Google Ads study showed that using AI Max helps broaden your work with exact match and phrase match keywords - @mikeryanretail calls it "broad-matchifies" https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-ai-max-broad-matchifies-40562.html
Google Ads study showed that using AI Max helps broaden your work with exact match and phrase match keywords - @mikeryanretail calls it "broad-matchifies" https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-ai-max-broad-matchifies-40562.html
Google Ads offline conversion upload bug is being worked on https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-offline-conversion-uploads-bug-40571.html via @prakash_durg and @adsliaison
Google Ads Advisor can reference third-party external sources, like YouTube and @the_google_pro in the example @mr_govindsingh posted https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-advisor-external-sources-40560.html
Google testing sliding in an image asset for Google Ads, sponsored results in search https://www.seroundtable.com/google-image-animation-for-search-ads-40557.html
From @Futurism: “Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense”
This has been an enormous problem in the advertising side as well. Google reps are pushing clients to enable an “AI Max” feature, which, in short, allows its AI to freely create and modify ads. Advertisers can either navigate (intentionally?) terribly designed reports to hunt down automatically generated assets, or simply put blind faith in Google.
And let’s make one thing clear: anyone in advertising who recommends putting blind faith in Google is not someone you should be taking any advice from!
#ai #aislop #google #ads #advertising #marketing #SEO #SEM #PPC #martech
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-replacing-news-headlines-ai-nonsense
Google Ads testing a learn more extension button at the top right of the sponsored result https://seroundtable.com/google-ads-learn-more-button-40541.html via
@b4k_khushal
Google Ads support with WhatsApp notifications https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-whatsapp-notifications-40516.html
Advizeer ra mắt, tự động hóa nghiên cứu PPC đối thủ trên Google Search Ads! Công cụ này giúp bạn nhận báo cáo chiến lược 9 phần về thông điệp, điểm yếu và khuyến nghị cạnh tranh chỉ trong 24 giờ. Trả tiền theo báo cáo, không phí thuê bao. Đang tìm kiếm phản hồi, tặng 5 báo cáo miễn phí cho người dùng thử!
#Advizeer #PPC #Marketing #SideProject #GoogleAds #NghienCuuDoiThu #QuangCaoGoogle
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1pdwssh/i_built_advizeercom_to_automate_the_68_hour/
IAB Australia report finds instant answers reshape search measurement: New IAB Australia research reveals brands must shift from traffic volume metrics to citation measurement as zero-click searches transform digital marketing strategies. https://ppc.land/iab-australia-report-finds-instant-answers-reshape-search-measurement/ #DigitalMarketing #SEO #MarketingTrends #SearchEngineOptimization #PPC
Google Ads channel reporting for PMax is rolling out for some https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-channel-reporting-pmax-rolling-out-40531.html via Aleksejus Podpruginas
Google Ads new "Product at this location" link unit https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-products-at-this-location-40532.html via @anthonyhigman confirmed by Google's @adsliaison
Google 점유율 34.5%의 충격: 15억 검색 분석이 밝힌 마케팅의 새 현실
Google 검색 점유율 34.5%의 충격. 15억 검색 분석이 밝힌 AI 시대 마케팅의 진짜 변화와 Last-click attribution의 치명적 맹점을 실무 데이터로 해부합니다.22 years - that is how long I've been covering the search space. Over 48,175 stories in total. Here is my massive 22nd year anniversary story where I cover the analytics, most important stories over the year, SER history & forward 2026 thoughts https://www.seroundtable.com/22-years-old-40478.html
Google Ads now disallows the promotion of online gambling for horse racing https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-disallows-online-horse-racing-betting-40527.html
Luxury e-commerce brand achieves 120% conversion rate boost through strategic PPC optimization. Targeted campaigns deliver 72% more conversions with minimal spend increase. Performance marketing reimagined. #PPC #DigitalMarketing
Google expands custom segments availability for Display campaigns: Google Ads policy update enables Custom Segments for Display campaigns starting December 12, allowing advertisers to build audiences with broader tool access. https://ppc.land/google-expands-custom-segments-availability-for-display-campaigns/ #GoogleAds #DisplayAdvertising #DigitalMarketing #CustomSegments #PPC
AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – November 2025
Introduction
Hi there,
Welcome to a new monthly roundup of AmigaOS 4 news!
Thank you for visiting my blog and for checking out this article. Hope you’ll enjoy the read!
Last month, in the October edition, I wrote that it would be hard to top all the news and information presented that month. Well, I might have been wrong, because it turns out that after a very busy October, the community had an extra gear to set in…
Yes, November was another fantastic month for our platform! The developers and content creators have been very, very busy, and we can see the results below. A big thank you to all of you!
As for hardware, we know that the Mirari project is making progress. What will next year bring? I’m optimistic, that’s for sure!
Thanks again, and enjoy the roundup! 🙂
Software News
Steffen Häuser is back with a game port, this time of the first-person shooter Serious Sam TFE/TSE!
The port includes:
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/serioussam.lha
Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel on YouTube has created a video showing the gameplay. The video is available below. Enjoy! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYYQBHq9YU
On the Polski Portal Amigowy, we can read that a remake of Ubek is coming soon to AmigaOS 4! This is thanks to the cooperation between Szymon Ulatowski and Marek Glogowski in this project. A video showing the game running on an AmigaOne X5000 has been released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az97mNH0ll8
The news can be found here:
https://www.ppa.pl/aktualnosci/remake-ubeka-wkrotce-dla-amigaos-4.html
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 2.13.1 is now available for download from Aminet:
https://aminet.net/package/util/misc/AmigaGPT
A new version of Dir Me Up has been released! This program allows users to explore and manipulate files, links, and drawers of their Amiga. This time it is also available for AmigaOS 3.2 RTG. Please visit the official homepage for more information:
http://glames.online.fr/products/dirmeup.html
Fredrik Wikstrom, Scott A. Cabit, and Ryan Dixon have released version 1.4 of AmigaKeyRemapper. This program lets the user remap qualifier keys. The changes from the previous version is that it now accepts multiple arguments and allows Caps Lock to be mapped to CTRL.
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/misc/keyremapper.lha
DRIDI has released version 14.5Final of the Arabic Console Device. Changes are as follows:
(version 14.5Final) “Version education&legacy” finished (I hope) – stevie[edit.c] –
Big regression fixed (one letter + <return> will clear it).
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/arabic_console_devicepro2.lha
A game running on the EasyRPG Player – Screenshot by PuniDo you enjoy playing role-playing games? If yes, then you should be happy to read that version 0.6.2.3 of the EasyRPG Player is now available on AmigaOS 4!
This program allows you to play games created with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, of which there are quite many available, and some of them look very interesting.
For more information, I recommend you check out their website at https://easyrpg.org/.
For downloading the EasyRPG Player, please click on the link below to OS4Depot:
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/roleplaying/easyrpg.lha
McFly PPC has created a video showing it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhN8WqYntbA
Like ScummVM, the EasyRPG Player opens up a whole new range of games for the platform!
HexView is a utility to view a file in hexadecimal way. It has been developed by Tjitte “OldFart” de Wolff. Version 3.0 is now available.
Here are the changes since the previous version:
V3.0 (November 2025)
Introduces some kind of ‘tabbed browsing’ (or better: chooser-controlled browsing) through a list of opened files
*** switching between opened files may be too fast to be noticed! ***
Trying to load a file for the second time, will result in showing the already available version (this can be noticed by the entry number not being ‘1’)
Lets you save either full qualified path or directory to the clipboard
Introduces keyboard shortcuts for controlling the listbrowser
Overall, HexView has gained considerable increase in speed
As HexView sports a screen of its own, ‘Iconification’ and all the virtues coming with it are no longer available (makes little sense)
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/workbench/hexview.lha
Apart from this, he also released version 2.0 of the utility AlignWindows. This is a Workbench tool that you can use to stack windows. More information is available here:
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/workbench/alignwindows.lha
Amiga-news.de reports that Rene Olsen ” (…) provides templates with his ‘AmigaOS 4 Skeletons’ that are designed to make it easier for developers to create their own libraries and device drivers.” More information is available on their website here and over on GitHub.
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00005-EN.html
https://github.com/rolsen74/amy_skeletons
HunoPPC strikes back with a new game release! This time it is a port of Cannonball, an Outrun engine for AmigaOS 4. We can read the following on his website:
“CannonBall is an souped up game engine for the OutRun arcade game. The original 68000 and Z80 assembler code has been rewritten in C++. This makes it possible to make improvements suitable for modern platforms, including a higher frame-rate and widescreen support. It requires the original ROMs, as these contain elements including the graphics and audio data.”
As for OutRun, I believe it does not need much introduction, since this is a title familiar to most who is active on the Amiga. 🙂 The classic Amiga version was released back in 1989, and according to reviewers on Lemon Amiga, it was not very good.
https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/out-run
The AmigaOS 4 version, however, should be in a completely different league… 😉
It is worth mentioning that a special version for the A1222+ is available.
Speaking of which, here is a video of Cannonball – OutRun running on the A1222+, courtesy of Mr. Byte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNtPdak9-w&t=92s
Another game port recently released is Disasteroids 3D. It was brought to the platform by “AOS4 fans from Mars”. A very original team name, to say the least! It is nice that we have interplanetary support in the community! 😉
Image lent from the website of HunoPPCAnyway, this is an OpenGL remake of an Asteroids game ThomW wrote back in the year 2000. ThomW writes on itch.io:
Disasteroids 3D was a personal research project to learn how to write simple games using Visual C++ and OpenGL. Programming started on February 16,2000, and the game rapidly took shape. I had a rough game that was playable in less than a week, and since that time, I’ve added a lot of cool effects to make the game more polished.
The game features:
OpenGL 3D graphics
DirectSound support
DirectInput support for joysticks and force-feedback devices
A very low sticker price (it’s free)
I owe a great deal of thanks to Jeff Molofee of nehe.gamedev.net for his OpenGL base code, as well as his encouragement throughout the project. Without his help, Disasteroids 3D wouldn’t have even been started.
I hope this game serves as an inspiration to anyone out there who has wanted to program a game to go ahead and do it.
The AmigaOS 4 version is now available to download from the website of HunoPPC:
https://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/disasteroids-3d-fore-amigaos4-aos4-fans-mars
Looks fun!
Asum from Patrik Axelsson and K-P Koljonen is a very fast MD5 checksum tool. It uses highly optimized PPC MD5 code.
https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/misc/asum
Patrik Axelsson also released version 1.0 of NOP-Handler. He writes:
“This handler serves reads and writes instantly, without touching the data. Additionally, the size can be specified. This is useful for performance testing, as it can be used to remove the overhead of the underlaying I/O solution.”
https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/misc/NOP-Handler
Chris Young has released version 3.2 of Avalanche, a ReAction unarchive GUI for xfd/xadmaster. Please check out Aminet for the download.
https://os4.aminet.net/package/util/arc/avalanche
HunoPPC has made an update for Me and My Shadow, a platform game. This time, there are two versions available, one for fast AmigaOS 4 systems and one for A1222+ SPE. More information, as well as the download, is available here:
https://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net/content/me-and-my-shadow-ng
Here is the official trailer for the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUcdtxoO5Lw&t=3s
From amiga-news.de comes news about the Boulder Dash clone Diamonds and Dust by Juha Niemimäki, which is now available for download from OS4Depot.
Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by PuniPlease have a look here for more information.
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00023-EN.html
The goal of the game is to collect diamonds while avoiding enemies, poison, and falling objects. I’ve heard talk about a possible games competition on Amigans.net in this game, which should be fun if it happens. 🙂
Another piece of news from amiga-news.de is that more Collector’s Edition boxes for The Settlers 2 will become available. A press release from Look Behind You about this can be found via the link below:
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00037-EN.html
Daniel Westerberg of OnyxSoft has released the Amiga Development Environment ++. According to the official website, here are the features:
“This release of the ADE package comes preinstalled with:
I put this package together since I was missing a complete package
that can build MUI applications like Annotate for 68k.”
https://onyxsoft.se/ade_ndk_mui.html
Doug Bakewell (original author) and Daniel Westerberg (maintainer and successor) have released version 3.1.1 of Annotate, a comprehensive text editor written for AmigaOS 3.0 and up, and ported to AmigaOS 4.
Amongst its features are syntax highlighting with links to autodocs, multi-file search, can use screens, printing, macros, and much more!
Please follow the link below for more information about the program and for the download link.
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/text/edit/annotate.lha
LiveForIt has been working hard on improving E-UAE on AmigaOS 4. According to the documentation on OS4Depot, 10 years have passed since the last release! He now thought it was time to do another release, containing changes that have happened in the background for quite some time. The new version, 1.1.2, contains the improvements:
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/computer/uae.lha
It’s great to see E-UAE getting some attention on AmigaOS 4!
Screenshot lent from George SokianosNow for even more gaming-related news! Yes, if all those above were not enough to satisfy your thirst for gaming, then this one should help. 🙂 This is Open Geometry Wars for AmigaOS 4.1 FE!
Open Geometry Wars aims to be an extremely faithful recreation of Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengw/
George Sokianos writes the following on his Ko-Fi page:
Today, I released a new port of the Open Geometry Wars for AmigaOS 4.1, which was created more than 10 years ago by Peter Hirschberg.
As the original developer mentions:
“Open Geometry Wars aims to be an extremely faithful recreation of Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.
Since then, the code was maintained by Juha (capehill) Niemimäki, and was ported by BeWorld and papiosaur to MorphOS. So I thought to give it a try and port it to Amiga OS4 as well.
(…)
OpenGW is a great and fun game, especially for game contests, like the ones we run at amigans.net. Hope to see people having a round of it in the future.”
Please follow the link below to visit his Ko-Fi page to read more:
https://ko-fi.com/post/opengw-released-for-AmigaOS-4-1-I2I61OY0AW
Once again, we turn to Maijestro of the Amiga Retro Channel, who has created a video of this game in all its glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KhlZbZpWA
Here is the game on OS4Depot:
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/shmup/opengw.lha
A. Pankalla has released MouseDriver 1.4. The drivers are based on open-source code from various authors and changed in two ways. Please follow the link below for downloading the drivers and for more information:
https://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/input/mousedriver.lha
Screenshot of an older version – By PuniVersion 35.4 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:
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 V35.33:
Summary:
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/
Screenshot lent from George SokianosGeorge Sokianos has released version 1.8.0 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-v1-8-0-released-C0C01P93IV
Miscellaneous News
Helge Kvalheim is back again, after a nearly 2-month break, with a new song called “My Love Is Real”! It is a 16-bit 4-channel relaxing reggae song and the first from the “Romantic Christmas” collection from him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11rx72mIZdA
If you want to download the song to play it on your own Amiga, you can grab it from Aminet:
https://os4.aminet.net/package/mods/misc/MyLoveIsReal
A new issue of Amiga Future has been released! This time it is issue number 177 (November, December 2025). Both The Settlers 2 and Starfall Defenders are featured in the magazine. More information, with the option to purchase, can be found here:
https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=10933
AmiWest 2025 took place on November 1st and 2nd. The event was a big success with many exhibitors, speeches, and visitors. On the AmiWest Broadcast Page, you can watch a ton of footage from the event.
https://amiwest.net/broadcast2025/
Ghettofinger Gaming has created a roundup of the event in episode 11 of Boing & Beyond, which you can watch below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v0gaIj9-I4
From Andrea Palmatè comes news about Waffle Copy Professional.
Screenshot lent from Andrea PalmatèHe writes as follows on his Ko-Fi page:
I’m excited to share some amazing progress on Waffle Copy Professional – we’ve just completed a massive localization effort that makes this essential floppy disk tool accessible to users worldwide! 🎉
Full AmigaOS localization system integration using locale.library
Compiled with latest clib4.library (included)
340+ translated strings covering every part of the interface
Dynamic language switching support
Proper catalog system implementation for seamless translations
Enhanced installation process with multi-language catalog support
Please visit his Ko-Fi page for more information:
https://ko-fi.com/post/HUGE-Localization-Update-for-Waffle-Copy-Profes-S6S31PAY82
Now I’m hungry for waffles for some strange reason, hehe. 😀
On the 26th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster, Germany, the AmigaOS 4 user and developer Turbo4.1 held a presentation of Lüttje Bookholler (kleiner Buchhalter). You can watch the video below. It is in German language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcqt-YfO-0M
The Blastaway games competition on Amigans.net is coming to an end.
At the moment it looks like Walkero will take away the victory trophy, closely followed by Tuvok. At the bottom of the list, you will find yours truly. 😉 Yep, no whopping score from me this time! But, I will do better (I hope) in the contest for December. If you want to join in the fun, please head over to the games competition sections at Amigans for some AmigaOS 4 gaming action!
https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=42
The last piece of news is from Hans de Ruiter. On Amigans.net he writes:
“The Kea Campus is closing, but before it’s gone, here’s your chance to get an archive of the whole campus, including exclusive content such as my “Saving AmigaOS” series. This is a gift for all of you who love AmigaOS and my work, but hate subscriptions. You can now get it all for a one time fee. Yours forever.”
For the full story and the archive, please follow the link to Amigans below:
https://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3397
YouTube
Mikael Burman has published a video showing how to share a folder on Windows 11, and how to mount it as a drive on AmigaOS 4.1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtoCXbKVIY
Ghettofinger Gaming has been busy creating new videos on his YouTube channel. One of these is called “Bringing Point-and-Click Legends to Life on the X5000!”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWhTQQlH0E
Radzik and Adam Mierzwa discuss Amiga 40 and AmiWest 2025 in episode 97 of AmiWigilia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ6NAIgIMsE
The podcast is in the Polish language.
Auzie Morgan has created a new video called “AmiDev take2 Native tools and examples”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kOw22hO9XM
Amiga Bill has returned with a new video where he delivers sad news (RIP Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman), but also a lot of focus on games and software for AmigaOS 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9TO88dtd0
Mr Byte is back with a new video featuring his A1222+. In this one, we get a look at Infinite Icons 1.2, video playback, and different games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pgEFY_liY
HunoPPC has published a video of Dark Salvation for AmigaOS 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-W9QV_RyE
He also published a video called “Lilium Voyager Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch AmigaOS4 on local mode.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIj7n6mCNe8
Hirudov has created many AmigaOS 4 video lately, one of them contains gameplay from Dodge These Balls from EntwicklerX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI6gB5q4Xs
McFly PPC has made a video showing The Settlers 2 on his AmigaOne X5000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgP97V3kaw
Maijestro has made a video showing the developer version of Radon Break for AmigaOS 4.1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7ZsqmwRJc
Mufa has tested the Competition Pro Manix Twins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPA-4aJZgE
George Sokianos has made a video showing Open Geometry Wars on AmigaOS 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fofmVZxNbAQ
Until next time
That was the news for November 2025. December is already here (December 1st today), and both Christmas and a new year is on the horizon! 🙂
Thanks to all of you who read this blog, helps me with news, screenshots and much more. Also big thanks, again, to the developers and content creators keeping our platform going! Cheers! Keep up the good work!
I wish you all a nice December, and see you in the next AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, due for release on December 31st!
Have a great day everyone!
Best regards,
Puni
#amiga #amigaNews #amigaone #amigaos4 #amigaos4MonthlyRoundup #powerpc #ppc
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