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RunInUAE | A new version of RunInUAE (r5) is available. RunInUAE is a system that makes it possible to run old Amiga games or programs on Amiga OS4. And RunInUAE comes with an easy installer. Changes in this version: If not available a WB3.1 will be created. Improved emulation performance. Added a Help menu item. Added Mason's icons for RunInUAE's folder, plus UAE's folder and program. A comprehensive online manual (English) for RunInUAE is available.

XRoar v0.25.1 - AmigaOS 4 | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. XRoar is available for the Amiga OS4, GP32, Nintendo Dual Screen, Linux and the PSP. In this version many new options, bug fixes, improved audio and CPU emulation improvements.

FPGA64 | The FPGA64 project from Sabbi has made progress in the last weeks. FPGA64 is a Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip on a Altera Cyclone-II development board. Recent changes: VIC displays the 50 pixel wide sprites in the Krestage 3 demo. Stable $D013 Interrupts. SpriteEnable now works correctly. You can follow the progress on FPGA64 blog page.

WinUAE 2.3.2 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In this version a new AROS ROM and a new auto-fire option. A serial port telnet server was added. The disk emulation accuracy and the CIA timer are improved. And many bug fixes, you can read all the details on the WinUAE web page.

YAPE v1.0.1 | A new version of YAPE is available. YAPE is a Windows emulator for the Commodore Plus/4. The changes in this release are: Light-pen support (user-port), IEC drive directory mode now recognizes USR files, TED sound bug correction, Watch-point and monitor fixes, Printer reverse mode bug fixed. The light-pen is emulated with the mouse and its left button.

AmiArcadia v16.0 | Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. The version for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows are now updated to v16.0. 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.

Minimig on a Chameleon | TobiFlexx has adapted the Minimig-core for the Chameleon cartridge. He made a video where you can see a demonstration of the Minimig on the Chameleon. The specifications of the Minimig-core can be seen with sysinfo. The Chameleon cartridge is a cartridge for the Commodore C64 but can also be used as a stand-alone device.

Hoxs64 v1.0.7.2 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. The latest changes are: Fixed broken 320x200 and 320x240 modes. Text rendering bug fixed. Added trace till IRQ/NMI function. Miscellaneous monitor GUI fixes and improvements. Improvements on the VIC and CIA emulation. The Hoxs64 emulator is available for 32 and 64 bit Windows systems.

TAWS v0.16 | TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript-Simulation of the Amiga-Workbench for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favorite web browser. In this version many improvements and bug fixes. You can read all the details in the file TAWS/Browsers in the directory Systems.

FPGA64 | Sabbi has made progress in developing his Commodore 64 inside a FPGA chip. In February he started his project with an Altera Cyclone-II FPGA development board and later he added a AD725 for color video. You can watch several YouTube videos on his blog of the FPGA64 project.

Emu64 | Thorsten Kattanek is working on his Commodore C64 emulator. He changed his development system to Qt. With Qt he can develop the Emu64 for Windows but also for Linux and Mac. On his web page you can see a video about the SID part of the emulator. If you want to help Thorsten with feedback you can try the new Windows or Linux version.

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.

MCC promotion video | On YouTube you can view a promotional video for the Multiple Classic Computer Platform (MCC). The MCC is a FPGA board that can emulate classic computers like Commodore, Atari, Sinclair and Amiga.

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.

VICE v2.3 | The VICE team has released version 2.3 of the Commodore 8-bit emulator. In this version the following changes: New accurate C64 emulator called x64sc. Disk-drive improvements. New reSID version. Many emulation improvements based on photographs of the real chips. CRT Emulation. True aspect ratio. Improved machine language monitor. Improved accuracy of CIA interrupts. Added v364 speech emulation for the 264 emulator. At the moment you can download the source code, if you want the normal (binary) version you have to wait a little bit.

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.

VirtualC64 0.9.3 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. New features are: Cheatbox. T64, PRG and P00 as virtual disk, Improved keyboard mapping, More different 1541 roms can be used, Improved CIA emulation, Cartridge support (.crt) and many more. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

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.

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.

C64 ITX PC | Stiggy made a slide show of his Commodore C64 ITX PC project. This C64 is built using a 1.6 Atom ITX motherboard and a C64 Keyrah interface. It runs on Windows XP, Gamebase 64 with 17000+ games and the Commodore C64 emulator VICE.

FPGAArcade Replay | MikeJ has finished the first series of his FPGAArcade Replay. The Replay is a re-configurable computer that makes it possible to emulate an game console, arcade machine or computer like the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64 etc. The Replay has an ARM processor, FPGA, SD card, DVI connector, joystick, keyboard, mouse, video and audio connector. You can read more about this project on MikeJ's web page.

AmiArcadia - v15.1 | 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. Changes in this version are: Improved PHUNSY emulation. SAVEAOF command added in Debugger. And many miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. The emulator supports multiple languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Hoxs64 v1.0.6.1 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. In this version: Adjusted $D011 and $D016 for pixel exact output. Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Adjusted VIC light-pen and CIA6526A IRQ timing. Adjusted audio sync. Please visit the web page for more information.

WinUAE 2.3.0 | There is a new version of WinUAE available. With WinUAE you can emulate the Amiga 68k on your Windows PC. A few examples of the changes in this version (2.3.0) are: CDTV and CD32 CD+G audio CDs support. Borderless/minimal/normal window modes. SCSI emulation, including full CD audio support. Cycle exact audio and disk DMA sequencer. Improvements of the 68000, 68020 and 68040 MMU emulation. Please visit the web page of WinUAE to read about all the changes.

GnGeoNG v0.8.0 | GnGeoNG is a fast and powerful command line Neo Geo emulator for Amiga OS4. Neo Geo is a cartridge based game computer for arcade halls and for home use. The Neo Geo has a Motorola 68000 processor (12 MHz), Zilog Z80 processor (4 MHz) and dedicated video / audio chips. The Neo Geo has a resolution of 320x224 pixels, 4096 colors (65536 pallet), 380 sprites and 15 channels of audio.

YAPE 1.0 | The Commodore Plus/4 emulator YAPE celebrates it's 10 year anniversary. In the latest version (v1.0) the following changes: 32-bit and automatic bit-depth option in full-screen mode. Copy and paste to/from the clipboard now respects upper/lower case mode. Partially implemented 48 bps mode of the T6721A speech LSI. G64 image support improved. Reading from open address space. And many bug fixes for the drive, TED, auto-start, monitor etc.

WinUAE 2.2.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available. In this new version the following: Game Ports and Input GUI update, 1G Chip RAM support, 7zip SDK updated, Triple/Double/No buffering option added to GUI, WASAPI and PortAudio volume control support and more. Visit the web page for all the details.

Hoxs64 v1.0.6.0 | David Horrocks released an update of his Commodore 64 emulator. The changes are: More settings options CIA6526(A). Improved the VIC emulation for an pixel exact output. Adjusted IRQ DMA behaviour. Restore key bug fixed. Optimised the DirectX video device creation. Many corrections of the VIC emulation. Added light pen IRQ re-trigger behaviour. The new version can be downloaded from David's web page.

PSPUAE v0.80 beta3 | FOL has released a new version of his Amiga emulator for the Sony PSP. He recently added AGA support to PSPUAE and now he made a version available for the PSPGo. He also added support for the HalfByte Loader. The eboot can also be used on older PSP's.

Emu64 V4.30 | Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator Emu64. A few examples of the changes in version (4.30) are: PAL video emulation/configuration, VIC configuration, REU 2MB Ram, EasyFlash, Gamebase V7.0, CPU logging and much more. Visit the Emu64 forum (German Language) for more information.

PUAE 2.1.00 | GnoStiC (Mustafa Tufan) has started working on the PUAE Amiga emulator. The original (E-UAE) was developed by Richard Drummond and is an Amiga emulator for Unix based computers such as Linux and Mac OS-X. You can visit the web page for more details and for downloading the sources.

WinUAE 2.1.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In version 2.1.0 the following changes: CDTV/CD32 CD image file support, including audio tracks. Direct 3D rewrite. A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. Multidisk image selection helper. Parallel port sound sampler emulated. Many improvements on 68000 cycle-exact instructions. Visit the web page of WinUAE for all the details.

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