Introduction

Welcome to another tools jam for the Amiga. The Amiga celebrates it's 40th year in this universe in the Summer of 2025. I havent spotted anyone wishing to make a tools compo this year, so I decided to make my own. So this is not and Official Amiga 40 jam in that sense, as I am not affiliated with Commodore™ Inc, Amiga 40 in California, Amiga 40 in Germany, or Amiga 40 in the UK. So please dont hate me. If there is an official Amiga 40 tools jam, I will rename mine to something else.

My name is lifeschool, and I'm a co-Global Admin of Lemon Amiga.com.   Last year, the incredible Zooperdan ran the Amiga Tools compo, and there were lots of submissions. So I'm hoping for the same.

The jam is now open, and will close October 25th, with voting ending on November 15th 2025. 

Use #amigatools2025 to share progress or tweet about this jam :)

EAB Thread: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=120502 (copy and paste)

Submissions

Submissions must be entered by October 11th 2025. After that, there will be a period where submission entries are be judged by the public, with votes being hidden and shown after the closing date for voting. This makes sure there is no delay to hand out the prizes after the compo is closed.

Categories for the compo are up to the submitter to decide, and these do not affect the prizes. Categories can be anything as long as it is NOT a Game, a Graphics demo, or Music demo, a Slideshow etc. Other examples which are not acceptable entries are: Icon packs, Workbench wallpapers, Artwork etc, as these are not tools.

Some good examples of Categories include: a Tool, Utility, Paint, Audio, Multimedia, App, Command, Commodity, Font, Library, Resource, Guide, AmigaGuide, Productivity, Workbench, Hack, Screensaver, Device Driver, Script, Colour Util, Screen/Sound Ripper, etc.

Rules

You may only submit something that was made during 2025, and before the closing date for submissions.
You must state which category your entry belongs to, using 1 to 5 words.
You may submit more than one entry to the jam, but please dont submit separate revisions of the same tool as new entries.
Tools must work on a real/emulated Classic Amiga, e.g. Workbench 1.0-1.3, 2.0-2.1, 3.0-3.9, or Cloanto/AROS. No OS4.
You may use any programming language and/or compiler to make your entry.
You must include information about system requirements, bugs, WIPs, ToDOs etc.
Documentation on how to install and/or use must be included.
Topics such as soft and legal drug use, sexual innuendo, and faiths and religious tools ARE allowed.

You may NOT submit anything that is malicious or harmful in content. For example, hard drug use, pornography, self harm, rape, or questionable psychological or religious manipulation tools (such as Racism, Provocation Speech, Extremism, Scientology, etc).

You many NOT submit comments or tools which seem impolite, rude, or in bad taste. However, it is ok to submit tools which seem to go against a politically correct stance, if those tools are meant as a joke.

lifeschool has the right to kick and ban anything or anybody.

lifeschool's decision about the winners of the compo, based on user submitted votes only, is final.

Amiga 40 Tools Jam 2025 Results

1. IFFChunkTool - £140.81 - by RastPort - Ranked 1st with 4 ratings (Score: 4.500)

2. AMail £82.49 - by bluewizardnet - Ranked 2nd with 15 ratings (Score: 4.467)

3. WBShortcutMaker £48.23 - by Tygre - Ranked 3rd with 3 ratings (Score: 4.333)

Total Ratings: 55

Please can the winners contact me using my spam email: "lifeschool22@gmail.com".

Current Prizes

The prize pool currently looks like this, but could change if more funds become available.

- First prize is £140.81, or equivalent in your currency.

- Second prize is £82.49, or equivalent in your currency.

- Third prize is £48.23, or equivalent in your currency.

Podium winners will be contacted after the jam closes, where they can submit their bank account and sort code for transfer, or a PayPal email address, or some way to fund them. If anyone wants to contact me directly, or to arrange financial transfer, you can contact my spam account here: lifeschool22@gmail.com. Please be patient, as I dont check my spam account very often.

The Prize Pool

The following existing backers and community people have contributed to the prize pool:

lifeschool @ LemonAmiga

Kim Lemon @ LemonAmiga

Sepp @ LemonAmiga

Predseda @ LemonAmiga

Bloxyman22

Ed Heaton

Mahen

Eric Johnson

Bernhard Lukas

Glenn Main

Paolo Mirabella

Martin Roeleveld

Retro Computer Projects Discord

Fatbob

Simokun

Retro Computer Projects (2nd pledge)

McFly @ GAP the German AMIGA Podcast

Retro Computer Projects Discord (3rd Pledge)

AMIGAworld (amigaworld. de)

Retro Computer Projects Discord (4th Pledge)

If you wish to contribute to the prize pool, you can contact me on lifeschool22@gmail.com, or use this email to send donations via PayPal, along with your name, and how you wish to be written on the list above. If you also have a logo you wish to share, please send it to the above address, and I will post it at the foot of this page.

Contributions are broken down as 50%, 30% and 20%. So if you contribute £10 (or the equivalent amount in your currency), this would be broken down as £5, £3, £2 to the winners  Please use this table below to help you decide:

Disclaimer: This is a non-profit public-funded community-driven enterprise. No money is being used for me.

---£1.00 = 0.50p / 0.30p / 0.20p
---£2.00 = £1.00 / 0.60p / 0.40p
---£2.50 = £1.25 / 0.75p / 0.50p
---£3.00 = £1.50 / 0.90p / 0.60p
---£5.00 = £2.50 / £1.50 / £1.00
---£10.0 = £5.00 / £3.00 / £2.00
---£20.0 = £10.0 / £6.00 / £4.00
---£50.0 = £25.0 / £15.0 / £10.0
etc