Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: New PLS and M3U loading routines. Allow the loading of a header less playlist. An update for the Italian texts. Remember Info window position and added a new icon set from TommySammy.

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. In this version there are many errors removed and many improvements added.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Frame numbering for animations. Improved the playing of animations and the box info. And the finish translation has been improved.

SnapIT is a powerful and simple to use screen grabber developed by Stefan Blixth for AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS. Changes in this version: Double buffered preview mode. Hotkey support, fetch active window, save image as option, improved GUI, capture auto save option, and new translations for Spanish, German and French.

The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your own favourite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 8, 2014.

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: Improvements for playlist/directory, cover drawing, tag editor, modplug loader and autoplay. Update for the WinAMP5 skin. And you can now use the mouse wheel to move the sliders in the equalizer.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Bamiga Sector One - Mercenary, Beonx - Nice Iintro, The Champs - Black Shadow, Flashtro - Putty Squad AGA, Galahad - Putty Squad AGA and Outlaws - Ultimate Quiz.

The MorphZone web page has had a interview with Guido Mersmann. Guido also known as Geit lives in Germany and started developing software in 1983. His first computer was a Busch209, but later he had a Commodore C64, Amiga 500 and a Amiga 2000. In the interview Guido speaks about his program Grunch.

In 1987 Eric Graham was the person who made the Juggler demo for the Amiga. For the demo he developed a ray tracer program named ssg, what later would evolve into Sculpt3D. The original source code of Raytracer was never found, but the web page dottyflowers.com has now found one of the original disks with the source code of Raytracer.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Reviews: Amiga Games 2014: Jet Hunt, Final Fight AGA, Tales Of Gorluth, Parallel Worlds, Chaos Guns, Castle Hack, Secret Of Maya, Trackdisplay, Homeworld, OpenXcom, WordMeUp, Hard n Heavy, Bomber, Montezuma, Key Master, DirMeUp, Comic Book Reader, BetterWB, AmigaOS 4.1 SDK, Amiga Monkey (2). Special: Demo Scene, Quo Vadis Amiga, Classic Reflections (13) Great Valley Productions (2). Workshops: Programming AmigaOS 4 (36). Shows: Amiga Meeting, AmiWest. Interviews: Trevor Dickinson.

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 this version: Improvements for the DOS/Volumes Open File and Lock List. And made some changes to compile with SDK 53.24.

Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Tooltype to deactivate the ShortHelp. Benchmark frames are now resizable. Improved the Picasso function and updated the Italian translation.

Edition 87 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, LaniTec, Classic Computing 2010, Aquaria, Morton Strikes Back, Zero Gravity, Final Chapter, Mythana, Amiga Forever 2010, AmiFig, RunInUAE, TDTool, A2630, PSX, Astro, Amiga 4000, Carl Sassenrath, Frotz (3), Floppy Disk Renovation, Gimp and C-Workshop (4).

TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: Added OS 1.0 and OS 1.1. OS 3.9: Start-up screen, AsyncWB and Trashcan. OS 4: More short keys and menu option, Early Start-up Control and Start-up screen. And many improvements for better emulation in IE, Firefox, Opera Chrome and OWB.

Redit is a word processor for the Amiga computer. Redit can be used from Kickstart 1.2 and 0,5 MByte. Changes in this version: Create documents with the CLI interface. The tab size and colours are configurable. Status bar for cursor line and column. Switching between documents with a hotkey.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Megademo 1, 2, 3, Musicland 2, Jungle Mania, New York Warriors, Musication, E.C.E.S. Slideshow, Snap!, Det Kniber, Sane Sounds, Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style, King's Quest Enhanced, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis and Altered Destiny.

Mfilos tested the new Vampire 600 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 600 is developed by Majsta and has recently become available. On mfilos blog you can read about installing and configuring the new accelerator.

Jack is a multi-purpose program for AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. Features: Preferences, Screen snapshot, Knowledge Base, Image editor, Music player, Slideshow, File-management, Auto-updates, etc. Changes in this version: APPDIR: is now accessible from the shell. Dashboard: Improved the function of the "Go" button. New Tab for Tech RSS NewsFeeds. Knowledge Base: Improved the function of the "Go to website" button.

Retro Asylum is a English podcast about retro computing. In this episode: Music from the Amiga. Matt Denaris talks about music from games and demos but also about other music that is made with the Amiga.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amigakit Joystick, Elbox Turboflyer 530, Rasberry Pi as Floppy, Odyssey 1.22 - MorphOS, A-Eon & ACube, MorphOS 3.4, Joypad Boomerang, Tetris, ACA 500, ACA 1232, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Hybris, Legend of Kyrandia, Solid Gold, BoingsWorld radio, torrent and RSS-Feed.

The Codetappers web page has had an interview with Galahad. In the year 1990 System 3 developed the game Putty Squad. But the game was not released for the Amiga. In 2013 System 3 announced that the game would be released for the modern consoles, but again not for the Amiga. Galahad contacted System 3 to offer his help to make an Amiga version. You can now read how Galahad made the Amiga version of Putty Squad.

Real AmiKit is a 16 colour version of AmiKit adapted to work with a real Amiga AGA computer. New in this version: BDWatch, BDSlide, WBStartup, WBRun, UAEquit, z.library, Clock faces drawer, Slide drawer in Prefs/Presets, Wallpapers, ShutDown, TinyMeter, Boot music, Copymem, MinStack, SaferPatches, Poolmem, VBRControl, ACATune 1.7, Start Menus and BlackBorder.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Seeing is Believing, Baal Title (Solar Mass Mix), Cannon Fodder (Amiga game intro) Reloaded, ball Illusions Remix 2012 remastered, Apidya, Scream Of The Earth, Amazing Fireworks and bris (Childhood memories).

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Support for the m4v format from Apple. Fixed a bug in time uncounter of movie or song and added the seconds too. Added end time playback for movies in the information box.

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. After 6 months of development a new version of YAM is available. In this version many changes to YAM to make it possible to implement IMAP support in the future. Also many improvements and many small errors removed. YAM is available for AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, AROS and MorphOS.

A new edition of Amikit is available. There are changes or updates for the following programs: BDSLide, BDWatch, Codesets Library, IconLib, MCC_BetterString, MCC_NList, MCC_TheBar, OpenURL, playOGG, SimpleMail and WHDLoad.

Fabien Coeurjoly released a new version of the Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS. The features are: WebKit, Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5. Changes in this version: Updated to WebKit r155188. New Webinspector layout. Added proxy support and a "TopSites" feature. The latest version of ffmpeg and much more.

Christian Stefansen made it possible to use a Amiga 500 (PAL) emulator in the Chrome browser (version 31+). Before you can use the emulator you will need a Kickstart ROM. The source code of the emulator is available.

A new version of MorphOS is now available. Changes in this version. More support for Apple systems. New REXX commands. Improvements for Rdesktop, Scandal, Scribble, Sketch, Transfer, VPDF, Lha, NetConfig, Devs, Libs, MUI, Prefs, Reggae, Tools and Utilities.

Saga is a conversion of the 1981 TSR board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes", for up to 6 players. Players can be controlled by human or the Amiga. In Saga you must defeat evil monsters, win fabulous treasures and rule great kingdoms. Changes in this version: New option: Watch Amiga movements and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Taipan - New Stuff, Taipan - Dragon Breed, Scoopex - Snow Bros, Megaforce - 944 Turbo Cup, The Power Connection - It Came from the Desert and Stoneware & Morque - Stonecracker.

Gary Dunne started programming on the Commodore VIC-20, followed by the Atari 800XL, the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga. Gary made the games Toobz, Infection and Confuzion for the Amiga.

BetterWB is a new workbench pack, 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: DosPrefs, Trashcan, Improvements for MagicMenu, Boards.library, requestchoice command, Tooltypes and Format GUI.

Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: Rivalry between Amiga OS 4 and MorphOS. Review: UFO - Enemy Unknown. Interview: Henry Erngren Ohlén. News: SAPPHIRE, MorphOS Nordic and SEUCK. Novell, TRSAC, The Making of The Insider, the short story and SEUCK games.

A new version of WinUAE is now available. Changes in this version: SCSI tape drive emulation, A2065 emulation, improved 68020 emulation, new field based interlace options, cycle-exact CIA TOD counter, solved problems with the XBox 360 pad, RTG mode video recording, lzx decompressor, CD CUE file parsing and much more.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Paradise Lost (Silicon Twins), WHDLoad V17.2, Wild (Anadune & Nah-Kolor), Optical Dreams (Addict), Aloha (Rebels), Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels), Spaced Out Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields), Spaced Out Vol. 1 (Magnetic Fields), Sound Atax Vol. 3 (Magnetic Fields), Chip Music Festival (Magnetic Fields) and Sound Atax Vol. 2 (Magnetic Fields). Improved: Hybris (Discovery Software), Elf (Ocean), Demo Disk (Quest), Wicked (Electric Dreams/Binary Vision) and Kick Off (ANCO).

The web page Eurogamer.net had an interview with Jon Hare (Sensible Software). In this interview Jon tells about the development of Cannon Fodder. The original concept of Cannon Fodder was a Rambo style game with a troop element. But at Sensible software they did not make a complete plan before the game development was started. Many of the elements were added when they were making the game. You can read all the details about Cannon Fodder in the interview.

Elbox Computer will release the TurboFlyer 530 in the next year. The TurboFlyer 530 is a new 68030-based accelerator with integrated FastATA CF/SATA controller for Amiga 500/500+ and A2000 computers. Features: 68030 processor (with MMU) @ 40MHz, 16MB fast 32-bit DRAM. Visit the Elbox web page for more details.

The ACA500 turbo card from Individual Computers will be available at the end of this year. The ACA is connected to the expansion port of the Amiga 500. The features of the new product are: 68EC000-10 CPU @ 14 MHz, 2 MB RAM, two CF-card connectors, compatible with internal memory expansions, expansion port, clock port, Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 ROMs and the ACA500 is WHDload compatible.

Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. This emulator is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, MacOS and Windows. Changes in this version: Improvements for scan lines, full screen options and the Pravetz 8D ROM. Disk and tape image auto detection, auto run for Jasmin and Pravetz diskettes, various AY emulation improvements and simplified the system timing.

Bloboats is a new game for AROS. The original game is made by Markus Kettunen and is a boat racing game. In the game you must reach the MS Enterprise as fast as possible to save it from the tentacles of a terrible monster. You start somewhere in the United States, and your destination is Helsinki.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: It is now possible to make a lists of colours (palettes). Poster transformation. A script for making circles. Improvements to the menus and removed some small errors.

Amedia Computer has now a new keyboard for sale. This keyboard has all the keys that are on the Amiga computers. The logos on the keys not sticker but printed on the keys. The keyboard is connected with USB and is available in black or white and as QWERTY or AZERTY.

A new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language) is now available. You can listen to the following articles: Petro Tyschtschenko, Virtual Dimension Retroplay, RoadShow 1.11, Battle Squadron AmigaOS4, Bounty OWB, Viva Amiga, Minimig Case, No Amiga versie of Putty Squad?, Alchimie X, Game DVD1 AmigaOS 4, Z3SDRAM, Classic Computer, Hardware-Retrocomputing (5), Peter Sieg, Atari Jaguar and the Amiga CD32.

Plipbox is an device that allows to connect Amiga's via Ethernet to your local network. The device uses a an Arduino and connects to the parallel port. Changes in this version: Automatic MAC address. Automatic connection to Ethernet module. Improved parallel line protocol. Added: Full duplex Ethernet, flow control and an error log system.

Assist is a collection of information: All the content from the "Get the most out of your AMIGA" PDF guide, shortcuts and links. Assist helps with downloading and unpacking of software, plays YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Added a web search button, Assistants for Workbench and new articles. More options for gadgets and more ARexx commands.

The Amiga Drive is a replacement for the disk drive in the Amiga. This device is developed by Maurizo Ramondo and uses an Raspberry Pi mini computer and a small interface. Maurizo has written a program for the Raspberry Pi that will emulate the disk drive. The Amiga diskette images are placed on the SD card. You can read all the details on the web page of Maurizo.

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: Improvements for Xinit and Xsetup. This version will end the Beta status of X-bEnCh, and is the first stable version.

Sqrxz 2 is now also available for Amiga OS4. Changes in this version: All enhancements from Sqrxz 3 are included. Improvements for frame skipping, sound effects and saving of the configuration. Sqrxz is also available for Playstation Portable, NetBSD, RaspberryPi, MorphOS, Linux and Windows.

SnapIT is a powerful and simple to use screen grabber for AmigaOS4. Changes in this version: Updated JPEG/PNG save routines. New icon set from Thomas Blatt. Italian translation by Samir Hawamdeh and added support for a key file. SnapIT is also available for AROS and MorphOS.