24.Sep.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Program schedule for Amiga40 (Germany)
Press release (translation): "The program schedule for Amiga40 was officially published today on amigaevent.de!
Saturday will start with high-profile presentations and interviews with our guests of honor, including Dale Luck, Jeff Bruette, and Jürgen Göldner. In the afternoon, we will focus entirely on the classic game "The Settlers II", which will finally be released in an Amiga version at Amiga40 - only 29 years late!
We were able to recruit several members of the original development team, including project manager Thomas Häuser. They will not only provide exciting insights, but also sign purchased copies of the game on site.
Sunday traditionally belongs to the exhibitors: For example, the PiStorm team, individual computers, the MorphOS team and the Mirari team will report on current developments and take a look into the future together with visitors.
Another special highlight on both days is Christian Spanik's appearance with a live episode of "Digisaurier". He will take you on a journey back in time to the era when the Amiga was in stores and shook up the computer world.
This year, Bill 'AmigaBill' Winters, who is well known to many of you through his entertaining and informative YouTube channel, will open Amiga40.
All stage presentations will take place in the foyer, where there are around 150 seats available for visitors to sit and listen. The winners of the Community Award will also be announced there on Saturday at around 5:45 p.m.
We are delighted to be able to offer you such an extensive and varied program for our 40th anniversary - and wish all visitors two unforgettable days full of nostalgia, new developments, and Amiga spirit!" (snx)
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24.Sep.2025
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Do it yourself: CDTV infrared converter for joysticks
The Amiga CDTV Brick allows two players to use their standard Amiga joysticks on the CDTV, just like the corresponding prototype from Commodore, without having to purchase a CD1200-Trackball (manual), which has become expensive on the second-hand market meanwhile. To do this, a Raspberry Pi Pico converts the joystick signals into corresponding infrared signals. (snx)
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24.Sep.2025
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Program for testing the SCSI controller chips of the Amiga 3000
The open source Amiga SDMAC test program, available in version 1.0, identifies the version of the Commodore SDMAC chip installed in the Amiga 3000, which accesses the WD33C93A SCSI controller - whose chip version and configuration can be read out as well. (snx)
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24.Sep.2025
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Blog: Amiga Spice (electronic circuit simulator)
In his latest blog entry, Edwin van den Oosterkamp discusses the continued usability of the Amiga version of SPICE, a circuit simulation program. Although he will continue to use the more modern PC versions for work, he will probably use the Amiga counterpart, which was last updated in 1996, more often for his hobby projects now. (snx)
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23.Sep.2025
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Video documentary: Dragon's Lair on the Amiga
The new video "Dragon's Lair on the Amiga - How a laserdisc game fit onto 6 floppy disks" at Modern Vintage Gamer takes an in-depth look at the technology behind the Amiga version of Dragon's Lair: How could a game that originally ran on a laserdisc with animated film sequences be compressed so that it fit onto just six 3.5" floppy disks?
The video highlights both the original method of working with real laser discs in an arcade setup and the difficult adaptation process for home computer hardware at that time. It explains in detail how graphics and videos were heavily compressed, what tricks were necessary for data management, and what restrictions developers had to make to get Don Bluth's masterpiece to run on the Amiga without completely losing the illusion of the original. (nba)
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23.Sep.2025
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Stories from Liverpool: John Romero on Amiga and Grind
At Liverpool Games Market, Amiga Addict had the opportunity to talk to Doom developer John Romero about his early years, forgotten projects, and his view of current Amiga developments. Romero was impressed by the Dread/Grind demo for the Amiga 500: "That looks really smooth." Romero speaks with palpable appreciation about the Amiga, reflecting on its significance and expressing no surprise that current projects such as Grind can even amaze such an experienced developer. (nba)
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23.Sep.2025
Dirk W. Hoffmann (E-Mail)
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.4b2 (update)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.4b1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. In this new version the Preferences window has received a visual overhaul, and the built-in screen recording has been removed in favor of RetroVisor.
Additionally two bugs were fixed: the large toolbar icon issue introduced in version 4.3.2 on macOS Tahoe has been resolved, and the CPU property "irqMode" has not been saved in snapshots in earlier versions.
The developer adds that vAmiga has not been thoroughly tested on macOS Tahoe. The officially supported OS is Sequoia. While it may run on Tahoe, compatibility is not guaranteed.
Update: (06:57, 26.09.25, dr)
Version 4.4b2 is now available. Enhancements:
- Combined preferences and VR configuration into a single unified settings dialog.
- Introduced an onboarding agent that launches when no ROM is installed.
- Added fingerprints for Hyperion 3.2.3 ROMs.
(nba)
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23.Sep.2025
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New sound tool: FxBox 1.13
Since August - and still somewhat under the radar - a new sound tool for 68k Amigas running AmigaOS 1.3 or higher has been available. It is a real-time multi-loop processor and editor developed with AMOS BASIC.
FxBox imports various file formats, supports AMOS sample banks, and allows mono, stereo, quad, and 4-channel multitrack editing. According to the developer, real-time editing during playback is even possible on accelerated machines.
The tool requires at least 1 MB of RAM and was compiled with AMOS Professional 365. The latest version available is Version 1.13, which has been published last week. (nba)
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23.Sep.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib v0.10.5 for Windows, Linux and macOS
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported). The library is currently being developed under the responsibility of Tomasz Wolak. Changes in version 0.10.5:
- fixed opening small (smaller than floppies) HDF files
- added a new function for getting entry using sector number
- adfinfo: allow inspecting entries deeper in the directory tree, added showing info about links
- adfls: a new utility for showing volume contents
- some internal improvements (ie. refactoring, more tests)
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22.Sep.2025
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AI chatbot: AmigaGPT 2.12.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.12.0 has been now released. Changes:
- Add "verse" OpenAI voice
- Add ability for ARexx command "SPEAKTEXT" to save audio to file of various audio formats
- The say.rexx script now asks if you want to play the audio or save to a file with audio format selection
- Improve display of Text To Speech errors
- Most ARexx parameters now use sensible defaults instead of reading from AmigaGPT config
- Fix bug where conversation titles and ARexx SENDMESSAGE responses were enclosed in quotes
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (4,3 MB) (dr)
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22.Sep.2025
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Email client: First test version 0.1.1 of AMail available
Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton has released a first test version 0.1.1 of "AMail", his implementation of a modern email cleint for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP (video).
As he writes, AMail would no longer work with Yahoo and Gmail. If anyone manages to get it working, he asks for feedback. Some features have not yet been implemented, and the developer does not expect to have them ready by the end of the Amiga 40 Tools Jam. These include, among others:
- Add input Blocking when the machine is doing something in addition to the stopwatch
- When Reply include at least some of the body message
- Reply to a message
- CC addressed to the reply
- Settings to enable Re: in the subject line
- enable start StartTLS
- Add option to verify SSL cert, currently it accepts any as ok
- Add setting to enable or disable cert based on needs
- Message Body is limited to 4k
- Add ability to use IMAP Folders
- Identify unread messages
At least AmiSSL 5.22 or later is required. (dr)
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22.Sep.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.9.0
Amiberry-lite is an Amiga emulator based on WinUAE 4.4 and, unlike its big brother Amiberry, is designed for slower hardware – down to the Raspberry Pi 4. New features in version 5.9.0:
- Fixed 3.2.3 ROM IDs in detection
- Improved AHI implementation
- replace .ico with .png in the GUI
- GUI updates
- updated tinyXML2 library to latest version
- merge bsdsocket implementation from Amiberry
- P96 improvements
- Implement partial renders in amiberry_gfx
(dr)
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22.Sep.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.22
Juha 'capehill' Niemimäki has released version 3.2.22 of the SDL multimedia library for AmigaOS 4. Changes:
- Fix fullscreen mode switching
- Add global property SDL_PROP_IOSTREAM_AMIGAOS4_USE_BUFFERED
Direct download: SDL3.lha (10 MB) (dr)
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22.Sep.2025
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MorphOS: Unreal Engine 1.2 (update)
Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille and Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró have released a MorphOS port of Unreal Engine 1 (video). The game was released free of charge on the Internet Archive at the end of October 2024 (see also the corresponding PCWorld article).
Only the original retail version v200 of Unreal works; later versions or Unreal Gold do not work. You will need the latest version of SDL2 (v53.20), the latest TinyGL version 53.10, an OpenGL-capable graphics card, and MorphOS 3.19.
Update: (24.09.2025, 21:04, dr)
Version 1.1 has since been replaced by version 1.2: the editor part was missing from the build in the former. (dr)
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22.Sep.2025
Reddit
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Blog: The golden age of point-and-click adventure games (Spanish)
The latest entry on the Retro Tech & Café blog (in Spanish) looks at the golden age of point-and-click adventure games: from "the pixelated charm of Monkey Island and The Legend Of Kyrandia to the sarcastic brilliance of Simon the Sorcerer".
In his article, the author is not only concerned with nostalgia, but "it's a look at how these games taught us to think with the mouse, not just click." (dr)
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21.Sep.2025
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Aminet uploads until 20.09.2025
The following files have been added until 20.09.2025 to Aminet:
AMIGA_40th.zip dev/c 459K VAR AMIGA_40th_Anniversary_...
Sevgi_Engine.lha dev/c 910K OS3 Open source video game ...
c2plib.lha dev/misc 190K OS3 chunky2planar as an Ami...
toolbox.lha disk/misc 3K OS3 Communicate with SCSI e...
F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 10K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP
shotglass.zip mods/crash 309K GEN Hiphop/Groove. 6 channe...
GF4RSIDG.zip pix/misc 77K GEN Grad. Fonts for RSI Dem...
MisterMartin.zip text/tfont 477K GEN Mister Martin Font
lhasa.lha util/arc 4.3M MOS Free Software LHA imple...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 4.0M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.7M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.5M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 4.3M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
isomount.lha util/rexx 107K GEN Mounting ipf,dms,adf,hd...
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21.Sep.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.09.2025
The following files have been added until 20.09.2025 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
amissl.lha lib/mis 4Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
amigagpt.lha net/cha 4Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
depscan.lha uti/she 8kb 4.0 lists dependencies in a binary
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21.Sep.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.09.2025
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 20.09.2025:
(snx)
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21.Sep.2025
Paddys Retro Kanal (ANF)
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Videos: Trailer of The Settlers II for Amiga & Interview with Steffen Häuser
In just under a month, on October 18, 2025, "The Settlers II - Gold Edition" will be released for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). A trailer has now been published by the publisher Look Behind You at the title link.
In addition, Paddy da Linco talks on his Retro Channel to Steffen Häuser about this port — for example, how the idea came about, how the implementation took shape and what hardware requirements the game has. (snx)
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21.Sep.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Serious Sam port in the works
Following the MorphOS port by Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille and Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró, Steffen Häuser is currently working on an implementation of Serious Sam for AmigaOS 4, which will be made available at OS4Depot also free of charge. The CD of the PC version of the game is required. Ported are the first two parts from 2001 and 2002: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter.
A (very) stable beta version would already exist, and interested further testers are welcome to make contact by e-mail. The first-person shooter would be running "super smoothly" on an AmigaOne X1000, with tests on Sam4x0 computers still to follow. However, it does not run in emulation under QEmu due to the required 3D hardware. On the software side, NovaBridge is expected to be required, as it would run under GL4ES but look "unattractive", at least at present. (snx)
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21.Sep.2025
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Video: Molyneux - The Nobody
At the title link the first part of a Video series has been published which dignifies Sir Peter Molyneux, father of games that were succesful also on the Amiga like Populous (1989) and Powermonger (1990). (snx)
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21.Sep.2025
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Photos from the Dutch HomeComputerMuseum
Robert Bernardo has visited (again) the HomeComputerMuseum (amiga-news.de reported) in Helmond, The Netherlands, and presents his photos of the Commodore computers there, including the Amiga models, spread over seven pages. He also mentions that these exhibits have been reorganized and are now presented even more impressively.
Part 1 of the photos, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7. (snx)
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20.Sep.2025
'Dr_Myles_Skinner'
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TPUG Magazine is looking for Amiga-related submissions
Dr. Myles Skinner writes: "I normally hang out with the C64 folks, but I'm hoping to reach our Amiga friends. The venerable old Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) has asked me to go ahead and post a small announcement: We're thrilled to announce that the TPUG magazine is returning and will be available in print for the first time in ages at World of Commodore 2025.
We have a little extra room for a couple more articles, so we're accepting proposals. Because of the Amiga's 40th birthday, we would especially like to have Commodore Amiga-related submissions. If you have an idea for an article, please send your proposal to tpug_magazine@tierceron.com.
To keep up with all the latest news on the magazine's relaunch, be sure to visit our website. I'm the editor of this beast, so if there are any questions, I'll do my best to answer." (cg)
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20.Sep.2025
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Platformer: Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey (AGA)
In "Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey" (video), the aim is to guide the constantly bouncing character Bonzo through 17 levels spread across three worlds, with bosses and bonus levels also featured. The title, created with the Scorpion engine, requires an AGA Amiga with at least 0.5 MB of Fast RAM and a hard drive or CD drive, although progress cannot be saved with the latter. On joysticks and joypads with two independent fire buttons, the second button is used for jumping.
Configurations with a Pistorm or (quote) 'similar, "modern" Amigas' may experience unspecified problems. "Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey" is available for download for USD 7.50 at itch.io. (cg)
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20.Sep.2025
Youtube (ANF)
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Title song from "Return to Monkey Island" as a Heavy Metal version
The Band "Trick or Treat" has its very own contribution the the Monkey Island legacy: Their cover of "Return to Monkey Island" is described as a "Happy Power Metal" version and comes complete with a Monkey Island style music video. (cg)
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19.Sep.2025
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Game engine: Sevgi Engine V0.183
Sevgi Engine is a new open source game engine for creating of powerful Amiga games using the C programming language (video) and based on the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger (amiga-news.de reported). Version 0.183 provides the following changes:
- Add slider gadget implementaion to UI
- Implement held key repeat in system.c
- Add full keyboard and joystick control to UI
- Fix the compiler warnings for ui.c
- Fix the logic in setIntegerValue()
- Fix the deactivation of an integer gadget using the mouse not updating its value bug
- Rewrite display_menu.c to make better use of UI features
- Fix the error strings that are not ending with a new line
- Update documentation to reflect changes
(dr)
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19.Sep.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.47 LTS for X1000/e5500
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the Linux kernel 6.12.47 LTS ("long-term support") for the AmigaOne X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs). Changes:
- X1000: Adding builtin support for newer Sound Blaster cards (Audigy Fx) CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=m (Thanks to Julian). It is already activated for e5500 machines.
- Compiled with GCC 11.3.0
(dr)
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19.Sep.2025
Amigatronics
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Apollo Team: New keyboard computer "Apollo A6000"
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga, the Apollo team presented a limited and already sold-out edition of 40 units of a new Amiga-compatible keyboard computer called the "Apollo A6000" (video). The price was ¤999.60.
The Apollo A6000 is said to be a further development of the compact Amiga 600 and is based on the architecture of the Apollo V4 platform. In addition, the new model offers 2 GB of RAM, two SD card slots, a USB-C power connection, an analogue audio connection, an expansion slot and a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches.
(dr)
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17.Sep.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.3.2 (update)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.3.1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. A bug with the sprite collision in "Aunt Arctic Adventure" and a problem with the game controller have been fixed. At least macOS 13.5 is required.
Update: (19.09.2025, 21:16, dr)
With version 4.3.2, the 68010 emulation is now fully compatible with run-ahead mode. In addition, a game controller button mapping issue has been resolved. (dr)
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17.Sep.2025
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.23 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.23 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.5.3 (16.9.2025) of OpenSSL and provides updated root certificates.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.23-OS3.lha (4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.23-OS4.lha (3,6 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.23-SDK.lha (2,5 MB) (dr)
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17.Sep.2025
Gameday (ANF)
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Event: Gameday#6 at the Wolfsburg indoor swimming pool (Germany)
For two years now, the Wolfsburg (Germany) indoor swimming pool has been hosting "Gamedays", where the Amiga is also represented in the home computer area. Gameday#6 will take place on October 26, 2025.
There will also be a large virtual reality area, Mario Kart on the cinema screen, a driving simulator, several retro consoles and various replicas of arcade machines. Visitors can tinker, try things out or even make their own hardware available to other guests. Before the doors open to all visitors at 3 p.m., the home computer area will start at 10 a.m. with a small group.
Admission to Gameday#6 is free. Anyone interested in participating as an exhibitor in the home computer area can still register. (snx)
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