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The 68000 Wars | Jimmy Maher is writing a story about the 68000 CPU. This CPU was used in the Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and the Atari ST. Jimmy writes about the introduction of the Amiga, the people who worked on the Amiga and the problems and successes of this legendary computer.

ACE v1.9 - MorphOS | ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The changes in this version are: Improvements for the GUI (Keys, Menu, Keyboard & mouse window). Improvements for the memory mapping, ASIC, CRTC 3/4 emulation, AREXX interface, PPI emulation and DMA.

AMIcast #002 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Epsilon. Amiga NG, software and emulation. Music: Tidal and Illumination. The Mifilos web pages en 30 year Amiga in Amsterdam.

Boingsworld #62 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: AmigaOS 4.1 FE / WinUAE, Hollywood 6 Epiphany + SDK, AmigaOS 4 Multicore, External Amiga-Floppy, From Bedroom to billions, USA: 30 Years Amiga, Wings Battlefield, Swamp Defense 2, Quartet, Petro, BMR, Boxx2, Jethunt Demo, Love Dungeon, Maxwell Mouse, Smurf Rescue and Parallel Worlds.

Retro Asylum Podcast 110 | This episode of the Retro Asylum Podcast is about the Commodore Amiga. Steve, Matt and Sam take a look back at their favourite 16 bit computer and the games that made the system so special as it reaches it's 30th birthday.

Potrace - AmigaOS 4 | Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improved the processing of very large bitmaps. Made a few general improvements and removed small errors. The program is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and Windows.

Netsurf 3.3 | Artur Jarosik has released a new version of the 68k Web-Browsers NetSurf. Changes in this version: New core interface, improvements for filenames, kiosk, browser windows, library handling, scheduler, Style Guide and added preliminary support for AmigaOS 3.

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: Pirates - Roulette, Ram Jam - Sturm Truppen, Ram Jam - Holiday Lemmings, Powerslaves - Space Invaders II, Powerslaves - Mister Tengus Adventure, Tristar - 3d Pool, Energy - Barbarian II, Eclipse - Classic Invaders, The Company - Decouvrer Les Formes, Alphalats - Campaign Datadisk, Alpha Flight - Pong, Alpha Flight - Tilt, Spreadpoint - Hotel Fonts, Immortal - Ghosts n Goblins, Immortal - SuperBase, Supplex - Enchanter, Agents - Superman, Public Enemy #1 - 4x4 Off Road Racing, Tristar - Demo 3, The Knight Hawks - Mordillo, Fantasy - Elite, The Knight Hawks - Retrun to Atlantis and Who I Am - Birds of Prey.

Amiga Power #55 | Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: AmigaOS v4.1 Final Edition, AmigaOne X5000, Wazp3D - MorphOS, Tales Of Gorluth, Voxelnoid, Le Manoir De Mortvielle, Clavier x500, Commodore Free, Éric Chahi and AmiWest.

Amiga Future #113 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Playfield, Maxwell Mouse and the Missing Game Mystery, Super Ted, Love Dungeon, Boxx 2, Wer wird Amiga Guru, Ants, Dune II - The building of a dynasty, WinUAE 3.0.0, SQL Man, AGet, zTools, Workbench 3.1 Disks and Prozessoren der NG-Amigas. Special: Sepa, Demoscene and Classic Reflections Part 20 MicroniK Computer Service. Interviews: Thomas Boissé and Cherry Darling. Workshop: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and Programming AmigaOS 4 (11).

Hollywood 6: Epiphany | Andreas Falkenhahn released Hollywood 6: Epiphany for AmigaOS. In this update many new functions, features and general improvements. A few examples in this version are: Support for multiple monitors, OS-native menu bars and AmiDock. Improvements for the AHI driver, script execution, plugin interface, vector graphics and many other changes, optimizations and bug fixes.

Ryś MKII adapter - Amiga | This USB adapter makes it possible to use USB HID devices on your Amiga. The Ryś MK II has been equipped with 3 modes of emulation: one for a mouse, one for a joystick and the last one for a pad. The mouse emulation has now 3 speed options. And the Ryś comes also with Bootloader function for future firmware upgrades. On the web page is a list of tested devices available.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Fast Lane, Pinomania, Sounddemo and Darkroom. Improved: Goldrunner, Venus the Flytrap, MERCS, Microprose Soccer, Turbo Outrun, Kiros Quest, Awesome, Chromagic, Rick Dangerous, Double Dragon 3, F-17 Challenge and Escape from Colditz.

Swamp Defense 2 - AmigaOS 4 | Swamp Defense 2 is a new game for AmigaOS 4 developed by EntwicklerX. In this game you must fight countless enemies with a huge selection of gun turrets. The game has more than 60 maps and you can earn coins for buying upgrades and new towers.

BetterWB v4.0 | BetterWB is a new Workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. New in this edition: Rebooter with fast bootable RAM option. LockDevice read/write. Icon.library 46.4.408. Fat95 3.18. Enhanced Dir display mode. PM utility and more minor improvements.

AmiKit 8.3 / Real AmiKit 8.3 | A new version of AmiKit is now available as a download. The changes in this version are: Updates for the Magic User Interface (MUI4) and the EvenMore text viewer. The updates are also available for the Real AmiKit version.

Ignition - AmigaOS 4.x | Ignition is a modern spreadsheet for AmigaOS 4.x. Achim Pankalla made the AmigaOS 4.x version which is based on the 68K version from Axel Dörfler. This version is a beta version, so if you find any problems please send the developer a message.

Icon Editor - Amiga | Icon Editor is a program for editing icons with many features: Separating alpha-channels, scaling, rotating, shadow and glow effects, blurring, contrast, brightness and much more. The recent changes are: Improvement for the CopyIcon file check. All tools are now available through the menus. The merging of images is now faster and a couple bugs were fixed.

Abbaye des Morts - AROS | Abbaye des Morts is a game for AROS that takes place in the 13th century. In this game you are Jean Raymond and you live inside an old church in France. You must find the hidden secrets and fight against the ancient evil that is still present in the church.

Boingsworld #61 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: A-EON takes over OctaMED, Marcus Computer, Hyperion bankrupt?, Gerda Does past away, Cloanto Classic Support, Cloanto holds the Amiga copyrights, ADTWin 1.2, Robotron, A1000 Frankfurt, World premier Amiga, Commodore Office, Commodore product history and the C65.

Commodore Amiga 1000 Velvet Rev.03 | Stefan Egger from the Computer Collection Vienna has added an Commodore Amiga 1000 Development System to his collection. The Amiga 1000 is from early 1985 and is a little bit different from the later production models. The Amiga has only 128k RAM, and the chips have different names or codes. Stefan has made many high resolution photos of this special Amiga 1000.

ADTWin v1.2 | With ADTWin you can write ADF files from a PC to a real diskette. You will need a PC with a parallel port and Windows XP. You can connect a 3.5 floppy drive to the parallel port with a special cable. Changes in this version: Support for the parallel port via PCI cards. Deactivation of Windows warm polling system. Drag & Drop support. Improvements for floppy drive control software.

V.A.M.P. v1.25 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: You can now use big pictures inside V.A.M.P.'s window. Sound in the message windows. Hively Tracker format hvl via a Hollywood plugin. New configuration file for the Windows version. And a couple of small improvements.

Quartet - Amiga | Quartet is a new game for the Amiga. In this puzzle game you must complete the faces in the surrounding windows. The more complete the face is, the more points you score. The original code is from Richard Davey, graphics and music are made by Ilija Melentijevic and the AmigaOS4 version is from Nick Sommer.

Color It - AROS | Marcus Sackrow made a little game for AROS. The game is a clone of the popular game Color It. In the game you must fill the board with the same colour. You always start the game in de the upper left edge of the board. The game is available for AROS, Windows and Linux.

Amiga: 30 Years | On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There are more people added to the guest list: Team Hoi, Petro Tyschtschenko and John Hare.

Hatari v1.8.0 - AmigaOS 4 | For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Changes in this version: Improvements for the ST video, Videl, Sound, FDC, GEMDOS HD and ACSI hard disk. Many more games and demos can now be used without problems.

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Legion (Gobi), Chińczyk (Twin Spark Soft), Szachista (LK Avalon, Lethal Weapon (Ocean), Classic Board Games (Merit Polarware), Captain Blood (Exxos) and Motörhead (Virgin).

Solomon's Key 2 - Amiga | Hukka released a game for the Amiga. This game is a remake of the NES game and can be used on any classic Amiga computer (PAL). In the game you are a young wizard named Dana, and your mission is to rid the world of the evil flames. You can use your magic wand to create or destroy blocks of ice.

Amiga game of 2014 | The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2014 are published. AmigaOS 68k: Tales Of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga (Amiworx Software). AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software / LucasArts). The complete results are on the Obligement web page.

AMIcast #001 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Jan Zahurancik, the author of AmiKIT. Links in this episode: Star Crusader, Elite: Dangerous and Might & Magic - Heroes 3 HD.

Heroes of Roswell - AROS | Heroes of Roswell is a game for AROS made by Patrick Avella. In the game you must save earth from the alien invaders. The game has 4 levels and 3 difficulty levels, 4 regular enemies and 4 tough enemies. In the game you can get more weapons and speed upgrades.

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