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SDK Browser | The SDK Browser provides any Amiga Programmer a quick reference tool into the live AmigaOS4(tm) SDK (Development Tools) installation on your AmigaONE, via a 100% graphical (GUI) based tool. It can help you find the format for any AmigaOS4(tm) system call as well as lookup a specific structure reference, method, tag item.

Perfect Paint v1.5 | Blackbird made a lot of improvements to Perfect paint. Perfect Paint can now be used with Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. This version has still some bugs in it and Blackbird is asking people to try out this version. And if you find a bug please send him a e-mail.

VBCC | 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). Look at the website for the changes in this version. VBCC is supported for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

Dirmaster v1.0 | After a break Style is back, bringing you the next advancement of CBM disk image manipulation tools. This time we call it DirMaster v1.0 - handling all your d64, d71, and d81 needs and offering the comforts of having literally hundreds of images open at once, with fully enabled drag and drop between images. Coded by The Wiz/Style!

MorphOS Free Edition Update | The MorphOS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another MorphOS update for computers equipped with PowerUP accelerator cards. See the website for the changes in this edition.

DVDtools | It's presently being developed by bero. Aside from adding DVD writing support, changes in dvdrtools are: Remain 100% Free Software. Clean up the code and build system. Support writing film DVDs. Remove unnecessary code duplication, this is dvdrecord, not dvdlibc.

SFSDoctor 1.1 | Marek Szyprowski has updated SFSDoctor. This is a repair program for the SFS-Datasystem.

AROS Update | There are a couple of new features available for AROS users. Hogne Titlestad has released Lunapaint v0.2 for i386/AROS. The app can save and open projects, make animations and export images. Mathias Roslund has ported the famous Commodore 8-bit computers line emulator VICE to all Amiga platforms, AROS included. Tomasz Wiszkowski has ported FryingPan and CoFEE to AROS.

ECX 1.5 | Leif Salomonsson released an improved version of his Compiler. He fixed some bugs and added a couple of new features. This compiler can be used with a 68000, AmigaOS V37+ and 2 MB memory. The output is 68020 (+68881 if using floats) AmigaOS V37, or PPC MorphOS.

Kickstart ROM 3.9 | Amiga inc. announced the kickstart 3.9 ROM's but they never released them. Now a couple of Amiga diehards have done it themselves. They made the ROM with 3.9. There is a sample video with a A1000 !!! running kick 3.9 you can download. Also pictures of a A1200, A3000 and a A4000.

Bars and Pipes for Amiga OS4 (v0.6) | Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer for the Amiga range of computers. It has a philosophy unlike any other sequencer in existence. Alfred Faust made an update available of the Bars and Pipes version for OS4.

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.

CBM4WIN | The diskdrive communication program written by Spiro Trikaliotis has been updated. The program makes it possible to copy D64 or D71 images from a real drive to the PC, or from the PC to a real drive with the help of d64copy. Furthermore, you can copy single files in both directions, too. Some more tools (for example, cbmctrl) are given, too. The emulator VICE will have support for this program in the next version. Spiro has also an experimental version of the YAPE emulator that supports CBM4WIN.

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.

Update XA | XA is a high-speed, two-pass portable cross-assembler. It understands mnemonics and generates code for NMOS 6502s such as 6502A, 6504, 6507, 6510, 7501, 8500, 8501, 8502. Key amongst it's features: C-like preprocessor, rich expression syntax supports o65 re-locatable objects with a full linker and relocation suite, as well as bare plain binary object files block structure for label scoping. This program is available for linux / unix users.

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.

CD player for C64 | Leif has released a program that can play Audio CD's on a C64. The CD players has to be connected a IDE64 cartridge. New Features: Time and Track# work, plays whole CD in continuous mode, shuffle and repeat work, minor bugfixes.Requires IDEDOS 0.9, version 20050917 or later.

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.

ACME 0.88 | ACME is a free crossassembler. The current version can produce code for the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 processors. It also supports some of the undocumented (illegal) opcodes of the 6502. This software runs on several platforms, currently there are versions for: AmigaOS, DOS, Linux/general Unix, RISC OS and Windows. ACME knows about global and local labels, global and local macros, conditional assembly and looping assembly. It can include other sourcefiles as well as binaries while assembling, does offset assembly and much more.

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.

Mini Game Compo 2006 | For game programmers there is a chance to show what their favorite computer can do. All retro computer systems can compete. There are some rules for the games: Game size: 1kbyte, 4kbyte or 8kbyte, You have to supply a screenshots and webpage of the actual game, The games must be submitted using a common emulator format, The Data + code must be in one block, Game should run on standard hardware.

Programming the 264 | Chris from www.commodore16.com is collecting all kinds of articles about programming the 264 series computers from Commodore. There are already 33 articles available and new articles will be added in the near future.

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.

D64 Editor v0.027 | Forrest (Almightyc64) made a lot of improvements on his Windows based D64 editor. Some of the features are: Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files. Export files from the D64 into PRG files. View/Edit the BAM. View and modify blocks on the disk in hex. View the directory using the native c64 font. Check the website for other features and the download section.

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

JiffyDOS for the VIC20 | Jim Brain is working on Jiffy DOS for the Commodore VIC-20. Take a look on Jim's web page for all the Jiffy DOS products.

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.

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