25 years after the first Amiga was released the AmigaOne X1000 brings back Amiga to the modernity. It will feature a Power PC processor and a programmable custom chip called Xena. It will use AmigaOS 4.X and will be available before Summer.

More info here: http://www.osnews.com/story/22693/New_Am iga_Sports_Programmable_Co-Processor_Dua lcore_PPC

It will be released before the end of 2008. Come of its features are state-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity software or digital imaging software typically operate on large datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 offers intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory - but only when you need it.

More info here: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:80 80/amiga

The long awaited version 2 of this operating system is available for Pegasos and Efika Boards. It includes a new TCO/IP stack, Poseidon USB stack and MUI 4.0 among other updates.

More info here: http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes -2.0.html

Like its predecesor, it offers 3 PCI slots and 1 mini PCI slot. Everybody is waiting the moment to enjoy AmigaOS4 in this machine. Below, some Sam features:
FlexATX Form Factor (215 x 170 mm)
CPU SoC AMCC 440ep - 667 Mhz
DDR DIMM 100 slot, max 512 MB (or in alternative 512 MB DDR soldered onboard)
USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI NXP PCI controller

More info here: http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/news.ph p?id=29

Minimig is a reimplementation of the Amiga 500 with today's technology. The fully assembled motherboard will be available mid-january directly from ACube Systems and later from other resellers too. The price is 138 euros plus taxes

More info here: http://www.acube-systems.com

Amiga OS4.0 for classic Amigas is compatible with all Amiga 3000(T) or Amiga 4000(T) equipped with a Cyberstorm PPC card and with all Amiga 1200 equipped with a Blizzard PPC card.

More info here: http://www.acube-systems.com/eng/index.p hp

Andy Hawkins of DrewFX wrote StarFighter:D'Yammen's Reign for Amiga some years ago. As he has seen some people selling it illegally, he wants people to download it free of charge from it's webpage.

More info here: http://www.drewfx.com/Star/star.htm

The internet browser Aweb has been updated with improved charset support and better javascript implementation.

More info here: http://aweb.sunsite.dk/

In 2305, in the early hours of the 21st of February, Earth's future was gripped firmly by the throat. [...]The Zarnaxians entered Earth territory with a sudden burst of ultra violence.[...]Your mission: Liberate Earth and the Mars colony.
To play this shoot'em'up you'll need an AGA Amiga with at least 4MB of RAM (2 chip, 2 fast).

More info here: http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0082.php

New Amiga hardware, Amiga Inc and ACK Controls announce two new PPC machines, one cheap and low-end , and another one with higher specs.
Hyperion, the creators of AmigaOS 4, and aCube systems have announced a new PPC Amiga machine based on the Sam440 board. That both parts are set at odds is clear and Amiga Inc has sued Hyperion VOF for trademark infringement.

More info here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/amiga /index.html

After 5 years of development Hyperion is releasing the Final Update of Amiga OS 4.0, which is the most stable, modern and feature-rich incarnation to date of the multi-media centric operating system launched by Commodore in 1985.

Availability of PowerPC hardware suitable for operation with Amiga OS 4.0 will be announced by third parties early 2007.

List of new features relative to AmigaOS 4.0 Update #4

More info here: http://www.amigaos4.com

This versions works perfect with the final version of AmigaOS 4.0 (It makes me think it's release is close). Some of the features of this version of the Amiga browser are: New integrated Search Bar, Plugin API system for embedded objects, Support for AmiSSLv3, Improved JavaScript engine and Web Advert Control Language

More info here: http://www.ibrowse-dev.net

The EFIKA 5200B is a performance evaluation board based around the MPC5200B PowerPC System-on-Chip. Currently only Debian GNU/Linux is officially supported as Operating System but the coming new version 1.5 of MorphOS will definitely run on it.

More info here: http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php

I've tried this game on my Amiga CD32 tonigth. This is one of the few games that shows the capabilities of the CD32. The intro sequence is impressive, all pixeled art, without rendered animations, with nice music and speech, very well done. In this adventure you take control of 4 robots, like in a Dungeon Master game, but the gameplay is a lot like DoomRPG or DeathMask.

More info here: http://hol.abime.net/884

Feelin is an open-source object-oriented framework for the AmigaOS and its friends (AROS, MOS, AOS4). It provides a core API available as a shared library, and an extensible system of classes mainly used to create and maintain applications.

More info here: http://feelin.gofromiel.com/

At UK's biggest Amiga show, there was held an IRC Q&A session with the AmigaOS 4.0 developers. Some highlights:
(A)End of the year is the projected release date for OS 4
(A)About OS5: No, I don't know anything.
(Q)If OS4 isn't released by christmas, will you buy all of us a round of beers? (A)Beer is NOT covered by the OS4 license ;)

More info here: http://amigaos.dk/modules/mydownloads/ca che/files/channel__bigbash4.txt

'[...]We are not the same company that we were in 2000. We have a clear vision and clear steps and goals to get us there. We have been working for months to get the OS 4 hardware and software situation resolved and we will continue to do so, but we also realize that we can not wait, and started work in 2004 on version 5 of the operating system, and we are very pleased with our progress.'

More info here: http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/articl e.php?storyid=6955

Early on the 'Amiga time scale' means several months but on 27 July 2006 Elbox had presentation of DRAGON 1200 for a Freescale Inc. representative who visited Elbox Computer. The DRAGON 1200-based system on presentation was fitted with the Radeon 9200 AGP graphic card, the Fast Ethernet network card, the Hi-Speed USB and TV tuner cards, all working under AmigaOS 3.9.

More info here: http://www.elbox.com/news_04_12_17.html

Sanity - Interference
Limited Edition Deus Ex Machina
LSD - Jesus on E's
Kefrens - Desert Dream
Sanity - Arte
Batman Group - Batman Vuelve
Spaceballs - State Of the Art
Spaceballs - 9 fingers
The Black Lotus - Silkcut
Sanity - Roots 2.0
Andromeda - Decaying Paradise
Ozone - Smokebomb
Potion - Planet Potion

Cannon Fodder - Intro
Batman The Movie - Longplay
Guldkorn Expressen - Longplay
Golden Axe - Longplay
Rainbow Islands - Longplay
Beach Volley - Longplay
Toki - Level 1
Aladdin - Level 1
Back To The Future 3 - Longplay
Shadow Of The Beast 2 - Longplay
Test Drive - Longplay
Monster Business - Longplay
Turrican II - Level 1
Battle Squadron - Longplay
Apidya - Longplay
Wolfchild - Level 1

A great game done in 1991 by Ocean but never published... until now. I really like this type of game, very very funny. Pierre Adane began coding the game as soon as Pang was completed. Download it from the web below.

More info here: http://murakami.free.fr/

I've found on the Internet this project from Gunnar which starts with the Arcade Games Construction Kit and a hardware named EFIKA. Anybody interested will receive an EFIKA development system and will be rewarded for finished games.

More info here: http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/05/amiga-r eunification-project_14.html

Scunthorpe Amiga Group have announced their 2006 show. The event will take place on Saturday 29th July at the Kingsway Centre in Scunthorpe (UK)
In the show there will be multiple A1s running OS4 pre-release 4, Pegasos, and classic amigas. Sensible Soccer and StuntCarRacer competitions are also a highlight.

More info here: http://www.amirevival.com

Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the availability of the Software Development Kit Version 51.22 for the AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-Release.

The new SDK features the new gcc 4.0.2 compiler toolchain as well as updated header files for AmigaOS 4.0 Pre-Release update 4.

More info here: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:80 80/amiga

Demonstration will take place on the meeting of the dutch HCC Commodore user group in Maarssen
Minimig is an A500 compatible Amiga in which the 3 custom chip Agnus, Denise and Paula are implemented in a single FGPA. (Field Programmable Gate Array, a reprogrammable logic chip) For now, Minimig is constructed as 3 experimental circuit boards, but the final goal is to create a real motherboard that can run most of the available Amiga 500 software. Software is loaded by means of an MMC memory card filled with ADF files.

More info here: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/feb18.htm

'Desert Racing of BarDos is a racing game that you have never seen on the Amiga before. Use different components for your car depending on your money, drive through amazing animated landscapes and bring your AGA Amiga to boil. In the single or multiplayer modes you'll not only have the possibilty of tuning the performance but also other things.....'
To play Desert Racing of Bardos your Amiga has to be equipped with an AGA chipset or a graphicsboard. A 68030/33 is minimum. 1,5MB ChipRAM and 32 MB FastRAM are the requirements but more is always better.

More info here: http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0020e.html

Yesterday I connected to IRC and attended to a Q&A chat with Hyperion-entertainment, the people behind AmigaOS 4.0 (and beyond). The chat log can be download on the link below. Some news they revealed are:
-They are waiting more hardware to be available to release OS4.0
-Beta update in January which includes Petunia(JIT 68k emulator)
-Multicore in mind for AmigaOS 4.1
-AmigaOS runs on an existing PDA at last

More info here: amiga/hyperion.html

This game was due to be released by Psygnosis in September 1993 but never came out. Indigo was originally born between 1991 and 1993 by Stephan Belin for the Atari ST, including the original concept, code, graphics, music and sound. Dominico Manfredi did the Amiga port. To download it click here

More info here: http://www.stephanebelin.com/indigo/indi go.htm

A new version of Amiga Forever has been released. Now with more games, demos and tools. It can be run under Windows or booted from OS 1.x to 3.x from the CD using a Linux UAE version. The Premium Edition of Amiga Forever contains more than five hours of video footage on two DVDs.

More info here: http://www.amigaforever.com

Hyperion Entertainment has released a dedicated site about the upcoming Amiga OS 4.0 for PowerPC CPU's.

'We at Hyperion Entertainment VOF have created a central resource for the community of AmigaOS4.0 users and clients, both present and future. We will shortly be expanding this website to include downloads, a developers area, an FAQ and more features that we hope you will find both useful and informative.'

More info here: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/

Recently I have discovered this amiga retro magazine in PDF format. Actually there are two issues of the magazine online, witch features very interesting contents such as articles about comic games, Team17 or Bullfrog.
APOV: Issue 1 link
APOV: Issue 2 link

More info here: http://apov.abime.net/

Mr Beanbag is a fast-paced platform adventure for AGA Amigas (A1200/A4000 or a recent emulator). Dash through more than 40 levels spanning 10 distinct zones to rescue Mr Fizzy Pop from the evil Count Gazpacho!

Classic Jump'n'run game, well programmed and I think the programmer is a girl... amazing. Demo available.

More info here: http://www.glastonbridge.co.uk/mrbeanbag /

Wild Flying Demo (Dead Dreams) is a project by PUSH entertainment. The game is on hold since 2002 and they released this demo now just to show what PUSH made and what is possible to do on classic Amiga hardware for fun.

After playing the game, I can say it's a mixture of Stunt Runner and the Stardust wormhole bonus stage.

More info here: http://www.push-entertainment.com/

20 years ago on July 23rd the Commodore Amiga was unveiled at the Lincoln Centre in New York.

AmiGBG 2005 report and Global Amiga Celebration here

More info here: http://www.amiga.com

Melon, the Amiga demo group has upload their cracktros in flash. They have online more than fitfy productions, cracktros included on the most famous amiga games.

More info here: http://www.flashtro.com/

Back 2 the roots has upload three full Team 17 games: Full Contact, Project-X and Superfrog. Full Contact is a beat'em up game, Project-X a shot'em up game and Superfrog a Jump'n'run classic game. Enjoy these games from a legendary Amiga company for free!

More info here: http://www.back2roots.org

Click the link to download the AmigaOs Presentation

More info here: /zener/amiga/AmiWestJPGs.zip

LucasArts never released some graphics adventures for Amiga...big mistake. Now you can play all games with scummVM and its Amiga ports: Sam&Max hit the road and Day of the tentacle among others.

More info here: http://people.freenet.de/uweryssel/scumm _en.html