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SCACOM #15 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, Die neue 1541 Ultimate, Original oder Kopie?, Commodore Vienna 2009, Big Scale Racing, Gianas Return, PS1 zu CD32 Adapter, Reparatur: Autofeuer-Joystick, Little Computer People, Lunix am C64, Datassette transfer, SX-64, Zack McKracken, Wussten Sie?, 5.25 cover, Game-Rätsel / Game Show, Top und Flops.

The Vague #2 | The Vague is a Englisch diskmag for the Amiga. You can read the magazine on-line or on a real Amiga as a diskmag. In this edition: AROS demomaking, Amiscene 2008/9, The AOS4/MOS scene, Debugging on the Amiga, 68k Linux Coding, Mixing assembler and C. Part 2, Perfect animation and much more.

MorphOS on PowerMac G4 | Ralph Schmidt announced in the MorphZone forums that MorphOS will soon include support for Apple's PowerMac G4 range of computers. The PowerMac G4 are not as compact and portable as Mac Minis, but they are more affordable, can be faster and offer expandability option.

SabreMSN v0.6.0 | James 'jahc' Carroll released an update of his MSN-Messengers program for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. In this release: File transfers, this is a alpha version, everything downloads straight to RAM. Incoming buffer is now a ring buffer, which prevent loosing random incoming messages. You can download the latest version of SabreMSN from Jahc's web page.

CDXL player | Fredrik Wikstrom made a portable, SDL-based command line program for playing Amiga CDXL files on today's computers. CDXL is an motion video file format developed by Commodore in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the Amiga computer platform. The CDXL player can be used with an AROS or Windows system.

NetSurf v3.0 - 68k | NetSurf is a free, open source web browser with CSS support for the 68k Amiga. Changes in this version: Getvideo: v0.22, ixemul: v62.1, Special chars on title are working, Buttons act like real buttons, Streaming of videos, Support for more unicode characters, Icons for search engines and Bookmarks. Please visit the web page for all the details.

MorphOS Development Wiki | A new wiki is available for the users of MorphOS. The goal of this site is to collect and provide development information for everyone who is interested in developing software for the exciting operating system known as MorphOS.

King Kong - Amiga | Ventzislav Tzvetkov (drHirudo) released King Kong for Amiga OS4. For the Amiga version, new graphics, music and sounds were used. drHirudo programmed the game in C, used AHX for the music and Personal Paint for the graphics. The game is also available for Amiga 68k, Apple MacOS X, Microsoft Windows and the Sega Master System.

Merlin Web Browser v0.06 | Arend-Paul Spijkerman released a new version of his (beta) web browser. In this version the stability problem on Amigas are fixed. The home button works better now and you can switch the favourites bar on or off. The loading of IFFs is now faster, the gui and html engine has improved in speed. The Merlin Web Browser can be used on a Amiga 68k (kickstart 2.0+), Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. Arend-Paul is now working on improving the HTML and CSS engine.

WHDLoad | There are new and improved titles for the WHDLoad system. New: Mentor (MarkSoft), Knight Orc (Level 9), Eksperyment Delfin (MarkSoft), Time and magik (Level 9 and Mandarin and Scapeghost (Level 9). Improved: 1869 (Max Design), New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) and History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte).

OWB v3.18 | Jörg Strohmayer released a new version of his web browser for the Amiga. In this new version: Fixed bug zoom in/out with CTRL + mouse wheel. Fixed bug with cookie, file uploads and favicon scaling. SplashLauncher is updated to version 1.6. Added are: Creating pointers from images and favicon support. For all the details visit the web page of Jörg.

Extreme A600 | Christian Krenner has made a web page about upgrading his Amiga 600. His A600 is equipped with: Motorola 68030/40 MHz, 34 MByte RAM, 32 GByte Compact Flash hard disk, PCMCIA network, USB ports and a Indivision ECS. Take a look at Christian's page for all the details.

AmitopiaTV 10/2009 | There is a new episode of Amitopia TV available. In this 30 minute episode: Amiga News, AmiReporters: ArtEffect, Amiga Meeting 2009 report, MusicBox Presents Sadddam - How Nicee. You can download the episode from the AmitopiaTV web page.

AmiTwitter | IKE is developing a Twitter client for the Amiga. At this moment the program is an alpha version and IKE is searching for people who want to help him testing the program. Features: Sends Tweets, Downloads Following Tweets (and images), Sends Direct Messages, Downloads @Replies, Downloads Most Recent Public Tweets, Displays the most recent Tweets that you have sent.

Hyperion and Amiga Inc. reach settlement | Hyperion is pleased to announce that on September 30, 2009, it has reached a comprehensive settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc., Itec LLC and Amino Development Corporation, Inc., to bring all ongoing litigation and worldwide pending procedures between the parties to an end. As part of the settlement agreement, the Amiga Parties acknowledge that Hyperion is the sole owner of AmigaOS 4.

Pimp my MorphOS | Marcin Korni Kornaś has collected 16 skins for MorphOS. You can view a full-screen version of each skin including all details. If you have a skin of your own, you can submit it to Korni's web page.

Amiga Games | This web page is celebrating the awesomeness of Amiga Games and the Commodore Amiga with reviews, videos, images and stuff. The reviews are written by the Retrobrothers. You could also do a Amiga quiz on the web page.

WHDLoad | There are new and improved titles for the WHDLoad system. New: Gnome Ranger, Atom Smasher, Premier Manager 3. Improved: Pang (Ocean), Perihelion (Psygnosis), No Buddies Land (Expose Software/Eternal Productions), Zeewolf (Binary Asylum), Castles (Interplay), Apidya (Kaiko), Might and Magic III - Isles of Terra (New World Computing), 1869 (Max Design), improved: Dalek Attack (Alternative).

Timberwolf | Timberwolf is the project name of the AmigaOS port of the Firefox web browser. It's features include: tabbed browsing, support for HTML 5, ECMAScript 3.1, and CSS 3, extensibility through add-ons, and a lot more. In short, Firefox is the most complete open source browser to date. Timberwolf is a spare-time project, not funded by anybody.

Scacom #14 | In this German pdf magazine the following articles: News, Pattex PowerKnete, Emulatoren für Nintendo DS, Giana Sisters am DS, C65 - zweite Chance, Pure CBM, Commodore Vienna 2009, Traum: Die Zukunft von Commodore, Commodores letzter Chipsatz, Tutorial: AROS, Commodore C64 Games System, Commodore VC20, Jungle Hunt, Wussten Sie..?, Cover für 5,25 Disks, Auflösung / Kreuzwort / Game Show, Tops und Flops / Bilder zum Schluss.

NatAmi | The first NatAmi board is assembled. The goal of this hardware project is to produce a next generation Amiga computer with an up-to-date design. The NatAmi project is designed and developed by Thomas Hirsch. You can follow the progress via the web page and forum.

Minimig firmware update | Jakub Bednarski released new firmware for the Minimig.
ARM firmware: MMC/SD/SDHC cards, FAT16/FAT32 filesystems, Long File Names, Up to 4 virtual floppy drives and 2 hard files emulations.
FPGA: Improved system timing (blitter, CIAs, ROM), Improvements CIA access, INTREQ, Support for two virtual hard disks, Kickstart 1.2 can be used.

Game - MorphOS | Herbert Klackl has ported the Tetris-Klon Game to MorphOS. To use the game you need to have the powersdl.library installed on your system. You can download the game from Herbert's web page. Game is also available for Linux, *BSD, Win32, Atari and AmigaOS 4.0.

Hatari 1.3.0 | For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for: Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Visit the Hatari web page for all the details.

Amitopia TV 08-2009 | There is a new episode of Amitopia TV available. In this 30 minute episode: Amiga News, Delusion, Amitopia TV Special and Delgo's Island. You can download the episode, there is a 720x480 and a 320x240 version available.

BoxWorld 1 | BoxWorld is a puzzle game, where the player have to place boxes over special places in order to gain energy for tele-port to the next level. The game is available for Amiga 68k and AmigaOS 4.

Merlin v0.04 | Arend-Paul Spijkerman released an update of his Amiga web browser. In this update: Higher speed (tripled). Less memory use (halved) and bug fixes. The Merlin browser will run on AmigaOS4 PPC, Amiga 68K, Windows, Apple macintosh and Linux. The browser can be downloaded but it is still beta software at the moment.

ADA | The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) is back on-line. The web page was not available for some time due to trouble from hackers. On these web pages, you will find some of the best demos and intros ever released on the fabulous Amiga computer. All the demos listed here, are of high quality.

MorphOS 2.3 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. In the Boot.img there are 10 changes and more than 50 disk components are updated or new. The trail version of MorpOS 2.3 can be downloaded to try out the new system. Visit the MorpOS web page for all the details.

WHDLoad | There are 9 games improved for the WHDLoad system: Dalek Attack (Alternative), Charlie J. Cool (Nevada), Kick Off 2 (Anco), The Lost Vikings (Interplay), Turrican 2 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts), RoboCop (Ocean), Mean Machine (Code Masters/Optimus Software), Last Action Hero (Psygnosis), Rick Dangerous 2 (Core Design), Edd the Duck 2 (Zeppelin Games), Return of the Jedi (Domark). And there are 5 new games added to the WHDLoad: Deadly Jammin 2 (Deathstar), Mega Demo 2 (Vision), Premier Manager II (Gremlin), Premier Manager (Gremlin), 1869 (Max Design).

Amiga Future 64 | Edition 64 of the German Amiga magazine can now be read online. In this edition: News, Interviews with Gunnar van Boehrn and Herbert Klackl. Airline Tycoon, wget, Milckytracer, The Commodore Story, Amiga Demoscene Archive, Floppy emulator HcX, Efika and more.

Amitopia TV - 05-2009 | A new episode of Amitopia TV (English) is released. In this 25 minutes episode the following items: Amiga News, Summerxtra, Transform summerpics, Music: Rabbahdazzah - tutuj and Petr Kaderka - Intro. You can download the episode in a full version (275 MB) or light version (83 MB).

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