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SFSDoctor 1.1 | Marek Szyprowski has updated SFSDoctor. This is a repair program for the SFS-Datasystem.

AROS Update | There are a couple of new features available for AROS users. Hogne Titlestad has released Lunapaint v0.2 for i386/AROS. The app can save and open projects, make animations and export images. Mathias Roslund has ported the famous Commodore 8-bit computers line emulator VICE to all Amiga platforms, AROS included. Tomasz Wiszkowski has ported FryingPan and CoFEE to AROS.

ECX 1.5 | Leif Salomonsson released an improved version of his Compiler. He fixed some bugs and added a couple of new features. This compiler can be used with a 68000, AmigaOS V37+ and 2 MB memory. The output is 68020 (+68881 if using floats) AmigaOS V37, or PPC MorphOS.

Kickstart ROM 3.9 | Amiga inc. announced the kickstart 3.9 ROM's but they never released them. Now a couple of Amiga diehards have done it themselves. They made the ROM with 3.9. There is a sample video with a A1000 !!! running kick 3.9 you can download. Also pictures of a A1200, A3000 and a A4000.

Bars and Pipes for Amiga OS4 (v0.6) | Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer for the Amiga range of computers. It has a philosophy unlike any other sequencer in existence. Alfred Faust made an update available of the Bars and Pipes version for OS4.

Lunapaint 0.2 | Lunapaint 0.2 is out with many new features. Amongst the big ones are animation with onion skin, swap buffers, animation control, more paint modes, keyboard shortcuts, better line tool, yes and much much more! Lunapaint is a paint and animation program for AROS, focusing on making the paint process fun and intuitive. Being inspired from DeluxePaint and TVPaint on Amiga, it aims to be a complete graphics solution for AROS users.

CBM4WIN | The diskdrive communication program written by Spiro Trikaliotis has been updated. The program makes it possible to copy D64 or D71 images from a real drive to the PC, or from the PC to a real drive with the help of d64copy. Furthermore, you can copy single files in both directions, too. Some more tools (for example, cbmctrl) are given, too. The emulator VICE will have support for this program in the next version. Spiro has also an experimental version of the YAPE emulator that supports CBM4WIN.

C64kopik | c64kopik is a file manager written under AmigaOS. This program can transfer data between 1541 floppy disk drive connected to Amiga and any AmigaDOS drive using Easy1541 written by Fabrizio Farenga. The program works on Amiga's with AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.

Scout v 3.5 | Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays many different things like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident commands, interrupts, etc. And you can perform some certain actions on them. This program is available for Amiga OS and Morph OS.

TuneNet V0.78 | TuneNet is a player for MP3's and MP3 Shoutcast streams. Some of it's features are: Integrates with IBrowse and AWeb, Playlist, Built in Internet Stream Searching facility, Station and current tune display, Encoder support and Shoutcast compatible Broadcasting. The program is made for Amiga OS4 and is freeware.

Update XA | XA is a high-speed, two-pass portable cross-assembler. It understands mnemonics and generates code for NMOS 6502s such as 6502A, 6504, 6507, 6510, 7501, 8500, 8501, 8502. Key amongst it's features: C-like preprocessor, rich expression syntax supports o65 re-locatable objects with a full linker and relocation suite, as well as bare plain binary object files block structure for label scoping. This program is available for linux / unix users.

AmiKit Update | AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh environment. In order to get AmiKit working, you'll need: A PC computer with 256MB / 1,8GHz.

GoldED Studio | At the moment GoldED Studio from Dietmar Eilert can be downloaded for free. GoldED Studio is software for developers and C/C++ beginners: It includes the latest GoldED editor and all C/C++ development-related components. This is the ideal package if you need a powerful + affordable solution for software development. Features: integrates with gcc, vbcc, StormC and SAS/C compilers, supports development for AmigaOS, PowerUP, WarpOS and MorphOS platforms.

CD player for C64 | Leif has released a program that can play Audio CD's on a C64. The CD players has to be connected a IDE64 cartridge. New Features: Time and Track# work, plays whole CD in continuous mode, shuffle and repeat work, minor bugfixes.Requires IDEDOS 0.9, version 20050917 or later.

Scalos update | Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The original Workbench gets older every day and is being left behind by other desktop systems. Scalos's original author, Stefan Sommerfeld, decided that there had to be something new, and so Scalos was born. Scalos's goal is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.

ACME 0.88 | ACME is a free crossassembler. The current version can produce code for the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 processors. It also supports some of the undocumented (illegal) opcodes of the 6502. This software runs on several platforms, currently there are versions for: AmigaOS, DOS, Linux/general Unix, RISC OS and Windows. ACME knows about global and local labels, global and local macros, conditional assembly and looping assembly. It can include other sourcefiles as well as binaries while assembling, does offset assembly and much more.

OnyxSoft | OnyxSoft is a independent group of people who develop freeware applications for AmigaOS and MorphOS in their spare time! And they do it because it's fun! New releases are: Macc (V 1.0) and ZoomIT (V0.1). Also the are some new versions available. Check out the download section.

Arcade Games Construction Kit | Gunnar is working on a Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit for MorphOS. The Kit shall allow non-programmers to easily create shoot-em ups in virtually no time. Please note that this an early alpha release which is not even halve finished. The current release is only intended to show the 'idea' of the game and Kit.

Mini Game Compo 2006 | For game programmers there is a chance to show what their favorite computer can do. All retro computer systems can compete. There are some rules for the games: Game size: 1kbyte, 4kbyte or 8kbyte, You have to supply a screenshots and webpage of the actual game, The games must be submitted using a common emulator format, The Data + code must be in one block, Game should run on standard hardware.

Programming the 264 | Chris from www.commodore16.com is collecting all kinds of articles about programming the 264 series computers from Commodore. There are already 33 articles available and new articles will be added in the near future.

Epistula | Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM and Yahoo Messenger. Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS.

D64 Editor v0.027 | Forrest (Almightyc64) made a lot of improvements on his Windows based D64 editor. Some of the features are: Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files. Export files from the D64 into PRG files. View/Edit the BAM. View and modify blocks on the disk in hex. View the directory using the native c64 font. Check the website for other features and the download section.

AROS snapshot | There is a new snapshot available of AROS. Download are available from the AROS website.

JiffyDOS for the VIC20 | Jim Brain is working on Jiffy DOS for the Commodore VIC-20. Take a look on Jim's web page for all the Jiffy DOS products.

Amiga Remote Desktop | If you want to control a Windows computer from a remote location with an Amiga look at this program. The program is available for Amiga OS 3.x and OS 4.x and for the MorphOS.

Smart File System update. | Jörg Strohmayer has made a couple of improvements on his Smart File System. Fixed an alignment bug in the 64 bit packet support. Added some checks in ACTION SEEK, ACTION CHANGE FILE POSITION64, ACTION SET FILE SIZE, ACTION CHANGE FILE SIZE64, ACTIION READ and ACTION WRITE to make sure you can't create/access files > 4 GB - 2 bytes.

The Final Replay ROM V0.6 | The Final Replay is a new ROM image to be used with the Retro Replay cartridge and the RR-Net ethernet adapter. This ROM is an attempt to combine the advantages of the two major cartridges for the C64, the FC3 and AR6 and bring it to the Retro Replay. Fixed: Incompatibility of the CHKIN routine now gone. WarpCopy file access should work again. Instability of freezing in BASIC editor fixed. Kernal replacements now enforce BASIC ROM, so more programs should work with them now. Netdrive driver for GETIN Kernal routine added.

JAmiga | JAmiga is a 'from scratch' implementation of a Java Virtual Machine. It has been developed only from the JVM Documentation provided by Sun Microsystems. It is not a Port of an existing JVM. The decision to write it for Amiga OS was made because of the lack of decent VMs for this platform. Download the latest version from the web site.

AROS update | AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. AROS can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other. Over 500 members are working on improving AROS. Improvements of the last month are: Better mice tracking and pointer precision on the screen. IRC and Telnet clients were added.

Amiga OS4 Apache Server | Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), and other platforms. Edgar Schwan released an improved port of Apache 1.3.34 to AmigaOS 4.0. It includes support of PHP 5.1.1 and MySQL 3.23.58. The software can be downloaded on the website.

PicShow v1.31 | Thomas Rapp has made a couple of bugfixes to his program PicShow. PicShow is a directory style picture viewer for Amiga OS4. You can download the program on his website.

DTVMON | DTVMON is a machine language monitor for the C64 DTV (currently only V2). Features (version 0.2): Boot Menu. Installs as resident at 018000-$01BFFF. Simple, efficient and compact... Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Additional DTV V2/V3 opcodes. NTSC version for the Hummer Game included.

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