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Cooala | FieserWolf developed a new Koala editor for the PC. The Cooala program can be used on Linux and Windows PC, but there might be some small bugs in the program. You can send your feedback to FieserWolf. In the program you can choose your drawing colours, scroll, zoom, full screen, select area char (8x8) or freehand and there is an undo function.

X-BENCH v0.6 | 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: Amigaguide full documentation, Del key at startup will cancel the X-BENCH loading. FastJump and MegaRam option added. Listings are unlimited size. Preload, Display, Cache, MMU, AutoVec, Music and MegaRam switches added as Launcher global options.

LoadOne | With the LoadOne program, made by Joonas Lindberg, you can generate the data for an datassette file. The program makes on the PC a .tap file from a .prg file. You can enter the name of the program, and the starting address of the program. The program can be used on a Windows PC from the command line.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.1 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: IDE colours can be changed (background, tab strip, selected and non-selected windows). Menu to control open windows. Warnings for invalid BASIC jump (goto, gosub etc.). ZPOpt directive added. Added missing colours to the VIC 20 screen designer. And added the BASIC 7 RLUM keyword.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changesin this version: FastConfig, this is a tool for backup and restore the system settings. You can now choose your own start up music. The latest version of NoWinEd 0.83.

Annotate v3.0 - Amiga | Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor with the following features: Syntax Highlighting, Unlimited Undo/Redo, Macros, Printing, Folding, Tools menu and a full featured Arexx Port. Most recent changes: Ed Exchange. Scrollbar on the right side. Find and replace history. Added Arexx commands SHOW_EX_EDITOR and HIDE_EDITOR. Improved the loading of macros. Visit the Onyxsoft web page for all the details.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 5 | Hyperion Entertainment released update 5 for AmigaOS 4.1. Changes in this version: Optimized DMA copy routines (440ep / 460ex). SM502 audio driver. Updated Radeon, R200 and Permedia2 Warp3D drivers. Catweasel driver for floppy disk, SID chip and joystick support. MIDI support (camd.library). Improved Amiga 68K emulation including Amiga ROMs.

PETpix Video | PETpix video is a system for the Commodore PET / CBM computer that can play video images. The system is developed by Michael Hill (gubbish). He records video with his video camera, then converts the images to PETSCII images on his PC. The PETSCII files are transferred to a SD card. The Commodore PET / CBM computer reads the images from the SD card and displays them as a video.

ProTracker with sfx | Frank Wille has written an completely new music player based on the original Replayer source code which came with ProTracker 2.3. The player is optimized and has new functions for games: Insert external sound effects, fast master volume, no busy waiting, E8 command for triggers and lots of tables for best performance.

CBM prg Studio v2.5.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Addition of PET 2001/4000/9000 computers and a VDC mode for the C128's screen designer. Removed a few small errors in the Screen designer, Basic program auto-complete, Screen editor, RESTORE and the ifdef directive.

XAMOS | XAMOS is a AMOS BASIC reimplementation for Amiga, Windows, Linux, AROS and MorphOS made by Mequa Innovations. This version is a run-only and does not feature an editor. XAMOS is compatible with almost all programs created with the latest jAMOS editor.

Grunch v1.37 | Grunch is a software centre, where you can click and search for all the software you need. Grunch is a packet managers which is supported by hundreds of people who manually maintain their system. All that knowledge of installing programs is put into the Grunch system. The program is available for MorphOS, AmigaOS and compatible systems.

durexForth v1.2 | 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. This version has more graphical possibilities, the new commands are: hires, lores, clrcol, blkcol, plot, peek, line, circle, erase, paint, text and drawchar.

Bochs v2.5.1 - Amiga | Bochs is a PC emulator for AmigaOS 4. The program can emulate the x86 CPU, AT hardware and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, DOS etc. on your Amiga. This version is a work in progress and is missing the audio and CD-ROM support.

DotBasic+ | Shane from the web page cbm8bit.com has rebuild the original DotBasic web page. Almost all of the original information is now available again. And the most recent files for DotBasic+ are available for download.

Retina-Display - VIC 20 | Retina Display is a demo for the Commodore VIC20. This demo uses a new graphical display system. This graphical system is named Ultra-Hires Interlace mode and can be used on a NTSC VIC-20 with an 32 kByte RAM expansion. The screen can display 192 x 416 = 79872 pixels, that is 25% more than with a Commodore C64.

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: A new command: DIVMOD. This command is used to calculate the quotient and the remainder of two unsigned integers (0..65535). The results are put in two variables DQ and DR.

AEROS | AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS will be a very fast desktop. The benefits for AROS user are more drivers, Linux apps and Linux development tools for developing AROS. The benefits for Linux users are a very fast desktop, run AROS apps and AROS games and a Amiga 68k emulation.

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: Support for American Action loader, Creatures 1 / 2 level files and Mayhem in Monsterland level files. Improvements for the end address and the error logging.

Icaros Desktop 1.4.5 | Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. New: AMOS Pro, XAMOS, M68K applications support, PForth, Oricutron Oric-1 emulator, zBoy Game Boy emulator, Unarc, Hurrican (remake of Turrican), Cinnamon Writer, Ignition (68k) and the neopop Neo Geo Pocket emulator. Improved: FAT handler and GMA graphics 3D driver. Update: Annotate, LodePaint, MegaMario, Duke Nukem 3D, MP3Player and cbmbasic.

MorphOS 3.1 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. In this version there are many improvements and a number of problems were resolved. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

Kick Assembler v3.25 | Another updates for Kick Assembler is available. Changes are: Modifiers, Boolean parameters for plugins, Removed the modes zp,x and absolute,x from the bit mnemonic, List parameters for plugins, Plugin archives. Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

CBM prg Studio v2.4.0 | Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Larger colour palette for the screen designer and character editor for the C16 and Plus/4. Build can now be cancelled. Speed improvements. Improved invalid label detection. Auto-completion added for assembly programs and column selection in code editor.

Hollywood Designer 4.0 | Airsoft Softwair released the fourth version of Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications. For example: presentations, slide shows, simple games and programs. Changes in this version: Embedded video clips. Vector formats. 25 filter effects. Improved action events system. Multiple languages. Password protected presentations. 10 new action events and much more.

Kick Assembler v3.24 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Added the -maxaddr option for setting the upper memory address. Removed an error in the datablock directives. It's now possible to write you own macro plugins in java and you can use a escape sequence to add to strings.

NetSurf v2.9 - Amiga 68k | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: New default theme (James Stalham). Linked with libxml 2.7.8. It is now possible to save a internet page as a png file. And more search engines added to the browser.

MorphOS 3.0 | The MorphOS team released a new version of their operating system. Changes in this version: Support for PowerBooks, Updates to the file system, CD, SCSI and SATA, New: Flacapelle, Jalapeno, Scribble, VPDF, Textconv, PNG decoder, Network printing and Jukebox. Visit the MorphOS web page for all the details.

Sirena AHIW v1.10 | Sirena AHIW is a program for making changes to pictures. The features are: Rotate, resize, mirror, grey-Scale, negative, sepia and sharpen. Changes in this version: Adding a text watermark, Redo and support for the Greek language. The program can be used on AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS4, MorphOS 2.7 and Windows.

EasyFlash Cart Builder | EasyFlash Cart Builder is a tool for linking files together into an EasyFlash cartridge. The program utilizes both EasyAPI and EasyFS to make a series of 16K Ultimax cart images for the EF. On the Codeplex page of Payton Byrd you can find more information about the EasyFlash Cart Builder.

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. The package includes a hex monitor, disassembler, CBM BASIC untokenizer for PRG files, TAP splitting application, TAP repair application for CBM files and the graphical TAP/DMP analysis application.

TedPlay V1.0 | TedPlay is a Commodore 264 family music player for the PC The program supports the following formats: PRG, PSID/RSID and C8M, a new versatile 8-bit computer music file format. TedPlay implements a virtual machine complete with full CPU and TED chip emulation. Features: Playlists, Volume setting, Adjustable speed, sample speed and buffer length.

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