amiga-news.de - Archive

Archiv 'Publications'

`14.Feb.2016` Amiga.org (Forum)	Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Further prototypes added After the Amiga 2200, now further prototypes have been added to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware: 68040 processor board for the A3000, which was to show in 1990 when the computer was presented 68040 processor board for the A1000+ 68020/68030 processor board for the A2400/A3400 Kickstart-ROM-switcher (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 14. Feb. 2016, 10:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Feb.2016` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphOS: Short guide to Lua The next article in the MorphOS-Library the Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has called "Getting Started with Lua". It is a short guide to the programming language Lua and is available under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 14. Feb. 2016, 10:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2016`	Quick review: PDF magazine Amigaville, issue 4 November last year Brian Hedley started publishing his PDF magazine Amigaville, releasing a new issue every month. Having released just three issues, each downloaded "several hundred times" (Hedley), the author decided to switch to commercial distribution: Amigaville #4 needs to be purchased for 2 GBP. We had a closer look at the review copy kindly provided by Hedley. At 36 pages, Amigaville #4 is slightly thicker than the previous issues. The design stayed pretty much the same: a mix of single column (a rather odd choice, given the A4 page size) and three column layouts as well as pages with or without background pictures or patterns. The lack of justification and hyphenation results in a slightly jagged and amateurish appearance, many of the embedded graphics seem to have a low resolution - the full page ads included for nostalgia being the worst offenders - or have clearly visible JPEG artifacts. The design does continue to improve with every issue though. Should the remaining problems get fixed in future releases, the mag's appearance is absolutely adequate given the price asked for it. With regard to contents, Amigaville is still covering all aspects of the Amiga scene. The current issue features news, reviews of old games (Pacmania, Prince of Persia, Heroquest, Deluxe Galaga und Castlevania), an overview over First Person Shooters on the Amiga, an indepth look at Amiga Anywhere's destiny and the cover story "Should Hyperion port OS4 to x86?". The final two features are Hedley's personal history with computers ("My Amiga experience - or lack thereof") - which eats up no less than six pages - and the "Grumpy old Git" column. The quality of the content matches that of your average retro blog: Hedley's texts are entertaining to read and he's offering an interesting mix of topics - while research or fact checking seem to play only a minor role during the writing process. Additionally, the author's lack of Amiga experience is clearly evident in many cases. The Amiga Anywhere article is a good example: While it does provide a decent overview, several technical terms get mixed up and it gets a few historical facts wrong. Plus, its conclusion starts with "for all the good intentions that Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss had" - nobody who witnessed the whole thing would ever word it like that. Our conclusion: If you prefer having information presented in the style of a magazine, Amigaville is not that bad of a deal: you'll get a fair amount of entertainment for your 2 GBP, even if the switch to commercial distribution came too early and should have been delayed until several minor issues had been fixed. Comparing Amigaville to the competition doesn't do it any favours though: Every other month, you can buy one issue of Amiga Future (6.50 Euro, 50+ pages, professionally printed) or two issues of Amigaville (5.40 Euro, about 70 pages, PDF only) - and all of a sudden, the newcomer's price/performance ratio doesn't look all that good anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 12. Feb. 2016, 21:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2016` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphOS: Tutorial for mounting network drives The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has added the tutorial for for mounting network drives to the MorphOS library. It is about Samba, NetFS, RDesktop and the Google-Drive-Handler. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 15:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2016` Amiga.org (Forum)	Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Amiga 2200 (A1000jr) added On the Amiga hardware reference website "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" the A2200 has been added. The website wrote: "A few months after the cancellation of the A1000+ and A3000+ it was decided the company should attempt to salvage the A1000+ technology and build a lower spec ECS-based machine. The project was developed under the codename 'A1000jr', an unofficial title intended to annoy Bill Sydnes." The Amiga 2200 had an ESC chipset, which for reasons of costs only contained Zorro-II slots. They are on a Riser card, other extension boards had to be plugged in horizontally. All in all four different versions were planned which should differ in the processor as well as in the number of Zorro-II slots: A2200 (68020, two slots), A2400 (four slots) and analogical to that the A3200 and A3400 with a 68030-processor. The case of the A2200 was similar to the case of the Amiga 4000. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 09:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

1 143 280 ... <- 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 -> ... 300 552 810