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WinUAE 2.2.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available. In this new version the following: Game Ports and Input GUI update, 1G Chip RAM support, 7zip SDK updated, Triple/Double/No buffering option added to GUI, WASAPI and PortAudio volume control support and more. Visit the web page for all the details.

Boings World #5 | You can listen to a Podcast of Boings World (German Language). Episode 5 is about modding your amiga. Also in this episode: Game-classic. You can listen to the episodes via the Boings World web page.

Amiga music tools | Three tools for music on the Amiga are available. Normalize is a tool for adjusting the volume of audio files to a standard level. mp3gain 1.5.1, MP3Gain analyses and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. VorbisTools can be used for Vorbis music files.

25 Year Amiga Party | In the Babylon in Heerhugowaard (the Netherlands) there will be a party to celebrate 25 years of Amiga. The party will be on the 24th of July 2010. On this date it will be exactly 25 years ago that the Amiga 1000 was introduced. The day will be about the Amiga and the creative scene that belongs to the Amiga.

APoV #4 | There is a new edition available of the APov (Amiga Point of View) magazine. In this English pdf magazine the following reviews: Leander, Dragon's Breath, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Operation Wolf, Cabal, Cavitas, Pinball Fantasies, Akira, The king of Chicago and WWF Wrestlemania.

HyperCannon v1.1 - MorphOS | Kelly Samel released an update of his intense action shooter HyperCannon. This game has many levels of gameplay, fully animated graphics, huge number of onscreen objects and arcade and survival modes. In this update: Fixed joypad remapping, a timer bug, never ending wave bug and the Esc key exits game now. The game can be downloaded from Kelly's web page.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: 1st Division Manager (Codemasters), T-Zer0 demo (clickBOOM), The Art Of Chess (SPA), Profezia (Genias), Chess Player 2150 (Oxford Softworks). Improved: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment), Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games), Cybernoid 2 (Hewson), Cybernoid (Hewson), Extension (Pygmy Projects), Golden Axe (Virgin), Chess Player 2150, Workbench 3.1 (CBM). Fixed: Car Vup (Core Design), Sensible Soccer (Sensible Software), Xenon (Bitmap Brothers).

Icaros Desktop 1.2.2 | An update of the Icaros Desktop is now ready for download. A few of the improvements or new items are: Faster and more reliable fat.handler, Catweasel MKIV PCI controller support, Improved OHCI USB controllers support, Updated ArosPDF, MPlayer and DirectoryOpus, Added OpenTyrian, Super Methane Bros., Jabberwocky chat client, Remote Desktop client and vnc client.

Tracker Hero | Tracker Hero is a musical game for the Amiga that uses MOD song files. It can be played with keyboard, joystick or guitar. The game can be played on a Amiga with AGA and kickstart 2.0. The game is a Beta version and has a few small bugs.

PSPUAE v0.80 beta3 | FOL has released a new version of his Amiga emulator for the Sony PSP. He recently added AGA support to PSPUAE and now he made a version available for the PSPGo. He also added support for the HalfByte Loader. The eboot can also be used on older PSP's.

PUAE 2.1.00 | GnoStiC (Mustafa Tufan) has started working on the PUAE Amiga emulator. The original (E-UAE) was developed by Richard Drummond and is an Amiga emulator for Unix based computers such as Linux and Mac OS-X. You can visit the web page for more details and for downloading the sources.

AmigaOne - X1000 | You can take a look at the new case design for the AmigaOne X1000 on the A-Eon web page. The picture are a rendering of the new case, but the case should look the when it is manufactured. Visit the A-Eon web page for more details on the X1000.

SCACOM #17 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, Commodore Meeting 2010, Commodore USA, Commodore Asia, Amiga Tastatur Problem, Commodore Stammtisch, Plus/4, Commodore Logos, Entwicklung der C264er, Lode Runner, Seltene Commodore Computer, Wusten Sie?, Game-Show, Top und Flops, Bilder zum Schluss.

WinUAE 2.1.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In version 2.1.0 the following changes: CDTV/CD32 CD image file support, including audio tracks. Direct 3D rewrite. A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. Multidisk image selection helper. Parallel port sound sampler emulated. Many improvements on 68000 cycle-exact instructions. Visit the web page of WinUAE for all the details.

OWB 3.25 | Jörg Strohmayer released an update of OWB. OWB (Origyn Web Browser) is an web browser for AmigaOS 4.x. In this version Jörg fixed more than 10 bugs. He added a couple of new functions: If you hold CTRL and click on a link, the link is opened in a new window or new tab. He also fixed some bug in the cookie system. The latest version of OWB can be download from the web page.

A-EON | The web page of A-EON is now online. A-EON is the maker of the AmigaOne X1000. The X1000 is a new generation Amiga computer with the following specifications: Dual-core 1.8GHz PowerISA v2.04+ CPU, Xena 500MHz, ATI Radeon R700, 2GB RAM, 500GB Hard drive, DVD combo drive, Customised case, keyboard and mouse, 7.1 channel HD audio.

Boings World | You can now listen to Podcast of Boings World (German Language). In episode 1 the following: AmigaOne X1000, Hardware vor 20 Jahren, Amiga-event Essen, Amiga Classic Games, CF-Adapter als Festplatte. In episode 2: Faszination Amiga, Amiga Einstieg, Amiga vor 20 Jahren, aktuelle Erweiterungen.

NetNuclear v4 | NetNuclear is a freeware TCP/IP multiplayer remake of the classic 1989 computer game Nuclear War by New World Computing, Inc. The original game was released for Commodore Amiga and DOS. Version 4 of NetNuclear is now also available for Amiga OS4.

Zorro III RAM card | Michael Boehmer developed a new RAM-expansion for Zorro-III Amigas. The card will be sold in the near future by E3B, Individual and AmigaKit. Technical data: Zorro-III card 130 x 55 mm, 128 MB or 256 MB fast SDRAM, 32-bit design, Autoconfig support.

Scalos V41.7 | A new Scalos release is available. In this version many improvements and bug fixes. Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. Scalos's goal is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.

Amiga Games That Weren't | The Amiga Games That Weren't website has again found a couple of never released games. This time two Wolfenstein 3D clones AMRWOLF AGA by Alastair M. Robinson and Dent a Wolf / Dentects / Dentaku-26 AGA by Alex Amsel. And more information about: Putty Squad, Siegemaster, Pipeline and Rotoplex.

Best Amiga Game 2009 | The results of the 2009 Amiga Games Award are available. In the four catgories AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS there were the following winners: Zelda Returns Of The Hylian, BOH, HyperCannon and BOH. Visit the web page for the complete lists and all the details.

Amiga Documents | A anonymous person has published a large amount of files on a web page about the history of Amiga. At the moment there are more than 600 PDF files available for viewing or downloading.

SCACOM #16 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, SCACOM Backstage, Chip Produktion, Amiga 3000, C64 Laufwerk an Amiga, Bericht über CC06, Commodore Floppy, AmigaOS am SAM, EDS Gehäuse, OS4.1 Installation, Artillery Duel, Seltene Commodore Computer, Tops und Flops, Game-Rätsel, Bilder zum Schluss.

Netsurf 1.4 | There is an update available of NetSurf. NetSurf is a web browser for Amiga OS3.x made by Artur Jarosik. The changes are: More video modes supported. Top / Bottom with Ctrl + Up/Down keys, Scroll with Shift + Up/Down keys. This wil work also with mouse wheel. ffplay updated (by Piotr Bandurski). New navigation buttons. Requirements: AmigaOS 3.x, Picasso96 / CGX graphic card, 128 MB Ram, Equivalent of 100 Mhz 060 CPU.

UAE4Droid | Manuel Schreiber is working on a Amiga emulator for the Andriod Operating System from Google. The emulator is still in development and has a few bugs. At the moment the emulator is working on the G1 and the Motorola Milestone. Visit Manuel's blog (German language) to check the progress on UAE4Droid.

PrBoom 2.5.1 - Amiga OS4 | A new version of PrBoom is available for Amiga OS4.1. PrBoom is a free version of the game classic Doom. In this update: Auto resolution, Save destination, MIDI files are fixed, PNG v1.2 support, Insert volume usr request is fixed. Visit the web page for all details and installation instructions. The freedom.wad files are included in this game, but you can also use the original .wad files of Doom.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 1 | Hyperion Entertainment released update 1 for Amiga OS4.1. In this update the following changes: Kernel, more stability and improved memory management. DOS, new system for launching preset programs and improved shared object support. Intuition, improved window support, fading and rendering - including drop shadows. System, new notification system and improved support for external USB devices. Workbench, new and scalable icon set. Python v25. MiniGL V2.2.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Football Glory (Black Legend), Embryo (Black Legend), Sim City (Infogrames), Player Manager 2 (Anco), Player Manager (Anco), Kick Off 3 European Challenge (Anco), The New Zealand Story Demo (Taito/Ocean), John Barnes European Football (Krisalis), The Attack of the Green Smelly Aliens from Planet 27b/6 (Alex May), Tubular Worlds (Dongleware), Misja Harolda (MarkSoft), Ingrid's Back! (Level 9) and Lorna (Topo Soft). Improved: Embryo (Black Legend), Kick Off 2 (Anco Software), Misja Harolda (MarkSoft), Kick Off 2 (Anco Software), Thug Life (Essence) and Civilization (Microprose).

AmigaOne X1000 | The company A-EON has announced a new hardware platform for running Amiga OS4. The hardware has the following specifications: ATX Formfactor, Dual-core PowerISA v2.04+ CPU, Xena, 7.1 channel HD audio, 4x DDR2, 10x USB 2.0, 1x Gigabit Ethernet, 2x PCIe x16, 2x PCIe x1, 1x Xorro, 2x PCI, 2x RS232, 4x SATA 2, 1x IDE connector, JTAG and Compact Flash. Visit the web page of A-EON for more details.

An Amiga Christmas Story | Rockersuke has released a short text adventure for the Amiga. This adventure is a preview of a complete text adventure that will be released later. The adventure is developed with AMOS Professional and includes pictures and audio samples. The adventure can be played with any Amiga computer with 1 MByte RAM or more. Visit the web page for more information.

Amiga Virus Encyclopedia | The Amiga Virus Encyclopedia has been updated. This web site dedicated to analysis and descriptions of viruses for the Commodore Amiga computer. The database has now information of more than 500 virusses.

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