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`27.Nov.2022`	Announcement: The Amiga-News.de Advent Calendar 2022 Dear readers, each of us probably associates something different with the Advent season: for some, it starts as early as September, since from then on you can stock up on gingerbread and speculoos. Another may look forward to the Christmas markets. In recent years, there has been a nice trend that, in addition to the large and classic markets, there are also small artists' and neighborhood markets that give a hint of the secrecy of childhood. But two things should be mandatory for everyone - with or without family offspring: an Advent calendar and storytelling. If the simple picture advent calendars or the ones filled with a chocolate figure, which are still known from earlier days, are enough or if it should be the variants filled with perfume, toys and technology, which have almost reached the realm of small furniture in terms of size and weight, is a matter of taste. With our Amiga-News.de advent calendar we want to take up this nice tradition of the calendar as well as the story telling. We asked developers and programmers for a little anecdote. So from December 1st until Christmas we read in sometimes shorter, sometimes longer texts about their Amiga beginnings, first successes and experiences from their creative wealth and little incidents to smile or even to think about. If you like, you can try to guess who is participating in our calendar by their initials. At this point, a big thank you to all who participated! (dr) [News message: 27. Nov. 2022, 15:38] [Comments: 2 - 02. Dec. 2022, 15:07] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Nov.2022` Jochen Wenz (ANF)	ENTER: Computer and Retro Museum in Switzerland For Commodore fans and lovers of nostalgic devices of all kinds, there is the ENTER museum in Solothurn, Switzerland. Besides record players, video recorders, tube radios and historic computers (including Swiss makes with 68k processors) of all brands, there are also various Amiga 1000s, 2000s and 3000s on display, as well as a lot of Commodore computers from the 70s and 80s. Being not just behind glass, (almost) everything is hands-on. On a C64, for example, there is a rare music keyboard including cartridge. And in an archive for repair manuals, you can make copies. The "64er" magazine can be found there up to the year 1991. And for gamblers, there are various old slot machines and a pinball machine. In the museum shop, you can also buy active and passive electronic components, but also old long-playing records, for example. Next year, the museum will move to a new building in the neighbouring village. (snx) [News message: 27. Nov. 2022, 07:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2022` Vinnny (ANF)	Distributed.net: OGR-28 completed, Distributed Amiga in second place Around the turn of the millennium, various initiatives were started to make unused computing time available for projects, which also led to the formation of teams in the Amiga area that competed with others - be it against other operating systems or among each other (amiga-news.de reported). With OGR, for example, the task is to search for an optimal Golomb ruler. More than eight years after finding the 27th-order one, when the Distributed Amiga team came in third, the optimal 28th-order Golomb ruler has now been found: The Distributed Amiga team even achieved second place this time, the MorphOS team twelfth. (snx) [News message: 10. Nov. 2022, 08:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Nov.2022`	AmigaOS 4.1: HiRes set of mouse pointers On Amiga-Look (amiga-news.de reported),'levellord' has released "a modern hires set of pointer presets for Amiga 4.1 operating system loosely based on a DMZ-White and Quintom pointers for Linux. Pointers are optimized for 1080p and there are three different sizes of 18px, 20px and 24px all in red, white and black base colors with white/black outlines." (dr) [News message: 07. Nov. 2022, 04:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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