The Ur-Quan Masters is a project to bring the classic game "Star Control II" to modern systems. The game is a story-driven space exploration adventure game that included diplomacy with the inhabitants of the galaxy and gathering resources. Version 0.7.0 is made by Fredrik Wikstrom and is now available for Amiga OS4.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved:Gloom (Black Magic), Soulkitchen (Silents DK), Indoor Sports. New: The Scene 3 (Decay), I.C.E. 1 / 2 (Cytax), Butcher Hill (Gremlin), The B.I.G. Demo (The Exceptions/Mr.Styckx), Music Disk 1 (Alcatraz), Tass Times In Tonetown (Activision), Nop (Muffbusters).

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: Improved mouse handling, multi-tasking, keyboard scroll speed, MIME type, contextual menu, aspect ratio, resource handling, tab bar, dragging, fonts and clipboard support.

The web page ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive) has added new demos. The new demos are: RESETkani (AmiGans), Kakao (Elude), Kioea (Madwizards), Teobstrrofarfeia (Focus Design), Boogie Town (Ghostown and RNO), Hot Dots (Focus Design and Unstable Label), Quotation Marks (Dekadence), Leap of Faith (Moods Plateau), Freeloader (Depth), Total Dominance (Spaceballs), Stars of another sky (Spaceballs), Siesta (Axis) and 8-bit Jungle (Unstable Label).

The Scalos source code has been released as open source under BSD license. And Scalos goes AROS! Lots of work has been invested to port Scalos to AROS, and a first native build is available. Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The goal of Scalos is to integrate a lot of additional functionality and an enhanced look without losing any of the look-and-feel we all love about the real Workbench.

KJetil Hvalstrand released a new version of Excalibur. Excalibur is a taskbar / start button for AmigaOS4. Version 1.0.0 supports the following: Textures, Real / Scale icons, Drag and drop, Sorted menu items, Quick screen switch buttons, Open drawers form start menu and much more.

Downfall is a new game for the Commodore Amiga. The game is based on the Atari game Man Goes Down. In the game the platforms are going up and you need to fall down. If you are not quick enough you get squashed against the sealing, but you can also fall to your doom at the bottom. The game is made in Blitz Basic by Graham Humphrey (code), Predseda (graphics), Reynolds (music), wilshy (sound) and Lonewolf10 (level editor).

The game Downfall on YouTube.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon, Bounce 'n' Blast, Chaos Strikes Back, Dungeon Master, Escape from Colditz, Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck, Lunar-C, Ultra Violent Worlds.

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Recent changes are: Fire and auto fire improved for Laser Battle. Solved a problem with playback and sub windows. Improved translations (Italian, Spanish, German). Improved teletype sound effects. Added more Arexx commands.

Amiga Mania is a Hungarian Amiga magazine (59 MB pdf). In this edition: Startup-sequence, News, Second generation A3000, ACA 1231/42, Minimig, Freewheel controller, Hollywood 5, Commodore CDTV, Demo’s, Boston Bomb Club, Games, OnEscapee, AmiBoing games, Manchester United Europe, Prehistory (2), Battle Squadron.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Latest version of OWB. SMB support for file servers. Added: GLmark 08, SchismTracker, Pforth, Duke Nukem 3D and Sqrxz 3. Updated: PortablE, Intel GMA driver and Theme manager in preferences.

Dweller used his Amiga in the late 80s and early 90s. He has about 5000 3,5" diskettes from that period. He tried to archive the diskettes by hand, but that took too much time. Then he tried to build a automated device from LEGO, but that did not function very well. The most recent version works perfect, Dweller used an old diskette duplicator, a Kryoflux and a Arduino micro controller. He also added a digital photo camera to take a picture of each diskette label.

Demonstration video of the diskette archive system.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: UHF, Viva Amiga, MAS Player Evolution, Updates from Rupert Hausberger, Amiga Future Full versions, RadeonHD, A-EON, X1000, ACA 1231-Turbokarten, FastATA, KryoFlux ADF, Commodore Amiga Mini, HTPC ITX2 Silver, DoReCo 31, DC2SNES, SD Card HXC Floppy Emulator, Amiga 600, BSC Colormaster 24, Amiga 3000 UX, Vermeer, Heretic II, Blood Money, Roll or Die, Animators, Esteregg agme and the BoingsWorld Forum.

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: X8, Brutal Football: Brutal Sports Series, Stunt Car Racer (2), Push-Over, One Step Beyond, Means Arena, Uridium II, Globdule, Shufflepuck Café, Naughty Ones, Testament I and II.

Asm-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor for our Amiga. Changes in this version: Added the Apollo CPU with many new instructions available for the assembler, disassembler and debugger. Fixed for the 020 CPU with inderect addressing modes. Solved the problem with pasting an empty clipboard. Commandline buffer is now 256 lines. Added support for Integer Constants in Floatingpoint Expressions.

A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. New in this version: VSync support for the fastest CPU and JIT modes. Built-in CD file system. Commodore A2024 monitor, Graffiti and PCMCIA IDE hard file emulation. PC keyboard mode. Input configuration qualifier key / button support. Many improvements and bug fixes.

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: Bitmap brushes with small previews. Tool presets with the help of a ARexx scripts. Custom Start-up and exit scripts can be made and used. Many bug fixes, tweaks and new commands.

Mfilos is working on a new project for one of his Amiga's. He installed a ATI Radeon 9200 (256MB RAM) graphics card in his Amiga 4000. The main problem with this type of graphics card is that the card needs a 3.3 VDC power supply. Mfilos added a LM1084 3.3V regulator to the card and now the card is recognised by the Amiga 4000. You can see a series of photo’s with detailed information on his blog how to adapt this graphics card.

Sqrxz 3 is now available for Amiga OS4 and AROS. Sqrxz and his girlfriend were on a romantic adventure journey in a jungle somewhere here on our planet. All of a sudden Yve gets kidnapped by an evil power and Sqrxz is forced to collect dozens of shiny little rings to free her. The old ruins he has to explore are anything else than safe. Traps are spread all over the place, and Sqrxz is not alone!

Video of Sqrxz 3 on YouTube.

Mrdarek made a new game for Amiga OS4 called Flower Way. In the game you need to escape a labyrinth with many doors. You can push a door open, it can close behind you and the doors can even change position. You can play the game for free, but if you want more options like save-game a small donation is required.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: World of Commodore '92 (Sanity), Saint Dragon (Ocean) , Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar (Origin Systems) and Skull and Cross Bones (Domark). New: Labyrinth (Det Nye COMputer), Jupiter Probe (Microdeal), DarkSpyre (Electronic Zoo) done by Abaddon (Info), Hell Raisers (Exocet) and Indoor Sports (Mindscape).

On the 7th of April 2012 Zach Weddington will be doing a film-shoot for the movie Viva Amiga in the Netherlands. On this special day AmigaScene.nl will organise an Amiga Party.
The venue for the party will be the big theatre hall of CKC in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. There will be a big screen with demo's, graphics and other Amiga related content. The hall will have a demo-scene look, and yes you can bring your own Amiga. The more the better! There will be people from the Amiga world in the Netherlands such as Jan van Die (Amiga Magazine) and François Boulangé (Lingo).

More info about the Viva Amiga film.

Paolo Besser released a new update of Icaros Desktop. Changes in this version: Improved version of Wanderer. Odyssey Web Browser v1.16. FryingPan. Audio Evolution 4. Printing system for PostScript printers. Mark Sheeky's Games for Amiga m68k. SDL-Quake. Insolit Dust graphic effects and tutorials. SCANdal, Flipbook, AbkViewer. Net-Bubble and Dragon Memory. AviBuild. Convierteme. PXDrum and mp3player.

Asman is working on a Amiga version of the 8-bit Atari game Robbo made by Janusz Pelc. Bobbo is a game that combines elements from Boulderdash and Sokoban with laser-guns, bombs and teleports. You can now see a preview on Youtube.

Claus Deslers has improved his Cinnamon Writer for AmigaOS 4. Cinnamon Writer is a compact and efficient word processor. In this version spell checking and support for .docx files. The most recent version can be downloaded from the web page of Claus.

A new edition of the English and German Amiga (paper) magazine Amiga Future has been released. In this edition: News, Up2Date, 1980s Football Manager, AmigaOne X1000, FPGA Arcade, Dragon Memory, Kyrandia 3, Mr Beanbag, Astaroth, Tunnel Run, Low View, AmiKit, SimpleMail, YAM, Amiga 600 RTC, Kickstart change, C-Workshop (12), AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench (7), Classic Reflection (3), Interview: Stephen Fellner, GPFax, XCopy Pro sourcecode, The Copyist, Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, Midi Recording Studio, Tiger Cub, Tiger Samples.

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: Icons for OS4, MorphOS and AROS. 6502 emulation now includes all illegal opcodes. CPU speed: 1 - 64 Mhz. Tape save is now implemented. Added NMI, reset and IRQ vector display in the debugger. Added experimental snapshot functionality and the Oric light pen is now emulated.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more long-play Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Ganymed, Tetris Pro, Flintstones, Big Red Adventure, Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge, Space Ace, Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle, Monster Business and Mystical.

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: New Windows layouts with transparency and drop shadow. Bug-fixes in all browsers for more accurate emulation. New Presets.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: TV Sports Football (Cinemaware). New: Purple (The Warfalcons), Digital Sounds Volume 1 (The Warfalcons), Expressions (Timecircle), D.I.S.C. 8 (Level 4), Gunboat (Accolade) and Ebonstar (MicroIllusions).

Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Stryx Intro (Oxidize Mix), Desert Dream Part One (Radio-Overkill-Mix), Leander World Two (AS2011), Benefactor Forest Level - Odee Remix, Turrican 2 - The Wall (Faithful A500 Mix), Cream of the earth (HardCopy), First Samurai Remix, Lethal X-cess - Lethalness, Chuck Rock 2012 (New Guitars RMX), Alien Breed 2012, Total Tekkno Xstacy, Do It Now, Goldrunner - daXX Orchestra Surprice RMX and Flower Power / Anarchy Main remix.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Turbokarte ACA-1231/42, Amiga Games Award 2011, SMB Mounter 1.0, The Future was here, Mr. Beanbag, Sam 440EP, HD-Rec, Timberwolf, Audio Evolution 4, Geit @ Home, Hollywood 5 Infinity, Malibu Plugin, Amiga News Benchmarks, AmigaONE X1000, Commodore Gaming Gehäuse, AmiCygnix, AbiWord, Gimp, MuiOWB, ClipDown, Breathless AGA, Turrican II, Quake II, FPSE, ScummVM, BoingBall, ATI Radeon HD4650, Amiga Netbook, Icons Reworked, Art Effect 4, Define R3 Tower and Cord Hagen.

Elbox has introduced a new FastATA controller. With this FastATA you can use SATA, ATA and EIDE devices like hard drives, CF, CD, DVD, ZIP etc. The features are: Transfer rate 16.6 MB/s, Automatic configuration of devices, Supports PIO-0, 3, 4 and 5 modes, Compatible with ATA 33/66/100/133 devices. The controller comes with a Software pack (AllegroCDFS and FastATA), cable and a user Manual.

The ACA-1231/42 is a turbo card for the Amiga 1200, the card has a 68030 CPU and a MMU. The ACA-1231/42 is an improved version of the ACA-1230. The specifications are: 42 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM (1 MB for Kickstart), Real Time Clock, Improved hardware and software compatibility.

Airsoft Softwair released Hollywood 5: Infinity for AmigaOS. In this update more than 120 new functions, many new features and general improvements. A few examples in this version are: Video streams, Internet and network support, Vector graphics and vector image support, Built-in synthesizer functions and much more. Hollywood can make executables for: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows and Linux.

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: Theatre Of Death, Mr Beanbag!, Syndicate (2x), Paradroid 90, Titus The Fox, Pirates (2x), UFO and TV Sports (4x).

Marcel Unbehaun released whdrunner for Linux. With this program you can easily start Amiga games on your PC. Just double click on the zipped WHDload file and the program will start the game inside the fs-uae emulator. All the necessary settings for the emulator are set automatically when the game is started.

The program Audio Evolution 4 for the Amiga is now available for free. AE4 is an digital audio recording and editing system on the Amiga with a wide range of effects, including compression, noise gate, delays, re-verb, chorus and 3-band EQ. The source code will also be made available soon.

Audio Evolution web page.

SketchBlock is a new drawing program for AmigaOS. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. The features will be: support for graphics tablets, layers, a wide variety of tools, configurable interface, full arexx script support, a plugin API and much more.

Mfilos started on a new project for one of his Amiga's. He installed a MAS-Player inside his A600. The MAS-Player is normally connected to the parallel port, needs +5V and provides two extra audio outputs. He first installed a CF2IDE, put the MAS-Player on top of it and installed an internal mixer for the audio outputs. You can see the complete build on his blog.

The web page Recorded Amiga Games added more longplay Amiga games last month. Now you can watch: Spaceball, Spaceballer, Chines Karate, Scorpio, Pro PowerboatSimulator, Speedboat Assassin, Live and let Die, Turbo Out Run, Cisco Heat, Vroom,Leisure Suit Larry 1-5, Continetal Circus, Moonshine Racers, Phantom Fighters, Foundation's Waste, Sci-Fi, Sky High Stuntman, Space Day, Simpsons, Dominator, Cash Crisis, Tubular Worlds and Starush.

The result of the best Amiga game of the year 2011 are published. AmigaOS 68k: Mr Beanbag (Jigsaw Lounge). AmigaOS 4.x: 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel). MorphOS: Return To Castle Wolfenstein (ID Software, Gray Matter Interactive). AROS: UFO: Alien Invasion UFO (Alien Invasion Team). The complete results can be read on the Obligement web page.

FS-UAE is a multi-platform Amiga emulator based on UAE/WinUAE, specially made for playing diskette and CD-ROM games. The emulator can be controlled with a gamepad using a on-screen GUI. This emulator has many default settings making it easier to use. FS-UAE can be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac OS X computer.

The 80th edition of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: News, Cheats, Interviews with Davy Wentzler and Cloanto, Tracker Hero, BOH, Wormwars, MLDonkey, Giana Sisters, Netsurf, Amiga Forever, AmiDVD, Jupiter Lander, AmiCygnix, Aerogate, MAS Player, Data protection, Amiga Retrospective and What is an Amiga?

jAMOS is a Java version of AMOS BASIC. Because jAMOS is written in the Java language it can be used on many different computer systems. The features of jAMOS are: BASIC-like interpreter. Script editor. Single JAR file. Amiga-style screen and scrolling engine. AMOS sprite bank viewer. MequaScript with supports for BASIC-style and C-style syntax. Multiple jAMOS programs can be run at the same time.

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. Improved: Brutal Football (Millennium/Teque) and Sierra Soccer (Dynamix). New: Team Yankee (Empire), Pacific Islands (Empire), W Potrzasku (L.K. Avalon), Tom Landry Strategy Football (Merit Software), Roadwar Europa, Street Rod (California Dreams), TV Sports Football (Cinemaware), Rockstar: Never Trust Rotten Tangerines (Mirage Media), Premier Manager 3 Deluxe (Gremlin), 4th and Inches (Accolade), TV Sports Baseball (Mindscape), World Cup 90 (Genias), D.I.S.C. 6 (Level 4), Wembley International Soccer (Audiogenic), Roboter (Werner) done by Wepl (Info), Demo (Mute 101) and Vector Balls (Hypnosis).

AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Changes in this version are: Pipbug: Added teletype sounds and support for the Vector Magnetometer program. AmiArcadia: ARexx commands: OPENOPCODES and CLOSEOPCODES added. Added a FAQ to user manual.

You can now listen to a new episode of BoingsWorlds (German language). You can listen to the following articles: Mr Beanbag AGA / CD32, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4, Amiga Future, AmigaONE 500, Prism2 WLan, Yam 2.7, A Tribute to Jochen Hippel, DigiBooster, 20 Years AMINET, WonderMedia X-177 Tablet, Cat Stargate Tablet, UAE 4 Droid, Cloanto, Competition Pro USB, GrabKick - Kickrom readout, IBatch website, Diskspace, Playlist Converter, AmiBlitz 3 website, Alt and Entfernen and a Interview with Gero Birkenfeld.

The Obligement website is organizing another best game of the year competition. You can choose your favorite from the list of games. The best 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS) will be revealed February 4, 2012.