• New Ethernet adapter class for Pegasus chip sets
• New USB datalink class
• Big fixes and improvements of the HID class
• Automated mounting of CDs, DVDs and NTFS by the mass storage device class - given thefile system is available
• several minor bugfixes

• 01.11.06 updated: War Machine (Players Premier) some bugs fixed, extra options added (Info)
• 28.10.06 improved: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) 512k slave works, timers fixed, install script improved (Info)
• 28.10.06 updated: Gravity (Image Works) rewritten install, copylock removed, smc and other fixes, icons added (Info)
• 28.10.06 new: Calephar (Future) done by CFOU! (Info,Image)
• 18.10.06 improved: Xenophobe (Microstyle) trainer added (Info)
• 15.10.06 improved: Alien III (20th Century Fox) enhanced joypad support for CD³² (Info)
• 14.10.06 improved: LED Storm (Capcom/Software Creations) full rewrite, uses kickemu, copylock decrypted properly (Info)
• 12.10.06 improved: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) supports another version (Info,Image)
• 12.10.06 fixed: Chuck Rock 2 (Core Design) fixed a game bug revealed by the re-activation of the keyboard interrupt (Info)
• 12.10.06 new: Pinball Prelude (Effigy) done by JOTD (Info)
• 12.10.06 updated: Life & Death (Software Toolworks/Mindscape) blitter waits inserted so fonts are not trashed (Info)

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      D I S C R E E T F X   W A N T S   T O   B U Y   A M I G A 

            B I L L   M C E W E N   I N T E R V I E W E D

     V I N T A G E   C O M P U T E R   F E S T I V A L   S O O N 

    E N V I Z I O N S   A N D   A M I G A   I N   E V O   D E A L

       N O V A D E S I G N   S E L L I N G   C I N E M A T T E 

      T W O   A M I K I T   U P D A T E S   I N   O C T O B E R 

           A O R G A N I S E R   D I A R Y   P R O G R A M 

         P A C K A G E S   F O R   X 1 1   A V A I L A B L E 

         A M I A T L A S   U N D E R G O E S   U P G R A D E

     O N Y X S O F T   R E L E A S E S   F I V E   U P D A T E S

       A U D I O   E V O L U T I O N   D I S T R I B U T I O N 

    S C U M M V M   U P D A T E   ' P A L M O S '   R E V I V E D

          B A T T L E   F O R   W E S N O T H   1 . 1 . 1 1

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
I suppose it's rather appropriate that this last issue of "Amiga 
Update" sees Amiga Inc., in something of a turmoil. During our entire 
12 plus years of publication, one thing the Amiga has never had is 
long term stability. The current situation is nothing like the near 
fatal circumstances of that weekend after Commodore went bankrupt, the 
event that launched "Amiga Update", but it is interesting.

Besides the surprise announcement that DiscreetFX wants to buy Amiga, 
we have the revelation this month of legal issues with Gary Hare, 
briefly CEO of Amiga and KMOS. The accusations back and forth seem to 
center on competence, failure to pay salary, and who was supposed to 
do what for whom. You can read more about this at ANN 
http://ann.lu/detail.cgi?category=news&file=1161197009.msg where there 
is reference to the original article at Amiga-News.de (in German). We 
are not in a position to unravel this for you - not sure anyone who 
wasn't involved could. But we suggest you check out the articles if 
you find this sort of thing interesting. It is unlikely the full story 
will every be known by other than the participants. What is or will be 
important is how all this affects Amiga Inc., and we'll have to wait 
some for that to develop.
 
Then there's the matter of the interview with the once and current CEO 
(I think I have that right) Bill McEwen. We have a quote and a few 
thoughts on that below. 

As for "Amiga Update", as announced this will be its last issue. Well, 
probably. If OS4 actually does make it to production release before 
January 1 of 2007, we will send out a special issue celebrating the 
event. Regardless of whether that happens or not, be assured the 
mailing list will not be given or sold to anyone. The website will 
remain up for now so you can rummage through past issues if you wish.

I have no big speaches or fairwells as I really have no idea what I'd 
say. I will be around, and keeping a close eye on the community of 
which I'm a part just like before. But the time devoted to publishing 
this newsletter will be invested in other pursuits. There are many 
good sources of Amiga news out there. If you need one place to go to 
start looking, head over to www.amigaworld.net and continue on from 
there.

Hey, this being the last issue, it might become a collector's item! Be 
sure you hang on to your original copy! :-)

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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     D I S C R E E T F X   W A N T S   T O   B U Y   A M I G A 

Chicago, Illinois - October 19th, 2006
Visual FX company, DiscreetFX LLC Inc., and their investors sent a
formal proposal to Amiga Inc., requesting formal validation of the
company's value. Currently, DiscreetFX are hard at work completing the
"Super Size Me"-like film about trans fat, entitled "Oil Change." The
plan is to secure funding to purchase Amiga Inc. and all of its IP in
the next year, to take place after completion of the movie, which has
been in pre-production for more than a year.

Such a transaction, however, depends on whether Amiga Inc. agrees to
sell in the next year, and if an agreed-upon price can be negotiated.
DiscreetFX believesthere is tremendous value in the Amiga brand and
though we primarily develop our visual effects software on NewTek
video editing solutions for Windows and Mac OS X," said DiscreetFX CEO
Bill Panagouleas, "the Amiga has always held a special place in my
heart since I developed my first product for the Amiga Video Toaster I
want to help bring the Amiga back to it's former glory in new IT
markets." If an agreement can be reached between Amiga Inc. and
DiscreetFX, the much speculated return of the Amiga brand could spark
a unique, new chapter in the machine's ever fluctuating history.Amiga 
OS 4.0. "Even {the original press release just ends at this point. 
What you see is what we have. Brad}

Best regards,

DiscreetFX Team


About DiscreetFX

DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video 
editing, computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The 
Amiga computer defined and created the affordable video editing, 
computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates 
Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs 
including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also see 
DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, 
Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more! Video Toaster, VT[5], VT[4]/[3]/
[2], SpeedEDIT are registered trademarks of NewTek. Final Cut Studio 
and Mac OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Computer. Amiga is a 
registered trademark of Amiga Incorporated.

http://www.discreetfx.com/
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           B I L L   M C E W E N   I N T E R V I E W E D

An interview of Bill McEwen at the "Temple of Technology" site 
appreared during the month (October 4). We cannot run the interview 
here but can suggest you go read it for yourself.

We can also point out that most of the product questions were ducked, 
which isn't too surprising when discussing works in progress. McEwen 
does state that OS 5 will be so different that it needs a new name. It 
will be better than Mac OS X. Not sure what that means exactly, but it 
probably tells us something about what Amiga regards as quality.

We were pleased to find out that Fleecy Moss is still with the 
company and still leading development efforts. 

The most interesting question and answer from our point of view was 
the following;

"In the Amiga.org questions, you ended the session with a personal 
note to the Amiga community. It described a lot of events that 
explained why things happened as they did after Amiga was bought from 
Gateway.

"While it was well received, one thing disappointed me. I had hoped 
for a hint of self criticism. While external events played a big role 
in the outcome, to me it's obvious that Amiga made a bunch of mistakes 
at the time (Amithlon for example), and an admission of those things 
would have made me more confident that the new Amiga deserves more 
attention and support, and that you've learned from the past. 
Comments?

"BM>> Of course we made a great many mistakes, and I take full 
responsibility for those mistakes. There are so many differences from 
what I was and what I am today, I am hardly the same person. We are a 
much more careful company with far more detailed plans, and we are 
taking steps that keep us in focus on the target.

"We simply did not have the financial backing to accomplish what we 
needed to accomplish. The financial decisions that were made then are 
not the decisions that we are making today. The operations run very 
differently than they did then, and I am held accountable by a board 
of directors and Chairman that I check in daily with. We have a 
schedule, plans, goals, and milestones that I and the rest of the team 
are held to. The board of directors are international in nature, and 
are all highly successful people. They also have a vision for what 
Amiga is going to be, and they are directly involved in us getting 
there.

"So while I can only say that I am sorry for what has transpired in 
the past, the most important item is what we are going to deliver 
today and tomorrow." 

You can read the entire interview starting at:

http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?articleid=62&pageid=1
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    V I N T A G E   C O M P U T E R   F E S T I V A L   S O O N 
 
31 October, 2006

Come one, come all to the Vintage Computer Festival 9.0, Nov. 4-5, at 
the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (San Jose area), 
California.
http://www.vintage.org

Nestled in the heart of the Silicon Valley, the Computer History 
Museum is full of analog and digital computers harking back to as 
early as the 1940s.
http://www.computerhistory.org

Join the 500 to 700 VCF attendees to listen to the speakers (Steve 
Wozniak!), marvel at the exhibits, and buy the vintage computer goods 
of your dreams. The Fresno Commodore User Group will have its usual 
demonstration/vending table. Come and meet me and FCUG members, Ed 
Hart, Clark Murphy, Bill Ward, and Mitch Zollinger. Who knows who else 
you will see wandering through the rooms? (Amigan Dale Luck is a 
regular VCF attendee.) Come to our table and play with a VIC-20 
system, an SX-64 system, NTSC and PAL C64 DTVs and the Hummer DTV, an 
Amiga CD-32 (this time with several different discs), and a Vectrex 
(hey, what's that doing here?). As usual, we will have C= hardware and 
programs for sale - C64s, C128s, 1541s, 1571s, an SX-64, On the 
Edge books, and more. As usual, we will have cakes, cookies, and punch 
to hand out to anyone who asks. As usual, there will be other vendors 
who will have Commodore and Amiga items.

New for this year, Bill Ward will be bringing a video projector and 
screen on Sunday so that we can have big-time Commodore/Amiga gaming! 
Also for the first time, we will have an exhibit with a very good-to- 
excellent condition Commodore PET 2001 with plenty of programs for it 
to run. Also, check out the strange and mysterious, outboard "sound 
box" for the PET. Larry Anderson and your PET/Flash Attack exhibit, 
watch out! For more information go to 
http://www.vintage.org/2006/main/exhibit.php
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    E N V I Z I O N S   A N D   A M I G A   I N   E V O   D E A L

ANNISTON, Alabama and Issaquah, Washington , October 10, 2006 - 
Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation today announced that 
Amiga multimedia applications will be available with the upcoming 
release of EVO, Envizions? next generation multi-media entertainment 
system.

EVO users will immediately be able to download and play Amiga?s arcade 
quality video games designed to run on EVO, PC, TV, various high end 
mobile and hand-held devices and memory storage platforms such as U3, 
flash drives and SD cards. EVO customers will gain access to new 
multimedia content when released by Amiga; this content may include 
video, music, images and tones.

Each time users access the games section of their menu on EVO, they 
will be directed to the co-branded website evo.shopamiga.com where 
they can easily purchase the latest Amiga applications. Envizions 
further plans to also make Amiga content available through its EVO 
Connect service.

"Amiga lets users enjoy EVO at home and on their mobile devices ," 
said Derrick Samuels, CEO of Envizions. "The caliber of Amiga's 
content and the new official sports-branded games adds great value to 
EVO."

?EVO greatly enhances the media center with PC and console features,? 
said Greg Sigel, Vice President of Amiga. ?It's a great fit for 
Amiga's cross platform applications both from a player and developer 
perspective.?

About Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation:

Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation was incorporated on 
August 10, 2004, and founded by Derrick Samuels. With main 
headquarters located at 801-5 Nobel Street, Anniston, Alabama, the 
company is involved in electronic devices, media and publishing. The 
company's most ambitious project is the highly anticipated EVO: Phase 
One media entertainment unit. For more information, visit 
www.envizionsinc.com
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       N O V A D E S I G N   S E L L I N G   C I N E M A T T E 

9 October, 2006

Cinematte Nova Design is seeking companies interested in adding 
Cinematte to their product line or individuals interested in starting 
a business based on Cinematte.

There is much information regarding Cinematte on this site. What 
ollows is business information regarding the sale of this asset.

Financials
Asking: $45,000
Inventory: $4000 approx. (included in the asking price)

Business Summary
Cinematte was created in 1995 as part of the Amiga (a computer popular 
in the late 1980?s and early 1990?s for desktop video) software 
package, ImageFX. Cinematte was one of the first true digital 
bluescreening software packages for compositing actors, and other 
subjects, photographed against a blue (or other compatible solid 
color) background into another photograph, film or video. While many 
applications on all platforms attempt to provide methods of realistic 
compositing, Cinematte is one of the few that can do this easily and 
realistically using the same methods pioneered in Hollywood features.

In 1996 Cinematte was recreated as a plugin for Adobe?s popular 
Photoshop graphics application. First available under the Windows 
platform and later on Macintosh OS X. At this time Cinematte was spun 
off as its own package and was marketed under a different company name 
to distinguish itself.

Cinematte was a strong seller from the start. Originally thought of as 
a software tool for special effects companies, Cinematte grew to find 
strong appeal in the then-new digital still photography market, 
especially with photographers working with catalog photography and the 
novelty photograph market.

The Amiga version of Cinematte was the last to receive significant 
updates to its functionality in 2002. These new features were 
scheduled for implementation on the Windows/Macintosh version, but 
were never completed. Other versions were also planned for additional 
markets, which would require relatively less programming effort, but 
were also not completed. These markets all still exist, as well as 
many new markets have arisen. For ten years Cinematte has been a 
strong product, and the market still continues to grow for this 
quality compositing package.

Cinematte, under a new vision, could also be sold in partnership with 
many other companies in the non-linear editing (NLE) and digital 
photography worlds as part of bundling or licensing arrangements. 
These could be done as one-time deals or be used to drive sales back 
to the full Cinematte package.

Any existing company in the graphics field would find Cinematte to be 
an excellent addition to its software catalog. Cinematte would also 
make an ideal basis for a business for a programmer looking to start 
his or her own company.

Market Outlook
Competition: Only two partially competing products existing. Both are 
significantly more expensive and lack significant features present in 
our product. User interfaces on competition are more limiting as well. 
No attempt by competition to appeal to larger market in the pro-sumer 
realm.

Growth/Expansion: Expansion possibilities are huge. Cinematte could be 
made available as a plugin product for many other packages and 
platforms that would greatly expand its market. Features developed for 
Amiga version have never been ported to the existing Photoshop plugin.

Distribution: Currently offered through one catalog reseller who does 
a good business and sold online direct without any current promotion.

Demo Reel
The Nova Design, Inc. demo reel, including many sequences bluescreened 
with Cinematte, can be seen on YouTube at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cAf6cgu5N0

About the Sale
Support/Training: Will provide 60 days of part-time consulting service 
on non-programming issues. Programming consulting available at hourly 
rate.
Trademarks: Cinematte trademark will be transferred to purchaser.
Source Code: All source code will be transferred to purchaser.
Documentation: All documentation for all editions will be transferred 
to purchaser.

Reason Selling: Do not have the time to maintain, nor to build.

Contact
Kermit Woodall can be reached at kermit@novadesign.com, by mail at 
Nova Design, Inc., PO Box 9441, Richmond, VA 23228

http://www.novadesign.com/exoops/modules/news/article.php?storyid=30
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      T W O   A M I K I T   U P D A T E S   I N   O C T O B E R 

AmiKit is a freeware compilation of more than 300 of the finest Amiga 
programs (free/shareware). In short, AmiKit is the way to experience a 
high-end Classic AmigaOS on your Windows system (providing you own 
legal AmigaOS and ROM file, otherwise see our site).

AmiKit contains many expansions and add-ons (more than 25.000 files 
are included!) that turn the default AmigaOS installation into a 
completely renewed and fresh environment. This pre-configured package 
is designed for immediate use.

AmiKit 1.2.3 Live update (24-Oct-2006):

- ADDED:     French catalogs for AmiStart and BoingBall by Eric 
             Luczyszyn
- UPDATED:   AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.3
- UPDATED:   Meridian 2.22
- UPDATED:   MMKeyboard 3.23
- UPDATED:   MultiRen 1.63
- UPDATED:   PlayOGG 5.6a
- UPDATED:   SmartFileSystem 1.263
- UPDATED:   TheMPegEncGUI 2.63
- UPDATED:   VICE 1.20 (11-Oct-2006)
- REVERTED:  Jabberwocky 1.5.2 (the newer v1.6 and v1.7b1 crash on 
             exit)

 AmiKit 1.2.2 Live update (03-Oct-2006):

- ADDED:    EaglePlayer replayers (Musicline 4/8V, NoiseTracker, 
            Protracker, TFMX) by Wanted Team (Don Adan)
- UPDATED:  AfA_OS 3.94
- UPDATED:  AmiKit - Live Update 1.1 (now waits 3s before rebooting to 
            ensure the downloaded file has been completely saved)
- UPDATED:  AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.2 (workaround for possible 
            incompatibility of 1280x800 screenmode)
- UPDATED:  AmigAIM 0.9455
- UPDATED:  PlayOGG 5.1
- FIXED:    AmigaAMP 68k-Emu engine should work again. It was 
            overwritten by WarpUp version in previous AmiKit update by 
            mistake.

http://amikit.amiga.sk/history.htm
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         A O R G A N I S E R   D I A R Y   P R O G R A M 

Description:    AOrganiser - Diary
Download:   aorganiser.lha       
Version:    0.5
Date:           13 Oct 06
Author:     Andy Broad
Submitter:  Andy Broad
Email:          andy/broad ology org uk
Homepage:   http://www.broad.ology.org.uk/amiga
Category:   office/misc
Replaces:   office/misc/aorganiser.lha
License:    Freeware
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     2164

Diary: Version 0.5 (13/10/2006)
Author: Andy Broad <andy()broad.ology.org.uk>
Copyright: Andy Broad 2006

This is a first release of a simple to use Diary program.
It's conceived as an AmigaOS4 replacement for the Digita Organiser
but is not intended to be a direct clone of that program. It has a
GUI styled on a traditional paper diary and also an Arexx interface,
Oh and it's a commodity.

Installation:

Copy the contents of the archive to the location of your choice.
say Work:Organiser.

Usage:

The archive contains two programs Diary and import.

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DIARY is the main program. It can be run from CLI or workbench.

Tooltypes / command line options

FILE          - the diary file to be loaded. If not set when starting 
                from a Project icon the filename will be derived from 
                the icon.
CX_POPUP/K    - set to YES to open window on program start. (defaults 
                to YES)
CX_POPKEY/K   - sets the popup hotkey, defaults to "ctrl alt d"
CX_PRIORITY/K - set the commodity priority

The GUI is fairly simple, click on EDIT / DELETE to toggle modes, in 
edit mode clicking on a day gadget will bring up a window to enter a 
new event entry. Clicking on an event title will allow editing an 
existing event. In delete mode clicking on and event allows to remove 
it. (with warning req!)

Before iconification or quiting Diary will ask you to save if the 
diary was modified.

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IMPORT is a quick and dirty tool which allows you to convert a Digita 
Organiser 1.1
file to the new format. It works by creating a set of Arexx commands 
that can be pasted into a script. Run this script to create your new 
diary.

eg:
>work:Organiser/Import Ram:olddiaray >ram:new.rexx

Then edit new.rexx adding

/* */

options results
address DIARY

to the beginning of the file.

You may well find you need to edit the arexx commands by hand, 
particularly if had mquotes or apostrophes in any of your titles or 
notes.

It works quite well for a 1.1 file may not work at all for later 
versions. Use with caution, you may lose data.


KNOWN BUGS:

Adding a large number of events to a given day or creating events will 
long title will distort the GUI.


TODO:

Improve the GUI.
Extend Localisation
Extend ARexx interface.
Add Alarms function
Add automation functions. (run commands at start and end of events)
Produce proper documentation (probably html)

HISTORY:

0.5 Changing EndTime gadget will now cause the EndDate gadget to be 
set to the start date if not allready set. Clearing the End Date 
gadget will still clear the EndTime as well.

    When the 1st of the month fell on a sunday it the wrong week would 
be displayed.
    (FIXED)

    Added ICONIFY, SHOW, and HIDE, arexx commands.

    Arexx and commodity quit options now bring up a save requester if 
    the diary has been mofified.
    A cancel option has been added to this requester

    Added NEXT KEY/N ; PREV KEY/N ; GET KEY/N,FIELD/K,STEM/K DELETE
KEY/N/A,FORCE Arexx Comands

    Now displays multiple events in a day in chronological order.

    Added "calender gadget" the "empty" "eigth" day.

    Changed usage of timer.device so that it doesn't matter if the 
    system time is set backwards.

    Added "Actions" on start an end  times of events.

    Rearranged GUI slightly to improve look / save space/

    Added html documentation to the archive.

0.4 First Public release:
0.1. - 0.3 Internal test builds.

LICENSE:

This software is released as FREEWARE, however the author retains the 
right to modify this license for later version of the software.

DISCLAIMER:

No responsibility is taken by the author for any lost data, missed 
appointments etc.


DONATIONS:

This work has been largely been to done to fulfil my own needs and to 
support the AmigaOS 4 community in general, but it does take a lot of 
time so if you would like to make a donation there is a PayPal button 
at http://www.broad.ology.org.uk/amiga/

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=office/misc/aorganiser.lha
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         P A C K A G E S   F O R   X 1 1   A V A I L A B L E 

10 October, 2006

On OS4-depot are four new packages for the X11 environment. Made 
available by Cygnix:

* Cinepaint 0.21.1 (image manipulation program)
* Gimp 1.2.5 (image manipulation program)
* vim 7.0 (text editor)
* Xfce 3.8.16 (desktop manager)

All these packages are alpha versions. This means, that some functions 
of the programs are not working or some tools are missing.
The development is stopped for the moment, because I need time for 
some other projects. I published these projects in the hope, that it 
could be usefull for the community.
Please look at the READMEs for the missing features.

http://os4depot.net/
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         A M I A T L A S   U N D E R G O E S   U P G R A D E

3 October, 2006

At the moment a complete rework/update of the different travel guides 
is in progress. Further there is an extension of the information about 
parks with better maps for a more precise route calculation. Of course 
the emphasis lies on the German map because of the much higher demand. 
The network of streets is uptodate including recently opened highway 
sections.

If someone wishes his residence to be included (even the smallest 
places!) in the map just write a mail with the name of the location, 
Geo-coordinates and information on the street connections (description 
and the exact distance to other locations).

As always we are searching for helpers for data entering! Lists of 
coordinates are always welcome... Alternatively also helpers for the 
entering of the data into the maps themself.

There are also possibilities for the view and print od data in various 
formats like HTML or PDF instead of AmigaGuide.

http://www.amiatlas.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de
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    O N Y X S O F T   R E L E A S E S   F I V E   U P D A T E S

24 October, 2006

OnyxSoft is releasing five software updates! The winter is around the 
corner and our application specialist Deniil has recently snowed in 
and became hyperactive so he releases a bunch of updates apps for your 
satisfaction =) 

Updated programs

AllKeys v2.0 - (OS4,MOS) Hotkey program supporting most multimedia-
keys and mousebuttons. It has a GUI now!

Annotate v2.5 - (OS4) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of 
functions. These are the major updates: Fixed the not saved config 
bug. Uses application.library. Has AutoUpdate over the net! Uses the 
OS4 slab allocator. Fixed editable hotkeys. Plus many many more small 
fixes and enhancements...

MultiRen v1.63 - (68k) Powerful multi-file renaming tool using MUI. 
Has plugin-support for MP3-renaming and more. Fixed a few minor bugs.

TheMPegEncGUI v2.63 - (68k) Full-featured GUI for MP3-encoders. Fixed 
a bug in the ObtainCDDB code. Fixed a few bugs regarding auto rename. 
Fixed a few things in the ID3 code.

QuickSketch v1.03 - (68k) A simple sketching tool, like a Post-It. A 
few fixes and enhancements including the bug that made it impossible 
to draw before the window was resized.

http://www.onyxsoft.se/
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      A U D I O   E V O L U T I O N   D I S T R I B U T I O N 

4 October, 2006 

As of October 5th 2006, the world-wide distribution and publishing 
contract with Computer City has ended. Also, a large price reduction 
was required to have a competitive pricing when Audio Evolution 5 is 
released early next year on Mac OSX and Windows.

This means that from now on, Audio Evolution 4 can be purchased for 
the incredibly low price of 49 euro (a 100 euro price drop!) from the 
author directly. Because of this price, the full version will be sent 
by email instead of on CD. For users of classic machines on OS3, the 
older Audio Evolution 3 is also available for only 25 euro (with l
imited support). For ordering information, please send an email to 
order@audio-evolution.com or visit the Audio Evolution homepage.

Although AE5 runs partly on OS4/X11 as well, some technical issues 
with wxWidgets on OS4/X11 must be resolved first before AE5 can be 
released on OS4. AE5 will feature multi-channel recording and the use 
of VST effects and/or Audio Units.

For AE4 users, a small update 4.0.9 can be found in the downloads 
section. It fixes an issue preventing it from running on newer 
kernels. It also includes copy and paste functionality in the MIDI 
remote setup window.

http://www.audio-evolution.com
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   S C U M M V M   U P D A T E   ' P A L M O S '   R E V I V E D

29 October, 2006

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical 
point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data 
files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the 
executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on 
systems for which they were never designed!

ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft's Simon the 
Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and 
Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the 
Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins; Westwood Studios' The Legend of 
Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility 
for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, 
including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. 
Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so check 
back often.

Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, 
Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, 
PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more...

Our forum and IRC channel, #scummvm on irc.freenode.net, are open for 
comments and suggestions. Please read our FAQ before posting.
         
    
Latest Developments
     
Oct. 29th, 2006: ScummVM 0.9.1 "PalmOS revived" released

We are pleased to announce the 0.9.1 ScummVM bugfix release.

There were lots of important bugfixes and small improvements. We are 
also glad that three additional platforms are now officially 
supported: Nintendo DS, GP2X and GP32. You can already download 
official DS and GP2X binaries, and the GP32 port will be available 
soon.

Some of the most significant bugfixes are:

    * Many fixes for Humongous Entertainment games and better support 
      for international versions of the games
    * Improved detection of the FM-TOWNS version of Indy3
    * Several fixes for The Feeble Files and more non-English versions 
      are supported now
    * Some parts of the Kyrandia engine were rewritten so the game 
      needs less CPU power now, and thus works better on lower-end 
      devices
    * The PSP, PS2 and WinCE ports were greatly improved
    * The PalmOS port is again up-to-date and features separate build 
      for Tapwave Zodiac
    * The WinCE port supports 2002 devices again

http://www.scummvm.org/
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          B A T T L E   F O R   W E S N O T H   1 . 1 . 1 1 

Description:    Battle for Wesnoth
Download:   wesnoth.lha       
Version:    1.1.11
Date:           31 Oct 06
Author:     Fredrik Wikstrom (OS4 compile)
Submitter:  Fredrik Wikstrom
Email:          fredrik/a500 org
Homepage:   http://wesnoth.org
Category:   game/strategy
License:    GPL
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     2245
 
This is an OS4 compile of the latest development version of "Battle 
for Wesnoth" on http://wesnoth.org. Thanks to Andrea Palmatè for the 
original OS4 port and to the Wesnoth team for including the necessary 
changes into their CVS, without which this recompile would probably 
have been much harder.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a 
fantasy theme, and is now available for Amiga OS4.

Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate 
heir, or use your dread power over the Undead to dominate the land of 
mortals, or lead your glorious Orcish tribe to victory against the 
humans who dared despoil your lands. Wesnoth has many different sagas 
waiting to be played out. You can create your own custom units, and 
write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also 
challenge your friends or strangers and fight multi-player epic 
fantasy battles.

File            Version Size    Date       Readme
wesnoth_old.lha 1.1.7   76Mb    09 Jul 06  Battle for Wesnoth

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• Amiga and MorphOS news of september/october 2006
• News about Amiga Inc
• Interview with Bruno Ethvignot
• Review of FreeCNC
• Review of Primate Plunge
• Review of Torcs
• Comparative : Defender Of The Crown VS Defender Of The Crown 2
• Comparative : Ambient VS Scalos
• Article about the Commodore 64
• Article about flash memory cards
• Hardware : passive cooling of the Pegasos CPU card
• Hardware : transform a Pegasos into a Media Center
• Tutorial : wifi with a Pegasos on MorphOS
• Tutorial : create a common partition for several OS on Pegasos
• The Amiga Quizz of september/october 2006
• The Commdore 64 Quizz

• Interview with Martyn Brown
• Interview with Paul Carrington
• Interview with Filip Dab-Mirowski
• Interview with Edivision
• Interview with Ilkka Lehtoranta

• Many fixes for Humongous Entertainment games and better support for international versions of the games
• Improved detection of the FM-TOWNS version of Indy3
• Several fixes for The Feeble Files and more non-English versions are supported now
• Some parts of the Kyrandia engine were rewritten so the game needs less CPU power now, and thus works better on lower-end devices
• The PSP, PS2 and WinCE ports were greatly improved
• The PalmOS port is again up-to-date and features separate build for Tapwave Zodiac
• The WinCE port supports 2002 devices again

• Bugfix in audio.output and update to 51.5. Added missing stream seek to the start after playback is finished at stream end. Makes it consistent with MMM_Stop (which rewinds stream too).
• netpbm.demuxer 51.2 now fully supports NetPBM "P1" subformat (monochrome plain text images). Internal buffering speeds up decoding of ASCII data.
• bitplane decoder 51.2 has internal buffering added as well. These are two first Reggae classes written in C++.

• ADDED: French catalogs for AmiStart and BoingBall by Eric Luczyszyn
• UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.3
• UPDATED: Meridian 2.22
• UPDATED: MMKeyboard 3.23
• UPDATED: MultiRen 1.63
• UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.6a
• UPDATED: SmartFileSystem 1.263
• UPDATED: TheMPegEncGUI 2.63
• UPDATED: VICE 1.20 (11-Oct-2006)
• REVERTED: Jabberwocky 1.5.2 (the newer v1.6 and v1.7b1 crash on exit)

• new autoframeskip logic with fps limiting for both PAL and NTSC
• real 4 channel stereo
• Added new Menu User Interface (Menu Graphics by The Chaos Engine (from our forums))
• Immediate Blits (Helps with compatability)
• Blitter Cycle Exact (Helps with compatability)
• High Density...

• 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...

• Title: Change Reality
• Artist: Tripper
• Style: Electro
• Play length: 4:03
• Format: mp3 @ 160 kbps
• Size: 4.7 MB (ZIP-packed)

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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)

• Files with the same fileextension will be summarized, which brings a higher compression rate
• Bugfixes
• Progress bar will be more frequent updated.

• Fixed: optimized scrolling
• Fixed: Better centering on zoom in/out
• Fixed: optimized redraw (askminmax)
• Fixed: crash when closing a window
• Fixed: crash when closing the pubscreen
• NEW: Recessed buttons if active tool
• NEW: Dotted line around active color in palette
• NEW: Colorpicker tool (works in Snap to palette mode and 64-bit mode)

• Objective
• Presentation of Genesi's HMCS
• Necessary hardware
• General information on Gentoo
• Easy install with the "EZPegTV" CD
• Alternative customized install, step by step
• Back-up of the system

• Up to 6 alarms
• Configure custom MP3 file, for each alarm
• Possibility of random MP3 play from a selected directory
• Nuclear Powerplant alarm MP3 file included
• Blanker activation possibility
• Auto-scale blanker pictures
• Use antialiased TTF fonts
• Save or load different alarm configurations
• Set the time between images in slideshow (Blanker)
• Set transparency level between images and alarm clock, to have a nicer effect

• Removable media support was broken in 1.262, fixed

• ADDED: EaglePlayer replayers (Musicline 4/8V, NoiseTracker, Protracker, TFMX) by Wanted Team (Don Adan)
• UPDATED: AfA_OS 3.94
• UPDATED: AmiKit - Live Update 1.1 (now waits 3s before rebooting to ensure the downloaded file has been completely saved)
• UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.2 (workaround for possible incompatibility of 1280x800 screenmode)
• UPDATED: AmigAIM 0.9455
• UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.1
• FIXED: AmigaAMP 68k-Emu engine should work again. It was overwritten by WarpUp version in previous AmiKit update by mistake.

• Automatic reconnection when disconnected from a server. Configurable delay inbetween reconnection attempts, and maximum number of retrys
• Added an ignore function and a nice GUI for it. This ignore function supports wildcards and can optionally ignore Text/CTCP/DCC
• You can now choose to automatically connect to servers upon startup, and the server selection window can be hidden since it isnt required
• Channel names displayed in the listview can be joined by double clicking on them
• Wookie no longer removes leading spaces from outgoing text. This is quite useful when pasting programming source code in dev channels and you want to keep the indentation for readability
• When transferring tiny files within 1 second, the entry in the dcc windows are no longer stuck on "transferring" and are now able to be removed from the list
• Outgoing DCC RESUME seems to be working better
• Previously, you couldnt copy text to the clipboard when text was being added to the channel display. I made it pause while selecting text, but internal functions were preventing text from being copied to the clipboard when you let go of the mouse button. I have now corrected this. So its now possible to copy text to the clipboard in a busy channel.

• Alinea Computer (German)
• The programmer of Petunia Almos Rajnai (English)
• The programmer of FryingPan Tomasz Wiszkowski (English)

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   B I L L   M C E W E N   A N S W E R S   2 5   Q U E S T I O N S 

    H Y P E R I O N   R E S P O N D S   T O   2 5   A N S W E R S

               H Y P E R I O N   O N   O S 4   D A T E 

     A M I G A   P U R C H A S E S   I N D I A N   C O M P A N Y 

            T H E   L A T E S T   F R O M   A M I W E S T 

                      A M I N E T   U P D A T E 

           A M Y 0 5   U P D A T E   F R O M   T R O I K A 

                A 6 0 0   H O P E   D I E S   . . . ?  

 . . .   W H I L E   " S A M "   B O A R D   H O P E   I S   B O R N

        A M I G A   A N D   T H U N D E R B I R D S   D E A L  

           A M I G A W E B . N E T   I S   L A U N C H E D 

         A M I G B G   A W A R D   W I N N E R S   N A M E D

                A P C & T C P   B A C K   O N L I N E 

  B I G   B O O K   O F   H A R D W A R E   I N   N E W   H A N D S 

               W I N U A E   G O E S   T O   1 . 3 . 2

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

Wow, what a month! There are all kinds of interesting goings-on in the 
Amiga community to report to you this time round. 

Number one on most people's list would have to be Bill McEwen agreeing 
to answer 25 questions on Amiga.org. Whatever else you may think of 
Bill, that marks him as a brave man. :-) Actually, the questions are 
all quite good and the answers are certainly informative. Equally 
informative are some of the comments to the posting. It's worth your 
time to explore all this material.

We can't include the session here. It's much too large, and we do not 
have the right to do so. So pop over to the amiga.org site and check 
it out. Then try to decide what it all means. We're still working on 
that part at "Amiga Update"

The tone of the answers is certainly upbeat, with much promise for the 
future. The difficult part with that is we've heard this sort of thing 
before and we're still waiting. There are indications that Amiga Inc. 
has learned some hard lessons and is trying to recover from problems 
of the past. We hope that is truly the case, believe it probably is, 
but do wonder if they can muster the resources to really move forward. 
It should be possible and there are some signs they are doing so - see 
a couple of the stories below on recent actions, for example. To use 
our favorite phrase from recent years when talking about Amiga Inc. 
"Time Will Tell".

There are two things in particular from the questions and answers that 
specially concern us. According to Bill, Amiga Inc. is working on 
Amiga OS 5.0 at the same time Hyperion is working on Amiga OS 4.0. We 
are completely unsure what that will eventually mean for users, 
assuming both make it to market, but we hope there's some coordination 
between the two at least. And what does this do for the viability of 
Hyperion's work? It is clear the two companies aren't exactly happy 
with each other. To use another old phrase, this could be a train 
wreck.

The second thing that bothers us is the take some people have on the
change from Amiga Washington to Amiga Delaware. It's apparent that 
move is regarded by some as a shell game designed to avoid debt. It 
can easily be interpreted that way. True or not, the perception can be 
enough to cause problems when trying to strike new deals. We hope this 
is manageable.

So what's your take on Bill's answers? Are we listening to a visionary 
or just a dreamer? At this point, we're not sure. We've regarded Bill 
as a visionary in the past, and would like to be proven right at some 
point - and soon. We've lived on dreams long enough.
 
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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   B I L L   M C E W E N   A N S W E R S   2 5   Q U E S T I O N S 

13 September, 2006

 Bill McEwen made himself available on Amiga.org to answer 25 
questions collected by the website. We cannot reproduce the session 
here, but we can suggest - strongly - that you read the questions and 
answers - and the comments - at:

http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6955&com_id=
53338&com_rootid=53336&com_mode=flat&com_order=0

 We did grab the first question to get you started:

1. Why now? Amiga Inc pretty much divorced itself from Classics and 
OS4 over a year ago, exemplified by the simple indication on your 
website that for anything OS4 related, interested parties need to 
contact Hyperion. Several parties have tried to contact you for 
licensing reasons and reported a total lack of response (not a "no" 
response, just no response at all). Now, out of the blue, you show 
interest again. What has changed, and if you are planning on 
supporting something other than the AmigaDE again, how can we know 
you're not going to just shut the door once more?

Bill McEwen -- It is obvious to me that from this question and the 
others that are like it, that we have done a very poor job in 
communicating about Amiga. Amiga has always been interested in the 
operating system, and this includes OS 4, and beyond. Our plans have 
always been to produce, create, develop, market, enhance, sell and 
support the operating system. The goal of Amiga, as stated in our 
first public appearance, is to create a scalable, embeddable, media-
centric operating system that can unify digital devices that include 
cell phones, set top boxes, computers, and any other digital device 
that the OS can support. We did not think that this vision was 
achievable with the Amiga OS 3.1, so we began the development of a new 
Operating System or Digital Environment, and started toward those 
steps with the partnership with the Tao Group and built on top of 
their Intent platform. Our goal and what we have been up to is still 
the same, and I hope that as I answer more of your questions and if 
you would allow me to also leave some editorial responses at the end 
of the questions. I believe that we will all be on the same path 
toward the future.

With regard to the hardware question, I can only state that I have 
responded to ?every? query that has been sent. So that we do not have 
vendors appear and disappear leaving the end user holding equipment 
that can not be supported, Amiga asks a series of questions of the 
person who has made the request. I can tell you that with the 
exception of two groups, nobody has ever returned with acceptable 
answers. There are a great many people who dearly want to help, and 
they really want to see and produce new hardware, but several times we 
have seen answers where they are relying on some unknown event or 
friends with credit cards to be able to support the effort. This is 
not acceptable, and we have to locate those companies or individuals 
that have the correct supply chain and understanding of how to create 
and support hardware. Of course it is always easier to make a blanket 
announcement that Amiga ?never? responds, or I never heard back from 
them.

{Bill McEwen also posted a clarification later at 
http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6970 
Brad}
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    H Y P E R I O N   R E S P O N D S   T O   2 5   A N S W E R S

20 September, 2006

Judging from some of the e-mails we received, the recent comments by 
the Amiga Inc. management seem to have created confusion with respect 
to the development and availability of Amiga OS 4.0.

As managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment VOF, I would like to 
take this opportunity to assure our customers that development of 
Amiga OS 4.0 is entirely in Hyperion's hand alone and that the Amiga 
OS 4.0 development team is proceeding very well indeed as may become 
obvious during the upcoming shows in Italy and Sacramento, U.S.A.

There are no development hold-ups of any kind and we are in fact
anticipating an initial "final release candidate" by the end of 2006
provided suitable hardware is available for sale at that time. You may
recall the fact that Hyperion held back on the official release of  
Amiga OS 4.0 in 2005 in order to have it coincide with the 
availability of suitable target hardware.

Several third party hardware manufacturers have indicated that they 
are working on a wide range of different suitable PPC hardware 
platforms. We will leave it to them to communicate about these 
projects in due time.

This extra time has given the OS 4 development team the opportunity to
not only polish the final product even more but to incorporate very
substantial and modern functionality such as the new, extremely
reliable, modern and powerful memory subsystem in conjunction with new
yet to be revealed functionality.

We will specifically not comment on any legal issues as raised by 
Amiga Inc. management as these matters are finally and at our explicit 
and repeated request being handled by both parties' respective 
lawfirms and we find it highly inappropriate to publically comment on 
these matters in the meanwhile. Suffice it to say that some statements 
by Amiga Inc. were clearly in contradiction with the views held by 
Hyperion's attorneys both on a legal and on a factual level.

We thank you for your patience and the continued support of the Amiga 
OS 4.0 project which we are dedicated to complete as soon as possible.

Evert Carton
Managing partner
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             H Y P E R I O N   O N   O S 4   D A T E 

16 September, 2006

Besides the OS4 item above, Hyperion made the following information 
available during a chat at the Amiga Big Bash 4: Amiga Big Bash and 
Retro in England:


Q:It is rather obvious that OS4 would not appear in the nearest six 
months or so. Do they plan to release next update/updates?
        
A: Our current target is end of the year, provided of course that 
hardware is available. To that end, we are working with hardware 
manufacturers, but as usual, we're not doing their press releases, so 
we let them come forth with their projects
        
A: End of the year is the projected release date for OS 4, for real 
this time ;-)
                
Another comment on the release date: We've made a lot of progress 
recenlty, so we *are* pretty sure that it will be December.

http://amigaos.dk/modules/mydownloads/
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     A M I G A   P U R C H A S E S   I N D I A N   C O M P A N Y 

23 September, 2006

Issaquah, WA/Pune, India, September 22rd 2006: Amiga Development India 
Pvt. Ltd. (ADI), a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. based Amiga, Inc., 
announced that it has purchased the majority of the assets owned by 
Ruksun Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a Pune-based company servicing 
software development projects, on August 10, 2006. The acquisition 
includes intellectual property, business and engineering and support 
staff and all development contracts.

Ruksun has over thirteen years of experience in mobile, wireless and 
web technologies and embedded systems development. ADI will be able to 
leverage the experience of Amiga Inc.?s efforts in both mobile and 
desktop computing in order to better serve its existing and future 
clients. In addition, ADI will become Amiga Inc.?s off-shore 
development center. Amiga Development India will work to grow its 
customer base and will look to incorporate and grow the existing 
intellectual property base purchased from Ruksun.

http://www.amigadevindia.com/html/news/22sep2006apa.html
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          T H E   L A T E S T   F R O M   A M I W E S T 

AMIWEST 2006, RELEASE # 6

Here is the sixth information release for AmiWest 2006, October 21, 
2006. Our webpage at www.sacc.org/amiwest is being updated with all 
the current show information.  We encourage you to visit our site to 
see the rest of the current information.

Amiga Forever,

Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
AmiWest 2006 Committee

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AMIWEST IS GROWING!  GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Yes, AmiWest, the Amiga show for the United States, is growing!  New
exhibitors have confirmed their presence and we hope to have a great 
time with all things Amiga.

Here are the exhibitors that have confirmed that they will be at 
AmiWest 2006:


AMUC 
Bill Borsari (webcasting AmiWest worldwide every year since 1998)
Bit By Bit Software 
Hyperion 
Individual Computers
Pagestrem
SACC
Software Hut
Troika

. . . and a surprise exhibitor you won't want to miss!

Featured speakers throughout the day will include:

Richard Drummond
Jaimie Krueger
Jens Schoenfeld
Steve Solie

. . . and a surprise speaker!

With all of this happening in one day (whew!), you will want to get 
your tickets now.  Buying your tickets ahead allows us to assemble 
your information packet ahead of time and have it ready for you at the 
door.  So go to sacc.org/amiwest and click on the tickets link to 
order your tickets. Or just fill out the form below and send it in.

No matter how you do it, order your tickets soon!  And be sure to 
reserve your spot at the Saturday night banquet.  It's a good meal, 
and our banquet speaker is one of the few Amiga company CEO/COO's 
remaining in Amigadom. I'm sure he'll have much of interest to say to 
all of us.

AWest 2006 will be October 21, 2006 at the

Clarion Hotel Cal Expo
2600 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento California 95821

Reservations Phone 1-877-424-6423 toll-free (local 1-916-487-7600),
choicehotels.com (click the Clarion icon) and by snail-mail at the 
above address.

Please watch our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news 
and information regarding AmiWest 2006.  We are on target for another 
improved show!  See you there!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

So remember,

AmiWest 2006 is rolling!  The facility is reserved and the vendors
are notified!  Keep watching for these releases and tell everyone
that you know - the Amiga and the Amiga community is alive and
well!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


           AmiWest 2006, October 21, 2006 Ticket Reservation Form

                          Clarion Hotel Cal-Expo
                             2600 Auburn Blvd
                            Sacramento, CA 95821        

     Your Name:______________________________________________________

   Affiliation:______________________________________________________

       Address:______________________________________________________

               ______________________________________________________

          City:______________________________________________________

   State/Province:_______________________Postal(Zip) Code: __________

       Country:_________________________

   Email Address:____________________________________________________

   Ticket wanted ONE DAY PASS: SATURDAY, October 21, 2006

   Do you want Banquet tickets (Circle One)    YES      NO

   Admission to AmiWest 2006 is:
    $ 8 (One Day Pass - paid in advance by July 12, 2006)
    $10 (One day Pass at the door)
    
   One day passes will allow admittance to any FREE seminars on that 
day only.
   Seminar topics will be announced later.

   Banquet tickets are $28 per plate and MUST be paid in advance.   
   Seating is limited and tickets are available on a first come, first
served.
   
   Please fill out this form and remit with proper payment  (US Funds 
Only) to:
   
        AmiWest 2006
        c/o Chuck Washburn
        7051 Dolan Way
        Citrus Heights CA 95621
        USA
   
   Make checks payable to "AmiWest".  A form must be filled out for 
   each person attending the show although one check can be used.

   For more information you can contact AmiWest by email to: 
   chela@calweb.com 
   Phone: (916) 723-9846 Evenings (Pacific Daylight time)

   Our WWW web page is: http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ 
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                    A M I N E T   U P D A T E 

4 September, 2006

It's been a while since last time, but it doesn't mean we haven't done 
anything in the meantime. Following is an update on the newest stuff 
happening over at Aminet.net.

The Aminet Wiki

Aminet has its own Wiki now: at http://wiki.aminet.net you'll find 
manuals, FAQs, information about the team and Aminet's history as well 
as our changelogs, todo lists and bug 'database'. The section covering 
Aminet's usage urgently needs more info added though: if you'd like to 
help out with creating a nice user manual covering archive formats, 
the tools required to handle them, various ways of transfering 
archives from a PC to the Amiga, using an FTP client etc. - get in 
touch with us, please.

Translating the Wiki into other languages is planned, but our 
ressources are somewhat limited and there are lots of things to do - 
so this might take a while.

New directories

Several new directories have been created, amongst them misc/os, which 
is intended for operating systems and updates. The first uploads to 
this directory are "Amiga Minix", an open source Unix like operating 
system for Amiga 500, 2000 and 3000 computers and the final m68k-amiga 
distribution of OpenBSD. The former was kindly provided by Thomas 
Unger, while the latter is a mirror of ftp.planetmirror.com and was 
moved to Aminet because OpenBSD-Amiga is discontinued und slowly gets 
removed from the official BSD-mirrors.

A complete list of the new directories:

dev/lib (static libraries)
game/edit (game editors)
game/strat (strategy games)
misc/os (Operating systems and updates)
pix/icon (PNG icons)

We already started to move files into these directories, if you 
stumble across further packages that should be moved, don't hesitate 
to tell us. Thanks a lot to James Jacobs for both suggesting game/edit 
as well as providing a complete list of files that should be moved in 
there.

More mirrors

Three new mirrors have been added (de5.aminet.net, se.aminet.net and 
dk.aminet.net). For more info about mirrors and who to thank for the 
various ones, see http://wiki.aminet.net/Mirrors. Aminet now consists 
of seven mirrors - with more coming up. As the question has been 
brought up several times now: Yes, we do accept big files, a CD ISO 
shouldn't be a problem. For anything significantly bigger than 80-100 
MB we'd appreciate it if you would notify us up front though.

New filetypes supported

We now accept PDF documents (you don't have to put them into an 
archive anymore) as well as music and video files in an Ogg container, 
the most popular ones being Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. In addition we 
encourage you to use the open OGG formats rather than the proprietary 
MPEG (MP3, MPEG1/2) formats which often come with patent and license 
issues.

As we're still getting DMS uploads occasionally: Please note that 
Aminet does not support DMS. If you need to upload a disk image, 
convert it to ADF first. We accept both plain ADF files aswell as 
zipped ADF (.adz).

A reminder - server abuse

Recently we encountered postings on various forums where people 
announced they would download the whole Aminet repository, others 
explained that they already did it or gave instructions how this can 
be accomplished easily. Apparently, we really need to address this 
issue.

Downloading the whole Aminet repository is considered abuse. No ifs, 
buts or whens - end users are not entitled to run personal mirrors. 
Aminet has a total size of more than 32 GB right now, individual users 
downloading that much data from our servers just for the sake of 
having their own local copy are not just acting rather impolite, they 
are actually eating up resources that somebody has to pay for.

Aminet isn't going away anytime soon. It's going to celebrate its 15th 
birthday soon, and we do have the resources available to make sure 
that there are going to be quite a few more birthday parties. We also 
have a bunch of 100% mirrors up and going, so there are no excuses 
really.

If you really feel like leeching, go download Google - compared to 
Aminet, that whole WWW thing is a relative newcomer and might be gone 
any day now.

As usual, an extensive change log can be found at: 
http://wiki.aminet.net/Changelog. If you want to get in touch with us, 
either drop us a mail at aminet@aminet.net or join our IRC channel 
#aminet on irc.amigaworld.net. We *love* feedback, feature requests 
and complaints. Honestly.
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         A M Y 0 5   U P D A T E   F R O M   T R O I K A 

13 September, 2006

This is the final update on the Amy05 design prior to [Amiga Big 
Bash 4]. 

One of the biggest changes to the Amy05 design from our first 
released specification is the addition of the .AMD Geod(TM) CS5536 
companion device. For Project Prometheus/Amy'05 this becomes Amy?s 
Southbridge. This is the low cost Southbridge device from AMD that 
been in many of the newspapers. It?s used in the $100 'One Laptop per 
child' system, and in many AMD Geode(TM) embedded designs. It?s a well 
proven design and AMD continues to refine all the little details to 
get the most out of the design. Its extremely well supported, and its 
great to have a working relationship with the AMD people, we take much 
pride in this.

What?s the Geod(TM) Southbridge mean to the Amiga community? Software 
wise the opening of many new doors, and features. For example, one 
feature built in is the ?USB keyboard?, making USB keyboards easy to 
install and use.

Hardware wise this device provides the following features to Amy05:

AC97 Codec interface,
A single channel IDE port,
An additional 16C550 UART,
Real time Clock and CMOS RAM
Additional USB 2.0 ports,
PC 82XX legacy timers.

There are additional features to this device but we have only 
highlighted the features utilized by Amy05.

This is the other component of the Kryptos sound system. It is a low 
cost high performance solution that will in the future, allow for a 
lower cost design by fully utilizing the USB and ATA interfaces of 
this device. Also in future Troika designs, will be able to 
incorporate, many more hardware features not as yet implemented, into 
future Amy designs.

The CS5536 interfaces to the TSI107 via the 66 MHz PCI bus interface 
for maximum performance. The 66 MHz PCI bus connects to the 33 MHz PCI 
bus using a PLX technology PCI 6150 bridge device. The PCI 6150 makes 
it easier to connect riser cards to the system without violating PCI 
bus loading rules, an improvement over previous designs.

A side effect of increasing the system bus to 66 MHz was the need for 
some glue logic, normally quite boring but it did provide potential 
for a 'Geekport interface' to be easily added. Now referred to as the 
Amy Geekport.

The aim of this interface was to put some of the fun back into home 
computing. For too long now if you wanted to add a custom device to 
your computer, it was too complicated. By providing a simple 8 bit 
wide interface that connects directly to the PPC local bus it is once 
again possible to create homebrew devices and connect them to your 
computer, just like in the good old 8-bit days.

The interface is memory mapped, provides a basic I/O port, can 
generate interrupts and provides user defined I/O. Application notes 
and sample designs will be available at product launch.

As a final note, the planned board for display at the show will be a 
'developer' prototype. She?s rough around the edges, and we have had 
?issues? with making our logos look great like we wished. This is the 
first release which will be made in a limited quantity for hardware 
testing/OS4 development. There will be bugs to iron out and some 
improvements will be made, when this process is complete, the 
necessary changes will be added into the consumer version, which will 
then be released.

This is the reason we ask for some feedback on the design, there are 
limited opportunities for changes to the final design. Rest-assured, 
we will not be making any drastic changes to the system.

*AMD Geod(TM) CS5536 is a registered trademark of AMD

{Photos of the board are at these URLs. Lookin' good! Brad}
http://troikang.com/images/1.jpg
http://troikang.com/images/2.jpg
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                A 6 0 0   H O P E   D I E S   . . . ?  

3 September, 2006

The release of the A600 accelerator and the A500 version of the IDE 
controller Buddha will be delayed indefinitely. The main reason is 
contract work that will keep us busy for the next few weeks. Please 
refrain from requesting any of these products. The production of the 
new A1200 CPU slot connectors is going according to plan. The new 
products Catweasel MK2 anniversary edition and the A600 memory 
expansion are already available at out retail partners.

Individual Computers
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 . . .   W H I L E   " S A M "   B O A R D   H O P E   I S   B O R N

Empoli (Florence), Italy, September 15, 2006:

On September 23 and 24 at Palaesposizioni exhibition palace in Empoli, 
it will take place the 10th edition of Pianeta Amiga Show.

This is nearly an historic appointment for the italian scene of 
alternative information technology, but not only limited to Italy and 
not only limited to Amiga computers, because Pianeta Amiga exhibit it 
is continuously growing and expanding, due to presence of foreign 
visitors and exhibitors from all Europe.

The Pianeta Amiga event, it represents a place of rendez-vous for all 
amigans and users of various alternative platforms, and an aggregation 
point which is exclusive in the italian outline, and it is also a 
privileged launch pad platform for literally dozens of projects and 
products which continuously born and grew up in the sparkling world of 
alternative computing.

The appointment of this year truly represents a milestone for italian 
information technology, because during the event in Empoli it will 
take place the official presentation of a new computer, entirely 
designed, developed and manufactured in Italy.

This new motherboard will be capable to use wide part of Operating 
Systems created to run for Linux-like PPC based platforms, and it will 
also capable to run various other alternative Operating Systems that 
are widely used on the scene of I.T. world.

It was a long time since the moment that technology innovation left 
italian peninsula.

Now it was born again a new Hi-Tech challenge, and this is due to the 
efforts in co-operation and synergy lead by three dynamic italian 
firms: Alternative Holding Group Srl., Soft3 e Virtual Works, which 
started together a partnership in order to complete the first one of 
many projects, lots of these still in development and evolving.

The results of their co-operation it is a compact, versatile, and 
scalable motherboard based on PowerPC processor by IBM, which could be 
adapted to fit the needings of any niche in the market, and more, the 
motherboard is enhanced with innovative and decent characteristics.
All the features will be revealed during a conference that will take 
place on Saturday 23 September 2006 starting at 11:00 during Pianeta 
Amiga show.

Ciao,

Jasa Communication
Bitplane
Alternative Holding Group
Soft3
Virtual Works
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       A M I G A   A N D   T H U N D E R B I R D S   D E A L 

Seattle , September 26, 2006 - The Seattle Thunderbirds and Amiga, 
Inc., today announced a cooperative marketing deal that will give 
T-Birds fans access to a variety of games, puzzles, and arcade 
applications for personal computers, gaming devices, mobile handsets, 
set top boxes, and other computing devices.

Amiga's technologies are being designed to integrate consumers' 
favorite T-Bird images and hockey-based content into the most 
entertaining and challenging mobile games, video and music.

Fans will be able to see demonstrations of, and purchase, T-Bird-
branded Amiga products at the T- Birds 2006-07 home opener on 
Saturday, September 30, at KeyArena at 7:05 p.m. The T-Birds will 
take on the Vancouver Giants in their home opener.

"Amiga's ability to offer high quality T-Birds branded multimedia to 
the phones, PCs and TVs of our fans fits well with our commitment to
provide the most enticing entertainment package," said Colin Campbell, 
T-Birds Assistant General Manager and Director of Marketing.

"The T-Birds bring excitement to their loyal and enthusiastic fan base 
both on and off the ice. Amiga further enhances the value of the 
Thunderbird brand and lets fans take their team with them everywhere?, 
said Vince Pfeifer, Amiga Vice President of Operations.

The T-Birds and Amiga are pursuing joint marketing and sponsorship 
opportunities throughout the Seattle community. Amiga will also 
sponsor several T-Bird promotions throughout the season, including the 
official team poster and the magnetic schedules giveaway on opening 
night.

About the Seattle Thunderbirds:

The Seattle Thunderbirds are a Seattle-area based hockey team 
affiliated with the Western Hockey League. With a league-wide 
development agreement with the National Hockey League geared to 
creating outstanding hockey talent and well-rounded individuals in the 
community, the Thunderbirds and their players are one-step away from 
the NHL. The players in the WHL attend high school or take college 
courses while perusing their hockey career. For more information 
please see www.seattlethunderbirds.com.
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          A M I G A W E B . N E T   I S   L A U N C H E D 

27 September, 2006

We are proud to announce first version of a new English web site 
dedicated to computing and Internet in general, and the Amiga in 
special.

The website is AmigaWeb.Net

Note: The AmigaWeb.Net website belongs to the community it serves, 
namely common people like us all, and especially to those having a 
curiousity towards the Amiga computing platform.

AmigaWeb.Net wants to embrace all hardware and software platforms 
being able to run AmigaOS and Amiga emulators as well, including:

AmigaOne
Pegasos
AROS
Amiga Forever
WinUAE
AmiKit

...but the web site also wants to target general internet related 
news, and also have some news about special events / happenings / 
products that are of common interest for computer interested people.

We also run an IRC channel #AmigaWeb @ EFnet. You are most welcome!

User registration and forum is functionable and it is possible to 
register at the moment.

Still, progress is done in coding towards the version 1 of the site 
code, as we still consider the existing code to be in a beta version.

I have the honour of wishing all of my Amiga companions a warm welcome 
to the new site.
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       A M I G B G   A W A R D   W I N N E R S   N A M E D

22 September, 2006

Amiga Summer Party 2006 took place on the 25-27:th of August.
For the third year in a row the AmiGBG award was awarded.

This years winners were:
The Swedish award to: Guru Meditation

The International award to: Individual Computers

AmiGBG congratulates the worthy winners.


Andreas Loong - Guru Meditation
AmiGBG crew honours Andreas with this award for his efforts and hard 
work in promoting the Amiga platform. Guru Meditation, based in 
Gothenburg, Sweden is a company that supports the Amiga user base in 
many different ways. With true Amiga spirit, Andreas has on several 
occasions showed his great generosity (e.g. the os4depot contest, his 
donations everywhere). Guru Meditation has become a well known name in 
the world of Amiga, a company that stands for honesty, righteousness, 
passion and real belief in the Amiga.

Jens Schonfeldt - Individual computers

AmiGBG crew honours Jens with this award for his efforts and hard work 
in promoting the Amiga platform. Individual Computers, based in 
Aachen, Germany is a company that supports the Amiga user base in many 
ways. The numerous ingenious hardware solutions coming from Individual 
Computers throughout the years have helped the Amiga platform to 
persist and evolve. Jens is a well known name in the world of Amiga 
and has a rightful place among the greatest contributors ever in the 
history of the platform as he continues to support both Amiga classic 
as well as the future of Amiga.
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              A P C & T C P   B A C K   O N L I N E 

29 September,  2006 

Due to a movement to a new server our homepages were only partly 
accessible the last days.

Unfortunately the onlineshop also was also nearly a week offline.

But now the switch to new servers has been completed and the Amiga 
Future page and all APC&TCP pages are accessible again.

Also the onlineshop is ready again.

Because of this there have been also failures in the processing of 
mails. If someone has put an order and hasn't received a confirmation 
mail please get in contact with us.

At this point we want to remind you that the switch of the BBoAH pages 
hasn't finished yet. Many users link directly to the German/English 
starting pages. Soon they won't exist anymore. The only valid domain 
is http://software.amigafuture.de.

http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de
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  B I G   B O O K   O F   H A R D W A R E   I N   N E W   H A N D S 

17 September, 2006 

Because of personal reasons, Ian Chapman, the founder of the Big Book 
of Amiga Hardware, has given his seven years old compedium in new 
hands.

Amiga Future is proud to announce to become the new maintainer of the 
BBoAH. The compendium will be the same as known, but only a few 
optical adjustments.

In future, the BBoAH will further exist in two languages - english and 
german.

Unfortunately, Ian Chapman is not able to free the well known URL 
"http://Amiga-hardware.com" for the BBoAH in the Future. Because of 
this, the BBoAH ONLY can be reach at http://hardware.amigafuture.de. 
Please update your bookmarks!

The Amiga Future team also will work on, to open the (licensed) driver 
downloads page again, which have to be closed since end last year.

NOTICE: For submissions only use the following Email: 
hardware@amigafuture.de

About Ian:

After nearly 8 years of running the Big Book of Amiga Hardware, 
I've decided it's time for me to retire from maintaining the site. The 
reasons are many and varied, but personal. The project started in 
January 1999 and since then has grown to be what it is today. This 
wouldn't have been possible without the hundreds of contributors that 
took their time to help out, many of who sent hundreds of photographs 
over the years.

Effective from today, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware will be 
officially maintained by 'Amiga Future' in conjunction with Mario 
Misic. Mario has maintained the German mirror for several years. They 
will continue to maintain the site in a similar style with some 
modifications but will hopefully be able to give the project more time 
than I could.  In addition they hope to translate the entire site into 
German. Please give them your support.

The new official page is http://hardware.amigafuture.de as I am unable 
(for practical reasons) to transfer the ownership of the domain. 
Please note, that this site (http://www.amiga-hardware.com) will still 
remain available on the web but will not be updated. All submissions 
should now be sent to the email address hardware@amigafuture.de. 
Thanks again to everybody who has helped out.


"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Ian.
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             W I N U A E   G O E S   T O   1 . 3 . 2

16 September, 2006 

Amiga Emulator WinUAE has had a new release taking it to version 
1.3.2.

Changes since the last release include:

    * Debug window won't open automatically anymore

    * HRTMon keyboard layout and WHDLoad commands fixed


New features:

    * Mouse Up/Down and Left/Right input destinations supported 
      simultaneously

    * CD32 state save support (work in progress)

    * A1000 Kickstart disk images can be used as a ROM image



The updates can be found on the WinUAE website.

http://www.winuae.net/
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