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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
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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
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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/
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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."
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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!!!! ;-))))
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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 <mailto: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.
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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/
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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
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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/
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