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Amiga OS and CD32 loader for Pegasos II | Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun released a new nice creation for your Pegasos II computer. This time a loader that loads and boots directly into the genuine Amiga© operating system or CD32 on your Pegasos II, displaying a nice splash-screen during loading. As usual the software-archive is available as free download as torrent in the download section. Some of the features: boots directly into an inserted cd32-cd, ac97-sound, (usb) joypad, keyboard and mouse.

XNet-RSS 51.7 | XNet-RSS is a native AmigaOS4.0 RSS News reader. It has automatic charset conversion and doesn't need any external library. Could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS news pages. New in this version: added favicon.ico support, News Bar positioning prefs and a few fixed bugs.

NetBSD/amiga | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line and the DraCo by MacroSystem. Development activity on NetBSD/amiga continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga that has a Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.

DOSBox for Amiga OS4 | DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and now there is a port for Amiga OS4 available. No more A500 with a KCS Power PC Board needed.

Disk-master v2.6 | A new version of disk-master is available for download and the latest version works on OS3.x + OS4.

AmiPodder 1.4 | AmiPodder (v1.4) now recognizes video episodes and can play them back in the video player of your choice (MPlayer and Frogger have been tested). In version 1.4 are a number of improvements and bug fixes including: Option to prompt for the sync directory making it easier to use AmiPodder with multiple portable players or players using removable media cards. New status of Played, so if you use AmiPodder as a jukebox you can see what podcasts you've already listened to. Filename length limitation, handy if your Amiga filesystem or music player only accepts short filenames. Many more changes, see the Downloads page for a full list and to download the new version.

MindSpace | MindSpace is a Amiga program that enables the user to produce: Flowcharts, a range of UML diagrams, MindMaps and Brainstorms and also silly little pictures. The program requires an Amiga running on OS4 (PPC). At the moment the program is freeware. The program is still in development.

SN-Archiven | Steffen Nitz makes programs for the Amiga computers. On his website you can download a variety of programs like a picture album, file lister, a memory style game and many more. Most programs are shareware or freeware.

I.M.O.S. | I.M.O.S is is a project to create a PC based program that will convert bitmap grafix into sprites. But with tools so that animation with sprites will be possible. The program is in development and can only produce sprite data at the moment. Features at the moment are. Bitmap to Objects converter. Up to 128 Sprites in Object. ZOOM with options. Sprite Lock. C64 to Sprite properties. Colors Palette.

XMMS-SID | XMMS-SID is a plug in for XMMS for playing music that is commonly referred as SID-tunes aka music from Commodore 64 computer and it's close relatives. This program is written for the Linux operating system. For the actual emulation /playing, XMMS-SID can utilize several emulator engines. Features: 2-8x oversampling support, libSIDPlay v1 or libSIDPlay v2 with reSID-builder and much more.

Grande Paihia | Grande Paihia is a modern, small, fast, and portable web browser. Grande Paihia is more than capable of dealing with most of your internet needs. Grande Paihia is written from the ground up and is not based on any existing web software. Versions for all the various Amiga systems are planned. All of this is around 300k in size.

Turbo Macro Pro | Turbo Macro Pro is a improved version of the original Turbo Assembler Macro, which is itself a follow up version to the original Turbo Assembler. The software can be thought of as having two distinct yet highly integrated parts - editor and assembler with many features. In addition to editing and I/O, the user is able to trigger an assembly from within this editor itself.

Bars and Pipes v2.5c | Alfred Faust has released version 2.5c of Bars and Pipes Professional. Bars and Pipes Professional is a high-end MIDI sequencing and composition package for the Amiga computer. In order to use it, you must have a MIDI sound module or keyboard connected to your Amiga via a MIDI interface.

DvPlayer (v.048) | DvPlayer is an ongoing project to bring the ultimate multimedia experience to the Amiga computer. It is a unique and Amiga-only multimedia player, developed by Amiga enthusiasts, for Amiga enthusiasts! The current version of DvPlayer requires AmigaOS 4.0 and supports the following video formats: MPEG-1/2, VideoCD, SVCD, VOB files (DVDs) and AVI files. You can download a free demo which will run for 7 minutes. Or buy the complete working version.

GoDot Update (v1.27) | GoDot is a C64 image processing program written by Arndt Dettke. GoDot will do anything that a normal drawing programm will do but has a lot of extra's. It can use RAM expansions like GeoRAM or the PageFoxe module. It also can LOAD and SAVE many formats like Amica Paint, FLI, IFLI, Koala. In total more than 50 formats are supported.

cc65 compiler | cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.
The cc65 can be used for the following computers: Commodore C64, C128, C16, C116, Plus/4, P500, CBM 600/700. Apple ][, Atari 8bit, Oric Atmos, NES.

PageStream 5.0 | A new version of PageStream is available. The Linux and Windows version are finished and the Amiga version is tested at this moment. Also a Mac version will come in the near future.

PowerUp MorphOS 1.4.5 | The MorphOS Development Team has released a free version of PowerUp MorphOS. It can be used on a Commodore A1200, A3000 and A4000 computers equipped with PowerPC accelerator cards by phase5 and DCE. The free version will run for 2 hours per session.

AROS Max | AROS stands for Amiga Research Operating System. This is an open source re-implementation of the Amiga 3.1 Workbench. So if you have a PC but want to use it like an Amiga run the Live CD. Version 5.0 will be available soon.

WarpCopy64 | WarpCopy64 uses RR-Net for high speed disk image transfer. Instead of using standard protocols like FTP or HTTP it uses it's own protocol which allows highest transfer speeds and proper error handling which makes it the perfect tool for mass transferring. It currently is the fastest way of reading/writing disk images from/to real 1541 hardware, and you don't even need any special cable or 1541 modification.

Jabberwocky | Jabberwocky is a jabber client software for Amiga Computers. Jabber is an instant messaging system, similar to ICQ or AIM. Server modules (transports) allows cross messaging between other networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo).

RockBEAT | RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for AmigaOS4. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. You can download a demo that will run for 10 minutes.

WDPaint / WDStudio | WDPaint is a graphics program for Windows. But you can draw or edit bitmaps with it for the Commodore 64. After drawing your picture you can save it to a .d64 format. You can download the program for free.

Bittorrent 4.1.3 - MorphOS | With this release MorphOS gets for the first time a port, which was done by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret, of the official BitTorrent client. Even if the MorphOS release only features the commandline-based clients and no additional GUI its very easy and comfortable to use.

Char-Pattern-Editor | Chico of Civitas has coded a editor for patterns and character sets. You can download the complete d64 image from the website. Included are the program, source and documentation.

Disk Master 2 | DiskMaster2 is a directory utility for the Amiga computers. It is fast even on slower processors and its very memory-resource friendly. DiskMaster2 was written and developed by Greg Cunningham and Rudolph Riedel.

Slang update | Slang is a Commodore 64 (6502) programming language. It runs on a SuperCPU- equipped Commodore, and generates code which runs on a stock Commodore. Goto the website to download the latest version.

SIDPLAY2 | Sidplay 2 is the second in the Sidplay series originally developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is written by Simon White and is cycle accurate for improved sound reproduction. Sidplay 2 is capable of playing all C64 mono and stereo file formats.

XLOAD | XLOAD is an easy to use way to transfer data from a DOS-PC to a CBM/PET computer. The computer is connected via a Userport <-> Printerport adapter. At the moment it's a one-way system (PC to CBM/PET) but that will change in newer versions of XLOAD. At the moment the transferrate is about 0.5KB/Sec. The test PC is a AT 486/DX-2 66Mhz.

Telnet BBS Server | Telnet BBS server is a small Windows program that provides Internet connectivity for Commodore (or other 8-bit) computers. BBS server acts as a modem emulator, the computer thinks that it is connected to a real modem.

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.

PSID64 v0.7 | PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. PSID64 is written by Roland Hermans. This program allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE.

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