privately-held Varisys Limited for an initial cash consideration of 16 million pounds. Additional payments of up to 2 million pounds will be payable, based
on performance over the next two years.

Varisys is a designer and manufacturer of products for high-performance, embedded computing applications. Its products and services portfolio includes bespoke solutions for customers operating in the aerospace, defence, telecommunications, and industrial sectors.

The acquisition will give Ultra an organic capability in this niche area, allowing group businesses to meet customer requirements more quickly and cost-effectively. Varisys is a British company based in High Wycombe, UK. It was acquired from its founders Paul Gentle and Adam Barnes, both of whom would remain with the business under Ultra ownership.


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NEW! A604N MEMORY EXPANSION
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www.amigakit.com

The new A604n memory expansion for the Amiga 600 replaces the older, discontinued design. Features a clockport expansion header for compatible upgrades. It is now available for pre-ordering, and orders will be sent from our store next week.

Features

A604N MEMORY EXPANSION FOR THE AMIGA 600

* Expand your A600 to 2MB chip memory

* 22-pin clockport header for adding selected clockport expansions to your A600

* Expansion port for the new Indivision ECS scandoubler/flickerfixer

* Fits into trapdoor (under side of Amiga 600). Printed instructions included.

* 2 year warranty

* Optional Real Time Clock Module - same RTC as ACA 1220/1232.

The second clockport is designed for use with the Subway USB controller (available separately). The Subway can be mounted at the same time as an optional Indivision ECS as shown in the picture below:

DIRECT PRODUCT LINKS:

UK Store: amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/GBP.php?url=product_info.php?products _id=1151

Europe: amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/EUR.php?url=product_info.php?products _id=1151

USA:
www.amigakit.us/product_info.php?products_id=1151

Canada: amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/CAD.php?url=product_info.php?products _id=1151


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X-BENCH 0.90ALPHA
The Amiga Game Launcher & More !
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News from JimNeray

X-bEnCh 0.9A is available!

X-bEnCh is an Amiga game launcher & More

With 128 colors on screen (even on a simple A500), this Frontend can autoscan your hard-drive to find all your whdload games or your .exe and organize them in launching listings. X-bEnCh can also manage manuals listings and have an internal script system, the X-bEnCh Scripts (For non whdload games for exemple). It requires very few ressouces, and is compatible with all Amiga setups. X-bEnCh also has an integrated CLI fully compatible with the Workbench CLI features.

As always you can download it on Jim Neray / Amiga Dev www.jimneray.com/

Please note that this version is not complete. I put it online because there has been no update since last March, but all is not yet implemented. I will soon release some new 0.9x updates (0.91/0.92 / ...) to add all the missing features and fix some bugs that are already known.

MAIN NEW FEATURES:

Top15 listing - This new feature is able to create a top of all your lists. Note that the top15 is already functional as previously planned. Thedatabase
is created from the 0.8x versions.

Multikeys FastJump - Simply type the name of the game that you want, and the new search engine will drive you directly to it

XplorEr - The long awaited X-bEnCh file manager is finally here! Still young, it will evolve quickly in the next release.

ACTUAL FEATURES LIST:

* 128 colors on screen for all Amiga

* Autoscan and organize your whdload .slave and yours .exe from your HD

* Unlimited subdir level scan

* Internal script system

* Up to 6 launching lists in parallel

* Unlimited number of entries in each list

* Top15 listing

* Autoscan and use Whdload Tooltypes

* If no Tooltypes are available, you can set up default Tooltypes.

* MegaRam mode to gain extra chipram without rebooting

* FastJump mode to jump where you want in a list from the keyboard

* Files/Dirs manager included (Xpl0rEr)

* Integrated cLi 100% Amiga cli compatible

* System friendly setup panel

* Dedicated installer for an easy installation

* Many more will come in the next releases.

COMPLETE RELEASE NOTE:

X-bEnCh 0.90Alpha (06/06/13)

Xinit1.7

* Now updates the Top15 list in the Init process.

* Now checks if some args are sets with the setup for the loadwb cmd.

* Is now able to init to the Xplorer if set in the setup.

Xmenu1.6

* Bug with a mouse plugged in the joyport1 fixed.

* The menu is sorted with the Xplorer in 2nd position now.

* You can now use the "Enter" key to validate your choice.

Xlaunch1.9

* Top15 feature implemented.

* Multikeys Fastjump implemented.

* Added the display of the WhdL Requester if enabled in the setup.

* Bug with the Microsys joy/mouse adapter driver fixed.

* Bug with a mouse plugged in the joyport1 fixed.

* Fixed the repeat latency of the "Tab" key.

* You can now use the "Enter" Key to validate your choice.

Xcli0.71

* Added the "topupdate" cmd to manually update the top15 list.

* Updated the "help" cmd.

Xplorer0.1

* Very first public version of the Xbench Files/Dirs manager.

Xsetup1.6

* Reactivity optimised.

* No you can use the setup (if you want) without mouse or keyboard.

* Added a path requestor for the 6 launching lists.

* Renamed the "Boot From" to "Boot To" in the "Startup" tab.

* Added a LoadWB args textfield to the "Startup" tab.

* Added the Top15 On/Off switch to the launcher tab.

* Added the WhdLReq On/Off switch to the launcher tab.

* Look optimised.

* "Xplorer" option added to the "Boot To" switch in the startup tab.

Xexit0.6

* Better temp files cleaning before leaving.

Xinstaller0.4

* The ASL path requester is now disabled if you don't have rom 2.0+.

* Custom text font issue fixed.

* Bug when using a custom file system (SFS for example) is fixed.

* "D" (Directory) button is renamed to "P" for Path requester.


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ANTIRYAD - NEW COMMERCIAL
3D-ENGINE FOR AROS X86/X64 (68K
PLANNED)
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Antiryad Gx is a unified cross platform and multi core 2d and 3d game engine that has been in development since 1997. The information about the program
says that it today rivals and even surpasses many commercial game engines in feature-set and stability.

MAIN FEATURES

* Complete 2d and 3d graphic engine.

* Integrated editor and tools.

* Particle, water and volumetric fog effects.

* Fast collision system.

* Realtime shadows.

* Video codec for mobile and desktop systems.

* Full game framework.

* Network engine.

* Modularity, other middlewares like 3d engine, physic, script language or
network library can be plugged.

* Simplified and documented API completely platform independent.

* Supported languages are C, C++ and Gel (embedded fast and simple script).

* Develop once for several platforms.

* Free with standard license.

* Antiryad Gx was used to create more than 35 projects by various companies
and organizations.

To be published for AROS X86/64 in September. With A version for 68k is
planned but no date has been confirmed for the release.

A SUMMARY:

www.aros-platform.de/html/arkham.html

MORE INFORMATION AND SCREENSHOTS:

www.arkham-development.com/


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WOOKIECHAT BECOMES OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE
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WookieChat has now been released as open source software under the terms of AROS Public License 1.1. The project is hosted at sourceforge.net:

sourceforge.net/projects/wookiechat/

WookieChat is a multi-platform (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS), MUI-based IRC client that was initially developed by James Carroll. I'm currently looking for people interested in either maintaining the MorphOS/AmigaOS builds and/or improving the existing program. If you are
int

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