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RunInUAE | A new version of RunInUAE (r5) is available. RunInUAE is a system that makes it possible to run old Amiga games or programs on Amiga OS4. And RunInUAE comes with an easy installer. Changes in this version: If not available a WB3.1 will be created. Improved emulation performance. Added a Help menu item. Added Mason's icons for RunInUAE's folder, plus UAE's folder and program. A comprehensive online manual (English) for RunInUAE is available.

Cube 2 - AROS | Krzysztof Smiechowicz made an AROS version of the game Cube 2 : Sauerbraten. Cube 2 is an First Person Shooter with fast game-play and beautiful 3D graphics. Cube 2 for AROS is the first game that uses the advanced capabilities and features of AROS 3D sub-system. The game comes with a configuration tool to optimize the game for the available video card.

XRoar v0.25.1 - 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. XRoar is available for the Amiga OS4, GP32, Nintendo Dual Screen, Linux and the PSP. In this version many new options, bug fixes, improved audio and CPU emulation improvements.

Worm Wars v8.67 - Amiga | Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: When killing creatures, it briefly shows the points they are worth. Improved rabbit movement. New bonus level: hunt the rabbits. Worm Wars is available for: AmigaOS 2-3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows.

Amiga Future Ausgabe 91 | The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future 91 has been released. In this edition: Interviews: ACube, Chris Raynor and Manfred Kleinmann. AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, WebP, ScummVM, BlueManager, Amiga911Maker, Pentagram, Nuvie, Flare, Alien Fish Finger, Personal Nightmare, Volkscomputer, C-Workshop Teil 8, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench Teil 2, AmigaOne X1000 Update, Amiga Timeline Teil 2, Der passende Amiga für jeden.

Cracktros | The Cracktros web page added more than 15 new cracktros to the database last couple of weeks. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: Vision Factory, Wanted Team, Unit A, TRSI & Zenith and TRSI.

Fortis v1.2 | Fortis is a game for MorphOS. The game has 36 levels in 3 stages. The game increases in difficulty when you get to higher levels. It has great sound effect, a weapons store, changeable back-grounds, diversity of enemies, pick-ups in the bonus levels, three language interface and much more. New in this version: Better management of CPU usage. USB joystick / joypad support. Compiled with MorphOS SDK 2.0.

HxC floppy emulator | For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. With this device you can connect the original floppy controller in the computer to a SD memory card or a USB port on a PC. Recent changes in the firmware: New track generator. Variable bit-rate support. Kurzweil KRZ file support. Many new file systems supported for example ADF Amiga / UAE Extended and D81 (C64+1581). SD-card settings window and much more.

Hyperion Entertainment Support Forum | Hyperion Entertainment has now a forum for customers. The forum has the following categories: General, AmigaOS 4.x including Classic, AmigaOne, Sam and Pegasus, Games (Shogo, Heretic II, Freespace, Quake II) and Developer (Generic and SDK). The language on the forum is English.

Klix - Amiga | KeHo Software released a thinking game for the Amiga. The game is made by Achim Kern, and is programmed in the Hollywood programming language. In the game Klix you need to push stones into a target template. This game is available for MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3 and AROS.

Amiga Future 75 en 76 | The editions 75 and 76 of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future are now on-line available. In these editions: News, Cheats, Interviews with: ACube, Hans-Jörg Frieden, DasTier, Claus Desler and Gareth Murfin, Classic Computing, Pianeta, Evoke, Mattonite, Amiga Forever, AmigaSYS, AmiSoundEd, OWB, netPanzer, NoWinEd, AmyCynixm, AISS, Opus, SAM, S-Video adapter, Indivision AGA, Keyboard interface A1200, GTI Amiga.

Cracktros | The Cracktros web page added more than 30 new cracktros to the database last couple of weeks. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: World Of Wonders, Accumulators, Ackerlight, ACU, Amaze, Amiga Power Team, Bionic Commando, Crack Inc., Hoodlum, Comax, Crystal, Esprit, Genesis and Angels, The Movers, Interpol, Paradox, Progress, Rainbow Trio, Scotsoft, Skid Row, Tectron, Triangle, TRSI, Bamiga Sector One, Decade, Dytec, Faith, Alpha Flight, Anthrox and Backlash.

AMIGA SEUCK competition | AmigaPd has launched a SEUCK competition for the Amiga. The rules for the competition are simple. The game has to be created using SEUCK for the Amiga and it must be an original game you made yourself or with a team. The competition will close on the 1 st of October 2011 and the winner will receive a cash price of £30.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Legacy (Hexodus), Web of Terror (Impressions). Updated: Apprentice (Rainbow Arts), Demon Blue (MicroValue), Creatures (Thalamus), D/Generation (Mindscape), Conflict: Europe (PSS). Fixed: Misja Harolda (MarkSoft), Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software).

WinUAE 2.3.2 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In this version a new AROS ROM and a new auto-fire option. A serial port telnet server was added. The disk emulation accuracy and the CIA timer are improved. And many bug fixes, you can read all the details on the WinUAE web page.

Amiga Mania 1 | Amiga Mania is a new Amiga magazine (pdf) from Hungary. In this edition: Amiga 1000, Jay Miner, A500+, A600, Hollywood, Alien Breed poster, Tales from Heaven, Duke Nukem 3D, Street Rod and Locomotion.

Icaros Desktop v1.3 | Version 1.3 of Icaros Desktop is now available. A few examples of this version are: Better looking desktop with new fonts, icons and backgrounds. New AmiBridge. Games: Giana's Return, Sqrzx, Joleem, Eat the Whistle, Foo Billiard and more. Emulators for: Spectrum, Commodore, Mega Drive, Game Gear, DosBox and more. Remote desktop.

AmiArcadia v16.0 | Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. The version for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows are now updated to v16.0. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. A few examples of these consoles are: Elektor, Astro Wars, Malzak 1, Chaos 2 and PHUNSY.

A604 Memory expansion | Individual Computers released a successor to the A603 memory expansion for the Amiga 600. The specifications of the A604 are: 1 MB additional Chip RAM, Clock (with battery), Clock-port, Second clock-port for a Subway USB controller (60% faster), Expansion socket for an Indivision ECS. The A604 will be for sale in the near future at the Vesalia.de web shop.

AmigaOS 4.1 for classic Amigas | You can now order AmigaOS 4.1 for your classic Amiga. To use Amiga OS 4.1 you will need a A1200, A3000 or A4000 with a Cyberstorm PPC or Blizzard PPC accelerator board. Changes in this version: Improved bootloader, Updated kernel, Support for virtual memory, ZorRAM and DKB 3128, Support for PCI sound card, Native FastATA driver support and much more. AmigaOS 4.1 for classic Amigas will be delivered with two printed manuals, CD and diskette.

AmiBridge - Icaros desktop | Paolo Besser has been working on AmiBridge scripts for Icaros. AmiBridge is used to run AmigaOS 68K applications inside AROS. In a video you can see a demonstration of the improved version of Amibridge. And there is also a hint, that there will be a new version of Icaros in the near future.

Amiga Future 73 and 74 | The editions 73 and 74 of the English and German A miga magazine Amiga Future are now on-line available. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews: Natami, Thilo Köhler, Lunapaint and Metin Seven, Poseidon, WinUAE, Cinnamon Writer, Cave Story, Goldener Amiga, Fritz!Box modem, Hoi, ColorTRack, OWB, Amiga 1200, Deneb, Amiga 600 Projekt.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Megademo 2 (Disorder), Mega Motion (Extend Design/Black Legend), Locomotion (KingSoft), Turrican demo (Rainbow Arts), Lost In Mine (MarkSoft). Improved or updated: Moonstone (Mindscape), Lost In Mine (MarkSoft), Never Ending Story 2 (Linel).

ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: Onion (Neural and Rebels), Kheper (Moods Plateau), Massive (Skarla), Spitz (Focus Design), Fourskin (RNO), Human Traffic (Ghostown and Loonies), Shake Off The Dust (Elude) and Swansong (Dekadence).

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added many new longplay Amiga games last couple of months. A few examples are: Spatial Hyperdrive, Cytron, Action Fighter, Psycho Killer, Final Gate, Toado, Town with no name, Psycho, Baba Yaga, Moonwalker, Mega Phoenix and many more.

OWB 3.32 | Jörg Strohmayer released an update of OWB. OWB (Origyn Web Browser) is an web browser for AmigaOS 4.x. In this version: Updates for libcurl and curl-ca-bundle.crt. Fast Mobile Scrolling. NETRC for HTTP authentication. COOKIENAME and COOKIEDOMAIN tool-types. Visit the web page for all the details.

NetSurf v2.7 | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in version 2.7 are: Improved bitmap caching and file-type handling. Better clipboard handling, icon usage, downloading and stability. Added history content menus to back and forward buttons. You can view all details in the ChangeLog file.

TAWS v0.16 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript-Simulation of the Amiga-Workbench for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. In this version many improvements and bug fixes. You can read all the details in the file TAWS/Browsers in the directory Systems.

AmigaAMP v2.25 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player using the 68k or PPC processor for the decoding. It can also play AIFF, WAV and 8SVX files. Changes in this version: Removed a bug in the xadmaster.library and in loading of complete directories. Fixed mouse button message handling and UTF support in ID2v3. Improved playlist keyboard navigation and implemented basic ID2v4 support. The minimum requirements are: AmigaOS 3.0 and a 68030-50MHz processor.

Automatic monitor switch for Amiga | André Pfeiffer (Ratte) developed a automatic monitor switch for the Amiga computer. The switch is a Do It Yourself project, but there is a very good tutorial on how to assemble the monitor switch. The monitor switch can be used with the Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000 computers with a IndivisionAGA with CybervisionPPC or BVision. For all the details you can visit the a1k.org web page.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Cap 'N' Carnage (Energize), Neuronics (Thalion), Up Scope - Arcadia (Grand Products). Updated or improved: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel), Toobin (Domark), Kid Gloves 2 (Millennium), Cosmic Spacehead (Codemasters), Portal (Activision), Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds (Team 17), History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte), Mental Image Game Disk 2 (Mental Images), Baal (Psyclapse), Anarchy (Psyclapse), Atomix (Thalion), Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin).

BoingsWorld #14 | You can now listen to the episode 14 of BoingsWorlds. The themes in this one hour show are: ToolTime (Tools und nützliche Helferlein), Amiga Games and Amiga vor 20 Jahren. The show is in the German language and is available as .mp3 or .ogg file.

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