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Boingsworld #48 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Arcade Evolution, Prisma souncard, E-UAE + JIT / AmigaOS4, New Amigaboards, Hollywood available again, ACA 500 test, Case for the ACA 500, Simple Mail 0.40, YAM 2.9, Enemy 2, MUI 4 for AmigaOS4, Odyssey Webbrowser for AmigaOS 4, Solid Gold, Projekt Synergie Betatest and Putty Squad.

APCComm v2.4.0 | Ralf Hoffmann released a new version of APCComm for the Amiga. This program can be used to transfer data between a Amiga (OS2.0) and a PC (Linux). The transfer is via a parallel cable and the transfer speed is 38 KByte/s. With this new version it is possible to read and write ADF disk images.

Ian West Interview | Amigapd had an interview with Ian West. Ian started programming on the Amiga. He started with Basic and his first real game project was a maze game. He later wrote more games for the Amiga: Ork Attack, Santa and Rudolph Do Christmas, The Unusual Case of Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange 2.

DigiBooster 3 - Amiga | A new version of DigiBooster is available for AmigaOS 3/4 und MorphOS. Digibooster is an traditional tracker with an advanced audio processing engine, and an up-to-date MUI based graphical user interface. Features: High quality audio engine. 24 bits / 192 kHz. All sound effects are executed in single step mode. Single step auto-synchronisation to the module tempo. Highly configurable and a ARexx port.

AmigaAMP v3.14 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: New PLS and M3U loading routines. Allow the loading of a header less playlist. An update for the Italian texts. Remember Info window position and added a new icon set from TommySammy.

X-bEnCh v0.93F | X-bEnCh can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. In this version there are many errors removed and many improvements added.

V.A.M.P. v1.08 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Frame numbering for animations. Improved the playing of animations and the box info. And the finish translation has been improved.

SnapIT - Amiga | SnapIT is a powerful and simple to use screen grabber developed by Stefan Blixth for AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS. Changes in this version: Double buffered preview mode. Hotkey support, fetch active window, save image as option, improved GUI, capture auto save option, and new translations for Spanish, German and French.

Amiga game awards 2013 | The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your own favourite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 8, 2014.

AmigaAMP v3.13 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for playlist/directory, cover drawing, tag editor, modplug loader and autoplay. Update for the WinAMP5 skin. And you can now use the mouse wheel to move the sliders in the equalizer.

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: Bamiga Sector One - Mercenary, Beonx - Nice Iintro, The Champs - Black Shadow, Flashtro - Putty Squad AGA, Galahad - Putty Squad AGA and Outlaws - Ultimate Quiz.

Guido Mersmann interview | The MorphZone web page has had a interview with Guido Mersmann. Guido also known as Geit lives in Germany and started developing software in 1983. His first computer was a Busch209, but later he had a Commodore C64, Amiga 500 and a Amiga 2000. In the interview Guido speaks about his program Grunch.

Raytracer 1.0 (+ source code) | In 1987 Eric Graham was the person who made the Juggler demo for the Amiga. For the demo he developed a ray tracer program named ssg, what later would evolve into Sculpt3D. The original source code of Raytracer was never found, but the web page dottyflowers.com has now found one of the original disks with the source code of Raytracer.

Amiga Future #106 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Amiga Games 2014: Jet Hunt, Final Fight AGA, Tales Of Gorluth, Parallel Worlds, Chaos Guns, Castle Hack, Secret Of Maya, Trackdisplay, Homeworld, OpenXcom, WordMeUp, Hard n Heavy, Bomber, Montezuma, Key Master, DirMeUp, Comic Book Reader, BetterWB, AmigaOS 4.1 SDK, Amiga Monkey (2). Special: Demo Scene, Quo Vadis Amiga, Classic Reflections (13) Great Valley Productions (2). Workshops: Programming AmigaOS 4 (36). Shows: Amiga Meeting, AmiWest. Interviews: Trevor Dickinson.

Ranger - Amiga | Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in this version: Improvements for the DOS/Volumes Open File and Lock List. And made some changes to compile with SDK 53.24.

SysMon - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Tooltype to deactivate the ShortHelp. Benchmark frames are now resizable. Improved the Picasso function and updated the Italian translation.

Amiga Future #87 | Edition 87 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, LaniTec, Classic Computing 2010, Aquaria, Morton Strikes Back, Zero Gravity, Final Chapter, Mythana, Amiga Forever 2010, AmiFig, RunInUAE, TDTool, A2630, PSX, Astro, Amiga 4000, Carl Sassenrath, Frotz (3), Floppy Disk Renovation, Gimp and C-Workshop (4).

TAWS v0.23 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: Added OS 1.0 and OS 1.1. OS 3.9: Start-up screen, AsyncWB and Trashcan. OS 4: More short keys and menu option, Early Start-up Control and Start-up screen. And many improvements for better emulation in IE, Firefox, Opera Chrome and OWB.

Redit - Amiga | Redit is a word processor for the Amiga computer. Redit can be used from Kickstart 1.2 and 0,5 MByte. Changes in this version: Create documents with the CLI interface. The tab size and colours are configurable. Status bar for cursor line and column. Switching between documents with a hotkey.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Megademo 1, 2, 3, Musicland 2, Jungle Mania, New York Warriors, Musication, E.C.E.S. Slideshow, Snap!, Det Kniber, Sane Sounds, Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style, King's Quest Enhanced, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis and Altered Destiny.

Vampire 600 | Mfilos tested the new Vampire 600 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 600 is developed by Majsta and has recently become available. On mfilos blog you can read about installing and configuring the new accelerator.

Jack v4.3 - Amiga | Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: APPDIR: is now accessible from the shell. Dashboard: Improved the function of the Go button. New Tab for Tech RSS NewsFeeds. Knowledge Base: Improved the function of the Go to website button.

Retro Asylum Podcast - 65 | Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode: Music from the Amiga. Matt Denaris talks about music from games and demos but also about other music that is made with the Amiga.

Boingsworld #47 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amigakit Joystick, Elbox Turboflyer 530, Rasberry Pi as Floppy, Odyssey 1.22 - MorphOS, A-Eon & ACube, MorphOS 3.4, Joypad Boomerang, Tetris, ACA 500, ACA 1232, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Hybris, Legend of Kyrandia, Solid Gold, BoingsWorld radio, torrent and RSS-Feed.

Galahad interview - Putty Squad | The Codetappers web page has had an interview with Galahad. In the year 1990 System 3 developed the game Putty Squad. But the game was not released for the Amiga. In 2013 System 3 announced that the game would be released for the modern consoles, but again not for the Amiga. Galahad contacted System 3 to offer his help to make an Amiga version. You can now read how Galahad made the Amiga version of Putty Squad.

Real AmiKit - v0.5 | Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. New in this version: BDWatch, BDSlide, WBStartup, WBRun, UAEquit, z.library, Clock faces drawer, Slide drawer in Prefs/Presets, Wallpapers, ShutDown, TinyMeter, Boot music, Copymem, MinStack, SaferPatches, Poolmem, VBRControl, ACATune 1.7, Start Menus and BlackBorder.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Seeing is Believing, Baal Title (Solar Mass Mix), Cannon Fodder (Amiga game intro) Reloaded, ball Illusions Remix 2012 remastered, Apidya, Scream Of The Earth, Amazing Fireworks and bris (Childhood memories).

V.A.M.P. v1.05 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Support for the m4v format from Apple. Fixed a bug in time uncounter of movie or song and added the seconds too. Added end time playback for movies in the information box.

YAM 2.9 | YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. After 6 months of development a new version of YAM is available. In this version many changes to YAM to make it possible to implement IMAP support in the future. Also many improvements and many small errors removed. YAM is available for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, AROS and MorphOS.

AmiKit v1.6.7 | A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: BDSLide, BDWatch, Codesets Library, IconLib, MCC_BetterString, MCC_NList, MCC_TheBar, OpenURL, playOGG, SimpleMail and WHDLoad.

Odyssey Web Browser 1.21 - MorphOS | Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The features are: WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5. Changes in this version: Updated to WebKit r155188. New Webinspector layout. Added proxy support and a TopSites feature. The latest version of ffmpeg and much more.

Online Amiga 500 Emulator | Christian Stefansen made it possible to use a Amiga 500 (PAL) emulator in the Chrome browser (version 31+). Before you can use the emulator you will need a Kickstart ROM. The source code of the emulator is available.

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