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 Amiga flashtro’s are: The Champs - New Stuff, Vision Factory and Beyonders- Tetra Quest, Access - Shadow of the Beast 3, Fairlight - Pac Land, Skid Row - Street Rod, Paranoimia - Day of the Viper and many others.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Support for Fermi-based GeForce graphic cards (2D and 3D), sound in for VMware and SB128 cards, RTL8187B-based USB Wi-Fi adapters and CMI8738 sound cards. Added the NetworkSnoop tool, Aquario screen saver, missing icons and a Sudoku game. Updates for UAE (v1.1), system files, LiveUpdater and MilkyTracker.

NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (68k and OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improved loading times. Libcurl version 7.22.0 is now used. Fixed the wikipedia search. Removed ffplay from archive. Added the natami favicon. Improved the scrollbar buttons and an update to version 1.2.4 of libpng. Removed some small errors and added the missing bookmarks.htm file.

Jim is working on X-BENCH. X-BENCH can be used to replace the Workbench when you only want to load games with WHDLoad. At the moment X-BENCH is still in development and Jim would appreciate it if you give feed-back about his program. You can use X-BENCH with all Amigas OCS or AGA and with 68000 - 68060 CPU's.

English translation of the X-BENCH web site.

Michael Gibs made a program for the Amiga that will make it very easy to start a game or demo. With Tiny Launcher you can navigate through your games and demos with the help of the joystick and start your game or demo. You can use Tiny Launcher on a Amiga 600, 1200, CD32 or with MorphOS.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. Improved: Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark) and Bart vs. the World (Virgin). New: Games: Winter Edition (Epyx), King Pin demo (Team 17). Alien Breed 3D demo (Team 17) and 8-Bit Jungle (Unstable Label).

Kas1e is working on a Amiga OS4 version of the game Battle Tanks. You can try the game but it has a few bugs at the moment. The sound is disabled, the game sometimes freezes or crashes and the icons are not that beautiful. Battle Tanks is a fun game, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. The game is open source, multiplayer and cross-platform (Amiga, Windows, Linux and Mac).

The Battle Tanks web page.

The title of the BitJam podcats number 141 is "Erection Day". In this BitJam the following Amiga music: Metal - Cock Cut, Reyn Ouwehand - Soft and Wet, Virgill - Sex 'n' Drugs, Moog feat. Makke - Basics of Love, Xerxes - Erotica, Falcon - Underwater Sexual Intercourse, Dominei - Pornographic, Orbiter - Get F*cked, Beezerk feat. Dawni - Feels So Good, JCO - Wir machen Sex und keine Popmusik (Party), Pinza - Varifom (Horn-y House Cut), Glxblt - F*ck on the Floor. Playtime: 51:21 minutes.

Jason started a project to help people who need to use Windows. He made a conversion kit that changes the icons on your Windows computer into icons used on Amiga OS4. Besides the icons there is also a Amiga mouse pointer, a registry tweak for no explorer bars and UXPatcher for themes.

Amigan Software released a new version of the AmiArcadia emulator. The versions for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and Windows are now updated to v16.33. With the AmiArcadia you can play games from Signetics-based consoles. Changes: Pipbug tape input emulation support. Autosense support for the 13 new Pipbug dumps. Elektor: Supports for CASR and CASW. Improved handling of qualifier keys. Titlebar now indicates when debugger CLI is in use.

Mfilos made a custom Auto AGA/RTG switch on his Amiga 4000. He wanted to use the manual switch from Ratte's Auto AGA/RTG switch. But he wanted a nicer switch on the place where the keyboard lock switch is located. A small pcb with a CD 4017 IC, two relays and a couple of small components is now built into the A4000. You can read all about this project on the blog from Mfilos.

Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version: Compatible with MS Word docx files. New layout options. Changes to the GUI. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

SymbolRechnen is a new game for the Amiga made by Achim Kern with the help of the Hollywood programming language. In the game you need to solve the puzzles by addition, subtractions , multiplications en divisions. This game is available for MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3, AROS and Windows.

Hollywood software.

UAE-Wii is a Amiga emulator for the Nintento Wii. The emulator is based on the UAE emulator and can emulate the Amiga 500, 600, 1000 en 1200. It allows you to play Stunt car racer, Turrican, Midwinter and the other good old Amiga games on your Wii. On the WiiBrew web page you can read all the details on installing the emulator on your Wii.

Source code of UAE-Wii on Google Code.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Epsilon 9: The revenge of the Stingons, Monty Python's flying circus, Darius+, Alfred Chicken, Defenders of the earth, Blazing thunder, Starbirds, Powder, Seemore Doolittle's underwater capers, Seemore Doolittle's toyland capers, Hipoonios, The great escape of Billy burglar and Yogi's great escape.

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 the last months: Added support for Sam460ex and AmigaOne X1000 platforms. Added symbol decoding to the stack trace. Added Process stack trace display to the DOS/Processes tab.

The web page of Steven Solie with an article about his AmigaOne X1000.

ACE is an Amstrad CPC emulator made by Philippe Rimauro. The emulator is written in the language C and its GUI is based on MUI 4. The current version of ACE does not offer all the features but most of the games and demos are working perfectly. The features are: Full screen, Overlay display, Memory editor, Z80 editor, CRTC editor, Gate Array & PSG analyzer, breakpoints management and AREXX commands for cross-development.

A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. New in this version: Very low "Latency" and experimental raw input joystick / joy pad support. Updated in this version: IDE emulation (Max Transfer IDE error). joystick / mouse auto switch, A590/A2091 emulation. Direct3D blank screen and the analog joystick. Visit the WinUAE web pagina for all the details.

The Amiga 550 is a project to replace the motherboard of a Amiga 500. The new motherboard will have extra features: IDE , 2 clock ports, Zorro-II connector for a Picasso-II, Mas-MP3 Player connector and a turbo slot for a 68020,68030,68040 turbo. In October the first prototype will be made and if it works correctly 30 more will be made.

ACube Systems presents the AmigaOne 500. The system is built around the well known Sam460ex. With AmigaOne 500 you can use AmigaOS 4.1 straight out of the box. The specifications are: Sam460ex 1.15 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, DVD RW, PCI SATA 3512 Controller, AmigaOS 4.1 including manual and a AmigaOne mouse. The price will be around 1000 Euro.

NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga (OS4), RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements: Font, Images and MIME type handling, DPI settings. Additional mouse buttons. Download window and context menus. Support for iframe, new frame and entering exotic characters. You can view all details in the ChangeLog file.

It is sad but Scacom #22 is going to be the last Scacom. In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Picture of the month, News, Commodore Meeting Wien, Computer Collection Vienna, Gameplan Volkscomputer, Curious and expensive curious, Commodore USA. Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Four years SCACOM, Atari ST2, FPGA Arcade, Minimig AGA prototype, Commodore MOS KIM1, Game, Ridle and a cover disk.

You can try a new game for the Amiga called Red Wizard Island. The game can be played on a AGA Amiga, e-uae, uae or WinUAE. In the game you are the Red Wizard and you need to go to the king. Your first challenge will be to get off the island. But Vikings are guarding the shores!

YouTube video of Red Wizard Island.

The title of the BitJam podcats number 140 is "ArtCity Unknown Artist Compo". In this competition many tunes were connected to the correct composers. You can now listen to 16 of these tunes. Intensity: Are Am Eye Commodore Mix, Sweet Alien, Fly, Magic and Exemption. Lizardking: Art of Chrome, Compulsion to Obey, Tides of Dosk, World of Mages and Elimination. Moby: Mobyle, Groovy Thing and Livin' Insanity. Virgill: TBB Plasmacrap, High Density and Interference. Playtime: 58:42 minutes.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Rings Of Medusa Gold (Starbyte), Virtual Karting 2 demo (Fabio Bizzetti) and Gloom (Black Magic). Updated: Five-A-Side Soccer (Croteam), Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark), Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17), Battle Squadron (Innerprise) and Misja Harolda (MarkSoft).

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added 8 new longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Captain Bonus in another world, Zalycon,Plexu: The time travellers, Venom Wing, Joyride, Pit Fighter, Peter's Quest: For the love of Daphne and Hard Driving.

Hyperion Entertainment released update 3 for Amiga OS4.1. In this update the following changes: Updated: Intuition and GUI components , Installation Utility program, PATA and SATA drivers, AmiSSL certificates, Warp3D support and USB stack with USB 2.0 (EHCI) support. Improved: DOS stability and speed, Amiga shared object issues and Sam460ex support.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improvements for Amiga Forever and the Janus-UAE GUI. Updates for drivers, libraries, fpc, Intel GMA driver and other applications. Added Bearsoft's ATI drivers, alternative arosc.library and the game Flare. The Icaros Desktop can be downloaded as a Live DVD.

A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for AmigaOS. In the last couple of month there were many improvements and changes: Mappers added and fixed. More PPU compability. CHRROM and CHRRAM fixes. Audio improvements. CPU improvements in clockcycle timing, stackhandler and the CMP instruction. For the A/NES emulator you will need a 68020 CPU and a few megabytes of FastRAM.

BetterWB is a new workbench pack, much 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: Highly enahnced and optimised cdrom filesystem. Macintosh floppy format (HFS) and proper mountlist (MAC0) implementation. Improvements for the Rexxsyslib.library, Mathieeedoubbas.library, IPrefs and Mfm.device.

The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future 92 has been released. In this edition: News. Interview with George Allan. Reviews: A604, Total Chaos, Worms, Amiga Park, Grim Fandango, AROS, Yolanda, AmiGame 2.1, Slideshow Builder 1.0, XSane. Workshop: Markdown, C-Workshop Teil 9, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench part 3, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench part 4, VGA Monitor Switch. Special: The right Amiga for everybody part 2, Android.

Krzysztof Smiechowicz made a AROS version of the MegaGlest strategy game. MegaGlest is an open source 3D strategy game, where you control the armies of one of seven different factions: Tech, Magic, Egyptians, Indians, Norsemen, Persian or Romans. In the game you must establish settlements, defend yourself and gather resources. The game is also available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.

The MegaGlest web page.

The editions 77 and 78 of the English and German Amiga magazine Amiga Future are now on-line available. In these editions: News, Cheats, Interviews: Andreas Falkenhahn, Paolo Besser. Tests: Protext, Prodata, OWB, Hollywood 4, SRec, Synergy VIM, ,AtlTabSwitcher, Amidisk, Arrowz, Amiga Depot Spiele, Amiga OS4 - SAMflex, Allegro, Atax, Robbo, Warpview, Grafx2, Evenmore, AmiCygnix, VmwAros, Morph OS 2.2. Specials: Amiga Walker, Ghostscripta, SAMflex, A3640, Dreamcast emulator, MOSNet.

In this German pdf magazine the following articles: Picture of the month, News, News from Commodore USA, Commodore Meeting in Wien 2011, First exclusive test of the Minimig AGA, Book: Volkscomputer, Interview with Michael S. Tomczyk. You can now read the preview, the complete magazine will be available soon.

The latest podcast of BitJam has as title 2:18. All tunes in the podcast are 2 minutes and 18 seconds long. Podcast #138 was made by Vincenzo, and a few examples of tunes are: D Fast - Macgyver, Dreamweaver - Shivers, Geir Tjelta - That's the Wave II, Uncle Tom - Stunnflight and Muffler - Free Power.

Also a interesting podcast is number 136. This is a tribute to the Immortal CD’s. A few examples of the tunes are: Barry Leitch - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Chris Hülsbeck - Turrican 3, Per Almered - Obsession - Desert Run, Jon Hare and Richard Joseph - Cannon Fodder "War" and Timothy "Coldstorage" Wright - Agony 2007 (Astronaut mix).

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. In this version changes are a Historical score graph and bug fixes. Saga 1.7 is available for Amiga OS3 / OS4 and MorphOS and the following languages are supported English, German and Italian.

Amigian Software heeft ook een update gemaakt voor het spel Africa voor Amiga OS3 en OS4. Africa is ook een conversie van een bordspel voor meerdere spelers. In dit spel heb je de controle over het noordelijke gedeelte van Afrika.

Africa v1.3 for Amiga OS3/4

A new version of vbcc for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, PowerUp und WarpOS is available. Vbcc is a C-compiler made by Volker Barthelmann and Frank Wille (Amiga version). Visit the web page for all the details and changes in this version.

Lee Hurley made a game for the Amiga. He made a conversion of the Nintendo LCD game Manhole from 1981. In the game you must close all the manholes before pedestrians fall in the open holes and disappear in the sewers. The game is made in AmigaBASIC and then compiled with the AC-Basic Compiler.

Puzzle Slide, also a game from Lee Hurley.

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 favorite web browser. Changes in this version: AmigaGuide Interpreter improved. New color definitions. More short keys and many more small changes and improvements.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard-disk. New in this update: Mysterious Worlds (Playstone Design), S (Skarla), When We Ride On Our Enemies (Skarla) and Shaft 7 (Bomb). Updated: Turrican 3 (Factor 5 / Rainbow Arts), Leavin Teramis (Thalion), Alien Breed 3D (Team 17), Dennis (Ocean) and Puzznic (Ocean).

A new version of RunInUAE (r5) is available. RunInUAE is a system that makes it possible to run old Amiga games or programs on Amiga OS4. And RunInUAE comes with an easy installer. Changes in this version: If not available a WB3.1 will be created. Improved emulation performance. Added a Help menu item. Added Mason's icons for RunInUAE's folder, plus UAE's folder and program. A comprehensive online manual (English) for RunInUAE is available.

Krzysztof Smiechowicz made an AROS version of the game Cube 2 : Sauerbraten. Cube 2 is an First Person Shooter with fast game-play and beautiful 3D graphics. Cube 2 for AROS is the first game that uses the advanced capabilities and features of AROS 3D sub-system. The game comes with a configuration tool to optimize the game for the available video card.

Cube 2 - AROS download

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. XRoar is available for the Amiga OS4, GP32, Nintendo Dual Screen, Linux and the PSP. In this version many new options, bug fixes, improved audio and CPU emulation improvements.

Worm Wars is an advanced Tron / Snake-style arcade game for up to 4 simultaneous players. There are 36 types of creature and 32 types of Power-Up objects. There is also a level editor for making your own levels. New in this version: When killing creatures, it briefly shows the points they are worth. Improved rabbit movement. New bonus level: "hunt the rabbits". Worm Wars is available for: AmigaOS 2-3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows.

The English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future 91 has been released. In this edition: Interviews: ACube, Chris Raynor and Manfred Kleinmann. AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, WebP, ScummVM, BlueManager, Amiga911Maker, Pentagram, Nuvie, Flare, Alien Fish Finger, Personal Nightmare, Volkscomputer, C-Workshop Teil 8, AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench Teil 2, AmigaOne X1000 Update, Amiga Timeline Teil 2, Der passende Amiga für jeden.

The Cracktros web page added more than 15 new cracktros to the database last couple of weeks. A cracktro, also known as a crack intro, loader, or just intro, is a introduction from the cracking crew who removed the copy prevention. The new cractos are from the following groups: Vision Factory, Wanted Team, Unit A, TRSI & Zenith and TRSI.

Fortis is a game for MorphOS. The game has 36 levels in 3 stages. The game increases in difficulty when you get to higher levels. It has great sound effect, a weapons store, changeable back-grounds, diversity of enemies, pick-ups in the bonus levels, three language interface and much more. New in this version: Better management of CPU usage. USB joystick / joypad support. Compiled with MorphOS SDK 2.0.

For the HxC floppy emulator is new firmware available. The HxC floppy emulator is a replacement of a 3.5 inch disk-drive in for example an Amiga or a Atari ST. With this device you can connect the original floppy controller in the computer to a SD memory card or a USB port on a PC. Recent changes in the firmware: New track generator. Variable bit-rate support. Kurzweil KRZ file support. Many new file systems supported for example ADF Amiga / UAE Extended and D81 (C64+1581). SD-card settings window and much more.

Hyperion Entertainment has now a forum for customers. The forum has the following categories: General, AmigaOS 4.x including Classic, AmigaOne, Sam and Pegasus, Games (Shogo, Heretic II, Freespace, Quake II) and Developer (Generic and SDK). The language on the forum is English.

KeHo Software released a thinking game for the Amiga. The game is made by Achim Kern, and is programmed in the Hollywood programming language. In the game Klix you need to push stones into a target template. This game is available for MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3 and AROS.