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AROS update | Two AROS distributions have been recently released. VmwAROS LIVE! and a new WinAROS version. Krysztof Smiechowicz and Barry Nelson are working on removing bugs. Nic Andrews and Alain Greppin have implemented grub2 in AROS. Alain also completed the dhclient command. Tomasz Wiszkowski and Michal Schulz are working on the ata.device in order to improve it. You can download AROS from the web page.

SabreMSN | James jahc Carroll started work on a MSN messenger for Amiga OS4. This is still a alpha version but you can try it out.

Cinnamon Writer | Cinnamon Writer is a WYSIWYG writer application designed to be a very modular application that will suit the individual taste of each user. This word processor can be used with Amiga OS4 and can be downloaded. The program is written by Claus Deslers.

Murks! | Murks is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Aros. It uses the same Project File Format as AmiDevCpp does, so Data Exchange is possible. Changes: Support C++ projects, Auto save when building, Show if file was edited, Open/create new project without closing Murks! IDE, Remove unit from project, Add existing (on disk) unit to project, Redirect compiler output to separate console, Save project as... option. This IDE can be downloaded from the web page.

Still Alive | Eric Schwartz made a tribute to the Amiga. It's an animation with the song Still Alive and it tells the history about Amiga. You can watch it on YouTube.

Scacom #2 - Engels | In this English edition of SCACOM the following articles: News, Interview with Nori Khiat, CF-card on Amiga, Interview with Richard Bayliss, Pictures of the past, Computerstory and more.

Off-Line, Maxus | The Scene group Liquid Skies released a new music piece. It is called Off-Line and was done by Maxus with Madtracker. The cover was made by DaFreak.

ASM-One | The Flame Arrows released a version of the ASM-One assembler. A bug has been fixed. Now the assembler runs without problems on a MC68000. This assembler can be downloaded from the web page of TFA.

AmiKit for Linux | Tom Newsom and Daniel Westerberg made a Linux version of AmiKit. Now you can use the Amiga OS on your Linux system including the Live Update function. With AmiKit you can surf the web, read e-mails and documents, listen to or create your own music, burn CD/DVDs, edit images, play games and much more. You can download the AmiKit from the web page.

FPSE | FPSE stands for Free Play Station Emulator. It is written by BERO and LDChen. The AmigaPPC version is made by Mathias AmiDog Roslund. This release fixes a few minor issues and adds versions for MorphOS and AROS (x86). You can download the latest version from the web page. There is also a FPSE compatibility database to see if your favorite game can be played.

Amition.de | The web page Amition added new games to the download section. Latest addition is the CD32 game Deluxe Pac Man. A few examples of the other CD32 games are: AMIBEE, Triz, Transplant and Deluxe Galaga. You can download the ISO images from the web page and burn them on a CD-R.

BoulderDäsh v5.25 - AmigaOS | Guido Mersmann made a new Boulderdash clone. But why? There are many clones of Boulderdash. But most of them are not as good as the original. This version is made to be as good as the original. Some of the features are: 1:1 Clone of the Original! Soft scrolling and full speed also under a MC68000. More than 10000 (!!) caves included! 6 in game tunes. Comfortable Level Editor. Create your own ingame music by using Protracker.

OWB v1.17 | Jörg Strohmayer has updated his Origyn Web Browser. New or improved are: The download progress windows are now opened on the correct screen. Fixed wrong download attempts for urls without mime type. Fixed too short filename buffer, downloading to FFS partitions works now. Included a new version of libgcc.so. You can download this Amiga web browser from the web page.

PSPUAE v0.70 | There is a new version available of the Amiga emulator for the SONY PSP. Some of the alterations are: Code optimizations for speed improvement. Better Hsync handler. Rics FAMEC Sound code. Better HEAP SIZE for available memory to PSPUAE. Added Rics FAMEC FrameSkip Algorithm. For downloads, info or the forum take a look at the web page.

Mediator PCI 1200 TX | With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details.

PowerPoint for Amiga | PointRider is a PowerPoint viewer for Amiga. The program is written by Mathias Parnaudeau and it's available for MorphOS and Amiga OS4. In this version: Bilinear interpolation to scale images. Automatic font selection. Font rendering (alignment, color, size, bold / italic / underline). Display of inherited objects from the master slide. Improved background support: several shade types. Also a couple of bug fixes. Look at the web page for more information.

WinUAE 1.4.6 | On this new version of the Amiga emulator for windows computers: Automatic configuration of input devices (USB joystick, mouse etc..). Automatic joystick / mouse switching. Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM. CD32 FMV cartridge ROM. And there were also a number of bug fixes. Go to the web page to download the latest version.

Amiga hardware projects | Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop.

ffmpegGUI | ffmpegGUI is a GUI for the ffmpeg program. It supports some basic options via the GUI and allows the user to add additional. ffmpeg is a command line program which provides the ability to decode and encode a large variety of video, audio, and graphics formats while supporting the changing of various parameters along the way.

Amiga 1000 project. | George Braun started a project to build a improved Amiga 1000. He made a complete new PCB that will even fit inside the original case. The Amiga 1000 has been improved with the following items: 68030 processor on 50 Mhz, 68882/50, 8 Mb Fast, 2 MB Chip, 1 Mb Flash, IDE controller, Flicker-Fixer, Clock and a Zorro-II slot.

Emerald Web | Emerald web is a collection of Emerald Mines games. Emerald Mines is a popular BoulderDash-like game that originally was released in 1987 for the Amiga by Kingsoft written by Klaus Heinz and Volker Wertich. The main purpose of this site is to archive all released Emerald Mines disks for the Amiga and there are already more than 300 spin-offs and clones in the download section.

KOG | KOG is meant to be an immediately enjoyable and funny game - you start it and, one second later, you play it. The game mechanics require good eye perception and quick reflexes, and become familiar quickly. The game is available for Amiga OS4.

Tubexx | Tubexx is an ARexx script that enables you to watch youtube.com contents on your MorphOS machine. Youtube.com is a video storage, where anybody can upload his own videos and share them with every Internet user in the world. Its main interface is web based, but video playback is handled via a Flash applet, thus impossible to enjoy directly with the MorphOS technologies currently available. This is where Tubexx comes in handy, enabling you to search, download, convert and play your favorite videos.

Amiga Virus Encyclopedia | Probably every Amiga user once had a virus on his computer. Now there is a new web site dedicated to analysis and descriptions of viruses for the Commodore Amiga computer. Here you will find detailed information of Amiga viruses. You can even help by sending in a virus :-).

Hall Of Light | The web site Hall Of Light reached a milestone. There are now 50.000 screenshots in the database. The number of games passed the 6.000. On this web site you can find information on games like: Release date, Developer, Coders, Graphician, Musician, Screen-shots, Box-scans, Cheat-codes and much more.

Open Tyrian | Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has made an AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS version of the Shoot'em-up classic Tyrian. Tyrian was originally developed for MS-DOS machines. But now there are versions for Windows, Mac Os, PSP, GameCube and for the Amiga.

OWB | OWB stands for Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS4. This is the first (in)complete Modern Web Browser for AmigaOS4 and it supports almost all modern web technologies. This project is in an early state and not everything works 100%. You can download this alpha version to try it out.

Scacom #1 - Engels | SCACOM magazine is now available in the English language. In this PDF magazine: News, Interview with Christophe Kohler, Baracudas story, Commodore awards, C64 color enhancher, Best C64 games and more.

MiniMig | Cube Systems is going to sell fully assembled MiniMigs motherboards. The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor on-board and was developed by Dennis van Weeren.

WinUAE 1.4.5 | The Amiga emulator has had an update. In this new version: Removable drive auto mounting. X-Power Professional v1.3 and Nordic Power v1.5 support. Pro-Wizard module ripper updated to v1.62. hq2x filter added. Added two basic A4000 quickstart configurations. More accurate CD32/CDTV end of audio track detection.

Pegasos book | The Pegasos book V2.3 English is released. In this book: Tricks and hints under Linux on Pegasos. Installation on Linux Debian or Linux Ubuntu. Usage of bootcreator, chroot command, NFS to fast up compilations and Nintendo Wiimote on a Pegasos.

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