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MorphOS 3.4 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version. More support for Apple systems. New REXX commands. Improvements for Rdesktop, Scandal, Scribble, Sketch, Transfer, VPDF, Lha, NetConfig, Devs, Libs, MUI, Prefs, Reggae, Tools and Utilities.

Saga 1.84 - Amiga | Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game Saga: Age of Heroes, for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms. Changes in this version: New option: Watch Amiga movements and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

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: Taipan - New Stuff, Taipan - Dragon Breed, Scoopex - Snow Bros, Megaforce - 944 Turbo Cup, The Power Connection - It Came from the Desert and Stoneware & Morque - Stonecracker.

Gary Dunne interview | Gary Dunne started programming on the Commodore VIC-20, followed by the Atari 800XL, the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga. Gary made the games Toobz, Infection and Confuzion for the Amiga.

BetterWB v3.2 | 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. Changes in this edition: DosPrefs, Trashcan, Improvements for MagicMenu, Boards.library, requestchoice command, Tooltypes and Format GUI.

Amiga Forum #007 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: Rivalry between Amiga OS 4 and MorphOS. Review: UFO - Enemy Unknown. Interview: Henry Erngren Ohlén. News: SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic and SEUCK. Novell, TRSAC, The Making of The Insider, the short story and SEUCK games.

WinUAE v2.7.0 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: SCSI tape drive emulation, A2065 emulation, improved 68020 emulation, new field based interlace options, cycle-exact CIA TOD counter, solved problems with the XBox 360 pad, RTG mode video recording, lzx decompressor, CD CUE file parsing and much more.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Paradise Lost (Silicon Twins), WHDLoad V17.2, Wild (Anadune & Nah-Kolor), Optical Dreams (Addict), Aloha (Rebels), Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels), Spaced Out Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields), Spaced Out Vol. 1 (Magnetic Fields), Sound Atax Vol. 3 (Magnetic Fields), Chip Music Festival (Magnetic Fields) and Sound Atax Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields). Improved: Hybris (Discovery Software), Elf (Ocean), Demo Disk (Quest), Wicked (Electric Dreams/Binary Vision) and Kick Off (ANCO).

Jon Hare interview (Cannon Fodder) | The web page Eurogamer.net had an interview with Jon Hare (Sensible Software). In this interview Jon tells about the development of Cannon Fodder. The original concept of Cannon Fodder was a Rambo style game with a troop element. But at Sensible software they did not make a complete plan before the game development was started. Many of the elements were added when they were making the game. You can read all the details about Cannon Fodder in the interview.

TurboFlyer 530 | Elbox Computer will release the TurboFlyer 530 in the next year. The TurboFlyer 530 is a new 68030-based accelerator with integrated FastATA CF/SATA controller for Amiga 500/500+ and A2000 computers. Features: 68030 processor (with MMU) @ 40MHz, 16MB fast 32-bit DRAM. Visit the Elbox web page for more details.

ACA500 | The ACA500 turbo card from Individual Computers will be available at the end of this year. The ACA is connected to the expansion port of the Amiga 500. The features of the new product are: 68EC000-10 CPU @ 14 MHz, 2 MB RAM, two CF-card connectors, compatible with internal memory expansions, expansion port, clock port, Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs and the ACA500 is WHDload compatible.

Oricutron v1.1 | Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for scan lines, full screen options and the Pravetz 8D ROM. Disk and tape image auto detection, auto run for Jasmin and Pravetz diskettes, various AY emulation improvements and simplified the system timing.

Bloboats - AROS | Bloboats is a new game for AROS. The original game is made by Markus Kettunen and is a boat racing game. In the game you must reach the MS Enterprise as fast as possible to save it from the tentacles of a terrible monster. You start somewhere in the United States, and your destination is Helsinki.

SketchBlock v2.5 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: It is now possible to make a lists of colours (palettes). Poster transformation. A script for making circles. Improvements to the menus and removed some small errors.

Amiga keyboard | Amedia Computer has now a new keyboard for sale. This keyboard has all the keys that are on the Amiga computers. The logos on the keys not sticker but printed on the keys. The keyboard is connected with USB and is available in black or white and as QWERTY or AZERTY.

Boingsworld #46 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Petro Tyschtschenko, Virtual Dimension Retroplay, RoadShow 1.11, Battle Squadron AmigaOS4, Bounty OWB, Viva Amiga, Minimig Case, No Amiga versie of Putty Squad?, Alchimie X, Game DVD1 AmigaOS 4, Z3SDRAM, Classic Computer, Hardware-Retrocomputing (5), Peter Sieg, Atari Jaguar and the Amiga CD32.

Plipbox | Plipbox is an device that allows to connect Amiga's via Ethernet to your local network. The device uses a an Arduino and connects to the parallel port. Changes in this version: Automatic MAC address. Automatic connection to Ethernet module. Improved parallel line protocol. Added: Full duplex Ethernet, flow control and an error log system.

Assist v1.7 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Added a web search button, Assistants for Workbench and new articles. More options for gadgets and more ARexx commands.

Amiga Drive | The Amiga Drive is a replacement for the disk drive in the Amiga. This device is developed by Maurizo Ramondo and uses an Raspberry Pi mini computer and a small interface. Maurizo has written a program for the Raspberry Pi that will emulate the disk drive. The Amiga diskette images are placed on the SD card. You can read all the details on the web page of Maurizo.

X-bEnCh v0.91F | 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. Changes in this version: Improvements for Xinit and Xsetup. This version will end the Beta status of X-bEnCh, and is the first stable version.

Sqrxz 2 - Amiga OS4 | Sqrxz 2 is now also available for Amiga OS4. Changes in this version: All enhancements from Sqrxz 3 are included. Improvements for frame skipping, sound effects and saving of the configuration. Sqrxz is also available for Playstation Portable, NetBSD, RaspberryPi, MorphOS, Linux and Windows.

SnapIT - Amiga OS4 | SnapIT is a powerful and simple to use screen grabber for AmigaOS4. Changes in this version: Updated JPEG/PNG save routines. New icon set from Thomas Blatt. Italian translation by Samir Hawamdeh and added support for a key file. SnapIT is also available for AROS and MorphOS.

AmiMag #02 | AmiMag is a French pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News, The Time Machine, Pub Micronik, CD-32, Amiga emulation, WB install, Pin-Up, Videopac, Icons, HDD, Pitfall, GBS-8200, What are they now, Record T07, Viscorp, Labo Amos, DemoMania, Napalm, SOFB II and ExtraAmiMag.

Scriba v1.9.9 - MorphOS | Scriba is a simple word processor for MorphOS, developed by Carsten Siegner. Changes in this version: The text in a table can now include hyperlinks. Table can be saved as: HTML, CSV, ODS or XMLSS. And now you can generate webpages including lists, tables, background, pictures links and text.

Amiga mixer | Amiga mixer is a program for the Amiga that can control you audio. It supports many soundcards: SBLive/SBAudigy, FM801, Envy24HT, Solo-1 and many others. Changes in this version: Re-enabled AHI open/close. Removed the serial debug output. Improvements for the fader, save options and docky.

Amiga Power #52 | Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: News, Qt AmigaOS v4.1., Console emulators, MorphOS v3.3 & iBook, PCMCIA2CF, Soft Keyboard Essential B, Strife, Interviews: ACube Systems and Slobman, MorphOS v3.2 Mobile and Basilisk II AmigaOS v4.1.

Jérôme Senay interview | The Swedish web page Safir has had an interview with Jérôme Senay. Jérôme, also known as Glames, is the man behind the company Boing Attitude. Jérôme is the developer of Word Me Up, Ask Me Up and Dir Me Up. The game Word Me Up is a combination of an arcade game and a memory game. Ask Me Up is a quiz game and Dir Me Up is a program for easy access of your hard disk, USB, CD etc. You can read the whole interview on the Safir web page.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Jesus On E's - The Audio Remake, Battle Squadron (Syntax Error Stockholm Tribute), Harlequin - Coming To Chimerica, The Pawn (Twilight Remix), Turrican 2 - Freedom, Turrican 2 (Remix D3M0), Pat Strikes Back, Unit A F18 Interceptor Crack Tune, Shadow of the Beast III - On the run, Cybrenoid II - Epic RMX, Another World - Tribute Remix, Xenon 2 Megablast - Vintage Remix and The First Samurai - Echoes RMX.

Twin Distress - AROS | Twin Distress is a game for AROS made by Keith Frampton. In the game you must remove all of the blocks from the screen before your time runs out. You can only remove two blocks and they must have the same colour. The following levels become more difficult because the available time will be shorter.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Assemblo (World Industries), Algebra (Dragon Stone), Assembly '92 Slideshow (World Industries), Beat Box (The Warfalcons), Snap! (Rebels), Trashcan (Wizzcat), Overdose (Delight), Gladiator Music (Cryptoburners), Beyond Justice (Dexion), Music Disk (Dexion), Songs of Infinity (Pointless), Electric Sound 3 (Goonies), The Prey (Polka Brothers), Musicbox 3 (Gate) and Peace in the Gulf (Animators). Improved: Alien Syndrome (SEGA).

Amiga Future #105 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: VM switch, Asgard met Vikings, Archon, Battle Squadron, Metro-Cross, Magic Ball, FS-UAE Net Play, DigiBooster 3 Beta 26, Scriba, aTunes, Sketchblock, qOrganizer, Quickly Translate, SMTube, QsimpleSheet and AmigaMonkey (1). Special: Amiga Scene, Klassische Besinnungen (12) and Great Valley Productions (1). Workshops: Programming with AmigaOS4 (3). Miscellaneous: AmiJAM, Classic Computing, Interviews: Martin B. Pedersen and Andreas Streu.

Simon Phipps interview | The web blog Amigatronics had an interview with Simon Phipps. Simon is a game developer and worked on games for the Amiga like Rick Dangerous (Firebird), Rick Dangerous II (MicroStyle) and Switchblade (Gremlin Graphics). You can download the (English) interview from the Amigatronics web page.

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