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Welcome to a new edition of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup! 🙂
This time we’ll have a look at what has been happening on the platform in March 2025.
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Software News
Andrea Palmatè has created the Waffle Floppy Disk Reader. This enables you to read floppy disks using an Arduino. It supports various disk formats and provides a simple interface for reading and writing data. Waffle Copy Professional is now available for everyone.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Creating-Waffle-An-Arduino-Floppy-Disk-Reader-for-Z8Z11BLU6M
You can buy it starting from 3,99€ on his Ko-Fi page.
Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are pleased to present the GemRB RPG package in version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4.
Steffen Häuser is responsible for porting and making the package easy to install.
GemRB allows you to play the famous PC role-playing games Baldur’s Gate 1, Baldur’s Gate 2 (often called “the best PC RPG of all time”), Icewind Dale 1, and Planescape: Torment on an Amiga running AmigaOS 4.
More information can be found on Amigans.net.
You can buy the package from Alinea Computer here:
GemRB RPG package (0.8.8) for AmigaOS 4/WOS – Amiga Shop
The price is 19,95 EUR. It is available for AmigaOS 4 and WarpOS.
Lazi has released version 1.03 of MailSender, a program created to reduce the effort needed to send files or images by email. It can convert image files to the JPG format, resize them on the fly, and optionally pack them to a ZIP archive, or even create a PDF document before sending. A download, as well as more information, is available here:
Ryan Dixon a.k.a rjd324 is working on a port of Open Medal of Honor for AmigaOS 4. It is currently in the BETA stage. More information is available in the appropriate thread on Amigans.net.
Open Medal of Honor (BETA) [AmigaOS4] – The Amigans website
Version 2.9 of Prism II, a driver for 11 Mbps wireless network cards, was uploaded to OS4Depot on March 6th. This driver supports PCI cards in all AmigaOS 4 systems (according to the readme). It has WPA and WPA2 encryption, including both TKIP and CCMP/AES modes. There have been a lot of changes since the last version, which you can read via the link below:
SDL 3.2.8 has been released for AmigaOS 4. Changes have been made since the last time:
- Fix issue with window size after SetWindowPosition
- Prefs: add AISS images to menus (#48)
- Ignore destination alpha for target textures (#150)
- Remove constructor / destructor workarounds
- Improve OS4_DebugPrintF
- sdl3benchmark: reset random seed before every test
- Support SDL_PROP_APP_METADATA_NAME_STRING and SDL_HINT_APP_NAME (#115)
- Improve timer resolution from milliseconds to microseconds
- Cleanup code and makefiles
https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL/releases/tag/v3.2.8-amigaos4
The source code for Blender 2.48 has been uploaded to OS4Depot. More information can be found on OS4Depot.
In previous reports, I’ve written about Seq, a MIDI sequencer, by Tuomas Hokka. A new update is out with the following changes:
3.0 (1st March 2025):
– FIXED one major bug in saving project: Too many bytes were written so it was filled with zero bytes and that will break reading one integer value in the project file. This will be fixed automatically in loading project. User will be prompted to choose to save the project immediately after.
– Fixed bugs
– New song (long) mode to One time track, added One time banks
– Increased number of song steps to 96, project files version increased to 9
– Added more settings to alt/double note
– Alt notes displayed in steps better
– Some font sizes increased
– Added new tooltype to set large font
– Refactored some parts of the source code for better maintainability and to avoid bugs
Apart from the program above, Hokka also released version 2.1 of Viivi, a picture viewer. Changes can be found below:
2.1 (8th February 2025):
– Fixed iconification/uniconification in full screen mode
– Fixed drag&drop with multiple files
– Don’t show popup menu when activating the window if it was inactive
You can download the program on OS4Depot.
Video Vortex is a frontend GUI for YT (.rexx) to search and view YouTube videos. It is developed by Thomas Kölsch and version 1.1 is now available for download from OS4Depot.
Version 1.5 of AmigaTText, which makes it possible to view ARD/ZDF teletext from the Internet, has been released. It is being developed by TearsOfMe. The author has fixed HR3 and WDR sites.
PNG 2 Amiga is a program that converts PNG icons to Amiga icon format. The utility was developed by Kjetil Hvalstrand. Version 1.3 is available for download at OS4Depot.
Version 0.51 of the PDF generator Compression has been released. This tool is being developed by Achim Pankalla. The goal is to make a PDF generator that is complete with WYSIWYG. Progress has been made since the last version and many errors have been fixed. You can download it from OS4Depot, where there’s also information about all of the recent changes to the program.
AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 by Cameron Armstrong (Nightfox). Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling. Version 2.3.1 became available for download on OS4Depot on March 30th.
Features:
- Generates text based on input prompts
- Generates images based on input prompts
- UI customization
- Full conversation history
- Text-to-speech
Changes:
- Fix broken error requester in MorphOS
- Fix incorrect language name for English-British for OS4
- Running the “Version” command on the AmigaGPT executable will now report the version and build date
- The installer in MorphOS will now properly ask where you want to install the readme
On March 30th, DRIDI released version 6.1 of the Arabic Console Device. The author has been trying to fix a regression – 0xA6 becomes 0xE1 when double input alif suscrit on a letter d (0x4A) before.
Version 34.1 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
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 V34.02:
- Tape deck subwindow: added waveform display
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
AmiArcadia is free to download. You can get it from OS4Depot via the link below:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha
Misc
A brand new issue of the Polish magazine AmigaNG has been released.
You can read about the Sam460LE, the A1222 Plus, THEA500 Mini, and much more. It is in Polish language.
Celebrate 40 Years of Amiga Innovation at the Computer History Museum! On Amigans.net we can read that the AMIGA/040th Silicon Valley organizing team is excited to announce, in partnership with VCF West, an epic event on August 1st and 2nd, 2025, at the renowned Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. More information is available here.
The English and German issue 173 (March/April 2025) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been published. It can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future or from various Amiga shops stocking it. In this issue, you’ll find reviews of games such as Super Star Blast and Battle Squadron 2, as well as an interesting article called AmigaOS 4.1: The Troubled Life of a Beta Tester.
George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero has published a review of the Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA card on the IntuitionBase website.
The Norwegian Amiga musician Helge Kvalheim is back with more music for us to listen to. Two new videos were released on his YouTube channel in March. One of these is a recreation of the theme from the film Karate Kid:
McFly PPC has created a new video about WormHole, a program for easy transfer of data from one system to another.
TJ Ferreira has published a ton of videos lately, some containing AmigaOS 4-related content. Please have a look via this link:
https://www.youtube.com/@MacSociety/videos
Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel published two videos in March. One about WormHole, another about DosBox-Staging with 3dfx (Voodoo) support.
The winner of the gaming competition at Amigans.net for February and March 2025 was 328gts with 8,805 points. Players competed in the game A Frog Game from EntwicklerX.
Until next time
You’ve now reached the end of the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup for March.
Many thanks to all readers and supporters out there for visiting my blog and for reading the AmigaOS 4 Monthly roundup. Huge thanks as always for all the feedback, comments and encouragement.
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