Hi there,
Welcome to a new post here on the Old School Game Blog!
Today, on August 31st, it is once again time for a new AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.
Like last month, it is impressive and delighting to see how much is happening on the platform these days!
Without further ado, here’s the AmigaOS 4 news covering August 2025. 🙂 Enjoy!
Software News
Let us start with some game related news. 🙂
The Settlers II Gold Edition is coming to AmigaOS 4! Yes, you read it correctly, we’ve got a port of this legendary game coming to the platform! 😀 It is scheduled for an Amiga release on October 18th.
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!
I quote from the thread on Amigans:
“After nearly 30 years, the classic city-building strategy game The Settlers II is finally coming to the Amiga with an officially licensed, fully optimized release from Ubisoft. The Gold Edition features four civilizations, 30+ professions, expansive campaigns, and richly detailed environments.
Available in Digital (€29.90), Box (€49.90), and limited Collector’s Edition (€99.90). Pre-orders before September 18, 2025 include an art print and five bonus maps.
System Requirements – 68k (Min): Amiga AGA, 68040 @ 40 MHz, 32 MB RAM, OS 3.1, AHI 4.18, 600 MB HDD. PPC (Min): PPC-Amiga, 603e @ 175 MHz, 32 MB RAM, OS 3.1+WarpUP or OS 4.1, AHI, 500 MB HDD.”
From the official webpage:
“The legendary city-building strategy classic is finally coming to the Amiga!
In 1993, The Settlers revolutionized gaming on the Amiga and invented a whole new genre: the city-building strategy game. When the even more ambitious and still-fan-loved sequel, The Settlers II , was released in 1996, the king of home computers didn’t get it. Almost 30 years later, this gaming history is finally being rectified!
Officially licensed by Ubisoft Entertainment, The Settlers II Gold Edition will be available natively for the Amiga starting October 18, 2025. Not as a quick port, but as a lovingly optimized version that showcases what the Amiga is truly capable of.“
For us, the PowerPC version is the most interesting. 😉 Here are the requirements and recommended hardware information in more detail:
PowerPC version
Minimum 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 of 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 above 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 of free hard disk space
In the news article on amiga-news.de, we can read the following:
The Settlers II Gold Edition for Amiga is much more than a simple conversion. The development team has optimized the game specifically for Amiga hardware. To see the cute little settlers busy at work, it only takes an Amiga with an AGA chipset and a 68040 processor running at 40 MHz. An additional graphics card is not needed, but recommended. PowerPC Amigas with AmigaOS 4.1 or AmigaOS 3.1 with WarpUP are also natively supported.
“Our goal wasn’t just to prove that porting The Settlers was technically possible,” said Amiga developer Steffen Häuser. “We wanted to make its unique gaming experience available on the Amiga as well—exactly as it should have been in 1996.”
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-08-00050-EN.html
This is brilliant news, and I’m looking forward to the game being released!
A new commercial game has been released by EntwicklerX!
It is called Starfall Defenders and it is a classic tower defense game.
Here is the news as posted on Amigans.net:
“Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defense game that features unique towers and enemies. It also has an in-game shop system that allows players to purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and buy special items like the Atom Bomb, Splash Bomb, and Air Supply.
Players can earn coins for the shop by defeating boss enemies, saving lives, and unlocking new maps.
But Starfall Defenders offers more than just placing, upgrading, and selling towers. Players can also improve their gameplay by placing mines, blocking walls and electric fields directly on the path, and taking control of a tower’s direction and target. This player-controlled action is a unique feature within a defense game that allows players to directly hit their enemies.
- Shop system for buying and upgrading towers, buy specials
- 8 upgradable towers (2 power-ups each)
- Support towers, special attacks, path-placed items
- Unique enemies
- Unlockable levels
- Tower Control Mode: Take control over the target and direction of a tower
- Towers: Gun, Laser, Fireblaster, EMP, Cannon, Rocket, Flak, Artillery
- Power-up for each tower: Damage, Fire rate, Range
- Path-placed items: Mine, Electro Field, Block Wall
- Support Towers: Power Enhancement, Range Enhancement
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/c/entwicklerx/posts
Thomas and Frank from EntwicklerX have started a Patreon page to share early information about game development, with a focus on games for AmigaOS4 and classic Amigas. Development for the original Amiga computers will proceed gradually, from free mini-games to larger commercial products. These small games serve as the basis for larger projects and integrate new features that will be incorporated into the more comprehensive games. Every donation allows us to invest more time in the projects and advance them.
You can also support the developers by purchasing the games here on Itch, Steam, the Google Play Store, or various game consoles.”
Fantastic work by EntwicklerX! 🙂 Congratulations on this release!
Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel has published a great video showing the game in action!
SDL2 for AmigaOS 4 has received an update. It is now available for download at GitHub.
https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL/releases/tag/v2.32.8-amigaos4
AmigaOS 4 changes:
- Build with -O3
- Add some surface tests to sdl2benchmark tool
- Restore constructor / destructor workarounds
- Prefs: support MenuImageSize env variable
SDL3 has also received an update, bumping it to version 3.2.20.
The developer, Capehill, posts news and information about SDL on Amigans.net. If you’d like to visit his thread, please click on the link below:
An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on August 6th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more.
Recent changes since the previous version include miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. More detailed information can be found on OS4Depot.
Michael Trebilcock has uploaded several SDL2 libraries:
libSDL2_net – SDL2_net portable network library
libSDL2_ttf – A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
SDL2_mixer – Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2.x
libSDL2_image – SDL2 image file loading library
sdl2_gfx – Drawing and graphical effects extension for SDL2
ZDR by Vicente Gimeno is a lens tool that makes use of the compositing engine on AmigaOS 4.1 and upwards. Version 53.13 is now out and can be downloaded from OS4Depot:
Elfpipe has released favApps, a package containing a bunch of apps which the author are sure you will like. 🙂
He also uploaded a set of Qt6 demos. These are available here:
Juan Carlos Herrán Martín a.k.a Templario is back! This time he has released a new version of his Cards Making Kit.
With this tool, you can create your own decks for the following games:
- HLE Poker Card
- BlackJuan
- Siete y Media
- Baccarat
- BlackIvan Card
Improvements:
- Fixed little bug in the Tester Decks
- New PNG transparent templates to make three Baphomet decks.
The new four templates are:
- Two to make russian decks with the spanish suits.
- One a full mixed with spanish suit and french suit more the value of the cards in french and russian mode cards
- One spanish suit in transparent mode.
Cards Making Kit is available in both Spanish and English.
Version 5.21 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. 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!
Janggi is a chess program made to play Janggi, Korean chess, by making use of chess engines UCI compatible for the moves played by computers.
It was created by Domenico Lattanzi. A chess engine is a console program who play chess, receiving strings as commands and producing strings in output as result of computation. If you want to test your skills against the computer, you’ll need to download the chess engine from another location.
Features:
- UCI chess engines support
- Ask hint from computer
- Repetition moves automatically detected
- Bikjang detected and managed
- Start from a specific position if needed
- Set computer’s strenght by choosing between time per move or fixed depth
- Engine’s output expressive, showing which color is in advantage, the nodes computed per second and the main line
- Customisable graphics and sounds
MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 125 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 15.6, which provides miscellaneous improvements, as well as save game editor for Space Quest I.
PolarPaint is an experimental paint program made in Hollywood by Anbjørn Myren. Version 1.169 was uploaded to OS4Depot and became available on August 16th. There are currently two version available, one regular and one small. Both are available for download from OS4Depot. Information about the changes can be found there as well.
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 2.10.0 is now available for download from OS4Depot.
Andrea Palmatè and the AmigaLabs team is back with a new version of the clib4 library. This time it is version 2.0.0. This is a fork of official clib2 present in adtools. The point of this library is to make it Amiga OS4 only to maintain it easily and add all the missing clib2 features that are difficult to add also on classic Amigas. The goal is to try to make it POSIX compliant and fix all the C++ problems with newer compilers. All warnings (except really few) produced by GCC 10 and above are now gone.
Version 34.9 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!
Changes since V34.8:
Summary:
- Arcadia: added “Settings|Emulation|Frame/line-based emulation?” toggle.
- Interton: added “Settings|Colours|Artefacts?” toggle.
- 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/
Here is a cool, new program! It is called RNOSoundboard and was created by the well-known developer jPV^RNO.
This is an application that can play audio files with keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks. As the author states, “Tune up your party with a pre-defined set of music and samples!”
Features:
- MUI GUI for arranging sound sets
- Full screen soundboard mode with graphical buttons
- Loads embedded cover images from MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files for soundboard button graphics
- Internal playlist loading and saving
- Teachable hotkeys, also looping and volume options for each audio file
- Drag’n’drop support for loading files, directories, and playlists
- Supports MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AIFF, WAV, Protracker, DigiBooster, SID, AHX, FastTracker II, ScreamTracker, OctaMED, The Player, NoisePacker, ProRunner, Oktalyzer, Impulse Tracker, Ultra Tracker, Ice Tracker, Liquid Tracker, Quadra Composer, and many other formats
- ARexx, Command Line, and tooltypes support
The download and more information is available via the link below:
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 uses sndfile.library (needs to be installed in LIBS:) for sample loading and saving, instead of a custom module.
- Added support for Microsoft ADPCM compression in the loader and saver code.
- New function in the Edit menu: “Set selection”, which allows making precise selections based on user input or pre-defined ranges.
- The item “Extend selection” in the Edit menu has been renamed to “Modify selection”, and its submenu contains two new commands, “Halve” and “Double”.
- Fixed the “Create new drawer” function in the file requester, which would cause a lockup if the “Enter created drawer” option was selected.
- Fixed a small bug introduced in V1.7 which would leave certain menu commands available even if no sample was loaded.
- Across all program components, reworked memory allocations to make them more consistent and less error-prone.
- When loading the list of recently opened files, Rave now checks the list and removes all items that are no longer available.
- In the file requester, the file name gadget wouldn’t accept more than 127 characters; the limit has been increased to MAX_DOS_NAME (255 characters) to support long file names in modern filesystems.
- Various other smaller improvements and fixes.
- Updated documentation.
Download link:
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).
On August 30th, DRIDI released version 10.8Final of the Arabic Console Device. Changes are as follows:
(version 10.8Final) “Version education&legacy” finished (for me) – Error messages added to ArabicLauncher
For Scripting use:
- “Execute script_file” [no argument permitted] (file contains only lines of command; no interpreted Shell)
- ScriptFile_with_protection_bit_set [arguments] (all you want but no variable remains because of spawn process – SystemTags)
Steffen Häuser a.k.a TheMagicSN has once again brought something brilliant to AmigaOS 4! This time he has ported RetroArch to the platform!
RetroArch is a modular Emulation System. In short:
- Functions like Video Refresh, Sound, Gamepad etc. only are implemented once, in the central exe
- The central exe is highly optimized, with a multithreaded Approach (often faster than individual Emulators)
- It is much easier to port “Cores” (the Modules) than a fully new Emulator of some System
- A large amount of “Cores” is already available (see also the separate Archives with Cores on this site)
- All under a common GUI. So no longer GUI-less Emulators.
With RetroArch you can enjoy many different systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System, SEGA Genesis, and many, many more!
Häuser has made the program available for free on OS4Depot:
Please consider donating if you enjoy this software. A donation button is present on the OS4Depot download page.
Capehill has released the first version of ShaderNova. It can be downloaded from his website:
The author writes:
“ShaderNova can mirror content from other windows and render it using fragment shaders. This enables various post processing effects.
It’s a bit similar to ShaderGlass on Windows. Warp3D Nova is required. New shaders can be added.
Please check the readme, it should cover the details. And please post your shaders, if you write some!”
Marek Glogowski created a small video showing it running.
The website amiga-news.de reports that SDK-Addon 1.5 has been released. They write:
“For the official AmigaOS 4 developer package, George ‘walkero’ Sokianos has published a supplement at the title link that adds newer versions of the GCC compiler (11.5.0) and clib4 (V2.0.0) for AmigaOS 4 to the SDK.”
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-08-00081-EN.html
They also report that Andrea ‘afxgroup’ Palmatè has released version 0.1 of apt-os4, a package manager for clib4 packages. Find out more here:
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-08-00110-EN.html
AmigaDream 0.3 is a program created by Marcus Sackrow a.k.a. ALB42. This tool is based around Stable Diffusion, which is an open-source AI designed to generate images from text. You can input a request using natural language and the AI will interpret and generate an image from this.
More information is available here:
George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero is back with a new release of Kyvos. This time it is version v1.3.0.
Sokianos writes:
“Great news people. One more update for Kyvos, full of new features, is already out. Reaching v1.3.0 Kyvos is becoming more mature and more useful to those who would like to use it for development.”
Please visit his ko-fi page to read the whole news:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Kyvos-v1-3-0-released-H2H31KCCKF
A good summary is available on amiga-news.de:
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-08-00114-EN.html
On Aminet.net you will find an updated version of the LimipdClock by Thomas Rapp. Version 1.17 was released on August 19th.
https://aminet.net/package/util/wb/limpidclock
New in version 1.17:
- added anti aliasing for analog clock
- added new clock hand type (squares)
- added possibility to scroll through months
- added ability to change behaviour of calendar (sticky popups, different highlighting etc.)
- added texteditor.gadget replacement for OS 3.1 (use only on OS 3.1 and below!)
- fixed multi-select handling for menu items
- changed error message to list the missing ReAction/ClassAct classes
- changed about window to work correctly with PowerIcons and OS4.
It does not seem it has found its way to the holy shrine that is OS4Depot yet, but in the meantime, Aminet is the place to go for this application.
Miscellaneous News
Issue 27 of the Italian Amiga magazine Passione Amiga has been released! I’m not sure how much AmigaOS 4 content it has, but I noticed GemRB RPG and Stratagus mentioned. It was available from August 21st and has 48 pages. The price is 9 EUR.
The Rear Window is a blog by the developer Trixie, well-known for his work on the sound editor Rave for AmigaOS 4. On August 22th he made a new blog post called “Tangents and meanders”. Please check it out here:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Tangents-and-meanders-G2G71JS8V6
A preview of the upcoming issue 176 of Amiga Future is out. Please see the image below for more information. Not much AmigaOS 4 related on the cover this time, even though there has been a lot of activity on the platform during the last months.
The development of the Mirari board is going on full steam! As many of you know, MorphOS is running on it now, but after what I’ve read on Discord (in the Amigans.net channel), a new batch of boards has been received by Skateman and will be forwarded to appropriate AmigaOS 4 developers. Exciting news for sure! I think this board will bring many new users to the platform, and I’m very interested in getting hold of the board once it becomes available for purchase. Now, for those lucky enough to be at the upcoming show Amiga 40th in Mönchengladbach, Germany, they can look forward to seeing the Mirari on display! It will be shown at the MorphOS booth by Skateman and the creator Geennaam.
Speaking of Amiga 40th, Marcian reports on Amigans.net that you can now vote for the nominees. You can find the complete list in the following thread:
https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9883
Happy to see many familiar names there and wish them the best of luck! I’ve submitted my votes and hope you will too. 🙂
Elfpipe has launched a competition different from many otheres. It is the AmiQute Challenge 2025! He writes:
“So here is the proposal: We will host a challenge consisting in a run to port and create the most Qt6 software for AmigaOS4. It will take place over the next few months, and there will be points given and prizes taken. The points will be given by a panel of judges, and the prizes will be financed by the donations made through the AmiQute Ko-fi page. The more software we make, the more popular we are, the more donations will come, the more prizes will be available, the more motivation for creating more software etc. etc.”
The whole news item is available here:
https://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3358
YouTube
More and more AmigaOS 4 related content finds its way to YouTube these days, and one of the most active creators is Ghettofinger Gaming from the US. His channel can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/@GhettofingerGaming/videos
He has published many videos in August. Here is one covering the upcoming AmiWest 2025 event:
A video with photos from Amiga/040th Anniversary VCF West:
Marek Glogowski has published three videos in August. One of these shows a clib4v2 test with VisualBoyAdvance SDL2:
Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel has made a video showing Browservice under AmigaOS 4.1 running the Odyssey web browser.
The Lost C is back with a new video! This time he shows his new Chieftec case and the assembly of the AmigaOne A1222+. The video is in Italian, but subtitles can be applied.
Mufa has returned and this time published a cool video showing the recently ported Doom64 EX Plus in action. The video is in Polish, but as with the previous video, you can use subtitles.
Hirudov has uploaded a vast amount of videos in August of all kinds of things running on his AmigaOne 5000. Here is one of them. It shows the gameplay of Game & Watch: Donkey Kong running on AmigaOS 4.1:
The Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave has done several livestreams lately. One of them shows Gorky 17 from Hyperion Entertainment running on an Amiga X5040.
Until next time
That was all for now. Hope you enjoyed the news for August! 🙂
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 good September and see you in the next roundup!
Best regards,
Puni
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