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Amiga Future #85 | Edition 85 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, The Tamar Herald. Interviews: Dave Haynie and AmiBoing. Shows: Vienna meeting. Reviews: Dodge these Balls, Aladdin, Lin City, SRB2 Riders, Hollywood 4.7, AmigaOS4.1 update 2, Open XUI, Just Name, Mad Floppy, Emulators and AmiCrypt. Hardware: iMica. Workshops: Get rid of shades (2), C-Workshop (2) and Managing addresses online (2). Special: Amiga Retrospective (19).

AmigaOS Plush Boingball | You can now buy a plush Boing Ball. The ball has a diameter of ca. 15cm and is hand made in Germany. It is possible to wash the ball and it has an certificate of Authenticity. You can use it as a decorative item or as a toy, but every Amiga fan should have one.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Slam Tilt demo (21st Century) and Christoph Kolumbus / Voyages Of Discovery (Software 2000). Improved: 1943 - The Battle of Midway, Extension (Pygmy Projects), Subtle Shades (Nuance), Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) and McDonald Land (Virgin).

VideoClipper v1.1 - Amiga | VideoClipper is a program for cutting and joining various video files. During conversion several adjustments can be made, for example: adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma, sharpness, blurring, fast/slow motion and rotation. You can also add titles and audio. Changes in this version: Buttons for start / end times. Add audio and titles after videos are joined. Video resolutions: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and 16:9 aspect ratio. Improved the VideoClipper guide.

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: Changed Hardware/PCI Bus/Class to display the base class, sub class & interface number in hex / text. Added DOS/TrackedAddr tab and more PCI bus class strings.

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: Flashtro - Sqrxz V 1.2, Silicon League - Mission Adromeda, SpreadPoint - Troddlers, Backlash - Street Fighter 2 and Wanted Team - Speedway Manager.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: 3D Galax 2013, Turrican Traps, Platoon (E/Rock 2013), Jumping Jackson, Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American, Turrican 2 Title, RSI Megademo - Loader, Turrican title, Stormlord ingame, RSI Megademo, GODS Into the wonderfull, Stormlord (intro) and Battle Squadron ingame.

Amiga game awards 2012 | 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 6, 2013.

Boingsworld #36 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Retro event in Oberhausen, EGame - Game launcher, MorphOS G5 Portierung, ACube - Minimig available again, Minimig cas in A1000 design, X500 Plus pre-order, Geit @ Home 1 - 2013, Hollywood Mui Royale 1.0, Thomas Dellert deceased, Barry Altman deceased, Videoclipper 1.0, Retrogamer now four times per year, TCP IP Stack Roadshow, Legend of Faerghail and CygnusED.

V.A.M.P. v0.92 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Improved movie time clock (hours:minutes:seconds). V.A.M.P. is now skinable, you can make your own skin and buttons or choose other skins. Big pictures are scaled to the window. And a few programming errors were removed.

Plouf! - Amiga | Aurélien Gâteau release an update of his party Plouf! The game is now translated to English. In the game you control a boat. You must try to sink the boat of the other players by throwing sea urchins at them. In the game you must collect sea urchins and you can increase your strength with the float bonuses.

Scripted Amiga Emulator v0.8 | Rupert Hausbergers made an Amiga Emulator with the help of Javascript and HTML 5. This emulator can be used inside a modern browser such as Chrome. Changes in this version: ECS and AGA support. Improvements for the audio, memory management, CPU, CIA and GUI. New games: Alien Breed 2, Lemmings, Pinball Fantasies, R-Type, Rubicon, Shadow of the Beast, Silkworm and Stunt Car Racer.

AEROS v3.5 | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS is a very fast desktop, and you can use AROS apps and AROS games. Changes in this version: Added the FS-UAE emulator, a new Linux kernel (3.2.0) and new Nvidia drivers.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Jaws Action, 9 Lives, Ninja Gaiden Episode II: The dark sword of chaos, Turbo Cup, City Cars, Super Grand Prix, Miami Chase, Night Walk, Turbo Racer, Tiny Troops, SQRXZ 2, Ultimate Xtreme Racing and Hägar the Horrible.

Szalter - Amiga | Szalter is a new game for the Amiga made by Benedykt Dziubałtowski and Czesław Mnich. In the game you must turn on all the light-bulbs. The light-bulbs switch on or off when you walk by them. The game can be played on a 68k Amiga (diskette or hard disk).

Ri-li - AROS | Ri-li is an arcade game for AROS. In the game you drive a toy locomotive and you must collect all the coaches to win. The game has 50 levels, great music and supports 20 languages. The game is also available for Linux, Mac OsX, Windows and AmigaOS4.

Interview with Dave Semmens | The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Dave Semmens. Dave worked on many Amiga games, a few examples are: Rainbow Warriors (1989), SAS Combat Simulator (1990), Spellfire The Sorceror (1990), Kid Gloves 2: The Journey Back (1992), The Incredible Crash Dummies (1994) and The Lion King (1995).

Amiga Future #100 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News and Up2Date. Reviews: A Frog Game, Tap Jewels, Timebomb, Highway Patrol II, Nether Earth, Triplane, Tux Football, KETM, gOCR, AmiCygnix 1.2, Data Display, AmigaOS 4 Update 6. Workshop: Data processing with AmigaDOS (4), C-Workshop (17). Special: Modding: LED, Turbokarten ACA, Poster, Breezin, The Making of Amiga Future. Interviews: Tomasz Muszyski, Gerhard Bauer en Kassian Alexander Goukassian, Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt.

Smilla Enlarger - MorphOS | Michal Wozniak made an MorphOS version of the Smilla Enlarger program. Smilla Enlarger is a small graphical tool to resize bitmaps in high quality. The program, developed by Mischa Lusteck, makes it possible to use small pictures and enlarge them to very big pictures with a special algorithm.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Speedball Cracktro (Ackerlight), Megademo (Excellence), Eye Of The Storm (Rebellion) and Colorado (Scoopex). Improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17), The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) and Gunshoot (Micropartner).

eGame - Amiga | eGame is a program that makes it possible to easily search through a list of games you want to play. The program is made by Christopher Handley and is written in the PortablE programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. The free version is limited to displaying 10 game, if you want the full version you will have to make a small donation.

MorphOS - SDK 3.2 | The MorphOS Team released a new SDK (v3.2) for MorphOS. In this SDK the latest versions of GCC, Bash and GNU-Tools are included. Included are also the recent MorphOS Includes and documentation. The SDK can be used with MorphOS 3.1 or higher.

Annotate v3.0.1 - Amiga | Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor. Changes in this version: Tool commands with a output window. Improved: Rectangular selection, Manual, String escaping (XML prefs), Tools edit page, $ VER : string and Text redrawing.

XRoar v0.29.1 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. Changes in this version: Improved the CPU, PIA, keyboard and the video module. Simple ACIA emulation. Becker and Hitachi 6309 support.

YAM 2.8 | YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. Changes in this version: Updated translations: Czech, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish and English. Online documentation. Multi-identity system with signature support. SSL certificate authentication support. Support for Mail-Followup-To / Mail-Reply-To and much more. Please visit the YAM web page for all the details.

Icaros Desktop 1.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: ABIv0 kernel, GRUB2 v2.0, AmiBridge preferences tool, Real3D, TVPaint, XAMOS, HarmonyPlayer, Candy Crisis, Cave Story, Neverball, Neverputt, Hurrican, pforth, FlexCat, irrxml, YAM, OpenURL, DiskImage, Annotate, fpc, LiveUpdater and Mupen64.

Boingsworld #35 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: ACA 620 available again, Opus Magellan 2: source code available, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, Roadshow for AmigaOS 2/3, AmigaAMP 3.5 for AmigaOS 4, Game: Santa's Monster Shootout, New Scando/Flickerfixer for A1200/A4000, Simple Mail 0.39, YAM 2.8 for all Amiga Systems, Status of the MorphOS G5 project, MorphOS: OWB 1.18, Pixelor Portal, Kraut & Rüben on Youtube and Archive.org.

X-BENCH v0.8 | 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: New design and effects for intro, menu and loading screen. Improved the system for showing large set of names. Added a start-up tab, Del key switch option and a Xbench start option. Many optimisations for the program and removed a few errors.

ScanJuggler XAGA | ScanJuggler XAGA is a scan-doubler and flicker-fixer for the Amiga 1200 and 4000. There are two versions available, normal and lite. The lite version has VGA and an 768 x 580 resolution, the normal version has DVI-I with an 1280 x 600 resolution. The scan doubler will be available soon, visit the ScanJuggler web page for all the details.

AmigaAMP 3.5 - 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: Added: Rec option, MOD support (libmodplug) and region.txt support for skins. Improved: Tag editor layout and playlist scanning.

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: Australian Crackers United - Ninja Warriors and Turrican, Action - F15 Strike Eagle II, Mad Monks - AUSTRALOPITICUS, Defjam - Bubble Bobble, Alpha Flight - Crackers Journal Intro, Oracle - TBird and World Cup 90.

Arnold v1.15 - AmigaOS 4 | Arnold is an emulator of the Amstrad/Schneider CPC for the Amiga. The 8-bit Amstrad CPC was introduced in the year 1984. The first CPC has an Z80 CPU, 64 kBytes RAM, 16 colour video and a three channel audio chip. The later CPC models have more RAM and more colours. The Arnold emulator has audio, RAMROM device, tape, disk and cartridge emulation and built-in ROMs.

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