====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _|__ __ __|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\ /___// \/ \/. | |z!o \/ A M I G A | 060930 | U P D A T E |________| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" (Eject -1) ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~bandr/AU/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! Now in our 13th publication year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2006 by Brad Webb. 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