Introduction
Hi, and welcome to the March edition of the first AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup!
I’m a few days late this time, but with good reason. It is Easter, and we have a new puppy in the house! His name is Trygve and is soon 5 weeks old. He is a mix of poodle and cocker spaniel. Here he is relaxing outside in the sun.
Also had some issues we needed to solve with the Amiga CDTV music disc from Void. We managed to find a solution, and the production is available to download from Aminet. It is called CDTV is 35 and was coded by AlienTech and features music by Assassin.
This month I’m trying something new (again). I have sorted the news in alphabetical order. Hope this will make it easier to read and access.
Now, let us move into the world of AmigaOne’s, AmigaOS 4, Sam’s, and more!
Software News
AmiArcadia
Version 36.1 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!
You can read about the latest changes and download the package here:
AmigaDiskBench v2.8
Derfs is back with an update to AmigaDiskBench, bumping it to v2.8.
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.
Changes are as follows:
- Fixed: Hard freeze on startup caused by shared Chooser label list between Benchmark and Drive Health tabs. The health chooser was not detached before the drive list was rebuilt, causing input.device to walk freed nodes during window rendering — triggering a DSI exception in chooser.gadget.
- Fixed: Partition list corruption from double-add bug. Mounted partitions were added to their parent drive’s linked list twice (once in the mounted path, once unconditionally), corrupting Exec list pointers and causing stale node references.
- Disk Info scan no longer opens non-storage devices (serial.device, a1parallel.device, printer.device, etc.) that were bound to DosEntries, avoiding interference with programs using those ports.
- Disk Info scan now pre-checks media availability before performing expensive device I/O. Empty virtual drive slots (diskimage.device with no image loaded) are skipped entirely, eliminating unnecessary OpenDevice, RDB scan, geometry query, and SCSI inquiry cycles.
- Reduced scan noise: non-filesystem DosEntries (CON, RAW, RAM, ENV, URL, TEXTCLIP, PIPE, etc.) are no longer logged during drive enumeration.
Arabic Console Device
DRIDI has released version 14.9Final of the Arabic Console Device.
Changes are as follows:
(version 14.9Final) “Version education&legacy” finished – ArabicLauncher – Lacks flushing outputs for instance when a type command is used.
AudioClassID
This utility from Lyle Hazelwood shows the basic information for attached USB Audio devices. This includes which USB Audio Class the device complies with.
Audio Convert Manager
Juan Carlos Herrán Martín has released version 1.05 of this utility. You can use this to convert sound files. It support a wide range of formats.
Avalanche
This is a ReAction unarchive GUI for xfd/xadmaster. It supports decrunching with xfdmaster.library, extracting various data with Deark, scanning for viruses with xvs.library, and simple editing of LhA/Zip archives (Zip needs zip.library – OS4 only).
It is being developed by Chris Young.
Version 3.3 can be found here:
CrossCrabTris
Achim Kern has released version 2.0 of CrossCrabtris, a game created with Hollywood. Check it out here!
CuraEngine
From Luca De Giovanni comes CuraEngine. He writes:
“This is a native port of the CuraEngine slicing engine for AmigaOS 4.1 FE. Optimized for PowerPC and verified for stability. To my knowledge, this is the first native 3D slicing engine available for AmigaOS 4.”
Depscan
The utility was created by Lorence Lombardo. Version 1.8a 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.
Hollywood Plugins Galore
From Andreas Falkenhahn, the author of the development suite Hollywood, comes several interesting plugins.
Hwp_AVCodec
This plugin enables Hollywood to load and play many video and audio formats supported by the FFmpeg library. After this plugin has been installed, Hollywood’s OpenMusic() and OpenVideo() commands will ‘automagically’ be able to open and play a plethora of new audio and video formats.
Hwp_MP3Enc
This plugin can be used to save sound streams and samples in the MP3 format. Once the plugin is installed, you can make the Hollywood functions SaveMusic(), SaveSample(), RecordAudio() and BeginMusicStream() save the sound data in the MP3 format by passing the #SNDFMT_MP3 constant as the output format. See below for some examples.
Hwp_PDF
pdf.hwp is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to easily create PDF documents from Hollywood scripts. On top of that, the plugin can also open existing PDF documents and convert their pages into Hollywood brushes. In fact, when converting PDF pages into Hollywood brushes, the plugin will create vector brushes for you which can be scaled, rotated and transformed without any losses in quality (unless bitmap graphics are embedded inside the PDF document of course).
Hwp_Zip
This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to read and write zip archives. It uses Hollywood’s file and directory adapter plugin interfaces which allow you to iterate through zip archives as if they were normal directories. Files within zip archives can also be accessed as if the zip archive was a normal directory. It is not necessary to unpack a file stored in a zip archive to a temporary file before it can be opened. Hollywood’s file adapter plugin interface allows direct streaming from the zip archive into the respective file handler.
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.
The new version has been improved with two new skins (Baphomet Blanker and Los Malditos), as well as a new cover and a bug fix. Check it out via the link below:
Image2PDF
Bernd Assenmacher has released version 2.9 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.
IMP3 – Do stuff on the Amiga!
This tool is being developed by Juen, mainly aimed at classic Amiga systems, but it does also work on AmigaOS 4.
You can listen to songs from the Internet, use a cloud storage system, chat with fellow Amiga users, play Online games, and more!
In the latest release, 3.461, he has added a new network game (Chess), a new RPG-like game, etc. I recommend checking out the readme on OS4Depot for all details.
A handler has also been released:
LhArchiver
Bernd Assenmacher has released version 1.15 of the LhArchiver, which helps you to create LHA archives intuitively, easily, and quickly.
Maldito’s Tournament
The developer and game creator Juan Carlos Herrán Martín is back with a new release!
From the world of Los Malditos del Valle del Cerro comes the table board battle from the point-and-click adventure game. This game uses the engine Battle Board 2.00, and you can fight against the villains using the six heroes with magic, potions, artifacts, and weapons. The demo version is available to download from OS4Depot.
Mars Tank Attack
Version 2.0 of this game by Achim Kern has been released!
“Destroy with your tank the enemy tank on the other side of a mars canyon. You can play with your keyboard, mouse or a joystick with two people, alone vs computer, and the game can also play alone – computer vs computer.”
Pa6t_eth.device
Pa6t_eth.device is AmigaOS 4 SANA-II onboard Ethernet driver for the AmigaOne X1000 (PA6T-1682M integrated MAC, Vitesse VSC8221 PHY) developed by Kas1e.
Developed entirely from Linux source written by Olof Johansson, as no hardware documentation exists for the PA6T-1682M in public.
ScummVM
Maijestro, who runs the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube, has picked up the torch for keeping ScummVM maintained and updates for AmigaOS 4. This is no easy task, but he went on and did it! 🙂 Very impressed, and I wish him luck with this project!
ScummVM is a program which 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:
2026.1.1-AmigaOS4 – Initial public release
- Native AmigaOS4 PPC build
- GLES2 support via Warp3D Nova
- QEMU/Pegasos2 support via Wazp3D
- 26 engines, 29 tested games
- Startup time reduced from ~6s to ~1s
- Joystick support added
- Vulkan Graphics Manager (Beta)
- Shell output suppressed in release builds
- Binary successfully stripped (18MB)
- Includes clib4.library installer
Wow! Nice work I must say! If you want to download it, head over to the usual place and grab it. 🙂
Sfputc
“Sfputc”, by Lorence Lombardo, is a CLI implemetation of fputc that can be used with scripts which allows you to print or redirect a single character with an optional repeat that you cant do with a regular “echo”.
Sfront 1.2
This utility provides an executable fron for Amiga DOS scripts. This is handy if you are having re-direction issues, want to call a script within a “skip back” script, or want to be given a local front path.
Sfront is being developed by Lorence Lombardo.
SiI3132 SATA2 Driver – 1.2 Released for Father’s Day, in Honor of Jay Miner
Press release from ACube Systems follows:
“Today, March 19th, is Father’s Day in Italy (Festa del Papà) — and what better occasion to celebrate than by honoring the father of the Amiga himself, Jay Miner? The visionary engineer and chip designer who gave life to the Amiga back in 1985 deserves to be remembered not just with words, but with something tangible for the community he helped create.
For this reason, ACube Systems has chosen today to release version 1.2 of the SiI3132 SATA2 driver for AmigaOS 4.1 — a small tribute to Jay Miner’s enduring legacy.
What’s new in version 1.2:
Performance & Code Efficiency — General code improvements for better overall performance and optimization.
SCSI Command Handling — Error response management for SCSI commands has been significantly improved, resulting in greater robustness during operation.
Burning Process — The handling of disc burning phases has been refined for improved reliability when working with CD/DVD drives.
As with the very first release back in October 2025 — unveiled as a special gift during the Amiga40 Germany event in Mönchengladbach to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Amiga — this update is completely free of charge. It has always been our intention to give back to this incredible community, and that spirit remains unchanged.
The driver continues to support HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives via SATA2 on PCIe cards based on the Silicon Image SiI3132 controller, delivering high performance and stability on AmigaOS 4.1.
You can download the driver from the “Latest files” section on our homepage or directly clicking on this link:
https://acube-systems.biz/download.php … =sii3132sata_dev_v1.2.lha
Happy Father’s Day — and thank you, Jay. 🙏”
Ticklish
Ticklish is a to-do list tool by Gero Birkenfeld. It includes sub-items/steps and notes for each to-do item. Due dates and moving items from one to another. List is also supported. Version 1.1.0 can be found here:
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 2.71 is out now. The author has added a solid background to the jukebox to avoid the effect with the black background.
VirtIO SCSI Device Driver for AmigaOS 4.1 FE
Derf has released version 1.5 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.”
Derfs also released version 0.4.0-beta of the Virtio9PFS-handler. A FileSysBox-based handler for AmigaOS 4.1 FE that mounts QEMU host-shared folders as DOS volumes via the VirtIO 9P (9P2000.L) protocol.
Vim
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/
Version 9.2.219 is now available on OS4Depot:
VulkanDonut
First thing I thought when reading VulkanDonut was an extremely spicy donut, hehe. It turns out that it is not a donut, but a rotating torus demo. It was created by Maijestro. He writes: “VulkanDonut is a real-time 3D demo using the Vulkan 1.3 API via the VulkanOS4 library by Richard Gibbs. It demonstrates what modern GPU
hardware can do on AmigaOS4 using Warp3D Nova.”
VulkanOS4
From Derfs comes the Vulkan 1.3 implementation for AmigaOS 4.
VulkanOS4 brings the Vulkan graphics API to PowerPC Amiga hardware. It provides a complete Vulkan 1.3 runtime with two installable client drivers (ICDs), a loader library, and a full SDK for developing Vulkan
applications on AmigaOS 4.
More information is available over on OS4Depot:
Waitfile
This is another release from the developer Lorence Lombardo. Waitfile waits for a specified file without “sucking the guts” out of your CPU, since checks are made in every one tenth of a second intervals.
WipeOut-RE Fontômas Edition Normal and SPE Version
HunoPPC writes as follows on his YouTube channel:
“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!”
Miscellaneous News
Adam Mierwza Interview
Here is an interview with Adam Mierzwa. It is in Polish, but subtitles are available.
Amiga Future Magazine – Issue 179
A new issue of the Amiga Future magazine has been published!
Interviews:
Claude Schwarz.
Previews:
Playfield
Reviews:
Amiga Event DVD 37 & 38, Board Game versus Amiga – Airport, The House of the Dead Bunnies, Master of the Minefields, Memory Schmemory, Mutant Monty, Renegade 2 AGA, Ticklish, Aminet News, Book: Redo from Start, Ignition AddOns, Hollywood 11: Coderise, Amigus, Vault, Old Blue Workbench, AmiBoot Env.
Workshops:
Knowledge 12: Quickly Blow Up the Death Star – Star Wars Tunnel Run on the Amiga, Uploading files from the Amiga to the Internet.
Special:
Beyound the Screen: The Evolution of Amiga Games – or: Why Develop for Retro Systems Today? Part 1, 40 Years Amiga Part 6, Demoscene.
Others:
Editorial, Contents, News, Imprint, CoverCD content.
https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=11015
Music from Helge Kvalheim – Safe In Your Fold
The Norwegian musician, Helge Kvalheim, is back with a new, nice song. This one is called Safe In Your Fold. It is the fourth track for the upcoming Amiga jazz album Romance. To create music, he uses an AmigaOne X5000/20, running the NSM patched version of OctaMED Soundstudio v1.03C, with the latest PPC version of TheMaestrix AHI tool.
nowy80Retro #219, Wings Battlefield – AmigaOS4.1, Pegasos II, PPC 1000MHz, Radeon 9000 Pro
In this video we’ll get a look at the game Wings Battlefield.
Windows: Using the Rust programming language for AmigaOS 4 programs
amiga-news.de reports that Rust can now be used under Windows for writing AmigaOS 4 programs. More information available here:
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-03-00027-EN.html
Until next time
Thanks for visiting my blog and for reading this roundup. 🙂 I hope you enjoyed it!
Wish you all a nice April!
Yours,
Puni / AmigaOldskooler
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