BANGALORE, INDIA: Cloanto recently announced that it has released the Amiga Forever 2009, the latest version of the Amiga preservation, emulation and support suite for Windows and other platforms.

Like its sister product C64 Forever, Amiga Forever 2009 introduces a  combination of the RP2 retrogaming file format, RetroPlatform Library to recognize content, and RP2 Manager to export and import to and from other file formats.

The 2009 version includes lot of enhancements and was tested to comply with "Compatible with Windows 7" requirements, said a press release.

New features include one-click integration of the AmiKit and AmigaSYS add-ons and new system ROMs (e.g. the 0.7 Kickstart required to run the software used by Andy Warhol's famous 1985 Launch of Amiga demo).

When both Amiga Forever and C64 Forever are installed, the players share data and software modules with each other, uniformly playing back RP2 games of both 8-bit and 32-bit platforms.

The same familiar user interface and settings are also applied to saved states, disk write undo, dual-monitor setups and other advanced functionality.

"The way it brings back memories is amazing, and it feels as if Commodore and Amiga were united again," said Michael C. Battilana of Cloanto.

Amiga Forever 2009 is available now in three editions:

*Value Edition (downloadable installer for Windows systems)

*Plus Edition (downloadable CD ISO image with additional Windows and platform-neutral content)

*Premium Edition (physical Plus Edition CD and two DVDs, plus instant download of the installer for Windows)

The Plus Edition includes the KX Light boot environment with barebone PC hard disk installation and online updates. The Premium Edition additionally contains more than five hours of videos, added the release.