PengoBrain is a new game for the Amiga made by Achim Kern. The game is specially made for children. In the game you must feed penguin Pengo with tasty fish. But Pengo must travel through a very dangerous ice field to reach the fish safely. The game is available for AmigaOS4 and OS3, Windows 7 and in the near future for MorphOS, Aros, MacOS and Android.

Strife is a First Person Shooter game developed by Rogue Entertainment. Strife is one of the first FPS-RPG games. The Amiga version is made by Lantus360. To play the game you will need an Amiga 1200 (AGA), OS3.1, 68040 / 40 Mhz CPU, 16 MByte FAST RAM and 60 MByte HDD space.

Strife AGA video on Youtube.

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: Removed some errors in: Temps files cleaning, Checkerboard loader, MegaRam and Sysinfo command. The cLi starts a bit faster. Added Destination path check added to the launcher tab and the installer.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: FlashBack (Options Remix, Monday (G3D Extended Remix), Onslaught (daXX Remix), GODS (ChillStep), Big Run (daXX Remix), Zillion-2 (Mankind's hope will rise again), Monday (Vroom crack intro), Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Your Hometown Burns In Hell), Test Drive II Remix, Odyssey Part I and Echoing (Steissbein Mix).

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News and Up2Date. Reviews: Netpanzer, Iron Trackers, Death Metal, Deal or not Deal, Arnold, Santa's Monster Shootout, Amiganitzu, Sqrxz 2, Balance Blox, Handy, Amigula, YAM 2.8, Roadshow, KeyRythMe, MUI Royale, Ruby, A-FTP 1.3, Digital Universe 1.7, Hively Tracker, AbiWord, OS4 Depot, Minimig, Pandora (1) and BigRAMplus. Workshop: C-Workshop (18) and Application Directory Workshop. Special: Classics dreams (8) and Micro-Systems. Interview: DiscreetFX. Extra: Chicago 90, Dominium, Iron Trackers and Killerball.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Pinball Illusions demo (21st Century, Leader Board Tournament (Access, Leader Board (Access), Crash Garrett (ERE Informatique/Infogrames), Kaiser (Linel), Innocent Until Caught (Psygnosis) and Tetris Pro (Logic System Productions/2000 A.D.). Improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century), The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte), Rock'n Roll (Rainbow Arts, Ode to Ramon 2 (Digital Force), Innocent Until Caught (Psygnosis), Capital Punishment (ClickBoom), Wreckers (Audiogenic), Pegasus (Gremlin) and Desert Strike (Electronic Arts).

Paolo Besser has made an manual for the AROS shell. The manual is based on the work from Joao Ralha. The manual has the following subjects: Introduction, AROS shell basics, Path / Command Template / Patterns / Redirection /Special drives devices / Running in background / Basic file operation with shell / Working with SFS / Script programming / AROS-DOS Scripting / Working with a script file / Changing system script files / AROS command reference, Printer escape codes and error codes.

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Brian van de Peer. Brian talks about the game Son of Zeus for the Amiga. The team behind the game were: Mick, Brain and Tobias. Work on the game was started in the early nineties but it was never finished. At the moment only a Amiga Action cover disk demo exists.

Igor Majstorovic is working on an FPGA accelerator (Vampire 600) for the Amiga 600. He started his project in 2010 and he now has a stable system. The accelerator improves the speed of the A600 from 0.55 Mips to 1.85 Mips. You can follow the progress of this project on Igor's blog.

Scriba is a simple word processor for MorphOS, developed by Carsten Siegner. A few of the features are: Formatting, current date / page, tabs, spellchecking, images and the export of PDF, SVG, EPS or PNG. Recent changes: SVG and RTF import, Professional PDF, Drag/Drop Pictures and a review of the source code.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Amiga. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of Amiga games from the year 1988.

Thylacine, Hyperion Cinemaware, Plush Boingball, A-EON USB stick, Boingball Mouse-pad, HollyPaint, OWB 1.19, Run in DosBox, Amiga Inc Blackberry games, Amiga Games Award 2012, Petro Tyschtschenkos memories, Frogatto, Indivision AGA MK 2, ACA 500 prototype, MorphOS info about the G5 port, Bounty for the X 500 Plus, Tales of Gorluth preview, Amiga Portal and the Crazy Paradise BBS.

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Antony Crowther. Antony got into game programming at his school together with Ben Daglish, Nigel Merryman and Martyn Peverley. He worked on the following games: Bombuzal, Phobia, Captive, Captain Planet, Knightmare and Liberation.

Assist is a dictionary of information for AmigaOS. The features are: All the content from the "Get the most out of your AMIGA" PDF guide. Shortcuts and Links. Easy downloading and unpacking of software. Play YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Copy links to the clipboard with a right mouse click. Warning before overwriting previously downloaded files. Bigger and better thumbnails for video previews. And an number of updates for the articles.

The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: Ee-mah-cess and Koppis (Dekadence), Announcetro 2 and mo'saik (Focus Design), 15 years of fame (Up Rough), No more progress (Jumalauta), Gazer Unz (Traction), Yuwalane root elixir of past and Bork emron (Y-Crew), Zero Gravity 3 (Scoopex), With style (Haujobb), Aurum Intra Computatrum (Software Failure), Fusion is no good for me, Vold and Copperophilia (Spaceballs) and Reboxer (Elude).

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: iPhone support. Amiga Early Start-up Control. Pre-sets with URL parameters. Play your audio files: AIFF, MP3, MP4, OGG and WAV. An alarm clock. And many small errors were removed.

Hugues Nouvel made a Amiga version of the platform game Frogatto and Friends. Frogatto is an open-source "platform" game. In the game you must help a small green fellow named Frogatto on his journey through the unknown. The game is available for AmigaOS4.

More information on the game Frogatto and Friends.

Jens Schönfeld is testing the ACA500. The ACA500 is an expansion for the Amiga 500. The technical details are: 68EC000 / 14,3MHz. The ACA500 is an external expansion. Two Compact Flash ports (Boot / Transfer). 2 MByte RAM (1,5MByte RAM + 512kByte Maprom). Extra expansion port (14MHz / 16-Bit).

Gigalomania is an open source 2D Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. In the game you must compete with your enemies. You need to find or develop new technology from rocks and sticks to nuclear weapons and spaceships. You must travel through ten different ages, from the stone age to the future. The game is available for AROS, Windows, OS X, Linux, Symbian, Maemo, Meego and Android.

RetroGameModz made an video about the audio repair of an Amgia 4000. In the video you can see many tips and working methods for repairing retro hardware such as: Visual inspection, audio filter circuit, testing, schematics, measurements, disassembling, new components, modifications and final testing.

All videos from RetroGameModz.

Edition 85 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, The Tamar Herald. Interviews: Dave Haynie and AmiBoing. Shows: Vienna meeting. Reviews: Dodge these Balls, Aladdin, Lin City, SRB2 Riders, Hollywood 4.7, AmigaOS4.1 update 2, Open XUI, Just Name, Mad Floppy, Emulators and AmiCrypt. Hardware: iMica. Workshops: Get rid of shades (2), C-Workshop (2) and Managing addresses online (2). Special: Amiga Retrospective (19).

You can now buy a plush Boing Ball. The ball has a diameter of ca. 15cm and is hand made in Germany. It is possible to wash the ball and it has an certificate of Authenticity. You can use it as a decorative item or as a toy, but every Amiga fan should have one.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Slam Tilt demo (21st Century) and Christoph Kolumbus / Voyages Of Discovery (Software 2000). Improved: 1943 - The Battle of Midway, Extension (Pygmy Projects), Subtle Shades (Nuance), Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) and McDonald Land (Virgin).

VideoClipper is a program for cutting and joining various video files. During conversion several adjustments can be made, for example: adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma, sharpness, blurring, fast/slow motion and rotation. You can also add titles and audio. Changes in this version: Buttons for start / end times. Add audio and titles after videos are joined. Video resolutions: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and 16:9 aspect ratio. Improved the VideoClipper guide.

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: Changed Hardware/PCI Bus/Class to display the base class, sub class & interface number in hex / text. Added DOS/TrackedAddr tab and more PCI bus class strings.

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: Flashtro - Sqrxz V 1.2, Silicon League - Mission Adromeda, SpreadPoint - Troddlers, Backlash - Street Fighter 2 and Wanted Team - Speedway Manager.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: 3D Galax 2013, Turrican Traps, Platoon (E/Rock 2013), Jumping Jackson, Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American, Turrican 2 Title, RSI Megademo - Loader, Turrican title, Stormlord ingame, RSI Megademo, GODS Into the wonderfull, Stormlord (intro) and Battle Squadron ingame.

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 6, 2013.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Retro event in Oberhausen, EGame - Game launcher, MorphOS G5 Portierung, ACube - Minimig available again, Minimig cas in A1000 design, X500 Plus pre-order, Geit @ Home 1 - 2013, Hollywood Mui Royale 1.0, Thomas Dellert deceased, Barry Altman deceased, Videoclipper 1.0, Retrogamer now four times per year, TCP IP Stack Roadshow, Legend of Faerghail and CygnusED.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Improved movie time clock (hours:minutes:seconds). V.A.M.P. is now skinable, you can make your own skin and buttons or choose other skins. Big pictures are scaled to the window. And a few programming errors were removed.

Aurélien Gâteau release an update of his party Plouf! The game is now translated to English. In the game you control a boat. You must try to sink the boat of the other players by throwing sea urchins at them. In the game you must collect sea urchins and you can increase your strength with the float bonuses.

Rupert Hausbergers made an Amiga Emulator with the help of Javascript and HTML 5. This emulator can be used inside a modern browser such as Chrome. Changes in this version: ECS and AGA support. Improvements for the audio, memory management, CPU, CIA and GUI. New games: Alien Breed 2, Lemmings, Pinball Fantasies, R-Type, Rubicon, Shadow of the Beast, Silkworm and Stunt Car Racer.

AEROS is a hybrid distribution of AROS and Linux (ARM and x86 systems). AEROS is a very fast desktop, and you can use AROS apps and AROS games. Changes in this version: Added the FS-UAE emulator, a new Linux kernel (3.2.0) and new Nvidia drivers.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Jaws Action, 9 Lives, Ninja Gaiden Episode II: The dark sword of chaos, Turbo Cup, City Cars, Super Grand Prix, Miami Chase, Night Walk, Turbo Racer, Tiny Troops, SQRXZ 2, Ultimate Xtreme Racing and Hägar the Horrible.

Szalter is a new game for the Amiga made by Benedykt Dziubałtowski and Czesław Mnich. In the game you must turn on all the light-bulbs. The light-bulbs switch on or off when you walk by them. The game can be played on a 68k Amiga (diskette or hard disk).

Ri-li is an arcade game for AROS. In the game you drive a toy locomotive and you must collect all the coaches to win. The game has 50 levels, great music and supports 20 languages. The game is also available for Linux, Mac OsX, Windows and AmigaOS4.

More information about Ri-li.

The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Dave Semmens. Dave worked on many Amiga games, a few examples are: Rainbow Warriors (1989), SAS Combat Simulator (1990), Spellfire The Sorceror (1990), Kid Gloves 2: The Journey Back (1992), The Incredible Crash Dummies (1994) and The Lion King (1995).

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News and Up2Date. Reviews: A Frog Game, Tap Jewels, Timebomb, Highway Patrol II, Nether Earth, Triplane, Tux Football, KETM, gOCR, AmiCygnix 1.2, Data Display, AmigaOS 4 Update 6. Workshop: Data processing with AmigaDOS (4), C-Workshop (17). Special: Modding: LED, Turbokarten ACA, Poster, Breezin, The Making of Amiga Future. Interviews: Tomasz Muszyski, Gerhard Bauer en Kassian Alexander Goukassian, Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt.

Michal Wozniak made an MorphOS version of the Smilla Enlarger program. Smilla Enlarger is a small graphical tool to resize bitmaps in high quality. The program, developed by Mischa Lusteck, makes it possible to use small pictures and enlarge them to very big pictures with a special algorithm.

More information about Smilla Enlarger.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Speedball Cracktro (Ackerlight), Megademo (Excellence), Eye Of The Storm (Rebellion) and Colorado (Scoopex). Improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17), The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) and Gunshoot (Micropartner).

eGame is a program that makes it possible to easily search through a list of games you want to play. The program is made by Christopher Handley and is written in the PortablE programming language. The program can be used with AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. The free version is limited to displaying 10 game, if you want the full version you will have to make a small donation.

The MorphOS Team released a new SDK (v3.2) for MorphOS. In this SDK the latest versions of GCC, Bash and GNU-Tools are included. Included are also the recent MorphOS Includes and documentation. The SDK can be used with MorphOS 3.1 or higher.

Onyxsoft released a new version of Annotate for the Amiga. Annotate is a comprehensive text editor. Changes in this version: Tool commands with a output window. Improved: Rectangular selection, Manual, String escaping (XML prefs), Tools edit page, $ VER : string and Text redrawing.

XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers with the 6809 CPU. XRoar can use virtual diskettes, cassettes or cartridges. There are 3 video modes, joystick support and a audio output available. Changes in this version: Improved the CPU, PIA, keyboard and the video module. Simple ACIA emulation. Becker and Hitachi 6309 support.

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a email client for AmigaOS. Changes in this version: Updated translations: Czech, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish and English. Online documentation. Multi-identity system with signature support. SSL certificate authentication support. Support for Mail-Followup-To / Mail-Reply-To and much more. Please visit the YAM web page for all the details.

Paolo Besser released a new version of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: ABIv0 kernel, GRUB2 v2.0, AmiBridge preferences tool, Real3D, TVPaint, XAMOS, HarmonyPlayer, Candy Crisis, Cave Story, Neverball, Neverputt, Hurrican, pforth, FlexCat, irrxml, YAM, OpenURL, DiskImage, Annotate, fpc, LiveUpdater and Mupen64.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: ACA 620 available again, Opus Magellan 2: source code available, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, Roadshow for AmigaOS 2/3, AmigaAMP 3.5 for AmigaOS 4, Game: Santa's Monster Shootout, New Scando/Flickerfixer for A1200/A4000, Simple Mail 0.39, YAM 2.8 for all Amiga Systems, Status of the MorphOS G5 project, MorphOS: OWB 1.18, Pixelor Portal, Kraut & Rüben on Youtube and Archive.org.

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: New design and effects for intro, menu and loading screen. Improved the system for showing large set of names. Added a start-up tab, Del key switch option and a Xbench start option. Many optimisations for the program and removed a few errors.

ScanJuggler XAGA is a scan-doubler and flicker-fixer for the Amiga 1200 and 4000. There are two versions available, normal and lite. The lite version has VGA and an 768 x 580 resolution, the normal version has DVI-I with an 1280 x 600 resolution. The scan doubler will be available soon, visit the ScanJuggler web page for all the details.

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: Added: Rec option, MOD support (libmodplug) and region.txt support for skins. Improved: Tag editor layout and playlist scanning.