• It is mainly a bugfix release.
• Hopefully all problems with large files are solved.
• Support for fragmented MTF zone has been added, so disks used under WindowsXP should work.

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   L A S T   N O N - C O M M E R C I A L   R E L E A S E   4 . 0 ! 

         A M I G A ,   R I V E R D E E P   A G R E E M E N T 

    A M I G A A N Y W H E R E   R U N S   O N   U 3   D R I V E S 

    N A F   B A R B E Q U E   P A R T Y   I S   S C H E D U L E D 

                A M I W E S T   L A T E S T   N E W S 

           A M I G B G   F O R   F U N   I N   S W E D E N 

            N E W   B O O K   O N   R E X X   I S   O U T 

        A M I G A S Y S   P A R T   2   F O R   W I N   U A E 

       P A P Y R U S   P R E - O R D E R S   N O W   T A K E N 

    A M I P O D D E R   V E R S I O N   1   I S   F R E E W A R E

                   W I N U A E   I S   A T   1 . 0 ! 

 We have significant numbers to celebrate this month. The numbers are
4.0 and 1.0. Well, almost 4.0. What's significant about that number is
that this month sees the last release of Amiga OS 4.0 before the full
commercial release! That's a great step in the history of Amiga OS.
Your patience will still be tested, however, as the story below
mentions "a few months" before the commercial release will be ready.
 The 1.0 number relates to Win UAE. After more version releases than I
can count, the program has finally hit the magic 1.0 designation.
Congratulations are in order.
 While all this is going on, the Amiga community stays as active as
ever. We have several stories this issue on upcoming Amiga events. We
were disappointed to learn the budget for AmiWest will only allow that
venerable show to run for one day, but it looks as though it will be a
very interesting day. Meanwhile, our Nordic Amigan groups have their
own events to talk about. They sound to be just as much fun. Norway is
the land of my ancestors, so I'd love to get to both of those northern
shows. 
 There are many positive items to read in this issue. We hope you
enjoy them all.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

 I am a former Amiga user who still tries to follow the happening in
the Amiga World. Thanks ( And congratulations on your twelfth
anniversary) for your efforts in keeping this alive. I am at least
aware that the Amiga still exists. But.. I am now confused as to what
the Amiga is and what it can do for the average user. Can you
possibly, in very layman's terms, produce an article that explains
what Amiga has to offer? I understand there have been numerous
ownership changes and false promises but somehow an Amiga product
still exists. I would look forward to a in-depth breakdown of what
Amiga offers and possibly where one may purchase these products.

Thanks  Bill 
~~~~~~
Bill,

 Wow. You ask some very pertinent and difficult questions. In truth,
I'm not sure how to answer fully. What I usually do in cases like this
is ask for comments from the readers, who have much more collective
wisdom than I do.
 How about it readers? What can the Amiga do for the average user at
this time in its life? Please send your thoughts to
amigaupdate@globaldialog.com and we'll share them in future issues.
 My personal take is that the Amiga's role is now much reduced from
what it had been. Linux has taken on the mantle of the main
alternative to Windows, even more so than Apple. However, the Amiga
still offers what I've long considered to be the best operating system
available. It's compact, consistent code, with commands and features
that are not available in any other operating systems. As just one
simple example, I've long wished for something like filenotes in every
other operating system I've used.
 Amiga OS is also proprietary without being overpriced or suffering
from monopolistic practices by the company that owns it. If a user is
concerned about the liabilities often talked about for Linux and other
open source code, Amiga OS offers a good alternative. Keep in mind
that the core of Apple OS is now a version of BSD UNIX, so there are
potential liabilities even there. Personally, I think that issue is
considerably overblown, but the fact remains there are no such issues
with Amiga OS.
 Here's a web page where you can find some Amiga dealers:
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/dealers.php
 Regards,
 Brad
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    L A S T   N O N - C O M M E R C I A L   R E L E A S E   4 . 0 ! 

Leuven, Belgium. 13 June, 2005.

 Hyperion Entertainment announces the immediate availability of the
final intermediate update of Amiga OS 4.0 prior to its full commercial
release later this year.

An overview of the added functionality:

 * New Kernel
 
 * New IDE devices
 
 * New Picasso96/Graphics and monitor drivers
 
 * Warp3D V51 (Including support for Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4/5, and Radeon
7x00)
 
 * WarpUp support
 
 * New Shell and updated shell commands
 
 * Update reaction classes and new intuition
 
 * New Roadshow TCP/IP stack and updated eth3com.device
 
 * All new version of the Sirion USB stack and usbprinter.device
 
 * Updated datatypes
 
 * Updated Preferences programs
 
 * Updated Locale
 
 * And much more
 
 Registered users of Amiga OS 4.0 can download update 3 from Hyperion
Entertainment's website.
 
 Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team wish to
thank you for your continued patience and support which we hope will
be rewarded in a few months time.
 
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/
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        A M I G A ,   R I V E R D E E P   A G R E E M E N T 

June 15, 2005 - San Francisco, CA

 Riverdeep and Amiga, Inc. have announced a development and marketing
distribution agreement making it possible for several of the award
winning Educational Edmark(R) titles to be created for the mobile
market using AmigaAnywhere? technology.
 
 The Riverdeep Edmark titles offer the very best in interactive
education and adventure. These award winning titles will offer
exciting animations, compelling stories, and hours of fun.
 
 Amiga, Inc. developed one of the first computing platforms used in
the education and entertainment markets, and is looking forward to
continuing this role by introducing these titles to a new market and
audience.

 "Amiga is a world recognized brand and a leading technology company,"
said Damian Dale, Riverdeep's Director of Licensing and Business
Development. "By using their AmigaAnywhere? platform, they will be
able to create and offer these Riverdeep Edmark titles to a whole new
audience and introduce children to a new way of learning."
 
 "When Amiga began looking for an education partner to create new
offerings in the mobile space, we immediately thought of Riverdeep and
Edmark," said Bill McEwen, Amiga's Vice President, Product and Market
Development. "Now parents will be able to offer new choices in mobile
entertainment, ensuring that their children not only enjoy what they
are playing, but learn something as well"
 
 Amiga will be bringing the following titles to the AmigaAnywhere?
platform: Mighty Math Astro Algebra, Mighty Math® Cosmic Geometry?,
Mighty Math Calculating Crew, Mighty Math Number Heroes, MindTwister
Math, Strategy Challenge Collection 2 In the Wild, Strategy Challenge
Collection 1 Around the World, Thinkin' Things Collection 1 Toony the
Loons Lagoon, Thinkin' Things Collection 2, Thinkin' Things Collection
3 and Thinkin' Things Sky Island Mysteries. These titles are expected
to ship this year and pricing has not yet been established. In
addition to mobile devices, AmigaAnywhere technology will allow the
applications to be run on Set-top boxes, Personal Media Players, and
other digital devices.

About Riverdeep:

 Riverdeep Inc., A Limited Liability Company, with offices in San
Francisco, California, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dublin (Ireland) and
Manchester (United Kingdom) is a leading publisher of interactive
products focusing on education and personal productivity for the
consumer and school markets. For more information, call toll free
888-242-6747 or visit www.riverdeep.net

http://www.riverdeep.net.
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    A M I G A A N Y W H E R E   R U N S   O N   U 3   D R I V E S 

 June 7, 2005 - U3 Global Developer Summit, San Jose, CA Amiga Inc.
today announced that AmigaAnywhere is compatible with the U3 smart
drive computing platform. Consumers will be able to play graphically
rich, high-performance Amiga content on U3 powered USB smart drives.
AmigaAnywhere is the digital environment that enables and simplifies
access to the same applications from a variety of devices. Amiga lets
consumers enjoy rich-media content featuring extraordinary
audio-visual quality, high-speed interactive gaming, education and
entertainment, all playing on a diverse universe of devices. For the
last four years, Amiga?s proprietary technology has transformed
removable memory cards into virtual drives, seamlessly launching,
running and removing the memory footprint of applications on wired and
wireless devices.
 
 Consumers can now enjoy this same mobility, ease-of-use and security
by running AmigaAnywhere on U3 powered USB smart drives when they ship
this fall. "By supporting the U3 smart drive computing platform, we
take yet another step forward in making it easy for consumers to
instantly and safely run all types of content on their favorite
devices," said Garry Hare, Amiga president and chief executive
officer. "And by supporting the U3 smart drive computing platform we
have instant access to leading USB smart drive manufacturers and tens
of millions of USB smart drive users."
 
 "Amiga is a natural fit for the U3 smart drive computing platform
since many consumers have the desire to mobilize their rich,
graphical, high-performance, premium sound applications" said U3 Chief
Technology Officer Gideon Shaanan. "Amiga adds unique value to the
whole U3 community, by quickly enabling a tremendous catalog of
multimedia titles."
 
 U3 is a trademark of U3 LLC. All other brand and product names are or
may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services
of, their respective owners.
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    N A F   B A R B E Q U E   P A R T Y   I S   S C H E D U L E D 

25 June, 2005

 NAF - Norsk amigaforening (English: Norwegian Amiga Association) - a
Norwegian Amiga user group acknowledged by Amiga Inc. founded in 1992
by me (Tommy R. Strand), is holding its annual NAF Barbeque Party
(since 2003).
 
 Mainly for all members of NAF, but others, especially from the Amiga
platform community are most welcome. For the first time this year, we
have people travelling almost 1000 km to the venue, and at the moment
we have 11 people that have registered. From past experiences, we are
expecting this number to rise to about 20.
 
 Please visit NAF web site at http://naf.as/ for more information
(sorry, Norwegian only). We DO welcome foreigners, especially for
instance those who we are in contact with on the EFnet and
AmigaworldNET IRC networks.
 
 Remember: This is a party with a high level of decency and respect
in the usual manners and is already known to be a positive part of the
existing Amiga IRC community.
 
 Don't forget: Time: Saturday, 2nd of July, 2005. Place: The city of
Mo i Rana, Nordland, Norway (The city beneath the Arctic Circle!)
 
 If you wish, on Sunday we will have a drive by car around in the
community to collect you. Rana is afaik Norway's 4th largest community
in area, and can give you lots of positive experiences of both nature
and friendly people.
 
 YOU are MOST WELCOME!

Read more (sorry, Norwegian only) here:
http://naf.as/index.php?side=pressemeldinger&vis=516

Kind regards

Tommy R. Strand
Marketing Director
Norsk amigaforening
http://naf.as
http://amigaguiden.info


 SPECIAL IMMEDIATE INFORMATION RELEASE for AmiWest 2005, July 23rd,
2005 in Sacramento, California! 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 2005 Committee
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                A M I W E S T   L A T E S T   N E W S 

29 June, 2005

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RICHARD DRUMMOND TO SPEAK AT AMIWEST 2005 BANQUET!
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 By special arrangement, Amiga OS4 developer Richard Drummond will
present the banquet address at the AmiWest 2005 Saturday evening
banquet! He is our **surprise** speaker this year! Here is a bio of
Richard (courtesy of AmiWest committee member Charles Pickrell) to
help you get better acquainted!
 
 Richard, our guest speaker, is playing a dual role at AmiWest this
year. He is representing himself and the excellent work that he has
contributed to E-UAE (the Amiga emulation system for
Unix/Linux/Mac/Amiga) and to the AmigaOS4 port of SDL (the popular
cross-platform game-programming toolkit), as well as representing
Hyperion Entertainment and the OS4 project. But first we would like to
share a little bit about Richard's background.
 
 The son of a police officer Richard grew up in Scotland and due to
his father's line of work moved often, having lived in many parts of
the country including Dingwall, Ullapool, Orkney and Glasgow (where he
studied Electronics and Software Engineering at the University of
Glasgow).
 
 In 1984 at the age of ten Richard got his first "real" computer, a
Commodore64 and began teaching himself to program in BASIC, and later
in assembly language. He claims he never wrote any C64 software of
significance, but rather used the platform to cut his teeth on
computing in general. Later in 1988 Richard moved up to the Amiga 500
and began programming in earnest on the Amiga OS platform.

 Richard's Amiga interest grew so much that at one point he began
writing for popular Amiga magazines CU Amiga and Amiga Format. When
Amiga Format stopped publishing their magazine Richard fell away from
the Amiga scene having lost interest in a "dying platform." He then
turned to Unix and Linux platforms to fill the computing void left by
Amiga. During this time, Richard met his future wife, an American, in
the UK and they settled down together in England."

 Sorry, but that's all we have time for today. However, more details
about Richard and his OS 4 involvement will be forthcoming. Have you
ordered your AmiWest tickets yet? Just go to
sacc.org/amiwest/press05-3.html, print it out, fill in the form and
send it in. You'll want to be there!

!!!!  

So remember,

 AmiWest 2005 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 2005 will be at the

Clarion Hotel Cal Expo
2600 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento California 95821

Reservations Phone 1-800-424-6423 toll-free (local 1-916-487-7600)
and by snail-mail at the above address.

 Please watch our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news
and information regarding AmiWest 2005. We are on target for another
improved show! See you there!
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           A M I G B G   F O R   F U N   I N   S W E D E N 

24 Jun, 2005 

 The Swedish Amiga fair AmiGBG is so full it's about to pop! Still we
keep'em comin'. Announcing the popular Showcase
 
http://web.kicker.nu/amigbg/showcase/showcase.asp?lang=uk 

 with applications for Amigans demonstrated by Amigans. And the brand
new Community Section

http://web.kicker.nu/amigbg/community/community.asp?lang=uk

 where the true heroes present thir work. Among the new exhibitors
is the author of Tales of Tamar. And Cloanto is now a proud sponsor of
AmiGBG 2005.

www.amigbg.com 

 In the Community Section of AmiGBG 2005 you will meet the people
who's sweat, blood and tears have kept the Amiga Community together
during rough times. Represented here are sites like the UK based
AmigaWorld, Swedens oldest community site Amigarulez.com, newcomers
like safir.amigaos.se and Many more! We have red sites, blue sites,
clean sites, sweet sites and above all, Amiga sites!

Check out the growing list on our website NOW!

AmiGBG Showcase

http://web.kicker.nu/amigbg/showcase/showcase.asp?lang=uk

 is our attempt of putting the missing pieces together. Here we will
give developers who do not have the opportunity to attend the fair the
chance to show off their products. How about PageStream 5.0,
AudioEvolution4, Frying Pan, Horny, pegXmac and Many more!
 
 Some products will be avalible at special *Fair prices! *Don't miss
this great opportunity to save lots of $$ on great Amiga software!
 
 
Among the new exhibitors is the creator of Tales of Tamar

http://www.tamar.net/ 

- Martin Wolf.

 We would also like to welcome Cloanto as an official sponsor of
AmiGBG 2005!


 At the fair you have the chance to win the BRAND NEW Amiga Forever
2005! http://www.amigaforever.com/

which comes bundeled with TWO DVDs!

AmiGBG - Can You say "Yiiiiippieeee!"
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            N E W   B O O K   O N   R E X X   I S   O U T 

Rexx Programmer's Reference         
by Howard Fosdick

ISBN: 0-7645-7996-7
February 2005
720 pages

US $39.99
    
 * Originally developed for mainframes but highly portable across
platforms-from servers to desktops to handhelds-Rexx is an easy yet
powerful scripting language that's widely used for rapid application
development
 
 * Covers Rexx interpreters for specialized functions-object-oriented,
mainframe, and handheld
 
 * There are 8 different free Rexx interpreters optimized for
different platforms and uses. This book shows how to use them all.
 
 * Shows how to script for GUIs, databases, web servers, XML, and
other interfaces.
 
 * Details how to make the best use of Rexx tools and interfaces, with
examples for both Linux and Windows
 
 * Includes a tutorial with lots of examples to help people get up and
running

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764579967.html
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         A M I G A S Y S   P A R T   2   F O R   W I N   U A E 

 4 June, 2005 

 After 4 months of working we released now the second part of AmigaSYS
, with many new features and a lot of bugfixes , and this is the first
and only pre installed OS for WinUAE which is based on AmigaOS 3.9!!!
 
 AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE, like AIAB. For
install, you need a valid KickstartROM 3.0/3.1, and the image file of
Workbench and Extras Disk 3.0/3.1.
 
 The new AmigaSYS 2.0 needs KickROM 3.1 and optional a valid OS 3.9 CD
for full features

http://amigasys.fw.hu/
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       P A P Y R U S   P R E - O R D E R S   N O W   T A K E N 

16 June, 2005     

 AmigaOS4 Preorder has started. A minimum of 60 orders and the
promised developer system are necessary to make this port happen. The
porting work starts when these terms are fulfilled, after this
customer will receive Papyrus 68k version which will be replaced
(download) with the native OS4 Version later.

https://ssl.kundenserver.de/order.titan-computer.com/mosshop.html
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     A M I P O D D E R   V E R S I O N   1   I S   F R E E W A R E

11 June, 2005

 AmiPodder version 1.0 has just been released. AmiPodder is a utility
for subscribing to podcasts (a regularly published radio programme,
usually in MP3 format) on your Amiga. AmiPodder will download each
podcast as it is published and then you can listen to the programme on
your Amiga or transfer it to a portable music player.

 Podcasting is a new Internet service that is just starting to take
off. Currently most podcasts are produced by amateurs but large media
organisations including the BBC are beginning to offer some of their
programmes as podcasts too. Recently podcasting got a big credibility
boost when Apple announced that podcast support will be included in
the next version of iTunes. With AmiPodder, Amiga users are able to
take advantage of this new technology right from the start!
 
 AmiPodder is freeware and version 1.0 can be downloaded from:
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/robert/amipodder/index.html
 
 I'm continuing to develop AmiPodder to improve the user interface and
to support podcasting standards as they evolve, if you'd like to be
part of making this software better, please join the AmiPodder mailing
list linked on the site.
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                   W I N U A E   I S   A T   1 . 0 ! 

5 June, 2005 

 Tony Wilen has released the latest version of his continuing efforts
with the Classic Amiga emulator - WinUAE (1.0).


Fixes for this release include:

 * Fullscreen resolution reset if selected display mode's height was
larger than width
 
 * Sprite emulation improvements (Battle Squadron missing high score
character and Bubba'n'Stix background mountains)
 
 * Directory filesystem file/directory datestamp modification if
file/directory's protection flags or comment was modified (broke in
0.9.92)
 
 * Picasso96 RAM autoconfig area memory size error (16M or larger was
always marked as 8M)
 
 * proper AmigaForever ROM path autodetection
 
 * AMOS filesystem freeze (workaround only, proper fix unknown)
 
 * Kickstart 1.2 was not autodetected (wrong CRC32)
 
 * improved JIT direct access memory area allocation (fixes JIT direct
mode problems with some Pentium 4 or NForce 3/4 boards)
 
 * In some cases all priority-levels were changed to "Above Normal"
 
 * bsdsocket crash fix
 
 * Fixed swapped audio channels
 
 * Picasso96 compatibility problem with Directory Opus 4.12

 * Random crash fixed while using external drive sounds or while
loading new configuration on the fly
 
 * Emulation fixes (Shinobi, Double Dragon 2.., broke in 0.9.91)

New Features include:

 * Catweasel Windows driver support, MK1/MK3/MK4 supported (MK4 direct
floppy support and Amiga mouse support coming later)
 
 * Nero Burning ROM ASPI is automatically used if Nero is installed
(better compatibility than Adaptec ASPI)
 
 * Arcadia (Amiga 500 based Arcade system) game support
 
 * Disk swapper-panel improved (path edit box and history added)
 
 * bsdsocket emulation does not ask for internet connection if
requested address is localhost
 
 * Emulation improvements (some Digital's demos, demo Tenebra
partially fixed, 3v Demo by Cave, New Year Demo by Phoenix, game
Sci-fi graphics corruption, Battle Squadron highscores, Bubba'n'Stix
background etc...)
 
 * Sound sample ripper
 
 * Improved debugger

You can find this version on the Official WinUAE homepage.
http://www.winuae.net/
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• Report: Amiga at NASA
• Point of view: the power race
• Hardware: switcher D-Link DKVM-2k
• Tutorial: use of the mouse (for novices)
• Quizz of may/june 2005
• History of the demogroup Profecy
• Tutorial: use of MorphOS and Pegasos (Update)
• Misc reviews from the magazine Amigazette in 2002 et 2003:
  • AmCurrency
  • Amiga Base
  • AmiTimidity
  • Bax Player
  • BlitzPass
  • CyberShow
  • ENote
  • MahjonggTiles
  • PlayGUI
  • Rainboot 3
  • Report+
  • Sample Manager
  • Start Menu
  • Start Me Up
  • SysLock
  • TK Player
  • TSGUI
  • Visual Guide
  • Easy Player
  • Image Convert
  • Jano Editor
  • MPImage
  • SID4Amiga

• 10:30 - M. C. Battilana of Cloanto:
  • Welcome
  • Presentation of Codex Alpe Adria 2005
  • Call for Debate on Future Editions
• 11:30 - Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers:
  • Presentation of the C-One, including the latest Schneider CPC, Turbo CPC, VIC-20 and C64 cores
  • Presentation of the MMC64 (video playback on C64, etc.)
  • Presentation of the Catweasel MK4 controller (integration with Amiga Forever 2005, etc.)
• 12:30 - Christian Celona of yellowTab:
  • Presentation of Zeta 1.0 (evolution of BeOS, released on June 9th, 2005)
• 13:00 - Break
• 13:30 - Dario Soccoli:
  • Presentation of the latest version of AmigaOS 4.0
• 14:00 - Max Tretene of Soft3:
  • Presentation of the latest AmigaOne and Micro A1 hardware
• 14:30 - Andrea Maniero and Mauro Nardotto:
  • Presentation of the latest Pegasos hardware and MorphOS operating system
• 15:00 - Break
• 16:00 - Open Microphone
• 17:00 - Demo Compo Winners Announced
• 17:30 - M. C. Battilana of Cloanto:
  • Presentation of Amiga Forever 2005
  • Closing Notes

• Several demo composers will present their creations (list to be published)
• Enrico Vidale and his Virtual Works staff will show AmigaOne and Pegasos hardware running various operating systems
• Joachim Thomas of Light Elements Software will present the latest AmigaAnywhere cross-platform software on various PDAs
• Federico will present his project for a GameCube emulator written in Objective C for Mac OS X

• Fixed a possible race on quit.
• About doesn't clear the display anymore.
• Closes the file directly after reading it (log from file mode).
• Added spurious interrupt to default filter remove list.

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          W O R D   M E   U P   F R O M   A M I G A   I N C .

         A M I G A   I N C .   J O I N S   H P   P R O G R A M

 B O I N G E D   I N   B E L G I U M   I N ,   U M M ,   B E L G I U M

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

          A M I W E S T   I N F O R M A T I O N   U P D A T E

   A M I G B G   I N   J U L Y   -   W H A T ' S   S C H E D U L E D

         B O O T   J I N G L E   C R E A T E D   F O R   O S 4

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

         E L B O X   A N N O U N C E S   D - B O X   T O W E R

  M I C R O G O L D   E D I T O R   N O W   F R E E   D O W N L O A D


Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Long time readers know that May marks the start of a new publication
year for Amiga Update. We are beginning our 12th year of publication
with this issue! Hard to believe as I sit here typing this that it has
been so many years! How many more will it be? At this point I can't
say but the Amiga community is still here after all that time, and
still reading Amiga Update which we find gratifying.
 We have interesting stories from Amiga, Inc. this time around.
Clearly, games are the thing as far as Amiga is concerned right now.
That's probably a good thing as games should generate some cash.
 Our second story below gives some indications of Amiga's plans for
the near future at least. We'll have to see how they work out in
practice, but it's great to see plans being talked about.
 What are Amiga's long term plans? I don't think we can determine that
from what we've seen in recent weeks and months. For now, I'm just
pleased they're still in existence and doing things. As we've done for
many years now, we will have to let the future show us what's in store
as it happens. Since we published our first issue the week after
Commodore went bankrupt, we've been doing this for 11 full years,
starting on 12. We should all be good at it by now.
 We hope you enjoy this issue.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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         W O R D   M E   U P   F R O M   A M I G A   I N C .

 May 12, 2005 - San Francisco, CA; Today, Amiga, Inc. announced the
availability of Word Me Up, produced by Jerome Senay, founder of the
Boing Attitude team. This original production creates a zany
combination of action, dexterity and brain-twisting fun.

 Word Me Up introduces a set of cartoon characters, graphics and
amusing sound effects into a world of word-based memory challenges
that progressively scale in up to 60 levels of difficulty in four
different languages.

 Players can choose from 5 characters immersed in the world of
darkness facing the task of retrieving texts stolen by a bad sorcerer.
Every level is a race against the clock to collect the letters of the
word that opens code-locked doors. Along the way are a series of
endless mazes infested with numerous sorcerer henchmen. To save
humanity, users must find hidden parts, avoid drowning and steer clear
of raging elephants.

 "Word Me Up combines the fun elements of a medieval sorcerer arcade
adventure with an educational platform for effectively learning
words," said Vince Pfeifer, Amiga Product Manager. "Today, educational
entertainment is among the fastest growing segments of the digital
entertainment market."

 "We wanted to create a funny, skill-challenging application that
brings rich graphics and high quality performance across a variety of
portable devices. Amiga enables the cross-platform sharing of
binaries, allowing us to concentrate on content," said Boing Attitude
founder Senay.

 Word Me Up is immediately available for WinCE Mobile-based devices,
including PocketPC and SmartPhone, and will soon be available for
Linux and Symbian-based devices, set top boxes, personal multimedia
devices, set top boxes and PCs.

 About Boing Attitude:

 Boing Attitude is a small enthusiastic team located in Nantes,
France. Focusing on gameplay, Boing Attitude's aim is to create
addictive and nice games for portable & small devices but also for
desktop computers. For more information visit
http://boing.attitude.online.fr. Email inquiries:
boing.attitude@online.fr
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        A M I G A   I N C .   J O I N S   H P   P R O G R A M

 April 26, 2005 - San Francisco, CA Amiga, Inc. announced it has
become a Premier Member of the Hewlett-Packard iPAQ Developer Program.

 As a Premier Member, Amiga gains access to development tools, source
code, pre-release tools and information and multiple opportunities for
joint marketing and collaboration at tradeshows.

 "We are pleased to welcome Amiga as a Premier member of the iPAQ
Developer Program," said Joel Vincent, Product Manager, Handhelds
Global Business Unit.

 The Hewlett-Packard program comprises more than 15,000 members from
109 countries, including 121 universities worldwide. While the US
still constitutes the largest block of members, a majority of members
are from outside of the United States.

 The original purpose of the program was to serve those developing
iPAQ expansion sleeves. The widespread adoption of SDIO (Secure
Digital Input Output) and CF (Compact Flash) has shifted the program's
main focus now to providing developers with finer control over unique
features of the hardware, especially new features that do not yet have
standard operating system support.

 "The breadth of iPAQ devices enable the consumer/home and
business/mobile users with extensive applications geared to their
respective needs," said Greg Sigel, Amiga's vice president of sales
and marketing. "The specific focus of each device, covering
multimedia, imaging, productivity and business applications mirrors
the development path that Amiga is pursuing with our developer
community. By gaining access to the HP tools, Amiga developers can
more effectively serve each market with the optimal set of graphically
rich, superior performing applications."

 After having recently launched its revised web site, on-line store
and a host of new titles, Amiga continues to pursue an aggressive
distribution strategy and product release plan of 12 new titles per
quarter. The HP-Amiga partnership is a key step to enabling handheld
users with premium content.
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 B O I N G E D   I N   B E L G I U M   I N ,   U M M ,   B E L G I U M

16 May, 2005

 Boinged In Belgium will be held this summer 6 and 7 August near
Antwerp. Organized together with the Belgian Amigaclub and celebrating
the 20th anniversary of the Amiga. You should be there... why? Because
we all want "those" days to come back, doesn't mather if you're a user
or a merchant.

 Some of the things that will be to do or to see:

 - 20 years of Amiga exposition

 - Bring your modded amiga with you, the best ones win a prize

 - Non-Stop day and night party ( hotel and camping-info will be added
soon )

 - Big screen gaming and big screen demoshows

 - Various exhibitors have shown interest in the show and there will
be some official announcements soon ( exhibitors )

 - Of course you can combine the event with a visit to the beautifull
city of Antwerp ( www.visitantwerp.be )

 If you have something to show, sell or whatever : simon@amigaclub.be
and we will work something out.

 And don't forget the dresscode: let us see those "intel outside" and
"boingball's" once again !

http://users.skynet.be/boingedinbelgium/
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        A M I G A E A S T   S H O W   W A S   C A N C E L L E D

 {This is presented after the fact to inform those who were unaware of
the cancellation. Quite sad, we hope for better luck for the show in
the future. Brad}

 1 May, 2005

 We regret to inform you all that the AmigaEast Show May 28-29 2005
has been cancelled.

 Many people and companies had expressed interest in the show, but the
money did not come in to support the $6000 needed to run the show. As
a result of not being able to put the additional $2500 prepayment the
time slot was sold to another event in the hotel. All the work and
logistics had been done, but too little money came in. There is still
a possibility one could happen at the end of the year but it looks as
though I would need to front most of the money myself. Anyone who gave
a credit card # in to order tickets for the show or banquet have not
been charged anything and any checks have not been cashed and will be
disposed of properly. I would still like to look forward to doing
another show in the northeast of the US and am open to ideas.
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        A M I W E S T   I N F O R M A T I O N   U P D A T E

 1 May 2005

 From the beginning of the AmiWest shows, certain goals and objectives
have been in evidence. While those who have been connected with the
show are aware of most of those goals and objectives, many of you who
attend may not be aware or may be new to the show. So for you (and to
remind others), here are the things we are trying to accomplish with
each and every AmiWest show.

 1. First of all, we are providing a place for the Amiga community to
gather. This gathering takes place from among a worldwide community of
manufacturers, developers, users, retailers, and others interested in
our great Amiga computers. Old friendships are renewed and new friends
are made among the many attendees at AmiWest. Organized user groups
are especially encouraged to come and exhibit through a user group
special rate policy detailed on our website. (see
www.sacc.org/amiwest/exhibform.html#pricing)

 2. Second, we provide a place for breaking news announcements of
interest to the Amiga community. Companies who are part of the Amiga
marketplace have always sent their representatives to announce
significant developments.

 3. Third, we provide an encouraging, peaceful atmosphere where even
those in conflict can come, bury the hatchet, and meet in a
high-energy environment for exchange of ideas. We tell those that are
in conflict, legally or otherwise, to please leave their conflicts for
other arenas.

 4. Fourth, we provide a place where vendors can come to sell the
latest and greatest Amiga technologies as well as some of the best
tried and true Amiga hardware and software. Each has its advocates and
we support the efforts of our vendors who support our show and make it
possible.

 5. Fifth, we try to be as educational as possible along the way.
We're working on a few surprises this year as we try to do every year.
We're also continuing our practice of giving qualified presenters a
platform to demonstrate what the Amiga can do.

 For 2005, our theme is "AMIGA at 20: Past, Present and Future," in
honor of John Zacharias. Keep watching our webpage (with brilliant new
graphics) at sacc.org/amiwest and these continuing information
releases for further information, including our 2005 exhibitor list
and our 2005 banquet speaker!

 AmiWest 2005 will be July 23th and 24th, 2005, at the

Clarion Hotel Cal Expo
2600 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento California 95821

Reservations Phone 1-800-424-6423 toll-free (local 1-916-487-7600)
and by snail-mail at the above address.

 Please watch our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news
and information regarding AmiWest 2005. We are on target for another
improved show! See you there!

!!!!

So remember,

 AmiWest 2005 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!
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   A M I G B G   I N   J U L Y   -   W H A T ' S   S C H E D U L E D

 The fair will take place on the 23rd of July 11AM-5PM at Lindholmen
Science Park in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference center is located
at Navet which is the main building in the area. It holds the latest
in IT and AV-technology as well as all modern conveniences, like an
ATM, kiosk etc.

 IBM talks about Power and Cell at AmiGBG 2005-05-25 Mikael Haglund is
a well known name among Amigans since the success at AmiGBG 2004. This
year Mikael will update us on the progress of Power and give us more
information on the new Cell processor.

 Haglunds presentation 2004 was extremely appreciated, this year he
will reveal more details about IBM's new 'mystery' CPU called Cell.

 New exhibitor and sponsor - GGS-Data 2005-05-28

 AmiGBG is proud to once again present Swedens oldest Amiga reseller,
both as an exhibitor and as the official sponsor of AmiGBG Retro Room
2005.

 Niels Bache as official fair photagrapher 2005-05-27

 We're proud to have Niels Bache as the official photographer of this
historical event. Niels is a frequent visitor to Amiga events. His
previous pictures are avalible at http://nbache.dk/

 New exhibitor: Norwegian amiga union 2005-05-26

 We welcome Norwegian amiga union(Norsk amigaforening) as a exhibitor.
Norwegian amiga union (Norsk amigaforening) has existed by it's name
since 1992, established on the Internet in the fall of 2000. In the
early 2003 they got their official organization number in the
norwegian organization register. Norwegian amiga union is an
organization for norwegian usergroups that has Amiga hardware and
software as an interest. http://naf.as


 The pre-booking system is now avalible 2005-05-25

 The booking system is now online so don't postpone you preorder!
Book your ticket Today! The price is 12 EUR when preordering and 16
EUR at the door. Booking is fast, easy and payment is avaliable
through PayPal.

 Kalms talks about 3D programming 2005-05-25

 Few people who have owned an Amiga computer back in the 90s do not
know the name Kalms. Mikael Kalms is one of the programmers in the
demo group 'The Black Lotus'. TBL has a long list of 1st places at
parties like The Gathering, Mekka Symposium and lately Breakpoint
2005. Still coding on the A1200 with a Motorola 68060 CPU. Mikael will
talk about 3D demo programming in the Developers Pavilion at AmiGBG
2005.

http://web.kicker.nu/amigbg/startsida/default.asp?sub=&lang=uk&pid
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        B O O T   J I N G L E   C R E A T E D   F O R   O S 4

Leuven, Belgium. - May 25, 2005

 Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that
recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created
specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be
included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music.


 About Susumu Hirasawa

 Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has
written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium
Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk tv-series and videogame, and he is
currently working on his latest cd-release. Since 1979 he helped
defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his
first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with
his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga
user group of Japan(FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia
performance.

 About Hyperion Entertainment VOF

 Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company,
founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and
the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to
niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).

 Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of
3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has
developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D
graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.

 Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC
native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in
1985.
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    G U R U M E D I T A T I O N   S P O N S O R S   D R I V E R S

20 May, 2005

 Andreas Loong, Proprietor of GuruMeditation, has stated:

 "We would consider sponsoring development of hardware drivers for
OS4, whether it be PCI, clockport or Zorro based. So I'll make this a
general call to developers: If you can make a driver, let me know and
I'll send you the required hardware."

 We feel drivers are inherently important to a platform as a whole,
and AmigaOS 4 currently covers alot of audio and video drivers, and a
good number of IDE controllers.

 If you have written drivers before, or if you are an experienced
programmer, this is an excellent opportunity for you.

 If you can make a driver for AmigaOS 4, we are prepared to ship you
the card that you need.

 It should be in C, it should follow the new AmigaOS interface
guidelines, and it should be portable. It must not be a port of a GPL
driver, or a proprietary driver. Check with us if you are uncertain.

http://www.gurumeditation.se/index.php?fullNews=true&nID=26
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        E L B O X   A N N O U N C E S   D - B O X   T O W E R

17 May, 2005

 Elbox Computer is happy to announce a new tower system for Amiga 1200
computers. D-BOX 1200 is a perfectly designed, modern, functional,
spacious tower case.

 D-BOX 1200 is targeted for these Amiga 1200 users who want to upgrade
their computers with the DRAGON 1200, a ColdFire-based accelerator
card combined with the PCI/AGP Expansion busboard. D-BOX 1200 allows
also using other busboards like Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI
1200 LT4, Mediator PCI 1200 or Zorro IV with Mediator PCI ZIV.

 After all of the amazing Amiga chassis designs that Elbox released in
the past few years, the D-BOX 1200 includes the first chassis with the
movable back bracket bays born after extensive research and
development by the Elbox engineers.

 The D-BOX 1200 is much more performance-oriented and versatile than
all previous towers for Amiga 1200 computers. Standard features such
as four 5.25in drive bays, five 3.5in drive bays, and a chassis
prepared to perfectly fit A1200 motherboard with many different PCI
and Zorro busboards are combined with new elements like USB ports in
the front panel or a movable front cover bay for CD-ROM. D-BOX 1200
tower system with a powerful 350W ATX PSU is ready for massive
expandability of your A1200 hardware.

 D-BOX 1200 replaces the discontinued Mirage 1200 and E/BOX 1200 (also
known as A1200 Power Tower and A1200 Winner Tower) Amiga tower
systems.

 Pricing and availability

 The D-BOX 1200 Tower will be on sale from early June 2005 at the
suggested retail price of only EUR 149.95 or US$194.95 (VAT and local
taxes excl.)

 For more information see: D-BOX 1200 website.

http://www.elbox.com/products/d-box_1200.html
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  M I C R O G O L D   E D I T O R   N O W   F R E E   D O W N L O A D

25 May, 2005

 The microgolded editor is now available as free download. Instead of
asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and
contains offline advertising.

 microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features,
such as undo-redo, folding, macro recording, formatting, auto-case,
auto-completion and other basic editor stuff. It is very fast and very
configurable. All in one file, no installation.

 Registered users can find a new, advertising-free version on the
GoldED web site. New features: black-on-white color scheme (optional)
and navigation tabs.

 Amiga users and dealers interested in advertising software, events,
web sites or services in microgolded please contact GoldED support.

http://www.dietmar-eilert.net/golded/files.htm
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• G3 and G4 versions combined (separate root structure)
• Installer of the Pegasos I version added
• Installer now asks for the file system used on the boot partition, that is FFS, SFS EXT2 or EXT3
• File manager (Midnight Commander) added to the molmenu
• Shutdown and reboot are now available in the molmenu as separate functions
• Amiga-fdisk can now detect up to 20 partitions
• Pre-empt function added to the kernel

• Can create hardfiles in GUI
• Can quit emulator at anytime ("emergency quit")
• Optimized speed
• Added frameskip option

• You bought the board and you are the first owner of the board
• The Pegasos I and the 200 Euro have to be sent first before the new board will be delivered
• The costs for the delivery are paid by the customer
• This offer comes directly from Genesi and is not placed in association with retailers
• Should you want to make use of this upgrade offer please send an e-mail to sales@pegasosppc.com until June, 30th 2005
• Please mention in this e-mail the serial number of your board, too, please

• Several fixes and optimizations to masking routines
• Support for analog joysticks
• Added mute option to window menu
• Fixed problem with little endian (byte swapped) high colour modes
• Fixed window resizing bug (Pixel32)
• Loads of small bug fixes to main library and sublibraries
• Added separate SDL Preferences program
• German catalog, French catalog updated

• Support many cameras (Please refer to the orginal libptp2-documentation)
• Thumbnail preview/select
• Multiselected download

• Full control over the remote functionality
• Taking pictures as .jpg
• Taking videos of unlimited length as .yuv
• Setting of all known device properties
• Multithreaded design
• Log-system

• Auto-grouping of most common AutoDocs
• Search function
• Filter function
• Directory ride
• Fast

• alt.binaries.nl (free)
• nzb.eweka.nl (free)

• Most functions from the Web-interface
• Browsing
• Can directly import to BullDog

• Windows were left locked after an export operation
• Arggggggg found a very bad bad in passwords saving. All 1.1 archives are not compatible anymore
• Changed RNG function: now it is a KISS one with a sha1-ed randomly generated seed
• Some minor changes

• Install, uninstall and update do not work yet
• Loads of debug output
• The program does not show verbose status information
• Before download the (os4depot.net-) category must be selected by hand

• OS4 version added
• Code optimation
• Skins can now contain graphics and sounds

• Can download from multiple servers at the same time
• Each server can download with multiple connections
• Connections can be paused or aborted
• Pause/Resume downloads, even after quit
• Abort/Restart downloads any time
• Easy to use, non-blocking and intelligent GUI