• #058: No Clue [Amiga Mod]
  Compomusic from Underscore 2003 (Chip) by Qwan.
• #057: Lost in Otaniemi [Amiga Intro]
  An Intro released at MFX+Kewlers birthdayparty.
  A Spaceballs/Up Rough co-op. Ranked 1st.
• #056: Gnomedance [Amiga Mod]
  Compomusic from Underscore 2003 (Small) by Qwan.
• #055: Pulsewidth Poem [Amiga Mod]
  Compomusic from Underscore 2003 (4ch) by Qwan.

• 09.08.03 improved: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) supports AGA and CD³² versions, miscellaneous improvements
• 09.08.03 improved: Arabian Nights (Krisalis) supports CD³² version, miscellaneous improvements
• 09.08.03 updated: Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (Master Designer Software/Cinemaware) reworked for WHDLoad 16
• 09.08.03 improved: Red Baron (Dynamix) supports another version, removed tapes check
• 09.08.03 fixed: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) sound now plays correctly
• 09.08.03 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) manual protection removed
• 08.08.03 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) run with full caches on all CPUs
• 08.08.03 improved: Legend / The four crystals of Trazere (Mindscape) supports another version, docs and icon added
• 07.08.03 new: Knights of the Crystallion (US Gold/Bill Williams) done by Galahad
• 07.08.03 new: Codename: Iceman (Sierra) done by JOTD

• Special treatment for exec.library and romupdate.idtag. Thus there is for the first time a full replacement for OS3.9's RomUpdate functionality.
• increased speed by way of switching on the processor cache.
• Workarounds for accelerator boards whose memory is not RomTag able. This solves many problems with certain accelerator boards even in Amiga 1200 tower rebuildings.
• Many internal changes and corrections, making the bootloader more stable and safer. Special attention has been paid to highest compatibility with unusual accelerator boards.

The basic functions of ALGOR and ROMulus are essentially unchanged:

• comfortable user interface for programming the FlashROM (MUI).
• In case of an emergency the most important functions can be reached without MUI via command line.
• Drag'n'Drop when configuring the FlashROM via MUI.
• transparent and reset fast integration of any ROM modules.
• use of USB stack Poseidon directly on cold boot time.
• abolition of the OS3.9 ROM-Patch-Reset by integrating the ROM updates and thus faster boot tie of the computer.
• Booting the Amiga from USB mass storage directly after cold boot possible.
• full replacement of Amiga mouse and keyboard by respective USB devices via new input.device (also in the boot menu if OS 3.9 BoingBag 2 present).
• easy switching off of the ROM modules during bootup possible.
• integrated transparent compression for efficient usage of the FlashROM.

• Editorial
• AmigaOS 4.0 Update
• AmigaOS 4.0 On Tour
• Report From the Inside
• Game Frenzy
• Backdrops R Us
• ExecSG in Detail: Memory
• Members' Corner
• Letters

• optional automatic installation
• JIT compiler "Trance"
• Turboprint integrated
• USB integrated
• Radeon DVI & overlay (except Radeon 8500)
• 3D for Voodoo 3 and 4
• Warp3D emulation
• support for graphics tablet
• setting for icon scaling
• leave out of icons via drag&drop
• individual skins for each screen
• PNG buttons
• auto scroll
• blending
• sound datatypes
• Kaya (MP3/OGG player)
• calculator
• magnifying glass (zoom)
• task manager
• Ambient: panels, lasso function, shortcuts
• dock manager
• new skins and fonts
• skin exchange "on the fly"
• reboot via keyboard
• gradients
• more mprefs
• no connected PS/2 mouse needed on system boot

• Hardware: Michal Schulz is still working on the PPC port, having received the Pegasos board donated by Genesi, and more recently a Voodoo3 card donated by Randy Vice.
• Hardware: Johan Grip is implementing the OpenPCI specification, and also reworking our buggy ide.device, which attempts to write too much data at once instead of splitting the requests in smaller chunks. However this is going to be more a rewrite than a bug fix. If someone just wants to do the bug fix, there is an open bounty (currently 40 USD) for the ide.device bug at TeamAROS.
• Build system: GCC 3.2 is now the minimum requirement to compile AROS, which now compiles fine with GCC 3.3, thanks to Stefan Reinauer and others who fixed the various deprecated bits in the tree.
• Build System: Staf Verhaegen continued to improve and simplify the build system. Lately, he reorganized the kernel build to use only objects, no more static or shared libraries.
• Build System: Iain Templeton, one of our South hemisphere developers, did his fair share on the build system too, especially on the configure scripts (which now require autoconf 2.53, hopefully a generated configure is kept in CVS for those missing it) and to ensure that AROS compiles and runs fine hosted on FreeBSD.
• Build System: Also mawk (which comes as default on Debian GNU/Linux) will generate incorrect headers while building AROS, but GNU awk (gawk) and FreeBSD awk work fine.
• i386-pc Installation: John Gustafsson and Adam Chodorowski earned the first TeamAROS bounty for their "Automated Disk Prep and OS Installer". It will install AROS on the first disk of the first IDE channel. Don't try this on a disk with valuable data anywhere on it, you've been warned. Unfortunately it isn't fully usable yet, due to the ide.device bug: some files get corrupted during installation.
• i386-pc Installation: As part of this work, new Format and Partition commands were implemented.
• User Interface: We now have a beautiful About dialog, thanks to Pixel Art's logo and Adam for the code, as well as an in-progress Mesa port by Nic Andrews. And before you ask, the beautiful Broken.miho wallpaper is here.
• User Interface: Adam did major improvements to the workbench and icon libraries (which handle much of the "under the hood" desktop work), and also to Wanderer itself. The framework for Wanderer commands is in place, and there is already the Delete tool implemented.
• User Interface: As a bonus, there is now an identification hook in icon.library to display proper icons depending on the file type and take appropriate action on double-click, for files without disk icons.
• User Interface: Sebastian Bauer added arbitrary angled gradients to Zune images.
• User Interface: David Le Corfec, Adam and especially Fabio Alemagna, who came up with a multitude of ideas and algorithms, brainstormed on a "perfectly" MUI-compliant implementation of Zune layout algorithm. Hopefully the new one seems to do the trick.
• User Interface: The Zune string gadget also got a rework and is now slightly more usable, the prefs program got a few more pages, and many Zune classes were put in their own loadable modules.
• User Interface: Georg Steger implemented the Cybergraphics' WritePixelArrayAlpha() and BltTemplateAlpha(), so we can show even more eye-candy, with alpha blending this time :) Adam used this to implement a nice grayed-out disabled effect for Zune gadgets, instead of the usual grid pattern.
• User Interface: Georg is also porting back the intuition.library from MorphOS, and still does a lot of impressive bug finding and fixing elsewhere, which for example led to find and report a longstanding bug in stipple drawing to the XFree86 project. And when you're faced with a strange memory corruption, try his invaluable trick : call a check routine in the scheduler ! This allowed to fix bugs in several Prefs programs.
• User Interface: But maybe the best for the end ... With BltTemplateAlpha() to blend the anti-aliased glyphs, and the work from Staf on freetype2, diskfont and bullet libraries, TrueType fonts now work - and look - great! It also draws upon the work of many others, including the MorphOS team (and especially Emmanuel Lesueur) and the FreeType project. The Bitstream Vera font family is now included in AROS.
• User Interface: Use FTManager to install TrueType fonts in a few mouse clicks, and enjoy the new Font Prefs program.
• Localizations: We got a Spanish keymap contributed by Albert Astals Cid, several French catalogs by Olivier Adam and Hungarian catalogs, language and country files by Mark "Bôregér" Balogh.
• Localizations: The applications localization system has been cleaned up a bit, and as a side effect, much more applications are now localized. So if your favorite application has been localized but misses a catalog for your language, don't hesitate to send it to us!
• TCP/IP: Will be available next week. Nah, just kidding ;-) One of the most requested features. A couple of people are working part-time on this, so don't hold your breath. This is a huge task, spanning from low-level drivers to interface libraries and support applications. It's currently not the priority for most of the developers. Use another network appliance in the meantime, or come join us :)
• Softwares in contribution: As usual, some new software or updated versions were imported in contrib: UAE 0.8.22 (a Zune GUI is planned), the free DeluxePaint clone 4P 0.09, TCC 0.9.19 (you can now directly create AROS executables!), GNU tools (make 3.80, diffutils 2.8.1, patch 2.5.4, grep 2.5.1, m4 1.4), abcm2ps 3.7.1, sploiner 1.0
• Miscellaneous: After some benchmarking, BOOPSI method calls were optimized using macros, and are now about 20% faster.
• Miscellaneous: Roughly 2000 CVS commits since the last status update, with a record of 1063 in July. Check it there. So obviously this status update is not exhaustive.