Eric Schwartz made a tribute to the Amiga. It's an animation with the song Still Alive and it tells the history about Amiga. You can watch it on YouTube.

In this English edition of SCACOM the following articles: News, Interview with Nori Khiat, CF-card on Amiga, Interview with Richard Bayliss, Pictures of the past, Computerstory and more.

The Scene group Liquid Skies released a new music piece. It is called Off-Line and was done by Maxus with Madtracker. The cover was made by DaFreak.

The Flame Arrows released a version of the ASM-One assembler. A bug has been fixed. Now the assembler runs without problems on a MC68000. This assembler can be downloaded from the web page of TFA.

Tom Newsom and Daniel Westerberg made a Linux version of AmiKit. Now you can use the Amiga OS on your Linux system including the Live Update function. With AmiKit you can surf the web, read e-mails and documents, listen to or create your own music, burn CD/DVDs, edit images, play games and much more. You can download the AmiKit from the web page.

FPSE stands for Free Play Station Emulator. It is written by BERO and LDChen. The AmigaPPC version is made by Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund. This release fixes a few minor issues and adds versions for MorphOS and AROS (x86). You can download the latest version from the web page. There is also a FPSE compatibility database to see if your favorite game can be played.

The web page Amition added new games to the download section. Latest addition is the CD32 game Deluxe Pac Man. A few examples of the other CD32 games are: AMIBEE, Triz, Transplant and Deluxe Galaga. You can download the ISO images from the web page and burn them on a CD-R.

Guido Mersmann made a new Boulderdash clone. But why? There are many clones of Boulderdash. But most of them are not as good as the original. This version is made to be as good as the original. Some of the features are: 1:1 Clone of the Original! Soft scrolling and full speed also under a MC68000. More than 10000 (!!) caves included! 6 in game tunes. Comfortable Level Editor. Create your own ingame music by using Protracker.

Jörg Strohmayer has updated his Origyn Web Browser. New or improved are: The download progress windows are now opened on the correct screen. Fixed wrong download attempts for urls without mime type. Fixed too short filename buffer, downloading to FFS partitions works now. Included a new version of libgcc.so. You can download this Amiga web browser from the web page.

There is a new version available of the Amiga emulator for the SONY PSP. Some of the alterations are: Code optimizations for speed improvement. Better Hsync handler. Rics FAMEC Sound code. Better HEAP SIZE for available memory to PSPUAE. Added Rics FAMEC FrameSkip Algorithm. For downloads, info or the forum take a look at the web page.

Simone Bevilacqua updated his puzzle game Follia NBA. Follia is a game that was started in 1994 on a Amiga 1200 with AMOS. In each puzzle an NBA team logo is sliced in several squares. Obstacles are placed in strategical points. Your task is to rebuild the logo in the correct place.

With the Mediator it is possible to expand a Amiga with: Graphic, Sound, Network, USB and other PCI cards. Hardware needed is a Amiga 1200 in tower case with a 4MB RAM expansion card. Features: 6 PCI slots. 66/33MHz PCI clock. 32-bit PCI datapatch. 4GB PCI memory space. SDRAM/SGRAM of PCI gfx card as a DMA buffer. Interrupt controller. AT and ATX connectors. Power Management Interface. Look at the Elbox web page for more details.

PointRider is a PowerPoint viewer for Amiga. The program is written by Mathias Parnaudeau and it's available for MorphOS and Amiga OS4. In this version: Bilinear interpolation to scale images. Automatic font selection. Font rendering (alignment, color, size, bold / italic / underline). Display of inherited objects from the master slide. Improved background support: several shade types. Also a couple of bug fixes. Look at the web page for more information.

On this new version of the Amiga emulator for windows computers: Automatic configuration of input devices (USB joystick, mouse etc..). Automatic joystick / mouse switching. Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM. CD32 FMV cartridge ROM. And there were also a number of bug fixes. Go to the web page to download the latest version.

Matthias Münch build two new hardware projects. The first is a Amiga 1000 Kickstart adapter that will give the Amiga 1000 the kickstart at startup without loading it from a disk. The other project is a adapter for the Amiga 3000. This adapter makes it possible to use 72-pin SIMM RAM memory in a Amiga 3000 Desktop.

ffmpegGUI is a GUI for the ffmpeg program. It supports some basic options via the GUI and allows the user to add additional. ffmpeg is a command line program which provides the ability to decode and encode a large variety of video, audio, and graphics formats while supporting the changing of various parameters along the way.

George Braun started a project to build a improved Amiga 1000. He made a complete new PCB that will even fit inside the original case. The Amiga 1000 has been improved with the following items: 68030 processor on 50 Mhz, 68882/50, 8 Mb Fast, 2 MB Chip, 1 Mb Flash, IDE controller, Flicker-Fixer, Clock and a Zorro-II slot.

Emerald web is a collection of "Emerald Mines" games. Emerald Mines is a popular BoulderDash-like game that originally was released in 1987 for the Amiga by Kingsoft written by Klaus Heinz and Volker Wertich. The main purpose of this site is to archive all released Emerald Mines disks for the Amiga and there are already more than 300 spin-offs and clones in the download section.

KOG is meant to be an immediately enjoyable and funny game - you start it and, one second later, you play it. The game mechanics require good eye perception and quick reflexes, and become familiar quickly. The game is available for Amiga OS4.

Tubexx is an ARexx script that enables you to watch youtube.com contents on your MorphOS machine. Youtube.com is a video storage, where anybody can upload his own videos and share them with every Internet user in the world. Its main interface is web based, but video playback is handled via a Flash applet, thus impossible to enjoy directly with the MorphOS technologies currently available. This is where Tubexx comes in handy, enabling you to search, download, convert and play your favorite videos.

Probably every Amiga user once had a virus on his computer. Now there is a new web site dedicated to analysis and descriptions of viruses for the Commodore Amiga computer. Here you will find detailed information of Amiga viruses. You can even help by sending in a virus :-).

The web site Hall Of Light reached a milestone. There are now 50.000 screenshots in the database. The number of games passed the 6.000. On this web site you can find information on games like: Release date, Developer, Coders, Graphician, Musician, Screen-shots, Box-scans, Cheat-codes and much more.

Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has made an AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS version of the Shoot'em-up classic Tyrian. Tyrian was originally developed for MS-DOS machines. But now there are versions for Windows, Mac Os, PSP, GameCube and for the Amiga.

OWB stands for Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS4. This is the first (in)complete Modern Web Browser for AmigaOS4 and it supports almost all modern web technologies. This project is in an early state and not everything works 100%. You can download this alpha version to try it out.

SCACOM magazine is now available in the English language. In this PDF magazine: News, Interview with Christophe Kohler, Baracudas story, Commodore awards, C64 color enhancher, Best C64 games and more.

Cube Systems is going to sell fully assembled MiniMigs motherboards. The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor on-board and was developed by Dennis van Weeren.

The Amiga emulator has had an update. In this new version: Removable drive auto mounting. X-Power Professional v1.3 and Nordic Power v1.5 support. Pro-Wizard module ripper updated to v1.62. hq2x filter added. Added two basic A4000 quickstart configurations. More accurate CD32/CDTV end of audio track detection.

The Pegasos book V2.3 English is released. In this book: Tricks and hints under Linux on Pegasos. Installation on Linux Debian or Linux Ubuntu. Usage of bootcreator, chroot command, NFS to fast up compilations and Nintendo Wiimote on a Pegasos.

Jan Derogee made a promotion video about the Minimig. The Minimig is a modern version of the Amiga 500. All the "old" hardware is emulated in a single chip. This chip can be altered so it's even possible to change the A500 if you want too.

New BETA version of WookieChat is available for download. WookieChat allows you to connect to Internet Relay Chat networks (IRC) and chat with other users in a text medium in real-time. Executables are provided for AmigaOS 3.x,4.0, MorphOS and AROS.

WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk. There are 16 more additions to the WHDLoad package. A few examples are: Ultima VI, Floor 13 and Demoniak.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Christophe Kohler, WHD-load tutorial, The best C64 games, Interview with Bender and more.

Tunenet is a multiformat Music Player and Internet Radio Streamer. TuneNet was written from the ground up by Paul Heams. There are several new plugins available for Tunenet. A few examples are: GameCube, SC68, PSF, RealAudio, TTA, WMA and more. The plugins are available from the OS4 depot.

Hyperion entertainment announced the Amiga OS 4.0 for classic Amiga's equipped with PowerPC accelerator cards at AmiWest. This version of Amiga OS 4.0 for classic Amiga's is functionally identical to the version already available for AmigaOne hardware. AmigaOS 4.0 Classic will require at least 64 MB and 200 MB HDD space, as well as a supported PowerPC accelerator (CyberstormPPC or BlizzardPPC).

UAE is a software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. UAE is written for Unix systems by Bernd Schmidt and many contributors. It's developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any Unix-like operating system.

On Amition.de there are 11 new videos in the download area. Also the web pages are moved to a faster server, so downloading will be faster. If you have other Amiga video material about events or tv please contact the people at amition.de.

Kelly Samel put the finishing touches on an FCEU port for MorphOS. FCEU emulates the classic NES / Famicom game console. FCEU currently has great compatibility, sound support, save ram and save state support. Download it from Kelly's web page.

Herbert "Hak" Klackl has released two games for MorphOS. BeastieWorker is a MorphOS version of the well known game Sokoban. This game is a 3D puzzle game. The other game is called Tail Tale and is also a Puzzle game. Tail Tale is made in Manga style.

James Carroll has released a new version of his MUI-based IRC-Clients WookieChat. WookieChat is available for Amiga OS3 / OS4, AROS and MorphOS.

Peter Czidlina has made his own version of the MiniMig. Based on the work of Dennis van Weeren he improved the PCB. The PCB is now 170 x 170 mm what is compatible with Mini-ITX so it will fit in a standard computer case. Power supply is now between 8 to 40 Volts DC. There are S-Video and Composite video outputs.The VGA and audio outputs are buffered.

On this site you will find software for the Amiga Research Operating System. Feel free to post your application on The AROS Archives or browse the site for a specific application. If you want AROS software, they know where it is, The AROS Archives!

EAGER stands for "Every Amiga Game Ever Released". This site contains information on commercially released titles for the Amiga range of computers. Info about: Game description, Review details and scores, Manuals and, supplements, Publishers and Developers info, Cheats, hints, full solutions and maps, Screenshot, Game Demo, Compatibility, HD Installers and patches.

Stepfive is a Tetris clone for the Amiga 1200 (AGA). Eric presented the final version of this game. All known bugs are fixed and the program code is optimized. The difficulty of the game is a bit easier then the previous version of this game.

The Vague is a new diskmag for the Amiga. You can read the mag on-line or on a real Amiga as a diskmag. Minimum system requirements: A1200 with a 040/25mhz and any GFX board that supports Warp3D. But you can also use WinUAE or MorphOS. In this magazine lots of info on the scene and coding.

AmiKIT has been updated. In this version lots of new icons, wallpapers and start-up pictures. Added: Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman, MidiPlay, Scalos and more. Also more than 30 programs are updated.

OS4 Depot is a File Depot portal dedicated to hosting Amiga OS4 software and related resources. One of the updates is a new version of PNG Icon Editor.

Aminet update - Aminet is a set of interconnected WWW and FTP servers hosting freely distributable Amiga software. Established in 1992, Aminet belongs to the Internet's oldest software repositories, the total size of the archive has recently crossed the 30 GB barrier. Only the last 14 days there were more than 30 updates.

Last couple of months there were many demos added to the archive. On this site, you will find some of the best demos and intros ever released on the fabulous Amiga computer. All the demos listed, are of high quality.

37 wallpapers have been chosen to enter the contest. Now it's up to you to select the winners! The poll deadline is September 10th. AmiKit 1.4.0 is scheduled for release at Pianeta Amiga show in Empoli, Italy.

ChangeIt is a logical game (Amiga Bejeveled clone) from Robert 'Phibrizzo' Krajcarz. This game is available for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS operating systems. The cross compilation are done by Marcin Kielesinski.