====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _|__ __ __|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\¯ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\¯ /___// ¯ \/ ¯ ¯ \/. |¯ ¯|z!o ¯ ¯ \/ ¯ A M I G A | 051031 | U P D A T E |________| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- H Y P E R I O N L A U N C H E S O S 4 W E B S I T E A M I G A G O E S F O R T H E P U C K N E W A M I G A 1 0 0 0 S I T E I N G E R M A N Y C A I S F I L E S M O V E T O A M I G A F U T U R E 3 C A G U S E R G R O U P I S L A U N C H E D I N U K M E D S O U N D S T U D I O D I S T R I B U T I O N D E A L 0 . 4 9 O F D V P L A Y E R I S R E A D Y W A R P V I E W V I E W E R A T 0 . 4 X N E T - R S S N E W S R E A D E R L A T E S T W I N U A E I S 1 . 1 . 1 A M I G A G A M E S T H A T W E R E N ' T ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: With Winter looming somewhere over the horizon here as we end October, it's good to see the Amiga community busy doing things that promise to keep everyone busy and interested through the coming cold months. Of course, for those of you in the southern half of the world, since you're just coming out of the cold season you don't have that concern. And I'm betting we don't get any sympathy from you either. Be that as it may, there are many interesting things going on in the Amiga world in particular and computing in general to hold our interest. One item promises the possibility of interesting processors in the Power PC world. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "*Fall Processor Forum ? San Jose, Calif. ? Oct. 24, 2005* Emerging from more than two years of stealth development, P.A. Semi today unveiled the PWRficient TM processor family a 64-bit multicore, scalable processor line based on the Power Architecture TM from IBM that delivers high performance at very low power consumption, offering up to a tenfold advantage in performance per watt over the industry. P.A. Semi is headed by Dan Dobberpuhl, the acclaimed lead designer of the DEC Alpha series of microprocessors, the ultra-power-efficient StrongARM microprocessors, and the first commercial multicore processors including the SiByte 1250. The 150-strong processor, ASIC, software and systems engineering team also includes key designers of other defining processor architectures, such as Opteron, Itanium, and UltraSPARC." This bears keeping an eye on. We'll try to do that. Also heard this month from folks in Germany who have launced a new Amiga 1000 and Phoenix site. We just had to visit that one, and found it fun. We have an item on it below - give it a look, we think you'll enjoy it. In the "What does this mean, if anything?" category, the following announcement appeared this month at www.amigaworld.net: "I don't know that there is any interest in the following. If you'd like (after removing my e-mail address) please feel free to post the following: Several months ago I terminated my association with Amiga, Inc. I am no longer affiliated with Amiga in any capacity. Best Regards, Garry Hare" Actually, I'm afraid no one even noticed. However, it's to Mr. Hare's credit that he had the professionalism to let the community know. Best of luck to you, whatever you do, Gary Hare. Then there's the matter of Amiga games that never quite made it to the market for one reason or another. There's a new site devoted to them. We have a story and the link below. Lots of fun things in the autumn (or spring) air right now. That's good! Oh - did we mention Hyperion has launched a new OS4 Website? We didn't? Well then, we'll start this issue with that story. Brad Webb, Editor -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= H Y P E R I O N L A U N C H E S O S 4 W E B S I T E 28 October, 2005 With this website, we at Hyperion Entertainment VOF have created a central resource for the community of AmigaOS4.0 users and clients, both present and future. We will shortly be expanding this website to include downloads, a developers area, an FAQ and more features that we hope you will find both useful and informative. To start things off, we include two sets of articles for your reading enjoyment; you'll see links to them in the menu at the side of the page. From the AmigaOS4.0 link you can access articles intended to give you an introduction to the latest version of the Amiga OS, whether you are an OEM interested in the great advantages AmigaOS4.0 can bring to your platform, a curious end-user who wants to know what has been happening with the Amiga platform in recent years, or a dedicated Amiga enthusiast who has been with us all this time. Below that in the menu side bar, you'll find our special "Amiga@20" section, celebrating this 20th anniversary year of the revolutionary Amiga Operating system. In this, you'll find a brief history of the Amiga, as well as a list of our 20 favourite features of AmigaOS4.0, and 20 reasons why we believe AmigaOS4.0 to be a truly unique, innovative and user-friendly OS. Here you will find nformation and resources relating to the latest release of the Operating System that introduced the world to multimedia and proves the fact that so much of the computing industry has forgotten - that computers can be fun. 20 years after the Amiga Operating System was first unveiled to the public it is returning, better than ever, thanks to a joint effort by Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF. This new version of the famous OS takes all the features that made the original AmigaOS great, and updates them with the latest requirements for cross-platform 21st Century computing devices of all sorts. From desktop computers to mobile hardware, AmigaOS4.0 delivers a uniquely accessible, powerful, and above all fun way to use technology. Whether you are one of the thousands of dedicated enthusiasts for the platform or an ex-user curious to see what's going on, if you are completely new to the Amiga experience or a potential OEM client considering the deployment of AmigaOS 4.0 on your own hardware, we hope you'll find plenty in this website to interest you. http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A G O E S F O R T H E P U C K October 4, 2005 - San Francisco, CA - NHL and Amiga.Inc. announced today a cooperative marketing and branding agreement where Amiga will create and jointly market NHL-branded applications through the co-branded nhl.shopamiga.com website. Further, they will jointly enable leading carriers, operators and digital computing device OEMs to bundle this content in their most popular devices. As hockey enthusiasts around the world visit NHL.com, they will have access to a thrilling variety of games, puzzles, and musical applications for personal computers, gaming devices, mobile handsets and other computing devices. The National Hockey League commands a global audience, as one-third of the players originate from nations outside of North America. These countries are well known for their tremendous hockey fanbase and cutting edge adoption of mobile and Internet technologies. Annually, the NHL plays to more than 20 million fans in hockey arenas throughout 30 major markets in the U.S. and Canada. NHL.com itself averages 5-6 million unique visitors per month, plus draws additional interest from affiliate sites AHL, ECHL, UHL, CHL and ELITE leagues that bring hockey to additional greater metropolitan areas. The NHL also enjoys coverage from leading media and network partners, including NBC, OLN, CBC, TSN, HD-Net, RDS, Westwood One, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. Amiga lets consumers enjoy rich-media NHL and hockey-based content featuring extraordinary audio-visual quality, high-speed interactive gaming, education and edutainment from all of NHL.com Arcade, Kids and Wireless sections of the NHL website. The 'Fun and Games' section of NHL.com, provides online and cellular gamers of all ages with a perfect home. "Amiga is a great fit with NHL.com's commitment to provide fans around the world with compelling and entertaining content," said Keith Ritter, President NHL ICE. "We are thrilled to offer such high quality content across a myriad of devices." "Amiga continues to find new and innovative ways to provide entertaining content", said Greg Sigel, Amiga's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Our developers are already busy creating new content to make the most of the market exposure that we are gaining through our efforts with the NHL and their industry leading partners." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W A M I G A 1 0 0 0 S I T E I N G E R M A N Y 12 October, 2005 Please take a look on the new german/english community project for amiga: www.a1k.org Because we have a dictator, the community is very peacefull. :-) The forum is at the moment only in german, but we like the english language. at the moment we have some foreign users talking in english (yes it is allowed) or trying to write in german. ;-) if you are logged in into the forum you can use are chatsystem that is running on all browsers, even on the amiga!!! From www.a1k.org (above the mainlogo) you can reach the actually sfs homepage, the latest version of lha (2.11 and it is still in development...), the homepage of one that is making grafics for us and pictures from the classic computing 2005 in germany (a retro computing exhibition). The amiga 1000 section is from alexandra "alexa", an amiga 1000 lover. ;-) The phoenix homepage is in english and in german now! Take a look on this great motherboard, the first real amiga motherboard produced since 1994!!!! ;-)))) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A I S F I L E S M O V E T O A M I G A F U T U R E 19 October, 2005 An annoucement from Patric Klöter: I was too busy the last weeks to keep my Amiga website uptodate. Because of this I make the following announcement: The articles of the Commodore Amiga Information Source will be transferred into the Amiga Future website. Whether into the articles database or another place isn't clear at the moment. Andreas and I will try to get as many articles as possible from my website. Since of this my website will go offline soon. This action includes the guestbook, the board and the mailing list. That's why I'm refering to the board of the Amiga Future now. Taking this step isn't easy fpr me but I'm glad to know that the contents will get preserved by the Amiga Future. I want to thank all Commodore and Amiga fans for visiting my site and for the feedback for the last 4 1/2 years. http://www.commodore-amiga.de http://www.amigafuture.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 C A G U S E R G R O U P I S L A U N C H E D I N U K 3CAG is the Three Counties Amiga Group, Based In Peterborough, UK. We are a new Amiga usergroup, yet to hold our first meeting, We are currently looking for members to attend once a month at a venue Based in the Peterborough area. We are looking to hold our meetings once a month, membership is on an "as is" basis, i.e. you pay only when and if you attend. If you want to know more about meetings, venue etc, please watch our website, it will be announced soon! To get intouch please click on the Contact Us Link on the site, and if you so wish, we will add you to our member's mailing list. Thanks for visiting Paul, (The Editor/Outcast) info@3cag.net http://www.3cag.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M E D S O U N D S T U D I O D I S T R I B U T I O N D E A L 25 October, 2005 APC&TCP is proud to announce the worldwide distribution of MED Soundstudio 2. MED Soundstudio 2 is the official successor of the world famous OctaMED Soundstudio v1.03c and will be released early next year for use on the new AmigaOS 4. However there is also the possibility of 68k and MorphOS versions to follow. More information about the features and the actual release date of MED Soundstudio 2 will be available within the next couple of Months. http://www.medsoundstudio.com/enteramiga.htm http://www.apc-tcp.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 . 4 9 O F D V P L A Y E R I S R E A D Y 26 October, 2005 DvPlayer is an ongoing project to bring the ultimate multimedia experience to the Amiga computer. It is a unique and Amiga-only multimedia player, developed by Amiga enthusiasts, for Amiga enthusiasts! The current version of DvPlayer requires AmigaOS 4.0 and supports the following video formats: * MPEG-1/2 video streams * MPEG-1/2 system streams * VideoCD * SVCD * VOB files (DVDs) * AVI files DvPlayer supports many audio and video codecs via avcodec.library, including MPEG Video 1/2, DiVX, XVID, MJPG, Cinepak, Indeo Video, PCM, MPEG Audio (Layer1-3) and more. To achieve the fastest possible video playback, DvPlayer uses fast direct-rendering algorithms for every possible HiColor and TrueColor screen mode. There are also separate rendering routines for half scale and also for movies with 16:9 aspect ratio so that they are correctly displayed on a 1:1 aspect monitor without being stretched. Support for using the video overlay is also included. Overlay is currently only supported by the Voodoo drivers; for Radeon owners it will be available in future releases of the Radeon graphics driver. DvPlayer features an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface which provides great control for the user. Keyboard shortcuts are available for quick and easy access to functions. Handling of multiple files is implemented, so the user can easily select many video files and step between them either automatically or by the press of a button. The GUI is skinnable, allowing everyone to get the look-and-feel they want. You can easily switch from window to fullscreen display and back (only for registered users) DvPlayer can be placed into AmiDock and the user can drag'n'drop files onto the DvPlayer icon to make them play instantly. It is possible to switch between the different audio streams from the menu or with keyboard shortcuts, even during playback, for example to select a different language. DvPlayer 0.49 Released 26-Oct-2005 This new version fixes a bug in skin loading, which caused bad graphics corruptions/crashes on some systems. Thanks to Szymon Tomzik for helping me find this bug! http://dvplayer.amigarevolution.com/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- W A R P V I E W V I E W E R A T 0 . 4 23 October, 2005 *Description: * A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D http://os4depot.net/share/graphics/viewer/warpview_lha.readme *Download: * warpview.lha http://os4depot.net/share/graphics/viewer/warpview.lha *Version: * 0.4 *Date: * 23 Oct 05 *Author: * Stephen Fellner *Submitter: * Stephen Fellner *Email: * sf.amiga@gmail.com *Requirements: * AmigaOS4.0, Warp3D *Category: * graphics/viewer http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=graphics/viewer *License: * Freeware *Distribute: * yes *FileID: * 1190 WarpView is an image wiewer which uses Warp3D to display the images. The advantage of using Warp3D is fast high quality scaling. However WarpView requires more video memory than conventional image viewers, because the entire image must be in video memory for it to work correctly. WarpView uses the datatype system of AmigaOS to load the images. This way all popular image formats can be viewed (IFF-ILBM, JPEG, PNG, etc.) if you have the datatypes installed. WarpView is FREEWARE and is my gift to the Amiga community. If you like it you are welcome to tell me about it, however please do not bomb me with feature requests. I will keep improving WarpView, but my bigger projects have higher priority. WarpView requires AmigaOS4 and a Radeon graphics card. The current version of WarpView has no software clipping, which means it won't work on graphics cards like Voodoo3. I'll fix this when I get some time for it. You should have a lot of free graphics memory, otherwise you'll have problems, especially viewing high resolution images. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- X N E T - R S S N E W S R E A D E R 4 October, 2005 XNet-RSS is a native AmigaOS4.0 RSS News reader. It has automatic charset convertion and doesn't need any external library. Could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS news pages. Available on OS4Depot: XNet-RSS New features that where added from the 51.3 release: - first public release - totally redone the Add / Modify / Remove Prefs section - could be iconified - could show a scrolling News Bar when iconified - improved html entities parsing and stripping - added a workaround for the single '&' chararcter illegally used on some web sites - redone the about window - could save position and dimensions of the main window on exit - some little modification to the gui - bugs fixing http://os4depot.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L A T E S T W I N U A E I S 1 . 1 . 1 24 October, 2005 Bugs fixed: - Incorrect AF 2005 path defaults. - Blitter freeze in CE-mode if D-channel was not enabled. - Misc/Priority panel crash when running under Windows 9x/ME. - Parallel port emulation. (Gauntlet III) - Two disk emulation bugs. (Xybots, Disposable Hero and others) - Incorrect .uae extension path if -datapath -command line parameter was used. New features: - Old versions of AdaptecASPI and NeroASPI are now automatically rejected. No more crashes or bluescreens under Windows 9x/ME if Windows build-in ASPI is used. - Full SCSI device support in SPTI-mode. - Display panel resolution and depth moved to separate select boxes - Disk history format changed. File name is now visible even if path is very long. http://www.winuae.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A G A M E S T H A T W E R E N ' T 30 October, 2005 Legend tells of a breed of Amiga games that never crawled out of the primordial development swamp of their early existence. Games that never stood blinking in the sunlight of the gaming world. Games that were never devoured by predators of the Amiga jungle. They are the... Amiga Games That Weren't. Some 5,000 Amiga games were released commercially. However, there are a significant number that were never released. The aim of this site is to find out what happened to them and (if possible) allow them to be released. Expect many to be lost forever. It'll be an interesting journey nonetheless. Amiga Games That Weren't is a companion site to Frank Gasking's Games That Weren't 64 and Timo Weirich's PC Games That Weren't sites. The data on unreleased games is primarily based on information from the Hall Of Light. aGTW is launched (with a simple site). There is only one game so far but it's a complete and previously unreleased Amiga game that was due to be a commercial title! Case 1 - Son Shu Shi Thanks to eLowar for the aGTW logo. Adrian Simpson (Webmaster) http://agtw.abime.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! 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