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X-BENCH v0.8 | 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: New design and effects for intro, menu and loading screen. Improved the system for showing large set of names. Added a start-up tab, Del key switch option and a Xbench start option. Many optimisations for the program and removed a few errors.

AmigaAMP 3.5 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Added: Rec option, MOD support (libmodplug) and region.txt support for skins. Improved: Tag editor layout and playlist scanning.

HermIRES v1.1 | HermIRES is a new graphical editor for the PC. With this program you can edit a C64 hires bitmap (Art Studio 1 format). Features: 320 x 200 Pixels, 16 Colours, 2 Colours per 8x8 pixel-block. Zoom editor, Dots, lines, circles and rectangles (empty or filled), Copy and mirror, Grid, Load, Save, Export C64, Colour-Clash testing and a help function The program is available for Linux and Windows.

Excalibur - Amiga | KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Version 1.2.1 supports the following: Textures, Real / Scale icons, Drag and drop, Sorted menu items, Quick screen switch buttons, Open drawers from start menu, Custom view options, Compressed menu items, Memory status bar, Clock, Truncate long file names, Exchange and Transparency support.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.3 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Conversion tool for Develop64 files. Tutorial for projects. Corrected the BMI instruction. Improved source file handling in a project. Warnings if invalid BASIC jumps are detected. Improved Screen designer. Many small errors removed and general improvements.

Striketerm - C64 | Alwyz released a new version of Strikterm. Striketerm is an improved version of the Novaterm 9.6c communications program. Changes in this version: Supports for the Comet hardware. The old tone / pulse system is removed and replaced with a system that calls ip addresses.

NRC Soduko Tool - C64 | Sander Alsema, has made a Soduko Tool. This program is written in machine-code and is available for the Commodore C64. What makes this Soduko solver special is that is can solve the Soduko's from the Dutch newspaper NRC-handelsblad. With the cursor and 1 to 9 keys you can fill in the known numbers. With F1 you can find one number, or you can solve the complete Sudoku in one go with the crack function.

Debug 101 - AmigaOS 4.1 | Debug 101 is a debugger for AmigaOS 4.1 developed by Alfkil T. Wennermark. This debugger is a source debugger for amigaOS and has many features and comes with a nice reaction GUI. Changes in this version: New GUI. Interpretation of structs, unions and enums. Added detach, signals, breakpoints, step into and step out. You can now also view any part of the memory with the hex viewer.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 6 | Hyperion Entertainment has released update 6 for AmigaOS 4.1. This update will not improve the operating system, but installs a new update system (AmiUpdate). With AmiUpdate all future updates will be installed automatically.

Kick Assembler V3.27 | Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Solved a problem with the program counter, when executing java macros. Update of the (pdf) manual, including a reading guide for new users. Web version of the manual. Improved saving of files. Updated the links page.

VFLI - VIC-20 | Mike (Herr VC) made another improvement to the routines for the VFLI graphics mode for the Commodore VIC-20. The colour RAM is now updated just as the VIC has reads out a certain location. All lines are now exactly 71 cycles long. All display data, colour RAM and a complete VFLI image file will now fit into the RAM below 32768. A new feature is that the whole picture can be panned horizontally over the screen. If you want to use this VFLI graphics mode you will need a PAL VIC-20 with an 32 kByte RAM expansion.

SketchBlock v1.8 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Layer and Paint Tool blend modes (Normal, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract, Difference, Hue, Saturation, Color and Value) Extended Path support. Two new plugins: Curves and Filled Boxes.

C64Studio v2.6 | 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 and a PDS style assembler. Added: A save warning when closing a project, a char screen for the Basic export function, invert for char/sprite editor and rotating sprites or char set. Improvements: Breakpoints and Basic normal/label mode.

Comet64 - VIC-20 | Ghislain converted the Comet64 software to the Commodore VIC-20. You can use the software on a VIC-20 with an Comet64 modem and a 16 kByte RAM expansion. With the Comet64 you can connect your VIC-20 to the internet and gain access to various telnet BBS services. You can read more details on the Denial forum.

SysInfo 4.0 | SysInfo is the diagnostic tool for Amiga users. After 19 years it has been updated. Recent changes: Removed a small error with accessible memory. Updated memory size calculation (64MB+). Optimizations of the program code. Added support for 68060. Identification of UAE and Individual Computers autoconfig boards.

Player Identifier v1.00 | Wilfred Bos released a new program, that can identify SID players. Player Identifier is inspired by the SIDId tool written by Cadaver of Covert Bitops. Player Identifier makes use of all available cores of the CPU and uses the BNDM search algorithm to search through SID files very quickly.

SysMon - Amiga | Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Benchmark Tab added. New Tool Types: INTERFACE, ABOUTBOX, VOLUMES, ASSIGNS, STARTHOSTNAME, DEBUG, PRIORITY, WANIP, DEBUGSLEEP, STARTWINDOW, STARTTASK, STARTNETSTAT, STARTVOLUME, STARTASSIGN and STARTSYSTEM. Max In/Out network bandwidth.

SID-Wizard v1.2 | SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: NTSC support. More configuration options in the menu. Colour-themes, Raster-bars on/off. Instrument autotyping. GT/DMC piano-keyboard layout. Raster-time measuring. Fast-forward playback. Improved help function. Start-up menu with selectable players: normal/light/medium/extra.

HivelyTracker v1.7 | HivelyTracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid '90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. HivelyTracker features: Multi-channel (4 to 16 channels), Channel stereo panning, Two commands per note, Ring modulation. Version 1.7 is now also available for Windows and MacOS X.

Camera C64 - iPhone | You can now use a nice retro app for your iPhone. This app will take pictures in the 16 original colours from the Commodore C64. Features: Retina interface (iPhone 5), Real-time pixellation, colour-mapping and dithering. Snap a picture, save it to your photo roll, or share it on Facebook, Twitter, iMessage or via e-mail. An extension for this app can also emulate black and white TV sets and amber/green monitors.

WimBASIC - VIC-20 | There is a new version of WimBASIC available. WimBASIC is a BASIC extension for the Commodore VIC-20. The program is loaded in BLK5 of a RAM memory expansion or you can use a ROM cartridge. The changes in this version are: Improvements for the ROUND() function, defined function keys, FIND command and the SuperNumbers implementation.

C64-Archiv v3.4 | C64-Archiv is an easy to use file manager for C64-files on your PC. This program can work together with emulators such as VICE, CCS64, HOXS64 and EMU64 to start programs. New in this version: Picture files (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF) can be stored. Profiles for Micro64. MD5 hash. Preview. Improved views and much more.

SketchBlock v1.7 - Amiga | SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Smooth (Gaussian blur for brush). Definable keyboard short cuts. Path objects can now be added to projects. Experimental Text Tool. New brushes: Pencil, Hoops, Arrow and PinMan. And more export possibilities.

WAV-PRG v4.0 | WAV-PRG is a program for converting Commodore 64 tapes to PC and back. It works with a standard tape player/recorder connected to a PC's sound card. Changes in this version: The tape extraction part has been rewritten and the tape format can now be recognized automatically in most of the cases. Drag and drop files onto the main window for conversion. Support for half waves (C16). And there is also support for clean TAP files.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.2 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements for the build process. Optimization of zero page instructions. NoLoadAddr directive added. Removed programming errors with: Directives not in the first column. Labels, Keywords in C128 BASIC. JSR instruction. IncBin with sprite data and lo/hi byte calculations.

V.A.M.P. v0.85 | Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Deleted the window/full screen mode. Improved the pause function. More support for music and sound files. Show status: movie/sound time, pause, mute, on and showing pictures. And a Windows version is now available.

durexForth v1.21 | Ravelli released a new version of Forth for the Commodore C64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is more faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and a assembler. Changes in this version: Updated documentation. The blkcol function has been changed. RESTORE jumps back to editor. Buffer is cleared when loading. Gfx loaded by default. Changes for the J command.

ACE128TOS | There is a new demonstration video available of ACE128TOS. ACE128TOS is a project to make a new operating system for the Commodore C128. In this video you can see details of the desktop configurations, the file manager, sticky notes, vic viewer, basic editor and the program groups. Because the demo was done in the VICE emulator the movement of the cursor is not optimal, it is working correctly on the real Commodore C128.

SVS-calc 2.0 - Plus4 | SVS-calc has been updated. New in this version: Printing to file, Sorting, Blanking management, Rename and Delete options, Embedded graphs, Area selection with cursor movements, Names, Memory warning, Info, Auto sizing of column width, VAL(), DAYS(), WDAY(), LOOKUP(), SECONDS() and much more.

Xdfscan | Xdfscan is a new utility for the Amiga made by Lallafa. Xdfscan is a scanner to validate AmigaOS file systems in diskette or hard disk images. The scanner can scan one image or a whole directory with images. It does an in-depth check of all structures used in the AmigaOS OFS and FFS file system.

C64Studio v2.4 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Improved the ASM parser and improved the saving of files. Removed small errors in Basic and asm. A grid for the sprite and charset editor and a PETSCII character table.

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 the last months: Improved the GUI / Objects. Added Exec / Residents tab. Added drivers and total internal memory information to the hardware / Gfx boards section.

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