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10.Oct.2015

ACube und A-EON: PPC motherboard A1222 "Tabor" revealed
The hardware vendors ACube and A-EON seem to have established a partnership: during the German "Amiga 30" event, a new PPC motherboard named "A1222" or "Tabor" was discussed for the first time. There are no official statements yet, but the information that has reached us so far suggests the following specifications:

Dualcore 1,2Ghz, CPU not known yet
8Gb DDR 3 RAM
MiniITX form factor
price between 700 and 1000 Euro

Two pictures that were posted to the italian Amiga portal ikirsektor.it show the actual motherboard aswell as printed manuals for installing Linux on the "A1222":

Update: (11.10.15, 18:00, cg)

According to visitors of the "Amiga 30" event, a QorIQ P1022 is used as Tabor's CPU. This processor is equipped with a FPU that is incompatible to that of most other Power CPUs - especially those used in AmigaOS 4 hardware. Apparently, emulating a 'regular' FPU in software is possible - though having to perform all floating point calculations in software would drastically reduce performance in some areas (graphics, sound, 3D). (cg)

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10.Oct.2015 WebGL: Amiga-Juggler-animation as an example programm
Under the title link, Eric Graham's animation "The Juggler" created in 1986/87 was reimplemented using WebGL so all commands are submitted directly to the graphic card. Since the source code is available, this raytracing can be used as an example programm. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2015 Operating system: NetBSD 7.0
NetBSD based on Linux is avaialbe in version 7.0. A port for Amiga computers has been provided as well. The changes are listed in the official announcement as well as in the Amiga specific changelog. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Oct.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite) A-Eon Technology: Boing-Ball mouse available in black
The Boing-Ball mouse for Amiga computers by A-EON Technology (amiga-news.de reported) now is also available in black. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Oct.2015 English Podcast: Amigos, issue 11
Issue eleven of the English-language podcast "Amigaos" is about the classic "Zool: Ninja of the nth Dimension". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Oct.2015
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Shoot'em Up: Richard Löwenstein (Amiga Joker) develops RESHOOT
Richard Löwenstein has restarted a project: He is going to finish a Shoot'em-Up game for AGA-Amigas named "RESHOOT" which was started developing twenty years ago. He will demonstrate the current level of development on Saturday at the "Amiga 30" in Neuss.

Löwenstein descibes his game with the following facts:

Bullet Hell
Modern Art
Rythmbased
All Assembler
Full Framerate
Flow Experience

On the crowdfunding platform Patreon, the author has established a support page, where you can support the development by monthly payments. Further information will be available after the "exclusive" presentation in Neuss. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Oct.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite) AnimWebConverter 2.20 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS)
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS, which can convert IFF-animations of the Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. You can also resize them. In version 2.20 a French translation has been added. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Oct.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite) Amiga OS 4: Shoot'em Up "Zero"
"Zero" (Youtube video) is a Shoot'em Up of the type "Bullet Hell". The AmigaOS 4 port has been provided by Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Oct.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum) Event: Video of Amiga 30th anniversaey party in California
Robert Bernardo has published a first video of the Amiga 30th anniversaey party in USA. It shows the speech of RJ Mical and Dave Needle. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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