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Bootdisk-Creator v1.62 - Amiga | With Amiga911 Maker is it possible to create boot diskettes for AmigaOS 3.0/3.1. The changes in this are: All In One type solution. Support for: DiskSalv4, MaxTransTest, PFSSalv2 and SFSSalv. New Prefs window, Expert Mode and many other improvements.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions fort his month are: City, Classic Racer (DE), Euro Trotter, Fireflies, Super Blobble 2, Torque, Batman, Boat Animation, City Jumper, Luxo Teenager, Rocking Robot, The, Shuttlecock, Spark Trek, Air Ace II, Bionix 2, Black Belt, Hyperace, Patience, Zerg, D-Day, History of Aviation, Little Traveller, Spelltris and Star Trek Guide.

Amiga Future #116 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Playfield, Tecnoball Z, Minos, Amiiga 10x10, Help my Cat, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Bed Games, Jay the Miner, Volfied, Wings Battlefield, Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium, The Amiga Workbench Simulation, Pegasos, MorphOS 3.8, WHDLoad, Phase 5 Digital Products, Demoscene, ArtEffect, Programming with AmigaOS4 (13) and a interview with Paul Gardner-Stephen (Mega65).

Boingsworld #67 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Schnapper des Monats, Interview with Markus Tillman and the meeting Amiga 30 Jahre in Neuss.

Hyperion Entertainment - SDK Final edition | Hyperion Entertainment released an update for the OS4 Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes in this version are: New components: btree.library, diffview.gadget, diskio.library, z.library and graphics.library. Extended memory > 4 GB. Next generation menu system and improvements for dos.library API and console.device API.

Amiv 2.0 | Staringlizard has developed an replacement for the Amiga A520 adapter. The Amiv 2.0 can converts the Amiga RGB 15 KHz signal to HDMI to make it possible to connect your A500 or A1200 to a modern screen. The Amiv has buttons to shrink the picture horizontally and move the picture horizontally and vertically.

AMIcast #005 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Szilárd Biró (BSzili), Amiga (NG): AROS, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. Music: Drink My Pain Away by Mobi from album Amiga Days (Remasters).

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Muzzax 1 & 2, Decibel Overload, The Beginning, Astrogate, Spaceship, Moin Jungs, 3D-Net Analyzer, Music Disk 1, Musics 3, BBS Intro, Beach Volley demo and Gate to Hell. Improved: Hydra, Waterproof and Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style.

Trevor Dickinson interview | Dan Wood from kookytech.net had an interview with Trevor Dickinson. He talks with Trevor, from A-Eon about the AmigaOne X1000 project, AmigaOS 4 and the future of the system. Plus, his memories and why he fell in love with the original Amiga machines.

Amiga Boing Ball | If you have a 3D printer you can now print your own Amiga Boing Ball. The ball can be printed with a single-head printer in two colours and you do not need any glue to put the ball together.

Bubble Shooter DX - Amiga | EntwicklerX released the game Bubble Shooter DX for the Amiga. In this game you must shoot bubbles and make a group of minimal three bubbles with the same colour to make them disappear. Features: 200+ levels, Three star ranking system, Colour-blind mode and special bubbles for an improved gameplay on difficult levels.

AmiMag #04 | AmiMag is a French pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News, The Time Machine, Shadow Of The Beast, Mister P, The Doom-Mania, Labo Amos, Interview with TBT, The Pin-Up and Candide 1/2.

Igor Majstorovic interview | The web page Obligement has had an interview with Igor Majstorovic. Igor is the developer of the Vampire600. The Vampire600 is an turbo-card for the Amiga 600 based on a FPGA. In the interview Igor tells about how he developed the Vampire600 and what the plans for the future are.

Amiga Forum #013 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SUGA an the Amiga scene. Games: Colonization and Wings Battlefield. Keyrah: Amiga keyboard on the PC. Books: Amiga, a visual Compendium and Petro Tyschtschenckos memoirs. The Amiga 700, 17 tips for the Amiga and the year 1985.

Xye - AROS | Xye is a puzzle game for AROS. Xye is a green ball that can move one cell up, down, left or right in every move (with keyboard or mouse). You can start with the tutorial levels that have hints for how to play the game.

Flashtro Amiga | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Beta 5 - Multi Musics, Tal 90 - Typhoon Thompson, Science Inc - Manager, Science 451 - Turrican II, Setrox - SoundFX, Mad Monks Thrust Sunriders - Betrayal, Devils - New Stuff, Devils - Basket Manager, Switch - Ami Word, Yugoslav Cracking Service - Alien Storm, Quadlite - LeoDemo, Quadlite - Bionic Commando Demo, Acid - Mini Golf, Australian Crackers United - Spherical, etc.

FPGA Arcade | The FPGA Arcade is an retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Miflos has received his FPGA Arcade has build the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on his blog.

DirectoryOpus 4.18.48 - AmigaOS 4 | A new version of Directory Opus, or DOpus, is now available. In this version improvements for the directory, the hunt command, the text viewer, Dopus_Print, memory allocation, icons and the history files.

V.A.M.P. v1.36 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. In this version a number of small errors were removed, added an option to fast forward the movie with the mouse-wheel. The steps times 1, 10, 30 or 60 seconds can be selected with the number key 1 t/m 4.

Boingsworld #66 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Interviews: Wei-ju and Costel Mincea, Artbase, Bad Bramstedt, Hyperion, Commodore Pet Handy, Kickstarter: A1200 Housing, Tales of Gorluth II, Mountain View and Gorky 17.

Chocolate-doom - AmigaOS 4 | Chocolate-doom is a project that makes it possible to play the original MS-DOS game Doom on modern computers. The aims of this project are: To be as accurate as possible to the original game. 100% free and open-source. And make versions for as many different operating systems as possible. Version 2.2.0 of the AmigaOS 4 version is now available.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions fort his month are: 2998z, Imagine, Liars, Lovers Day, Pretty Fly, Stars of Another Sky, Today is Sunday, Unexpected, Up n X, Vacation 2, Abnormalia #3.14, Abnormalia #5, AM-FM Issues 1-5, Mag-Net Issue 2, Smooth Criminal Issue 2, Albatross Antics, Drachensteine, Dragon Ball - Jumps, Fruit Mania, Interlock, German Dice, Lupengo, Alien Space, Amiganoid, Jigsaw, Kick Up and Outpost: Solo Assault.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Mega-Lo-Mania Orchestra Medley, Lotus III - Miami Ice, I7's Purple Haze, Deluxe Galaga v2.4, Test Drive II Remix, Jesus On E's (Jedi On E's Mix 1/2/3), Physical Presence and Harlequin - TVee Wonderland.

Sqrxz 3 - Amiga OCS | Retroguru released the Sqrxz 3 game for the Amiga with an OCS chip set. The presentation was at the sixed Wiener Retro-Börse. The game can be downloaded as a diskette file, HD file or as a CD file. Features: Difficult / challenging game play. Retro graphics. 10 levels. 11 marvellous chip tunes, and a Top 10 high score.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Inspiration Is None and Power and Agony. Improved: American Gladiators, Paperboy, Corporation, Hudson Hawk, Music Disk 1, Burning Rubber, Escape from Colditz, CJ in the USA, Pinkie, Gobliins 2 and Ghost Busters 2.

OS4 Theme Editor v0.3 | Sandro Barbagelata is working on a utility to create, modify and convert your system themes for OS4, AROS and MorpOS. The program offers a theme viewer and an integrated painter for editing the graphical items. The program will work on a copy of the selected theme in Ram disk and will not effect your installed themes.

Qtip v1.1. - Amiga | Qtip is a program that can be used to delete your files in a secure way. The program is developed by Wizardry and Steamworks and written in the programming language C. The files are deleted by writing 4 times over the existing data with random, even, odd and random data.

AMIGOS - Everything Amiga | AMIGOS is a new podcast about Amiga games, hardware, news and memories. In this episode: Amiga's 30th Birthday, A Visual Compendium, A1200 Housing Kickstarter Project, Amiga 1000, The first Amiga television commercial and a interview with Hybris programmer Martin Pedersen.

ShowFiles - Amiga | A new version of ShowFiles is now available. With this program you can view file information such as: size, date, possible comment, executable header type (68k / PPC), protection-bits, etc. New in this version: Pattern matching and the EXTVER-tag.

Amiga 1200 PC | If you want to convert your Amiga 1200 to a PC you can watch this video. The components inside the A1200 are: Acer V3 751G I7 GT640M 8GB RAM, Blue-Ray, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, Keyrah V2, 2x USB 3.0, Retro mouse and a WinUAE Emulator.

Amiga Ranger | Chrisxyz published a series of photos of the Amiga Ranger. The Amiga Ranger was to be the successor of the Amiga 1000. On the photos you can see the Zorro boards and a mock-up of the housing and the disk drives.

Calimero v0.16 - MorphOS | Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The program can import and export many different formats. The program supports multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more. Changes in this version: New line ends, feehand polygones, custom shapes. Export a object (groups) as a SVG or PNG, and new settings for the picture tracer.

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