24.Mar.2012
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Elbox: "New edition" of FastATA is a bogus claim
Four weeks ago Elbox promoted an alleged new edition of its IDE-controller: With the "FastATA MK-IV CF/SATA" users now could connect modern mass storage like SSD or SATA-harddrives to an Amiga.
In the English product description in the Elbox-shop it is not particularly mentioned that it is a new revision of the hardware or that the CompactFlash and SATA-ports are on the board but the written words legen are rather clear: "The FastATA 4000 MK-IV CF/SATA is designed to simultaneously use up to four devices: one Compact Flash card, one SATA drive and two to four PATA devices".
As things turned out the promoted product is the "old" controller "FastATA MK-IV" which has been unchanged available for years. It is now delivered with two standard adapters for connecting CompactFlash or SATA devices to an IDE-controller. Both adapters have to be connected with standard PATA-cables to the FastATA and separately supplied with power:
Although the PATA-SATA-adapter is a standard device which Elbox has bought from a external distributor, for unknown reasons the labeling of chip was removed in order to um complicate its identifying.
(we would like to thank "Amiga-Aktivist" for his kind permission to publish pictures he has taken)
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2012, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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22.Mar.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Jump and Run: Sqrxz 3 (v 1.00) for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS
Sqrxz is a classic Jump'n Run with a fast gameplay (Youtube video). Changes:
- added different death animations
- rewritten frameskip code
- fixed block pushing behavior
- added slight delay for block pushing to avoid unintentional actions
- font modifications for increased readability
- increased oxygen reservoir
- cosmetic enhancements
- modified scrolltext
- normalized sfx
- fixed configuration saving
- added settings to define screensize and antialias (OS depending)
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[News message: 22. Mar. 2012, 17:39] [Comments: 0]
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22.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Article about AmigaOS4 programming / Book planned
After the release of his article about the Debugger GDB, Roman 'kas1e' Kargin is going to publish the new article "The Hacking Way: Part 1. First Steps". Knowledge in C and Assembler are required.
Kargin would like to publish other articles and then collect them in a book which is about AmigaOS4 internals, kernel internals, disassembling and debugging techniqs, ppc-assembler, utilities and tools which help when you debug programms.
If there is sufficient interest in such a book, the author is trying to find out by making a plea for donations, because he needs to spend money for proof-readers and painters. If more than 200 US-Dollar should be donated, a "porper" bounty project with all details information for the whole book would be started.
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[News message: 22. Mar. 2012, 06:48] [Comments: 0]
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22.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video-Broadcast: Amitopia TV seeks Amigans for support
Amitopia TV is an English-language video magazine about the Amiga. In order to offer more service and reports, Michal Bergseth is looking for your support.
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[News message: 22. Mar. 2012, 06:23] [Comments: 0]
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22.Mar.2012
Matthias Wilkens (ANF)
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MorphOS: Pictograms for different directories
Matthias "Aramon" Wilkens has created folder pictograms which according to him are still missing in MorphOS - icons for picture, downloads, films, games, music, Apache and MYSQL directories.
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21.Mar.2012
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Database: MUIbase 2.11
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.11:
- Export of select-from-where requests as ASCII
- Export of select-from-where requests as PDF (Mac OS X, Linux and MorphOS) or print (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux)
- Several bug fixes
The MUIbase distribution includes ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. An AROS port will follow soon.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Mar. 2012, 07:27] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2012
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Commodore USA announced "Commodore Amiga Mini" (update)
In a press release licensee Commodore USA has announced the "Commodore Amiga Mini".
The computer will be delivered in a silver or black Mini-ITX case made from Aluminium - it is a HTPC-ITX2 made by Wesena. The AMIGA mini's appearance is enhanced with the inclusion of the classic embedded AMIGA logo engraved in the front. The pictures presented on the website still are Photoshop manipulations and no real ones.
Detailed specifications of the computer:
- Case: Mini-ITX
- Processor: Intel i7-2700k 3.5 Ghz Quad-Core (3.9Ghz Turboboost)
- Chipset: Intel Z68 Express
- Memory: 16Gb RAM DDR3 1333MHz
- Harddrive: 1 TB SATA or (optional) 300 GB SSD
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 430 GPU with 1GB DDR3
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet und 802.11n (300 Mb/s) WiFi
- 1 x PCI Express x4 (open-end), 1 x Mini PCI Express
- 2 fans (40x40x10mm)
- Optical drive: Slot-Load Blu-Ray
- 2 ports for Dual-link DVI, 1 x DisplayPort, 1 x HDMI, Audio Input, Audio Output
- IR-remote control
The delivery time will be four up to six weeks. The price for a complete system is supposed to be 2500 USD. The Commodore VIC Mini which also is a complete system with less power can be bought for 1000 USD.
Update: (23.03.2012)
Commodore USA chief Barry Altman has announced that "due to an overwhelming outpouring of customer comments, along with those posted on the major tech blogs, the company has listened to the thousands of requests for both lower prices and more choices, and responded today with prices and options that most respondents indicated was in line with other current offerings." They lowered the price by 500 Dollar.
The cheapest configuration now is an i3-2130 (3.4 Ghz) with 4 GB RAM for 1500 USD.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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XML-Parser-Plugin for Hollywood
Press release: A new plugin for Hollywood has been released today: The XML Parser plugin allows Hollywood scripts to parse XML files easily and efficiently. This finally allows Hollywood users to make use of this extremely flexible universal markup language that can be used for so many purposes. The plugin needs to be installed into LIBS:Hollywood but the included installer will take care of that automatically. Once the plugin has been installed successfully, a new user library should show up in the plugin.api tab in the Hollywood GUI. This plugin is based on libexpat and luaexpat.
You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal under the title link. Thanks to Hollywood 5.0's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel) and Windows are provided.
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20.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Cubic IDE: Website moved
The website of Dietmar Eilert's text editor Cubic IDE has moved and can be now accessed under softwareandcircuits.com.
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19.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Sirena AHIW 1.01
Sirena AHIW published by Morgue Soft is another programm wriiten with Hollywood which can handle and edit your pictures and is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows XP.
Version 1.01 fixes the rotating option. The archive now also includes a PDF tutorial and the sound of the "About"-window was turned off.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2012, 23:23] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Demo-Party with film shooting for "Viva Amiga" (07. April, Zoetermeer/Netherland
On 7. April in CKC Center in Zoetermeer (Netherlands) an Amiga party will take place. During this event the Amiga documentation Viva Amiga, which is financed by donations, will be filmed.
Any inquiries please send to party@amigascene.nl. "Viva Amiga" will be directed and produced by Zach Weddington who expressed his joyful anticipation in a video at YouTube.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Mar. 2012, 23:16] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2012
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Multifunctional tool: Download-Manager Jack soon with Paypal button
According to the author of the multifunctional tool Jack, the included download manager will be completed with a new feature in the next version. The users will have the possibility to make a donation for any programm. On amigaworld.net three screenshots have been published which demonstrate the process.
Interested developers who publish their software on OS4depot and have a Paypal account can send their addresses used for PayPal and the prefered currency to the author of Jack.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Mar. 2012, 23:07] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2012
AmiGame (ANF)
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Poll: Most frequently used language of AmiGame users
With the help of a little poll, the author of the WinUAE addon AmiGame tries to find out how many of his users speak English or French.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2012, 22:58] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenOfficerViewer 0.0.10
With Carsten Siegner's OpenOfficeViewer you can view texts and graphics of OpenDocument files which are used by OpenOffice. Changes in version 0.0.10:
- Mediaplayer added
- Replacement fonts are used now
- Media objects are recognized and partly played (.odg/.odp/.odt)
- So called master sites are viewed
- Background graphics of .odg-format for .odp-files are supported
- Special play mode for .odp-files added
- Intermediate sound in .odp-files are supported
- Time-controlled turning over of sites is supported (.odp)
- Automatic page numbering is supported
- Pictogramm by Matthias 'Aramon' Wilkens added
Download: OpenOfficeViewer_0.0.10.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2012, 18:19] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.03.2012
The following archives have been added until 17.03.2012 to the Aminet:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 126K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
PatchWork.lha dev/debug 88K 68k Check OS functions to be call...
vdisk38.lha disk/misc 46K 68k Dynamic recoverable RAM disk ...
MCE.lha game/edit 836K 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 994K MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 986K OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
CodeWar-MOS.lha game/misc 261K MOS CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS3.lha game/misc 242K 68k CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS4.lha game/misc 203K OS4 CRobots-style programming game
simutrans.lha game/strat 16M OS4 Economic/transport simulation...
Follia_NBA.lha game/think 1.3M 68k Challenging tile-based puzzler
game_68k.lha game/think 1.5M 68k tetris like, but different
abkviewer.i386-aros.zip gfx/show 93K x86 AMOS sprite + icon bank viewe...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 2.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha misc/emu 14K AmiArcadia 17.5 spanish catalog
PC-Task44.lha misc/emu 294K 68k A 80486 PC Emulator, now free...
acm_68k.lha mus/play 137K 68k play & decode InterPlay A...
org_68k.lha mus/play 227K 68k play & decode org music
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.1M 68k multi format sound player.
CpuBlit_v21.lha util/boot 4K 68k New CpuBlit (v2.1)
RPP_v11.lha util/boot 4K 68k New RPP version (v1.1)
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.4M MOS Directory and files tool
cdplayer_lib_ahi.lha util/libs 128K MOS Modern replacement for cdplay...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 397K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 467K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 496K OS4 Multipurpose utility
TaskViewSP.lha util/wb 2K TaskView 0.4 spanish catalog
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18.Mar.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.03.2012 / More than 3000 files
The following archives have been added until 17.03.2012 to the OS4Depot which now offers more than 3002 files:
ahirng.lha aud/mis 97kb 4.0 Random Number Generator via AHI
bunchieloop.lha dem/mis 2Mb 4.1 A colored bunchie gif animation
libyaml-cpp.lha dev/lan 474kb 4.0 A YAML parser and emitter in C+...
libdumb.lha dev/lib 418kb 4.0 An IT, XM, S3M and MOD player li...
mpega_includes.tar.bz2 dev/lib 3kb 4.0 OS4 include files for mpega.library
libptp2.lha dev/lib 70kb 4.0 a library used to communicate wi...
xadmaster_includes.ta... dev/lib 13kb 4.0 OS4 includes for xadmaster.library
minad.lha dev/uti 93kb 4.0 Minimalistic Autodoc Viewer
libhjw.lha dri/inp 3Mb 4.0 HunoJoyWrapper is a Wrapper Libr...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
rhlaunch.lha emu/mis 125kb 4.0 GUI for E-UAE
munchdude_hero.lha gam/act 10Mb 4.0 OpenGL packman remake with origi...
thezoninrun.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 A polished Qix clone!
ulmosadventure.lha gam/adv 558kb 4.1 Ulmo's Adventure - a cute action...
zelda3t-french.lha gam/adv 9Mb 4.0 Game Zelda 3T 0S4 Midi support f...
zelda3t-us.lha gam/adv 9Mb 4.0 Game Zelda 3T 0S4 Midi support US
zeldaolb-es.lha gam/adv 6Mb 4.0 Zelda OLB AmigaOS4 MIDI ES
zeldaolb-fr.lha gam/adv 7Mb 4.0 Zelda OLB AmigaOS4 MIDI French
zeldaolb-us.lha gam/adv 7Mb 4.0 Zelda OLB AmigaOS4 MIDI US
zeldaroth-de.lha gam/adv 5Mb 4.0 Zelda ROTH Amiga OS4 MIDI DE
zeldaroth-es.lha gam/adv 5Mb 4.0 Zelda ROTH Amiga OS4 MIDI ES
zeldaroth-fr.lha gam/adv 6Mb 4.0 Zelda ROTH Amiga OS4 MIDI French
zeldaroth-us.lha gam/adv 6Mb 4.0 Zelda ROTH AmigaOS4 US
codewar.lha gam/mis 208kb 4.0 CRobots-style programming game
flowerway.lha gam/puz 418kb 4.0 sensational puzzle based on movi...
letters_fall.lha gam/puz 7Mb 4.0 OpenGL based puzzle.
pixel_artist.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.0 OpenGL based puzzle.
tetriattack2.lha gam/puz 12Mb 4.0 Tetris like game
tetricrisis4.lha gam/puz 26Mb 4.0 Tetris like battle game
zeldapicross-fr.lha gam/puz 5Mb 4.0 Zelda Picross AmigaOS4 MIDI French
thunderslash.lha gam/shm 33Mb 4.0 Colorful french shootemup type T...
simutrans.lha gam/str 16Mb 4.0 A free transport game
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
iconsreworked_2011.lha gra/ico 31Mb 4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
iconsreworked_2012.lha gra/ico 74Mb 4.1 Icons for 3th party software
owbutilities.lha net/bro 168kb 4.0 Bookmarks+fastlinks+converter to...
ali.lha net/cha 96kb 4.0 AmIRC Log Inspector
smbmounter.lha net/sam 126kb 4.0 SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
cinnamon_writer.lha off/wor 6Mb 4.0 Compact and efficient word proce...
text2pdf.lha uti/fil 8kb 4.0 Convert plain text files into PD...
asciitable.lha uti/mis 60kb 4.0 Print out the ascii-table in dif...
clonecollect.lha uti/mis 119kb 4.0 Collect files with same conditions
crc128.lha uti/mis 61kb 4.0 Calculates 128bit crc-checksums
dicpng.lha uti/mis 167kb 4.0 Compress data into png-images
fixdate.lha uti/mis 58kb 4.0 Fix files that have a date in fu...
relax.lha uti/mis 117kb 4.0 Control program for 8-bit realy-...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
rhc.lha uti/mis 59kb 4.0 A polymorphic cipher
rherase.lha uti/mis 103kb 4.0 Secure file eraser
sab.lha uti/mis 159kb 4.0 Secure Address Book with AES enc...
shapng.lha uti/mis 166kb 4.0 sha256 of file to PNG-image
taskview.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.1 View currently running tasks
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18.Mar.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 17.03.2012
The following archives have been added until 17.03.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
MinAD 1.7 dev/too 92 Minimalistic (but with MUI ...
Africa 1.31 gam/str 268 Turn-based political strate...
CodeWar 1.3 gam/thi 261 A simulator environment for...
SimpleCam 2.6 gra/mis 164 Tool for downloading photos...
Sirena Player 2.10 mus/pla 2939 Simple audio player written...
SAB 2.2 off/dat 140 A general purpose secure ad...
cdplayer.library 52.6 sys/lib 128 A shared library for playin...
Grunch 1.36 sys/too 1774 Advanced software package m...
CloneCollect 1.7 uti/des 103 Tool for finding duplicated...
rhErase 1.2 uti/des 88 Program for erasing files f...
Oricutron 0.9 uti/emu 994 Emulator of 6502 based Oric...
rhLaunch 0.6 uti/emu 112 Launch graphical interface ...
Multigame Character E... 7.1 uti/mis 994 A tool for editing characte...
Relax 2.1 uti/mis 104 Control program for 8-bit r...
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18.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: HunoJoyWrapper.library 1.0.0
The HunoJoyWrapper.library is a static library based on SDL which can help to implement the support for joysticks or controlpads.
Download: libhjw.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2012, 08:32] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: FlowerWay 0.5
In the game FlowerWay your game goal is to get out from a labirynth with many doors (screenshot).
Download: flowerway.lha (418 KB)
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18.Mar.2012
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VDisk 3.8
After almost nine years the VDisk.device was updated. This version fixes an illegal memory accesses during initialization of big volumes with bitmap extension blocks. At least AmigaOS 2.04 is required.
Download: vdisk38.lha (46 KB)
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2012, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2012
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Audio Evolution 4 for free
After it was announced that Audio Evolution 4 would be released as Freeware, first the version for AmigaOS 4 and now for AROS have been published. The latest AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop 1.4 already includes it.
The MorphOS-version is supposed to follow later. Davy Wentzler sells Audio Evolution 5 for Windows and Mac OS X as well as a version for Android. This also can load AE4-projects but you have to edit the paths.
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17.Mar.2012
Jens Maul (Kommentarbereich)
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Accelerator board: ACA 1231 still suffering from stability issues
Several users who purchased the Amiga 1200 accelerator board ACA 1231 had been reporting stability issues. Earlier this month, the manufacturer Individual Computers responded by supplying all existing customers with an additional cooler, which will also be mounted on all future cards.
Apparently, the additional cooler substantially improves the stability of the board, but there are still customers reporting crashes. The manufacturer and some affected users are currently trying to locate the source of the problem.
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17.Mar.2012
Computer Collection Vienna (ANF)
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CCV: Background pictures of an A2000-3D-model
The "Elegance-Series"-background pictures now also include three pictures of a 3D-model of an Amiga 2000.
On the website of the Computer Collection Vienna you can find several rotatable 3D-model in PDF-format. Models of A500, A600, A1200 and A3000 as well as of the CDTV and CD32 will follow.
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