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AmiArcadia | Amigan Software released a update of the AmiArcadia emulator. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. A few examples of these consoles are: Elektor, Astro Wars, Malzak 1, Chaos 2 and PHUNSY. James Jacobs of Amigan Software also released version 8.64 of Worm Wars. This is an advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players.

BAGELN V1.0 | KeHo Software released the game Bageln for the AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS, Mac OS X, WarpOS and Windows. In the game you must guess the secret code in a maximum of 9 decisions. The computer will help you with 3 hints: PICO, FERMI and BAGELN. The game is a modern version of the BASIC game develop by D.Resek und P.Rowe.

Amiga A40000 / 90 MHz | On YouTube you can see a video with an Amiga A4000 running on 90 MHz. This machine is from André Pfeiffer and his the test results with the A4000/060 are: 119,25 Mips and 47,7 Mflops. The specification of the machine are: A4000, 2 MB Chip / 16 MB Fast, Apollo 4060 - 128 MB, Radeon 9250 - 256 MB and a ZoRam 256 MB.

Sqrxz 2 | Sqrxz 2 is now available for Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. In this Jump and Run game you are going to explore a new location in the universe. You must find your missing emeralds. On your journey you will meet many mysterious creatures trying to hinder you in your search. Sqrxz 2 is also available for Linux, Windows, Dreamcast, Wiz, Caanoo, Pandora, Motomagx and Symbian OS.

PortablE | Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows.

Advanced AHI HD-Recorder V1.20 | Advanced AHI Recorder is a program made by Thomas Wenzel and can be used to record audio to a hard-disk and works with any AHI compatible recording device. In this version: Added FLAC for 68K. FLAC compression level to 5 for 68k / 8 for PPC. Limited Gain- and Volume sliders to max. 32 steps and added a few keyboard short-cuts.

WinUAE 2.3.1 | There is a new version available of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Windows. Changes in this version: Manual filter configuration. Auto-resolution. MIDI device names are stored in configuration file. Directory file-system ACTION_LOCK_RECORD and ACTION_FREE_RECORD. Improved SCSI en custom chip-set emulation. M68K AROS compatible IDE and RTG emulation. For all the details please visit the WinUAE web page.

BetterWB | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much 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. It works on any Amiga, uses less than 7MB on a hard-drive and is available as floppy images. If you want to try BetterWB you will need Kickstart rom 3.1 and a AmigaOS 3.1 disk set. You can read about all the features on the BetterWB web page.

Amiga Future 89 | The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. 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.

DigiBooster Pro Amiga OS 3 (beta) | DigiBooster Pro is a music tracker program for the Amiga. The program can be used to make music using sound samples in various patterns. The features are: 128 tracks, 256 samples, 1024 patterns and 1024 positions. You can download a demo version from the Amigafuture.de web page.

NatAmi MX | The Natami crew is please to announce that the first NatAmi MX boards are now assembled. The NatAmi MX has the following features: Serial port, Parallel port, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, Floppy disk, Joystick ports, Video, Audio, SyncZorro, PCI, IDE, 3.5, LAN and 512 MB RAM.

Monthly Page | Monthly Page is a English pdf magazine about the Amiga. In this edition (#17): Interview with AmigaSoft (Article by Gebrochen), Coming Out Of The Shell Part 1 (Article by Hypex), Advert pictures and the Top ten downloads from OS4depot.

AmigaAMP 2.25 | Thomas Wenzel has released a beta version of his AmigaAMP music player for Amiga OS4. Changes in this version: Added support for: AIFF, WAV and FLAC. The equalizer works for AIFF, WAV and FLAC. You can download the program from the web page of Thomas.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Virtual Karting and Virtual Karting demo (OTM), Gloom demo (Black Magic), Virtual Karting (OTM), Chaos In Andromeda: Eyes Of The Eagle (On-line), Xenon - Arcadia (The Bitmap Brothers), WARP (Thalion), Xenon - Arcadia (The Bitmap Brothers), Puzznic (Ocean). Fixed: Megatwins (U.S.Gold/SEGA), Count Duckula (Alternative Software), Action Fighter (Sega), Tusker (System 3), Time Soldier (Smart Egg Software), Count Duckula (Alternative Software), Action Fighter (Sega).

Icaros Desktop v1.2.6 | Paolo Besser released a new Icaros Desktop (v1.2.6). New or updated in this edition: MESA 7.10, Bochs PC emulator, Dega Txt2Pdf, Hatari, Janus-UAE 0.8, SimpleMail v0.36, Lunapaint, NASM, FUSE, Regina.library, Giana's Return. Improved: Drive information, Icons in Wanderer detailed file view and removed some bugs from the previous version.

What is MorphOS | Ulrich Beckers has written an introduction about MorphOS. If you want to find out more about this Amiga-like operating system you can find lots of information and links on this web page. MorphOS can be used on a Pegasus I and II, Efika 5200B, Apple eMac, Mac Min G4 and the PowerMac G4.

Sam460ex - AmigaOS 4.1 | ACube Systems released AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 for the Sam460ex. The Sam460ex board is running at 1.15 Ghz and allows all Amigans to use modern graphic cards thanks to its PCI express slot. Other features include: 7 USB ports and Gigabit ethernet.

Best Amiga game 2010 | The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your favourite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 9, 2011.

Recorded Amiga Games | The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 5 new longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Dalek Attack, Pan VLKU (Lord of the Wolves, Holiday Lemmings 1994, Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel and Wings of Fury.

Playstation 3 | Did you know that you can play the really good games on the Playstation 3. In this YouTube video you can see a demonstration of the VICE emulator running on the PS3. For the demonstration the game Nebulus was used.

Amiga Manuals | About a year ago Josh started a web page with Amiga manuals. Now there are more than 1500 game manuals and 500 other manuals for the Amiga computer available. The manuals are in the following categories: Ebooks, Games, Hardware, Schematics and others. And if you have a manual that is missing on this web page please contact Josh.

Amiga Future 88 | The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Mega Showreport AmiWest, Interview Carl Sassenrath, Test Super Tux Kart, Test Epiar and many, many more. CoverCD: Erben der Erde, Fantastic Dreams, XTrace and more.

Fuse 1.0.0.1 | Fuse is a ZX Spectrum emulator for AmigaOS. The 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 Spectrums are emulated accurately. Changes in version 1.0.x: Improvements for the Amiga port for loading files. NTSC Spectrum support. Improved sound output and Fuller Audio Box support.

Giana's Return v1.0 | The unofficial sequel to the classic Giana's Sisters has now reached version 1.0. In this version the following changes: Palette changes for all tilesets, Four new in-game enemies, Levels are now 320x240 pixels, Modified trainer, New configuration menus for: Music volume control, SFX volume control, Key and Joypad/Joystick configuration. Besides version for Amiga OS4, AROS and MorphOS there are also versions for Dreamcast, Ubuntu, GP2x, Wiz, Caanoo, Pandora, NetBSD, Windows and Mac OSX.

Janus-UAE v0.8 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for AROS from Oliver Brunners is now available. In this version the following changes: Minimum blit size is now 64 bits, Window border gadgets are now done as AROS gadgets. Fixed a sound and mouse pointer hide bug. Hotkey for the GUI. New load/save configurations and much more.

Scacom #20/21 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Bild des Monats, News, Neues von Commodore USA, Drucken mit VICE, Geheimnisse: Max und VIC21, Amiga Elko Problem, C64 DTV Umbau Teil 3, Commodore Stammtisch, Drei schlechte Ideen, Interview mit Michael Tomczyk, Atari Mega ST, Super Zoom / Game Show, Tops und Flops and Bilder zum Schluss.

Amiga Magazine Rack | All the cover disks are now available again on the Amiga Magazine Rack web page. This web page has scans of more than 75 Amiga magazines. A few examples of the magazines are: Amiga Action, Amiga Dream, Amiga Play, Commodore Force, CU Amiga, OZ Amiga, Amiga User International, Zzap, Datormagazin, Amiga World, Info, Power Play and many more.

New Amiga devices | The AmigaWorld website presents 4 new prototypes for the Amiga. The new devices are: Clockport Duo, Clockport Quadro, Clockport Buffer and the Gayle Adapter. The Gale adapter has the following features: PCMCIA Resetfix, PCMCIA LED connection, Keyboard-reset connection and a FastATA-connection.

Amiga Music Preservation | The web page Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) celebrates it's 10 year anniversary. The goal of this web page is to be the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. They collect the Amiga music including the information about and interviews of Amiga musicians. The database is filled with more than 60.000 items and it is still growing.

Klystrack | Klystrack is a synthetic tracker similar to the well known AHX/THX tracker from Abyss. The tracker produces a C64/SID like sound. This tracker synthesizes sounds on the fly. This allows more flexible sounds since the parameters can be changed in real time. Klystrack is written by Kometbomb and the AmigaOS 4.x compile was done by Spot/Up Rough.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Lemmings - Holiday demo (Psygnosis), Sleeping Gods Lie (Empire). Improved or updated: Lemmings - X-Mas 1991 (Psygnosis), 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts), Defender Of The Crown 2 (Commodore), Battle Chess (Interplay), Space Quest (Sierra), James Pond - Underwater Agent (Millennium), Adventure Construction Set (Electronic Arts), It Came From The Desert / Antheads: It Came From The Desert II (Cinemaware), Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis (Lucasfilms Games), Sidewinder (Arcadia Software), Mental Image Game Disk 2 (Mental Images), Power Drift (Activision), Anarchy (Psygnosis) and Action Fighter (Sega).

ECX 2.2.3 | There is an update available for ECX. ECX is an E Compiler that supports 68020+FPU and PowerPC's, AmigaOS3, MorphOS and (experimental) AmigaOS4 operating systems. In this update the following changes: The STW Rx, var is now working correctly. Immediate value in typed list now also works if field is DOUBLE/REAL. Improved error reporting. Procedures with exception handler now preserves the previous value in the exception global. And the MakeLibMod bug was fixed.

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