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Amiga Update (2003-03-31)
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A M I G A C L U B S L O V E N I A I S 5 Y E A R S O L D
A N N O U N C I N G A M I W E S T 2 0 0 3
A M I G A B O W S O U T O F C E B I T
W E E K L Y Q & A S E S S I O N S W I T H F L E E C Y
Z E O N E O A C Q U I R E S C A N D Y F A C T O R Y
D I S C R E E T F X L O G O C O N T E S T - P R I Z E S
A L T - W O A 2 0 0 3 P O S T P O N E D
C I N E M A W A R E P R O B L E M S T A T E M E N T
M U S I C F I L E S F R E E D I S T R I B U T I O N
A L G O R R E P L A C E S H I G H W A Y - E 3 B
W I N U A E 0 . 8 . 2 2 R E L . 5 A N N O U N C E D
P E R F E C T P A I N T V 2 . 9 2 I S A V A I L A B L E
P I X L O A D V E R S I O N 3 A N N O U N C E D
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Last month we remarked we hoped that OS4.0 would be available by this
time, and that news in the Amiga community would pick up. Well, one
out of two is what we got. There are more interesting stories to bring
your way this time, though news is still a bit "thin". As for OS4.0 -
nowhere to be seen yet, resulting in Amiga pulling out of CeBIT (as
noted below). Work continues we are told, and we believe it. We just
hope it continues as a project and not a lifetime career ...
We received a note on the 27th from Andreas Magerl of APC&TCP
announcing they were now 11 years old as a publisher in the Amiga
market! That is really saying something - quite an accomplishment and
we congratulate them for their ability to reach this milestone.
We understand they will conducting an on-line sale through the 30th
of next month to celebrate. You can join them at http://www.apc-tcp.de
You will see an article below announcing the weekly question and
answer session with Amiga CTO Fleecy Moss on the Amiga World portal
site. Let me strongly recommend you take the time to look these
sessions over if you haven't. I think you'll find them a first rate
tie between users and Amiga. So far, the communication from Fleecy has
been first rate. There's a great opportunity here for people who may
understand technical matters but aren't familiar with the business
side of running a computer company to see in some detail how the one
impacts the other. "Hats off" in a salute to Amiga World and Fleecy
for making this collaboration happen.
There are many things to read below. We hope you enjoy this issue.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A C L U B S L O V E N I A I S 5 Y E A R S O L D
19 March, 2003
Today is the day. A group of Amiga users founded new Amiga users club
in Slovenia named Amiga racunalniski klub D.A.D. five years ago. So,
today our club celebrate the 5th birthday. We are happy that we are
still here, some clubs aren't anymore. We have had some really bad
times and some great times also. We have done a lot in those 5 years.
We translated AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 and we are doing the same with the new
AmigaOS 4.0. The next year we will have the 5th Amiga Mini Show and we
hope that our club would do at least some difference in positive
sense to all Amiga community, we also hope that Amiga Inc. would
noticed us and help us to take care about Amiga future in Slovenia.
Maybe this is the pace and time to call Amiga clubs together and
organize the Assosiation of Amiga users Clubs. Some clubs like ours
are very small with low number of members, we shoud stick together to
make louder voice and be heard. Visit our site at Amiga computer club
D.A.D.
http://www.amiga-klub.si/
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A N N O U N C I N G A M I W E S T 2 0 0 3
29 March, 2003
AmiWest 2003 is rolling! AmiWest is still rolling and in its sixth
year. The AmiWest committee is proud to announce we are again hosting
this year's show in Sacramento, California, at the popular Holiday
Inn, Sacramento Northeast. This venue proved to be such a hit at our
last four shows that we are again holding it there. The dates are July
26th and 27th, 2003.
AmiWest is in it's sixth year and is the only Amiga show produced on
the West Coast of the United States. The show has proved very popular
for Amiga enthusiasts in the Western United States and continues to
attract participants and attention worldwide.
Space is available for rent to companies, clubs, organizations, and
individuals producing Amiga related products and services.
If you know of any vendors, suppliers, or anything else AMIGA-related
that you think belongs at this show, let us know and we will contact
them. Alternatively, point them to our webpage at www.sacc.org/amiwest.
This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga
Community.The primary sponsors of AmiWest 2003 are the AmiWest
Committee, an activity of the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club, Amiga
since 1986.
AmiWest 2003 location!
AmiWest 2003 will be at the
Holiday Inn, Sacramento Northeast
5321 Date Avenue
Sacramento California 95841-2597
Phone 1-916-338-5800 or 1-800-388-9284 - Toll Free (Hotel directly)
Please watch our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news
and information regarding AmiWest 2003. We announced our dates at the
end of AmiWest 2002, and we are on target! See you there!
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A M I G A B O W S O U T O F C E B I T
6 March, 2003
Late last year, Amiga announced its intention to launch AmigaOS4.0 at
the CeBIT show in Germany. Since then, the project has advanced into
its final stages but unfortunately not to the point where we are ready
to ship. We have thus decided no t to attend the Cebit Germany show.
Instead we are looking at other shows and opportunities in the near
future to provide a suitable platform for the launch of the new Amiga.
We apologize to the commmunity for waiting until the last possible
moment to make this announcement but despite heroic efforts by all
concerned, even up to the last minute, circumstances have conspired to
push completion beyond the deadline. We have regretfully decided that
making CeBIT Germany the AmigaOS 4 launch platform is not a realistic
option at present. AmigaOS4.0 is coming. Beta-testing has been going
on since last September, the Club Amiga Magazine is previewing many of
the new features and AmigaOne integration is proceeding well. Amiga,
Hyperion and Eyetech are 100% committed to getting th e new platform
out into the world and reintroducing the world to the pleasures of
home computing.
-- The Amiga Team
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W E E K L Y Q & A S E S S I O N S W I T H F L E E C Y
16 March, 2003
AmigaWorld are proud to announce that Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss has agreed on offering us weekly Questions and
Answers sessions. You can ask your questions and check already asked
questions here on our forums as well.
Here's Fleecy's introduction to the sessions:
Before getting down to the questions, I'd like to thank AmigaWorld
for suggesting this service and putting it all together for the
community. Whilst I will try to answer as fully as I can, it does need
to be understood that Amiga is a company and that there are many
things I cannot reveal or talk about. This is not a deliberate attempt
to castrate this service before it even starts but the business world
is a lawyer's world and I have to abide by it.
Fleecy Moss
CTO
Amiga Inc.
http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/
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Z E O N E O A C Q U I R E S C A N D Y F A C T O R Y
14 March, England - Zeoneo Limited is moving into the AmigaOS market
with the acquisition of the exclusive rights to the noted and highly
respected graphics application Candy Factory.
Candy Factory® is a program for creating professional looking
graphics using bevels, glows, drop-shadows, bump-mapping, textures and
lighting effects. With the minimum of effort you can quickly produce
logos, titles, banners, headings, buttons and other similar graphics.
Instant visual feedback of the adjustments made means the settings can
be tweaked in real-time until you are completely happy with the
result.
A fully revised version of the program is currently in development.
Candy Factory 2 is being produced specifically for AmigaOS 4. "By
taking full advantage of the new operating system and hardware, we
expect Candy Factory 2 to be much faster and even more intuitive."
said Matthew Kille, Managing Director of Zeoneo Limited.
The original author of Candy Factory, Milan Pollé, joined Zeoneo as a
full time employee early last year and is now collaborating in the
development of its successor. "I'm very happy to be able to work
together with Zeoneo in developing a new version of Candy Factory for
AmigaOS 4. I expect Candy Factory 2 to become much more powerful,
utilizing the brand new advances of AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne
platform. It will be another quality title in the Zeoneo lineup."
For more information, write to Zeoneo at contact@zeoneo.com, or visit
our website www.zeoneo.com.
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D I S C R E E T F X L O G O C O N T E S T - P R I Z E S
Chicago, Illinois -- March 03, 2003 --
DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects
developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and Video Toaster [2]
announces a new challenge for Amiga/Video Toaster artists worldwide.
Deep in the labs of DiscreetFX we are looking for a new logo but we
can't find one and we are too lazy too design it ourselves. Also, we
know there are some damn talented artists in the Amiga & Video Toaster
community and wanted to give everyone a stab at doing it for us with
cash and product incentives of course. So here is the deal on our logo
challenge. We will allow you the Amiga & Video Toaster community to
design our new logo for us. Also we will post all submissions on our
website and allow you the community vote on which logo we will use. So
fire up those paint packages, animation packages and Flash creation
tools fellow artists. We would not dare limit your creativity so we
have very few limitations or rules for the challenge.
Artwork/animations can be submitted as still images (IFF, JPEG, TIFF
etc.), Flash animations, AVI files or whatever you wish. We only ask
that whatever you submit is your original work and that it does not
suck. What you submit must have the words "DiscreetFX" in some type of
fancy pose or flash animation. Be creative and use your mind, we don't
care if it is "Psygnosis" style or "New Age" style or "Retro" style.
We leave the talent to you, all we offer is an open wallet for the
winners. Don't forget that it will be voted on and judged by your
peers so do a good job! Create your masterpieces with FlashMX, ImageFX
4.5, Zbrush, Photogenics 5, or even Deluxe Paint version 1 on the
Amiga 1000, we don't care as long as the artwork is fantastic.
The Winner takes home a prize of $100 via Paypal and one of the
products of his or her choice from our development team. Or if the
Winner is especially greedy they can opt for just $200 via Paypal and
skip the free software. There will be prizes for runner up contestants
as well. You will have to hurry though because this contest ends on
April 3rd, 2003. Please send your contest entries to
amigaart@discreetfx.com. All submitted artwork/animations become the
property of DiscreetFX but will never be used without compensation to
the artist that created th
