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SketchBlock v2.6 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: One important error was removed, a couple of small improvements and a new Julia set is available.

Commodore Amiga A500 repair | GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of a Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM.

Dopus5 - Amiga | Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform.

MorphOS 3.5 Software Development Kit | The MorphOS development team released version 3.5 of the MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The changes are: LogTool only runs one multiple ramdebug sessions. Improved SDK indexing for Scribble and updated for OpenSSL and dependencies.

Assist v1.9 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Many improvements to the download system including the Tuomas Hokka's download tool. Improvements for Remove. Added the DOWNLOADSDIR ARexx command. Added 37 new articles and 1 new tutorial and various articles are updated.

Yerzmyey - Rave is illegal! | Yerzmyey released a new album called Rave is illegal! All the music has been made on an AMIGA 500 (4 channels) with the use of OctaMED 4.0. Track list: Give it, Goddamn business, Have you ever loved?, I have come and It’s gonna take all night. Vocals: MusicRadar and Mandy Edge.

AROS Vision 2.6 | A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. Changes in this version: Updates for the system data, new background picture from Wawa, Magellan v5.90, Speech support, FAT95, more demos, compilers and much more.

Amiga Future #108 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: ACA 500, ACA 1232, Ace of Hearts, Flappy Bird, Erben des Throns, Fortis, Islands Mini Golf, AmigaOS 4 Dockies, ViewCSV, Odyssey 1.23, GBAPII++ and KryoFlux Free. Special: X5000 Cyrus, Demo Scene, MuliPlayer Spiele, Backups, Klassische Besinnungen 15 - Digital Creations and Progressive Image Technology. Workshops: Programming AmigaOS4 (6). Interviews: Dierk Ohlerich, Yesterchips and Grzegorz Kraszewski.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Aaargh! - Arcadia (Arcadia Systems), 4th Dimesnion 2 (Cryptoburners), Manchester United (Krisalis), Penthouse Hot Numbers (Magic Bytes) and Bismarck (PSS). Improved: Virocop (Graftgold), Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision), Virocop (Graftgold), Castles (Interplay), Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin), Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus), Teenage Queen (Ere), Buck Rogers (TSR), Deliverance (21st Century) and Sarcophaser (Rainbow Arts).

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Shadow of the Beast - Underwater Level, Battle Squadron (Peace For My 64), Apidya (High speed mix), Infestation (Kal Solar Remix), Nuke's Groovy, Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (Remastered), Giana Sisters Intro Remix, Crystal Hammer (Mulperi Remix), Yo! Joe! (Level One), Audiophobe, Arcane, A Prehistoric Tale, Elvira Frozen Earth (melancholy cold tribute), Pump That Pussy Remix, Desert Dreams (Hidden part), Jim Power Level 1 and Projectyle - Vectors.

Sqrxz 4 - Amiga | In the fourth part of the Sqrxz series you are on a cold icy island. On the island you will find shiny marbles, evil penguins, ghosts, underwater creatures and many more. Features: Retro graphics, 10 levels, great music, high score, hidden passages and cheat codes (if you can find them).

WinUAE 2.8.0 | A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: A4000T and A4091 SCSI emulation. Graphics filter settings for native and RTG modes. Emulated A1000 KICK diskette. Super Card Pro image file support. SLIRP network inbound port support. Joystick/joypad can be used to control light pen cursor. And many other updates.

Davidope puzzle - AmigaOS4 | Mrdarek made a game for AmigaOS4. If you are bored with solving static puzzles you should try this animated puzzle. Features: Snap to grid, auto link pieces and a viewer for solved puzzles.

NetSurf 3.1 | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Faster CSS selection performance, faster start up time, new look and feel to the tree views, improved options handling, undo/redo support in text areas, and general improvement of forms.

Amiga 3000 style case for the Raspberry Pi | Pierluigi Ceruttis (Fynsya) developed a Amiga 3000 style case for the Raspberry Pi. The case is made from strong impact-resistant ABS plastic and purposely designed to fit both model A and model B boards exactly.

Amiga exe games | The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Space Ace and Space Ace II, King's Quest: Quest For The Crown, Romancing The Throne, To Heir Is Human, The Perils Of Rosella, Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder, Heir Today Gone Tomorrow, Alcatraz and Zenek Saper.

Boingsworld #51 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Arcade Evolution USB, Ace of Hearts, Amazing Voxel Bird Saga, BMR, Paula Powered, Prisma sound card, MorphOS Airport extreme, Minimig case in A1000 design, Raspberry Pi case in Amiga 3000 style, Armiga Project, Andy Warhol, Scanjuggler XAGA, Elbox news, Petro's memories, Patric Klöter and Amiga links for Finland.

YAM 2.9p1 | YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. With YAM you can receive, send and manage all your messages on your Amiga computer. The first version of YAM is made by Marcel Beck in 1995. In the year 2000 Marcel made the source-code open source and now YAM is maintained by a team of developers.

Paula Powered - Hazy Crazy | The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the music on YouTube.

EvenMore v0.80 - Amiga | EvenMore is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Optimized the RTF2Text and the HTML2Text plugin. Improved the highlighting, shadow text and strikethrough. Added a PageStream2Text plugin with a outline text style.

BetterWB v3.6 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this version: Rebooter, EnvHandler, customize and lock palettes with FullPalette, updates for icon.library, PFS3 aio and DMS, and many other improvements.

ACE v1.6 - MorphOS | ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The changes in this version are: Improvements for Tape2HD, Gate Array, screen monitor emulation, disassembler, CASOutChar / CASInChar and the english and french translations. Added UBC, DKB, 64K, user-resetable counters, real step by step mode and much more.

LTris - AROS | LTris is a Tetris clone for up to 3 players. The original game is from Michael Speck and cavemann made the AROS version. You can play the classic game or the more advanced games where tiles suddenly appear. You can also play against each other in the same game.

PT-1210 Protracker Turntable Software - Amiga | With the PT-1210 Mk1 you can use your Amiga as a Protracker Digital Turntable. You can use your Amiga to play live at DJ shows. The program is written in 68k assembler and can be used on all Amiga set-ups.

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: HQC & The Champs - Backlash, S.C.A - Karate Kid II, 2000AD - Sim City, Agie - Miami Chase, Alpha Flight - new Stuff, Subway and The Dream Team - Airball, Subway and The Dream Team - Crazy Cars 2 and Wanted Team - B.C Kid.

Odyssey Web Browser 1.24 - MorphOS | Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The features are: WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5. Changes in this version: WebKit r161078, OpenSSL 1.0.1g, GCC 4.7.3, CURL, WebP support, RequestAnimationFrame and improved CSS animation support.

AmigaAMP v3.15 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for info window, pubscreen, AREXX open/add commands, playlist loading, charset conversion routines, M3U playlist, time display and automatic reconnect for shoutcast streaming.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: MegaBall (Ed Mackey), Croak 2 (Selwyn Stevens), Oblivion (Mark Sibly), Dance Trance (Interactive), Robbeary (Anco), Dance Trance 2 (Interactive), Croak (Selwyn Stevens), The Scene 4 (Prophecy) and Dark Castle (Three-Sixty). Improved: Pushover (Red Rat Software/Ocean), Robbeary, Alien Breed 3D (Team 17), Kick Off 96 (Anco), Space Harrier (Elite), Rock Star (Infomedia) and SWIV (Sales Curve).

AROS Vision 2.5 | A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts and ideas of the Amiga and the 68000 processor. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. Changes in this version: Poseidon, ImageFX 1.5, AmiBlitz 3.6, Amiga-E-Compiler, Trog AGA, SDL games, Ignition, ViewCSV and support for MIDI-Data.

Armin Sander interview | Armin Sander is the programmer of the famous 8-tracks tracker Oktalyzer on Amiga. The problem with an 8 track tracker was that the CPU was not fast enough to mix all 8 channels in real-time. The later version had only 6 channels to improve the quality of the sound. You can read the whole interview on the Obligement web page.

Boingsworld #50 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Odyssey, MUI 4 2014R3, Petro's memoirs, HomeCon 27, Cyrus boards production, EUAE Beta 2, USB module prototype, A500 memory upgrade, Cherry keys, Amiga News, C-Base, Matze: CDTV to SCSI, Matze: A500 graphics card and Boings World auctions.

Amiga Future 89 | Edition 89 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Interviews with Dale Luck, Roman Kargin and Pascal Papara. Reviews: Hydrozone, Cube, Wired Chaos, Tiny Invaders, Crystal Dragon, UAE4Droid, C64 Forever, Gnumeric, Qt4, Hollywood Designer 3, Celistia. Hardware: ACA630, Das Keyboard, Picasso IV. Workshop: AmiFIG, Frotz, Floppy Disk Renovation, C-Workshop. Special: AmigaOne X1000, Kopierschutz.

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