Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer for the Amiga range of computers. It has a philosophy unlike any other sequencer in existence. Alfred Faust made an update available of the Bars and Pipes version for OS4.

Lunapaint 0.2 is out with many new features. Amongst the big ones are animation with onion skin, swap buffers, animation control, more paint modes, keyboard shortcuts, better line tool, yes and much much more! Lunapaint is a paint and animation program for AROS, focusing on making the paint process fun and intuitive. Being inspired from DeluxePaint and TVPaint on Amiga, it aims to be a complete graphics solution for AROS users.

The diskdrive communication program written by Spiro Trikaliotis has been updated. The program makes it possible to copy D64 or D71 images from a real drive to the PC, or from the PC to a real drive with the help of d64copy. Furthermore, you can copy single files in both directions, too. Some more tools (for example, cbmctrl) are given, too. The emulator VICE will have support for this program in the next version. Spiro has also an experimental version of the YAPE emulator that supports CBM4WIN.

c64kopik is a file manager written under AmigaOS. This program can transfer data between 1541 floppy disk drive connected to Amiga and any AmigaDOS drive using Easy1541 written by Fabrizio Farenga. The program works on Amiga's with AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.

Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays many different things like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident commands, interrupts, etc. And you can perform some certain actions on them. This program is available for Amiga OS and Morph OS.

TuneNet is a player for MP3's and MP3 Shoutcast streams. Some of it's features are: Integrates with IBrowse and AWeb, Playlist, Built in Internet Stream Searching facility, Station and current tune display, Encoder support and Shoutcast compatible Broadcasting. The program is made for Amiga OS4 and is freeware.

XA is a high-speed, two-pass portable cross-assembler. It understands mnemonics and generates code for NMOS 6502s such as 6502A, 6504, 6507, 6510, 7501, 8500, 8501, 8502. Key amongst it's features: C-like preprocessor, rich expression syntax supports o65 re-locatable objects with a full linker and relocation suite, as well as "bare" plain binary object files block structure for label scoping. This program is available for linux / unix users.

AmiKit is the compilation of the best Amiga (free/shareware) programs around. To be brief, AmiKit is all you need if you want to experience a high-end Classic Amiga system. It contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 20.000 files are included in AmiKit!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a completely renewed and fresh environment. In order to get AmiKit working, you'll need: A PC computer with 256MB / 1,8GHz.

At the moment GoldED Studio from Dietmar Eilert can be downloaded for free. GoldED Studio is software for developers and C/C++ beginners: It includes the latest GoldED editor and all C/C++ development-related components. This is the ideal package if you need a powerful + affordable solution for software development. Features: integrates with gcc, vbcc, StormC and SAS/C compilers, supports development for AmigaOS, PowerUP, WarpOS and MorphOS platforms.

Leif has released a program that can play Audio CD's on a C64. The CD players has to be connected a IDE64 cartridge. New Features: Time and Track# work, plays whole CD in continuous mode, shuffle and repeat work, minor bugfixes.Requires IDEDOS 0.9, version 20050917 or later.

Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. The original Workbench gets older every day and is being left behind by other desktop systems. Scalos's original author, Stefan Sommerfeld, decided that there had to be something new, and so Scalos was born. Scalos's goal 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.

ACME is a free crossassembler. The current version can produce code for the 6502, 65c02 and 65816 processors. It also supports some of the undocumented ("illegal") opcodes of the 6502. This software runs on several platforms, currently there are versions for: AmigaOS, DOS, Linux/general Unix, RISC OS and Windows. ACME knows about global and local labels, global and local macros, conditional assembly and looping assembly. It can include other sourcefiles as well as binaries while assembling, does offset assembly and much more.

OnyxSoft is a independent group of people who develop freeware applications for AmigaOS and MorphOS in their spare time! And they do it because it's fun! New releases are: Macc (V 1.0) and ZoomIT (V0.1). Also the are some new versions available. Check out the download section.

Gunnar is working on a Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit for MorphOS. The Kit shall allow non-programmers to easily create shoot-em ups in virtually no time. Please note that this an early alpha release which is not even halve finished. The current release is only intended to show the 'idea' of the game and Kit.

For game programmers there is a chance to show what their favorite computer can do. All retro computer systems can compete. There are some rules for the games: Game size: 1kbyte, 4kbyte or 8kbyte, You have to supply a screenshots and webpage of the actual game, The games must be submitted using a common emulator format, The Data + code must be in one block, Game should run on standard hardware.

Chris from www.commodore16.com is collecting all kinds of articles about programming the 264 series computers from Commodore. There are already 33 articles available and new articles will be added in the near future.

Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM and Yahoo Messenger. Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS.

Forrest (Almightyc64) made a lot of improvements on his Windows based D64 editor. Some of the features are: Read D64 files, display the directory, move files around the directory, rename files. Export files from the D64 into PRG files. View/Edit the BAM. View and modify blocks on the disk in hex. View the directory using the native c64 font. Check the website for other features and the download section.

There is a new snapshot available of AROS. Download are available from the AROS website.

Jim Brain is working on Jiffy DOS for the Commodore VIC-20. Take a look on Jim's web page for all the Jiffy DOS products.

If you want to control a Windows computer from a remote location with an Amiga look at this program. The program is available for Amiga OS 3.x and OS 4.x and for the MorphOS.

Jörg Strohmayer has made a couple of improvements on his Smart File System. Fixed an alignment bug in the 64 bit packet support. Added some checks in ACTION SEEK, ACTION CHANGE FILE POSITION64, ACTION SET FILE SIZE, ACTION CHANGE FILE SIZE64, ACTIION READ and ACTION WRITE to make sure you can't create/access files > 4 GB - 2 bytes.

The Final Replay is a new ROM image to be used with the Retro Replay cartridge and the RR-Net ethernet adapter. This ROM is an attempt to combine the advantages of the two major cartridges for the C64, the FC3 and AR6 and bring it to the Retro Replay. Fixed: Incompatibility of the CHKIN routine now gone. WarpCopy file access should work again. Instability of freezing in BASIC editor fixed. Kernal replacements now enforce BASIC ROM, so more programs should work with them now. Netdrive driver for GETIN Kernal routine added.

JAmiga is a 'from scratch' implementation of a Java Virtual Machine. It has been developed only from the JVM Documentation provided by Sun Microsystems. It is not a Port of an existing JVM. The decision to write it for Amiga OS was made because of the lack of decent VMs for this platform. Download the latest version from the web site.

AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. AROS can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other. Over 500 members are working on improving AROS. Improvements of the last month are: Better mice tracking and pointer precision on the screen. IRC and Telnet clients were added.

Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), and other platforms. Edgar Schwan released an improved port of Apache 1.3.34 to AmigaOS 4.0. It includes support of PHP 5.1.1 and MySQL 3.23.58. The software can be downloaded on the website.

Thomas Rapp has made a couple of bugfixes to his program PicShow. PicShow is a directory style picture viewer for Amiga OS4. You can download the program on his website.

DTVMON is a machine language monitor for the C64 DTV (currently only V2). Features (version 0.2): Boot Menu. Installs as resident at 018000-$01BFFF. Simple, efficient and compact... Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Additional DTV V2/V3 opcodes. NTSC version for the Hummer Game included.

Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun released a new nice creation for your Pegasos II computer. This time a loader that loads and boots directly into the genuine Amiga© operating system or CD32 on your Pegasos II, displaying a nice splash-screen during loading. As usual the software-archive is available as free download as torrent in the download section. Some of the features: boots directly into an inserted cd32-cd, ac97-sound, (usb) joypad, keyboard and mouse.

XNet-RSS is a native AmigaOS4.0 RSS News reader. It has automatic charset conversion and doesn't need any external library. Could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS news pages. New in this version: added favicon.ico support, News Bar positioning prefs and a few fixed bugs.

NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line and the DraCo by MacroSystem. Development activity on NetBSD/amiga continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/amiga runs on any Amiga that has a Motorola 68020 or better CPU with some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.

DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and now there is a port for Amiga OS4 available. No more A500 with a KCS Power PC Board needed.

A new version of disk-master is available for download and the latest version works on OS3.x + OS4.

AmiPodder (v1.4) now recognizes video episodes and can play them back in the video player of your choice (MPlayer and Frogger have been tested). In version 1.4 are a number of improvements and bug fixes including: Option to prompt for the sync directory making it easier to use AmiPodder with multiple portable players or players using removable media cards. New status of "Played", so if you use AmiPodder as a "jukebox" you can see what podcasts you've already listened to. Filename length limitation, handy if your Amiga filesystem or music player only accepts short filenames. Many more changes, see the Downloads page for a full list and to download the new version.

MindSpace is a Amiga program that enables the user to produce: Flowcharts, a range of UML diagrams, MindMaps and Brainstorms and also silly little pictures. The program requires an Amiga running on OS4 (PPC). At the moment the program is freeware. The program is still in development.

Steffen Nitz makes programs for the Amiga computers. On his website you can download a variety of programs like a picture album, file lister, a memory style game and many more. Most programs are shareware or freeware.

I.M.O.S is is a project to "create" a PC based program that will convert bitmap grafix into sprites. But with tools so that animation with sprites will be possible. The program is in development and can only produce sprite data at the moment. Features at the moment are. Bitmap to Objects converter. Up to 128 Sprites in Object. ZOOM with options. Sprite Lock. C64 to Sprite properties. Colors Palette.

XMMS-SID is a plug in for XMMS for playing music that is commonly referred as "SID-tunes" aka music from Commodore 64 computer and it's close relatives. This program is written for the Linux operating system. For the actual emulation /playing, XMMS-SID can utilize several emulator engines. Features: 2-8x oversampling support, libSIDPlay v1 or libSIDPlay v2 with reSID-builder and much more.

Grande Paihia is a modern, small, fast, and portable web browser. Grande Paihia is more than capable of dealing with most of your internet needs. Grande Paihia is written from the ground up and is not based on any existing web software. Versions for all the various Amiga systems are planned. All of this is around 300k in size.

Turbo Macro Pro is a improved version of the original Turbo Assembler Macro, which is itself a follow up version to the original Turbo Assembler. The software can be thought of as having two distinct yet highly integrated parts - editor and assembler with many features. In addition to editing and I/O, the user is able to trigger an assembly from within this editor itself.

Alfred Faust has released version 2.5c of Bars and Pipes Professional. Bars and Pipes Professional is a high-end MIDI sequencing and composition package for the Amiga computer. In order to use it, you must have a MIDI sound module or keyboard connected to your Amiga via a MIDI interface.

DvPlayer is an ongoing project to bring the ultimate multimedia experience to the Amiga computer. It is a unique and Amiga-only multimedia player, developed by Amiga enthusiasts, for Amiga enthusiasts! The current version of DvPlayer requires AmigaOS 4.0 and supports the following video formats: MPEG-1/2, VideoCD, SVCD, VOB files (DVDs) and AVI files. You can download a free demo which will run for 7 minutes. Or buy the complete working version.

GoDot is a C64 image processing program written by Arndt Dettke. GoDot will do anything that a normal drawing programm will do but has a lot of extra's. It can use RAM expansions like GeoRAM or the PageFoxe module. It also can LOAD and SAVE many formats like Amica Paint, FLI, IFLI, Koala. In total more than 50 formats are supported.

cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.
The cc65 can be used for the following computers: Commodore C64, C128, C16, C116, Plus/4, P500, CBM 600/700. Apple ][, Atari 8bit, Oric Atmos, NES.

A new version of PageStream is available. The Linux and Windows version are finished and the Amiga version is tested at this moment. Also a Mac version will come in the near future.

The MorphOS Development Team has released a free version of PowerUp MorphOS. It can be used on a Commodore A1200, A3000 and A4000 computers equipped with PowerPC accelerator cards by phase5 and DCE. The free version will run for 2 hours per session.

AROS stands for Amiga Research Operating System. This is an open source re-implementation of the Amiga 3.1 Workbench. So if you have a PC but want to use it like an Amiga run the Live CD. Version 5.0 will be available soon.

WarpCopy64 uses RR-Net for high speed disk image transfer. Instead of using standard protocols like FTP or HTTP it uses it's own protocol which allows highest transfer speeds and proper error handling which makes it the perfect tool for mass transferring. It currently is the fastest way of reading/writing disk images from/to real 1541 hardware, and you don't even need any special cable or 1541 modification.

Jabberwocky is a jabber client software for Amiga Computers. Jabber is an instant messaging system, similar to ICQ or AIM. Server modules (transports) allows cross messaging between other networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo).

RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for AmigaOS4. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks. You can download a demo that will run for 10 minutes.