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The Retro Remix Amiga Game Making Competition   "Hi everyone!
Due to the overwhelming success and response to the Festive Amiga Game Making Competition, the team at Underground Arcade has decided to host quarterly competitions which means you will be given the chance to enter four different Amiga game-making contests each year and win some amazing Amiga prizes!
So, are you ready for it now? Our next competition theme is... RETRO REMIX! The challenge is to remake any game you like for the Amiga. It doesn't have to be an exact remake or clone of the original game, but could be more like a "Deluxe" or "Lite" version, or perhaps a sequel.
This time you'll have two months to complete your entry, starting now. All of the entries must be uploaded and ready to play by March 31st 2010. We will be announcing the full list of really cool prizes over the next few weeks so stay tuned! I can say that the prizes we have so far are really fantastic! I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this competition's prize pool and if anyone wants to donate any more prizes, please let me know by private message or email, thanks!
 Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci has released LookHere 2.1. This is a quick release to fix some severe bugs, but some features have been added as well fixed a bug in the keyboard handler. Now you can navigate the GUI using the "," (comma), "." (dot) and "-" (dash) to activate the gadget. Added many keyboard shortcuts to the gadgets. For a more detailed list of features and bug fixes, LookHere :-).
Distribution of AresOne by Vesalia   Pascal Paparas' AROS-compatible PC "AresOne" is being sold by Vesalia. It contains the software package A-live X which includes a keyfile for the burning application Frying Pan, the text editing software Cinnamon Writer 0.69 and the AROS-distribution IcAros Desktop.
According to Pascal Paparas at least 25% of his profit he will use to develop AROS further. Additionally he tries to make it posible to add Kickstart and Workbench files to the computer. If he will succeed previous buyers of the AresOne will get these files for free.
EDIT: Additionally to AROS, the A-Live X software package, Art Effect 4.0 (68k-Version) and a special OEM version of Amiga Forever are included.
Driver for Envy24HT - Soundcards Davy Wentzler has published an AHI-driver for Envy24HT-based soundcards which supports the following soundcards:
- Terratec Aureon Sky
- Terratec Aureon Space
- Terratec Phase 22
- Terratec Phase 28
- M-Audio Revolution 5.1 (the only card tested by the author)
- M-Audio Revolution 7.1
- ESI Juli@
Test reports are very welcome. If you want to support the author with donations you can do that on his website.
SAM440-Port Started Again Michal Schulz has announced in his Blog that Markus Weiss has started again the port of AROS on ACubes PPC-motherboard SAM440ep and described some of the progresses.
HDAudio-driver available for free Steve 'Cluster UK' Jones has published the HDAudio-drivers for AROS for free. But he asks for finacial support to be able to pay further developments.
Additional to the Intel-Atom-based AROS complete system iMica the driver also supports several Netbooks with HDAudio. Please simply test it.
Vote for the best Amiga games of 2009  Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2009 !
To vote for the best AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS games, you can rate them at this page :
http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2009.php
This year there will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS).
The final results will be published Febrary 15, 2010.
Allanon releases LookHere 2.0
 The time is come for a new version of LookHere.
Too many bug fixes and improvements to list them all, but here is a brief list of the most important features.
With the release of Hollywood 4.5 LookHere has got many new features like themulti window, now, pressing the buttons in the Main Bar will opens standalone windows instead of using the same window.
Another big feature is the Drag'n'Drop support: now you can drop files or drawers in the main bar instead of using the Load Drawer requester.
Now LookHere use a cache system to improve the speed of the thumbnails reading.
A new window called Manager has been added to LookHere, here you can Move, Copy or Delete your images easily, it's very simple at this stage but I hope it will be usefull.
In this version you'll find a preferences window where you can set many parameters, you can also change the image cache location if you are not happy with the default one.
  On power2people.org a new bounty for the implemention of a WIFI-stacks and corresponding drivers have been started.
- Provide a working WIFI stack with support for infrastructure network
- Stack must be hardware independent
- Must be capable of WPA and WPA2 as specified in IEEE 802.11i (wpa_supplicant port or similar solution)
- Must provide at least one working driver for a widely spread WIFI chipset (e.g. Atheros).
- The chosen chipset must be capable of at least 54 Mbit/s as specified in IEEE 802.11g
- Driver must work for USB devices with the chosen chipset
- Provide the documentation necessary to enable other developers to create new drivers (at least in form of source comments)
EMUAMIGA.COM - Home of the 68k emulation for AROS 
 What is it?
Emumiga is a Motorola 68oxo emulator and a system interface proxy for AROS. Our goal is to run AmigaOS 3.x applications directly in AROS without emulating the Amiga chipset and without a copyrighted Amiga ROM image. These two things are what separates it from the noble effort of integrating UAE into AROS.
Why does it exist?
We wanted something different than UAE on AROS, for a couple of reasons. First, licensing. UAE currently needs a commercial license for a ROM copyrighted by Amiga Inc, available for instance from Amiga Forever. We think this is unfortunate if all you want to do is run some favourite Amiga application on your AROS system. Therefore, Emumiga will be open source. This is one reason for Emumiga to exist. Another reason is, we want Amiga applications to be run as native applications in AROS, or first class citizens, if you like. An Amiga application should be able to talk to the AREXX port of an AROS application, and the other way around. When the Amiga application calls a library, it will automatically be a native AROS library, running some Amiga applications at close to AROS speeds, for instance when using datatypes.
 Thanks to user cavemann we have the Linux game xRick, compiled for Aros with sound enabled. Frankly, the samples are not very good. Yet the game plays better with sound... instead of silence. Create a drawer named xRick and extract there. It helps to check the manual for game instructions and options. Fetch it from the "Downloads" section.
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