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`18.Dec.2007` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	Amiga Forever: Free upgrade if buying current version According to Cloanto all customers will get a free upgrade to version 2008 who have bought on or after 1st december 2007 the emulator package "Amiga Forever 2006". All other customers will get a special price for the upgade, too. The forthcoming version will offer a completely new kind of emulating Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Dec. 2007, 18:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Dec.2007`	DiscreetFX bought rights of Aladdin 4D According to DiscreetFX in a press release the company bought the rights of the raytracing and animation software Aladdin 4D from Nova Design. DiscreetFX is going to offer the program as cheap alternative for raytracing beginners. AmigaOS 4, AROS, possibly MorphOS 2.0, Mac OS X as well as Linux will be supposed to be supported. There will be a free version for Windows as bonus, too. All those who have given money for the Open Aladdin campaign are to contact DiscreetFX to get back the money. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 18. Dec. 2007, 16:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Dec.2007` Cloanto (e-mail)	Cloanto: Cataloging Effort Reaches 10K Milestone Press release Udine, Italy - December 14, 2007 - Cloanto Italia srl, Amiga software developers since 1986, announced today that their Amiga cataloging effort reached the milestone of ten thousand disk-based applications. So far, Cloanto's effort focused on the cataloging of Amiga games and game-like educational titles. Reaching ten thousand titles (counting different major versions, but excluding minor variations) meant, among other things, processing several tens of thousands of floppy disk images, including format variations and non-exact duplicates, which have now been "handprinted". In practice, this data can be used to allow Amiga Forever users to search for games by title or keywords, to access multiple independent partner web sites with additional information and downloads, and to more easily play games without complex configuration work. Many Amiga enthusiasts already have a multitude of game floppy disk images on their PCs. Having access to this cataloging data, a future version of Amiga Forever will be able to recognize a disk selected by the user, automatically finding the required companion disks and starting the game with the correct (emulated) hardware configuration. All of this, with a simple click on a downloaded disk image (e.g. an ADF file). The handprinting technology used by Cloanto goes beyond traditional CRC32 file-level checksums which have commonly been used in the emulation community. Rather, Cloanto's software can analyze the images at the Amiga disk block and file system level, extracting precious information, ignoring simple modifications such as a saved game state or high score data, and applying other smart identification algorithms. In this way, more duplicates and disks that would otherwise go unrecognized are identified. Cloanto's cataloging project began in 2004. In 2005, a number of specification drafts (e.g. XADML, an XML-based application and configuration description format) were announced and published on the Amiga Forever site. At the same time, also with the help of numerous contributors, a database of applications was slowly being built, one title at a time. At Pianeta Amiga 2007, Cloanto announced that the "10K" milestone was near. The effort is now being expanded to content available in formats other than disk images, and to applications other than Amiga games and educational titles. First implementations embodying this new technology and data are planned for 2008. (snx) [News message: 15. Dec. 2007, 10:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Dec.2007` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	USA: Amiga 4000 repair service In USA Ed Jeffries with his company "Video Lab" offers the repair of Amiga 4000-motherboards an. Contact: Video Lab - Ed Jeffries 6909 Johnson Dr. Lower-level Mission, KS. 66202 Phone: 913-403-0045 (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Dec. 2007, 08:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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