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AmiBlitz3 | There is an update for Amiblitz3 available. In this update: Alpha version of NTUI. Bugfixes here and there. Alpha version of midimod.include. Improved strptr.include. Added image_Filter, useful.include and v43+.definitions.bb2. Visit the web page for all the details.

Recorded Amiga Games | If you always wanted to know how an Amiga game ended but couldn't get to the end? You can now watch the game as a video. On the web page of Recorded Amiga Game there are more than 500 high quality videos available for download.

KEGS | KEGS is a emulator of the Apple IIgs computer, running on many different platforms, including the Amiga. KEGS emulates the 65816 processor, 5.25 and 3.5 disk-drives, Apple II sound and all Apple IIgs graphics modes. Keyboard, mouse and joystick are supported.
For KEGS you need Amiga OS 4.x and the ROM images from an Apple IIgs.

OWB 3.4 | Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of his web browsers for the Amiga. In this new version: Implemented the context menus for AmigaOS 4.x. Increased the number of items in the pop-up menu. AmigaOS 4.x port of OWB Galekid. The new version can be downloaded from the web page of Jörg.

MUI: TextEditor.mcc | There is a new version of the MUI based TextEditor. The features are: Colored text. WYSIWYG for bold, italic and underline. Multi-level undo and redo. Full clipboard support (cut and paste). Support for external spell checkers. AREXX interface for scripted programming and much more. TextEditor.mcc can be used with AmigaOS 3.0 or MorphOS.

SView5 v2.62 | SView5 is based on a object orientated module with many classes for processing images. With SView5 you can view, converter and edit images. SView5 is also a screen-grabber, it has ARexx support, GUI, online-help and many external tools. SView5 needs AmigaOS 3.1.0 or better.

Amiga Games That Weren't | The web page Amiga Games That Weren't is searching for lost games. Besides the 5000 officially released games for the Amiga there were many games that didn't make it into the shops. This time the team found 4 more games that didn't make it: Harold the Hairy Hermit, Four mystery games from One Step Beyond, FLOWER and Dragon. You can read more about the games on the web page of aGTW.

MorphOS 2.2 | MorphOS 2.2 is now available for download. In this new edition the following applications are updated: Ambient, Kryptos (new), RemoteShell, ShowGirls, FilesystemPavk, Diamonds, porthandler, rawdisk-handler (new), IWizard, SFSDoctor, Bienvenue, Multiview. MorphOS 2.2 is a free update for users of MorphOS 2.1 and 2.0. If you want to try-out 2.2 you can download a time-limited demo version. MOrphOS can be used on a Pegasos I, Pegasos II and the Efika 5200B

Amitopia TV, 12-2008 | The Xmas edition of Amitopia TV is now available. You can watch the episode as a stream via google video or vimeo. In this episode: Amitopia TV News, mplayer review, Xmas Xtra, Introduction of Amiga 1000, TvPaint Guide.

VmwAROS v1.0 | Version 1.0 of your AROS distribution has been released. WmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS desktop environment available in two formats: a bootable live-DVD installable on the hard drive, and a disk image for VMware. The AROS Research Operating System is a open source lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level, while improving on it in many areas.

FUSE 0.10.0 | Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) was a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix. But, it has now also been ported to Mac OS X, Windows, AmigaOS and MorphOS. The 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 Spectrums are emulated accurately. For AmigaOS there is a version available made by Chris Young and Q-Master made a version for MorphOS.

SDL v1.2.13 | Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video frame-buffer. SDL can be used to write games and software. This version has been made by Bernd Rösch and it includes substantial improvements compared to previous versions. SDL is available for 68k Amigas.

OWB 2.19 | Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of his web browsers for the Amiga. In this new version: Support for fontkerning. Font sizes are now integers, this makes the spaces between the same characters also the same. Fonthinter is now supported. Fixed some bugs on the ACID3 test. Better rendering optimisations. No more stripes when scrolling with the mouse wheel or window scroll bars. GETTITLE ARexx command is now added.

AROS archive update | The latest uploads for AROS are: Play music (simple ogg and wav player), AmiBridge video demonstration, Perl, Python, Link library to port and zunify GTK appl, LZO real-time data compression library, Autoconf port for i386 and x86-64 AROS, Automake, Promotion Presentation Template, AROS promotion leaflet, E-UAE with a GTK-MUI GUI, Quake 1 *with sound*, Battle-pong. Highmoon (Worms Clone), Changeit, dcraw, grafx1 / 2, Mountainview, lzop, xDMS, sdlcalc and vmw.

Miggy | Miggy is an Amiga emulator written in Java. The emulator is not finished yet but you can follow the progress at the blog of Tone. With the current version it is possible to run the 68000 processor on 64 MHz.

Scacom #9 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles. News. The future of Scacom. Trash Course. Building a C65. Interview with Champ, Dejuhra and Bitbreaker/Metalvotze. C64 Tower. Amiga 1200 laptop. DTV hacking. Scacom can be downloaded or read on-line.

Minimig Forum | There is a new forum for the minimig users. Not only for the FPGA minimig developed by Dennis van Weeren but also the FPGA extender card for the C-One. You can ask questions about installing the cores, buying the minimig and read about compatibility.

AfA OS v4.3 | In this release the following changes: The version number of exec.library has changed to prevent problems with a number of programs. A bug with the Text-function (negative text length) has been resolved. The buttonclass and imageclass are replaced by AROS Code. The AmigaOS functions RefreshGadgets, RemoveClass, NextObject, DisposeObject, AddClass, FreeClass, MakeClass and NewObjectA are replaced with AROS Code. Documentation is brought up to date. The AfA OS Project was started in November 2005 by Bernd Röschs. The goal of AfA OS is to bring modern features to the AmigaOS since there is no further development for the 68k AmigaOS since OS3.9.

ECX v2.0.0 | Leif Salomonsson released version 2.0.0 of ECX. The E Compiler X (ECX) project was born in 2002 to replace and improve on the AmigaE language and compiler (EC) created by Wouter van Oortmerssen. ECX is written from scratch in E and compiles itself. It is fast, stable, resource efficient, highly compatible, generates code for multiple targets and adds a considerable amount of new features and improvements.

AmiKit 1.5.2 | A new update package for AmiKit is available via the AmiKit Live Update program. In this update: AfA_OS 4.3. Amiga Image Storage System 4.5. antiword 0.37b. HivelyTracker 1.6. ixemul.library 48.3. ixnet.library 48.3. MultiRen 1.66. playOGG 9.4. SabreMSN Alpha 35. xad_7z client 1.8.

OWB v2.14 | Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of the OWB internet browser for AmigaOS 4.1. Jörg made the following changes. Added support for openamiga.org extended default mouse pointers. Fixed a bug in the AutoInstall script. Built current versions of libxml2 and libxslt. Added GETURL ARexx command. You need AmigaOS 4.1 for the latest version of OWB.

Atari++ (AmigaOS 4) | Atari++ is an emulator of the Atari 8 bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The 8 bit Atari computers were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The emulator does precise cycle emulation, precise sound emulation, emulation of wide range of disk interfaces and joysticks. The Atari++ emulator can be used with AmigaOS 4.

DGen 1.24 for AmigaOS 4 | DGen is an emulator of the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive consoles. The Genesis/MegaDrive had a 68000 processor at 7.6 MHz and was direct competitor of the Amiga. Ventzislav Tzvetkov converted DGen to Amiga OS4. With DGen you can play 95% of all Genesis/MegaDrive games on your Amiga. For more details visit the web page of Ventzislav.

SabreMSN | James Carroll released a new AmigaOS 4 version of his Instant Messengers for the MSN chat system. In this release the msn.com e-mail addresses are handled better. Also for AmigaOS 3.x on original systems there is now a SabreClassic pack released. In this AmigaOS 3.x version there are special grafix, audio and fonts for the lower resolution screens.

NetSurf AmigaOS | NetSurf is a free, open source web browser. NetSurf has recently been ported to AmigaOS. The AmigaOS (4.x) port is made by Chris Young. There is still lots to do but it displays pages, it can navigate the web and supports multiple windows. Visit the NetSurf web page for more information.

Amiga NetBSD v4.0.1 | 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. You can download NetBSD from the web page.

XRoar (Amiga) | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers. The emulator can be used with Amiga OS 4.0, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Nintendo DS and the GP32. The Dragon and Tandy are 8-bit computers based on the 6809 CPU. They were produced in the early 80's.

Scacom #8 | There is a new edition of English SCACOM magazine. In this pdf magazine the following: News. Interviews with: Bender and Michael Krämer. SCACOM disk. Bobble Bubble. Games convention 2008. Commodore patents. The innovative museum. Baracudas story. Best C64 games list. This is going to be the last edition of English SCACOM. There is also a new edition of the normal (German) SCACOM. In this pdf magazine the following articles: News. Interview with Frank Erstling. Amiga Walker. DTV modding. The end of the home-computer era. Commodore patents. The innovative museum. Baracudas story. Review of the Competition Pro. Both magazines can be downloaded.

AISS | Martin Merz released a new version (4.4) of his Amiga Image Storage System (AISS). AISS is a system to use toolbar icons with AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS. There are more than 500 icons available. There is also a install script and a comprehensive manual available.

Amitopia TV | There is a new episode of Amitopia TV. In the September 2008 episode the following: Amitopia TV News. Sadddam strikes back! - music documentary. AmigaSYS 4 on AGA - focus on install etc. AmigaDemo by Loonies from 2005! You can download the avi or look at the stream.

NoWinED 0.75 | Shinkuro released version 0.75 of his MUI-based Text Editor NoWinED. This editor can handle multiple files. It can be used with OS3.9, OS4, MorphOS and AROS. In this version there were many bug fixed. Added are a AutoSave function. Visit the web page for all the details.

AmiKit 1.5.0 | There is a new AmiKit available. AmiKit will turn your Windows or Linux PC into high-end Amiga environment. New features are: AmiKit is faster thanks to new WinUAE and AfA_OS software. A fresh new look by Ken Lester (Launcher, Startup Screen, Default Look). Support of new 24bit themes. Support of Amiga Forever 2008. Improved Windows and Amiga installers. Choice of two automatic installers for Linux platforms and much more. AmiKit is free to use but you need a AmigaOS ROM file. Take look at the AmiKit web page for all the details.

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