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: Australian Crackers United - Ninja Warriors and Turrican, Action - F15 Strike Eagle II, Mad Monks - AUSTRALOPITICUS, Defjam - Bubble Bobble, Alpha Flight - Crackers Journal Intro, Oracle - TBird and World Cup 90.

Arnold is an emulator of the Amstrad/Schneider CPC for the Amiga. The 8-bit Amstrad CPC was introduced in the year 1984. The first CPC has an Z80 CPU, 64 kBytes RAM, 16 colour video and a three channel audio chip. The later CPC models have more RAM and more colours. The Arnold emulator has audio, RAMROM device, tape, disk and cartridge emulation and built-in ROMs.

A new version of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Windows, is now available. Changes in this version: Improved: CDTV emulation, Power led, SCSI emulation for CD, Mouse cursor, File comments and protection flags. New: Directory file system 1/50s date stamp. Mount drag and drop archive file as a directory hard drive. Attempt to mount as a diskette image in DF0.

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: Improved the GUI, Copper, Blitter, Audio and the Disk code. Added: CPU usage, Hall of Fame, Original / Maximum speed, 4x Scaling and extended ADF files. New games: Alien Breed Special Edition 92, Boby Blows Galactic, Barbarian, Dynablaster, North'n'South, Prince of Persia and Project-X.

Amiganitzu is an new game for the Amiga. The game is a conversion of the PC game Paganitzu from the year 1991. The game has 10 levels and can be played on a 68k Amiga with Kickstart 2.0+. In the game you must collect all the keys in a level to unlock the exit and try not to get killed by monsters and traps.

KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Version 1.2.1 supports the following: Textures, Real / Scale icons, Drag and drop, Sorted menu items, Quick screen switch buttons, Open drawers from start menu, Custom view options, Compressed menu items, Memory status bar, Clock, Truncate long file names, Exchange and Transparency support.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hero Quest, Turrican I Intro 2nd Try, RSI Megademo - Ba1, Boot Up, Pinball Dreams, B.A.T II - The Koshan Conspiracy, Turrican II - The Final Challenge, Turrican II Freedom, The Four Seasons Remix, Moby's Sea of Love remix, The Lost Patrol and Turrican II Intro 2nd Try.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Hot Music 1 (Ram Jam), No Exit (Tomahawk), Flight Simulator II (subLOGIC), Forgotten Mine 1 (Damir Arh), Emerald Mine (Kingsoft). Improved: Harlequin (Gremlin), Gold of the Aztecs (U.S.Gold), Commando (Elite), Time Lock, Mentor (MarkSoft), Début: Planet Simulation (Pandora), Rugby the World Cup (Domark), Great Giana Sisters (Timewarp/Rainbow Arts), Virtual Karting demo (OTM), Emerald Mine 2 (Kingsoft), Virtual Karting (OTM).

ArcEm is an Acorn Archimedes emulator for the Amiga computer. Changes in this version: Sound emulation. Support for more RAM sizes. Extension ROM emulation. Extra video modes. Many performance optimisations. Visit the ArcEm sourceforge web page for all the details.

Retroguru released the Sqrxz 2 game for the Amiga with an OCS chip set. The presentation was at the fourth Wiener Retro-Börse. The game can be downloaded as a diskette file, HD file or as a CD file. Features: Difficult / challenging game play. Retro graphics. Hidden passages. 11 marvellous chip tunes, and a Top 10 high score.

The Company is a group Amiga enthusiast from Poland. They make exe versions of Amiga games. You can download a exe file that contains the game and a preconfigured version of WinUAE. The latest additions are: Sierra Soccer: World Challenge Edition, Wendetta, Lost Dutchman Mine, Wolfchild, Leander and Jim Power: In Mutant Planet.

Szilárd Biró released a AROS version of Yamagi Quake II. The features of Yamagi Quake II are: Anisotropic filtering. Compatible with most mods. Rewritten save game system. Ingame soundtrack playback via OGG/Vorbis. Mature and stable codebase. SDL for input, sound and rendering. Support for unlimited screen size / resolutions. Enhanced software renderer with limited texture filtering capabilities.

Debug 101 is a debugger for AmigaOS 4.1 developed by Alfkil T. Wennermark. This debugger is a source debugger for amigaOS and has many features and comes with a nice reaction GUI. Changes in this version: New GUI. Interpretation of structs, unions and enums. Added detach, signals, breakpoints, step into and step out. You can now also view any part of the memory with the hex viewer.

A new version of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Windows, is now available. Changes in this version: Improvements to the GUI. Full time synchronize clock option. More memory and RTG configurations are now possible. Improved emulation of the CD32 CD controller, chipset, audio and the parallel port sampler. More options for the game ports. Optional MIDI In to Out routing added.

Hyperion Entertainment has released update 6 for AmigaOS 4.1. This update will not improve the operating system, but installs a new update system (AmiUpdate). With AmiUpdate all future updates will be installed automatically.

Olaf Schönweiß started a new forum for people who develop software or hardware for the Amiga. The forum is for all Amiga platforms and for people who want to help each other with developing for the Amiga. The forum sections are: Cross-platform Development, OS specific Development, Projects, Hardware-Development, Utilitybase, Other languages, Members, General Category and Site.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Layer and Paint Tool blend modes (Normal, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract, Difference, Hue, Saturation, Color and Value) Extended Path support. Two new plugins: Curves and Filled Boxes.

The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Ned Langman. Ned was the graphic artist behind many Amiga games: Silkworm, Ninja Warriors, Judge Dredd, NARC, SWIV, Saint Dragon, Double Dragon 3, Rod-Land, Big Run and Indy Heat.

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with the people that developed the game Ziriax for the Amiga. Erlend Robaye (Rataplan) made graphics for Ziriax, Peter Verswyvelen (Chatterbox) did the programming of the game and Kim Goossens made graphics and animations. You can read all three interviews on the Amiga Lore web page.

Taran im Abenteuerland is a adventure game (German language) for the Amiga (68k) and PC. Achim Kern of KeHo Software is now using Hollywood5 for the game, and now there is also a AmigaOS 4 version available. In the game you are Taran and you have to defeat the dark forces and help your king to regain his kingdom.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: A Frog Game by Entwickler X, Balance Blox by Entwickler X, Retro Computer case: X500 Plus "Black Edition", Bounty for MorphOS on G5 computer, Backbone game Agent Lux, SysInfo 4.0, Hollywood 5.2 - 10th Anniversary Edition, G.E.M.Z. for all Amiga systems, Individual Computers: BigRamPlus, Manual: ZorRam and BigRamPlus, ACA 1220 and ACA 1232 available, AmigaOS Boing Poster, AmigaOS Boing sticker and Petro Tyschtschenko.

The game 7boings, made by mrdarek, is now available as free-ware. In the game you must drop balls in to a 7x7 grid. When the ball are matching they will explode and disappear. The balls near an explosion will be changed. The game is made with the help of the PortablE programming language and can be used with AmigaOS4.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Turbo Trax, Alien Legion, Agent Lux, Millenium 2.2, Dungeons, Amethysts, Alchemists 'n' Everythin, Eskadra and Janosik.

G.E.M.Z. is a puzzle game for the Amiga. You can try the demo version, with a 5 minute time limit, for free, or you can buy the game. In the game you are Rubin, a brave knight, and you have to save princess Esmeralda. The game has more than 300 levels from Easy to Madness.

BigRamPlus is an memory expansion for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 (desktop or tower). This expansion will give your Amiga 256 Mbytes of extra memory. You need to use an original daughter board, other bus boards may not work. The BigRamPlus has a price tag of 100 Euro.

Amigapd had an interview with Mathew Carr. Mathew is the developer of the Gravity Beam game for the Amiga. Mathew's first computer was a Sinclair, but he later used an Amiga 500. He started making games with the help of AMOS for the Amiga and DarkBASIC and Blitz Basic for the PC. You can read the whole interview on the Amigapd web page.

The Gravity Beam web page.

SysInfo is the diagnostic tool for Amiga users. After 19 years it has been updated. Recent changes: Removed a small error with accessible memory. Updated memory size calculation (64MB+). Optimizations of the program code. Added support for 68060. Identification of UAE and Individual Computers autoconfig boards.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Space Ace Demo (ReadySoft), The Scene 1 (Mystix), Beam (Magic Bytes) and Sixiang (Kingsoft). Improved: Sound Engine (Absence), Insanity Fight (Microdeal), Citadel (Arrakis/Virtual Design), Franko (World Software), Doman (World Software) and RVF Honda (Micro Style).

Sysmon is a system monitor for AmigaOS 4 made by Guillaume Boesel. Recent changes: Benchmark Tab added. New Tool Types: INTERFACE, ABOUTBOX, VOLUMES, ASSIGNS, STARTHOSTNAME, DEBUG, PRIORITY, WANIP, DEBUGSLEEP, STARTWINDOW, STARTTASK, STARTNETSTAT, STARTVOLUME, STARTASSIGN and STARTSYSTEM. Max In/Out network bandwidth.

Dan Wood made an review of the Amiga 1200. In the 30 minute video you can see the connections and interfaces, the inside, keyboard, disk drive and the mouse. He also shows programs and games for the Amiga 1200.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Odyssus Returns, Shadow of The Geek, Black Lamp, Jupiter’s Masterdrive, Signia, Weird Dreams, M1 Tank Platoon, Turrican, Darkmere, Dylan Dog and many versions of Spiral Hands On III.

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: Dragons - WallStreet and Seven Gates of Jambala, Crack Band Crew - Speedball, Thrill Kill Kult - Bunny Bricks, Slipstream - Amnios, Skid Row - Cracktro, Valhalla & Skid Row - Operation at Pruance, Rebels - Leathal zone and Back to the Future 2, Tarkus Team - Oilmania, Paradox - Pro Titler, Paradox Version MAD - Iron Lord, Tarkus Team - Kick Off 2.

Entwickler-X is developing a new game for the Amiga. In the game Balance Blox you must drop blocks onto a balance. If you have 3 equal blocks vertically or horizontally the blocks will disappear. But you must keep the balance in balance, if the balance hits the ground, the game is over. To make it more difficult, every block has its own weight. You can watch a preview on the web page of Entwickler-X.

Patrick Nevians has developed a new game for the Amiga. The game Agent Lux, Mission Europe is an action game made with the help of the Game-Creator Backbone. In the game you must fight the enemy with your aeroplane, running or with an sub marine.

HivelyTracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid '90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. HivelyTracker features: Multi-channel (4 to 16 channels), Channel stereo panning, Two commands per note, Ring modulation. Version 1.7 is now also available for Windows and MacOS X.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: Reviews: Audacious, Agent Lux, ADOM, Sqrxz, Hurrican, KOG, Ami-Ingenious, Amiga Parachute, Cybergames, AmiSystemRestore, Zormanita, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, Audio - OS4Depot. Workshop: Data processing with AmigaDOS (3), Mercurial (2), C-Workshop (16). Special: Classic Reflections 7 - NewTek, Caanoo (2). Others: Interview ACube, Classic Computing, Geit@Home #3 2012, Modding A600GT, Editorial, News and Up2Date.

SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: Smooth (Gaussian blur for brush). Definable keyboard short cuts. Path objects can now be added to projects. Experimental Text Tool. New brushes: Pencil, Hoops, Arrow and PinMan. And more export possibilities.

The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Marc Djan. Marc was the head of Ocean France, and kindly answers some questions about the company including why so many of their games were never released!

The AmigaPD web page had an interview with with Rob Hewitt. Rob is the developer of the Amiga game Timebomb. He also worked on the games JetHunt, Coagulus Pairs AGA, Hard Ammo, Skulldriller, Mr.Earth and A-Bomb. You can read the complete interview on the AmigaPD web page.

The AmigaPD web page also had an interview with the Retroguru team. Retroguru made the game Sqrxz for the Amiga.

Interview with Retroguru.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: ACube Systems, A-EON Mousepad, Retromeeting Bochum and Wien, Amiga Magazine at Archive.org, A-EON new Radeon drivers, ACA-620 available, USB card Thylacine, Bill McEwen interview, Timebomb, AmiWest 2012, Aros for Sam 460, Amiga Meeting 2012, Scriba, Steamdraw, Grunch, Turbocard for A1200, Entwickler X, Amiboing, Tap Jewels, Frog Game, Balance Blox and Elbtunnel Hamburg.

The Codetapper's web page had an interview with Bobby Earl. Bobby worked on Amiga games during the 90s for Westwood in the USA. Examples are: Flip-it, Magnose: Water Carriers from Mars, Total Recall, Hook (for Ocean software) and Dune 2.

Portacall Development released a the game Hex-A-Hop for AROS. Hex-a-Hop is a hexagonal tile-based puzzle game with one simple goal: destroy all green tiles! There are infinite undo's and there is no time limit. You just have to find a way to destroy all the green tiles and step on a safe tile at the end.

Edition 84 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Up2Date, The Tamar Herald, Dreamweb, AmigaOne X1000, Amiga Retrospective (18), Interviews with Hyperion and Andy Broad, Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX, AmiTwitter, AmigaOS4 SDK, NotBlanker, AmiPodder, HD-Rec, YAM, Fish FIlletsNG, Bubbelsche Deluxe, Frotz, Clockport expander, Get rid of yellow schades, Managing Adresses online, C-Workshop (1) and Breakpoint 2010.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Borrowed Time (Activision), Antideluvian Sloppy Spectacle (Essence), Legion (Gobi) done by Psygore (Info), Maestro Jams Vol. 1 (Kefrens), Detroit (Impressions), QED 2 (Talent), Mindshadow (Activision), AV8B Harrier Assault (Domark) and The Complete (Talent). Improved: Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra (Topo Soft), Tecnoball (TLK Games) and Great Giana Sisters (Timewarp/Rainbow Arts).

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, TRSI - Covert Action, Brain Ball, Super Soccer and Rise of the Dragon, Cyberaktif- Morph, Octagon, Beavers and Risky Woods, The Wizards - Fire Power, Defjam C.C.S - Power Drift, Xenon II, Kult and Delixe Video, Horizon - Master Track Pro, StarFlight- Kick Off 2 German, Fairlight & North Star - Street Fighter, The Band - Army Moves, Trilogy - Super Cars, Legend & Fairlight - A New Crack, Crux & Bad Karma - Intro, Basket Island and U.F.O Enemy Unknown.

Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player is a media player made with the help of Hollywood. Changes in this version: Deleted the window/full screen mode. Improved the pause function. More support for music and sound files. Show status: movie/sound time, pause, mute, on and showing pictures. And a Windows version is now available.

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Jonathan Potter. Jonathan is the creator and programmer of Directory Opus for the Amiga. Jonathan started his programming on the Commodore C64 in 1986. Nowadays Jonathan is still working on Dopus with two other developers. You can read the complete interview on the Amiga Lore web page.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hybris speedy chef remix, Hybris (Time out Remix), Odyssey Part 5 New Trance Mix, Altered Beast: Heaven on Earth, Rastaman with a banjoman, Amberstar - Mysty Orc Fanfares, Elvira's Garden - Solfeggio Acoustic Remix, A Prehistoric Tale: Fall into prehistoric, Cannon Fodder - Of Blood And Honor, Seven Gates of Jambala: Assemble the magic staff (The right colour sequence mix), Turrican (Title 3) - Shoot Or Die!, Shadow of the Beast (daXX 2012 Remix), Echoing (SID EMULATED MIX), Odyssey Megademo Part 5 NEWMIX, Elvira / Demon Blue (High Scores) short remix, Dylan Dog - The Murderers, Sly Spy (amiga intro), Pinball Illusions Intro, Turrican 3 Intro(Badliz Remix), Rollerball – Remix, Arabian Nights: Arabia (loop) and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Manic Miner, Get Out, Legend of the elves adventure, Jet Set Willy II, Mini Golf Plus, Mini Golf, Crystal Hammer, Giganoid, Joan of Arc, Cliffhager, Apache, Apache Flight, Alert X, Protector, 'ALLO 'ALLO!, Jumpman, Ultimate Skidmarks, Ikari Warriors, Cybersphere, Detonator, Łowca: Ostatnie starcie, Corx Reaction, Castle Kingdoms, Arazok's Tomb, I was a cannibal for the FBI, Dojo Dan, Mortvill manor, Narcissus, In eightydays around the world, Top Cat: Beverly Hills Catz, Rainbow Islands and SQRXZ.

Xdfscan is a new utility for the Amiga made by Lallafa. Xdfscan is a scanner to validate AmigaOS file systems in diskette or hard disk images. The scanner can scan one image or a whole directory with images. It does an in-depth check of all structures used in the AmigaOS OFS and FFS file system.