====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _|__ __ __|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\¯ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\¯ /___// ¯ \/ ¯ ¯ \/. |¯ ¯|z!o ¯ ¯ \/ ¯ A M I G A | 030930 | U P D A T E |________| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A O S 4 D E M O E D O N A M I G A O N E O S 4 R O A D S H O W A U S T R A L I A B E N E L U X A M I G A S H O W S O O N A M I G A O N E L I T E - A M I G A W O R L D . N E T N E W M A G A Z I N E A N N O U N C E D P A G E S T R E A M F O R O S 4 A N N O U N C E D L A N C L I P W A S N E T C L I P . . . A M I G A R E T A I N S T R A D E M A R K Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Interesting things going on in the Amiga community this month. While there was not much news generated, what news there is, is very important. Most exciting is the demonstration of a native OS4 running on an AmigaOne, even if this is a version not quite ready for users. It's still a very important milestone. Along similar lines, the "leaks" of work on an "Amiga Lite" that can be used in embeded systems and, presumably, entry level desktops is also of great interest. We have "snippets" of information on each topic for you below. Short stories, but very significant in their implications. In a month of little news, these stand out as shining beacons perhaps showing the way toward the future. We hope so. We also hope you enjoy this issue. Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail to the E-ditor: 01 Sep 2003 Hi Brad, A few quotes from you from the new issue of AmigaUpdate, and some responses: [...] > I was pleasantly surprised how many people > expressed similar thoughts. Many also stated they were keeping their > thoughts to themselves in order to avoid flame wars, etc. Very > interesting. [...] > As for the trashing, it's become an Amiga Community Standard Practice > to flame those you don't agree with. I actually found it amusing. Ad > hominems are simply the least gracious way to admit you've been found > out as having no valid argument. I was amused by your first AmigaOS vs. MorphOS editorial, partly because of the criticisms that I expected would result, and partly because it's been rare for those running Amiga web sites, newsletters, magazines, etc. to voice such a strong opinion one way or the other. I happen to agree with you 100%, but question what good your editorials serve vs. "keeping [your] thoughts to yourself". Maybe it was a natural reaction to the amiga.org webmasters who vocally switched to the MorphOS side...or perhaps you finally dealt with one MorphOS/AROS troll too many? ;-) Although it was a simple opinion piece without vulgarities, I still consider it a form of "trashing" and would prefer that the various OS's be allowed to speak for themselves. When OS4 is released for the AmigaOne, I fully expect the surrounding publicity to put it firmly in "first place". Currently with OS4 still unreleased, AmigaOS, MorphOS, and AROS have an odd, almost equal footing in the news. Also, with most of the Amiga programming talent affiliated with at least one of these efforts, we AmigaOS 3.x masses are left milling around, often without much to do or say, and occasionally at the mercy of those who would take the OS in their own favorite direction. Again, I expect a shakeup once OS4 finally goes public. Until then I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself...excluding this email, and on occasions when I just can't take the trolls anymore. ;-) Cheers, xxxxx ~~~~~~ I have not included even the first name of this writer due to the remarks about keeping his/her thoughts to himself/herself. When you write to us, if you do not want your letter used at all, please let us know, and it will not be published in any form. This note did not include such a request, so we have included it, with no indication of a name, due to the interesting and insightful thoughts presented. In the best of all possible worlds, the various OSs could just be allowed to speak for themselves. Unfortunately, this is not the best of all possible worlds. It is indeed rare for an Amiga publication to make such a strong statement. It is exceptionally rare for this publication to do so as we have a strong desire to work to strengthen the Amiga community and never weaken it. For us to make such a statement, then, could only be due to extraordinary circumstances. I believe most readers realize that. Please keep that in mind when you read our last story this issue. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I believe you are quite correct on what will happen once the production OS4 is available. Brad =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A M I G A O S 4 D E M O E D O N A M I G A O N E 20-Sep-2003 While checking Amiga websites this month, we found the following small but oh-so-significant item. It comes from the excellent www.amigaworld.net site. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of Amiga OS4 running in native mode on an AmigaOne computer. This is a major step forward toward our next generation Amiga. Though this was somne time ago now, we still haven't seen any reports on how the demo was received. We also understand it was a still rather early version of the OS. That doesn't detract from the importance. We'll keep our eyes open for more information. Brad. "AmigaOS 4 running on AmigaOne to be demoed at the Pianeta Amiga 2003 show in Italy this weekend." Source: Ben Hermans Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O S 4 R O A D S H O W A U S T R A L I A "Amiga Downunder User Group" in association with the Sydney Amiga Users Group Canberra Amiga Users Society Queensland Amiga Users Amiga Incorporated Hyperion Software and AnythingAmiga Are Proud to Present in Australia THE AMIGA OS 4 ROADSHOW Scheduled Tour dates are as follows: Saturday October 11th UNIVERSITY of TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS) Broadway, ULTIMO Guthrie Theatre 1 pm - 5 pm Saturday October 18th QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY of TECHNOLOGY (QUT) Gardens Point, BRISBANE Theatre B117 1 pm - 5 pm Sunday October 26th CANBERRA IRISH CLUB 6 Parkinson St, Weston, ACT 12 noon - 4 pm The Amiga OS 4 Roadshow will debut OS4 for the first time in Australia and will be demonstrated by registered Beta testers and developers. The new AmigaOne Power PC computer will also be on display at each venue. These events are supported and funded by the generosity of ADUG, AnythingAmiga and the User Groups involved in each city. Please attend the shows and show support for your local user groups. An entry fee of $2.00 will be charged at each venue to assist each group in staging the events. http://www.amigaos4downunder.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B E N E L U X A M I G A S H O W S O O N Welcome! When: 4 & 5 october 2003 Where: Complex "Engels" in Rotterdam What: De Benelux Amiga Show ofcourse! Exhibitors (may change): o Computer City o Genesi o Amiga Plus o Vesalia o E.P.I.C. interactive entertainment gmbh o Fun Time World o GGS-Data o Audio Evolution o Oliver Hanaford-Day o Ebay Nederland o Amiga.org o Hellbound/HellCoder o IOSpirt o HCC Commodore Gebruikers Groep 20-09-2003: Hyperion Entertainment will attend the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show as an exhibitor. Hyperion will demonstrate AmigaOS4 and Ben Hermans will visit #Amiga.org for a chat with all you people that are not able to visit the show. 14-09-2003: Audio Evolution 4 Audio Evolution 4 will be shown to the public and sold for the first time at the Benelux Amiga / Pegasos Show. Audio Evolution 4 is the successor to the succesful version 3, and will be exclusively available for AmigaOS 4. The author Davy Wentzler will demonstrate the program at the show. Both version 4 and it's predecessor A.E. will be for sale at the resellers present on the show. www.audio-evolution.com Epic Interactive Entertainment GmbH Epic will be present at the Benelux Show to offer her Amiga and MorphOS products. Announcements regarding new products are also expected. http://www.epic-interactive.com ColdFire It looks like the Benelux Amiga / Pegasos Show will have a world premiere; For the first time the prototype of the ColdFire turboboard for Amiga computers will be shown. The ColdFire card is being developed by Oliver Hanaford-Day, who will be present at the event. http://www.cdtv.org.uk/coldfire/ Amiga Museum Just like in 2001 there will an Amiga Museum present at the show. All the usual models will be shown, from the A1000 (with Sidecar!) to the A4000T. But also special models and prototypes, like the Walker, Access, Draco en many more will be shown. Attention Software The Dutch software developers Attention-Software will show their title FotoFoto. The game also includes a level editor and will be playable online in the near future. Attention Software will also show several new developments. http://www.attention-software.com http://www.beneluxamigashow.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A O N E L I T E - A M I G A W O R L D . N E T {Also found on the excellent website, amigaworld.net. Brad} AmigaOne News : Alan Redhouse Comments on AmigaWorld about the A1-SE Lite  20-Sep-2003 TA magazine issue 15. To quote myself (because its easier than typing) : Quote: AmigaOne Lite - some more details. In the last edition of Total Amiga I gave a brief overview of the AmigaOne Lite - an entry level AmigaOne designed to both as a CD32/A1200 successor and for use in embedded systems such as kiosks, STB's etc. However the more observant of you will have realised that in the last issue I actually described the AmigaOne-SE Lite - so why the change of name? In the interim period we have re-examined the costs and decided that it is economically feasible to significantly increase the A1-Lite's specification and flexibility within the same overall target pricing. As one of these changes is to use the standard A1XE CPU modules (plus a new entry-level 750CXe module) we dropped the `SE' from its name. The full specifications for the AmigaOne Lite are as follows: Micro ITX form factor (170mmx170mm) Gigabit and 10/100 ethernet on board 133MHz UDMA RAID IDE controller USB 2.0 on board IEEE 1394 (`FireWire') on board 2x AGP graphics on board with PAL/NTSC TV out AC97 sound on board 1 x PCI33MHz slot (horizontal, via supplied riser card) Cardbus slot for flash card support (diskless booting, applications, games slot etc) Usual legacy PS/2, serial, parallel ports Being a standard form factor it will fit in a standard micro ITX case, such as the one shown in the enclosed photograph. Please visit the web link at http://www.morex.com.tw/minicase.htm and www.mini-itx.com to see other suitable case designs. We are aiming to bring the AmigaOne Lite to market early next year. ----- Not mentioned in the above spec is that the board is now designed to take the standard A1XE megarray cpu module so that it can be supplied with/upgraded to anything from an entry level (=cheap) 750CXe@433 to (possibly) a 1.3GHz G4. The pictures published on the Soft3 website are of the first pre-prototype version - there will be 2 or 3 revisions before the actual production version is ready. The first step - this board - is basically to shrink the A1XE board to a mini-ITX formfactor and make sure it works properly. Then the other chipsets and connectors will be added and that series of boards use for developers to port OS & applications. It will also be used to demonstrate capability - and hopefully gain some significant orders - in the industrial markets that we and other dealers are targetting (display controllers, kiosks, etc). Finally we hope the final version (which will be as near as possible to the above spec) will be available for sale in the specialist shops (and ultimately in the high street electronic entertainment chains) - with OS4 and some Amiga applications - in 1Q04. The pre-production pictures were intended to be shown - at this stage - only to the A1 developers and to the A1-users list on AmigaWorld to try to get some useful feedback. Thats why there was really no explanation available to the world at largel when Soft3 (due to a misunderstanding) put them up on their own website. However, from what I can see the, open publication of these pictures, together with the screen shots of a beta of OS4 running on the A1 - has had a very positive reception. But, please, no private emails for more details on availability dates and prices - we're swamped with emails as it is. This stuff will be posted 'when its ready' (c). Hope this helps Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W M A G A Z I N E A N N O U N C E D Its Time for a New Amiga Magazine - Its Time for Amiga.org Magazine 22 September, 2003 Behind the scenes, a lot of people have been working on the launch of a new, printed, monthly (11 issues a year) worldwide Amiga Magazine. Amiga.org Magazine will will aim at Amiga and Pegasos users and will have 52 pages in black & white with a full-colour cover. The magazine wil feature: news, interviews, reviews, previews, in-depth articles, 'how-to's, tutorials and lots more. Issue 0 will be launched at the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show and will be an introduction to the magazine. At the show you will be able to subscribe to the magazine and you can take issue 0 with you directly. We will also launch a website for the magazine, where you can subscribe and find more information about Amiga.org Magazine. After several weeks issue 1 will be launched to subscribers and will be sent to retailers that carry the magazine in their product range. More information will be made available soon. For questions and suggestions mail kees@amiga.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P A G E S T R E A M F O R O S 4 A N N O U N C E D September 12th, 2003 - Antigo, WI - Grasshopper LLC today announced the addition of a fifth supported platform in the stable of computers and operating systems that PageStream already runs on. Amiga OS4 PPC is an exciting new operating system and hardware from Amiga Inc, Eyetech and Hyperion Entertainment that follows in the footsteps of the great hardware and software that is the Amiga. "Deron Kazmaier, PageStream creator, has exceeded our expectations again!" proclaimed Grasshopper LLC owner Marna Holt. "Deron has burned the midnight oil on his old love, the Amiga, creating the foundation for the next generation of PageStream on the Amiga." While the full public release of OS4 is beyond our control, the PageStream is not! As the Amiga OS4 PPC is a natural progression from the older 68k, we are offering a limited time discount for those who are moving up to the AmigaOS4 PPC version from PageStream Amiga68k and likewise we are including the Amiga68k version to those who purchase the PPC version before it is publicly released. Crossgrade price from PageStream 4.1 Amiga68k to AmigaPPC is only $40 and the price for a new copy of PageStream4.1 Amiga PPC (with Amiga68k) is only $99. The special offers are set to expire upon the public release of Amiga OS4, and will then revert to the same low pricing already in place for the other platforms. Advance copies of PageStream 4.1 AmigaPPC are available now, but we will continue to stay in step with improvements to OS4. http://www.grasshopperllc.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L A N C L I P W A S N E T C L I P . . . 27-Sep-2003 {There was a naming conflict to be resolved. Brad} LANClip 0.3 has been released. LANClip is a small utility that lets you share one global clipboard between your networked computers. Also, there is now a Windows client. New features since 0.2: * Swap between local and shared clipboard with a hotkey * New icons from Martin "Mason" Merz * Updated prefs editor --- 21 -Sep-2003 The first version of NetClip has been released. NetClip is a small utility that lets you share one global clipboard between your networked Amigas (or AmigaOS clones). Data copied to the clipboard on one Amiga is immediately available to paste on other machines. Features: · Transparency. Cut and paste over the network as easily as between apps on the same computer. · Serverless and stateless protocol. Once NetClip is set up on your LAN, you can turn off or on any of your Amigas without it causing NetClip a problem. · Pastes ALL kinds of clipboard data. You can write a Personal Paint brush to the clipboard on one Amiga, and paste it into iconedit on another. Download it from the website. http://www.petergordon.org.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A R E T A I N S T R A D E M A R K {Again from the excellent amigaworld.net site. (Do you get the feeling this is a good site to visit? We certainly think so at AU.) You should be aware that the Amiga trademarks were in no serious danger of being lost by Amiga as it turned out. Brad} 9-Sep-2003 A dispute arose late May over the status of the AMIGA trademark That dispute has now been resolved and once again Amiga inc retain their trademarks It transpires that back in May 2003 this year, an oversight, led to Amiga losing their TradeMarks. Genesi quickly filed for application of Amigas TradeMarks. However with the Trademarks returning to the original owners, a win of the rights to the trademarks by anyone else is now unlikely. Amiga TradeMark Retainment. http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76096557 Genesi Amiga Tradmark Application http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78258059 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2003 by Brad Webb. 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