! 🙂

I’m sure you are eager to check out the news, so without further ado, here is the roundup for April 2024. 😉

Software News

On April 1st, DRIDI released version 2.9z7Final of the Arabic Console Device. According to the author, this version contains better vowel and hamza support inference. More information is available on OS4Depot.

The always-active Kjetil Hvalstrand (LiveForIt) is back with a new release. This time it is a utility called Stackdump. It is a security demonstration tool. It will show you a security risk in a hex dump.

In previous 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 is a bugfix release with added support for benchmark mode in ToolTypes and CLI.

Following the release of Heretic II from Hyperion Entertainment comes a massive pack of multiplayer maps compiled by and uploaded to OS4Depot by TheMagicSN. This pack will be needed to play on PC Heretic II servers to avoid maps are downloaded while playing, which is slow. An installer is included.

He also made an archive called H2_Big_Data which is important for playing Heretic II multiplayer games. This one is about 1.6 GB and is available on Aminet. TheMagicSN writes as follows:

“This archive contains an installer to the custom material (maps, models, etc.) which I was given by Paul Gagnon of H2 Vault. To be able to use the PC multiplayer sites with the Amiga port of Heretic 2 he recommends installing this material.

It comes with an Amiga-friendly installer. It also optionally offers to install a new config.cfg for the Amiga version of Heretic II which adds the multiplayer servers of H2 Vault to the address book of the game. Note that when overwriting your config.cfg you overwrite your Video, Sound, and Controls Options.

This archive has some broken models that could crash Heretic II removed.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you already downloaded 1.0.0 you do not need to download this huge archive again. H2_Big_Data_Fix.lha which is only a few Kilobytes in Size contains a script that will delete the faulty models.”

You can download the fix from Aminet:

https://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/H2_Big_Data_Fix

I tried the multiplayer mode in Heretic II during the weekend and it worked fine. 🙂

Open Fodder

Now for news concerning a port of well-known classic that has been ported to AmigaOS 4. Which classic game is that? It is Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2, and the various specials and demos from cover disks!

Cannon Fodder was one of the most popular games on the Amiga. It was also popular on the PC and probably many other platforms. I remember playing it on my Amiga 500 and later 1200 in the 90’s. I still have the original disks in my collection, but it has been a long time since I checked if they worked.

More information about Cannon Fodder can be found at Hall of Light:

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/cannon-fodder

In short, it is an action strategy game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. You are in control of a group of soldiers and the goal is to complete the missions you get assigned for. You control the soldiers with your mouse, controlling their movement by clicking around on the map and using the buttons to shoot and customize formation, etc.

Open Fodder is an open-source version of the Cannon Fodder engine for modern operating systems. It supports not only the Amiga version of the games but also the PC ones.

• Cannon Fodder (Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS CD)
• Cannon Fodder 2 (Amiga, DOS CD)
• Demos (various cover disks from magazines like Amiga Power, The One, Amiga Format, Amiga Action, PC Format, etc.)

Thanks to the porting done by Smarkusg, we can now enjoy Cannon Fodder natively on our AmigaOS 4 systems. 🙂 Here is a link to his Open Fodder GitHub page.

To start playing, you can download the archive from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/action/openfodder.lha

The archive comes bundled with demos you can try, but you’ll need to provide the full version yourself. The files from these must be copied to their appropriate directories in the “OpenFodder/Data/” drawer. You will find one called “Dos_CD”. Here you can copy over the files from the DOS version. The game will then pop up in the menu when you launch Open Fodder.

Cannon Fodder is available for purchase from GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/cannon_fodder

I have tried Open Fodder on my Sam460 and also in emulation and it performed very well.

Quake II

Not long ago, Hyperion Entertainment released a new port of Heretic II for AmigaOS 4 by Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN. Häuser has since then been working hard on making various mods available, as well as multiplayer support for the game. Not only that, he’s been working on a new updated port of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4 as well!

It is available for purchase at Alinea Computer in Germany. Since it is a download, you’ll get access to it very quickly.

The price is 14.95 EUR.

https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-Software/Amiga-Games/Quake-2-for-AmigaOS-4-Download-Version::1361.html

Here’s the information from Alinea Computer:

Quake 2 is without doubt one of the most famous 3D shooters. Quake 2 was released on the PC by id Software in 1997. In 2002, Hyperion Entertainment released a version for AmigaOS 3.x, based on the GPL source code of the game. Steffen Häuser has now created a new version for AmigaOS 4, which also offers numerous improvements compared to the 4.1 Quake 2 update released a few years ago. In particular, the Quake 2 Mission CDs, which offer countless new levels, are supported for the first time in a native OS4.1 version. Warp3DNova (and MiniGL and software renderers) are also supported natively.

This game, based on the GPL source code, also requires the data files of the PC version, either as a CD or the data of the Steam or Gog Classic version (for the latter two, simply copy them to a directory on your hard drive and select this directory during installation).

Features

• AmigaOS 4 native version
• GL4ES, MiniGL and Software Renderer
• full support for mission CDs “The Reckoning” and “Ground Zero”
• Ports to the unofficial mission CD “Zaero” and to about 50 multiplayer mods will be published on os4depot/Aminet soon, these downloads require the new version of Quake 2
• AmigaInput support
• CD Audio works again (in the old version it only worked with older CD drives)
• As an alternative to CD Audio, Ogg Vorbis files can be played as soundtrack, the music files from this version are already pre-installed during a Steam/Gog install
• Installer now works with PC CD of Quake 2 as well as with the Steam and Gog Classic version, when using the Steam/Gog Classic installer the two mission CDs are installed at the same time. We recommend using the Steam version for easy installation.
• As an alternative to the .cin intros, the game now also supports .avi and .mpeg files (a script to convert the .ogv files of the Steam version is included on the ISO if you want the higher resolution video files)

System requirements

• Software: AmigaOS 4.1 and the data files from Steam, Gog or CD version.
• Hardware: At least 150 MHz PowerPC, 32 MB RAM, graphics card, at least
• 1 GB free hard disc space, A1222 is currently not supported, game can also be played on QEmu and UAE PPC

In connection with the new Quake 2 release, TheMagicSN has ported the unofficial mod Zaero by Team Evolution. Team Evolution gave the full game away some years after the initial release in 1998. Note that you will need the new port of Quake 2 released in 2024 to be installed to play it.

TheMagicSN has uploaded several modpacks for the Quake 2 port to Aminet. As the author states, these packs “(…) contains game modifications for the new AmigaOS 4 version of Quake 2 released in 2024. It does not work with other versions of Quake 2, as they either do not support mods or not AmigaOS 4 native compiled mods.”

Q2_Modpack1

Basketball Quake 2, King of the Server, and Weapons Foundry.

Available on Aminet.

Q2_Modpack2

This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:

– Action Quake 2

– Annihilation

– Blastchamber

– Catch the Chicken

– Devastation Quake 2

– Headhunters

– Holy Quake 2

– Jailbreak

– Quake Racing

– Tfx (Team Fortress like Gameplay for Q2)

– Total Wars

– UrbanCTF

– UrbanDM

– WarMod

– Wyrm

Available on Aminet.

Q2_Modpack3

This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:

– Assault Quake 2

– ChaosDM

– Domination Quake 2

– Faith/FaithDM/FaithTag

– Fireteam

– FreezeTag

– Terror

– Titanic

Available on Aminet.

Q2_Modpack4

This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:

– Generations

– Napalm2

– Nighthunters

– Quake&Conquer

– Sniper

– Sog (Both Multi- and Singleplayer)

– StVitus

– TopRung

Available on Aminet.

Q2_Modpack5

This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:

– Gloom (do not confuse with the Amiga game of the same name, this is the Q2

Addon Gloom)

– Ltk

– Pig2k

– ProCTF

– ProRocket

Available on Aminet.

Q2_Modpack6

This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:

– AirQuake2

– Awaken2

– Battle of the Sexes

– Gangsters

– Gameleader

– Jabot

– Multigrenade

– Q2Comp

– Weapons of Destruction

Available on Aminet.

Q2_Modpack7

This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:

– Brazen

– OpenFFA

– OpenTDM

Available on Aminet.

DGen v1.33 is a Sega Genesis / MegaDrive emulator for AmigaOS 4. The AmigaOS 4 port was done by Marek “smarkusg” Glogowski. The GUI was created by Javier de las Rivas.

As mentioned in the roundup for March, DGen allows you to enjoy the amazing library of games released for the platform, including well-known classics such as Golden Axe and the Sonic the Hedgehog games.

Bermuda Syndrome is a game developed by Century Interactive for PC and published by BMG Interactive in 1995. According to Wikipedia, it is similar in gameplay and appearance to the 1992 game Flashback. The player controls the main character from a third-person sidescrolling perspective. This re-upload for AmigaOS 4 has been recompiled by Raziel with the latest SDL2, and a gl4es binary has been added. The launcher has been reworked as well. Version 0.1.7 is now available on OS4Depot.

Liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3. Version 0.8.0 was uploaded to OS4Depot on April 14th by Raziel. More information is available here.

AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.

Features:

– Generates text based on input prompts

– UI customization

– Full conversation history

– Text-to-speech

Changes for April are as follows:

– Fixes the stack size calculation so it will no longer warn you that the stack size is too small if it really isn’t #12

– Send button no longer appears in the top left corner after closing a generated image for Amiga 3.x

Version 1.4.6 is now available from OS4Depot. 

Libcurl has been updated to 8.7.1. “Libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form-based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!”.

The same goes for Curl which has been updated to 8.7.1. Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL syntax.

Version 3.3.0 of libOpenSSL is out. The readme explains: “OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source Toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol formerly known as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The protocol implementation is based on a full-strength general-purpose cryptographic library, which can also be used stand-alone. OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.” The official Home Page of the OpenSSL Project is http://www.openssl.org/.

WildMIDI is a software MIDI player by Mindwerks. It was brought to AmigaOS 4 by Raziel. It has a core softsynth library that can be used with other applications. It uses Gravis Ultrasound patch files to convert MIDI files into audio, which is then passed back to the calling application. The library API is designed so that it is easy to include WildMIDI into applications wishing to include MIDI-file playback. Version 0.4.6 has now been released.

• A lot of player cleanup and refactoring, thanks to initial work by Azamat H. Hackimov, with the addition of several safeguards and minor fixes.

• Ability to choose which audio output backends to include in the build system: see the cmake script for the relevant `WANT_???` options. Player’s `–help` command line switch lists the available backends. Thanks to initial work by Azamat H. Hackimov.

• New native audio output backends for player: coreaudio for macOS, sndio for OpenBSD, netbsd (sunaudio) for NetBSD.

• Improved pkg-config file generation in cmake script (bug #236).

• Workaround a link failure on AmigaOS4 with newer SDKs (bug #241).

• Other minor source clean-ups.

• CMake project clean-ups. Cmake v3.4 or newer is now required.

AmiELFDisas by Alexander O. Benedictov disassembles standard Amiga ELF files producing an assembler source. Version 1.052 was uploaded to OS4Depot on April 16th and can be downloaded here.

Hollywood Designer 7.0

I’ve been a user of Hollywood and Hollywood Designer for quite a few years now. For those unaware, Hollywood is a programming language that supports many different platforms, such as AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Linux, etc. It was created by Airsoft Softwair.

One of many excellent features is that you can compile your source code easily for any of the supported platforms. If you’re on MorphOS, you can compile the source for AmigaOS 4 for example, no problem. 🙂

Hollywood Designer is a great addition to Hollywood since it is a point-and-click tool to create everything from presentations to applications without the need to write a single line of code! There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (hybrid m68k/ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and AROS (x86).

On April 14th this year, version 7 of Hollywood Designer was released. Please read on for the full news release from Airsoft Softwair:

20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood Designer quickly became the must-have software for all users seriously interested in creating state-of-the-art multimedia applications, be it presentations, slide shows, games, or applications. Now, 20 years later, Airsoft Softwair is proud to present Hollywood Designer 7.0, an epic update with lots and lots of new features to properly celebrate the 20th birthday of this marvellous piece of software.

As already said, Designer 7.0 is a massive update that boasts lots of new features and improvements over the previous version. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:

* Use the full power of Hollywood 10 which was specifically designed for Designer 7!
* Color emojis, CJK text and complex scripts are now supported (using the Pangomonium plugin)
* Multi-selection support for pages and objects in all listviews and the thumbnail viewer
* Operations can be applied to multiple objects and pages at the same time
* Now uses the Hollywood 10 graphics engine for maximum power!
* Objects can be combined into groups
* Many new action events to work with object groups
* Unlimited undo and redo levels
* Executables can also be exported for macOS and Linux arm64
* Support for different font engines
* Graphics can be exported as palette images
* Radically reduced memory footprint, often reduced to just 25% of Designer 6.0!
* Configurable dynamic memory modes
* Custom character spacing support
* Several new example projects are included
* Full support for Hollywood 10’s plugin interface
* Lots of other new features, optimizations and bug fixes

Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world! We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 2000 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation! Ferrule Media’s info channel, created with Hollywood Designer, is running in dental clinics all over Norway.

Note that Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to “just” being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple layers with over 30 filter effects, vector graphics, image import/export in many formats, and text including support complex scripts such as CJK or right-to-left text and color emojis.

Hollywood Designer 7.0 is available as a CD and a download version. There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (hybrid m68k/ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and AROS (x86). If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood Designer 6.0 in 2024 can request a free upgrade. Also note that Hollywood Designer 7.0 has been specially crafted for Hollywood 10, so Hollywood 10 is absolutely required by Designer 7.0.

Please consider buying Hollywood Designer 7.0 to show your support for our massive Amiga development efforts. Power up your Amiga system with Hollywood 10 & Hollywood Designer 7 and order now!

Libpng is the official PNG reference library. It supports almost all PNG features, is extensible, and has been extensively tested for over 28 years. Version 1.6.43 is now available on OS4Depot. For more information and source code, check http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html.

Version 32.3 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);
• 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 are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!

Changes since V32.2:

 Summary:

• Debugger: added IC, IL, IP commands (for I/O port watchpoints).
• REXX: added OPENDISKDRIVE and CLOSEDISKDRIVE commands.
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

 Details:

• fixed a compiler warning.
• twin: fixed: disk loading was broken.
• twin: now emulates 32K of slave RAM (up from 16K).
• changed default for watching of writes to all.
• debugger: fixed: WP with range and condition did not refresh memory subwin.
• debugger: removed L P command.
• debugger: added IC, IL, IP commands.
• debugger: fixed: > and >= breakpoint/watchpoint conditions were swapped around.
• debugger: all commands now understand extended instructions when in extended mode.
• floppy disk subwin: fixed: clicking on “update disk…” and then cancelling was setting the filename.
• fixed: quickload/quicksave didn’t work after inserting a disk.
• incorporated Mikhail’s latest Russian translation.
• aa: fixed icon positions for directory opus.
• aa: fixed: game info subwin was destabilizing the system.
• aa: now uses arexx.class.
• aa: split arexx.c from amiga.c.
• rexx: added OPENDISKDRIVE and CLOSEDISKDRIVE commands.
• arexx: removed WAITFRAME and WAITFRAMES commands.
• localized some more strings.
• incorporated Anthony’s latest Greek translation.
• twin: guest controls subwin: replaced imagery.

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

Here are the links to the websites of the author:

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

HarfBuzz is a text-shaping library. Using the HarfBuzz library allows programs to convert a sequence of Unicode input into properly formatted and positioned glyph output for any writing system and language. Version 8.4.0 can now be found on OS4Depot.

Version 2.22.0 of Libsdl2_ttf is out. This library is a wrapper around the FreeType and Harfbuzz libraries, allowing you to use TrueType fonts to render text in SDL applications.

Also updated is Libz, the Zlib data compression library. zlib 1.3.1 is a general-purpose data compression library. All the code is thread-safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950 (zlib format), rfc1951 (deflate format) and rfc1952 (gzip format).

It is a game called Doom RPG-RE created for mobile phones in 2005. It was developed by Fountainhead Entertainment and published by JAMDAT Mobile. According to Wikipedia, it combines the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. The story includes similar events of Doom 3 but involves different characters.

The reverse engineering was done by Erick Vásquez García. You can find more information about this on the official GitHub page.

Doom RPG-RE was ported to AmigaOS 4 by BSzili and Smarkusg. The current version is 0.2.2. The GitHub page of Smarkusg can be found here.

The game is freely available for download on OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/board/doomrpg.lha

I downloaded it this evening and playing it was a matter of unpacking the archive and double-clicking the icon of the game. 🙂 The game worked under emulation.

Bernd Assenmacher has released version 2.6 of the Image2PDF utility. With this tool, you can convert PNG- or JPG files to PDF. The author labels it as “EmailWare”, so please send him an e-mail if you use the program. 🙂 Changes and improvements are as follows:

• Updated guide file
• On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is now copied to the installation drawer
• On MorphOS the “Path” command in s:user-startup is now deactivated. If wanted active, one needs to uncomment it manually, save it and then reboot the computer.
• Added possibility to scale images with all chosen formats
• Added possibility to compress PDF docs when Ghostscript is installed
• The orientation of PDF docs can now be changed (not with ImageSize format)
• A print margin can be set now
• Using commandline will now adapt the orientation automatically (not with ImageSize format)
• Compiled single versions for the supported platforms
• Removed applet from archive

The program can be downloaded from here.

Michael Trebilcock has uploaded several new versions of audio decoders:

• Faad2 – FAAD2 AAC decoder
• Faac – Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
• Libfaac – Freeware Advanced Audio Coder library
• Libfaad – Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Decoder library

In previous reports, I’ve written about Seq, a MIDI sequencer, by Tuomas Hokka. A new update is out with the following changes:

– 2.11 (22nd April 2024):

• FIXED long standing bug: Reading MIDI device name from a project file was not always copied to the name field
• FIXED bug: Cancelling “Save as” menu selection should not save anything
• FIXED bug: Stopping song play should unlit Play
• FIXED bug: Selecting menu New will clear instruments setup as well
• FIXED bug: Fixed one error message
• FIXED: Bring already opened windows to front
• FIXED bug: Wrong Midi Thru setup window shift value
• FIXED: Separated Fill and Part trigger settings to avoid buggy behaviour
• FIXED bugs: Note length handling in various places (should improve stability)
• Refactored the source code for better maintainability and to avoid bugs
• Added option to extend note length to amount of two full bars

Sandro Barbagelata has released version 1.0 of Theme List. This utility lists any AmigaOS 4, AROS, or MorphOS themes in a directory. According to the information on OS4Depot, “The program requires a directory to scan for any theme, indifferently it is for OS4 or AROS or MOS. Themes can be mixed, they will recognized and treated consequently. The graphic output can be reviewed on the screen and saved on a file. Rename the executable for your system to “ThemeList” to match it with the info file. Default path can be set via tooltypes.”

Thumbnail Maker is an Arexx script for ArtEffect 4 from Haage & Partner. It uses ffmpeg to generate a series of frames from a selected video and paste them onto a canvas to create a sequence of thumbnails. Data about the video is printed at the top, along with a user-definable string. Version 1.04 contains the following changes:

This is version 1.04. 

*New feature*: 

You can optionally burn the timecode into each frame. Thanks to Mick JT for helping me figure out the syntax of this command. Time is in the format hh:mm:ss and will appear in the top left hand corner. You can select either white or black text. Note that the non-altivec version of ffmpeg 6.01 has a bug and won’t work with this feature. If you have this version installed you won’t see the option to apply timecode. I recommend updating to the latest version of ffmpeg.

*Bug fix*:

The default file extensions have been overhauled, so by default more video file types are displayed for selection.

*Improvement*: 

ffmpeg now does the scaling instead of Art Effect. This makes assembling the final image much faster.

*Improvement*: 

The script now looks for ffmpeg in appdir not c, so you can keep your ffmpeg executable anywhere.

*Improvement*: 

A few minor code polishes…

STREAM is a Memory + floating-pt Bandwith Tester created by John D. McCalpin. Version 5.10 was uploaded to OS4Depot by Sailor.

amiga-news.de reports that RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460 has been released. “The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1. Version 5 only supports “Southern Islands” cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2 required).”. For the full story, please visit amiga-news.de here.

Amiga-news.de also reports that version 9.0.0 of QEMU has been released. This is an open-source computer emulator that makes it possible to emulate a computer in software, such as the Pegasos 2 and Sam460 for example. The support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with helpful information. Version 9.0.0 contains improvements to the Sam460e emulation (faster, support of short drive options like -cdrom & -drive media=…, SFS fixed) and Pegasos2 IRQ fixes. Here you can read the full story on amiga-news.de.

KT_Scripts by Kevin Taddeucci is a collection of simple Arexx and DOS Scripts to add helpful features to various AmigaOS4 programs and Workbench. v1.2 release adds the following script.

CleanDrawer:

ARexx script to perform Workbech drawer icon arrangments . Arrange the icons by desired order, resize window to fit and snapshot the window all at once. No need to use three menu selections to do it.

At the end of the month, HunoPPC returned with a new release of the Snes 9x, a Super Nintendo emulator.

Version 1.62.3r4 contains a lot of changes. Please read on for the list. 🙂

• Added new renderer : OPENGL 1.3
• Added new renderer : EGL_WRAP
• Added new renderer : SOFTWARE
• Added choice of render: Software/OpenGL/Compositing/EGL_Wrap
• Added SkinFX for renders without Overscan (just on renders: Software/OpenGL)
• Up sound buffer to 210 ms by default
• Added option -displayrenderer for show renderer
• Added option -filterhardware (OpenGL Compositing and EGL_Wrap), LINEAR is activated and by default is NEAREST
• GUI is now V1.0.8
• Added render EGL_Wrap with 5 Filters shaders CRT (effect), please do not use vsync with a low machines

  * “Shader CRT Low”

  * “Shader CRT High”

  * “Shader CRT Scanline Low”

  * “Shader CRT Scanline High”

  * “Shader CRT No Scanline” 

• Added 9 Skins created by me for this engine (internal engine)
• GUI now lock unnecessary options with differents renderers
• Rewrite 3 renderers SOFTWARE/OPENGL and EGL_WRAP
• Added on GUI : “Saved states” with 9 buttons and button “launch selected save”
• Added option QWERTY for keys on AmigaInput parameters
• Now name of Hardware is on display renderer 
• Now show fps is without show name of hardware
• Fixed keyboard wrapper on SDL1
• Fixed GUI crash without ROMS (thanks Alex)
• Added new icon tooltype GUI_FADE_EFFECT for add fade effect on GUI, disabled is (GUI_FADE_EFFECT) 

It’s great to see the development continues on this emulator! 🙂

Juan Carlos Herrán Martín is back with an update to his game called High-Low-Equal Poker. This is the final version which works inside of a window of 800×600. The bugs have been fixed. You can get the game here. 🙂

It also contains environment and graphics from the world of Los Malditos, as well as two exclusive decks with Los Malditos characters.

MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 117 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 14.8. a SideWinder 1 level and graphics editor has been added.

Raziel released version 0.2 of ifarchive.org DL. Download supported games (ScummVM’s Glk engine) from http://www.ifarchive.org and put them into their respective sub-directories, depending on the engine used.

Supported engines:

adrift (up to v4), advsys, agt, alan(2,3), archetype, comprehend (see below), frotz, glulx(e), hugo, jacl, level9, magnetic, quest (early quest only), scott, zcode (up to v6)

Unsupported engines:

adrift (v5 and higher), Comprehend (see below), quest (later quest games), quill, tads, zcode (v7 or higher)

It is available for download on OS4Depot.

Miscellaneous

Ktadd has launched a new blog called Amiga NG Blog. He presents us with his brand new A1222+! Congratulations on your new computer, Ktadd! 🙂 Please visit his blog to see many pictures of his build and read about the project. Videos are available on his site.

Speaking of the A1222+, Robert Bernardo has also posted about his new computer. He has published an unboxing post on his blog, which you can read here.

We in Void and Nukleus are currently working on the upcoming issue of Versus, the Amiga demoscene charts. It will be available for Classic Amiga, AmigaOS 4, and Android.

To make the charts as representative as possible, we need your support! Please fill out the Online votesheet via the link below. You are not required to fill out all the fields. Vote for your favorites today! 🙂 Thanks in advance!

https://www.nukleus.nu/VersusVote.php

Besides that, we are also looking for article contributions. Please get in touch with me (puni at protonmail dot com) or Browallia of Nukleus (e-mail on the Nukleus website) if you would like to learn more and help make this issue of Versus the best one yet. 😉

A preview of issue 168 of Amiga Future has been released on the official website of the magazine. On the cover, we can see the new A1222+. The magazine can be ordered here.

Helge Kvalheim is back with more music created on his AmigaOne X5000! The first is the LN3 Wind Temple 24, second (which you can check out below) is the Last Ninja 3 Water Temple 24. 🙂

Pavlor, a user on Amigaworld.net, has published a review of Heretic II. Please click here to read it. He covers everything from the purchase, shipping, gameplay, etc.

George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero has been streaming on Twitch during April. In the video below he is playing Heretic II:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2127670826

The Heretic II Multiplayer Event took place on April 27th. Here Amigans were invited to participate. Maijestro and McFly PPC have released videos on YouTube of the gameplay. More events will take place in the future.

Muf has made a video about the new Heretic II and Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The video is in Polish, but you can turn on subtitles if you want.

Amigaone.pl uploaded a video showing Quake 2 running on an AmigaOne X5040.

AmigaBezŚciemy episode 24 was published a couple of weeks ago. It features an interview with Marek Głogowski about AmigaOS 4, Qemu, and more. The language in the video is Polish, but you can turn on subtitles.

In April, we will ventured into the world of pinball. We played the classic Space Cadet Pinball!

Space Cadet is available to download from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil … ion/spacecadetpinball.lha

The goal was to score as many points as possible! The competition is actually not over yet, but will end tonight. Here is the link to the thread of the contest:

https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9515

Until next time

You’ve now reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

Big thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated, and helps keep me motivated.

If you would like me to mention your project in a roundup, please feel free to contact me. You can also send me news, links to interesting videos, and so forth. Thanks in advance.

I wish you all a great day! See you in next month’s roundup! 🙂

Best regards,

Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler

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Hi everyone,

Thank you for visiting my blog. 🙂

Today, I’ve got news about a game release for AmigaOS 4!

It is a game called Doom RPG-RE created for mobile phones in 2005. It was developed by Fountainhead Entertainment and published by JAMDAT Mobile. According to Wikipedia, it combines the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. The story includes similar events of Doom 3 but involves different characters.

The reverse engineering was done by Erick Vásquez García. You can find more information about this on the official GitHub page.

Doom RPG-RE was ported to AmigaOS 4 by BSzili and Smarkusg. The current version is 0.2.2. The GitHub page of Smarkusg can be found here.

The game is freely available for download on OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/board/doomrpg.lha

I downloaded it this evening and playing it was a matter of unpacking the archive and double-clicking the icon of the game. 🙂 The game worked under emulation.

That was all for now. Thanks for reading and for visiting the Old School Game Blog. 🙂

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Hello,

Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog. 🙂

Yesterday, I wrote about a game that had been ported to AROS. Today I’ve got news about a port of well-known classic that has been ported to AmigaOS 4.

Which classic game is that? It is Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2, and the various specials and demos from cover disks!

Cannon Fodder was one of the most popular games on the Amiga. It was also popular on the PC and probably many other platforms. I remember playing it on my Amiga 500 and later 1200 in the 90’s. I still have the original disks in my collection, but it has been a long time since I checked if they worked.

More information about Cannon Fodder can be found at Hall of Light:

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/cannon-fodder

In short, it is an action strategy game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. You are in control of a group of soldiers and the goal is to complete the missions you get assigned for. You control the soldiers with your mouse, controlling their movement by clicking around on the map and using the buttons to shoot and customize formation, etc.

Open Fodder is an open-source version of the Cannon Fodder engine for modern operating systems. It supports not only the Amiga version of the games but also the PC ones.

• Cannon Fodder (Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS CD)
• Cannon Fodder 2 (Amiga, DOS CD)
• Demos (various cover disks from magazines like Amiga Power, The One, Amiga Format, Amiga Action, PC Format, etc.)

Thanks to the porting done by Smarkusg, we can now enjoy Cannon Fodder natively on our AmigaOS 4 systems. 🙂 Here is a link to his Open Fodder GitHub page.

To start playing, you can download the archive from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/action/openfodder.lha

The archive comes bundled with demos you can try, but you’ll need to provide the full version yourself. The files from these must be copied to their appropriate directories in the “OpenFodder/Data/” drawer. You will find one called “Dos_CD”. Here you can copy over the files from the DOS version. The game will then pop up in the menu when you launch Open Fodder.

Cannon Fodder is available for purchase from GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/cannon_fodder

Today, April 11th, it is currently at 75% off. 🙂

I have tried Open Fodder on my Sam460 and also in emulation and it performed very well.

That was all for now. Thanks for reading! See you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!

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AmigaOS 4 News – March 2024

Hi everyone,

Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂

It is, like it usually is at the end of a month, time for the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! 

March proved to be a very active month in the community. We got new hardware, a commercial software release, and many updates to everything from applications to games. Thanks to all the developers, users, and enthusiasts who keep the platform alive!

On the personal side, March was also the month I got myself a new AmigaOS 4 system based around the Sam460LE by ACube Systems. Have since then expanded it with an optical drive, as well as added extra storage space.

Without further ado, here is the AmigaOS 4 news from March 2024. 🙂

Software News

Some of you might remember that I did an interview with Steffen Häuser, a.k.a. TheMagicSN, a few months ago about the game he has ported for Hyperion Entertainment to AmigaOS 4, namely Heretic II.

I’m happy to report that the boxed version of the game is now available for purchase from Alinea Computer in Germany! RetroPassion in the United Kingdom had it in stock, but it is currently only available on backorder.

Here is the link to Alinea Computer:

https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-Software/Amiga-Games/Heretic-II-for-AmigaOS-4::1354.html

The price is 44,95 EUR VAT included.

The requirements are as follows:

• AmigaOS ® 4.1 or higher
• PPC (x1000/x5000, Sam, QEmu or older PPC Hardware like Peg2/Classic/A1, no support for A1222 currently)
• 64 MB minimum, more recommended
• 3D acceleration supported through Warp3D/Warp3DNova (OpenGL)
• Soundcards supported through AHI
• 4x CD ROM (only needed for game installation)
• 400 MB free harddrive space

Features:

• Features Quake IITM 3D engine by Id Software ® using OpenGL
• MiniGL(Warp3D), GL4ES (Warp3DNova) and Software Renderer
• Both GL Renderers with Multitexturing
• CD Audio with Game Music (also playable through ISO-mounting, CD does not need to be in Drive while playing)
• Localization (both Text and Audio-Output) to English, German, French, Italian and Spanish
• Improved Quality of Video Intro/Extro
• High Resolutions (1920×1080 and 4K Resolutions) added
• Multiplayer Support (internet or LAN up to 32 players)
• Formidable Enemy AI
• Outstanding player controls (mouse, keyboard, joystick) using AmigaInput
• Expandable with new mission packs like Quake

My original plan was to show you photos of the box, screenshots from the game, and to tell you more about it, but unfortunately, my copy of Heretic II is still in transit. I got a message that it was going to be delivered soon, but suddenly the tracking showed that it was back at customs here in Norway again. Due to Easter, it has gotten further delayed. I’m guessing it will reach me sometime in the middle of April. I will write a review of the game later on when I’ve received it and have had time to play through it. I’m looking forward to that! 🙂

Speaking of Heretic II, Steffen Häuser recently ported THF 3.0 to AmigaOS 4. This is one of the biggest multiplayer mods for the game. You need Heretic II for AmigaOS 4 to run it. This opens the door to some fun multiplayer action for Amigans! You can download it from here.

Unofficial Polish and Russian localization for Heretic II have also been released. 

On March 2nd, DRIDI released version 2.9z5Final of the Arabic Console Device. According to the author, this version contains a lot of fixes. Later in March, on the 31st, another update was published, 2.9z6Final. Please visit OS4Depot to read more about the changes.

René W. Olsen has released version 1.29 of the Amiga VNC Server. Changes from the previous versions are as follows:

– Changed: The Server now only sends GfxTiles that are asked for by the client. This also means the Faster BufferSync=Off is no longer possible.

– Fixed: The Server no longer sends RichCursor if there are UpdateRequest. This fixes the RealVNC logon problem.

– Fixed: The ‘Settings updated, restart required’ message now disappears when you stop the server.

Version 2.9114.523 of the DNetC client was released on March 4th. Distributed.net was the Internet’s first multi-purpose distributed computing project. If you are interested in contributing to the Distributed Amiga team, visit the effort homepage at http://distributed.amiga.org/, it contains all the necessary info along with extensive information on usage, configuration, and troubleshooting. You can download it from OS4Depot here.

Marie Katrine Ekeberg has released version 0.3.0 of AmiEnvMon. This is a utility to call a homemade Pico environment monitor API to fetch information and show this in a GUI based on MUI. Here is the link to the GitHub page.

George Sokianos, a.k.a. Walkero, is back with an update to the Lite XL port for AmigaOS 4. This time it is version 2.1.3r1.

Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written in Lua and SDL2. It is being developed by the Lite XL team. Here is the link to the official page on GitHub.

Here is the changelog:

[2.1.3r1] – 2024-03-09

Added

– Added AmiUpdate support
– Added the Tetris plugin

Updated

– Updated the code to the upstream 2.1.3 release
– Compiled with SDL 2.30.0 that supports editing with ISO encodings, other than English. Now the editor should be able to support any language and in conjuction with the codesets plugin be able to make text encodings conversions.
– Now the codesets plugin supports MorphOS 3.18 and above

Changed

– Changed the way the “Open in system” option executes the WBRun command in AmigaOS 4, with a more secure way
– Did a lot of code cleanup in sync with the upstream, and parts of code that were left over
– Compiled with pcre2 10.42 (MorphOS version only)

Fixed

– I did a lot of changes on path manipulation and usage, fixing scanning the root of a partition or an assign path
– Fixed an error with the codesets plugin, where an empty file could not be opened
– Improved the folder suggestions when opening projects or changing paths. Now even the root folders of a partition are presented
– Fixed ghmarkdown plugin, but now requires a GitHub token to be provided

For more information (and to download the program), please visit OS4Depot.

SDL2 for AmigaOS 4 has received an update. It is now available for download at OS4Depot. Information about the changes for this version can be found on the GitHub page.

FFmpeg is a fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high-quality polyphase filter. MickJT has released a new update that brings it to version 6.1.1. More information about the program is available on OS4Depot.

On AmigaOS 4 you can emulate many different computers and consoles. One of the systems you can enjoy is the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. This platform is especially interesting since it contains a vast amount of high-quality games. Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Earthworm Jim, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 2, and many more, are examples of this. Thanks to work done by Marek “smarkusg” Glogowski (porting) and Javier de las Rivas (GUI), we can enjoy version 1.33 of the DGen emulator on our computers. 🙂

Here is a video created by Rene Engel a.k.a. Maijestro showing DGen running on QEMU (Pegasos II):

Prince of Persia is a classic game first released in 1989 by Broderbund. It was developed by Jordan Mechner, who was the author of another blast from the past, namely Karateka. Prince of Persia came out for many different platforms, including the Amiga. I can remember briefly playing it on an Amiga 500, but nothing more than that. It is a famous game though, well-known in the history of video games.

Let us fast-forward to 2024. An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version, extended with new features, is available to AmigaOS 4 users. The developer behind the original port is NagyD. Responsible for the AmigaOS 4 port is Javier de las Rivas.

On March 18th, version 1.23 of the AmigaOS 4 port was released. You can download it from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/adventure/sdlpop.lha

The open-source variant has many added features compared to the original, such as recording your game. You can find a complete list via the link below:

https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/tree/amigaos4

The game ran fine under emulation of AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic, so it should run on most, if not all AmigaOS 4 setups. 🙂

Hollywood is an excellent language for developing software. There are a wide range of plugins available handling everything from video to music. Pangomonium is a new plugin for Hollywood that features an advanced text rendering engine that makes it possible to draw text in almost every language of the world. It supports complex layouts like the right-to-left or bidirectional ones found in the Arabic and Hebrew languages or vertical layouts in columns like in Japanese. Pangomonium can also handle complex-text languages like Hindi and fonts that contain colored glyphs (emojis) are supported as well. By giving you full access to the Pango API the plugin also enables you to customize all stages of the text rendering process. Please visit OS4Depot to download the plugin and to read more about it.

Letter Worm is a new game by tickBIT. The goal of the game is to collect enough letters to eventually fly away as a butterfly. Please click here to download it or here to visit the page on GitHub.

Several libraries related to SDL2 have been released. These are:

• Libsmpeg2 (SDL2 MPEG Player Library (SMPEG2)
• Libsdl2_net (SDL2_net portable network library)
• Libsdl2_image (SDL2 image file loading library)
• Sdl2_gfx (Drawing and graphical effects extension for SDL2)
• Libsdl2_ttf (A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2)

A new version of MPlayer has been uploaded to OS4Depot! This program can play most standard video formats straight out of the box, and almost all others with additional external codecs. MPlayer for AmigaOS 4 is based on MPlayer 1.5 (w/ FFmpeg 6.0), merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and the Andrea Palmatè’s MPlayer ports, with additional changes and improvements.

Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:

MPlayer 1.5 RC2 (MPlayer 1.5) – MickJT, Marek, Javier and Samo79 (26.01.2024)
* Based on MPlayer 1.5 SVN-r38440 (FFmpeg 6.0)
From now on, the AmigaOS4 release will follow the official versioning scheme!
* Compiled with GCC 11.3 + LTO (currently compiled with optimisation -O2)
* Added support for append, now dragging more than one file will append them
* Added support for AmiUpdate (yes again!)
* Added amiga video output (a fresh new P96 video output written by Jörg Strohmayer!)
* Added video’s path in all availible video outputs (show file path in MPlayer window)
* Added more audio/video formats in ASL requester and reorder them alphabetically
* Added gadgets for iconification and fullscreen in all availible video outputs
* Added “Iconify” option menu to iconify MPlayer from menu
* Added “Open subtitles” option menu to load the subtitles from MPlayer
* Added “Unload subtitles” option menu to unload the subtitles from MPlayer
* Added “Subtitles size” option menu to increase/decrease the size of the subtitles
* Added “Properties” option menu to show informations about the video playing
* Added “MPlayer-GUI” option menu to open MPlayer-GUI from MPlayer
* Added catalogs for French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish (Credits: zzd10h, Maijestro, Marek, Samo79 and Javier)
* Fixed support for AppWindow, now drag and drop of files over AmiDock really works
* Fixed external windows problems when opened on fullscreen
* Fixed crash on AltiVec version if launched on non AltiVec CPUs
* Fixed crash on quit in the GL video outputs
* PIP: Added support for menu
* Disabled some more debug outputs that were printing to shell
* MPlayer can now be controlled with the Exchanger commodity (Show, Hide and Quit)
* Separation of video outputs for SM502 G4 vo_sdl_sm502.c (Useful in QEMU emulation)
* Made screen/window titles standard in all availible video outputs
* Made drag and drop standard in all availible video outputs
* Improved RegisterApplication support
* New banner and iconsets (thx Mason!)
* A lot of bugfixes and code cleanup

Here is the download link:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/play/mplayer.lha

Marek “smarkusg” Glogowski has released Polish catalog files for AmiUpdate, while Marko Raina has uploaded Finnish ones.

It is no secret that many of us played with ProTracker on our Amiga computers back in the day. Countless music modules have been composed since the tracker was first released. Even I (in co-operation with another demoscener) created a tune called TveitaDowntown back in 2000. That song is not very good, but we had fun making it. 😉

PT2 Clone is a ProTracker 2 clone created for Windows, MacOS, and Linux by 8bitbubsy. The goal is to make a highly accurate clone of the classic ProTracker 2.3D. It is, as seen above, available also for AmigaOS 4. This is thanks to Smarkusg who ported it to our platform.

You can read more about it on GitHub:

https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone

Here are the changes since the last version:

– Fullscreen mode code has been refactored, as I apparently had coded it the wrong way. “Stretched” mode always fills the whole screen now too, and other issues may have been fixed as well. The “INTEGERSCALING” option in protracker.ini has been removed as it wouldn’t work with the new code anyway.
– Updated SDL to v2.30.1

You can download it from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/tracker/pt2_clone.lha

SDL2_mixer is a sample multi-channel audio mixer library. It supports 8 channels of 16-bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music. It can load FLAC, MP3, Ogg, VOC, and WAV format audio. It can also load MIDI, MOD, and Opus audio, depending on build options. Version 2.8.0 is now available from OS4Depot.

Liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3. Version 0.8.0 is now available for download.

AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.

Features:

– Generates text based on input prompts

– UI customization

– Full conversation history

– Text-to-speech

Version 1.4.4 is now available from OS4Depot. 

Changes:

– Fixes a bug in chat mode in AmigaOS 3.X where the send button stays disabled after an error occurs

– Change the stack size in the program .info file to the recommended 32768 bytes

– Fix bug where accents were not loaded properly resulting in the speech to fail. If you get an error when generating speech, go to the menu and set the accent again

Libfreetype 2.13.2 has been uploaded to OS4Depot to fix headers path. According to the readme, FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images).

Kjetil Hvalstrand a.k.a. LiveForIt is back with a new release! This time it is a utility called Mem Info. According to the author, it is a small tool to display the memory usage on an AmigaOne. The source code is included if you’re interested in improving or customizing it.

Pankalla has returned with a new add-on for the spreadsheet program Ignition. This tool makes it possible to read and write files with the suffix ods. Well-known programs such as Open Office Calc and Libre Office Calc use this.

Juan Carlos Herrán Martín is a very active developer of games for platforms such as AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and AROS. We’ve seen plenty of releases from him in the previous monthly roundups. Now he is back again and inviting us to check out a new project he is working on. The game is called Los Malditos, and it is a free adaption of the mythical books from Timun Mas from the 1980s and 1990s related to Dungeons & Dragons, which the author was a fan of. The demo of the game is now available for download at OS4Depot.

Version 32.0 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);
• 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 are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!

Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:

Summary:

• Added preliminary Signetics TWIN minicomputer emulation.
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Details:

• wa: fixed: some non-auditable filetypes were being audited.
• wa: phunsy: fixed: “project|open”: mdcr files were not being considered as signetics files nor as tapes.
• added preliminary emulation of signetics twin minicomputer (incl. added DRIVE debugger command).
• disassembler: now indirect jumps into ROM are threaded as code.
• now CPSL $FF pseudocode is given as PSL = 0 .
• binbug: fixed: floppy drive subwin: block contents gadgets: colours were not always changed when changing sector or track.
• fixed buffer overflow that could result in incorrect next default disassembly address.
• fixed: opcodes subwindow had incorrect information for pseudocode and flags for some instructions.
• enhanced tooltips for opcodes subwindow.
• floppy subwin: now says “sector contents” instead of “block contents”.
• aa: CPU monitor: revised gadget layout somewhat.
• aa: tr: fixed: opening cpu monitor could cause a crash/hang.
• fixed: cpu monitor: flag button was wrong colour.
• wa: floppy drive subwin: thickened current track/sector arc for easier visibility.
• assembler: added support for extended instruction set (as used by signetics RASM assembler).
• pipbug,binbug: fixed: it was temporarily refusing to process guest input in some circumstances.
• assembler: fixed: it was emitting spurious warnings when using indexed addressing.
• localized some more strings.
• wa: fixed: floppy subwin: “insert disk…” button wasn’t localized.
• incorporated Anthony’s latest Greek translation.

Miscellaneous News

Now for one of the biggest news of this month. The A1222+ is now finally available for purchase! It is great to see that the computer is now available. It has been a long journey for Trevor Dickinson, A-EON Technology, and the other parties involved, but now it is finally out in the market. 

AAA Technology is currently working hard shipping out motherboards and pre-built systems to customers around the world.

A complete system costs 1,599 EUR. This price does also include VAT.

The motherboard with 4 GB of RAM costs 1,238.90 EUR. VAT included. Without RAM, it costs 1,1199 EUR.

Please visit the website of amigakit.fr for more information about what the options include in terms of hardware and software. 

Hopefully, we’ll see some reviews and videos about the A1222+ soon. 🙂 In the meantime, I recommend having a look at Epsilon’s look at the A1222 on his blog. He has been a beta tester of the system for many years.

Eldee Stephens updated “The QuickStart Guide for New A1222+ Users” on March 22nd. This is a valuable resource for A1222+ users. It contains information about everything from compatibility to helpful tips and tricks. I highly recommend that you check it out via the link below:

http://eliyahu.org/tabor/

AmiWest 2024 has just been announced! The event will take place on October 25th, 26th, and 27th. It has a new theme, which is “Get your game on!”

Here is the announcement from the official website:

AmiWest 2024 theme is “Get your game on!”. Gaming has been a mainstay of the Amiga platform since before it’s inception. The last few years have seen a resurgence in Amiga games and gaming across all platform flavors. This year AmiWest will focus on a celebration of all things Amiga gaming. This includes HW innovations, the latest modern retro releases, the latest game engines like Redpill, Hollywood, and Scorpion, with the latest tools like UniJoysticle. Watch amiwest.net for the latest updates and information.

Show Dates

AmiWest 2024 will be held October 25th to October 27th, at the Holiday Inn Express Cal Expo, 2224 Auburn Blvd.,Sacramento, California 95821, USA. Tell everyone you know and bring a friend to AmiWest.

Format Change

The show will be three days in 2024. In past years we used Thursday and Friday for the AmiWest on site DevCon. For 2024 we are going to change our format and shift the DevCon to a virtual event, more details will be provided in the coming months. For Friday, October 25th, the show will focus on long form presentations on leading hardware and software projects.

Sign up to receive email updates

The AmiWest Organizing committee has begrudging decided that the email fad is not a flash in the pan and decided to implement a robust newsletter mail server. Please follow this link to sign up and show your support!

A new issue (167) of Amiga Future has been released for March and April. Not much AmigaOS 4-related content this time, but still an interesting read; Trevor’s Soapbox, Passione Amiga Day 2023, Dynamic websites with PHP.

As usual, we are running a games contest over at Amigans.net! 🙂 This month we’ve been playing Tap Jewels for AmigaOS 4 by Entwickler-X. This game was suggested by BillE. Many thanks for the good suggestion!

Tap Jewels

Another addictive Match-3 diamond/jewels style game with three great game modes. These are Puzzle Quest, Time Challenge, and Survival.

In this contest we play Time Challenge:

Match 3 or more identical jewels, be fast to get more time to play, because the time goes by. The game is over if the time is up.

The goal is to score as many points as possible. Please post a screenshot of your score in the appropriate forum thread to participate. It is still some time left to play. 😉

Here is the link to the competition thread over at Amigans.net.

Tap Jewels is a commercial game, which you can purchase as a download from Alinea Computer:

https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-So … ownload-version::803.html

If you are unsure about whether this is a game for your or not, you can try the demo version at OS4Depot first:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/puzzle/tapjewelsdemo.lha

Videos

Rene Engel a.k.a. Maijestro has created many videos this month. One of these shows the the new Heretic II for AmigaOS 4 from Hyperion Entertainment running on QEMU (Pegasos II):

McFly PPC uploaded several videos in March. One of these shows Gorky 17 running on his AmigaOne X5000:

Never mind what I wrote about videos of the A1222+ above. It turns out that Mister JBAM has released videos of him unboxing the A1222+ and installing it.

Mister JBAM made a video of playing Tower57, too.

The videos are in French, but you can turn on auto-generated subtitles in English.

George Sokianos, a.k.a. Walkero, did a live stream of him installing and playing Heretic II for AmigaOS 4.1. Unfortunately, he had difficulties with his capture card, so he could not record much of the gameplay. It was still a good stream, and he provided helpful information concerning the game. The port of the game, TheMagicSN, was present in the chat.

Until next time

You’ve now reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

I’d like to send a big thank you to everyone for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!

If you would like me to mention your project in a roundup, please feel free to contact me. You can also send me news, links to interesting videos, and so forth. Thanks in advance.

I wish you all a great day! See you next month! 🙂

Best regards,

Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler

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Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog. 🙂

Prince of Persia is a classic game first released in 1989 by Broderbund. It was developed by Jordan Mechner, who was the author of another blast from the past, namely Karateka. Prince of Persia came out for many different platforms, including the Amiga. I can remember briefly playing it on an Amiga 500, but nothing more than that. It is a famous game though, well-known in the history of video games.

Let us fast-forward to 2024. An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version, extended with new features, is available to AmigaOS 4 users. The developer behind the original port is NagyD. Responsible for the AmigaOS 4 port is Javier de las Rivas.

Yesterday, on March 18th, version 1.23 of the AmigaOS 4 port was released. You can download it from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/adventure/sdlpop.lha

The open-source variant has many added features compared to the original, such as recording your game. You can find a complete list via the link below:

https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/tree/amigaos4

The game ran fine under emulation of AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic, so it should run on most, if not all AmigaOS 4 setups. 🙂

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AmigaOS 4 News – February 2024

Hi,

Welcome to the second AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup of 2024!

It has been yet another active month in the world of AmigaOS 4. We’ve got plenty of updates to software and releases. The A1222+ is not out the door yet, but hopefully, it will be in March. As you’ve noticed, you are reading this on the Old School Game Blog, not on the Gaming on AmigaOS 4 blog. I’ve melted the two together, so from now on the roundups will be hosted here.

Without further ado, let us move on to the news! 🙂

Software News

Let us start with some AI-related news. AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.

Features:

– Generates text based on input prompts
– UI customization
– Full conversation history
– Text-to-speech

Version 1.4.2 (2024-01-31) is now available from OS4Depot. They replaced clicktabs for AmigaOS 3.x since the version is too old and will crash. 3.x users can select the mode at startup.

After hard work, HunoPPC is back with a massive update to the Super Nintendo emulator for AmigaOS4 called SNES9X NG.

Here are the changes from the previous version:

– Added modifications of prefs KEYBOARD on native GUI now!!

– Added on engine, new converter of keys intuition events to keys SDL2 events for new function of keyboard prefs

– Added recognition of duplicates in modified keys

– Added 2 new image for recognition, one for OK (green) and one for NOK (red) 

– Rewinding cool option working now on game :-), use GUI for activate and add number of Mo for rewind dans on game press F12 for a moment to operate rewinding, IMPORTANT!! this hack is very big for your CPU, on X5000 90% of usage with 60FPS  

– Fixed Vsync, now working with -vsync and for disable using -novsync (thanks to Kas1e)

– Fixed limiter of fps without Vsync

– Fixed loading Rom offset “Tintin in Tibet (Europe) (En,Es,Sv) 

– Fixed loading Wild Guns, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – The Fighting Edition with a good IRQ cycles and DMA delay

– Fixed LowMapRom and HiMapRom on memmap functions

– Optimized DSP2 for AmigaOS4

– Fixed small audio Crackling 

– Fixed Speedup audio DSP1 and DSP2   

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– Tipo fixed on locale (thanks Javier)

– Tipo fixed on SuperFX Mhz-> to ->%

– Fixed Run game selected with RETURN now!!

– Fixed quit GUI with ESCAPE

– Added cool sounds effects on native GUI (mario voice and yoshi voice)  

– Added option -interpolationmethod for Sound Interpolation Method, Gaussian=0 / Linear=1 / Cubic=2 (default) / Sinc=3

– Remove Key Q for quit Snes9X

– Added new filters:  

    * 2xBR

    * 2xBR-lv1

    * DDT

    * Scanlines 25%

    * Dot Matrix  

– Fixed draw time with FPS count

– Fixed HACKVIDEO config write

– Fixed INTERPOLATION config write

– Fixed OVERCLOCKCPU config write

– Added button for sounds effects on GUI

– New all catalogs

– Sound now is Threaded 

– Fixed timing for all games with Vsync

– Fixed Joypad2, now working with the GUI launcher

– Added new hack option “-disablespritelimit” disable max sprite tiles rendered per line. Default = 34, Unlimited ~= 128 

– Fixed Mute now working!! 

– On game FULLSCREEN/WINDOW mode now working with = L_ALT + RETURN

– Added new option -emulatedmachine for a virtuel machine, activate a correct software rendering on internal engine (disable: vsync, FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP) 

– Fixed commandline for all filters

– fixed commandline for support optical games: mouse, superscope, justifier and macsrifle.

– GUI is now V1.0.7

– Added to GUI news options: sound thread and Emulated machine (for QEMU and WinUAE machines)

– Fixed Vsync disable if you use emulated machine or rwinding options (thank to Javier)

– Added new images for inputs : Keyboard, joypad, mouse, superscope, justifier and macsrifle

– Now superscope working with a mouse Amiga 

– fixed disabled prefs Buttons of joypad if you use other input

– Center the cursor on screen

– Support all optical games with cursor and mouse for shooting (move working, now i working on the buttons) IMPORTANT: Correctly choose the type of weapon suitable for the game otherwise it may not work correctly, MOUSE ONLY!!!

– Added new folder “Roms-Optical” for copy your games Guns or Optical (Konami Justifier, superscope, mouse and a special MacsRiffle)

– Fixed -nooverscan and center a screen on 320×240 mode (window and fullscreen)

– Fixed on mode -nooverscan and 320×240 centered screen with L_ALT + RETURN

– Fixed Justifier1 AimOffscreen Trigger button, now working with the center button of mouse 

– Added 2 KEYS on KEYBOARD with optical mode:

 * KEY HOME : “Superscope Pause”

 * KEY END : “Superscope AimOffscreen” 

– Fixed mode -emulatedmachine on all renderer

– Fixed if you use optical games with with L_ALT + RETURN disable a pointer on window mode

– Added 3 new images availablecover3dMSU1.png, availablecover3dOPTICAL.png and availablecover3dSUPERFX.png for not available previews 

– GUI checking now all datas dependency for interface on launching and push requester if you have an error 

– Fixed disable vsync on GUI with -emulatedmachine -nooverscan and -rewinding options

– Fix fps limiter on PAL mode

The emulator is available for download on OS4Depot:

OS4Depot – Your one stop for AmigaOS4 files

Rene Engel has created a video showing the emulator running on his AmigaOS 4 setup through QEMU. The footage was created with the previous version of SNES9X NG.

Leu is a spreadsheet application by Marcus Sackrow, which started as an Excel and OpenOffice viewer. Now it also features basic editing functions and a fully working parser.

It supports the loading of Excel (XLSX), Libre/OpenOffice (ods), ASCII (CSV), and TurboCalc (TCD) files. You can export the tables to Excel, Libre/OpenOffice, ASCII, HTML, or wiki tables. Version 0.08 is now available for download at OS4Depot.

A. Pankalla has released an update to Luettje Bookholler, which is a personal finance program. For those of you who are curious about what «Luettje Bookholler» means (I have mentioned this in an earlier roundup, but will repeat it for new readers), I can tell you that it is German and means «Little Accountant». Version 1.87 contains several bug fixes and changes:

• Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only last 12 months.
• Bug: Long catogory names are not shown in ignition tables.
• Changes: Now also the values are shown in ignition pie-graphics.
• Bug: Corrects some little bugs in ignition-sheets.

SDL2 (Simple DirectMedia Layer 2) 2.30 was released in February. You can download it from OS4Depot, as well as find more information about it there:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/sdl2.lha

Version 30.81 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);
• 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 are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!

Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:

Changes since V30.8:

 Summary:

• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Details:

• arcadia: improved overlay text for basketball and horse racing.
• wa: arcadia: changed white to grey in sidebar game glyphs (for better contrast against default sidebar background).
• wa: arcadia: fixed: sidebar game glyphs for red clash and robot killer were swapped.
• incorporated Mikhail’s latest Russian translation.
• aa: fixed: it was crashing during exit if eg. a needed ReAction class was not available.
• assembler: fixed: INCBIN directive was broken.
• pipbug: now autostarts biorhythm (300 baud) and life (machine code).
• pipbug: fixed: VDU autoadjustment could result in a mislocated LED display.
• pipbug: adjusted VDU autosense settings for biorhythm, calendar maker, mazemaker.
• fixed: WC,WP command were writing garbage error messages.
• pipbug: improved compatibility (improves random number generator, russian roulette, etc.).
• pipbug,binbug: now silences sound when resetting.
• pipbug: now translates ENTER to Ctrl-L automatically for mastermind and revised mastermind.
• wa: fixed: first string sent to output window was not being displayed.
• pipbug: added knowledge about good dump of RYTMON.
• pipbug 2: added comment support for pipla example.
• pipbug: fixed: baud rate addresses were incorrect after reset (fixes pipla test).
• pipbug: added autostart for Micro BASIC programs.

AmiArcadia is free to download. 🙂 You can grab it from OS4Depot here:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha

Here are the links to the authors websites:

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

HunoPPC and the Amiga French Team 2024 have ported Wipeout Rewrite to AmigaOS 4!

The rewrite of WipEout was done by Phoboslab. Here is the link to the Github page.

Please read on for more information from HunoPPC:

AmigaOS 4.1 Port by HunoPPC with the Amiga French Team 2024

Important: OpenGL renderer with MiniGL Library (no software)

A big thank you to Samo79 because this port for minigl would never have been made if he had not insisted 🙂

Use glewMGL port and code for minigl by HunoPPC 2024

Use SDL2 port by Capehill

IMPORTANT!! If you use hack GUI please check your DEVS/MONITOR/”driver” for add all new resolutions, thanks.

First release 1.0.0 AmigaOS4

• Added GUI for start a new prefs on live (important !! it’s an hack)
• Added Icon created by me
• Fixed loading texture with glewMGL
• Fixed fullscreen mode on glewMGL
• Added KPH counter on screen (thanks Samo79)

The game can be downloaded from OS4Depot, but the archive does not contain the assets (textures, 3d models, etc.) required to run the game. You can find the download link for the data files in the documentation on OS4Depot. 🙂

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/driving/wipeout.lha

Version 2.4.6 of the WHD-Load front-end iGame was released in February. The AmigaOS 4 port is maintained by George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero. This is a front-end application for launching WHDLoad games and demos.

Features include:

– Multiple WHDLoad slaves repositories on hard disk partitions
– On-demand scanning in repositories for installed WHDLoad slaves (games, demos etc.)
– Use game tool types on the run
– Shows game screenshot (screenshot window can be altered through
– tool types/settings use datatypes to load foreign formats)
– Categorization of the games and filtering
– Manual addition of non-WHDLoad games, demos, etc.
– Simple statistics
– Find-as-you-type search filter

If you’d like to read about the changes since the previous version, please have a look at the appropriate page on GitHub.

An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on February 18th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Click here to go to the download page or to find information about the recent changes.

Several language catalog files For AmiUpdate have been uploaded to OS4Depot thanks to the work of Niels Bache (Danish), Samir Hawamdeh (Italian), Michael Merkel and Gerd Frank (German), Petrol (French), Javier de las Rivas (Spanish).

René W. Olsen has released version 1.27 of the Amiga VNC Server. It has been written from scratch, and according to the author, it still needs some work. The source code is available on GitHub. Click here to download the archive. He has also released version 2.7 of ReSrc4, an MC680x0 Disassembler.

Heretic II from Hyperion Entertainment is getting close to becoming available for purchase! I’ve been in touch with the Alinea Computer Shop. They will stock the game. I wrote them and asked them to reserve a copy, which they will. 😉 If you want to know more about Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, I recommend checking out this interview I did a while back with Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN, who ported it to AmigaOS 4.

AmiGemini version 0.11 was released on the February 20th. It was created by Karl Jeacle and uploaded to OS4Depot by Samir Hawamdeh. It is a browser for Gemini, Spartan, Gopher, and Finger. The source code is included.

Kas1e has released version 0.10 of WB2Filer. WB2Filer is a hack that patches Intuition’s functions via SetMethod() to allow transparently run of the Filer binary pointing to the given partition on Workbench’s desktop instead of the original Workbench windows. Please click here to get an overview of the changes since the last release.

HexSee, a hex viewer that displays file contents in blocks of 16 characters per line, has been updated to version 1.1. The author is Retrami Software. It contains a few extra features that are not always available in other AmigaOS hex viewers. It can read any file up to 4 GB in size, while a single file buffer will not use more than 128 KB even for the largest file. Text and background colors can be set to any color, and it was written especially for AmigaOS 4.1.

– Added program information to the Screen Bar
– Added Tool Tips to the gadgets
– Enabled Localisation
– Added Text & Hex Search
– Added Text & Hex selection
– Enabled Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys

You can download HexSee from OS4Depot.

MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 115 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 14.61. Changes include a Dungeon Master 2 save game editor, and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

On February 23rd, Michael Rupp released an update for the SonosController program, which allows you to control your Sonos speakers from any Amiga connected to the same network. The changelog can be found on OS4Depot, along with the program itself.

– NEW: first release for AROS x86
– NEW: ARexx command REINDEX to invoke re-indexing the Sonos music library
– NEW: include all icons in every distribution in new subdrawer “Icons”
– NEW: include additional icons by AMIGASYSTEM (thanks Carlos!)
– IMPROVED: reloading the browser with F5 will not loose the selected position and item anymore.
– FIXED: loading of data (playlists, queues, etc.) is no longer limited to 100 entries (bug introduced with 1.3).
– FIXED: if network is off the app won’t crash on startup but show an error message.
– FIXED: possible crash when clicking the “looking for Sonos…” entry.

A major release this month was the update to Rave. Daniel Jedlicka, a.k.a. Trixie on Amiga forums, has released an updated version of Rave, his sound editor for AmigaOS 4 compatible computers.

Changes since the previous release are as follows:

– The program now keeps a list of recently opened files and has an associated item in the Project menu for quickly opening these files again.
– Reworked the file requester, which now features a more flexible Access Panel with a user-definable Favourites section.
– Another addition to the file requester is the Browsing History pop-up for selecting recently used paths.
– Fixed a playback-related bug that would make Rave unresponsive, waiting for a signal that never arrives.
– Updated documentation.

Download link:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/edit/rave.lha

Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 or newer. It also requires Enhancer Core classes (toolbar.gadget, infodata.gadget, select.gadget, shared.image).

Here is an overview of Rave’s features:

– A modern, configurable graphical user interface (GUI).
– A tabbed environment for managing multiple projects from within a single program window.
– A powerful custom file requester with preview playback and other useful features.
– A wide selection of editing functions with unlimited Undo.
– Asynchronous operation: performing a task in a project doesn’t block the other projects.
– Support for multiple clipboard units.
– Modular design with an object-oriented plugin system, which makes the program easy to extend.
– A wide range of supported audio file types and formats.

Trixie has also published a new post on his blog, Rear Window, which is called Crawling back to life. There you can read more about the development of Rave.

Amiga-news.de reports that AmiUpdate has been updated twice in February. First to version 2.50, then to 2.51. Please visit amiga-news.de here to read the full story.

Another piece of news from amiga-news.de is about QEMU and the BBoot bootloader version 0.6. According to amiga-news.de, “BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan.” Please click here to read the whole article concerning BBoot.

The last news is the release of version 6.22 of Codesets. More information and a download is available over at OS4Depot.

Miscellaneous

Versus is a demoscene chart and disk magazine created by two demo groups, Nukleus and Void, for Amiga OCS/ECS and AmigaOS 4. Nine issues have been released so far. The last one, Versus #9, came out for Classic Amiga and AmigaOS 4 in 2019.

Versus #10 is on the way, and voting has officially opened!

Cast your vote for your favorite demos, intros, programmers, musicians, and so forth! 🙂 The more votes collected, the more accurate the charts will be. Thank you in advance for your support!

You can find the Online votesheet here:

https://www.nukleus.nu/VersusVote.php

It is worth mentioning that you are not required to fill out all the fields.

We are very grateful for every vote we receive, and we really hope you’ll spend a few minutes filling out the votesheet as soon as possible. 🙂

Some of you might have noticed that I’ve not published much on Gaming on AmigaOS 4 recently. AmigaOS 4 related posts have been published on the Old School Game Blog instead. The reason is that I’ve decided to continue Gaming on AmigaOS 4 on Old School Game Blog from now on. I’m involved in many projects, such as those with Void (Amiga demo group), so it easier to blog in one place. 🙂

The AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup will continue, but on Old School Game Blog instead. I’ve added an AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup section to the site. Here is the link. I hope you’ll continue reading my blog posts about AmigaOS 4 and Amiga in general at Old School Game Blog.

The A1222+ motherboard and a full A1222+ computer system were listed on the website of amigakit.fr in February. The price for a motherboard without RAM is 1,199 EUR. 4 GB of RAM costs 39,99 EUR extra. A full system will set you back 1,599 EUR. The final price depends on taxes, fees, and shipping. You can not order either one from the shop yet, but according to AmigaKit, they should be available soon. Here is a quote from AmigaKit dated February 12th:

“No, AmigaKit FR is getting ready for general sale. First stock arriving is for Early Adopters very shortly. A date for non-early adopters will be added to the webstore in the next week or so.”

Source: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9258&start=60

A date has not been added yet (today it is February 29th). March is just around the corner. When the A1222+ was announced (again) in October, one was told that the boards would ship in October, or November at the latest. This information can be found at Discord, as well as on Amigans.net. Several months have passed since then, and as far as I know, no one has received the A1222+ yet. The Facebook page of AAA Technology has not been updated since October, so it is not easy for customers or potential buyers to know what is going on. I really hope the A1222+ will be released soon though, and I feel for all those who are waiting and waiting for it to arrive. I’m sure it will be a fun system to experiment with!

A preview of the March/April issue of Amiga Future has been published on the official website of the magazine. Here is the link.

The Lost C has published a video on YouTube showing the new HunoPPC port of WipeOut for AmigaOS 4.1 in action. He shows it running a Sam440, Sam460, and an Amiga 1200 with BlizzardPPC and BVision. The video is in Italian.

He is not the only one who has created a video of Wipeout. So has McFlyPPC. His video shows it running on an AmigaOne X5000.

Rene Engel has uploaded a video showing version 1.33 of the Dgen SEGA Mega Drive emulator running with QEMU / Pegasos 2.

Muf has created a review of the Velocap HDR Tbox Deluxe, which you can see here. It is in Polish.

In February we’ve been playing a game by Entwickler-X called Balance Blox on Amigans.net.

BillE is currently in the lead with a whopping 124,200 points! There’s still a little bit of time left if you want to try to beat the score and become this month’s game champion over at Amigans.net.

https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9472

Until next time

You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. Hope you have enjoyed reading the news. 🙂

Thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!

Have a great day, and see you in the next roundup! 🙂

Best regards,

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AmigaOS 4 News – January 2024

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the first AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup of 2024!

2023 was a busy year in the world of AmigaOS 4. Perhaps not in terms of an official AmigaOS 4 update, but the community and its developers delivered on many fronts.

On the hardware side, the A1222+ was finally put into production, while the Sam460LE shipped to globally. You could even buy the X5040 from Amedia Computers in France, with a more modern graphics card and drivers.

As for software, we were lucky to get plenty of games to try. Examples are Fallout, Super Mario 64, AstroMenace, BreakHack, and Nanosaur. We must not forget ScummVM being maintained and updated by Raziel, which opens the world to many excellent graphical adventures.

Applications? Rave from Trixie got improved, IBrowse got updated, jPV^RNO delivered RNOXfer, RNOTunes, and much more.

If you want to have a deeper look into what 2023 brought us, I recommend checking out the previous monthly roundups, which are available here.

Now, without further ado, let us move on to the news concerning January 2024. 🙂

Software News

FUPPES is a free, multiplatform UPnP A/V Media Server. It supports a wide range of UPnP MEdiaRenderers, and on-the-fly transcoding of various audio, video, and image formats. It also includes DLNA support. Thanks to the porting done by Krzysztof Sowinski (SOVA), it is available to us on AmigaOS 4. You can download the latest version, uploaded to OS4Depot on January 8th, by clicking here.

Sandro Barbagelata has released version 1.1 of the utility EasyRapa, a tool for programmers using RapaGUI with Hollywood. It provides an interface to handle most of their RapaGUI classes for creating a single form and automatically generates the HWS and XML files according to the selections done.

The SNES9X NG has been updated! Version 1.62.3r2 was uploaded to OS4Depot on January 5th. A lot of work has been put into it:

• MSU1 Pcm / Fmv Working now!!!
• Added new covers 3D for support MSU1 games
• Added new folder “Roms-MSU1” for copy your games patched with MSU1 files
• New options on the GUI:
• Activate TurboFrameSkip + select of number of frames (thanks to Maijestro)
• No Overscan for 320×240 mode (for speedup on low machines)
• Activate MSU1 files support
• New locale for GUI
• New images style for GUI
• Added new logo for MSU1 roms
• Now GUI support extensions : .zip/.smc/.sfc/.fig/.swc on native (thanks to Kas1e and Samo79)
• Added column TYPES OF EXTENSIONS (zip smc sfc fig swc)
• Added Video Hack for choice your resolution manually (thanks to Kas1e)
• GUI is now V1.0.6
• Added 1 icon on listbrowser Snes_cartbMsu1.png
• Fixed crash on QUIT after launch a bad rom or using a old newlib.library (thanks to Samo79)
• Optimized a new audio buffer for MSU1 and a new DSP
• SaveState with 9 SLOTS is now activate by keys: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 for loading and for saving press LSHIFT+number of key
• Added PAUSE with Key P
• Modified Key P on Player2 by M now for using PAUSE on engine

McFly PPC shows the new version of SNES9X NG in action on his AmigaOne X5000:

Amiga-news.de reports that Hyperion Entertainment has released elf.library version 54.1. For a full overview of the changes since the last version, I recommend visiting amiga-news.de by clicking here.

If you are in the market for a utility generating strong passwords on AmigaOS 4, then you should check out PWGen. It is a password generator created by Miriam Schinagl. It supports the use of special characters if wanted.

In previous reports, I’ve written about Seq, a MIDI sequencer, by Tuomas Hokka. A new update is out with the following changes:

• FIXES to song intro and flashing buttons while in intro or in the last song step
• FIXES to flashing advancing led
• Added 2nd Play button to the 2nd window
• Base note: Fixes to triggering
• Base note: Renamed Trigger shift to Note shift
• Base note: Added 2 new values to splitting option as lo shift and hi shift

Oliver Roberts has updated WarpWebP DT to version 45.5. Here are the changes since the last release:

• Updated with libwebp 1.3.2
• Decoding of lossless images on 68k is now 30% faster
• Various minor optimizations
• Removed some redundant code

You can get it from the official website. It is shareware, which means you are expected to register if you find it useful after an evaluation period of 30 days.

Bernd Assenmacher has released version 2.5 of the Image2PDF utility. With this tool, you can convert PNG- or JPG files to PDF. The author labels it as “EmailWare”, so please send him an e-mail if you use the program. 🙂 The new version contains a lot of new functions, an updated guide, and cosmetic changes to the GUI. For a full overview, please have a look here.

Woof is a continuation of Lee Killough’s port of Doom. Changes since 1.397 are as follows:

• Added versioning to SDL window
• Transient assigns of ETC and USR to avoid requests caused due to soft-openal if ETC/USR are not assigned (caused due to soft-openal) (reported by jabierdlr)

Here is a video from Demo Tube Net showing the game running on an AmigaOne X5000:

Some may wonder why they chose the name Woof. I did include information about this last month, but here it is again for new readers. This is an explanation taken from the GitHub page of the project:

“If you turn the Doom logo upside down it reads “Wood” – which would be a pretty stupid name for a source port. “Woof” is just as stupid a name for a source port, but at least it contains a reference to dogs – and dogs are the Marine’s Best Friend.”

AmiArcadia by James Jacobs has been updated to version 30.8. Here is a summary of the of the changes:

• AY-3-8500: added 1976 version option
• Assembler: added INCBIN directive
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

A more detailed overview is available on OS4Depot.

RNOEffects is an image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel-based effects.

It runs on AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AmigaOS 3 (68K/WOS), and AROS.

The new features for version 2.0 can be seen in the video below:

The video shows the program running on MorphOS, but it is the same on the other platforms, including AmigaOS 4.

If you want to download the program or view a list of the changes, please visit Aminet by clicking the link below:

RNOEffects 2.0 on Aminet

MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 114 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 14.5. Changes include a level editor and viewer for Dungeon Master 1 and Chaos Strikes Back, as well as miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

McFly has uploaded a set of 8 nicely looking backgrounds for Workbench with an AmigaOne X5000 theme. The resolution is 1920×1080. You can download the archive with all the backgrounds on OS4Depot.

The PCI Utilities package contains a library for portable access to PCI bus configuration registers and several utilities based on this library. It was developed by Martin Mares and ported to AmigaOS 4 by Olrick Lefebvre.

Version 2.13r1 of Cppcheck was released on January 24th. This is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. It provides unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behavior and dangerous coding constructs. The goal is to have very few false positives. Cppcheck is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax (common in embedded projects). It was developed by the Cppcheck team and ported to AmigaOS 4 by George Sokianos.

AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.

Features:

• Generates text based on input prompts
• UI customization
• Full conversation history
• Text-to-speech

You can now download version 1.4.1 (2024-01-20) from OS4Depot. They fixed a bug where the prompt textbox remained in a read-only state when switching from image mode to chat mode.

Pythonssl_amissl5 has been updated to version 2.4. A makefile has been added, and all compiler warnings have been fixed. More information is available on OS4Depot.

Version 3.420 of IMP3, a utility created by Juen a.k.a Pawl Nowak, has been released! The program was originally meant for 68K but does run OK on AmigaOS 4. With IMP3, you can listen to over 168.000 music files through the Internet. These are ProTracker modules, SID tunes, and so forth. Besides this, it has cloud storage and Online gaming with high scores.

An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on January 27th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Click here to go to the download page or to find information about the recent changes.

Version 1.0 of JSON Hollywood has been released. This is a JSON encoder and decoder for Hollywood MAL. It is a port/conversion of the json.lua library.

AmiSSL received an update to version 5.14. As mentioned in earlier editions of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, the AmiSSL project is a collaborative effort to develop a port of OpenSSL in a shared library for Amiga-based systems. The download is available here. If you are interested in the SDK, it can be found here. It is a must-have if you use AmigaOS 4 to browse the web!

That was all the software news I had for January. Let us move onto other news. 🙂

Miscellaneous

Issue 166 of Amiga Future was released in January. There you can read about the new IBrowse 3, RNOSlides, AstroMenace, and much more! The magazine is available for purchase directly from various Amiga shops, as well as directly from the publisher.

ACube Systems has released a guide for using Radeon graphics cards on the different Sam4x0 models. Besides this, they’ve published a guide on how to make bootable USB sticks and SD cards containing AmigaOS 4.1.

Here is the news as published on their website:

Dear valued customers,

We have received numerous inquiries regarding the appropriate Radeon driver to use and how to go about it. We understand that using AmigaOS 4.1 can be a bit challenging in this regard, so we would like to provide you with some helpful information to make the process easier.

Please take a moment to read the linked article, which discusses the various versions of Radeon drivers and provides instructions on how to install them on AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It is crucial to carefully go through the article to ensure a smooth installation.

www.acube-systems.biz/download/Radeon_QuickGuide_v.1.0.pdf

Additionally, we have prepared an article on utilizing an USB key or SD card that contains an AmigaOS 4.1 system, allowing for easy booting on Sam4x0 systems. We understand that working with an USB key / SD card may not be as straightforward as it should be, so we are here to assist all our customers and fellow Amigans in the Community.

www.acube-systems.biz/download/Make_Bootable_USB-SD_QuickGuide_v.1.0.pdf

We genuinely hope that you find these details invaluable and that they enable you to utilize AmigaOS 4.1 on Sam4x0 at its best.

Sincerely,
ACube Systems

I’m sure many customers of the Sam460LE (and other models) will find this helpful, so thumbs up to ACube Systems for creating these guides!

Mufa of the AmigaOne Zone, a Polish website, has written a review of the year 2023 in terms of AmigaOS 4. It provides an excellent overview over what took place last year. It is in Polish, but I used an Online translator, which worked fine. 🙂

Some of you might remember that Nukleus and Void have released several issues of the diskmag/chart Versus in the past for Amiga OCS and AmigaOS 4. Now it is time to announce issue 10!

Here are a few words from the editor Browallia/Nukleus:

Excited to announce that we once again go for Versus, issue 10 for Amiga where you decide what you like! At Gerp we will open for votings for the people there and be able for chats.

The voting at Gerp 2024 will be pure old school with traditional paper votesheets + pencil. We hope to get votes during Gerp so we can continue serve the Amiga scene. See you there! /brow

On behalf of Versus team (menthos, ghandy, cefa, and browallia of nukleus, and puni, powerslave and hukka of void)

Versus (vS) comes out on OCS, OS4, smartphone and online.

I’ll post here once the Online vote is open so you can vote for your favorites. I hope as many as possible will contribute by filling out a votesheet. It will be exciting to see who will be in the charts!

If you’re interested in checking out previous editions of Versus, please look at Versus 9. It is available for download from OS4Depot:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=demo/magazine/vs9.lha

Here is the link to the announcement concerning Versus and GERP 2024:

https://gerp.traktor.group/

This month I updated my blog post called “Where to buy AmigaOS 4 compatible systems?” with new information from Amiga shops. If you are looking to purchase a computer compatible with AmigaOS 4.1, I recommend having a look. 🙂 The latest news I found was that GGS Data in Sweden will be selling the A1222+.

During January, we’ve been playing the game Virus Killer over at Amigans.net. It was developed by Parallel Realities and ported to AmigaOS 4 by Cyborg and ToAks in 2005.

Most games have a story, and Virus Killer is not an exception. According to the readme file, the story is about viruses invading your desktop through various security holes. With the help of your trusty mouse, you must shoot the viruses before they destroy your precious files. Some will steal files from your directories and bring them to their security holes, while others will feast upon them! The aim is to survive as long as possible until all your files are lost. To accomplish this, you must move the crosshair around the screen, blasting away and picking up items to help you (freeze time, more power, etc.) survive.

You can find the contest and the current highscore list here.

The AmigaWARP organization in Croatia has once again created a nice calendar for the year 2024. 🙂 They are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year! Congratulations! The calendar can be downloaded from their website.

TJ Ferreira has published a video on his YouTube channel showing his AmigaOne X5000 booting both AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS.

The Lost C shows Super Mario 64 running on a Sam440, Sam460, and Amiga 1200 with PPC.

Ice Princess is the title of a new song by Helge Kvalheim. You can watch the video containing the song here:

Rene Engel has created many videos lately. These show AmigaOS 4.1 running in QEMU. If you want to get an overview of all of his videos, I recommend checking out his YouTube channel. 🙂

Mufa has created an interesting video showing the top 10 games on AmigaOS 4 in 2023! The video is in Polish, but if you turn on subtitles, you can easily follow the narration.

If you are waiting for the upcoming Heretic II release from Hyperion Entertainment, I recommend checking out McFly PPC’s new video about it.

Demo Tube Net created a video showing CANDI (Composite ANimated Desktop Images) in action on an AmigaOne X5000.

Until next time

You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

Many thanks for visiting my blog and for reading. 🙂

Thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!

I wish you all a great day and a nice February! 🙂

Best regards,

Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler

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AmigaOS 4 News – December 2023

Hi,

Many thanks for visiting my blog! 🙂

As I write this (December 30th), we’re approaching the end of 2023. It’s been a year with a lot of activity in the AmigaOS 4 community. Some people seems to claim the AmigaOS 4 scene is dead and that not much is happening. Is that so?

If we take a look back at everything that has happened this year, I don’t think one can say that the platform is dead. We’ve got three different hardware options in the form of the X5040, the Sam460LE, and now the A1222 Plus. We’ve had plenty of software developments, as well as many ports of games and programs. Not forgetting all the progress that is being made with the Enhancer package from A-EON Technology!

Last, but not least, think about QEMU and all the extra firepower it is bringing us! We see new users coming on stage, helping with porting software, testing software, developing, participating in discussions, and much more. I for one am positive about what 2024 can bring, that’s for sure. 😉

One would think that December would be a bit more quiet during the rest of the year, but this month has brought us a lot of interesting stuff. 🙂

I’d like to take the opportunity to send out a big thank you to all developers, users, enthusiasts, gamers, retailers and others in the AmigaOS 4 community for a great 2023! Happy new year everyone!

Without further ado, let’s get on with this month’s monthly roundup!

Software News

Juan Carlos Herran Martin released version 4.0 of Pintor Web, which is a program you can use to edit pictures when making websites.

The new edition has been compiled with the latest Hollywood version (10.0). It has a new PDF manual with 12 MB of examples and tips, as well as new visual effects.

He also released version 2.0 of Font Tester. With this utility, you can check the appearance a font has when matched with backgrounds, pictures, or how it looks in your Hollywood projects.

Besides this, Juan Carlos Herran Martin has updated iConecta to version 5.20. This is a utility you can use to test your Internet connection. The latest release contains a new skin (Cyborg) and new fonts. Bugs have also been fixed.

AstralGame is also a creation by Juan Carlos Herran Martin. With this program, you can discover Astral, Chinese, and other zodiac signs, your personal magic number, events, holidays, and more. The new version, 4.10, fixes a problem with a missing button.

Bernd Assenmacher has released version 2.4 of the Image2PDF utility. With this tool, you can convert PNG- or JPG files to PDF. The author labels it as “EmailWare”, so please send him an e-mail if you use the program. 🙂 The new version contains a lot of new functions, an updated guide, and cosmetic changes to the GUI. For a full overview, please have a look here.

It’s been quite a while since I last played the classic game Rick Dangerous from Core Design. I remember it very well from my Amiga 500 days in the 1990s but have only played it from time to time since then. If you’d like to enjoy Rick Dangerous on AmigaOS 4, I’ve got some good news. An SDL 2 port of the game was ported in December!

This clone of Rick Dangerous is called xrick, made by carefully reverse-engineering the PC and Atari version of the game, and re-coding it in C. The author of xrick is Stephan aka ZpqrtBnk. The original author is Simon Phipps. The people responsible for porting it to AmigaOS 4 are Javier (Jabirulo) and Marek (smarkusg). Thanks so much, guys!

If you want to have a look for yourself, you can download it here. Read more about it on GitHub. There is also a thread on Amigans.net with discussions about the port. Hope you’ll check out the game and that you will enjoy it! It is certainly a blast from the past.

AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.

Features:

• Generates text based on input prompts

• UI customization

• Full conversation history

• Text-to-speech

For speech on AmigaOS 4, you’ll need Flite Device (http://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/flite_device).

The changelog for version 1.3.1 is as follows:

• Fix pasting into chat input textbox (AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1 only for now)

• Remove trailing newline from user messages

• Enclose all user lines in asterisks to make bold

• Fixed a memory leak that was present in downloading responses from OpenAI

Version 6.1 of FFmpeg was released at the beginning of December by MickJT. FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter that can also be grabbed from a live audio and video source. It can convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high-quality polyphase filter.

Speaking of FFmpeg, Kevin Taddeucci (ktadd) released version 3.5 of the GUI for this program, so you should get this one as well if you want to use FFmpeg. It supports some basic options via the GUI and allows the user to add additional options via a command line string gadget.

IRA, MC68000/10/20/30/40 reassembler, version 2.10 is out. It contains several bug fixes, but also new features.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed parsing of HUNK_RELOC32SHORT/HUNK_DREL32.

• Renamed itoa() to avoid conflicts with compilers providing that function.

• Binary option always overrides the automatic format detection.

• Fixed detection of memory rotate instructions.

• Instructions with 32-bit absolute addressing, but with a relocation that extends into the following instruction, cannot be valid.

• Fixed ROMTag detection with a NULL-pointer for the Init-code.

New features:

• Supports HUNK_RELRELOC32 and EXT_RELREF32 in executables and object files. But cannot create labels for such references at this time.

You can download the archive from OS4Depot.

An update has been made to the AmigaOS 4 version of Worm Wars, a freeware arcade game by James Jacobs of Amigan Software. Version 9.34 is available for download here.

NallePuh (Swedish for Winnie-the-Pooh), a program to emulate the Paula chip from classic Amiga, has been updated thanks to the work of Damien Stewart and Kjetil Hvalstrand. After 13 years without updates, they found out it was time to dust it off and get it working again. Version 1.8 was released in December.

• Updated translation for Italian.

• Updated translation for Norwegian.

• Bug fixed: logPUH() maybe it can cause ISI error. (So rewritten to make it safer under forbid state and now use DebugPrintF to log output instead, of ugly callback hook. requester used if in GUI mode. text printed in the console if not.)

• Puh.c: Improved audio validation, (to prevent playback of bad data.)

• Puh.c: clean code style.

• Package change, tooltype settings disabled as default.

• Reorganized lots of arrays into one array. (to reduce indexing)

Please click here to download the NallePuh version 1.8.

Hollywood developers will be happy to hear that some plugins have been updated. The one for APNG (Animated Portable Network Graphics) animations has reached version 1.3, while Plananarama (allows Hollywood to run on planar palette screens) has reached version 2.2. More information is available on the website of Hollywood.

In previous reports, I’ve written about Seq, a MIDI sequencer, by Tuomas Hokka. A new update is out with the following changes:

2.9 (10th December 2023):

• FIXED note playback: A note was not released correctly always

• FIXED setting some values in Base Note window

• FIXED saving Base Note Shift enabled/disabled, that value was never saved

• FIXED saving Base Note Shift Splitter value, that value was never saved

• Splitted Base Note Shift Splitter to separate note and octave values

• Disable all base note selections holding CTRL down while clicking any of the mute buttons

SimpleSub is a program by Kevin Taddeucci (ktadd) for creating and editing .srt format subtitle files. It can also encode the subtitles onto the video using mencoder. It supports a “Preview” mode that allows full control of MPlayer with its on-screen display showing the current time for determining display time for subtitles. The editor supports full keyboard control and auto-time formatting for ease of entry. SimpleSub also supports “Title Settings” such as font selection, position, size, blur, and outline. Version 2.0 has been released and has a ton of changes, which you can read all about here.

Michael Trebilcock has released YT (YouTube URL Extractor script) version 2.5. YT.rexx is a script for providing direct video & audio links from YouTube URLs, and the ability to stream them within MPlayer. Just provide a URL and it will display all of the available video links found and let you play them.

2.5 – 13th Dec 2023:

• Increased stack size for DukTape

• Fixed issue with some live streams

• Updated bundled cURL to 8.2.0 (using AmiSSL)

• Fixed issue creating T:YT/ on some systems

• Added command line option ANDROID. Shows more stream-mapped options for some videos. Very short expiry on links.

CompressionOS4 is a PDF generator by Achim Pankalla which is nearly working with WYSIWYG. The program is still in early development, but version 0.20 was released in the middle of December. There have been several improvements and fixes since 0.10. You can read more about it on OS4Depot.

Kas1e has released version 0.9 of WB2Filer. WB2Filer is a hack that patches Intuition’s functions via SetMethod() to allow transparently run of the Filer binary pointing to the given partition on Workbench’s desktop instead of the original Workbench windows.

Snes9X NG is being developed by the well-known programmer HunoPPC, who has ported many games to the platform in the past. He also works on Doom 3 for AmigaOS 4. Version 1.62.3 of Snes9X NG is available for download at OS4Depot. The archive is 63 MB.

Here are the changes for the new version:

• New Snes9x engine version 1.62.3

• New concept of GUI version 1.0.5

• New all supports for Roms

• Added Roms SuperFX on GUI with special Icon

• Added native overscan

New prefs:

• OverclockCPU (speedup SNES CPU to 10/20%)
• vsync (limit to 60 fps with low CPU usage)
• Displaytime (activate on screen a time)
• SuperFXoverclock (Overclocking SuperFX GSU-1 and GSU-2 to maximum 100Mhz, by default is 80Mhz)

• Fixed auto frameskip command line on GUI

• Added automatic renderer adjustment on all supported SNES resolution

• Fixed load/save savestate, now speedup with this new engine

The last version of Snes9X NG was released back in 2017. It is fantastic that HunoPPC is now back with a brand new version for us to try in 2023!

On December 22nd, a new version (3.0a) of IBrowse was released. At the same time, AmiSSL 5.13 became available.

Here is the full news from the official IBrowse website:

Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to all our IBrowse 3 users. We hope you’ve been just as happy as the IBrowse 3 release last month as we have been. Although things have gone pretty smoothly, there were a couple of issues that slipped through the net, which we have remedied today with the release of IBrowse 3.0a. This includes one critical fix for a bug in the HTTP(S) module which could trash memory, resulting in either instant crashes or seemingly random crashes at a later stage, sometimes in different applications. For this reason, we are recommending that all users update their IBrowse 3.0 installation using the supplied installation utility. See the History log page for full details of the changes in this update.

This update is free for registered IBrowse 3 users. The prices for registering IBrowse 3 are up to 35% off the previous IBrowse 2.5 prices – please take your time to try IBrowse 3 before purchasing, as we are not planning to withdraw this offer at this time.

Today also sees the release of AmiSSL 5.13, marking the arrival of OpenSSL 3.2 to AmigaOS for the first time. IBrowse 3.0a will continue to work with AmiSSL 5.12, but will also work fine with AmiSSL 5.13, so you are free to update it at any time. See the details on the changes made in AmiSSL 5.13.

If you’re interested in purchasing IBrowse, you can find all the information here.

A new version (1.5) of the video player MPlayer has been released! MPlayer can play most standard video formats out of the box, as well as almost all others with the help of external codecs.

Here is the news by Samo79 as posted on Amigans.net:

After several months of development we are pleased to present the first public release candidate of MPlayer 1.5 … the initial aim of the project was to try implementing support for va.library (VAAPI) providing hardware video decoding and of possibly reunify all the main features of the previous scattered releases, from the ancient one from Andrea, up to the most recent versions from LiveForIt and MickJT.

As often happens in projects of this size, things then evolved a little differently, the various features were now unified, making our version certainly the most complete (yes, no more different versions to download to choose which one to use based on your needs) but the video acceleration project has currently been postponed for a later date!

However, this gave us time to implement a lot of new features and solve a large number of bugs that had accumulated over the years, as well as obviously allowing us to merge with the latest SVN version of the main branch of MPlayer and FFmpeg 6.0.

There are many people to thank, Javier de las Rivas for the bulk of the work on the code and for his enormous patience in solving a massive number of bugs, Marek for managing the collection of new changes, as well as for having implemented some code himself (I am thinking of the iconification function for example), to MickJT for several fixes and obviously for providing us his updated code, to Joerg for his newest Amiga video driver based to p96, to Guillaume Boesel for the implementation of the MenuClass, for the AISS icons in the menus and other small graphically appealing things, to Mason for the iconsets and the banner and finally in small way also me to managed the project by put the various piece toghter, making small corrections here and there, minor changes to the source, added new video/audio formats into the EXPATTERN and finally the re-implementation of the AmiUpdate support. I learned a lot from you all, thank you guys!

The archive is currently available in the upload section of os4depot, download it while it’s hot!

Here is the complete changelog:

• MPlayer 1.5 (MPlayer 1.5) – MickJT, Marek, Javier and Samo79 (25.12.2023)

• Based on MPlayer 1.5 SVN-r38440 (FFmpeg 6.0)

• From now on, the AmigaOS4 release will follow the official versioning scheme!

• Compiled with GCC 11.3 + LTO (currently compiled with optimisation -O2)

• Added support for append, now dragging more than one file will append them

• Added support for AmiUpdate (yes again!)

• Added Amiga video output (a new modern P96 video output written by Jörg Strohmayer!)

• Added video’s path in all available video outputs (show file path in MPlayer window)

• Added more audio/video formats in ASL requester and reorder them alphabetically

• Added gadgets for iconification and fullscreen in all available video outputs

• Added “Iconify” option menu to iconify MPlayer from the menu

• Added “Open subtitles” option menu to load the subtitles from MPlayer

• Added “Unload subtitles” option menu to unload the subtitles from MPlayer

• Added “Subtitles size” option menu to increase/decrease the size of the subtitles

• Added “Properties” option menu to show information about the video playing

• Added “MPlayer-GUI” option menu to open MPlayer-GUI from MPlayer

• Added catalogs for French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish (Credits: zzd10h, Maijestro, Marek, Samo79 and Javier)

• Fixed support for AppWindow, now drag and drop of files over AmiDock really works

• Fixed external windows problems when opening on fullscreen

• Fixed crash on AltiVec version if launched on non-AltiVec CPUs

• Fixed crash on quit in the GL video outputs

• PIP: Added support for the menu

• Disabled some more debug outputs that were printing to shell

• MPlayer can now be controlled with the Exchanger commodity (Show, Hide and Quit)

• Separation of video outputs for SM502 G4 vo_sdl_sm502.c (Useful in QEMU emulation)

• Made screen/window titles standard in all available video outputs

• Made drag and drop standard in all available video outputs

• Improved RegisterApplication support

• New banner and icon sets (thx Mason!)

• A lot of bugfixes and code cleanup

• MPlayer 1.0.2 (MPlayer 1.4) – MickJT & Guillaume “zzd10h” Boesel – Internal release

• Based on MPlayer 1.4 (FFmpeg 4.1)

• Added missing VCD AmigaOS4 specific support from the older port

• P96_pip: Properly fix of distorted videos with some resolutions

• Comp_yuv2: Allow driver to be used with RadeonRX.chip

• Stay paused if using MPlayer-GUI and paused outside of it ^ Yet to be added in (*bugged)

Modifications by zzd10h:

• Added MenuClass support if available (AmigaOS 4.1 FE required)

• Added AISS images to MenuClass if available (TBIMAGES: assign required)

• Added locale/catalogs support

• Added Italian catalog (Samo79)

• Added GCC version in InfoWindow about window

• Added GNUC and #if HAVE_ALTIVEC in version.sh

• Use of MenuImageSize environment variable to specify AISS picture size (SETENV SAVE MenuImageSize 16)

• Use of AEon InfoWindow class for the about window, if available

• Use of environment variable Disable_Banner_Images to disable about window banner (SETENV SAVE Disable_Banner_Images 1)

• Reenable AppWindow support to handle drop of files over the icon (^ Yet to be fixed)

• Fixed new about window crash and avoid multiple openings

• When a window is still opened, trying to open another window or quit MPlayer will blinks the screen

• PrintMsg timeout is now set to 15 seconds instead of 10 seconds

• MSG_Requester_Title_About for InfoWindow about window

• Menu shortcuts modifications

Wow, that is a massive update for sure! 🙂

Here is the download link:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/play/mplayer.lha

Trixie has released a new version of the AmigaOS 4 port of Protrekkr, a powerful multi-platform music tracker created by Franck “hitchhikr” Charlet.

Please read on for more information from Trixie. The source is Amigans.net.

As a Christmas present to all AmigaOS4 users, I have just released a new OS4 port of Protrekkr, a powerful multi-platform music tracker written by Franck ‘hitchhikr’ Charlet. With its superb features that include software synthesis, Roland TB-303 emulation, and numerous effects, Protrekkr is by far the most capable tracker ever available on an Amiga platform. The release comes with almost 50 example songs (modules) to show what the program can do.

This new AmigaOS4 port is special in that it allows further configuration via tooltypes in the program icon. These additional settings allow tweaking the GUI to make Protrekker more usable in large-screen resolutions.

Find the program on OS4depot.net (currently in the Uploads queue) and enjoy!

AmiArcadia by James Jacobs has been updated to version 30.72. Here is a summary of the of the changes:

• CD2650: added printer emulation.

• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

More detailed information can be found here.

JSON-C, a C library for processing JSON, has reached version 0.17. More information about the new features, changes, and bug fixes are available here.

AAMP offers a development environment on your Amiga, with which you can create and test your own web projects. Similar to the well-known XAMPP package for Linux and Windows, it contains the HTTP (web) server “Apache” with compiled-in support for the scripting language “PHP” (version 8.0.28 and 5.2.10) and the database server “MySQL” version 5.5.10. AAMP is not only interesting for developers. This means that web applications can also be run locally on the Amiga. These are e.g. the database administrator “phpMyAdmin” or the image manager “Coppermine” – just to name a few.

You can create your own tools with the included “php” interpreter. “PHP” is easy to learn and with its extensions a powerful language.

Last but not least, data can be managed with the “MySQL” database server, which can then also be accessed via the network. External programs (e.g. IODBC) can use this server as a database backend.

New in AAMP 2.1:

• The “AAMP-Control” tool is now available for the central administration of all servers and settings. In addition to Apache and MySQL, it can also be used to manage the PHP development server and the Subversion server “svnserve”. The scripts “Start_AAMP.bat” and “Stop_AAMP.bat” are now obsolete and no longer included.

• All other start and stop scripts are still included, but the use of “AAMP-Control” is recommended.

• Update of the Apache web server from version 2.2.11 to version 2.2.34.

• The configuration of the Apache SSL module is now complete and working. So that clients can work with it without problems, there is a selection of CA root certificate collections in the Contrib folder, which also contains the server’s certificate. Simply replace the required file of the client or browser.

• The package now also includes a complete package of “phpMyAdmin” in version 5.0.4. This has been patched for better compatibility with PHP 8 and is already preconfigured. The package will be installed automatically during the installation of AAMP.

• Optimized autostart at system start or when starting “AAMP-Control”.

• Update of the CA root certificates (Mozilla certificates as of 20.11.2023).

• The default WebDAV directory is now “AAMP:Apache/uploads” and no longer “AAMP:Apache/htdocs/dav”.

• The Subversion package has been recompiled using the new Apache 2.2.34 libraries.

• Various bug fixes.

George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero has released a new version of aiostreams, as well as a website connected to the project. You can read the full news from him here:

For more than 3 years, I devoted a lot of time working on the aiostreams package for the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, making online video and audio streaming easier for the user, especially for websites that are resources hungry like YouTube and Twitch. Those websites need a lot of power and a strong web browser to work, which plenty of times the AmigaNG systems do not have. So I created a few Python scripts, which can also be used on other systems like Linux and MacOS.

The last couple of days, I was working to resolve some issues and make the YouTube support more reliable. As a companion to these scripts, I set up an online website at https://aiostreams.amiga-projects.net, which is useful to find content. For some time now, there is support for discovering streams from the Twitch.tv website, but I always wanted to add more content in there.

So today I uploaded the newer version, which brings the YouTube content to the users who can find the trending videos based on 4 different categories (Music, News, Gaming and Movies) and specific regions, search for channels and videos based on a description, and find the videos of a specific channel.

The website works as a proxy to YouTube and when something is available on YouTube it will be available on mine as well. To retrieve the lists and videos information, I am using Invidious API which is also an alternative frontend of YouTube. Of course, my website targets browsers who do not support CSS and the JS support is limited. That’s why there is no Javascript code included, no CSS is needed and that makes it work perfectly on IBrowse. Which also means there is no tracking of your activity at all.

If you use the video URLs that you can see in the https://aiostreams.amiga-projects.net with the aiostreams scripts, you can have video playing back on your system in seconds.

I also released a new version of aiostreams scripts, with some fixes and changes. You can find the new version at my GitHub repository and soon on the Aminet and the OS4Depot.

Hope these new features will help every user to have a great time with their Amiga.

Excellent work by George Sokianos! 🙂

Woof is a continuation of Lee Killough’s port of Doom. Changes since 1.397 are as follows:

• Added versioning to the SDL window

• Transient assigns of ETC and USR to avoid requests caused due to soft-openal if ETC/USR are not assigned (caused due to soft-openal) (reported by jabierdlr)

Some may wonder why they chose the name Woof. Here is an explanation taken from the GitHub page of the project:

“If you turn the Doom logo upside down it reads “Wood” – which would be a pretty stupid name for a source port. “Woof” is just as stupid a name for a source port, but at least it contains a reference to dogs – and dogs are the Marine’s Best Friend.”

NetSurf 3.11 has been released! According to amiga-news.de, the following changes were made specifically for the Amiga port:

• Added page theme option.

• Improved handling of bitmaps.

• Improved and optimized handling of Unicode.

• Stability improvements.

It’s great to see that the development of NetSurf continues. Have had a lot of use for this browser on the Sam Flex. It was fast, but also quite compatible with many websites out there. Very happy to see a new version out in the wild!

On December 29th, George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero released version 2.1.2 of Lite XL. He stated that it was released for every system by the official development team as they usually do after Christmas. Sokianos therefore thought it was the perfect time for a new AmigaOS 4 version as well. You can find more information about the newest Lite XL on his Ko-fi page:

https://ko-fi.com/post/Lite-XL-2-1-2r1-released-B0B1SQ17X

In a video on YouTube, Entwickler-X showed upcoming games for AmigaOS 4 running on an AmigaOne X1000. The first one was Radon Break, which belongs to the bat’n’ball genre. The other one was M.A.C.E. Remastered (Warp3D Nova). Both games look brilliant, so looking forward to playing these when they are released! You can watch the video below:

In the second half of December, QEMU 8.2.0 became available. This release contains 3200+ commits from 238 authors. With QEMU you can emulate a full computer, such as an AmigaOne XE, Sam460ex or a Pegasos II. To be able to do this, you’ll need the official AmigaOS 4 for AmigaOne, Sam460ex, or Pegasos II. Behind the Amiga support is Zoltan Balaton, and you can find more information about his BBoot bootloader (for running AmigaOne) and QEMU project here. Speaking of which, a new version of the BBoot (version 0.5) was released on December 3rd. Maijestro, who has his own YouTube channel and does a lot of testing with QEMU, has released a video of it in action.

ScummVM 2.8.0 is out for AmigaOS 4! Thanks to Raziel for his work porting it! It contains a lot of improvements and support for new games, such as Muppet Treasure Island, The Dark Eye, Might and Magic Book One, Dark Side, and The Vampire Diaries. A full list of changes is available here:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/misc/scummvm.lha

Looking forward to test some of the new games listed! 🙂

That was all the software news for this time. Let us move on to the next section!

Miscellaneous

Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology has made a new post on his blog entitled “Christmas Present”. Here he looks back at the events and developments in 2023. The upcoming A600GS from AmigaKit is mentioned, as well as the long-awaited A1222 Plus. Also, which I found very interesting, was a picture of an Amiga 1222 Plus box! I’ve included it below here.

Hope Trevor does not mind that I included it here. 🙂

Anyway, here is the link to the blog post:

http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/index.php/2023/12/24/christmas-present-2/

Not long after Christmas, I posted an interview with Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN on my blog (Gaming on AmigaOS 4). He’s currently working on porting games such as Heretic II and Sin to AmigaOS 4 for Hyperion Entertainment. I’d like to thank him again for taking the time to answer all my questions! 🙂 Here is the link to the interview:

Interview with Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN – Porter of Heretic II for Hyperion Entertainment

TJ Ferreira is back with another video featuring his AmigaOne X5000. This time he’s installed a new graphics card in his computer! You’ll get to see him testing the old one (Radeon HD7750) and then comparing it to the new one (Radeon RX580). TJ is very active on YouTube and you can find his channel here.

Mufa has created a video showing Wipeout 2097 running on his AmigaOne.

Helge Kvalheim, an Amiga user from Norway, creates a lot of music on his AmigaOne X5000. He has his own YouTube channel and there you can find songs from him. You can visit his channel here. In December he uploaded several videos containing music.

On Amigans.net, we’ve had another game competition (it is still going on as I write this).

The game we’ve been playing is the new port of Rick Dangerous. At the moment, VooDoo is in the lead, with Antique in second place, and mcleppa in third. Time will show who is victorious in the end! The competition ends night to January 1st. 🙂 Good luck to everyone partcipating!

Andy Broad a.k.a Broadblues has released his traditional X-Mas card, sketched in SketchBlock, captured with SRec at 1080p and edited in Blender. All on the AmigaOne X1000!

Until next time

You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.

Thanks you for visiting my blog and for reading this report.

Thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!

I wish you all a great day and a happy new year! 🙂

Best regards,

Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler

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Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for visiting my blog. 🙂 It is soon the end of the month and time for another edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Round-up, but before that I thought I’d make a post about where to buy AmigaOS 4.x compatible systems.

It is no secret that it is hard to find such systems for sale these days. I subscribe to sites like eBay to send me an e-mail once an AmigaOne or similar computer, motherboard etc. is listed, but the e-mails I receive are far and few between. Beside this, I frequently visit other auction and classified sites, as well as Amiga forums with market sections.

That said, it is always worth contacting Amiga shops in general to hear if they have an old Sam or an AmigaOne in the back room or collecting dust in a corner. I have had success with this in the past.

Fortunately for us there are still retailers out there stocking hardware. In this post I will list those I know have or should have systems or motherboards for sale.

Thanks to Number6 for his request on Amiga.org that someone should make such a list. 😉 I noticed this today and therefore took up the challenge. So, without further ado, here it is:

List last updated on January 27th, 2024.

AAA Technology (Luxembourg)
Update January 27th – The A1222+ is available for pre-order. You can purchase the board separately for 1199 EUR (this includes an AmigaOS 4.1 licence and the latest Enhancer from A-EON Technology) or as a full system for 1599 EUR. More information available in this post. As of January 27th 2024, the A1222+ has yet to be shipped to customers. The last I heard was that the motherboards were being tested at the factory.

ACube Systems (Italy)
Sam460LE – Available on pre-order
Update September 8th – ACube now has the Sam460LE for sale in their webshop.
Update February 4th – A batch of Sam460LE motherboards was shipped out to customers in January. A new batch will be ready after the new Ethernet controllers arrives, which is estimated to after the middle of February.
Update November 7th – The Sam460LE motherboard is available for purchase right now! There are currently 19 units in stock.
Update January 27th – The Sam460LE motherboard is still available for purchase. There are currently 17 units in stock.

Alinea Computer Shop (Germany)
AmigaOne X5000 available on request – More information here
Update May 30th – Received a reply stating that AmigaOne X5000 systems are available, but only to German customers. Sam460LE will be available in the future, but they do not offer a pre-order.
Update September 8th – They announced on Twitter that AmigaOne X5000 systems are currently available for purchase on request.
Update February 4th – Alinea told me that they don’t have any AmigaOS 4 systems in stock at the moment, but they are waiting for a batch of Sam460LE’s to arrive. They aim to sell complete systems based on this motherboard. 🙂 Stay tuned!
Update October 10th – A full Sam460LE system is listed as “Contact us”. The same goes for an AmigaOne X5000 and a Cyrus+ motherboard. If you are interested, you can contact them through e-mail to hear what they have to offer. 🙂
Update January 27th – All AmigaOS 4 hardware options are still listed as “Contact us”. If you are interested, you can contact them through e-mail to hear what they have to offer. 🙂

Amedia Computer (France) / AAA Technology (Luxemburg)
Used to stock both complete AmigaOne X5000 systems as well as motherboards, but seems they have now ran out. They do offer a pre-order for a complete Sam460LE system.
AmigaOne X5000 – Complete system – Sold out, but was available just recently (May 2022)
AmigaOne X5000 – Motherboard – Sold Out, but was available just recently (May 2022)
Sam460LE – Complete system – Pre-order – Available
Update May 30th – Reply received from Amedia. 🙂 They can provide the AmigaOne X5000 motherboard or a complete system with 5040 CPU. 5020 based motherboards/systems are out of stock. As a computer assembling specialist, they prefer offering personalised configurations, so please contact them directly if interested. 🙂
Update February 4th – After e-mailing them recently, they told me the following: “We currently have some P5040 motherboards in stock at our shop in Luxembourg (partners with AmigaKit / A-Eon) and we’re waiting for some Sam460LE motherboards (when ACube has no more problems with it). We can supply full / ready to run tower with AmigaOS 4.1 and Enhancer Software 2.2 installed. Being a computer assembling specialist at Amedia Computer (France) and AAA Technology (Luxembourg), we can propose custom configurations!”. You can visit the shop by clicking here.
Update October 10th – They offer a pre-order of the A1222+! More information here. Do also check their selection of complete systems in form of X5000 and Sam460LE.
Update November 19th – The X5040 has been added to the store! You can now purchase a complete system as seen here. It contains 4 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and RX560 4GB graphics card. A Sam460LE system is also for sale, which is a cheaper option.
Update January 27th – They’ve got two systems for sale. The first one is the X5040 with 4 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and a RX560 4 GB graphics card. The second is a Sam460LE computer with 1 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, and a Radeon HD5450.

Amiga on the Lake (USA)
They replied and told me that they will not be selling AmigaOS 4.x compatible systems.

GGS-Data (Sweden)
Update January 27th – AmigaOne X5000 – Motherboard – Currently in stock! They will also be stocking the A1222 Plus. It is now listed on their website, but not currently in stock. Those interested in making a purchase should contact them directly.

Relec (Switzerland)
AmigaOne X5000 – Limited Edition – Listed as on order
Update May 29th – Received a reply from Relec concerning availability of systems. Big thanks for the quick reply! 🙂 The next step is the AmigaOne X5040 and the shop will be updated with a new price for this system. They sold the last X5000 board in stock last week. They will offer this special configuration with usable ports on the front:
Update February 4th – The AmigaOne X5000 does not seem to be in stock at the moment. The Sam460LE “The Red One” Limited Edition is available on order! Have sent them and e-mail and I’m waiting for a reply. 🙂
Update October 10th – Having received no reply to my query, I had a look at their webshop and they stock the The Red One – Limited Edition (based on the Sam460LE). It is currently available for purchase.

THE RED ONE limited edition

As you can see, the list is not long. If you know of a shop selling AmigaOS 4.x systems and it is not listed here, please feel free to comment below. Thanks in advance. 🙂 I will try to keep this updated in the future. Fortunately, it seems the Sam460LE is not too far away and the A1222+ might be available later this year, which means that new hardware will be easier to find and purchase.

Note: I have contacted several shops today (May 29th) and asked them about the current situation concerning this topic. Will update this post when I receive answers.

Note: I have once again contact shops (February 2023) and both Alinea and Amedia replied fast with information. Waiting for answers from the others.

Note: Added AAA Technology and the A1222+ pre-order. (November 2023)

Note: Added the X5040 system to the selection from Amedia Computer (November 2023)

Note: Added the A1222+ for GGS Data (January 2024)

Have a nice day and see you in another post here on the Gaming on AmigaOS 4.x blog! 🙂

https://amigaos4gaming.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/where-to-buy-amigaos-4-x-compatible-systems/

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Hi and welcome to a new review here on the Gaming on AmigaOS 4.1 blog.

Do you remember the old Game & Watch games from Nintendo?

If you do and enjoyed playing those, then you might find this new remake for AmigaOS 4 interesting. The developer, A. Myren, has created a version of the game running on your desktop!

The game should run fine on all AmigaOS 4 setups. I have tested it on both a SAM 460 and in WinUAE.

Installation

The game is available for download at Aminet. I have included a link below:

http://aminet.net/game/wb/DonkeyKong_OS4.lha

To get the game up and running, click on the download link and choose the destination. Once it finishes downloading, enter the appropriate drawer. Right click on the icon and select “extract to”, then choose where you want it unpacked. Once unarchived, navigate to where you unpacked it and double-click on “DonkeyKong_OS4”. The game starts right away.

Gameplay

As mentioned earlier, this is a remake of an old Game & Watch game. I remember playing a few of those in the past, but that is a long time ago and I never owned such a handheld myself during childhood.

The developer has done a great job bringing such a game to the AmigaOS 4 desktop. The interface looks like the old physical handheld as I remember it, which is very cool. The buttons you see on the picture can actually be pressed using the mouse or keyboard and that is a nice feature. Buttons are not only for decoration, but for actual use.

Now, how does it play?

If you are not familiar with the game from before, the purpose is to save the girl at the top of the screen who has been captured by a gorilla. To reach the girl, you need to jump over rolling barrels and avoid beams. It is not easy and will require a bit of playing to master it.

To control the character, you can either use the mouse or keyboard. There are two game modes available, A and B. You can read more about the different keys in the documention of the game. I found it best to use the cursor keys to move the charachter and space to jump.

I played it a bit on the SAM 460 and it played like I remembered the old Game & Watch games. Controls are responsive and everything seems to be working correctly on the screen. It also worked fine in emulation with WinUAE (FlowerPot).

The graphics looks very nice and authentic, like the real thing. That counts for the sound as well.

So, is it worth checking out?

Definitely. It is free and quick to download. If you are into games like this and want a nostalgic experience, then I highly recommend checking this game out. 🙂 I will keep it on the HD for nostalgic adventuring, but also for showing it to people who might ask if I have something fun to show them on the SAM 460. 😉

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https://oldschoolgameblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/gaming-on-amigaos-4-1-donkey-kong-game-and-watch-lcd-remake-a-myren/

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