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.

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.

If you want to check out the English magazine Total Amiga then download issue #18 (9th July 2004) as a PDF file. Some of it's contents: AmiGBG show report. AmigaOS 4 Update: Developer pre-release special. Hollywood Designer. Amiga Forever 6. SoundFX 4.3. and much more.

ASp is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for the Amiga. It is coded in 680x0 assembly language and is intended to be authentic and easy to use. Ian has released version 0.87b with a couple of bugfixes. Only the useless rubber keys are not emulated. :)

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 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.

Finally, after 8 months of work, we are proud to present Tales of Tamar in HiRES 2D! The new client of our massively multiplayer strategy and roleplaying game is running at a resolution of 1024*768 with double buffering in 15 bit, 16 and 32 bit, as well as the usual 640*480/8 bit. Therefore, Tales of Tamar is working on all Amiga systems starting with an A1200 with 030 accelerator board up to the most recent systems and also takes advantage of the faster hardware of Amithlon, AmigaOne, Pegasos or UAE setups.

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.

The makers of the game Mr. Beanbag have made some updates to the game Mr Beanbag. The look-ahead camera system has been improved to make it easier to see what's beneath you when you jump. Also the code has been super-optimised so now we can fit more objects on screen before it slows down. All important for the new crazy-action caves levels (of which we now have 3 complete levels). Mr. Beanbag is a fast-paced platform adventure for AGA Amigas (A1200/A4000 or a recent emulator). You can download a playable one level demo from the website.

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 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 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.

A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. Morgan released a new version of A/NES it can be used on an Amiga with some fast memory and a faster processor than the 68020. Go to the website to download this program.

Michael Lanser released his Logicgame Sudoku for Amiga OS3.1, (with Graphic-card) The game consists of a 9x9 square divided into 3x3 blocks. Some blocks are already filled at the beginning of the game. Aim of the game is to fill the blocks with the right numbers. Each row, each column and each block must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A new version of the Amiga emulator is available for download. Here a a few of the new features and bug fixes: FPU emulation updates and fixes. Ability to create 1:1 HDF from Amiga formatted hard disk. PNG screen shots. Manual language selection. Right border color problems finally fixed. Misc custom chip set emulation updates. CIA TOD counter fix. Swapped parallel port joystick adapter fire buttons. Corrupted wav-files in 4 channel audio mode fixed.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

What is the best Amiga / MorphOS / AROS game of the year 2005 ? You can vote on your favorite game on the website. There are more than 30 games to choose from.

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.

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.

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 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.

This is a port of the popular game Frozen Bubble by Andy Broad. The original game was written by Guillaume Cottenceau in perl using the SDL_perl extention. You need the 4th amiga os4 release with dynamic loading and POSIX extention. UPDATE: Relink against older SDL, music and sound problems fixed. Increased sound buffer size to 4096 as recommended by toaks. Found a few more instances of $ENV{HOME} replaced them with /bubbles.

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.

The Lemon Amiga website has been updated. 200 Amiga games are added including info and screens.

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.

The Crypt is a English on-line magazine for the Amiga fan started back in 1996. You can either read the magazine on-line but you can also download the whole magazine to read it off-line. All kinds of news from serious to humor, ads, game reviews and much more.

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

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 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.

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.

ACK Software Controls, Inc. announces two new products for the Amiga 1200. The first product is a Freescale 8245 based CPU card clocked at 400 MHz. The second product is a modular busboard and CPU combination for use with towered A1200 machines. The bus board features an AGP 1X slot, three PCI slots, 2 DDR DIMM slots for memory expansion, a Silicon Images 680 IDE controller, onboard USB and ethernet. Both products will ship with an OEM version of OS4 and contain a version of U-Boot as the firmware. More info on these products in the beginning of next year.

Editions 20 to 37 Of the Amiga Future Magazine can be read online. Andreas Magerl has put the scanned version of the paper Amiga magazine online. The Magazine is in the German language.

The Pegasos book, is a free document of 148 pages in PDF format. Its goal is to gather a whole of information and articles on the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, MacOSX with MacOnLinux) in only one document which can be consulted off line or printed easily.

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.

Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga Software. Alinea Computer concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS4-applications and -games. The following Amiga -Software is now available: AmiPhoto and ANotice 2.

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.

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.

A new release of WinUAE. Lots of bugfixes and new features. Old versions of AdaptecASPI and NeroASPI are now automatically rejected. Full SCSI device support in SPTI mode. Display panel resolution and depth moved to separate select boxes Disk history format changed.

Amiga.sf has made 3 software titles available for download. LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder. It is now an highly evolved MP3 encoder, with quality and speed able to rival state of the art commercial encoders. UnRAR v3.51 is an utility to decompress RAR archives. Wget is a software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP (68020 /40 /60, WarpOS)

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.