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CBM Command v2.1 | Payton Byrd released a new version of CBM Command. New features are: Support for CMD partitions and sd2iec's disk images. CBM 8050 and CBM 8250 (SFD-1001) disk copier. Improved help file. Better support for RELative files. Better layout for the VIC-20 screens and many other improvements.

PortablE | Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page.

BetterWB v2.4 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this edition: Compact disk player with lots of great features (ACDPlay). SetJoyPort is a program for the use of CD32 style joy pads. ClickNot is for stopping the clicking of the disk drive. Improvement for the Copy, Sort, Join and the Avail command.

Icaros Desktop 1.3.2 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Support for Fermi-based GeForce graphic cards (2D and 3D), sound in for VMware and SB128 cards, RTL8187B-based USB Wi-Fi adapters and CMI8738 sound cards. Added the NetworkSnoop tool, Aquario screen saver, missing icons and a Sudoku game. Updates for UAE (v1.1), system files, LiveUpdater and MilkyTracker.

CheeseCutter 0.5.0 | CheeseCutter is a Music Tracker program developed by Abbadon of Fairlight. The JCH Tracker was used as an inspiration and it uses the reSID engine by Dag Lem. A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements to the Playback tracking system. Scroll Lock can toggle playback tracking on/off. It is now possible to switch between ReSID-FP filter presets using Ctrl-F8 and Shift-Ctrl-F8. Added a spartan mode which disables some editor features for working with highly modified players. It is now possible to swap the places of two instruments, which includes an update of the sequence data.

NetSurf v2.8 - Amiga 68k | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (68k and OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improved loading times. Libcurl version 7.22.0 is now used. Fixed the wikipedia search. Removed ffplay from archive. Added the natami favicon. Improved the scrollbar buttons and an update to version 1.2.4 of libpng. Removed some small errors and added the missing bookmarks.htm file.

X-BENCH v0.1 | Jim is working on X-BENCH. X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. At the moment X-BENCH is still in development and Jim would appreciate it if you give feed-back about his program. You can use X-BENCH with all Amigas OCS or AGA and with 68000 - 68060 CPU's.

Tiny Launcher 1.3 | Michael Gibs made a program for the Amiga that will make it very easy to start a game or demo. With Tiny Launcher you can navigate through your games and demos with the help of the joystick and start your game or demo. You can use Tiny Launcher on a Amiga 600, 1200, CD32 or with MorphOS.

Slixed | Slixed is a online drawing program to make pictures in the style of the Commodore C64. You can start a new or load an existing picture and edit it in Hires or Multi-color. You can then save it as a png file. The program is an early alpha release but you can try it now. The features are: Selecting colors, plotting pixels, flood fill, replace color, cut, copy and past a char, undo and zoom.

Kick Assembler v3.21 | The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. Changes are: Mnemonic extensions forces all addressing modes. You can now use the question mark as notation in expression. Added a fill-byte option. You can now cast values to a numbers or strings by using the .number() or .string() function. Characters now have the same functions as numbers (+,-,*,<,>,<=, etc.). Kick Assembler is a combination of an assembler for writing 6510 machine code and a high level script language.

Cinnamon Writer 0.75 | Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version: Compatible with MS Word docx files. New layout options. Changes to the GUI. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

CBM prg Studio v1.5.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improvements to the screen designer. A new sprite scratchpad allows you to position sprites on a larger area, overlap sprites, change priorities etc. And a few bugs were removed.

Ranger | 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: Added support for Sam460ex and AmigaOne X1000 platforms. Added symbol decoding to the stack trace. Added Process stack trace display to the DOS/Processes tab.

NetSurf v2.8 | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements: Font, Images and MIME type handling, DPI settings. Additional mouse buttons. Download window and context menus. Support for iframe, new frame and entering exotic characters. You can view all details in the ChangeLog file.

C64 Studio 1.7 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Changes in this version: Added: Code font configuration. Notification for externally changed files. Intelligent dependency checks. Fixed: CT SCR mapping and the Watch / Compile Result views can be sorted.

Audiotap | Fabrizio Gennari released a new version of Audiotap, a program which creates TAP files from audio and plays TAP files to audio. New in this version: Improved handling of semiwave TAP files, needed for some C16/+4 loaders. The option inverted waveform is now also available for semiwave files.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.2 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Improvement of the performance of the folder tree view. Support for JSidDevice 1.2. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

CharPad v1.8.3 | Subchrist Software released a new version of CharPad. With CharPad you can design tiles for Commodore C64 games or demos on a Windows computer. Improvements and changes in this version: Added CTM format v4, import dialog for data elements, export of complete map as windows bitmap image and new project options. Improved are map resizing, map/tile area copy and paste system, export dialog and coloring modes.

Regenerator 1.2 | Regenerator is a program made by Tomaz Kac, that will disassemble a Commodore 64 machine code program on your Windows PC. New in this version: Auto-Merge can be switched on or off. Manual Merge of Text/Data blocks possible. Any true type font can be selected for the display font. Force 16 bit compile of operands by adding ~. And many more minor bug fixes. An comprehensive English manual is included with the program.

GOTO-less BASIC coding competition | The winner of the GOTO-less BASIC coding competition is S.E.S. And numbers 2 to 10 are: 247, Spider Jerusalem, Factor6, V-12, King Durin, IK, Sir Lightfoot, tfg and KC. You can download all the programs and read more details on the Lemon64 forum.

AmigaOS 4.1 - Update 3 | Hyperion Entertainment released update 3 for Amiga OS4.1. In this update the following changes: Updated: Intuition and GUI components , Installation Utility program, PATA and SATA drivers, AmiSSL certificates, Warp3D support and USB stack with USB 2.0 (EHCI) support. Improved: DOS stability and speed, Amiga shared object issues and Sam460ex support.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.1 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Stereo SID (2SID) support for: HardSID 4U, HardSID Quattro, multiple HardSID ISA/PCI cards and JSidDevice v1.1. Emulation improvements. Improvements with the calculation of player speed and with SID search. And many more small improvements. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

Icaros Desktop 1.3.1 | Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improvements for Amiga Forever and the Janus-UAE GUI. Updates for drivers, libraries, fpc, Intel GMA driver and other applications. Added Bearsoft's ATI drivers, alternative arosc.library and the game Flare. The Icaros Desktop can be downloaded as a Live DVD.

BetterWB v2.3 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB, etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. Changes in this edition: Highly enahnced and optimised cdrom filesystem. Macintosh floppy format (HFS) and proper mountlist (MAC0) implementation. Improvements for the Rexxsyslib.library, Mathieeedoubbas.library, IPrefs and Mfm.device.

XSidplay2 - v2.1.1 | Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is made with the QT4 development framework. The next versions will have multiple run-time sid library support and PSID v3 support.

Exomizer v2.0.2 | Zagon released a new version of his Exomizer. Exomizer is a program that compresses files with efficient decompress time and file size. It can produce stand-alone self-decrunching files for the following targets: Commodore VIC20, C64, C16/plus4 and C128, Atari 400/800 XL/XE, Apple II+ and //e. Changes in this version: 6809 decruncher added, documentation updated and a few bug fixes.

CBM prg Studio v1.4.0 | Arthur Jordison released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: Improved the debugger by transferring the labels and breakpoints from the source code into the debugger. Added a simple screen editor that can generate assembly data or BASIC print statements.

GOTO-less BASIC coding competition | Jonnosan is organizing a BASIC programming competition. The goal of the competition is to use a BASIC program to scroll the text GOTO CONSIDERED HARMFUL on the screen continuously. But you can not use the command GOTO (or USR, SYS, RUN, THEN-linenumber).The size of the program must be so that it will fit on the screen after you do a LIST. For more details you can read the post on Lemon64. You can submit a program until the 28th of August.

durexForth v1.1 | 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, durexForth has the following advantages: Sources are stored as text files. DurexForth is small. The editor is a vi clone. It's open source. And a comprehensive English pdf manual is Included.

vbcc v0.9b - Amiga | A new version of vbcc for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, PowerUp und WarpOS is available. Vbcc is a C-compiler made by Volker Barthelmann and Frank Wille (Amiga version). Visit the web page for all the details and changes in this version.

C64 Studio 1.5 | 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: Fixed bugs in parsing !byte with binary values and with the file info storage. Added charset/sprite functions as buttons. Warnings for unused labels. Compiler speed improvements.

D64 Lister v1.7.1 | Lars made a new version of his D64 Lister program available. D64 Lister is a Windows (W95-W7) program for manipulating or viewing D64 images. New in this version: C64Screen for BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64. MouseWheel support. More diagnostic to the TokenTable. Changes to the BlockViewer, FileViewer, FileImport and TOK64 handling. Visit the web page of Lars for all the details.

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