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Asm-Pro | Asm-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor for our Amiga. With this program you have all the tools you need for the development of new software in assembly. It has full mc680x0, FPU and MMU support. Asm-Pro is from now Open Source!

AAY64 v0.64 | AAY stands for All About Your.... This is a mighty help-system for C64-coders done by Ninja. A (really) lot of documentation has been collected and put to a hyperlinked context. So, with just a few clicks you should be able to find the information you need for developing. Different devices have their own AAY, like the C64 or the 1541 floppy-drive. You can download a version for PC-DOS, HTML or ASCII.

PokeFinder | Pokefinder is a FTP search engine. That will search all the FTP sites that has C64 software on it. It's really easy to use. Just type in your request. In seconds you'll know where to go.

Tales of Tanmar | Tales of Tamar, or ToT for short, is a turn based massively multiplayer PBEM game. Thousands of players can play with and against each other on a fantasy world. Players send their turns to the server using the software client, the server computes the results and sends them back to the player. The fun is in interacting with the other players. Each player in this role playing game/rpg takes the role of the sovereign leader of a country and has to build from the small village to a large realm. You can trade, wage wars and use any diplomatic measure imaginable. Amiga version available.

CEVI-aktuell #1 | This is the first release from the C64 magazine CEVI-Aktuell (PDF). This magazine in the German language has the following articles: Interview with Frank Gakinin from GTW, MMC64 and a competition.

Valley of Dreams | Valley of Dreams is a new SID made by Phase2. This SID reached the 5th place in the SID Compo V.

SimpleMail | SimpleMail is a new mailer for the Amiga platform (both classic and OS4) and compatible systems (MorphOS). In the current state, SimpleMail is an beta version but it is very stable however as we try to implement every feature so that it works and go then on to the next one. However, SimpleMail grows very fast and with your help it can overgrow YAM soon.

Nordic Scene Review | Nordic Scene review is a disc Magazine (Englisch) from a couple of well known groups; Fairlight, Triad and Booze Design. They will review demo's. Download the mag from the FTP server.

Games That Weren't | Games That Weren't (GTW) originated from an article by Ian Osbourne in the later issues of Commodore Force in 1993. Research through many hundreds of old magazines started to uncover even more unreleased / incomplete games, and eventually the information evolved into a regular feature for the now sadly deceased Commodore Zone magazine, called Games That Weren't. Popularity of the feature from its readers pushed the demand for a web site to detail more about other unreleased games.

SoundFX | SoundFX (short SFX) is an editor for digitized audio data (samples). SFX is designed in a modular fashion and has a comfortable graphical user interface. With SFX you can apply digital effects to samples (which are absolutely unique on Amiga), play back and record samples, and finally can cut, trim and edit your samples. SoundFX is shareware. You can register and download the most recent version.

AmigaAnywhere SDK 1.5 | Amiga, Inc. announces the launch of the new AmigaAnywhere© SDK (software development kit) version 1.5. This SDK provides increased performance. Its time to market and create revenue opportunity for Amiga's global developer community. The new SDK combines both new features requested by existing developers, customers and users, and new services and technologies designed to extract the maximum potential from the next generation of digital devices.

ArachnoPhobia 34 | Disk magazine ArachnoPhobia 34 is out now. In this issue: Forever Hex Party report by CreaMD. HCC Commodore show and Amiga party Info. Schlimeisch 2004 Party report by PCH. X'2004 Party report by Exile.

Amiga on Palm | Henk Jonas has ported E-UAE to Palm OS. He has tested his emulator successfully on Tungsten T3, Zodiac 1 and 2. Features are: virtual keyboard, mouse and joystick support, save, restore, configurable, ton. Only m68k at the moment.

Battle Circle | Scott Seiler has written Amiga games and has put them up for free download. His primary game is Battle Circle: Sun and Steel. Battle Circle is essentially a midevil tactical combat game with RPG elements. It has many interesting features and progressive game play. Up to four players, Play together or fight it out in a free for all of mayhem, Lots of weapon and armor items, including magical and proficiencies, Mini games and much more.

Protovision Update | Protovision has updated their website. A new trailer for the mega game METAL DUST with music from Markus Siebold! TANKS 3000 Preview. A playable demo of TANKS 3000 can be downloaded. Also a new pricelist (04/05), with the new MMC64. MMC- and SD-Flashcard Interface for the C64.

Scene World #14 | In this issue of Scene World: 4 Years Of SWO News, Party Scene, X2004 reviews, Forever Hex, Breakpoint 2005. PAL Scene: Retrovision 5, Commodore Scene meeting. NTSC Scene: World of Commodore. And much more....

Bender IRC | BenderIRC is an Amiga-Only IRC-Client. Bender offers you any common IRC command and a free designable GUI. This means you can make BenderIRC to look like Opus Magellan or WB 3.0 Gadtools, or Reaction. It`s full resizeable and uses custom fonts on request. Bender comes with a package of seperate DCC tools, to be independent from future changes and to offer you the option to use your own DCC routines or exchange the DCC-tool with a particularly adapted version for a specific remote client. Bender brings you a full featured IRC Bot and a seperate scripting language.

Amiga UnRAR | Diego Casorran made a port to the Amiga system for UnRAR. You can extract RAR files on your Amiga. Release 3.50 can be downloaded from the website.

Tiny Sid Compo | Here are some of the rules for the Tiny Sid Compo. Tune must be a C64 executable (prg). Size of the prg must be 256 byte or 512 Bytes. You can use all the C64 ROMs code, like Kernal and Basic. Program must be executed with a simple RUN. Look at the website for the complete list. Send it in before 25 April 2005. Voting from 27 April to 7 May 2005.

C64 mags | The biggest C64 scene mag archive has expanded more, this site now holds over 1.4GB of C64 scene media. In this update a further 138MB of new paper and disk magazines have been uploaded. Please continuing supporting the site, we need your help in order to preserve the history of our culture.

MUIbase | MUIbase is a fast and very flexible database for the Amiga. It is for users who want to manage data in a comfortable and easy way. MUIbase is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses, CD series, movies, or your income and expense. MUIbase is the successor of AmigaBase, a hierarchical programmable database which is still available but considered obsolete with the appearance of MUIbase.

Wallget v1.0 | Wallget is a download manager for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3, based on WGet. It has MUI based GUI. It supports all Wget options but also extend Wget funcionality with f.e. segmented download (highly experimental code, works only in HTTP protocol) or saving url in file comment.

VIC 20 lives inside the C-One | Tobiflex has transfered the VIC20 PAL Core from MNikeJ into the C-ONE. The IEC Support is included.

Lotek64 | In this German language C64 magazine the following articles: Interviews with Mark Ambrose und Jogi Sub-O-Tron Neufeld. Datatransfer PC - C64. Preview: Tanks 3000, DTV. Competition Pro USB.

AmigaSpeed | Want to know how fast your Amiga is. Check out this website. All kinds of configurations are tested on speed.

Frying Pan | Tomasz Wiszkowski has written a CD /DVD burning programm for the Amiga. This program is meant for Amiga platform, but it should work also on Pegasos and A1, not to mention the UAE. You can download a demo version or buy a fully working program.

MMC Do It Yourself | People who want to create their own mega memory for the C64 take a look at this project. This Interface is to use a MMC Card Memory for your good old C64 Computer. In fact, you can use this hardware with Atari, Apple II, and all the rest of your 65xx boxes.

MMC64 Plugins | For the MMC64 there are new plugins to download. MMC64 PicturePlugins.zip (5 Kbyte) Anim-Player: PAL Version (2 Kbyte), NTSC Version (2 Kbyte) New BIOS v0.96 Rescuedisk (8 Kbyte)

Horny - AmigaOS | Horny is a midi sequencer in the style of e.g. Logic or Cubase, whose focus is on easy and uncomplicated usage. Up to now Horny is a pure midi program and does not support audio. Features: Midi, up to 16 midi ports usable with CAMD (Lite 1 port). Up to 128 tracks (Lite: 8 tracks) Signature and tempo changes inside songs possible Midi mixer: VU meter, volume, pan, 6 more (Lite: 3) chooseable controller See the website for more.

Kickstart Archives | Kickstart archives is a compilation of AMIGA computers related material provided on DVD. The compilation is html based and should run on any current computer platform. All the information on kickstart archives is provided with the gracious support of the contributors.

MMC64 is shipping. | Jens Shönfeld has announced that the MMC64 are ready to ship to the costumers. Price is 49,- EUR. MMC is a flashable device with a SD card as a mass storage for d64 files.

Grafix card for PET/CBM | If you think about a grafix card you might think that's something for the modern PC. But even for the PET series a grafix card was made by the company Eltecthe PET series had a grafix card ad-on. With this card could do a 220 x 256 bitmap on the screen. You can download the whole document and schematics. (German language)

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