18.Oct.2006
Thomas Steiding (email)
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MorphOS: RuneSoft releases demo version of Robin Hood: The legend of Sherwood
Since today a demo version to the arcade strategy game "Robin Hood: The legend of Sherwood" is available for MorphOS and may be downloaded from the link below.
In "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" the player does not only take on the role of the hero Robin Hood, but also the
roles of his faithful vassals and take them to the battle field
against the nasty Prince John Lackland. In doing so you are able
to enjoy the fabulous English landscape of 1190 as well as the giant
castles and funny characters. The thrilling story is introduced by an
award-winning introduction and transfers you directly into the hero's
body with the first mission, in which you have to set the captive
comrades free. Take up the battle against the oppressors and free
the farmers from the Prince\s reign!
Be smart, be fast! Be Robin Hood!
System Requirements: Pegasos G3/G4 with 128 MB RAM and Radeon GFX Card, 1GB of hard disk space (full version only), CD ROM
drive (full version only).
The full game for MorphOS will probably start shipping by the end of next week.
Direct link: Robin Hood Demo (lha, 63.9 MB) (nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Oct.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.4.2a, new Python version
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez now provides a new version of the Blender 3D packet which now also supports "Nodes". The game engine is currently deactivated in this version.
A newer version of the programming language Python is also available, some problems concerning the interaction with Blener have been sorted out.
Direct download:
Blender: blender_2.42a-mos_bin-20061016.lha (5,9 MB)
Python: python-2.4.2-mos_6b-final-20061016.lha (5,9 MB)
(cg) (Translation: iw)
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17.Oct.2006
Darius Brewka (ANF)
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Workbench substitute: Scalos 41.4
The Workbench substitute Scalos has been published in the beta version 41.4 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.
There are some innovations like further parameter options for menu CLI commands, an additional and faster thumbnail plugin for JPEG pictures as well as immediate window updates with pictogram movements. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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17.Oct.2006
Thorsten Mampel, Guido Mersmann
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Some videos and a report on the Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt
The organisers of the Amiga Meeting Nord recorded some videos with a webcam, showing all presentations and lectures respectively. Those videos can be downloaded at meeting2006.morphosi.net. The organisers thank Robin Hueskes, who provides the webspace on this web page. The users are asked to use the torrents if possible instead of downloading the videos directly, to keep the the load for the Hueskes webserver within bearable limits.
When it comes to a conclusion Thorsten Mampel of the Amiga Club Hamburg says: "It was great fun for everybody. We thank all the participants and especially the developers of the amazing presentations. We especially thank Nobbie for the great service and the barrel of free beer ;-)"
Guido Mersmann has published a report on the Amiga Meeting. However, according to him the report was not complete, but simply reports on the way the meeting went from his point of view. The author hopes you enjoy your reading. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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16.Oct.2006
Murakami (ANF)
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Printmagazin: aMiGa=PoWeR, Issue 36
The 36. Issue of the french Printmagazin proffers among others following
topics:
- News: Huno Party 4, NASS 6, Preview of Scalos (OS4)
- Reviews: Virtual Grand Prix 2 (MOrphOS), WB Super Games
(AmigaOS 4), In Shadow Of Time (AGA)...
- Tutorials: Firewalls under OS4, First Steps with fxPaint,
AntiWord...
- Several more articles, among others Lemonade, Last.fm, TiMIDIty, Linux
on the AmigaOne...
aMiGa=PoWeR wird seit 1998 von AFLE herausgegeben und weltweit vertrieben.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Oct.2006
Amigaharry (ANF)
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MorphOS: Searchtool SearchStar 0.73i
At the newest Version of Tom 'Amigaharry' Duins Searchtool SearchStar
several bug are fixed: It reads now also writeprotected files, this
supports now the reading of CD-ROMs. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Oct.2006
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Aminet-Uploads until 15.10.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
AutoBackUp.lha disk/bakup 4K GEN Backup/clean (mirror imaging) using Back
ext2fs_0.24.lha disk/misc 112K VAR Second Extended FileSystem (EXT2) driver
SFSdefrag.lha disk/misc 5K GEN Arexx: checks and/or defrags SFS drives
pctasknet.lha docs/help 549K GEN tcp/ip under pc-task emulator
DC2Lvl-Venom1.lha game/data 350K GEN 81 levels for Diamond Caves II
minerunner18.lha game/jump 366K OS3 Arcade like Loderunner, 1-4 Players
sdljump_1.0.0.lha game/jump 7.2M MOS Platform game: a Xjump clone
monsters10aga.lha game/shoot 758K OS3 Multitasking WizardOfWor, 1-4 Players
poweroids13.lha game/shoot 333K OS3 Arcade game like Asteroids, 1-4 Players
stardefender11.lha game/shoot 286K OS3 Arcade classic, runs in multitasking
zerberk14.lha game/shoot 110K OS3 Arcade game like Berzerk, 1-4 Players
lunapaint_v025.tgz gfx/edit 68K ARO Graphics program similar to TVPaint
afid-ppc.lha misc/emu 75K VAR Apple ][ DOS 3.3 disk image utility
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 198K OS3 Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulator
sam_player.lha misc/emu 223K VAR Sam Synthesizer program
winarosstart.zip misc/emu 2.3M ARO Comfortable WindowsAROS file transfer
acidtakeover.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN Techno tune from Emulate
adriatic.mp3 mods/kicko 9.5M GEN Classic trance tune from Emulate
agima.mp3 mods/kicko 12M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
alienbusters.mp3 mods/kicko 9.6M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
beerbottles.mp3 mods/kicko 9.8M GEN Classic trance tune from Emulate
cosmicspots.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN HardTrance tune from Emulate
darkalliance.mp3 mods/kicko 9.3M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
deathstar.mp3 mods/kicko 12M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
deepcatacombs.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
deepinside.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
dreamofpenguins.mp3 mods/kicko 8.4M GEN Classic trance tune from Emulate
drumattack.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
eagletrip.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN Hard trance tune from Emulate
earthquake.mp3 mods/kicko 12M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
elephanttrunk.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN Goa/PsyTrance tune from Emulate
erasenotpossible.mp3 mods/kicko 8.7M GEN Hard/Classic Trance tune from Emulate
eyeball.mp3 mods/kicko 9.6M GEN Electro/Trance tune from Emulate
freedom.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN Hard trance tune from Emulate
happyravegirls.mp3 mods/kicko 9.2M GEN Hard/Classic Trance tune from Emulate
highonvestax.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
inhale.mp3 mods/kicko 8.5M GEN Inhale (Eskimoes) - Trance rmx by Emulat
invaders.mp3 mods/kicko 9.4M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
katakara.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
liquidpath.mp3 mods/kicko 13M GEN Goa/PsyTrance tune from Emulate
loveletters.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN Classic Trance tune from Emulate
lovememories.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN Techno/Trance tune from Emulate
lukeskywalker.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
madeonamphetamine.mp3 mods/kicko 8.9M GEN Classic trance tune from Emulate
madeonamphetaminermx.mp3 mods/kicko 9.2M GEN Techno/Trance/House tune from Emulate
morkeleb.mp3 mods/kicko 9.6M GEN Hard trance tune from Emulate
plutey.mp3 mods/kicko 9.5M GEN Plutey - Techno tune from Emulate
robotattack.mp3 mods/kicko 11M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
rockisalive.mp3 mods/kicko 9.5M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
sommartider.mp3 mods/kicko 8.9M GEN Psytrance tune from Transplant
sonicelephant.mp3 mods/kicko 12M GEN HardTrance tune from Emulate
strangefeelings.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN Hard trance tune from Emulate
trappedinspace.mp3 mods/kicko 13M GEN Goa/PsyTrance tune from Emulate
whiskeyessens.mp3 mods/kicko 10M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
wildchicken.mp3 mods/kicko 9.2M GEN PsyTrance tune from Transplant
EsEmErMED1.lha mods/midi 150K GEN Some mods made for General MIDI instr.
playOGG.lha mus/play 1.2M OS3 multi format sound player.
WWorth_fincats.lha text/edit 28K GEN Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
AllocMem.lha util/cli 19K OS4 A command to decrease the available RAM
ScreenToBack.lha util/cli 18K OS4 Push the frontmost screen to the back
clihandler.lha util/rexx 26K GEN preconfigured CLIs
rirc.lha util/rexx 35K GEN IRC client purely in ARexx with scriptin
wordmixer.lha util/rexx 3K GEN wordmixer, TAI NI PROGGI that mutates =D
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Oct.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 15.10.2006
Uploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
libtinysdgl.lha dev/lib 315kb TinyGL software renderer.
amisynergyc.lha net/mis 109kb An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
screentoback.lha uti/scr 17kb A Shell command to push the frontmost sc
allocmem.lha uti/she 18kb A Shell command to reduce memory availab
aorganiser.lha off/mis 249kb AOrganiser - Diary
samplayer.lha aud/mis 125kb SAM Synthesizer program
ipodnanotunenetskin.lha aud/pla 8kb iPod Nano TuneNet skin
sdkbrowser.lha dev/uti 82kb AmigaOS4 SDK Browsing Utility [v1.5.0.0
patolli.lha gam/boa 8Mb Turn-based Aztec/Mayan game
ib_youtube.lha net/bro 3kb Play YouTube videos from IBrowse
sdljump.lha gam/pla 7Mb A Platform game, that is a clone of Xjum
cinepaint_cygnix.lha gra/edi 9Mb Deep paint manipulation and image proces
gimp_cygnix.lha gra/edi 10Mb GNU Image Manipulation Program
sdlmail.lha net/ema 126kb A dirt-simple commandline SMTP mailer
xfce_cygnix.lha uti/fil 14Mb Lightweight desktop environment
vim_cygnix.lha uti/tex 8Mb Advanced text editor
makemountlist.lha uti/she 6kb Creates MountList entry for devices
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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16.Oct.2006
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 15.10.2006
Uploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
winarosstart.zip emu/uti 2Mb StartWinAros (fast and comfortable file
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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15.Oct.2006
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #096
The scene group Liquid Skies released its 96th music pack yesterday. This time, it contains a musical piece called "Change Reality" in electro-music style, which was composed by the Finnish musician Tripper. DaFreak created the cover for this.
Some further information on the track:
- Title: Change Reality
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: Electro
- Play length: 4:03
- Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
- Size: 4.7 MB (ZIP-packed)
The file is available for free download under the title link. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Oct.2006
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Spiegel Online: Demoscene - Bit magicians let computers paint
Under the title link, Spiegel Online has published a short article on the demoscene. Though the Amiga does not appear, at least a screenshot of the Amiga demo "State of the Art" by Spaceballs can be seen. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Oct.2006
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Online MP3 and ring tone generator from mods
Under the title link, Chris Hodges is making available a small web service, which transforms a selection of around 1200 tracker modules into high quality MP3's on-the-fly (with UADE and Lame).
Furthermore, an IMA-ADPCM-compressed Mono-RIFF-WAV file can be generated from the first minute of a mod, which is suited, for instance, for ring tone for cellular phones (which cannot play back MP3's, for example).
Suggestions and feedback are asked for. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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15.Oct.2006
Amigaworld.net (Web page)
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AmigaOS 4: Synergy client AmiSynergyc 2.0
Douglas McLaughlin's Synergy client for AmigaOS 4 has experienced an update to version 2.0. Using Synergy, a keyboard and a mouse can be used for multiple computers of a network (each computer needs its own monitor, however).
Changes for version 2.0:
- Almost completely re-written
- Upgraded to use the current synergy protocol, v1.3
- All mouse and keyboard OS operations now work properly
- Now a commodity
- No need for a reset handler, the server can now detect when a client drops offline
- Mouse pointer blanking is much more system friendly now. No longer loses the pointer image if you switch back to the Amiga mouse when the synergy mouse is offscreen
You can find Synergy server software for Windows, Mac OS and Unix at SourceForge.net.
Download: amisynergyc.lha (109 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)
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13.Oct.2006
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Update of iffparse.library
The MorphOS team has published an update of the iffparse.library for MorphOS 1.4.x which can be downloaded under download.morphos-team.net or from the support-FTP-server.
The update fixes a bug concerning the work with Envoy; here the Accounts Manager could not load the user-database. The developers thank Jochen Rhein for his bug report which was very helpful for this.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2006
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AmigaOS 4: AOrganiser 0.5
Andy Broad has published AOrganiser which is a PIM- (Personal Information Management) tool similar to Digitas Organiser. In version 0.5 wurden several minor demands of the users were added. Besides this starting of external programs at the beginning or the end of a event now works. The most important news:
- Expanded Arexx interface to allow manipulation of event data
- Automatic launching of commands at start and stop of event
- Html documentation
- Improved GUI for easier navigation / look
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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File system: SFS 1.263
Jörg Strohmayer has published the newest version of the alternative file system SFS for AmigaOS 3, too:
- Removes AmigaOS4-only memory types from de_BufMemType if not running
on OS4, that way partitions configured to use an OS4-only memory type
like MEMF_PRIVATE can be mounted on AmigaOS 3.x as well.
- Removable media support was broken in 1.262, fixed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2006
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Remote Desktop Client: Status update
Darren Eveland tells us that authors of the Amiga port of Remote Desktop Client will soon start working on Windows Vista compatability. The current version of the program will be demonstrated at AmiWest (October 21, USA).
Update (15.10.06, 2:30, cg)
Unlike originally reported, there is no new version of Remote Desktop Client available. Apparently there was a mistake when updating the website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Oct.2006
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Amiga Inc.: Cooperation with Envizions Computer Entertainment
Amiga Inc. is announcing a cooperation with "Envizions Computer Entertainment" (EVO). At EVO's next "Multimedia Entertainment System" users are directly guided to evo.shopamiga.com via the menu item "games" . The multimedia content, which will be offered through this shop, could include videos, music, images and ringtones in future, as Amiga Inc. stated. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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11.Oct.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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Commdore emulator: VICE 1.20 (2006-10-11) for all Amiga systems
At the title link there is the latest version of the Commodore emulator VICE for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS (Intel/PPC) available.
VICE emulates virtually all 8 bit computers of Commodore.
The latest release fixes some minor misbehaviours, for example joysticks under AmigaOS 4 are now configureable correctly. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Oct.2006
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WHDLoad: New packages until 10-10-2006
With WHDLoad game and scene demos, which were designed for floppy use, are installable to the hard disk. Additionally
many incompatibilities with the newer Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers were added or updated since our last report:
- 10.10.06 improved: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Mirrorsoft/Probe) Joypad support enhancements (Info)
- 10.10.06 new: Super Skidmarks (Acid Software) done by JOTD (Info)
- 10.10.06 improved: Deliverance (21st Century) new disk imager (Info,Image)
- 08.10.06 improved: CaveMania (Atlantis) megadrive/genesis pad support added (Info)
- 08.10.06 improved: Lionheart (Thalion) supports another version (Info)
- 07.10.06 updated: Lionheart (Thalion) overall reworked, converted to kickemu, several issues fixed, icons and manual added (Info)
- 07.10.06 updated: Enchanted Land (Thalion) overall rework, compatibilty for 68000, icons and manual added (Info)
- 07.10.06 updated: Deliverance (21st Century) trap exceptions fixed, manual and icons added, new install script (Info,Image)
- 07.10.06 updated: Chuck Rock 2 (Core Design) quitkey handling improved (Info)
- 06.10.06 fixed: Questron 2 (SSI) fixed problem with repeated keys, installs correct system-configuration file (Info)
- 04.10.06 updated: Ghost Busters 2 (Activision) access fault removed, new install script, docs added (Info)
- 03.10.06 new: Covert Action (Microprose) done by JOTD (Info)
- 02.10.06 fixed: Legend Of Faerghail (reLINE) fixed bug in access fault fix (Info)
- 02.10.06 updated: Chaos Engine (Bitmap Brothers) added check for rnc packed executable, aga supported properly (Info)
- 18.09.06 updated: Simulcra (Graftgold) new imager and install script (Info)
- 14.09.06 improved: Warhead (Glyn Williams) extro fixed, docs added (Info)
- 14.09.06 updated: F-17 Challenge (Team 17) fixed for WHDLoad 16.6, docs and icons added, new imager (Info)
- 10.09.06 improved: Magnatron (BSP Design) music player fix, can skip intro, infinite energy trainer added, new icons (Info)
- 10.09.06 fixed: Classic Arcadia (Alternative Software) fixed access fault on 060 (Info)
- 10.09.06 fixed: P47 Thunderbolt (Firebird) music player fix, new icons (Info)
- 10.09.06 improved: Crazy Sue 2 (Hironymus Jumpshoe) access fault/music player fixed for 060, gameplay enhancements (Info)
- 10.09.06 improved: Crazy Sue (Hironymus Jumpshoe) access fault/music player fixed for 060, gameplay enhancements (Info)
- 10.09.06 updated: Global Gladiators (Virgin) fast memory usage, protection fix, fixed to work with WHDLoad v16.6 (Info)
- 10.09.06 updated: Crossbow (Screen 7/Intelligent Games) fixed to work with WHDLoad v16.6 (Info)
- 10.09.06 updated: Botics (Krisalis) fixed to work with WHDLoad v16.6 (Info)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Oct.2006
(ANF)
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a1k.org: Change of server and domain move
Robert Wahnsiedler writes: With our incrasing number of users the technical issues with our last provider were increasing also with the result,
that we moved the site to a new server. The forum of
a1k.org is reachable at a1k.amiga-world.de currently. During the week hopefully
the old domain will be switched, too.
Also I'd like to mention tat my public email address apex[@]a1k.org is not reachable since about 2 months
(one of the old provider's issues). Those who send mail to taht address didn't got a failure reply, but the messages were never
passed to my account. I aplolgy for any inconvenience and hope the address will work again from next week on.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Oct.2006
Mikey C (ANF)
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Individual Computers: Clone-A - a reimplementation of the Amiga custom chips
In an exclusive interview with the British print magazine Total Amiga, which
will be published in the next issue, Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers reveals his latest project: Since about one year
Jens Schönfeld and Oliver Achten are working on an exact reproduction of the Amiga chip set.
The project, currently codenamed 'Clone-A', will be publically shown at the AmiWest
(21st October, USA) for the first time: to demonstrate the compatibilty of that solutionn, a normal
A500 will be shown which original custom chips are replaced with Clone-A prototypes. Visitors are invited to bring their own A-500 to the show to
test Clone-A.
The next issue of Total Amiga will be released after the AmiWest, therefore the editors provide a pdf with excerpts of the interview
now which covers the project, its history, the curent development state and detailed photos. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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