New Version Of The Amiga Emulation Package Amikit

September 10, 2008 by Hawq

A high end Amiga desktop environment with just about everything you need to get started, except the kickstart roms of course those you need to supply yourself, for Windows and Linux having used this one quite often when I feel the urge to delve into the past I can recommend it to everyone that’s got an interest in the Amiga be it to recapture the feeling of their old machine or just to try out the full blown AmigaOS feeling if you only had a 1MB Amiga 500 as I did back in the day. But I’m in danger of waffling on a bit there, let’s get to the important bit, the news:

Main new features include:

AmiKit is now faster thanks to new WinUAE and AfA_OS software!

a fresh new look by Ken Lester (Launcher, Startup Screen, Default Look)

support of new 24bit themes (11 included + one new classic one!)

support of Amiga Forever 2008

improved Windows and Amiga installers

choice of two automatic installers for Linux platforms
and much more..

ADDED:

New AmiKit Launcher theme by Ken Lester

UPDATED:

AmiKit Install Patches 1.7 (new patches included)

AmiKit Launcher 1.5 (enhanced version)

AmiKit Live Update 1.4 (enhanced, fine-tuned for Linux)

AmiKit MorpheuZ 1.6 (now supports new 24bit themes)

AmiKit off-line documentation

AmiKit RomFind 1.5 (now supports Amiga Forever 2008 ROMs)

WinUAE 1.5.2 (provides more features and faster emulation)

ADDED:

12 new themes painted by Ken Lester (run “MorpheuZ”)

Greek locale by Dimitris Panokostas

ReqAttack images painted by Ken Lester

MUI images and presets by Ken Lester

SabreMSN alpha 29

UPDATED:

AmigaAmp-Prefs 1.25

Amijeweled 1.4 Demo (Special AmiKit version)

amifish 1.204

AfA_OS 4.2

AISS 4.2

akJFIF DataType 45.91

akPNG DataType 45.89

akSVG DataType 45.91

akTIFF DataType 45.92

codesets.library 6.6

EvenMore 0.65 (22-May-08)

FastFileSystem 45.15 by Etienne Vogt (run “Install Patches” to install it)

FryingPan 1.3.2

HivelyTracker 1.5

iGame 1.5

Ken’s icons

MCC_BetterString 11.15

MCC_NList 0.102

MCC_TextEditor 15.27

MCC_TheBar 26.2

MultiRen 1.65

MUIbase 2.5

playOGG 9.3

Ram-Handler 44.24 by Doobrey (run “Install Patches” to install it)

Symphonie Player Pro 3.3d

VICE 2.0 (ROMs not included)

Wet 5.3

WookieChat 2.10

XAD 7z 1.7
and many minor improvements, changes and fixes…

Download from the homepage or below, alternatively if you have a version that’s fairly recent you can fire it up and use the live update feature to download the updates.

AmiKit Full Installer For Windows (108.8 MiB, 62 Downloads) - Version 1.5.0