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ToT Amiga | Finally, after 8 months of work, we are proud to present Tales of Tamar in HiRES 2D! The new client of our massively multiplayer strategy and roleplaying game is running at a resolution of 1024*768 with double buffering in 15 bit, 16 and 32 bit, as well as the usual 640*480/8 bit. Therefore, Tales of Tamar is working on all Amiga systems starting with an A1200 with 030 accelerator board up to the most recent systems and also takes advantage of the faster hardware of Amithlon, AmigaOne, Pegasos or UAE setups.

Lunapaint 0.2 | Lunapaint 0.2 is out with many new features. Amongst the big ones are animation with onion skin, swap buffers, animation control, more paint modes, keyboard shortcuts, better line tool, yes and much much more! Lunapaint is a paint and animation program for AROS, focusing on making the paint process fun and intuitive. Being inspired from DeluxePaint and TVPaint on Amiga, it aims to be a complete graphics solution for AROS users.

Mr. Beanbag | The makers of the game Mr. Beanbag have made some updates to the game Mr Beanbag. The look-ahead camera system has been improved to make it easier to see what's beneath you when you jump. Also the code has been super-optimised so now we can fit more objects on screen before it slows down. All important for the new crazy-action caves levels (of which we now have 3 complete levels). Mr. Beanbag is a fast-paced platform adventure for AGA Amigas (A1200/A4000 or a recent emulator). You can download a playable one level demo from the website.

C64kopik | c64kopik is a file manager written under AmigaOS. This program can transfer data between 1541 floppy disk drive connected to Amiga and any AmigaDOS drive using Easy1541 written by Fabrizio Farenga. The program works on Amiga's with AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.

Scout v 3.5 | Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays many different things like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident commands, interrupts, etc. And you can perform some certain actions on them. This program is available for Amiga OS and Morph OS.

TuneNet V0.78 | TuneNet is a player for MP3's and MP3 Shoutcast streams. Some of it's features are: Integrates with IBrowse and AWeb, Playlist, Built in Internet Stream Searching facility, Station and current tune display, Encoder support and Shoutcast compatible Broadcasting. The program is made for Amiga OS4 and is freeware.

A/NES v1.01beta1 | A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. Morgan released a new version of A/NES it can be used on an Amiga with some fast memory and a faster processor than the 68020. Go to the website to download this program.

Sudoku (Amiga) | Michael Lanser released his Logicgame Sudoku for Amiga OS3.1, (with Graphic-card) The game consists of a 9x9 square divided into 3x3 blocks. Some blocks are already filled at the beginning of the game. Aim of the game is to fill the blocks with the right numbers. Each row, each column and each block must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

AmiKit Update | AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh environment. In order to get AmiKit working, you'll need: A PC computer with 256MB / 1,8GHz.

GoldED Studio | At the moment GoldED Studio from Dietmar Eilert can be downloaded for free. GoldED Studio is software for developers and C/C++ beginners: It includes the latest GoldED editor and all C/C++ development-related components. This is the ideal package if you need a powerful + affordable solution for software development. Features: integrates with gcc, vbcc, StormC and SAS/C compilers, supports development for AmigaOS, PowerUP, WarpOS and MorphOS platforms.

Scalos update | Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The original Workbench gets older every day and is being left behind by other desktop systems. Scalos's original author, Stefan Sommerfeld, decided that there had to be something new, and so Scalos was born. 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.

OnyxSoft | OnyxSoft is a independent group of people who develop freeware applications for AmigaOS and MorphOS in their spare time! And they do it because it's fun! New releases are: Macc (V 1.0) and ZoomIT (V0.1). Also the are some new versions available. Check out the download section.

Arcade Games Construction Kit | Gunnar is working on a Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit for MorphOS. The Kit shall allow non-programmers to easily create shoot-em ups in virtually no time. Please note that this an early alpha release which is not even halve finished. The current release is only intended to show the 'idea' of the game and Kit.

Epistula | Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM and Yahoo Messenger. Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS.

WinUAE v1.2 | A new version of the Amiga emulator is available for download. Here a a few of the new features and bug fixes: FPU emulation updates and fixes. Ability to create 1:1 HDF from Amiga formatted hard disk. PNG screen shots. Manual language selection. Right border color problems finally fixed. Misc custom chip set emulation updates. CIA TOD counter fix. Swapped parallel port joystick adapter fire buttons. Corrupted wav-files in 4 channel audio mode fixed.

AROS snapshot | There is a new snapshot available of AROS. Download are available from the AROS website.

Amiga Remote Desktop | If you want to control a Windows computer from a remote location with an Amiga look at this program. The program is available for Amiga OS 3.x and OS 4.x and for the MorphOS.

Smart File System update. | Jörg Strohmayer has made a couple of improvements on his Smart File System. Fixed an alignment bug in the 64 bit packet support. Added some checks in ACTION SEEK, ACTION CHANGE FILE POSITION64, ACTION SET FILE SIZE, ACTION CHANGE FILE SIZE64, ACTIION READ and ACTION WRITE to make sure you can't create/access files > 4 GB - 2 bytes.

JAmiga | JAmiga is a 'from scratch' implementation of a Java Virtual Machine. It has been developed only from the JVM Documentation provided by Sun Microsystems. It is not a Port of an existing JVM. The decision to write it for Amiga OS was made because of the lack of decent VMs for this platform. Download the latest version from the web site.

AROS update | AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. AROS can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other. Over 500 members are working on improving AROS. Improvements of the last month are: Better mice tracking and pointer precision on the screen. IRC and Telnet clients were added.

Best Amiga Game 2005 | What is the best Amiga / MorphOS / AROS game of the year 2005 ? You can vote on your favorite game on the website. There are more than 30 games to choose from.

Amiga OS4 Apache Server | Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), and other platforms. Edgar Schwan released an improved port of Apache 1.3.34 to AmigaOS 4.0. It includes support of PHP 5.1.1 and MySQL 3.23.58. The software can be downloaded on the website.

PicShow v1.31 | Thomas Rapp has made a couple of bugfixes to his program PicShow. PicShow is a directory style picture viewer for Amiga OS4. You can download the program on his website.

Amiga OS and CD32 loader for Pegasos II | Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun released a new nice creation for your Pegasos II computer. This time a loader that loads and boots directly into the genuine Amiga© operating system or CD32 on your Pegasos II, displaying a nice splash-screen during loading. As usual the software-archive is available as free download as torrent in the download section. Some of the features: boots directly into an inserted cd32-cd, ac97-sound, (usb) joypad, keyboard and mouse.

XNet-RSS 51.7 | XNet-RSS is a native AmigaOS4.0 RSS News reader. It has automatic charset conversion and doesn't need any external library. Could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS news pages. New in this version: added favicon.ico support, News Bar positioning prefs and a few fixed bugs.

$Frozen Bubble for OS4 update | This is a port of the popular game Frozen Bubble by Andy Broad. The original game was written by Guillaume Cottenceau in perl using the SDL_perl extention. You need the 4th amiga os4 release with dynamic loading and POSIX extention. UPDATE: Relink against older SDL, music and sound problems fixed. Increased sound buffer size to 4096 as recommended by toaks. Found a few more instances of $ENV{HOME} replaced them with /bubbles.$

NetBSD/amiga | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line and the DraCo by MacroSystem. Development activity on NetBSD/amiga continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga that has a Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.

Lemon Amiga | The Lemon Amiga website has been updated. 200 Amiga games are added including info and screens.

DOSBox for Amiga OS4 | DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and now there is a port for Amiga OS4 available. No more A500 with a KCS Power PC Board needed.

The Crypt #42 (Cryptmas edition) | The Crypt is a English on-line magazine for the Amiga fan started back in 1996. You can either read the magazine on-line but you can also download the whole magazine to read it off-line. All kinds of news from serious to humor, ads, game reviews and much more.

Disk-master v2.6 | A new version of disk-master is available for download and the latest version works on OS3.x + OS4.

AmiPodder 1.4 | AmiPodder (v1.4) now recognizes video episodes and can play them back in the video player of your choice (MPlayer and Frogger have been tested). In version 1.4 are a number of improvements and bug fixes including: Option to prompt for the sync directory making it easier to use AmiPodder with multiple portable players or players using removable media cards. New status of Played, so if you use AmiPodder as a jukebox you can see what podcasts you've already listened to. Filename length limitation, handy if your Amiga filesystem or music player only accepts short filenames. Many more changes, see the Downloads page for a full list and to download the new version.

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