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Ami Kit 1.2.0 | AmiKit is the compilation of more than 300 of the finest Amiga programs. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system (providing you own legal AmigaOS and ROM file). AmiKit contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh environment.

The Crypt magazine | In this on-line HTML magazine the following Amiga articles: Amiga Project, Hardware construction part 1 and 2, Hired Guns, Amiga BASIC on 3.1.

Shorten v3.6.0 | Shorten is a fast, low complexity waveform coder (i.e. audio compressor), originally written by Tony Robinson at SoftSound. It can operate in both lossy and lossless modes. Thanks to Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer for his port to AmigaOS, m68k and WarpOS.

www.amigamusic.com | Chris Gray is a collector of Amiga music. But he always had trouble with mods. Wrong players or trackers or just a mod that was not correct. He started to collect Amiga MP3 music. The music was a part of his website. But now Chris has put up a dedicated website for his MP3's. Check out this website if you love Amiga music.

WinUAE 1.3.1 | The popular Amiga emulator for the Windows PC has made some improvements. A couple of examples are. Original extended ADF read bug. Larger than 1280 wide fullscreen modes work. WHDLoad - commands supported. PC floppy drive drive sound emulation :) PC DD and HD floppy image support. Improved audio filter and interpolation code from uade added. Build-in HRTMon debugger / monitor. Action Replay for Amiga 1200 ROM image support. Fixed garbage lines when program mixed interlace and non - interlace modes. Go to the website for the latest version.

Amiga Adventure | The Bosco Brothers released two of their old games for download. The first game is The World of Magic and was originally created in 1997. This is a adventure game but it's a point and click adventure so you don't have to type in the instructions just click on the screen. The second game is the follow-up of the first game and is called: The World of Magic 2: Ghelae's Quest. You can download the games as ADF's put them on an original diskette and play them on a real Amiga. But the games can also be used with an emulator like WinUAE.

Blender / Yafray | Latest update for these raytracer programs.

MPlayer / MEncoder | You can download the latest version of Mplayer and MEncoder from the website.

April 1.3 | AmigaZeux and Stevo are happy to release yet another update of the best calendar in the whole universe. This program is written for MorphOS. April can track far beyond 2030, so it's perfectly suitable for waiting for the release of Troika. You can download this calendar program from the website.

LQS #94 | Liquid Skies Records is a website about Amiga type music. Several artist are still composing their music on an Amiga and publish their music on this website. This time a track from Alex West and it's called: The Drum Noise. It's a 06:13 long mp3 drum-n-bass track. Cover by DaFreak.

Amiga Music Preservation | Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) is a non profit association that consists at present of two persons: Crown and Curt Cool. They are working on the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. They gather all the music, information and interviews of Amiga musicians. Currently the database has more than 60.000 items.

Battle for Wesnoth | The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir... step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost... guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles. The Amiga OS4 version is now ready to download.

The Crypt #44 | This online English magazine is about computers in general but has a decent Amiga part. In this issue: A Small History of AIO, Amiga Marriage, Python Programming, Flash Adapter, Cygnus ED5. Also jokes, food, movies and much more.

SearchStar 0.87 | SearchStar from Tom Duin is available for download. Fast filefinder, search into files, search into filecomments and replacer.

SteamDraw 0.6 | Stefan Kleinheinrich has made his latest version of SteamDraw available for Download. SteamDraw is a 2D-Vector-GFX Program for MorphOS.

Blender 2.41 | Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

SDK Browser | The SDK Browser provides any Amiga Programmer a quick reference tool into the live AmigaOS4(tm) SDK (Development Tools) installation on your AmigaONE, via a 100% graphical (GUI) based tool. It can help you find the format for any AmigaOS4(tm) system call as well as lookup a specific structure reference, method, tag item.

Amiga/VICE | The Versatile Commodore Emulator VICE runs on almost every platform from DOS to Linux. Now Mathias AmiDog Roslund and Marco van den Heuvel are busy to port VICE to Amiga OS, Morph OS and AROS.

Amiga demo scene online Encyclopedia | If you want to get some information about a demo for the Amiga then visit this website. At the moment there are more than 15.000 entries in the database. Most of the demos include a screen shot and info on the makers.

Perfect Paint v1.5 | Blackbird made a lot of improvements to Perfect paint. Perfect Paint can now be used with Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. This version has still some bugs in it and Blackbird is asking people to try out this version. And if you find a bug please send him a e-mail.

Minimig | Dennis van Weeren is almost ready to get the Minimig (An Amiga 500 in a FPGA chip) manufactured. On his weblog he has made a picture available of the PCB. You can follow the progress on his weblog.

VBCC | VBCC is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler. It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). Look at the website for the changes in this version. VBCC is supported for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

MorphOS Free Edition Update | The MorphOS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of another MorphOS update for computers equipped with PowerUP accelerator cards. See the website for the changes in this edition.

DVDtools | It's presently being developed by bero. Aside from adding DVD writing support, changes in dvdrtools are: Remain 100% Free Software. Clean up the code and build system. Support writing film DVDs. Remove unnecessary code duplication, this is dvdrecord, not dvdlibc.

SFSDoctor 1.1 | Marek Szyprowski has updated SFSDoctor. This is a repair program for the SFS-Datasystem.

AROS Update | There are a couple of new features available for AROS users. Hogne Titlestad has released Lunapaint v0.2 for i386/AROS. The app can save and open projects, make animations and export images. Mathias Roslund has ported the famous Commodore 8-bit computers line emulator VICE to all Amiga platforms, AROS included. Tomasz Wiszkowski has ported FryingPan and CoFEE to AROS.

ECX 1.5 | Leif Salomonsson released an improved version of his Compiler. He fixed some bugs and added a couple of new features. This compiler can be used with a 68000, AmigaOS V37+ and 2 MB memory. The output is 68020 (+68881 if using floats) AmigaOS V37, or PPC MorphOS.

Total Amiga #18 online | If you want to check out the English magazine Total Amiga then download issue #18 (9th July 2004) as a PDF file. Some of it's contents: AmiGBG show report. AmigaOS 4 Update: Developer pre-release special. Hollywood Designer. Amiga Forever 6. SoundFX 4.3. and much more.

ASp v0.87a | ASp is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for the Amiga. It is coded in 680x0 assembly language and is intended to be authentic and easy to use. Ian has released version 0.87b with a couple of bugfixes. Only the useless rubber keys are not emulated. :)

Kickstart ROM 3.9 | Amiga inc. announced the kickstart 3.9 ROM's but they never released them. Now a couple of Amiga diehards have done it themselves. They made the ROM with 3.9. There is a sample video with a A1000 !!! running kick 3.9 you can download. Also pictures of a A1200, A3000 and a A4000.

Bars and Pipes for Amiga OS4 (v0.6) | Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer for the Amiga range of computers. It has a philosophy unlike any other sequencer in existence. Alfred Faust made an update available of the Bars and Pipes version for OS4.

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