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Vampire600 / Apollo - Gold | The Vampire600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Improvements for MOVE/EXT, MPU, TRACE, CHK2, CMP2, MOVEM, CAS, LOOP, TRAPcc and MOVEQ/MOVE.l.

AMIcast #16 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Aaron Smith (Online-Shop Amiga On The Lake).

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: Alien Breed, Ruff 'n Ready, Amigo Scour, The Hound of Shadow, CD32 TV, New Star Electronics, Prince of Persia, Water bombs at dawn, They sold a million, No Turrican is an island, Connecting the Amiga to a BBS, Populous and The Amiga is good for your mental health.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions for this month are: 1942, Lepani, Galacto II, Galactoid, Raid, Echo Groove 2, Electric Drug, End Theme 2, Neo Drink, Nitro Acid, No Sex, Not Just Any Trip, Over The Rainbow, That Old Magic, Xstatic Magic and Zine 8.

Boingsworld #79 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Gamescom 2016, Michael St. Neitzel, Retro 7-bit - Vampire 500, Videoplayer Emotion, Enemy 2, A-Eon - Radeon, Cinemware Retro, Amiworx, Amigafuture, Blue Metal Rose Termine, Chris Hülsbeck, Patrick Nevian and Tronimal.

GEMZ v2.1 - Amiga | GEMZ is a puzzle game for the Amiga. You can try the demo version, with a 5 minute time limit, for free, or you can buy the game. In the game you are Rubin, a brave knight, and you have to save princess Esmeralda. The game has more than 300 levels from easy to madness.

XRoar v0.34.3 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and an audio output available. Changes in this version: Improvements for Zoom control, alternate text, NTSC / PAL-M, IDE, Tape, PIA and much more.

AMIcast #007 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with David Brunet from the web page Obligement.

FLOD | FLOD is a JavaScript/AS3 module written by Christian Corti. With this module it is possible to play back music from the Amiga in a modern browser. FLOD is also used in all the Flashtro intros. Version 6.0 is now available.

Calimero v3.5 - MorphOS | Calimero is a powerful DTP program for MorphOS. The program can import and export many different formats. The program supports multi page, columns, header, footer, separators, hyperlinks, text-warp, table of contents, background texture and much more. Changes in this version: Automatic hyphenation, barcodes, add new words to spell dictionary and many other small improvements.

Amiga Racer v3.62 | Michael St. Neitzel is developing the game Amiga Racer. The requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI graphics card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. Version 3.62 is now available.

ACA1233n - Amiga 500 | Epsilon wrote a blog about upgrading his Amiga 500. He shows how to install the ACA1233n 030 accelerator with the RTC battery expansion, a 512k memory expansion and new floppy drive.

Amiga 3400 | Stefan Egger from the Computer Collection Vienna has now an Amiga 3400. The A3400 was a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. You can look at the photos of this rare computer.

AMIcast #013 | AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Chris Young from the NetSurf browser for the Amiga.

AEROS 4.0.1 - Raspberry Pi 1, 2 & 3 | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS is a very fast desktop, and you can use AROS apps and AROS games. Changes in this version: Support for the Raspberry 1,2 and 3. Updates for uae4arm, exFAT and Bluetooth.

Flashtro Amiga | On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Terminal Cracking News - Somewhere in Time, ROL - Secure golden keyboot, Flashtro - Great Giana Sisters SE, Scoopex - Great Giana Sisters SE, Bronx - Nebula, Paranoimia - Dyter 7, Flashtro - Sqrxz 4 Update 1.1, Megaforce - Manhatten Dealer, Paranoimia - North & South, Flashtro - Blocky Skies, Ackerlight - Crash Garrett, Ackerlight - Wild Copper, Flashtro - Sqrxz 4 and Parasol Stars.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: IK+, Lethal Zone, Myth, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Star Wars, TV Sports Football, Pastel Vanilla, TV Sports Football, Terminator 2 - Arcade Game, Bangkok Knights, Ferrari Formula One, Jurassic Park, Hole In One, PP Hammer and Football Manager 2.

Super Robin - Amiga | Super Robin is a new game for the Amiga that was created with the Reality Game Creator. The game has 31 levels and you must collect all the fruit and find the exit. The game also has enemies, teleporter doors and switches.

Amibian | Amibian is an Raspberry Pi3 image with the Uae4arm emulator. Amibian transforms your Raspberry Pi3 into an Amiga. Features: Easy install, Midnight Commander for file managing, USB and Ethernet support.

The Retro Hour - Jim Sachs | The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast made by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the European gaming industry. In this episode: Jim Sachs, who was involved with Defender of The Crown, Saucer Attack and the CDTV's user interface.

Amiga and the 5th audio channel | Stian Søreng has developed a system to add a fifth audio channel to the Amiga computer. He uses the composite video channel to produce an extra audio channel. You can read all about it on his blog.

Vampire 500 v2 | Simo Koivukoski made a video of an Amiga 2000 with the Vampire 500 v2 accelerator. The first test is with RiVA 0.50 and Picasso II (CyberGraphX screen mode 320x240 / gray). The second test is MP3 playing with Amplifier and Delfina Lite DSP.

New Amiga hardware development | The web page Retro 7-bit is developing new hardware for the Amiga. The IDEA ZII - IDE controller (Zorro II) for the Amiga 2000, Wicher 2000 - turbo card for the Amiga 2000, Wicherek 14/28 - turbo card for the Amiga 500 and the Wicher 5k/1M - CHIP RAM for the Amiga 500.

Amigos | The web page Amigos added new articles last month: The Amiga Remakes Database, Silkworm & SWIV, Bomb-Jack, Transplant, King's Quest, Tearaway Thomas, Will Williams, 4x4 Off-Road Racing, Super Stardust, The Three Stooges, CD-32, 1000cc Turbo, 1000 Miglia and Fury of the furry fandom.

The Games-Coffer | On the Games Coffer web page you can find games, demos, animations, slideshows, diskette magazines, history, FAQ, emulators, reviews and advert Scans. The new additions for this month are: Audial Talk #1, Freedom Crack #2, Freedom Crack #4, Freedom Crack #8, Freedom Crack #11, Danger Dogg, Drive Wars, Exit-13, Vier Op Een Rij, Waggle A Mania II, Hippy Hippy Shake, Memory Dust, Temple Of Dreams, Sine-ister, Cybernet, Generation Love, Only Your Love, Galactic Empires, Boom, The Last Saga, We Are Different, Bach N Destroy, Discovery, Das Punica Spiel, Norse Gods, Pipeline, Realm of Maiyessae, The Acorn Court, Aggression 1 and 2, Scanner Issue 14, Upstream Issues 6,8,9,10 and Vision Issue 1.

Boingsworld #78 | A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Warp3D Nova, FPGA Graka MNT VA2000, X5000, Solid Gold Collector's Edition, Center Court 2, Video Center Court 2 AGA, Project: Lila, Amiga I miss you, AmigaGTI, Computermuseum München, Amiga Wiki and Kerkos.

Vampire600 / Apollo - Silver9 | The Vampire600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Vector instructions, new Bondings, stronger FUSINGs, Little Endian GFX mode for PC emulation and improvements for MUL flags, WHDLoad Branch-Target-Cache, Div 64 Flag and more AMMX instructions.

Dir Me Up 3.0 - Amiga | A new version of Dir Me Up is now available. This program can be used to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga. Changes in this version: Shell-, ARexx- or Python scripts. Configurable Toolbar buttons, progress bar and improvements for dialog screens and menu's, graphical view of partitions and much more.

Hall of Light | An update for the Hall of Light web page: Center Court 2, Doctor Who, Center Court Tennis, Turbo Trax, Electronic Pool, Artura, Fighter Mission, International Soccer, Plutos, Blitz Ware, Gernot Fritsche, Raise the Titanic, Titanic (PD), C. Millin, Pucman Worlds, Testament II, Oids, Phoenix Fighters, Petri Häkkinen and Hänninen-Pelz.

meteMP3 | A new version of meteMP3 for AROS is now available. Recent changes: Drag & Drop, custom memory allocation / deallocation, command line play via cli/shell and improvements for the playlist.

Ignition Beta 4 - AmigaOS 4.x | Ignition is a modern spread sheet for AmigaOS 4.x. This AmigaOS 4.x version is made by Achim Pankalla, which is based on the 68K version from Axel Dörfler. Changes in this version: Improvements for the German manual and the import of TurboCalc and CSV files. And a Dutch manual is now also available.

Chroma - AROS | Chroma is an abstract puzzle game. In the game you must manipulate a variety of colourful shapes in order to give up their subtle secrets. The puzzles will get more difficult in higher levels.

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