Amiga Inc. announces the Amiga® Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 for Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002, Windows CE 3.0, and Windows CE .NET-based devices.

Rich multi-media applications designed for handheld systems to be released on April 15th, 2002

April 10, 2002 Snoqualmie, WA Amiga, Inc. announced the release schedule of the Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 for Windows Powered Devices. The Entertainment Pack will run on devices using Windows CE 3.0, Windows CE .NET, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC 2002 including handhelds, smart phones, web pads, and set-top boxes.

The Entertainment Pack #1 will contain four applications and the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine. These include the award winning Planet Zed and Convex games from ZeoNeo as well as Gobbler and Solitaire from Pulsar Interactive. The Amiga Anywhere Content Engine allows access to more Amiga Anywhere applications available now and in the future.

Since announcing a change from hardware to software Amiga has strived to create and distribute content that can run on numerous digital devices. "Amiga is now focused on the vision that all digital content should be available on all digital devices", said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. To that end Amiga has announced distribution of dozens of applications that can run on a wide range of different types of devices with hundreds more currently in development.

The Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 will provide an exciting experience for owners of Windows Powered handheld devices without using the amount of resources consumed by other applications. Amiga developers are creating rich content using few resources. The average size of an Amiga Anywhere application is under 300KB and yet delivers a more robust experience than titles that are over 2 MB in size.

The Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 will provide an exciting experience for owners of Windows Powered handheld devices without using the amount of resources consumed by other applications. Amiga developers are creating rich content using few resources. The average size of an Amiga Anywhere application is under 300KB and yet delivers a more robust experience than titles that are over 2 MB in size.

"As mobile devices become smarter and more powerful, users are asking for rich entertainment and gaming experiences", said Scott Horn, director, Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group, Microsoft Corp. The combination of the Windows CE operating system's multimedia functionality and Amiga's software solution allows developers to deliver rich applications for a broad range of Windows Powered devices.

Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 will ship on April 15, 2002. More information can be found on the Amiga web site at http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/microsoft/.

About Amiga
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com.
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At the Amigashop of KDH Datentechnik a new business simulation for Amiga is promoted. This one is a port of Software Tycoon, which is at E.p.i.c. Interactive in work. The website of Software Tycoon is reachable via the title link.

Tao's intent® media platform delivers market-leading performance and reliability for the execution of compelling multimedia content, including Java(TM) applications, to the broadest range of handheld operating systems. Yospace has developed a suite of Java(TM) 2 Micro Edition technologies that dramatically compresses the development time of intelligent client mobility solutions.

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Bugreports and suggestions might be sent to following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.

• Software development
  IOSPIRIT develops powerful graphics applications for the most different tasks and target audiences. In development special focus is put on the support of the latest technologies and easy usability while still offering maximum power, flexibility and expandibility. IOSPIRIT also develops new, innovative technologies whereof the user directly profits.
  
  
• Software distribution
  Thanks to a unique infrastructure IOSPIRIT has the possibility to distribute software online and offline.
  
  Online distribution is done via a self-developed online-application for "Electronic Software Delivery" (ESD). In a first step the customer puts the desired articles into the basket and then orders them. After an incoming payment via credit card or pre-payment the download of the product is unlocked for the customer - mostly at the same day the order was placed. As this type of order is automatically handled by the central IOSPIRIT server, cost savings can be passed on directly to the customer in the form of price reductions.
  
  Of course "hard stuff" (so called "package versions" like e.g. CD-ROMs) can also be ordered, which then, thanks to a well thought through and work step optimized infrastructure, can be delivered very quickly. The customer is kept up-to-date on the status of the order via e-mail and can get an overview over his orders (including their status) anytime via IOSPIRIT's website.

• 08.04.02 improved: Full Contact (Team 17) misc changes
• 05.04.02 new: Worms (Team 17) done by JOTD
• 05.04.02 new: Motor Massacre (Gray Matter/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
• 05.04.02 fixed: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) correction
• 05.04.02 improved: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) supports another version, other changes
• 05.04.02 new: Arctic Fox (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 05.04.02 new: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) done by Bored Seal

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In this article he describes in a general and simple way the advantages of the SIMD programming (Single Instruction Multiple Data) against the computing with single values. He also shows the AltiVec support of the gcc with short examples like vector addition with vec_add().

Press releases:

• Jörg Tauss - Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
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1. The 2.3 release is "not far off at all".
2. The feature set is frozen and the remaining bugs are being fixed now.
3. The 2.3 upgrade will be a free release, available on Aminet.
4. It should work on a standard Amiga running OS 3.0/3.1/3.5/3.9.

For more information, please contact Ron van Herk at info@compcity.nl.

To give the users and developers an overview on the state of the software, please read these facts.

The hardware interface allows to use any USB controller hardware, if the drivers are written for it:

• As already reported a few days ago by Michael Böhmer, Poseidon will be the official USB stack included with the Highway and Subway products. It has been developed using these fine cards.
• A native PPC compile for MorphOS will be possible. Moreover, the MorphOS development team (cyfm) is working on a hardware driver (UHCI) for the Pegasos. By the time of writing, the keyboard and mouse classes already work with more coming soon.
• Benjamin Vernoux has started with a OHCI driver implementation.

• hub.class for the root hub and external hubs. Allows real plug-and-play and unplugging of USB devices at the user's will (tested with an external hub and a composite keyboard-hub).
• bootmouse.class for mice (lots of different mice tested).
• bootkeyboard.class for keyboards (several keyboards tested).
• printer.class delivering an usbparallel.device for printing (tested with Canon S400/S450/S500, Hewlett Packard printers)
• massstorage.class for flash card readers and other mass media.

More drivers are still to come. Remember that Poseidon is work-in-progress.

There is already a tool to read out pictures from Webcams using the STV680 chip. Other drivers (which will have much more features) will be provided by Felix Schwarz for VHI Studio. You can find the first Amiga USB Webcam at

webcam.jpg

Trident, a GUI for Poseidon, is already on the way, although the stack is so easy to handle, that advanced users will probably stick to the few CLI commands for loading Poseidon. The whole stack and its class drivers can be made ROM resident, so that the USB mouse and keyboard is already available in the boot menu. Even more, it is planned to add booting capabilities to the massstorage.class.

Developers, who want to contribute may apply for the SDK by sending an email to poseidon@platon42.de. Also have a look at http://www.e3b.de/usb for more detailed technical information.

A demo version should be available in the forseeable future. Check the Aseq site: www.aseq.de regularly for updates etc. The site is for the time being quite simple. I am open to any suggestions, wishes, donations etcetera =)

Versions are planned for the Amiga and a variety of other platforms, like linux, QNX, (dr)dos and Mac OSX.

Feature list:

• Easy to use and fast interface
• Intuitive sequencing method(x0x), no steep learning curve
• Fully integrated usage of both midi sounds and native audio (samples)
• Hardware indepedant OS friendly coding
• Does only need little resources
• No fixed pattern length
• Easy to use gui for many controller functions in midi
• Patch editor, programmable with your own midi and midi sysex messages
• Midi event editor, so you can edit every midi message/event yourself
• more ....

• BenHermans.mpg (356 MB)
• RobotFights.mpg (240 MB)
• ShowFloor.mpg (125 MB)

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Detailed changes:

• The version string is back. [Hexaae]
• Fixed AGA screen depth and improved performance with FBlit. [Hexaae]
• Fixed P96 screen depth. [kakace]
• Should work without NoJoyCheck on systems where it was necessary before (A4000 with nothing plugged in joy port 1, for example).
• AntiBlanker feature: you can create a ENV:AntiBlanker.cfg file which contains a list of tasks that prevent blanking. [ChaoZer]

The new archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Now the details to the news

• New scaling engine with antialiasing. When playing the game you can switch between the scaling engines at any time.
• The program contains code for the MIDI-music. The MIDI-music starts playing as soon as AMidi will have been published for MorphOS.
• Support of the CD-ROM-audiotracks of Loom and Monkey Island. The MorphOS-version is the first one after the SDL-version which supports audiotracks. Because of that I have created a new CD-audio-library which is enclosed in the archive as a beta version and which can automaticly recognize CD-ROM-drives connected to the computer and if there is more than one CD-drive which can automaticly find the one with the "right" game-CD.
• Standard MorphOS command line (instead of the usual Unix like one).
• Start possible over pictprogram from the workbench or from the toolbar without having to write a script for this.
• Support for the video sequences of The Dig and Full Throttle.
• Manual with 26 pages in PDF-format and with detailed FAQ (requires Apdf).
• Archive contains colourful pictprograms for all supported games.
• Before publishing as usual all supported games have been tested that they are work like the Windows/Linux-versions.
• ... Many more minor improvements and bugfixes.

Intellectual property rights related to GoldED Studio, including source codes, documentation, distribution rights, the web site etc., are available for sale.

There are no plans to release the source code under the GPL or in a similar form or to make the software or its source code available free of charge.

What will happen to the BASIC interpreter?
Expect the source code to be made available under the GPL in the near future (in a nutshell, a GPL is a public domain license).

If you have a look at their Easter nest you'll find games like Rings of Medusa, Super Cars 1+2, Genetic Species Heimdall 2, Larry 1 Remake, Sherman M4, Pinball Magic and many others. Besides that many scene demos from the fantastic Mekka+Symposium 2002 demo party have been added, more music from the demoscene came online and the picture galleries are now containing some extremely colorful little eggs.

• HIGHWAY Production is on a roll
• Software Developer Kit is available
• VHI Studio is a solution for DigiCams
• TurboPrint printer driver
• Network module NORWAY (10MBit) is an option

The new board will be distributed in Europe by individual Computers, so it will be available from all our trade partners mentioned on the contact page.