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Sqrxz Amiga OCS | Frank Wille worked together with the game development team Retroguru on a Amiga OSC version of the Jump'n Run game Sqrxz. The OSC version has 16 level and works with Kickstart 1.2 and 512 kByte RAM. The OSC version was released on the Demodays 2012 party in Switzerland.

Boingsworld #31 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Amiga Meeting 2012 Bad Bramstedt, Timberwolf 4 RC 2, Retro Gamer Magazin, AmiSystemRestore, AmigaONE X1000, Amiga OS 4.1 Update 5, Load Magazin, Geit @ Home, AmiWORXX Spiel - Agent Lux, Blue Metal Rose LIVE in Essen, NComm, MorphOS Website, MorphOS History, Amiga and Retro Computing 2002, EBay Apple Mac Mini G4 and Power Book G4, Pegasos Forum, Amiga News and MorphOS.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changesin this version: FastConfig, this is a tool for backup and restore the system settings. You can now choose your own start up music. The latest version of NoWinEd 0.83.

Annotate v3.0 - Amiga | Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor with the following features: Syntax Highlighting, Unlimited Undo/Redo, Macros, Printing, Folding, Tools menu and a full featured Arexx Port. Most recent changes: Ed Exchange. Scrollbar on the right side. Find and replace history. Added Arexx commands SHOW_EX_EDITOR and HIDE_EDITOR. Improved the loading of macros. Visit the Onyxsoft web page for all the details.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Raytraced Dreams (Old Bulls), Orgasm (Old Bulls), Ody Sounds 2 (Odyssey), Los Templos Sagrados (Aventuras AD), Jabato (Aventuras AD), La Diosa de Cozumel (Aventuras AD), Chichén Itzá (Aventuras AD), La Aventura Original (Aventuras AD), La Aventura Espacial (Aventuras AD), Hymn 633 (Damage), Gathering '91 Slideshow (Rebels), E.C.E.S. Slideshow (Rebels), Mr. Monkey (Rebels) and Megablast (Rebels). Improved: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim).

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 5 | Hyperion Entertainment released update 5 for AmigaOS 4.1. Changes in this version: Optimized DMA copy routines (440ep / 460ex). SM502 audio driver. Updated Radeon, R200 and Permedia2 Warp3D drivers. Catweasel driver for floppy disk, SID chip and joystick support. MIDI support (camd.library). Improved Amiga 68K emulation including Amiga ROMs.

Ami-Ingenious - AmigaOS 4 | Ami-Ingenious is a new strategy game for the Amiga made by mrdarek. In the game you must connect identical pieces (6 colours) on a hexagonal board. The rules of the game are very easy to learn. The unregistered version of the game sometimes shows a donation reminder screen, but no other restriction. If you want a registered version of the game a small donation is required.

AmiArcadia - v18.5 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: Project/File menu with recent documents list. Help for host gamepads now also shows host mouse. Real-time monitor with graphical paddle axes display. Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

ProTracker with sfx | Frank Wille has written an completely new music player based on the original Replayer source code which came with ProTracker 2.3. The player is optimized and has new functions for games: Insert external sound effects, fast master volume, no busy waiting, E8 command for triggers and lots of tables for best performance.

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: Blockout, Nitro, Bobo, Roadkill and a Bubble Bobble compilation: Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Parasol Stars: The Story Of Rainbow Islands II.

RetroWiki - Amiga special | RetroWiki is an Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this special edition about the Amiga the following articles: History of the Amiga. Jay Minor. ZX spectrum emulators for the Amiga. Born with an advantage. Hardware and Amiga Basic course. Amiga advertising. Amiga 500 / 1200. The Amiga in the movies or on TV. Amiga games and software.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Sound and Vision (Rebels), The Keys To Maramon (Mindcraft), Sound Mania 2 (Pussy), Innership (Pussy), Music Disk 1 and 2 (81st Track), Magic Johnson's Basketball (Melbourne House), Music Demo (Deform), Delirium (Deform), Hexadecimal Perfection (Action Direct), Difficult To Cure (Analog) and The Drunk Desert Demo (Paradox). Improved: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin), Pinball Prelude (Effigy) and Virocop (Graftgold).

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: Possessed - Sapce Fight, Possessed - Becker Base, Black Monks - Skidz, Agnotic Front - The Eye of the Dragon, World of Wonders - Turbo, Chryseis - The Legend of Kyrandia, Hoodlum - Caribbean Disaster, Cytax - Ice Intro, Energy - James Pond, Byte Rapers - Sword and the Rose, Bamiga Sector One - BattleTech, Supplex - On the Road, Oracle - Star Command, Avenger - Memorise, Oracle - Mike Reid's Pop Quiz and Razor 1911 - Faces: Tetris III.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Steeve.b (PETER W RMX, Psychedelic (1), Chromag - Switchback (Virgill Hively rmx), Colonization (Bonny Morn Remix), Xenon 2 (daXX step 2 dub Remix), Pool Of Radiance Orchestral Remix, Zylon / Fraxion Remix, Samplemixer - Angels Intro Remix, Amberstar #11 - Ode to Schnism, R-Type Title, Wrath Of The Demon Title Remix, Double Dragon - We Are the Dragons and Curse Of The Azure Bonds.

Candy Crisis - AROS | Candy Crisis is a combination of an action and an puzzle game. The game has twelve unique stages. Every stage has its own character and you need a different technique for every stage. The AROS version of the game is made by Szilárd Biró and can be played with one or two people.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Count Duckula II and No sax please - We're Egyptian, Pepe the screwdriver, Vabank, Bolo Mrowkojad, Agent Czesio, Litil Divil, Mr. Tomato, Ruff and Reddy in the Space adventure, Led storm, Munsters, Postman Pat I and III, Sooty and Sweep, Twilight knights, No Exit, Gem stone legend, Horor Zombies, Carver and Stormtrooper.

Worm Wars v8.8 - Amiga | Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: Two new objects: forwards and backwards and improved sound effects.

Tero Heikkinen Interview | You can read an interview with Tero Heikkinen on the Amigapd web page. Tero is the developer of the Amiga game Top Hat Willy. This game is a clone of the Jet Set Willy that was released for many 8-bit computers such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 16 en 64, Acorn Electron, MSX etc. In the game you must clean a big house before you can go back to your bedroom.

XAMOS | XAMOS is a AMOS BASIC reimplementation for Amiga, Windows, Linux, AROS and MorphOS made by Mequa Innovations. This version is a run-only and does not feature an editor. XAMOS is compatible with almost all programs created with the latest jAMOS editor.

Grunch v1.37 | Grunch is a software centre, where you can click and search for all the software you need. Grunch is a packet managers which is supported by hundreds of people who manually maintain their system. All that knowledge of installing programs is put into the Grunch system. The program is available for MorphOS, AmigaOS and compatible systems.

TAWS v0.20 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. Changes in this version: New look OS 4.0 / 4.1. New options like rounded corners and XEN. And removed a couple of small errors.

Koules - AROS | Koules is a arcade game for AROS. The original game is made by James Jacobs and the AROS version is made by Matthias Rustler. In the game the Koules have exhausted all the resources of their home planet. Their emperor Dark Applepolisher wants to take over earth for new resources. You have to fight against the Koules to save earth.

Bochs v2.5.1 - Amiga | Bochs is a PC emulator for AmigaOS 4. The program can emulate the x86 CPU, AT hardware and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, DOS etc. on your Amiga. This version is a work in progress and is missing the audio and CD-ROM support.

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: BattleToads, Battle Isle (4), Big Red-Nippon (2), Elite Trilogy (3), Centurion: Defender Of Rome, Myth: History In The Making Rooster (2) and Clystron.

Boingsworld #30 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Ultimate PPC, Amiga Meeting Bad Bramstedt 2012, Timberwolf, Sam440ep-flex, Movie on a A500 AVI4HV, Zeus68k Amiga 500 - 2000 - CDTV, Aeros, Individual Computers News, Hollywood Shop closed, Hollywood Designer 4.0, Atari SM 124, 600 HD, Aeros on Raspberry Pi Video, Genesi Efika, Amiga Media Center AMC, Aros, Ares One and React Os.

ACE - 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: Internal improvements. Added emulation of the different Gate Array versions. Added a Manufacturer option. Configuration of the ENTER key. New more user-friendly icon. Improved the French and English texts.

UAE4Droid v0.998 | UAE4Droid is a free Commodore Amiga Emulator (UAE4ALL), developed by Arnaud Brochard. To make the emulator work you need a Amiga ROM. You can use the touch screen or trackball as mouse control. Recent changes: Solved the problems with the menu button and loading save states. Orientation support. Shift and arrow keys are now available, and the virtual keyboard is now multi touch.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Emerald Mine 3 Professional (Kingsoft), I.C.E. 8 (Cytax), Twin Turbos (Fun Factory), Rebellion (Fun Factory), Electronic Pool (Microdeal), Tecnoball (TLK Games), Heroes Of The Lance (SSI), Lords of War (Digital Concepts), Jet (subLOGIC), Megademo (Predators), Kennedy Approach (Microprose) and I.C.E. 7 (Cytax). Improved: Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft), Horror Zombies from the Crypt (Astralvision/Millennium), Heroes Of The Lance (SSI) and Crystal Dragon (Magnetic Fields).

Amiga Future #82 | The 82th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews: Markus Weiß and Carlos Peris. Reviews: Maniac Mansion, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World, OpenTTD, AmigaOS 4.2 and Reminiscence. Hardware: AresOne and CDTV. Workshop: Cairo (2). Specials: Law case Amiga Inc - Hyperion, AROS News, Sinclair QL, SQL, Amiga Retrospective (16) and The girlfriend in the office.

Zeus68k | Zeus68 is a new expansion for the Amiga 500. The device is actually 4 devices in 1. It has an accelerator (68SEC000 at 7 or 50 MHz), an RAM expansion (8 MB), an Boot menu / Kickstart ROM Switcher (6 Kickstarts) and a IDE controller. The Zeus68k is a proto-type at the moment but a limited production run is planned for the winter of 2012. You can follow the progress on the English Amiga Board forum.

AEROS | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS will be a very fast desktop. The benefits for AROS user are more drivers, Linux apps and Linux development tools for developing AROS. The benefits for Linux users are a very fast desktop, run AROS apps and AROS games and a Amiga 68k emulation.

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