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Ranger - Amiga | Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in this version: DOS/Devices/Block now displays the correct block size in bytes. Added Open File Handles. BIOS version information is disabled if no biosversion.resource is present.

HermIRES - v1.28 | HermIRES is a graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap. Changes in this version: AFLI support has been added, including detection and handling of AFLI-clashes, export, drawing onto the FLI-bug and the FLI-bug area is displayed in AFLI mode as it will on real C64.

X-BENCH v0.86 | X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. You can use X-BENCH with all Amiga's, OCS or AGA and with 68000 to 68060 CPU's. Changes in this version: Removed some errors in: Temps files cleaning, Checkerboard loader, MegaRam and Sysinfo command. The cLi starts a bit faster. Added Destination path check added to the launcher tab and the installer.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.3 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Emulation improvements. COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer support (MUS file, including stereo files). Improved speed of identifying players. STIL window state is now preserved. Added search by this author/publisher/group feature. Added triple click support on the search box to select all text. Second SID device settings for HardSID 4U and HardSID Quattro devices are now stored correctly.

ACE128TOS | The ACE128TOS team had planned a demo of ACE128TOS. But they have cancelled the demo because the new OS is not complete yet. To make the demo work they had to add parts to a older version of the OS. They now decided to use all there time to rewrite the code of the new software. Visit the ACE128TOS blog for all the details.

AROS shell manual | Paolo Besser has made an manual for the AROS shell. The manual is based on the work from Joao Ralha. The manual has the following subjects: Introduction, AROS shell basics, Path / Command Template / Patterns / Redirection /Special drives devices / Running in background / Basic file operation with shell / Working with SFS / Script programming / AROS-DOS Scripting / Working with a script file / Changing system script files / AROS command reference, Printer escape codes and error codes.

Scriba v1.7.0. - MorphOS | Scriba is a simple word processor for MorphOS, developed by Carsten Siegner. A few of the features are: Formatting, current date / page, tabs, spellchecking, images and the export of PDF, SVG, EPS or PNG. Recent changes: SVG and RTF import, Professional PDF, Drag/Drop Pictures and a review of the source code.

Assist v0.9 - AmigaOS 4 | Assist is a dictionary of information for AmigaOS. The features are: All the content from the Get the most out of your AMIGA PDF guide. Shortcuts and Links. Easy downloading and unpacking of software. Play YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Copy links to the clipboard with a right mouse click. Warning before overwriting previously downloaded files. Bigger and better thumbnails for video previews. And an number of updates for the articles.

Integrator 2012 | Luigi Di Fraia is working on his Integrator 2012 program. With this program you can view and edit the Last Ninja games for the Commodore C64. You can edit the boundaries (the way you walk through the screens). The program supports foreground editing and has a sprite decoder. You can visit Luigi's blog for all the details.

CBMXfer v0.32 | Steve J. Gray released a new version of CBMXfer. CBMXfer is a collection of utilities for transferring files and working with diskette images. The utilities are: OPENCBM, CBMLINK, C1541, NIBTOOLS and IMGCOPY. Changes in this version: Improved interface and progress bar. More formatting options. Expanded the Disassembler and the Character Set viewer. Drag and drop. Support for additional diskette image types and VICE 2.4.

C64Studio v2.7 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Support for WinVICE 2.4. Removed errors in the sprite editor and in the %<literal_number> statements. Improved colour preferences. New: General project element info and a project wizard.

HermIRES - v1.26 | HermIRES is a graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap. Changes in this version: Pen-shapes are symmetric again. Pen-preview is more accurate. Removed an error in the rectangle function. Improvements for the task bar and GUI.

NAV v9.6 | Alan released a new version of the NAV file browser. The program makes it possible to quickly browse through directories and LOAD a program. NAV can be used with disk drives, µIEC and IDE64. Changes in this version are: You can choose from 12 different back-grounds. New drive icons. Removed an error when reading an empty directory and an new @sort command for sorting the directory alphabetically.

VideoClipper v1.1 - Amiga | VideoClipper is a program for cutting and joining various video files. During conversion several adjustments can be made, for example: adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma, sharpness, blurring, fast/slow motion and rotation. You can also add titles and audio. Changes in this version: Buttons for start / end times. Add audio and titles after videos are joined. Video resolutions: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and 16:9 aspect ratio. Improved the VideoClipper guide.

magiTOOL - VIC20 | Ghislain released magiTOOL for the Commodore VIC-20. The utilities inside magiTOOL are: magiPROG: Machine language assembler, magiCHAR: 8x8 Character editor, magiDRAW: 64x96 Multicolor image editor and magiSONG: Play and record music with a piano keyboard.

Ranger - Amiga | Ranger is an diagnostic tool for Amiga OS made by Steven Solie. Ranger will automatically update the list of processes and DOS devices as they are added and removed. Changes in this version: Changed Hardware/PCI Bus/Class to display the base class, sub class & interface number in hex / text. Added DOS/TrackedAddr tab and more PCI bus class strings.

Relaunch64 - v3.0 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a Windows computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Improved the saving of (new) files. Added line numbers. Implemented a undo/redo function and a find/replace function.

Arc64 V2.4 | Arc64 is a tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit or convert D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improved the LNX function. Added more message boxes for errors. Next/previous diskette image now skips 0 byte images. And the automatic resizing of windows is improved.

V.A.M.P. v0.92 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Improved movie time clock (hours:minutes:seconds). V.A.M.P. is now skinable, you can make your own skin and buttons or choose other skins. Big pictures are scaled to the window. And a few programming errors were removed.

AEROS v3.5 | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS is a very fast desktop, and you can use AROS apps and AROS games. Changes in this version: Added the FS-UAE emulator, a new Linux kernel (3.2.0) and new Nvidia drivers.

TAPClean Front End | Luigi Di Fraia released a new version of TAPClean Front End. TAPClean Front End is a graphical environment for analysing the contents of tape images. Changes in this version: Enabled TES tape to recognize Catalypse. Added support for Rainbow Islands loader. The program is available for OSX, Linux, Solaris, DOS and Windows.

Micro64 Disktool | Micro64 Disktool is a c64 diskette image converter tool, which is based on the micro64 emulator. This program is made by Benjamin Rosseaux and is available for Windows computers. The program can work with: g64, d64, p64, fdi, nib and kryoflux images.

Smilla Enlarger - MorphOS | Michal Wozniak made an MorphOS version of the Smilla Enlarger program. Smilla Enlarger is a small graphical tool to resize bitmaps in high quality. The program, developed by Mischa Lusteck, makes it possible to use small pictures and enlarge them to very big pictures with a special algorithm.

eGame - Amiga | eGame is a program that makes it possible to easily search through a list of games you want to play. The program is made by Christopher Handley and is written in the PortablE programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. The free version is limited to displaying 10 game, if you want the full version you will have to make a small donation.

MorphOS - SDK 3.2 | The MorphOS Team released a new SDK (v3.2) for MorphOS. In this SDK the latest versions of GCC, Bash and GNU-Tools are included. Included are also the recent MorphOS Includes and documentation. The SDK can be used with MorphOS 3.1 or higher.

Annotate v3.0.1 - Amiga | Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor. Changes in this version: Tool commands with a output window. Improved: Rectangular selection, Manual, String escaping (XML prefs), Tools edit page, $ VER : string and Text redrawing.

Relaunch64 | Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a Windows computer. Daniel is now going to re-write the program in Java. Using Java will make it possible to use the program on other platforms. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Relaunch64 offers special syntax highlighting, easy usage and handling of Source Code management.

HermIRES v1.2 | HermIRES is a new graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap. Changes in this version: Auto-adjustment of GUI size. PNG import and export. Improvements for selection, copy, paste and move. CRT emulation for preview of picture on a TV. Improved buttons, mouse movement and pen-drawing.

NAV - C64 | Alan made a file browser for the Commodore C64. The program makes it possible to quickly browse through directories and LOAD a program. NAV can work with up to five disk drives and has been tested with the following drive types: 1541, 1571, 1581, µIEC and IDE64. A command line, with a DOS Wedge is also available.

Arc64 V2.3 | Arc64 is a small tool to deal with D64, T64, LNX and ZipCode archives, made by Graham. It can be used to edit D64 images, run D64 images in the VICE emulator, run PRG files via CodeNet, convert T64, LNX, PRG, ZipCode and other formats to D64. It supports drag & drop and it can be used via the command line.

YAM 2.8 | YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. Changes in this version: Updated translations: Czech, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish and English. Online documentation. Multi-identity system with signature support. SSL certificate authentication support. Support for Mail-Followup-To / Mail-Reply-To and much more. Please visit the YAM web page for all the details.

Icaros Desktop 1.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: ABIv0 kernel, GRUB2 v2.0, AmiBridge preferences tool, Real3D, TVPaint, XAMOS, HarmonyPlayer, Candy Crisis, Cave Story, Neverball, Neverputt, Hurrican, pforth, FlexCat, irrxml, YAM, OpenURL, DiskImage, Annotate, fpc, LiveUpdater and Mupen64.

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