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RadeonHD driver - AmigaOS 4 | A-EON technology has released the official RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS. Features: Radeon X1300 - Radeon HD 7000. 2D graphics acceleration. Supports output via VGA, DVI and HDMI. Available for all AmigaONE, AmigaOS next-generation machines and compatible models.

Minimig case | Thomas Koch made a prototype for a Minimig case last year. It is now possible to print the case with a 3D printer. After printing it may be necessary to make some small modification to fit the LEDs and if you want to hide the small lines from the printing process you can apply a coat of paint.

FS-UAE v2.4.1 | FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based on UAE/WinUAE. Changes in this version: Improved the hd_requirements system and solved a problem when using Python 2.7. The joystick names and PATH's can now contain non-ASCII characters.

Interview with Subzero | The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Subzero. Subzero was the main original supplier for the cracking group Vision Factory and member of SSR (Subzero, Selim and Rudi). SSR supplied games to the famous Amiga cracking group Skid Row from Germany in the early 1990s.

Amiga Forum #008 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic, SUCK and Amiga World. Amiga or not? Browser test #005. Report from the Data Storm 2014. Commodore and the CD-ROM technology. Battle Squadron, Ace of Hearts remake and the AmiGBG Fair.

AROS shell manual v0.80 | Paolo Besser has made an manual for the AROS shell. The manual has the following subjects: Introduction, AROS shell basics, Path / Command Template / Patterns / Redirection /Special drives devices / Running in background / Basic file operation with shell / Working with SFS / Script programming / AROS-DOS Scripting / Working with a script file / Changing system script files / AROS command reference, Printer escape codes and error codes. This version also includes AROSTCP commands and the archive management utilities in the Extras drawer.

Og AGA - Amiga | Dave Parsons made the game Og for the Amiga. The game is a side-way scrolling game in the Wonderboy style. The original game has only 32 colours. The later version was a AGA version which had 64 colours, much smoother sky colours and better screen fades. Dave thought he lost the AGA version after his hard-disk failed, but he found a copy on a diskette.

Amiga Power #53 | Amiga Power is a printed magazine in the French language for the Amiga user. In this edition the following articles: 3 DigiBooster OS4, E-UAE JIT OS4, Huenison OS4, The shooter OS4, The blue tunics Android, Alchemy X, Amiga, The Future Was Here, Slobman, Strix Memoria, Waltz of dockies OS4, HTML, Multiboot OS4 and programming Qt.

Odyssey 1.23 - AmigaOS4 | The Odyssey Web Browser is a WebKit-based browser for AmigaOS. The features are r155188 WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5 Video/Audio support. Recent changes: Improvements for ffmpeg, adblock, HTTP authentication, FTP, spellchecker and many more.

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: Toki, Flood 1990, Bubble And Squeak, Wrath Of The Demon, Q-Bic, Stealth Fighter, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Nighthawk F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0, Sqrxz, Genesia, Lionheart, Warhead, K240, Samurai Showdown Classiek, Damage: The Sadistic Butchering Of Humanity, International Karate, Putty, Putty Squad and Flappy Bird.

EvenMore v0.78 - Amiga | EvenMOre is an text viewer for AmigaOS. The features are proportional font support, multi-coloured text, file conversion plugins, and more. Recent changes: Auto check for local files. Improvements for printing, Dir2Text, MUI and Arc2Text plugin. A new button interface and the images are now IFF files instead of icons.

Cuyo - AROS | Cuyo is a game for AROS. The game is based on the classic game Tetris, but it has many surprises. You can rotate the items and let them drop. You don't need to form rows or columns. Any shape will do, when enough blobs of the same colour are connected, they will explode. The game also has a two player mode.

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: Unit A - Break, Digilogic - Dutch Soccer Manager, Dragons - Shadow of the Beast 2, Zenith - Chessmaster 2100, The Fire Starters - Hillsfar, The Fire Starters - Space Ace and Synergy - Terminator II.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Tell It To My Heart (Algotech Software), Lords of Doom (Starbyte), Negative FX (Reality), Prince (Arc) and International Sports Challenge (Empire). Improved: Chronicles Of Omega (ARC, International Sports Challenge (Empire, Enemy 2 - Missing in Action (Anachronia), Oil Imperium (reLINE), Monster Business (Eclipse), Euro Soccer (Flair) and European Championship 1992 (Elite).

Amiga Future #107 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: CDTV mouse/joystick switch, CDTV SCSI controller, Goal, Game Bundle Version 1, Lode Looter, Pingus, Putty Squad, Enemy 2: Missing In Action, Solid Gold, DigiBooster 3, SimpleMail, YAM, SnapIt, MorphOS 3.4 and AmigaOS 4 Dockies. Special: Demo Scene and Progressive Peripherals & Software Inc. Workshops: WHDLoad and Programming with AmigaOS4 (5). Shows: Retro Madrid Games Week 2013 and AmiCamp 2013. Interviews: Dino Dini.

Amiga Mania 7 | Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Announcements, A1200, Quickshot Intruder, Sunrise - AD516, Synergy, Youtube-Videos OS4.1, OWB-Shop, Samantha 440EP, Flamingos and Petunia - Rachy interview, Workbench 16 colours background, Toolmanager, Only Amiga makes it possible, Fade to Black, Demológia 20, Virtual Dreams: Absolute, Inebriation (1992), M.A.C.E., Putty Squad, Gee Bee Air Rally, Freeserf, Strife, Lantus360 Interview and Starwoids.

Boingsworld #49 | A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Ace of Hearts, Amiga Games Award, X500Plus keys, MorphOS 3.5.1, Yesterchips on Youtube, Blue Metal Rose, Aros distributions, Ares Shop, Power2People Crowdfunding, Aminux USB-Stick and IndieGO AppStore.

AROS Vision 2.4 | 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: New icons. Freeware-Raytracer added. Improvements for file formats and support for the YAFA file format (Trackers). Text-client for the indieGO-Marketplace. And many other improvements and optimisations.

Jack v4.5 - Amiga | Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: OS4 Kernal update. Reorganised the buttons in a list view, Icon for list items. A window for add, edit or remove RSS Feeds. Improvements for the GetDevices() function.

BetterWB v3.3 | 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: Icon.library version 46.4.332. Added Showboards command and PowerSnap commodity for enhanced clipboard functionality. Redit 1.8.

Kobo Deluxe - AROS | Kobo Deluxe is third person scrolling 2D shooter. The game is developed by David Olofson and converted to AROS by Caveman. In the game you must defeat many enemy ships and military bases. The game has 50 levels that increase in difficulty and have different combinations of enemies.

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: The Wizards - Digi Paint, The Wizards - Multi Term, Tarkus Team - Edd the Duck, Punishers - Stunt Car Racer, Australian Crackers United - F29 Retaliator, 2000AD - AFAKT, Supplex - Darkman, Commando East - Escape from Colditz, Wanted Team - Turrican 2 and Flashtro - Solid Gold.

MorphOS 3.5 | A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements for auto zipping and editing, PLAYLIST rexx command, file notification, Chart drawing, wireless network, battery info window, mute function, GL_CLAMP and GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE.

Assist v1.8 - 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: Improved the unpack option for the archives. Improved layout and faster switching for tutorial listings. Optimisation of the web search tool. Added 25 new articles and 1 new tutorial and various articles updated.

SysMon v3.8 - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Added expunge for libraries, remove option for a Message Port, NVGetVar tab and SDLBench benchmarks for X1000/Radeon 9250 64 bits and Sam460ex 1150 MHz Onboard GFX. Compiled with SDK 53.24 and MUI 4.

FastView v2.5 - Amiga | FastView is a MUI program which allows you to show your pictures by selecting files or drawer with right mouse button or by drag and drop. Recent changes: Improved precision of the Crop function. Added AUTOCLOSE_LITTLEWINDOW tool type. The path of temp files is now RAM:T. Compiled with SDK 53.24 and MUI 4.

FS-UAE v2.4.0 | FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based on UAE/WinUAE. Changes in this version: Support for multiple mice and support for SDL 2.0. More FS-UAE configuration options. JIT for Windows (x86). Better support for the online Amiga game database. Improved joystick/gamepad configuration tool.

Powermanga - AROS | Powermanga is a shoot'em up game for AROS. In the game you start with a ship. To get better weapons you must shoot the enemy. You also can get more weapons with the green and red gems. You can score more points with the blue gems, pink is for energy and yellow gives you protection.

Cortex Floppy Emulator - Amiga | For the PC it is possible to replace the old disk drive with an emulator that uses a USB memory stick. Sadly this doesn't work for the Amiga, because the Amiga uses it's own format for diskettes. But now you can replace the firmware of the disk drive emulator and use it on the Amiga.

AROS Vision 2.3 | 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. New in this version: Wildfire 7, AMOS Professional and the Games Master System.

WarpView v1.06 - Amiga | WarpView is a program for viewing and manipulating images. Features: slideshow, sorting, scale/resize, crop, orientation, Gaussian blur and un-sharp mask filters. Changes in this version: Improved blur and un-sharp mask code, new noise reduction filter, Lanczos sharp scaling method, brightness, contrast and gamma options.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Dr. Fruit (SoftGang/Anco), John Lowe's Ultimate Darts (Gremlin), Rock Star (Infomedia), European Championship 1992 (Elite) and Robozone (Mirrorsoft). Improved: Static Chaos (Silents), Chuck Rock (Core Design), War In The Gulf (Empire), Dungeon Master (FTL/Software Heaven), Black Cauldron (Sierra), Big Run (Sales Curve), Tetris Pro (Logic System Productions/2000 A.D.) and Dune (Cryo).

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