I mentioned the Amiga mouse from the Essen show in an earlier post, now there is an easy way for you to order it yourself without going to a1k.org and Google translate (if you can not speak German language).

Just go to this thread on amigaworld.net and follow instructions, price is around 15 euro which I think is a great price for a neat Amiga USB optical mouse. Keep in mind this is a mouse for a next-gen system and not for 68k systems although I guess it will work fine with Deneb and other USB solutions if 68k floats in your boat.

Oh, and it seems to be filled with water and has a boing ball in the transparant part of the mouse, how neat!

If you are a computer user from the 80′ies and early 90′ies I think you have most probably heard about Norton/Symantecs fabulous file manager for MS-DOS: Norton Commander.

Back when I was young, everyone who had a 386 or 486 ran Norton Commander or NC for short when dealing with files in MS-DOS.

NTP is an inofficial Amiga version of Norton Commander, there is rumour Symantec did not like this almost 100% clone of NC on the Amiga.

Now, most of you probably say this is stupid program and it is old school etc, give me DOpus any day etc. But if you used NC back in the day you will be jumping with joy that the keyboard shortcuts are mostly the same in Amiga NTP, amazing. Yes, press F10 for quit, F5 for copy, you do not have to relearn your filemanager.

Recently NTP have been made freely available and the code have been released so we are all waiting for MorphOS/OS4/68k ports and refinements.

While we wait, be sure to download latest updated Norton Commander for your Amiga from AmiNET!

This mystery Amiga mouse was observed at the Amiga Essen event. Ball in water, how nice. I want one. Rumour is that the mouse was ordered by the crew over at a1k.org from China, but do not tell anyone because it has not been certified for use in Europe.

Anyways, I do not care about RoHS, I want this Amiga mouse!

Maybe some of you guys know recently there was a fairly huge (in the Amiga world) Amiga event in Germany (aka the capital of Amigaism in the world).

There where some groundbreaking news there such as X1000 news, MorphOS news and other stuff of coolnes from the world of Amiga that refuses to die.

Lets have 10 more years, lets celebrate with these images and videos if you missed this event!

Photos and videos (a bit slow server, varning, maybe he is running it on 68k Amiga system?)

Here is a video of the dual core Amiga X1000 system

Another video of the X1000 in action

Here is a Apple G4 Powerbook running MorphOS

MorphOS are evolving at a blazing speed these days!

As if a demo of MorphOS 3 on the Apple Powerbook was not enough, here is showinfo screen from an Apple Powermac G5 system running at 2.7 GHz, just think about how fast 68k system friendly Amiga applications will run on this system!

It is a racing game with a reputation of being unplayable, but the game is still selling I guess so that is kinda cool

Anyways.. now you can enjoy this fine piece of racing game on your next-gen Amiga. Whoahhh…. Christmas arrived early this year.

Download the demo and find out the truth, is it playable or not?(please comment, I just sold my Peg2/4.1 machine so I can not test )

I guess this device is specifically made for the Indivision, but it should be easy to modify pinouts to work with other scandoublers (however why would you, Indivision is the best).

You can be sure I am already saving up euro for at least one of these cool switches

Automatic monitor switch on a1k.org

Straight from the dev team of MorphOS, the OS of the morph aka MorphOS is soon running on old Apple “quicksilver” G4 towers. These run up to 1.8 GHz (or up to 2 GHz with special turbos), meaning, it could potentially be the fastest Amiga system in the world soon.

Already MorphOS runs on the Mac Mini, but G4 towers are so much cheaper second hand thand Mac Mini. As a matter of fact, I found a G4 “quicksilver” in a dumpster last week, I thought “hmm I should take it home if Morph-team releases MorphOS for it” but decided not to, argh!

Who is not salivating over the prospect of running the slickest and nicest looking AmigaOS-likeable AmigaOS system on the nicest designed computers, do not lie to me, I know you want one too

Sam440 is not the most fastest hardware out there but it does a kick ass job because AmigaOS by nature is very lean and responsive.

AmigaAMP is to Amiga what WinAMP is to the Windows world.

So it is with great news we can say that AmigaAMP has been updated with new engine for SAM440 users to fix problems, or as it is said on the relevant hompage “Recompiled with SDK 53.15 to fix problems on SAM platform.”

If your Amiga begins on three letters and ends with three numbers, you should definitely download this archive right now.

http://www.amigaamp.de/log.html

Check out their site, loots of goodies there to try out on your Amiga!

To bad I just sold my Pegasos 2 with AmigaOS4.1, it would be quite interesting to see if AmiVNC4 ran any faster than before, but thats just the way life goes, I hope of an AROS version instead

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Updated programs
AmiVNC4 v2.2.0. – (OS4) VNC server.
Added Zlib support which should speed up transfers a lot on slow networks. Now startable from WB with tooltypes. Should use less CPU and be more responsive when detecting a screen change.

BackUp v1.70 – (68k) Backup program that mirrors a directory structure.
Added an option so that you can select that files over a given size should not be copied. Added two options to prevent the setting of Amiga protection bits and Amiga file comments. Fixed a few minor bugs.

MPlayer-GUI v1.46 – (OS4) GUI for MPlayer.
It is now possible to start MPlayer-GUI with arguments from CLI or WB and files will be added to the GUI that is already opened. Added a Stop button. Added #?.flv to the default file pattern.

MultiRen v1.69 – (68k) Powerful multi-file renaming tool using MUI. Has plugin-support for MP3-renaming and more.
Fixed drag’n'drop of directories in Ambient. Added some stack to prevent crashes when opening the MUI settings on PPC systems. Minor fixes..

JoinSplitter v1.4 – (68k) Split and join files with a GUI.
It is possible to have joined files automatically deleted after being joined. Better handling of large files over 2GB, and joining of files that will result in more than 4GB.

UTF-8 v1.2 – (68k) This program lets you type UTF-8 text everywhere (like in web browser forms for example).
UTF-8 is now a commodity if started from Workbench. From Workbench it also reads a few tooltypes.

If you know a bug or have a suggestion, please don’t hesitate to drop us an e-mail

All programs released this time was because of feedback from YOU!
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Thank you, users