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Me and My Shadow - Amiga 68k | Me and My Shadow is a puzzle / platform game where you must try to reach the exit by solving puzzles. Spikes, moving blocks, fragile blocks and much more stand between you and the exit. The game has more than 40 levels, 18 different block types and a built-in level editor. The game is available for Amiga68k, Linux and Windows.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Sliding, Tom and Jerry, Shuffle Pix, Skate of the Art, Miecze Valdgir 2, Street Gang, Mafdet and the book of the dead, Buble+, Pro Boxing Simulator, Cobra, Car-vup, Thai Boxing, Skate Tribe, Fatal Impact, Techno Ninja and many others.

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: Skid Row - Sliding Skill, Agile - Cruise for a Corpse, Fairlight and Northstar - Custodian, Crest - Smash, Vision Factory and The Beyonders - Blizzard, The Band - Battle Valley, World of Wonders - Motorbike Madness, C.B.C and The Band - Thundercats, Quadlite - Whittaker Music and The Sunriders - Ripping Yarns.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. New: AMOS Pro, XAMOS, M68K applications support, PForth, Oricutron Oric-1 emulator, zBoy Game Boy emulator, Unarc, Hurrican (remake of Turrican), Cinnamon Writer, Ignition (68k) and the neopop Neo Geo Pocket emulator. Improved: FAT handler and GMA graphics 3D driver. Update: Annotate, LodePaint, MegaMario, Duke Nukem 3D, MP3Player and cbmbasic.

MazezaM - AmigaOS 4 | MazezaM is a puzzle game made by Ventzislav Tzvetkov (drHirudo). In the game you have to slide walls to open corridors. In the first levels the rooms are simple but they get more difficult in the following levels. The most recent Amiga version has 42 levels, an talking intro and nice outro sequence. The game is also available for the following computer systems: Sinclair ZX, Apple OS X, Apple II, Oric Atmos, Commodore 64, Coleco, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, CP/M, Windows, Java applet and Rockbox.

MorphOS 3.1 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. In this version there are many improvements and a number of problems were resolved. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

Plipbox - A500 | Lallafa is working on a new project for the Amiga 500. The project will enable Internet access on the Amiga 500. The system use a Arduino board and a Ethernet module, and allows direct access to your local network. On the Lallafa's web page you can find a description on how to build the hardware and the source code is also available.

Amiga Future #97 | A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: USB-Joystick Adapter, Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX, Atari ST conversions, Gravity Beam, Downfall, TetriCrisis 4, Letters Fall 3, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, Saga, AmiCygnix, iBatch, WinUAE, FS-UAE, Amiga Forever, C64 Forever, WiiUAE, Janus-UAE, MorphOS 3.0. Workshop: Data management in AmigaDOS (1), Virtual Screens on Amiga and the C-Workshop (14). Special: A-EON News, Classic Reflections 5 (ASDG Inc). Others: Computer Meeting Braunschweig, Commodore Meeting Wien, News and Up2Date.

Boingsworld #29 | You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Load Magazin, Competition Pro USB Sports, Sam460ex Leistungssteigerung, AmigaONE X1000 Auslieferung, MorphOS 3, Amiga 4000 060 mit 100 Mhz, Acorn, Atari 1040 ST / STE, Yamaha 2149, Amiga Future, Andreas Magerl Facebook, APC-TCP , NoCover, Amiga Family Poster , AmigaPLUS, Total Amiga, Alcatraz Demo, MT Rechnung OS3 / OS4, Amiga Future Jobangebote and Der arme kleine Spendenknopf.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Ditris (Magic Soft), XTreme Racing (Black Magic), Ghouls 'n' Ghosts and Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft). Improved: Sorcery+ (Virgin), Khalaan (Rainbow Arts) and After the War (Dinamic).

Icaros Desktop 1.4.3 | Paolo Besser released an update of Icaros Desktop. This version will solve a few problems for people who are developing with Icaros. To prevent problems the support for the NTFS file system is removed from this version. The following programs are updated: WildMidi library, MP3 Player and LoView.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Chaos Engine - World 2 (Workshops) Space Infaders , Turrican Loader Theme (Slow-Load Version, Fury of the Furries - Mystic, Final Fight (Remix, Chambers of Shaolin - Modu, Chambers of Shaolin - Test Of, Interceptor Cracktro (Unit A is Back, Elvira, CZ-Tunes - A Prehistoric Tale (Highscore Remix) and Mad Hatter (pure restoration).

X-Moto - Amiga OS4 | X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the game play. You need to control your bike to its limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult of the challenges. The game is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and Windows.

AROS - Raspberry Pi | Pascal Papara is working on an AROS version for the Raspberry Pi. At the moment the system is being tested, but you can watch an demonstration video of AROS running on a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small and cheap computer with an ARM processor, 256 MB memory, composite or HDMI video, audio, SD and USB.

Hollywood Designer 4.0 | Airsoft Softwair released the fourth version of Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications. For example: presentations, slide shows, simple games and programs. Changes in this version: Embedded video clips. Vector formats. 25 filter effects. Improved action events system. Multiple languages. Password protected presentations. 10 new action events and much 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: Atomix, Battle Chess (2), Apprentice, Assassin (2), Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, Base Jumpers, Battle Squadron and Hybris.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Drip, Assimilation: Caffeine 2, Avina Blue, Gorf, Age of Rock, Das Knax Computerspiel and Ris of the Robots.

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: Wizzcat - California Games II, Anthrox - Penguins, Reaktor - INTL 3d Tennis, Accession - Frontier, Goonies - Jet, Darkside - Death, Supplex - Cracktro, Supplex - SuperLeague Soccer, Infect - Deliverance, DPAD - Team Yankee2, Infect - Monkey Island 2, Infect - Chaos Engine, Flashtro - Hudson Hawk and vision Factory - Rings of Medusa 2.

NetSurf v2.9 - Amiga 68k | 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: New default theme (James Stalham). Linked with libxml 2.7.8. It is now possible to save a internet page as a png file. And more search engines added to the browser.

Cracktros - Amiga | The Cracktros web page added more new cracktros to the database last month. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: Zenith, Tristar, The Band, Tarkus Team, Supplex, Razor 1911, Random Access, Quicksilver and the Punishers.

MorphOS 3.0 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. Changes in this version: Support for PowerBooks, Updates to the file system, CD, SCSI and SATA, New: Flacapelle, Jalapeno, Scribble, VPDF, Textconv, PNG decoder, Network printing and Jukebox. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

Sirena AHIW v1.10 | Sirena AHIW is a program for making changes to pictures. The features are: Rotate, resize, mirror, grey-Scale, negative, sepia and sharpen. Changes in this version: Adding a text watermark, Redo and support for the Greek language. The program can be used on AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS4, MorphOS 2.7 and Windows.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Drip, Assimilation: Caffeine 2, Avina Blue, Gorf, Age of Rock, Das Knax Computerspiel and Ris of the Robots.

Elton Bird interview | The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Elton Bird. Elton Bird, the creator of top tennis games Tennis Champs and Super Tennis Champs tells about his work on Amiga games. After the Amiga period he worked on games for on the Sega, Nintento, Xbox, Playstation, etc. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

John Croudy interview | John worked as a programmer on games for the Amiga and the Atari ST. A few examples of games he worked on are: Silkworm, Ninja Warriors, SWIV, Rodland, Saint Dragon and Indy Heat. You can read the whole interview on the Codetrappers web page.

glUAE - AmigaOS4 | Simone Bevilacqua released glUAE for AmigaOS4. This system makes emulation of the classic Amiga very easy on AmigaOS4. You can now start a game by a simple double-clicking on an icon. You can use one or many applications at once or have a whole classic AmigaOS system installed on a partition or in a directory. Visit the glUAE web page for more details.

sz81 - AmigaOS4 | sz81 is a Sinclair ZX80/ZX81 emulator for AmigaOS4. The features of sz81 are: Virtual keyboard, Control bar, Save state system, Joystick configurator, Screenshots, Keyboard, mouse and joystick support. Window and full-screen support. The emulator is available for: Linux, AmigaOS4 and Win32.

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: X8, Brutal Football: Brutal Sports Series, Kompilacja Stunt Car Racer (2), Colin Curly's Games (2), Means Arena, Uridium II, Globdule, Batman (3), onEscapee, Project 1, Premiere and Beach Volley.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Tetris (Tristar), I.C.E. 4 / 5 / 6 (Cytax) and Desert Strike (Paradox).

Project: CDTV Remote Control Unit | Stefan Egger started a new project. He wants to make a replica of the prototype of the CDTV remote control unit. He has a couple of pictures from an presentation of the CDTV as an example. You can follow the progress on Stefan's web page.

Amiga Hardware | There are still people who develop hardware for the Amiga. Most of them are independent hardware developers and do not sell products through standard retail channels. On this web page you can find many of these products and information about ordering the hardware. A few examples are: RGB to Video converters, Clock-port expanders, CF to IDE adapters, etc.

Amiga Future #81 | Number 81 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Classic Computing, Carsten Siegner, Edgar Schwan, Bio Challange, F1 Sprint, CMEd, xMame, Cygnix, AmigaOS4 SDK, Shell Tools, ScrummVM, Symbian UAE4all, Diskimage Device, Directory Opus 5.5, Cairo (1), Amiga Arcade machine, GBA A1000 and Amiga Retrospective (15).

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