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`08.Oct.2016`	AmiWest: Dickinson and Solie talk about A-EON's and Hyperion's current projects This year's AmiWest is taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend. The first presentation was a joint effort of Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) and Steven Solie. The latter was introduced as the "AmigaOS team leader", which he confirmed by replying "for now, hehe". Actually, Solie had stopped describing himself as "Team leader" a while ago and only referred to himself as the team's spokesperson, while Costel Mincea was supposed to act as Hyperion's technical director. Dickinson and Solie gave short talks about A-EON's and Hyperion's current projects and then answered questions from the audience. The following topics were discussed during the presentation: AmigaOne X5000 Dickinson officially announced the X5000 going on sale. Solie confirms that the Release Candidate of AmigaOS 4 for the X5000 is currently being tested and will be shipped with the computer. The onboard network controller is not supported yet, a replacement network interface card will be delivered with complete systems though. According to Solie, Multicore support has been deferred so the team could concentrate on finishing the X5000 port, but will be the focus once the X5000 version is shipping. The cheapest complete systems will ship for 1700 GBP, which would be about 1900 Euro (excluding taxes and postage). Dickinson states he brought two bare X5000 motherboards to the show, which can be bought by visitors for 1350 USD (about 1200 Euro). Tabor The Tabor motherboard is currently booting into Workbench. The developer assigned to it is working hard to get it to a state where the rest of the team can help with the porting. Dickinson says the target price for Tabor is "below 400 Euro", the boards will be sold at net cost. A-EON is hoping that the increased userbase will result in improved software sales, which is how Tabor is supposed to make them money. AmigaOS 4 The OS team is also working on "AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 1", a Release Candidate is curently being tested. Solie expects it to be released before the end of the year. Only one feature of the update is mentioned: extended memory is supposed to work properly now. While AmigaOS can still only adress two gigabytes of memory, up to four gigabytes are supported now and will be used by modules like the Ram Disk. LibreOffice The port of LibreOffice is said to be "usable" now, beta testing has just started. A copy of the office suite is apparently installed on one of the machines at the show, so that visitors can have a closer look. Gutenprint A-EON acquired Timothy 'Terminills' Deters' sources of his AROS port of Gutenprint, Tony Wyatt is working on adapting it to AmigaOS 4. Amiga Enhancer Work is ongoing on both a port to AmigaOS 3 and an update for the PPC version. Additionally, a cheaper version will be released that is not containing any of the parts that are not compatible with or useful on weaker machines - Warp 3D Nova is mentioned as an example. A.l.i.c.e. The laptop with preinstalled emulator environments will include officially licensed copies of both Amiga Forever and the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1. Additionally, a MUI license has been acquired from MUI's original author, Stefan Stuntz. Dickinson estimates that the cost of the entire package would be "a couple of hundred Euro" higher than that of the original laptop, due to all the software licenses. Assuming the laptop would cost 450 Euro, he thinks it might be possible to sell A.l.i.c.e. at 650 Euro. Miscellaneous Using amigadeveloper.com, A-EON is currently managing 50 projects with 22 paid developers working on them. The SVN repository has recieved 2885 commits so far. 900 customers registered for Amistore and purchased about 3000 items. Amistore is currently offering about 50 titles. (cg) [News message: 08. Oct. 2016, 21:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2016` amigaworld.net (Webseite)	Trevor Dickinson hoping to present LibreOffice at AmiWest On September 16th Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) attended the Amiga & Retro meeting in Adelaide. In his presentation from minute 20 he also talked about LibreOffice and hoping that the software, which is financed by him and developed by the Frieden brothers, can be introduced at the AmiWest (8./9. October, Sacramento, USA) running under AmigaOS 4. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Oct. 2016, 18:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2016`	Mailbox: AmigaWorld BBS online again Under amigaworldbbs.spdns.org the "AmigaWorld BBS" can be accessed again. The mailbox also have a second port with a real modem. The number will be given on demand by the maintainer. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Oct. 2016, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2016` Morphzone (Webseite)	French MorphOS group established file archive and and small ads platform For some time WArMUp ("World Association of MorphOS Users") provides a separate archive for MorphOS software, which is supposed to replace the closed MorphOS-Files and wants to become a competition to the Aminet: MorphOS Storage offers screenshots, links to Youtube videos and a comment function. Simultaneously the maintainer also has established the MorphOS Store, which is a snall ads platform for MorphOS users: Registered users can publish offers and requests in different categories for hardware and software. The website is available in different languages but currently the English and German translations are incomplete - the maintainers would be grateful for any support. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Oct. 2016, 17:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2016` amiga.org (Webseite)	MOD-Streaming: AmiModRadio 0.994 AmiModRadio can play over twenty thousand music moduls from the Aminet. In version 0.994 now almost all parts of the graphical user-interface are working, the lists with directories, files and mods are presented in different windows and the "auto-ban"-function leaves out lowly rated moduls. Besides, some minor bugs have been fixed. AmiModRadio is free software, the C source code is available on Bitbucket. The author asks the users to use its bugtrucker for reporting bugs. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Oct. 2016, 17:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2016`	A-EON is going to start delivery of X5000 soon, first price information Apparently, the first customers who expressed their interest in an AmigaOne X5000 are contacted (German) by their distributors and asked for an advance payment for the computer. Shipment is allegedly (German) starting in a few weeks. Customers who got contacted describe (German) the prices like this: Depending on the configuration, a complete system will cost 2300 to 2500 Euro, a naked motherboard will cost 1700 Euro. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Oct. 2016, 16:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2016` Amiga.org (Webseite)	Workbench distribution: AmiKit for Android devices 1.8.0.03 The latest version 1.8.0.03 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for phones and tablets has an higher speed performance due to an improved JIT-compiler, a new transparent keyboard and an bug fixed sound output. Additional to the operating system files (AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9), at least Android 4.2 and an ARM-v7-processor are required. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2016, 08:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2016` Amiga Future (Webseite)	ModExplorer 0.9a Similar to AmiModRadio, the Hollywood-programm ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet but also supports the Aminet, Modland and modules.pl. The tool is available for all Amiga systems. As the author explained on a1k.org, version 0.9a among others offers a minimalist "streamer", a (still not finished) ARexx port as well as thanks to the update of MUI Royale the possibility to use the MUI version on Amigas without having a graphic card. Download: modexplorer.lha (8 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2016, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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