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SketchBlock v2.3 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Splash screen on start-up, Improvements for Selection Masks, Transform Plugin GUIs, Macro Recording, Internal text creation and antialiasing of paths fills.

Amiga Future #104 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: GBA1000@060, Cropky, TORCS, Speed Dreams, GlowTrack, Solomon's Key, Hunesion, Magic Boy, Age of Thieves, MACE, Paradise Lost, YAM, Fastview, AmigaOS 4 Dockies, NetBSD, WinUAE, FSUAE, AEROS - Raspberry Pi. Special: Amiga Scene, Classic Reflections (11) MacroSystem. Workshops: Programming AmigaOS 4 (2). Miscellaneous: Interview Till Harbaum (MIST), Silicon Dreams & Vintage Computer Festival 2013.

Fúria EC020 - Amiga 600 | The Fúria EC020 is an turbo-card for the Amiga A600. The card is developed by Boris Krizma and is now in production. The specifications are: CPU: MC68EC020 (28 MHz), MMU: MC68882 (28 MHz), 8MB FastRAM, 1,5 MB SlowRAM, 1,5 MB SW FastRAM and the possibility to over-clock the system to 37,8 Mhz.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Turrican II - Desert Rocks (metal version 1.1), Beyond The Ice Palace (metal version), Goldrunner (Maccie Pimp Me Up Remix), Aeromute (multi-platform-remix, Turrican II - Traps, Stardust Memories, Pirates - Retromix, Turrican - Freedom Titanic Remix, Logical Green, Apprentice Title Remix (Short Edit), Echoing remix, Turrican 2 - Level 1 remix, Turrican 2 - Traps (Turricano Dos - El Trapo), Elvira (The Frozen Earth), Bubble Bobble Title and Agony Medley.

Boingsworld #43 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Geit@Home, Amiga Meeting 2013, Classic Computing 2013, Amedia Computer, FPGA-Turbo card: Vampire 600, Key file for WarpView, DMA Design writes Lemming statutes, Mike Oldfield used an Amiga, Tetris lights, Erben der Erde, HBMonopoly, HBMonopoly Minion GFX, Beneath a Steel Sky and Asgard Met Vikings.

Tunnels & Trolls - Amiga | Tunnels & Trolls is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre in 1975. In this Amiga version you do not need paper, dice, cards or the T&T rulebook. The supported adventures are: Abyss, Amulet of the Salkti, Arena of Khazan, Beyond the Silvered Pane, Blue Frog Tavern, Buffalo Castle, Captif d'Yvoire, Caravan to Tiern, City of Terrors, Dargon's Dungeon, Deathtrap Equalizer, Gamesmen of Kasar, Goblin Lake, Labyrinth, Mistywood, Naked Doom, Overkill, Red Circle, Sea of Mystery, Sewers of Oblivion, Sorcerer Solitaire, Sword for Hire, Trollstone Caverns and Weirdworld.

X-Surf 100 - Amiga | X-Surf 100 is an 100 Mbit Ethernet Zorro-II/III card for the Amiga. The card can be used in a A2000, A3000 or the A4000. Specifications: 100 Mbit, 32-bit Zorro-III interface or Sana-II device (OS 2.0 - OS 3.9), Gold-plated Zorro contacts. The card is also prepared for a forthcoming high-speed USB module.

BetterWB v2.9 | 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: Improvements for MIDI, Printfiles tool, PFS3, SuperPlus and DMS. Added: Gzip, LZX, DontShowIBorder, ModePro, MagicMenu and TSGUI. More general improvements and removed some errors.

Amiga NetBSD v6.1.1 | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line of personal computers. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga with Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU. The minimum RAM requirement is about 8 MB FASTMEM, the minimum hard disk space needed is about 75 MB. Recent changes: Security updates, Bug fixes and a driver improvement for Deneb expansion cards.

Wakkabox - AROS | Wakkabox is a game for AROS. The game is originally developed by Kenneth Lorenz Knowles and cavemann made the AROS version. Wakkabox is an amusing block shuffling puzzle game written in C using SDL. In the game you must move the big block with the red dot to the opposite position on the board.

Nano VM 3.1.0 - Amiga | Nano is a register based virtual machine. The Nano VM core has 64 bit registers for integer and double numbers. Features are: Types: byte, short int, long int, long long int (64 bit), double and string. Arrays, ANSI output, file I/O, Multi-threading, TCP/IP socket and virtual memory.

Asgard Met Vikings - Amiga | Asgard Met Vikings is a game for the Amiga. The game is written by pinhead, Lemmy made the graphics and the music is from Premium. In the game you must catch as many bottles as possible thrown by Odin from Asgard. The game can be played with one or two players on a Amiga with 1 MB RAM.

FlipPaper - Amiga | FlipPaper is a MUI program which will allow you to manage your wallpaper pictures and swap automatically between them periodically. The program is available in the following languages: English, Czech, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Swedish and German. Recent changes: Improved the random showing of pictures. No more slowdown when changing pictures.

Valtra Tractors - AROS | Valtra Tractors is a game for AROS made by Martin Storsjö. In this game you must build the longest route that is possible. But you must also prevent that other people make a long route. The game is based on the board game with the same name.

Tower Toppler - AROS | Tower Toppler is a game for AROS and is a clone of the game Nebulus. The original Nebulus game is created by John M. Phillips and published by Hewson in 1987. In the game you walk around a tower and you have to deactivate the evil mechanism inside the tower. But the tower is guarded by strange robots.

Assist v1.6 - 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: Page numbers below the articles list. Improved button descriptions and OS4Depot downloading. Requester if AmiCygnix or Qt is needed. Added 40 new articles and updated various others.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Manic Raves 2 (Logic System). Improved: Monoxide (Vanish), Don Martin Music Disk (Hypnosis), Megademo (Beastie Boys), Manic Raves 2 (Logic System), Megademo 3 (Alcatraz), Megademo (Precise), Digital Complexity (Crass) and Music Disk (Thrust).

Excalibur v1.4.2 - Amiga | KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Changes in this version: Improvements for the (un)install script, configuration and menus. New icons and back theme. Added min/max to integer options in preference menu.

HollyPaint v1.1 - Amiga | HollyPaint is a bitmap graphics editor written in the Hollywood-MAL programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. Recent changes: Colour wheel and alpha sliders in separate window. Individual setting of colour for gradient, shadow and edge. Loading and saving of transparent brushes. More filters and a Arc tool. Invert for: brush, mask and alpha. And many more improvements.

UAE4ALL - Dreamcast | UAE4ALL is an Open Source Amiga500 emulator for the Dreamcast console. The current version is a release candidate, but lots of games are running at the moment. Recent changes: SuperThrottle, ADZ support, Save diskette changes to VMU, 2 Floppy drives emulation, Throttle and Autoframeskip.

Jack v4.0.7 - 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: MACE added to Entwickler-X Games tab. Improved search for the AppStore. More QT software in the AppStore. Improved VAT Calculator, and a few layout improvements for the dashboard.

Hexgem - AmigaOS 4 | Hugues Nouvel released Hexgem for the Amiga. Hexgem is a puzzle game using hexagonal gems. In the game you must swap two gems and align three or more gems to make them disappear. The game is written by Pepone, the music is from FoxSynergy and spicypixel made the font.

Trevor Dickinson interview | David Brunet from the web page Obligement has had a interview with Trevor Dickinson. Trevor is the man behind the company A-EON Technology Ltd. A-EON makes modern hardware for AmigaOS, an example is the AmigaOne X1000. Trevor talks about the development of the Nemo motherboard and the new Cyrus Plus project.

The Zod Engine - AmigaOS 4 | Juha Niemimaki made an AmigaOS 4 version of the game Zod Engine. The Amiga version is in development and is in a beta stage at the moment. In the game you must conquer the universe. Your team is going from planet to planet fighting with the Blue forces under the command of General Zod.

Boingsworld #42 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: FPGA Arcarde, Petro Tyschtschenko, Hollywood 5.3, Viva Amiga, OS4 - Delock PCIe, X1000 HD Audio driver, X1000 v3, X2000 / X4000, M.A.C.E. Demo, EntwicklerX, BAS User-Meeting, AmiWorx and Tales of Gorluth.

Cracktros - Amiga | The Cracktros web page added more new cracktros to the database last month. The new cracktos are from the following groups: LSD, Scoopex, Crystal, Dual Crew, Hoodlum, X-Men, Dual Crew Shining, Hellfire, 2000 A.D., Alpha Flight, Cascade, Crux, Endless Piracy, Accession, Crack Inc. and Fairlight.

Ami Jackpot - v1.01 | Morgue Soft released a new game for the Amiga. The game is a Amiga version of the classic slot machines from casinos and bingos. The program is made with the help of Hollywood. The language of the game is English, and is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows and WarpOS.

ZuneFIG - AmigaOS 4 | Yannick Erb released the program ZuneFIG. ZuneFIG is a vector based drawing program based on XFig. This version is enhanced in many ways and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The most recent changes are: Anti-aliasing and Alpha channel support for SVG export.

AmiArcadia - v21.2 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: Added title bar message: recording and playback. Improved de-multiplexing and the help function for the Interton games. Improvements to the debugger T-command. And repaired the Elektor game Rocket Hunting.

QCodeEdit - AmigaOS 4 | QCodeEdit is a text editing framework for the Amiga. The features are: Excellent speed. Low memory usage. High-lighting, brace matching, auto-indenting and code folding. Unlimited undo/redo, dynamic line wrapping and a easy to use search function.

AmigaAMP 3.9 - 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 system for wsz skins. The AppIcon position is now correct. UTF8 conversion in FLAC meta-data. Automatically sorting of files alphabetically when loading directories. New skin and icon sets by DjNick, TommySammy and Samo79.

TAWS v0.22 | 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: Support for Internet Explorer 10. Russian texts are now available. The disk drive can be disabled. Improvements for the preferences and many bug fixes.

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