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Amiga One firmware update | Hyperion released a new AmigaOne firmware update for AmigaOS 4.0. New features in this release include: Improvements in the x86 BIOS emulator Reworked IDE/ATA-Code with better support of multiple IDE controllers. Preliminary support for the Catweasel Mark IV controller by Individual Computers. Ability to choose graphics card for booting. Multiple bugs fixed, including a wrong IRQ assignment for AGP graphics cards (Vertical Blanking interrupts should now function correctly).

Big Book of Hardware magazin | You can download the Big Book of Hardware magazin in the pdf edition. Topics: AmigaOS auf der Xbox, Alternativer Router, A500 Extrem Umbau, A500-Clockport. Reviews: Walker. Interviews: Robert Wahnsiedler (aPEX), Sylvio Kurze, Retroman (German language)

Floppy 2005 | You can download the Floppy 2005 releases on the website. Floppy is a C64 only party held in Sweden.

Plushware | Plush has released 2 new versions of their software. Fonted 3.1 (character editor). New features: Directorylisting, Editing of two charset (ramdisk), Fetch original charset and View complete charset. Gunpaint 1.1 (Grafix editor) New features: Can load and save packed Funpaint II pictures and the use of the mouse 1351 in zoomeditor.

CD on Fire | With CDonFire it's easy to burn CD-R's and CD-RW's. Select the CD-Image to burn or create the CD-Image during process Burn the CD-R/W or copy the CD-R/W instantly. This is the first release to the public. The archives contains only the 68040/FPU versions of the remote programes and libraries. The program is a early version and still in progress. This version is for testing purposes only.

Hollywood designer | Hollywood Designer is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG editor for presentations. You can create amazing presentations with just a few clicks and they will be shown with Hollywood then. You can also save your presentations as stand-alone executables for AmigaOS3, WarpOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS4. The program can be ordered for 49 euro.

Retro Revival #3 | Retro revival is a free pdf magazin about the retro computer world. Not only about the C64 but all retro computers. You can download issue 3 from the website.

Primary Star | Primary Star is a C64 party organised by Role and Anubis from august 13th till august 15th 2005 in the town of Reusel (The Netherlands). Check for more info the website.

Amitron 2005 | This years edition of Amiga Expo Trondheim named AmiTron 2005 will be held April 2nd at Vitensenteret in Trondheim, Norway. They expect about 100 attendants. Check the website later for show report and pictures.

CML | CML provides a method for the Commodore 64 to surf the web using it's own special web browser. Once finished it will take advantage of the 64's MULTIMEDIA abilities. CML is able to translate standard HTML to CML on the fly, allowing support of standard pages, as well as those with CML content. Currently, text, sprites, color, HTML, petscii, and multiuser chat is supported. CML requires an RS232 interface connected to your PC's serial port.

Programming the 6809 | If you want to program the 6809 on the SuperPet you can download the complete manual of the Waterloo 6809 assembler in pdf version.

C128 Assembly | Everything you need to know about programming assembly on your C128 can be found on this website. Christian Johansson has put up a very nice collection of info on this subject.

VICE 1.16 | The new version of VICE is out and it supports mapping the userport to TCP/IP! This new feature will make a BBS systems possible inside VICE.

Game Over View | In this issue of Game Over View: Car Racer Preview, Crimp: The Game, Coccinella, Saper and Slides Preview.

North American Intros / demos | Wanderer (previously known as Satan) made a website to tribute the North Amercan demos and intros made by himself. Wanderer was a member in several groups like Public Enemy, Rampar, The Survivors (TS 2019), NEC and FBR.

MAS-Player | MAS-Player is a module that can convert MPEG music to an analog signal. The main chip the MAS 3507D controls this conversion. The well known MP3 format will be processed through a soundchip CS4331KS from Crystal Cirrus Logic. The MAS-player was developed for the classic Amiga and is plugged into the Parallelport.

Amiga Wallpapers and Icons | Damir Sijakovic made a collection of wallpapers and icons sets for the Amiga. You can download it from his website.

Amiga MPlayer | MPlayer is a movie player for Linux. It plays most audio video files like MPEG, VOB, AVI. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too. The Amiga port of Mplayer is available for download.

Alltime top 50 | Our primary aim is to compose the ultimate top 50 of C64 games. Furthermore, we aim to provide you with all the WWW has to offer about these games! Almost 600 people voted for their BEST 10 C64 games ever.

HVSC | The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #41 and is 3 MB in size. Adding lots of new SIDs to the collection. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.

Portable Pegasos Project | You have a Pegasos, but are tired of carrying it around and building the system at parties. Look at this website and find out how to build a portable Pegasos. Other Amigas also got transformed into a portable.

vbcc update | vbcc is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler. It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). This website supports the version for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

C64 intros | With the 100 new intros added to the site today we now have 2000 intros online! Many intros from Avantgarde, Hotline and Unicess were added this time as well as 3 new groups: The Dream Team, Brutal and Quartet. And finally we've sorted out the mess on the Illusion page, giving the 3 different groups their own pages.

C64 Endings | So what have we got in store for you? Well, not only do we provide you with a description and screen shots of all our C64 game endings, but we also give you the option of downloading the ending to view for your own enjoyment!

ProTracker v5 | ProTracker is a music creation software for the Amiga computers. Music engine: 32 bit internal mixing, 8-tap FIR resampling. Load formats: MOD, MOD2, XM, IT, S3M. Direct-to-disk recording up to 32bit, 44khz, Stereo 64 tracks, 256 patterns / positions, 8/16 bit, mono/stereo, unlimited size samples, Separate volume / panning / effect parameters on track.

OnyxSoft updates | OnyxSoft made several updates on their software. Updates for AllKeys, MultiRen, QuickSketch und Zapper. Download the update from there website.

Amiga RSS client | Alfonso [alfie] Ranieri is an Amiga programmer and he makes Freeware and Shareware for the Amiga. His latest program is an RSS client for the Amiga. Program is available for download for Amiga 68k and Morph OS.

TFX music editor | Unreal presents its music editor TFX version 2.97. Along with the usual features of TFX, including a modern player/editor, while actively avoiding having to remember irrelevant hex numbers for commands when a symbolic name will do, mutiframe (up to 10x on all channels, and 72x on a single channel) support, the player has undergone major cosmetic surgery for this release.

Crimp | Crimp is a 2d shooter for the c64. Two player fight each other with their hovercrafts on 8 different areas. The aim of the game is to hit your opponent most often with plasma units and to win in most areas possible. Crimp is freeware.

PAL DTV | Finaly a word about the PAL version of the DTV. Basicly is it's the same as the NTSC version but the games are different. New games are Alleykat, California Games (full version), Head the Ball, Marauder, Maze Mania, Mission Impossibubble and Netherworld.

Amition | Need some info on the Amiga then visit Amition.de. Check out the updated Hardware part. Also look at the downloads for lots of pictures and movies.

Amiga Open Office | Open Office is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

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