• Objective
• Presentation of Genesi's HMCS
• Necessary hardware
• General information on Gentoo
• Easy install with the "EZPegTV" CD
• Alternative customized install, step by step
• Back-up of the system

• Up to 6 alarms
• Configure custom MP3 file, for each alarm
• Possibility of random MP3 play from a selected directory
• Nuclear Powerplant alarm MP3 file included
• Blanker activation possibility
• Auto-scale blanker pictures
• Use antialiased TTF fonts
• Save or load different alarm configurations
• Set the time between images in slideshow (Blanker)
• Set transparency level between images and alarm clock, to have a nicer effect

• Removable media support was broken in 1.262, fixed

• ADDED: EaglePlayer replayers (Musicline 4/8V, NoiseTracker, Protracker, TFMX) by Wanted Team (Don Adan)
• UPDATED: AfA_OS 3.94
• UPDATED: AmiKit - Live Update 1.1 (now waits 3s before rebooting to ensure the downloaded file has been completely saved)
• UPDATED: AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.2 (workaround for possible incompatibility of 1280x800 screenmode)
• UPDATED: AmigAIM 0.9455
• UPDATED: PlayOGG 5.1
• FIXED: AmigaAMP 68k-Emu engine should work again. It was overwritten by WarpUp version in previous AmiKit update by mistake.

• Automatic reconnection when disconnected from a server. Configurable delay inbetween reconnection attempts, and maximum number of retrys
• Added an ignore function and a nice GUI for it. This ignore function supports wildcards and can optionally ignore Text/CTCP/DCC
• You can now choose to automatically connect to servers upon startup, and the server selection window can be hidden since it isnt required
• Channel names displayed in the listview can be joined by double clicking on them
• Wookie no longer removes leading spaces from outgoing text. This is quite useful when pasting programming source code in dev channels and you want to keep the indentation for readability
• When transferring tiny files within 1 second, the entry in the dcc windows are no longer stuck on "transferring" and are now able to be removed from the list
• Outgoing DCC RESUME seems to be working better
• Previously, you couldnt copy text to the clipboard when text was being added to the channel display. I made it pause while selecting text, but internal functions were preventing text from being copied to the clipboard when you let go of the mouse button. I have now corrected this. So its now possible to copy text to the clipboard in a busy channel.

• Alinea Computer (German)
• The programmer of Petunia Almos Rajnai (English)
• The programmer of FryingPan Tomasz Wiszkowski (English)

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   B I L L   M C E W E N   A N S W E R S   2 5   Q U E S T I O N S 

    H Y P E R I O N   R E S P O N D S   T O   2 5   A N S W E R S

               H Y P E R I O N   O N   O S 4   D A T E 

     A M I G A   P U R C H A S E S   I N D I A N   C O M P A N Y 

            T H E   L A T E S T   F R O M   A M I W E S T 

                      A M I N E T   U P D A T E 

           A M Y 0 5   U P D A T E   F R O M   T R O I K A 

                A 6 0 0   H O P E   D I E S   . . . ?  

 . . .   W H I L E   " S A M "   B O A R D   H O P E   I S   B O R N

        A M I G A   A N D   T H U N D E R B I R D S   D E A L  

           A M I G A W E B . N E T   I S   L A U N C H E D 

         A M I G B G   A W A R D   W I N N E R S   N A M E D

                A P C & T C P   B A C K   O N L I N E 

  B I G   B O O K   O F   H A R D W A R E   I N   N E W   H A N D S 

               W I N U A E   G O E S   T O   1 . 3 . 2

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

Wow, what a month! There are all kinds of interesting goings-on in the 
Amiga community to report to you this time round. 

Number one on most people's list would have to be Bill McEwen agreeing 
to answer 25 questions on Amiga.org. Whatever else you may think of 
Bill, that marks him as a brave man. :-) Actually, the questions are 
all quite good and the answers are certainly informative. Equally 
informative are some of the comments to the posting. It's worth your 
time to explore all this material.

We can't include the session here. It's much too large, and we do not 
have the right to do so. So pop over to the amiga.org site and check 
it out. Then try to decide what it all means. We're still working on 
that part at "Amiga Update"

The tone of the answers is certainly upbeat, with much promise for the 
future. The difficult part with that is we've heard this sort of thing 
before and we're still waiting. There are indications that Amiga Inc. 
has learned some hard lessons and is trying to recover from problems 
of the past. We hope that is truly the case, believe it probably is, 
but do wonder if they can muster the resources to really move forward. 
It should be possible and there are some signs they are doing so - see 
a couple of the stories below on recent actions, for example. To use 
our favorite phrase from recent years when talking about Amiga Inc. 
"Time Will Tell".

There are two things in particular from the questions and answers that 
specially concern us. According to Bill, Amiga Inc. is working on 
Amiga OS 5.0 at the same time Hyperion is working on Amiga OS 4.0. We 
are completely unsure what that will eventually mean for users, 
assuming both make it to market, but we hope there's some coordination 
between the two at least. And what does this do for the viability of 
Hyperion's work? It is clear the two companies aren't exactly happy 
with each other. To use another old phrase, this could be a train 
wreck.

The second thing that bothers us is the take some people have on the
change from Amiga Washington to Amiga Delaware. It's apparent that 
move is regarded by some as a shell game designed to avoid debt. It 
can easily be interpreted that way. True or not, the perception can be 
enough to cause problems when trying to strike new deals. We hope this 
is manageable.

So what's your take on Bill's answers? Are we listening to a visionary 
or just a dreamer? At this point, we're not sure. We've regarded Bill 
as a visionary in the past, and would like to be proven right at some 
point - and soon. We've lived on dreams long enough.
 
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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   B I L L   M C E W E N   A N S W E R S   2 5   Q U E S T I O N S 

13 September, 2006

 Bill McEwen made himself available on Amiga.org to answer 25 
questions collected by the website. We cannot reproduce the session 
here, but we can suggest - strongly - that you read the questions and 
answers - and the comments - at:

http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6955&com_id=
53338&com_rootid=53336&com_mode=flat&com_order=0

 We did grab the first question to get you started:

1. Why now? Amiga Inc pretty much divorced itself from Classics and 
OS4 over a year ago, exemplified by the simple indication on your 
website that for anything OS4 related, interested parties need to 
contact Hyperion. Several parties have tried to contact you for 
licensing reasons and reported a total lack of response (not a "no" 
response, just no response at all). Now, out of the blue, you show 
interest again. What has changed, and if you are planning on 
supporting something other than the AmigaDE again, how can we know 
you're not going to just shut the door once more?

Bill McEwen -- It is obvious to me that from this question and the 
others that are like it, that we have done a very poor job in 
communicating about Amiga. Amiga has always been interested in the 
operating system, and this includes OS 4, and beyond. Our plans have 
always been to produce, create, develop, market, enhance, sell and 
support the operating system. The goal of Amiga, as stated in our 
first public appearance, is to create a scalable, embeddable, media-
centric operating system that can unify digital devices that include 
cell phones, set top boxes, computers, and any other digital device 
that the OS can support. We did not think that this vision was 
achievable with the Amiga OS 3.1, so we began the development of a new 
Operating System or Digital Environment, and started toward those 
steps with the partnership with the Tao Group and built on top of 
their Intent platform. Our goal and what we have been up to is still 
the same, and I hope that as I answer more of your questions and if 
you would allow me to also leave some editorial responses at the end 
of the questions. I believe that we will all be on the same path 
toward the future.

With regard to the hardware question, I can only state that I have 
responded to ?every? query that has been sent. So that we do not have 
vendors appear and disappear leaving the end user holding equipment 
that can not be supported, Amiga asks a series of questions of the 
person who has made the request. I can tell you that with the 
exception of two groups, nobody has ever returned with acceptable 
answers. There are a great many people who dearly want to help, and 
they really want to see and produce new hardware, but several times we 
have seen answers where they are relying on some unknown event or 
friends with credit cards to be able to support the effort. This is 
not acceptable, and we have to locate those companies or individuals 
that have the correct supply chain and understanding of how to create 
and support hardware. Of course it is always easier to make a blanket 
announcement that Amiga ?never? responds, or I never heard back from 
them.

{Bill McEwen also posted a clarification later at 
http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6970 
Brad}
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    H Y P E R I O N   R E S P O N D S   T O   2 5   A N S W E R S

20 September, 2006

Judging from some of the e-mails we received, the recent comments by 
the Amiga Inc. management seem to have created confusion with respect 
to the development and availability of Amiga OS 4.0.

As managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment VOF, I would like to 
take this opportunity to assure our customers that development of 
Amiga OS 4.0 is entirely in Hyperion's hand alone and that the Amiga 
OS 4.0 development team is proceeding very well indeed as may become 
obvious during the upcoming shows in Italy and Sacramento, U.S.A.

There are no development hold-ups of any kind and we are in fact
anticipating an initial "final release candidate" by the end of 2006
provided suitable hardware is available for sale at that time. You may
recall the fact that Hyperion held back on the official release of  
Amiga OS 4.0 in 2005 in order to have it coincide with the 
availability of suitable target hardware.

Several third party hardware manufacturers have indicated that they 
are working on a wide range of different suitable PPC hardware 
platforms. We will leave it to them to communicate about these 
projects in due time.

This extra time has given the OS 4 development team the opportunity to
not only polish the final product even more but to incorporate very
substantial and modern functionality such as the new, extremely
reliable, modern and powerful memory subsystem in conjunction with new
yet to be revealed functionality.

We will specifically not comment on any legal issues as raised by 
Amiga Inc. management as these matters are finally and at our explicit 
and repeated request being handled by both parties' respective 
lawfirms and we find it highly inappropriate to publically comment on 
these matters in the meanwhile. Suffice it to say that some statements 
by Amiga Inc. were clearly in contradiction with the views held by 
Hyperion's attorneys both on a legal and on a factual level.

We thank you for your patience and the continued support of the Amiga 
OS 4.0 project which we are dedicated to complete as soon as possible.

Evert Carton
Managing partner
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             H Y P E R I O N   O N   O S 4   D A T E 

16 September, 2006

Besides the OS4 item above, Hyperion made the following information 
available during a chat at the Amiga Big Bash 4: Amiga Big Bash and 
Retro in England:


Q:It is rather obvious that OS4 would not appear in the nearest six 
months or so. Do they plan to release next update/updates?
        
A: Our current target is end of the year, provided of course that 
hardware is available. To that end, we are working with hardware 
manufacturers, but as usual, we're not doing their press releases, so 
we let them come forth with their projects
        
A: End of the year is the projected release date for OS 4, for real 
this time ;-)
                
Another comment on the release date: We've made a lot of progress 
recenlty, so we *are* pretty sure that it will be December.

http://amigaos.dk/modules/mydownloads/
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     A M I G A   P U R C H A S E S   I N D I A N   C O M P A N Y 

23 September, 2006

Issaquah, WA/Pune, India, September 22rd 2006: Amiga Development India 
Pvt. Ltd. (ADI), a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. based Amiga, Inc., 
announced that it has purchased the majority of the assets owned by 
Ruksun Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a Pune-based company servicing 
software development projects, on August 10, 2006. The acquisition 
includes intellectual property, business and engineering and support 
staff and all development contracts.

Ruksun has over thirteen years of experience in mobile, wireless and 
web technologies and embedded systems development. ADI will be able to 
leverage the experience of Amiga Inc.?s efforts in both mobile and 
desktop computing in order to better serve its existing and future 
clients. In addition, ADI will become Amiga Inc.?s off-shore 
development center. Amiga Development India will work to grow its 
customer base and will look to incorporate and grow the existing 
intellectual property base purchased from Ruksun.

http://www.amigadevindia.com/html/news/22sep2006apa.html
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          T H E   L A T E S T   F R O M   A M I W E S T 

AMIWEST 2006, RELEASE # 6

Here is the sixth information release for AmiWest 2006, October 21, 
2006. Our webpage at www.sacc.org/amiwest is being updated with all 
the current show information.  We encourage you to visit our site to 
see the rest of the current information.

Amiga Forever,

Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
AmiWest 2006 Committee

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AMIWEST IS GROWING!  GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Yes, AmiWest, the Amiga show for the United States, is growing!  New
exhibitors have confirmed their presence and we hope to have a great 
time with all things Amiga.

Here are the exhibitors that have confirmed that they will be at 
AmiWest 2006:


AMUC 
Bill Borsari (webcasting AmiWest worldwide every year since 1998)
Bit By Bit Software 
Hyperion 
Individual Computers
Pagestrem
SACC
Software Hut
Troika

. . . and a surprise exhibitor you won't want to miss!

Featured speakers throughout the day will include:

Richard Drummond
Jaimie Krueger
Jens Schoenfeld
Steve Solie

. . . and a surprise speaker!

With all of this happening in one day (whew!), you will want to get 
your tickets now.  Buying your tickets ahead allows us to assemble 
your information packet ahead of time and have it ready for you at the 
door.  So go to sacc.org/amiwest and click on the tickets link to 
order your tickets. Or just fill out the form below and send it in.

No matter how you do it, order your tickets soon!  And be sure to 
reserve your spot at the Saturday night banquet.  It's a good meal, 
and our banquet speaker is one of the few Amiga company CEO/COO's 
remaining in Amigadom. I'm sure he'll have much of interest to say to 
all of us.

AWest 2006 will be October 21, 2006 at the

Clarion Hotel Cal Expo
2600 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento California 95821

Reservations Phone 1-877-424-6423 toll-free (local 1-916-487-7600),
choicehotels.com (click the Clarion icon) and by snail-mail at the 
above address.

Please watch our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news 
and information regarding AmiWest 2006.  We are on target for another 
improved show!  See you there!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

So remember,

AmiWest 2006 is rolling!  The facility is reserved and the vendors
are notified!  Keep watching for these releases and tell everyone
that you know - the Amiga and the Amiga community is alive and
well!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


           AmiWest 2006, October 21, 2006 Ticket Reservation Form

                          Clarion Hotel Cal-Expo
                             2600 Auburn Blvd
                            Sacramento, CA 95821        

     Your Name:______________________________________________________

   Affiliation:______________________________________________________

       Address:______________________________________________________

               ______________________________________________________

          City:______________________________________________________

   State/Province:_______________________Postal(Zip) Code: __________

       Country:_________________________

   Email Address:____________________________________________________

   Ticket wanted ONE DAY PASS: SATURDAY, October 21, 2006

   Do you want Banquet tickets (Circle One)    YES      NO

   Admission to AmiWest 2006 is:
    $ 8 (One Day Pass - paid in advance by July 12, 2006)
    $10 (One day Pass at the door)
    
   One day passes will allow admittance to any FREE seminars on that 
day only.
   Seminar topics will be announced later.

   Banquet tickets are $28 per plate and MUST be paid in advance.   
   Seating is limited and tickets are available on a first come, first
served.
   
   Please fill out this form and remit with proper payment  (US Funds 
Only) to:
   
        AmiWest 2006
        c/o Chuck Washburn
        7051 Dolan Way
        Citrus Heights CA 95621
        USA
   
   Make checks payable to "AmiWest".  A form must be filled out for 
   each person attending the show although one check can be used.

   For more information you can contact AmiWest by email to: 
   chela@calweb.com 
   Phone: (916) 723-9846 Evenings (Pacific Daylight time)

   Our WWW web page is: http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ 
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                    A M I N E T   U P D A T E 

4 September, 2006

It's been a while since last time, but it doesn't mean we haven't done 
anything in the meantime. Following is an update on the newest stuff 
happening over at Aminet.net.

The Aminet Wiki

Aminet has its own Wiki now: at http://wiki.aminet.net you'll find 
manuals, FAQs, information about the team and Aminet's history as well 
as our changelogs, todo lists and bug 'database'. The section covering 
Aminet's usage urgently needs more info added though: if you'd like to 
help out with creating a nice user manual covering archive formats, 
the tools required to handle them, various ways of transfering 
archives from a PC to the Amiga, using an FTP client etc. - get in 
touch with us, please.

Translating the Wiki into other languages is planned, but our 
ressources are somewhat limited and there are lots of things to do - 
so this might take a while.

New directories

Several new directories have been created, amongst them misc/os, which 
is intended for operating systems and updates. The first uploads to 
this directory are "Amiga Minix", an open source Unix like operating 
system for Amiga 500, 2000 and 3000 computers and the final m68k-amiga 
distribution of OpenBSD. The former was kindly provided by Thomas 
Unger, while the latter is a mirror of ftp.planetmirror.com and was 
moved to Aminet because OpenBSD-Amiga is discontinued und slowly gets 
removed from the official BSD-mirrors.

A complete list of the new directories:

dev/lib (static libraries)
game/edit (game editors)
game/strat (strategy games)
misc/os (Operating systems and updates)
pix/icon (PNG icons)

We already started to move files into these directories, if you 
stumble across further packages that should be moved, don't hesitate 
to tell us. Thanks a lot to James Jacobs for both suggesting game/edit 
as well as providing a complete list of files that should be moved in 
there.

More mirrors

Three new mirrors have been added (de5.aminet.net, se.aminet.net and 
dk.aminet.net). For more info about mirrors and who to thank for the 
various ones, see http://wiki.aminet.net/Mirrors. Aminet now consists 
of seven mirrors - with more coming up. As the question has been 
brought up several times now: Yes, we do accept big files, a CD ISO 
shouldn't be a problem. For anything significantly bigger than 80-100 
MB we'd appreciate it if you would notify us up front though.

New filetypes supported

We now accept PDF documents (you don't have to put them into an 
archive anymore) as well as music and video files in an Ogg container, 
the most popular ones being Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. In addition we 
encourage you to use the open OGG formats rather than the proprietary 
MPEG (MP3, MPEG1/2) formats which often come with patent and license 
issues.

As we're still getting DMS uploads occasionally: Please note that 
Aminet does not support DMS. If you need to upload a disk image, 
convert it to ADF first. We accept both plain ADF files aswell as 
zipped ADF (.adz).

A reminder - server abuse

Recently we encountered postings on various forums where people 
announced they would download the whole Aminet repository, others 
explained that they already did it or gave instructions how this can 
be accomplished easily. Apparently, we really need to address this 
issue.

Downloading the whole Aminet repository is considered abuse. No ifs, 
buts or whens - end users are not entitled to run personal mirrors. 
Aminet has a total size of more than 32 GB right now, individual users 
downloading that much data from our servers just for the sake of 
having their own local copy are not just acting rather impolite, they 
are actually eating up resources that somebody has to pay for.

Aminet isn't going away anytime soon. It's going to celebrate its 15th 
birthday soon, and we do have the resources available to make sure 
that there are going to be quite a few more birthday parties. We also 
have a bunch of 100% mirrors up and going, so there are no excuses 
really.

If you really feel like leeching, go download Google - compared to 
Aminet, that whole WWW thing is a relative newcomer and might be gone 
any day now.

As usual, an extensive change log can be found at: 
http://wiki.aminet.net/Changelog. If you want to get in touch with us, 
either drop us a mail at aminet@aminet.net or join our IRC channel 
#aminet on irc.amigaworld.net. We *love* feedback, feature requests 
and complaints. Honestly.
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         A M Y 0 5   U P D A T E   F R O M   T R O I K A 

13 September, 2006

This is the final update on the Amy05 design prior to [Amiga Big 
Bash 4]. 

One of the biggest changes to the Amy05 design from our first 
released specification is the addition of the .AMD Geod(TM) CS5536 
companion device. For Project Prometheus/Amy'05 this becomes Amy?s 
Southbridge. This is the low cost Southbridge device from AMD that 
been in many of the newspapers. It?s used in the $100 'One Laptop per 
child' system, and in many AMD Geode(TM) embedded designs. It?s a well 
proven design and AMD continues to refine all the little details to 
get the most out of the design. Its extremely well supported, and its 
great to have a working relationship with the AMD people, we take much 
pride in this.

What?s the Geod(TM) Southbridge mean to the Amiga community? Software 
wise the opening of many new doors, and features. For example, one 
feature built in is the ?USB keyboard?, making USB keyboards easy to 
install and use.

Hardware wise this device provides the following features to Amy05:

AC97 Codec interface,
A single channel IDE port,
An additional 16C550 UART,
Real time Clock and CMOS RAM
Additional USB 2.0 ports,
PC 82XX legacy timers.

There are additional features to this device but we have only 
highlighted the features utilized by Amy05.

This is the other component of the Kryptos sound system. It is a low 
cost high performance solution that will in the future, allow for a 
lower cost design by fully utilizing the USB and ATA interfaces of 
this device. Also in future Troika designs, will be able to 
incorporate, many more hardware features not as yet implemented, into 
future Amy designs.

The CS5536 interfaces to the TSI107 via the 66 MHz PCI bus interface 
for maximum performance. The 66 MHz PCI bus connects to the 33 MHz PCI 
bus using a PLX technology PCI 6150 bridge device. The PCI 6150 makes 
it easier to connect riser cards to the system without violating PCI 
bus loading rules, an improvement over previous designs.

A side effect of increasing the system bus to 66 MHz was the need for 
some glue logic, normally quite boring but it did provide potential 
for a 'Geekport interface' to be easily added. Now referred to as the 
Amy Geekport.

The aim of this interface was to put some of the fun back into home 
computing. For too long now if you wanted to add a custom device to 
your computer, it was too complicated. By providing a simple 8 bit 
wide interface that connects directly to the PPC local bus it is once 
again possible to create homebrew devices and connect them to your 
computer, just like in the good old 8-bit days.

The interface is memory mapped, provides a basic I/O port, can 
generate interrupts and provides user defined I/O. Application notes 
and sample designs will be available at product launch.

As a final note, the planned board for display at the show will be a 
'developer' prototype. She?s rough around the edges, and we have had 
?issues? with making our logos look great like we wished. This is the 
first release which will be made in a limited quantity for hardware 
testing/OS4 development. There will be bugs to iron out and some 
improvements will be made, when this process is complete, the 
necessary changes will be added into the consumer version, which will 
then be released.

This is the reason we ask for some feedback on the design, there are 
limited opportunities for changes to the final design. Rest-assured, 
we will not be making any drastic changes to the system.

*AMD Geod(TM) CS5536 is a registered trademark of AMD

{Photos of the board are at these URLs. Lookin' good! Brad}
http://troikang.com/images/1.jpg
http://troikang.com/images/2.jpg
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                A 6 0 0   H O P E   D I E S   . . . ?  

3 September, 2006

The release of the A600 accelerator and the A500 version of the IDE 
controller Buddha will be delayed indefinitely. The main reason is 
contract work that will keep us busy for the next few weeks. Please 
refrain from requesting any of these products. The production of the 
new A1200 CPU slot connectors is going according to plan. The new 
products Catweasel MK2 anniversary edition and the A600 memory 
expansion are already available at out retail partners.

Individual Computers
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 . . .   W H I L E   " S A M "   B O A R D   H O P E   I S   B O R N

Empoli (Florence), Italy, September 15, 2006:

On September 23 and 24 at Palaesposizioni exhibition palace in Empoli, 
it will take place the 10th edition of Pianeta Amiga Show.

This is nearly an historic appointment for the italian scene of 
alternative information technology, but not only limited to Italy and 
not only limited to Amiga computers, because Pianeta Amiga exhibit it 
is continuously growing and expanding, due to presence of foreign 
visitors and exhibitors from all Europe.

The Pianeta Amiga event, it represents a place of rendez-vous for all 
amigans and users of various alternative platforms, and an aggregation 
point which is exclusive in the italian outline, and it is also a 
privileged launch pad platform for literally dozens of projects and 
products which continuously born and grew up in the sparkling world of 
alternative computing.

The appointment of this year truly represents a milestone for italian 
information technology, because during the event in Empoli it will 
take place the official presentation of a new computer, entirely 
designed, developed and manufactured in Italy.

This new motherboard will be capable to use wide part of Operating 
Systems created to run for Linux-like PPC based platforms, and it will 
also capable to run various other alternative Operating Systems that 
are widely used on the scene of I.T. world.

It was a long time since the moment that technology innovation left 
italian peninsula.

Now it was born again a new Hi-Tech challenge, and this is due to the 
efforts in co-operation and synergy lead by three dynamic italian 
firms: Alternative Holding Group Srl., Soft3 e Virtual Works, which 
started together a partnership in order to complete the first one of 
many projects, lots of these still in development and evolving.

The results of their co-operation it is a compact, versatile, and 
scalable motherboard based on PowerPC processor by IBM, which could be 
adapted to fit the needings of any niche in the market, and more, the 
motherboard is enhanced with innovative and decent characteristics.
All the features will be revealed during a conference that will take 
place on Saturday 23 September 2006 starting at 11:00 during Pianeta 
Amiga show.

Ciao,

Jasa Communication
Bitplane
Alternative Holding Group
Soft3
Virtual Works
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       A M I G A   A N D   T H U N D E R B I R D S   D E A L 

Seattle , September 26, 2006 - The Seattle Thunderbirds and Amiga, 
Inc., today announced a cooperative marketing deal that will give 
T-Birds fans access to a variety of games, puzzles, and arcade 
applications for personal computers, gaming devices, mobile handsets, 
set top boxes, and other computing devices.

Amiga's technologies are being designed to integrate consumers' 
favorite T-Bird images and hockey-based content into the most 
entertaining and challenging mobile games, video and music.

Fans will be able to see demonstrations of, and purchase, T-Bird-
branded Amiga products at the T- Birds 2006-07 home opener on 
Saturday, September 30, at KeyArena at 7:05 p.m. The T-Birds will 
take on the Vancouver Giants in their home opener.

"Amiga's ability to offer high quality T-Birds branded multimedia to 
the phones, PCs and TVs of our fans fits well with our commitment to
provide the most enticing entertainment package," said Colin Campbell, 
T-Birds Assistant General Manager and Director of Marketing.

"The T-Birds bring excitement to their loyal and enthusiastic fan base 
both on and off the ice. Amiga further enhances the value of the 
Thunderbird brand and lets fans take their team with them everywhere?, 
said Vince Pfeifer, Amiga Vice President of Operations.

The T-Birds and Amiga are pursuing joint marketing and sponsorship 
opportunities throughout the Seattle community. Amiga will also 
sponsor several T-Bird promotions throughout the season, including the 
official team poster and the magnetic schedules giveaway on opening 
night.

About the Seattle Thunderbirds:

The Seattle Thunderbirds are a Seattle-area based hockey team 
affiliated with the Western Hockey League. With a league-wide 
development agreement with the National Hockey League geared to 
creating outstanding hockey talent and well-rounded individuals in the 
community, the Thunderbirds and their players are one-step away from 
the NHL. The players in the WHL attend high school or take college 
courses while perusing their hockey career. For more information 
please see www.seattlethunderbirds.com.
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          A M I G A W E B . N E T   I S   L A U N C H E D 

27 September, 2006

We are proud to announce first version of a new English web site 
dedicated to computing and Internet in general, and the Amiga in 
special.

The website is AmigaWeb.Net

Note: The AmigaWeb.Net website belongs to the community it serves, 
namely common people like us all, and especially to those having a 
curiousity towards the Amiga computing platform.

AmigaWeb.Net wants to embrace all hardware and software platforms 
being able to run AmigaOS and Amiga emulators as well, including:

AmigaOne
Pegasos
AROS
Amiga Forever
WinUAE
AmiKit

...but the web site also wants to target general internet related 
news, and also have some news about special events / happenings / 
products that are of common interest for computer interested people.

We also run an IRC channel #AmigaWeb @ EFnet. You are most welcome!

User registration and forum is functionable and it is possible to 
register at the moment.

Still, progress is done in coding towards the version 1 of the site 
code, as we still consider the existing code to be in a beta version.

I have the honour of wishing all of my Amiga companions a warm welcome 
to the new site.
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       A M I G B G   A W A R D   W I N N E R S   N A M E D

22 September, 2006

Amiga Summer Party 2006 took place on the 25-27:th of August.
For the third year in a row the AmiGBG award was awarded.

This years winners were:
The Swedish award to: Guru Meditation

The International award to: Individual Computers

AmiGBG congratulates the worthy winners.


Andreas Loong - Guru Meditation
AmiGBG crew honours Andreas with this award for his efforts and hard 
work in promoting the Amiga platform. Guru Meditation, based in 
Gothenburg, Sweden is a company that supports the Amiga user base in 
many different ways. With true Amiga spirit, Andreas has on several 
occasions showed his great generosity (e.g. the os4depot contest, his 
donations everywhere). Guru Meditation has become a well known name in 
the world of Amiga, a company that stands for honesty, righteousness, 
passion and real belief in the Amiga.

Jens Schonfeldt - Individual computers

AmiGBG crew honours Jens with this award for his efforts and hard work 
in promoting the Amiga platform. Individual Computers, based in 
Aachen, Germany is a company that supports the Amiga user base in many 
ways. The numerous ingenious hardware solutions coming from Individual 
Computers throughout the years have helped the Amiga platform to 
persist and evolve. Jens is a well known name in the world of Amiga 
and has a rightful place among the greatest contributors ever in the 
history of the platform as he continues to support both Amiga classic 
as well as the future of Amiga.
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              A P C & T C P   B A C K   O N L I N E 

29 September,  2006 

Due to a movement to a new server our homepages were only partly 
accessible the last days.

Unfortunately the onlineshop also was also nearly a week offline.

But now the switch to new servers has been completed and the Amiga 
Future page and all APC&TCP pages are accessible again.

Also the onlineshop is ready again.

Because of this there have been also failures in the processing of 
mails. If someone has put an order and hasn't received a confirmation 
mail please get in contact with us.

At this point we want to remind you that the switch of the BBoAH pages 
hasn't finished yet. Many users link directly to the German/English 
starting pages. Soon they won't exist anymore. The only valid domain 
is http://software.amigafuture.de.

http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de
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  B I G   B O O K   O F   H A R D W A R E   I N   N E W   H A N D S 

17 September, 2006 

Because of personal reasons, Ian Chapman, the founder of the Big Book 
of Amiga Hardware, has given his seven years old compedium in new 
hands.

Amiga Future is proud to announce to become the new maintainer of the 
BBoAH. The compendium will be the same as known, but only a few 
optical adjustments.

In future, the BBoAH will further exist in two languages - english and 
german.

Unfortunately, Ian Chapman is not able to free the well known URL 
"http://Amiga-hardware.com" for the BBoAH in the Future. Because of 
this, the BBoAH ONLY can be reach at http://hardware.amigafuture.de. 
Please update your bookmarks!

The Amiga Future team also will work on, to open the (licensed) driver 
downloads page again, which have to be closed since end last year.

NOTICE: For submissions only use the following Email: 
hardware@amigafuture.de

About Ian:

After nearly 8 years of running the Big Book of Amiga Hardware, 
I've decided it's time for me to retire from maintaining the site. The 
reasons are many and varied, but personal. The project started in 
January 1999 and since then has grown to be what it is today. This 
wouldn't have been possible without the hundreds of contributors that 
took their time to help out, many of who sent hundreds of photographs 
over the years.

Effective from today, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware will be 
officially maintained by 'Amiga Future' in conjunction with Mario 
Misic. Mario has maintained the German mirror for several years. They 
will continue to maintain the site in a similar style with some 
modifications but will hopefully be able to give the project more time 
than I could.  In addition they hope to translate the entire site into 
German. Please give them your support.

The new official page is http://hardware.amigafuture.de as I am unable 
(for practical reasons) to transfer the ownership of the domain. 
Please note, that this site (http://www.amiga-hardware.com) will still 
remain available on the web but will not be updated. All submissions 
should now be sent to the email address hardware@amigafuture.de. 
Thanks again to everybody who has helped out.


"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Ian.
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             W I N U A E   G O E S   T O   1 . 3 . 2

16 September, 2006 

Amiga Emulator WinUAE has had a new release taking it to version 
1.3.2.

Changes since the last release include:

    * Debug window won't open automatically anymore

    * HRTMon keyboard layout and WHDLoad commands fixed


New features:

    * Mouse Up/Down and Left/Right input destinations supported 
      simultaneously

    * CD32 state save support (work in progress)

    * A1000 Kickstart disk images can be used as a ROM image



The updates can be found on the WinUAE website.

http://www.winuae.net/
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• Fixed: Colorize works correctly (WILL be further perfected later)
• Fixed: Lighten and darken pays notice to the colors they darken and lighten (better)
• Fixed: More BOOPSI compliance internally (IPTR)
• Fixed: Crash on canceling loading of a datatype project !Regression: No 64-bit exporting due to reprogramming
• NEW: Chosen color is not directly connected to palette
• NEW: Rewritten scroll routine makes fluid scrolling a reality
• NEW: Unerase tool! Recover erased areas [WIP]
• NEW: Export with flattened layers (wasn't implemented before)
• NEW: Animation export, vertical strip for programmers and one image pr. frame for making gif animations etc

• Guido 'Geit' Mersmann (Valiant Vision, among others)
• Sven Dröge (proBanking, Bonds)
• Axel Dörfler (Spreadsheet Ignition)
• Timo 'Ermentrud' Kloss (Midi sequencer Horny)
• Alinea Computer (Demonstration of the distributed products)
• Matthias Goldisch (Dealer for Amiga & retro computing)
• Axel Knabe (Office & information service, presentation of BurnIt, among others)

• More than 400 image sets (over 1400 single pictures)
• 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit alpha channel
• Extensive HTML documentation
• Printable PDF preview of the images

• New and reworked images
• Small listview images (16x16)
• Archive and script to update AISS

• AC97 Codec interface
• A single channel IDE port
• An additional 16C550 UART
• Real time Clock and CMOS RAM
• Additional USB 2.0 ports
• PC 82XX legacy timers

• memory mapped
• provides a basic I/O port
• can generate interrupts
• provides user defined I/O

• Added some more Joystick mapping options. You can now use any button to control Amiga joystick 0
• Changed all sceCtrlReadBufferPositive to sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive. This should speed things up a little, because sceCtrlReadBufferPositive always waits for vsync
• Fixed a "bug" that caused the PSP to crash if you tried to exit using the home button
• Added Bilinear filtering when zoom is turned on

• Fixed: circles to be more accurate with grid
• Fixed: layer deletion code to delete properly
• Fixed: Layers list out properly when working with several image windows
• Fixed: Adding a layer in an animation doesn't mess up the project
• NEW: Added author field to project info
• NEW: Layers and animation controls in separate windows
• NEW: Load in images through datatypes So get productive and start animating :-)

• 30.08.06 improved: Quik & Silva (New Bits on the Ram) supports another version, trainer added (Info)
• 26.08.06 improved: Shinobi (Sega) joystick handling changed, trainer added (Info)
• 26.08.06 new: Extrial (Computer Verlag) done by Bored Seal (Info)
• 23.08.06 improved: Apano Sin (Level One) faster loading, more compatible on faster machines, manual added (Info)
• 23.08.06 new: Dinosaur Detective Agency (Alternative Software) done by DJ Mike (Info)
• 22.08.06 updated: Deluxe Galaga (Edgar M. Vigdal) fixed for WHDLoad v16.6 (Info,Image)

• AmiKit now supports Live Update feature that ensures your AmiKit is always up to date!
• WinUAE emulation software updated to version 1.3.2
• ADDED:    AmiKit - Live Update 1.0 by Daniel 'Deniil' Westerberg  (right-mouse -> AmiKit -> Live Update)
• ADDED:    AmiKit - Locale AmiKit 1.0  (AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit). Program helps you to set locale, input and font settings easily.
• ADDED:    BlueMars boot picture (full AmiKit archive only)
• ADDED:    Czech translation of AmiKit documentation by Prober
• ADDED:    Czech and Slovak fonts and locale files (LocaleCS). Use "AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit" to enable it.
• ADDED:    DOpus5 compare.module 1.2 by Leo 'Nudel' Davidson
• ADDED:    DOpus5 Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support (doubleclick and right-mouse menu)
• ADDED:    DOpus5 SlctComp by Brian Scott (right-mouse -> Buttons -> Load -> YourLanguage/Compare_ButtonBank)
• ADDED:    French translation of AmiKit documentation by Eric Luczyszyn
• ADDED:    FroGGui 0.3 by Breed  (AmiKit:Utilities/FroggerNG/FroGGui/)
• ADDED:    German, French, Spanish, Polish and Czech translation of DOpus User&Lister Menu. Use "AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit" to enable it.
• ADDED:    GfxCon 1.8c by Dirk Farin  (AmiKit:Tools/GfxCon)
• ADDED:    New AmiKit screen bar by Ken Lester. Use MorpheuZ, select the theme and then the screen bar.
• ADDED:    MemOptimizer 1.0 (AmiKit version) by RhoSigma, R.Heyder, DaNi. (AmiKit:C/)
• ADDED:    PBM DataType 44.5 by Gunther Nikl (required by PerfectPaint to save transparent images)
• ADDED:    playOGG 4.7 by Lorence Lombardo  (AmiKit:Utilities/playOGG/)
• ADDED:    Polish ISO-AmigaPL and TrueType fonts, keymap and catalogs. Use "AmiKit:Prefs/Locale AmiKit" to enable it.
• ADDED:    Support for 1280x800 widescreen notebooks. Use "AmiKit:Prefs/ScreenMode AmiKit" to enable it.
• ADDED:    VICE 1.20 - Amiga Work In Progress version by Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund and Marco van den Heuvel.  (AmiKit:Utilities/VICE/)
• ADDED:    VorbisTools 1.1.1 - 68k compilation by DMX (AmiKit:Utilities/playOGG/)
• UPDATED:  AfA_OS 3.93.2
• UPDATED:  akPNG.datatype 45.50
• UPDATED:  Amiga Image Storage System 3 (AISS)
• UPDATED:  AmiKit - Install Patches 1.5
• UPDATED:  AmiKit - MorpheuZ 1.1
• UPDATED:  AmiKit - ScreenMode AmiKit 1.1
• UPDATED:  AmiKit - AmiKit.exe 1.2
• UPDATED:  AmiKit - RomFind.exe 1.1
• UPDATED:  AmiStart 0.66c
• UPDATED:  FryingPan 0.41 (plus new skin by Ken Lester)
• UPDATED:  LimpidClock 1.17 beta
• UPDATED:  MathLibsUAE 45.881 r10
• UPDATED:  MCC_BetterString 11.8
• UPDATED:  MCC_TextEditor 15.18
• UPDATED:  microgolded 8 SP 3
• UPDATED:  MMKeyboard 3.22
• UPDATED:  R 2.21
• UPDATED:  tsgui 2.2
• UPDATED:  UnRAR 3.60
• UPDATED:  WHDLoad 16.6
• UPDATED:  WinUAEHelp file 2.04
• UPDATED:  WookieChat 2.3.1
• REVERTED: ixemul.library 48.2 (seems the newer v49.17 library is bugged)
• FIXED:    ROM incompatibility with Amiga Forever 2006

• Pagestream
• Software Hut
• AMUC
• Troika
• Hyperion
• SACC
• Individual Computers

• Based on e-uae 0.8.29 WIP3
• Ditched harddrive support to gain speed as I still can't get it to work with WIP3
• Removed support for serial ports to gain speed
• Several optimizations to the e-uae code primarily removing stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense on the PSP
• Added cpu speed option - thanks to FOL
• Added profiling support
• Fixed memory issues - now allows 6MB for PSP V1.50 and 5.5MB for PSP V2.00+
• Should run using kxploit and the eloader (So V1.50 release works with all)
• Switched middle and right mouse button
• Fixed screenshot
• only displays leds for 2 drives as only 2 are enabled (will not accept 4 drives as I have disabled the last 2 for performance reasons)
• disabled debugging support (can be enabled again it doesnt really make a performance hit)
• only possible to select valid memory configurations (up to 2 Mb chip, 1.5 Mb bogo and 2.5Mb fast)
• Fixed keyboard mappings
• when mapping keyboard keys to psp buttons the behaviour is to keep the key down until the psp button is released.
• removed 2 drives from the disk menu
• added msg box for when no kickstart rom is present and also for when changing kickstart roms while using PSPUAE
• added msg box for when PSPUAE runs out of memory instead of crashing (makes it very hard to crash PSPUAE now)
• added KickStart 2.04 & 2.05 to the Rom selection menu

• Support for more GeForce FX models (ie, 5700, 5100, etc)
• Support for GeForce PCX PCI-Express cards
• General bugfixes to the GeForce and Radeon drivers
• SATA support (yay!) for VIA 8237 and NVidia NForce 3/4 chipsets
• Gigabit ethernet via the VIA 6120 & 6122 Velocity chips
• Ethernet driver for NForce 3/4 chipsets
• Support for more AC97 audio codecs

• the Stack-size will be automaticly increased by 200KB
• the 68k-Version works faster then the pre-version
• the protective bit will be set correctly
• the entered password is not longer visibly

• Debug window won't open automatically anymore
• HRTMon keyboard layout and WHDLoad commands fixed

• Mouse Up/Down and Left/Right input destinations supported simultaneously
• CD32 state save support (work in progress)
• A1000 Kickstart disk images can be used as a ROM image

• dev/lib (static libraries)
• game/edit (game editors)
• game/strat (strategy games)
• misc/os (Operating systems and updates)
• pix/icon (PNG icons)

• Amiga and MorphOS news of July/August 2006
• Report: Alchimie 5
• Interview with Ilkka Lehtoranta (MorphOS developer)
• Interview with Martyn Brown (Team 17 member)
• Point of view: We are waiting for MorphOS 1.5...
• Review of Nicky Boum Engine
• Review of RAW
• Review of REminescence
• Review of AmigaOS 3.5 (update)
• Review of AmigaOS 3.9 (update)
• Hardware: Protect your computer from low-quality batteries
• Tutorial: Défrag a SFS partition under MorphOS
• Tutorial: Installation of Ubuntu Linux on Pegasos II
• Tutorial: Installation of Suse Linux on Pegasos II (update)
• Tutorial: TVPaint - reflection of a title on a transparent plan
• Tutorial: MEncoder - basic use
• Tutorial: Tricks and tips for Quake 1 et 2
• The Amiga quizz

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   B I L L   M C E W E N   T O   A N S W E R   Q U E S T I O N S    

                 A M I G A   B I G   B A S H   4    

        A M I W E S T   I N F O R M A T I O N   U P D A T E 

           S A D L Y ,   A   D E A T H   T O   R E P O R T 

    U P G R A D E   T O   A M I P O D D E R   A V A I L A B L E

 F R E E   P A S C A L !   ( N O ,   N O T   F R O M   P R I S O N )

   E P I S T U L A   M E S S A G I N G   S Y S T E M   U P D A T E  

       A N D   W H I L E   W E ' R E   C H A T T I N G   . . . 

             W I N U A E   M A R C H E S   F O R W A R D

                   A N D   S O   D O E S   E U A E 

 I G N I T I O N   S P R E A D S H E E T   ( * B E T A   O N L Y * ) 

        O P E N   O F F I C E   T E A M   N E E D S   H E L P

              A I S S   S Y S T E M   V E R S I O N   3

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 The re-emergence of Bill McEwen? When Gary Hare left Amiga Inc. 
behind, I at least was not certain who was in charge or what the 
management team looked like. I still don't feel as if I know. However, 
it is apparent Bill McEwen is still there, Amiga Inc. is still 
functional and you and everyone else will have a chance to read 
answers to 25 questions by Bill in the near future. Story is below. 
This could well be one of the more important events of the year in the 
Amiga community, depending on the quality of the questions and the 
frankness of the answers. Should be revealing however it goes.
 Beyond that interesting development, there were many other 
interesting things happening in the Amiga community this month. We 
have covered a number of them for you in this issue. Amiga activity 
seems to come in spurts these days, with some months having little 
happening and others a great deal. The good news is, there is always 
something going on in the Amiga community and most of the activity is 
good for the Amiga's future. While we would really like to hear some 
definitive news on the hardware front, at least we have good news in 
the software arena this month, and a fair amount of it.
 We hope you enjoy this issue.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

 Brad,  You have done an excellent job with this newsletter.
I already get most of the news items at http://www.amigaworld.net
so what I enjoy most are your general thoughts and comments at
the beginning.
  I will be sad to see the departure of that part of the
 newsletter in October.  Perhaps after October you could
change the format to something easier for you, or make a
regular online posting to the Amigaworld website instead?
  Anyway, good luck with whatever you do.  I'm a happy
AmigaOneXE / OS4 owner.  I'll be using it for years and
purchasing a second one as soon as the next motherboard
solution is available.
    Thanks.   - Lars
~~~~~~
Lars,
 Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. It's encouraging to hear 
about your commitment and confidence in the Amiga and its use into 
the future. I suppose some readers might take the end of "AU" as a 
vote of no-confidence on my part for the future of the Amiga. I want 
to make it very clear to the readers that such is NOT the case. It is 
a recognition that, after 20 years in Amiga journalism, it really is 
time to move on. And that being the case, it's unlikely a format 
change will happen though I appreciate the interesting suggestion.
 As you point out, there are other ways to get the information we 
carry. The Amiga community is very fortunate to have good websites 
supporting it. I couldn't list all the websites I prowl monthly for 
news, but amigaworld.net and amiga.org are good places to start for an 
overall coverage of the community.
 I do have an Amiga project or two in mind going forward, mostly 
involving preservation of items from the Amiga's history. We'll see 
what develops as time goes on.
 Regards,
 Brad
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{Taken from the Amiga.org website. Pay them a visit - URL at end of 
this article. Brad}

With all the questions of whether "Is Amiga Inc alive?" or not, I 
thought to write to Bill McEwen himself to see whether the lights were 
still on. Within an hour, I got a long, well-written reply and an 
offer to directly answer 25 questions from the Amiga community...

In short, Bill wants everyone to know that they are still, very much 
alive despite the many popular rumors to the contrary. His standing 
offer is to take questions from Amiga.org users and they will answer 
the top 25 (as determined by the Amiga.org staff) as completely as 
possible.

That being said, a few words of caution.

What this is...

This is a chance for the Amiga community to ask questions and have 
them directly answered by Bill McEwen in an open exchange. You can ask 
anything you want, as long as it's a legitimate question regarding 
Amiga Incorporated, it's products, plans, and future.

What this is NOT

- This is not a chance for politics and agendas
- This is not an excuse to act like children and hurl insults
- This is not an excuse for personal attacks and delving into the 
  personal lives of Amiga Inc staff members.

Post your questions in comment form [see URL] below.

On the 8th of September, I will collect the questions and the 
moderators and I will correlate them and select the top 25 questions. 
Once selected, all of the questions will be passed directly to Amiga 
Inc.

Mr. McEwen has stated that he will answer 25 questions.

If there are more legitimate questions than that, we will select the 
best 25 and put them at the top of the list. It's up to them if they 
want to answer more. If there are fewer than 25 legitimate questions, 
all will be passed to Amiga Inc for their response.

Amiga.org Disclaimer :

Because of the potential for abuse, this thread and comments contained 
therein will, by necessity, be moderated to the fullest extent of our 
posting guidelines (see link on left)

Out of necessity, we (the Amiga.org staff) reserve the right to edit 
the questions presented if they appear incomplete, unintelligible, or 
have a language barrier issue).

Sincerely,

Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org

http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6929
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Announcing Amiga Big Bash 4: Amiga Big Bash and Retro, Saturday 16th 
September, Stafford Hall, Peterborough.

Welcome to the home of the UK's biggest Amiga show - The Big Bash. 
This September is going to be the best Big Bash to-date! We have more 
exhibitors and friends coming along than the previous 3 events, which 
were enjoyed by all.

This year we have also added a retro element to the show, and extended 
our invitation to those in the GP2X community and Retro Scene.

There will be demonstrations and talks, great music, stalls and 
exhibitions and lots to eat and drink. If you go to no other Amiga and 
Retro show this year, go to this one.

The show's address is:

Stafford Hall
Hampton Court
Westwood
Peterborough
PE3 7LD

Doors Open Saturday 16th September, 1pm until 7.00pm, then aftershow 
party.

Admission: 3.50 Payable on door.
What is Amiga Big Bash & Retro?

Amiga Big Bash & Retro is simply an excuse for a party. It's a 
computer show with a difference in that it's not really about 
computers - it's about the people and the communities that use them.

Big Bash started in 2004 as a way of bringing Amiga users together. 
The first event was such a success that a later one was held that very 
same year. Each year the event has gained in popularity and attracts 
more and more people - this is in part to the shows firm emphasis on 
fun.

Initally devised on the Amiga World IRC channel, the event spawned the 
3 Counties Amiga Group, who are responsible for organising the event.

The show is also truely multinational, attracting visitors from as far 
afield as Poland, Greece and Sweden - and indeed even further away - 
Mikey C, our very own MC is from another planet.. 


30 August, 2006

Godfreys-Online, in partnership with Troika and sponsors of Big Bash 4 
are donating the following to BB4 to complement the other prizes 
vailable:

1x HP Photosmart 2710 All-in one Printer.
See: http://audiovisual.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_12363773/100052213.html

1x Maxtor 200GB IDE HDD (7,200RPM/8MB Cache)
See: http://www.techstore.co.uk/browse.php?a=p&prodLineID=41954

1x Aopen 52x32x52x16 CDRW/DVD Combo Drives
See: http://solaristech.co.uk/store/product_info.php?products_id=221&
solaris_id=c27dc972a0046d5e943baf9f3a618f5d

I would like to thank my fellow organisers for spending time and money 
organising BB4 and hope people will come and see the culmination of 
our efforts.

Godfreys IT Ltd. is an IT consultants and software house see: 
www.godfreys-it.com and also has an online retail shop, based on our 
own e-commerce product, LRG Ecommerce server see: 
www.godfreys-online.co.uk Big Bash 4 is organised by 3 Counties Amiga 
Group. See: www.3cag.net

http://www.amigabigbash.net/
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        A M I W E S T   I N F O R M A T I O N   U P D A T E 

21 August, 2006 

Here is the third information release for AmiWest 2006, October 21,
2006 in Sacramento, California.  Our webpage at www.sacc.org/amiwest 
is being updated with all the current show information.  We encourage 
you to visit our site to see the rest of the current information.

Amiga Forever,

Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
AmiWest 2006 Committee

===================================
AMIWEST 2006 - TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
===================================

A ONE-DAY EVENT CONTINUES TO MEAN LOWER PRICES!  Lower prices (same as 
last year!) on admission tickets (see below) means that more of our 
great Amiga community can come at a reduced rate!  Our hotel room 
prices REMAIN THE SAME AS LAST YEAR, including a full hot breakfast 
for up to two people per room.  SO AMIWEST, YOUR BEST AMIGA SHOW DEAL, 
IS EVEN BETTER NOW!

Don't wait!  Ticket sales are already increasing!  The fire department
will only permit us to admit so many people.  And you'll want to be 
one of them!

=========================================
TIME TO BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR AMIWEST 2006
=========================================

We have a great facility (now completed) and we want YOU to come see
AmiWest 2006.  So print this ticket form out and mail it to the SACC
address (given below)!  ASAP!

           AmiWest 2006, October 21, 2006 Ticket Reservation Form

                          Clarion Hotel Cal-Expo
                             2600 Auburn Blvd
                            Sacramento, CA 95821        

  Your Name:______________________________________________________

Affiliation:______________________________________________________

    Address:______________________________________________________

            ______________________________________________________

       City:______________________________________________________

State/Province:_________________________ Postal(Zip) Code: __________

    Country:_________________________

 Email Address:______________________________________________________

   Ticket wanted ONE DAY PASS: SATURDAY, October 21, 2006

   Do you want Banquet tickets (Circle One)    YES      NO

   Admission to AmiWest 2006 is:
    $ 8 (One Day Pass - paid in advance by July 12, 2006)
    $10 (One day Pass at the door)
    
   One day passes will allow admittance to any FREE seminars on that 
day only.
   Seminar topics will be announced later.

   Banquet tickets are $28 per plate and MUST be paid in advance.   
   Seating is limited and tickets are available on a first come, first
served.
   
   Please fill out this form and remit with proper payment  (US Funds 
Only) to:
   
        AmiWest 2006
        c/o Chuck Washburn
        7051 Dolan Way
        Citrus Heights CA 95621
        USA
   
   Make checks payable to "AmiWest".  A form must be filled out for 
each person attending the show although one check can be used.

   For more information you can contact AmiWest by email to: 
   chela@calweb.com 
   Phone: (916) 723-9846 Evenings (Pacific Daylight time)

   Our WWW web page is: http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ 


!!!!!!!!!!!!  

So remember,

AmiWest 2006 is rolling!  The facility is reserved and the vendors
are notified!  Keep watching for these releases and tell everyone
that you know - the Amiga and the Amiga community is alive and
well!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOTEL CONTACT

AmiWest 2006 will be October 21, 2006 at the

Clarion Hotel Cal Expo
2600 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento California 95821

Reservations Phone 1-877-424-6423 toll-free (local 1-916-487-7600),
choicehotels.com (click the Clarion icon) and by snail-mail at the 
above address.

Please watch our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news 
and information regarding AmiWest 2006.  We are on target for another 
improved show!  See you there!
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           S A D L Y ,   A   D E A T H   T O   R E P O R T 

28 August, 2006

>From Amiga-news.de:

According to the MorphOS-Team yesterday Michal Rybinski was killed in 
a motorcycle accident. The MorphOS-Team offer its sincere condolences 
to his family and friends.

Michal 'RybciaDcaps' Rybinski was a MorphOS developer and a big help 
at developing the past versions of the operating system.
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    U P G R A D E   T O   A M I P O D D E R   A V A I L A B L E

19 August, 2006

A new version of AmiPodder, the Amiga's only podcast receiving utility 
is now available.

www.amipodder.com

Version 1.5 has several new features, many of them added in response 
to user requests. You can now organise your podcasts in to groups. The 
user interface has been enhanced with the ability to change the status 
of multiple podcasts and progress bars have been added to slow 
operations. Compatibility with podcast feeds has also been improved 
with support for redirected downloads and various types of character 
encoding in URLs. In addition, AmiPodder can now work behind an HTTP 
proxy and several bugs have been fixed.

AmiPodder 1.5 is written in AREXX using rxMUI and therefore works on 
OS 3.x, OS 4 and MorphOS. It's released as freeware. 

www.amipodder.com
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 F R E E   P A S C A L !   ( N O ,   N O T   F R O M   P R I S O N )

Description:    Free Pascal Compiler - AmigaOS4 port
Download:   fpc.lha  
Version:    2.1.1SVN
Date:           20 Aug 06
Author:     Free Pascal Development Team, Karoly Balogh
Submitter:  Karoly Balogh
Homepage:   http://www.freepascal.org
Requirements:   any PowerPC computer running AmigaOS4
Category:   development/language
License:    GPL
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     2028
    
                           W E L C O M E !
                           ===============

This is an alpha quality public binary release of the Free Pascal 
Compiler for AmigaOS 4 platform. It's based on the current SVN version 
2.1.1. To read more about the compiler, be sure to check out the /doc 
directory, and if possible, http://www.freepascal.org.

About AmigaOS 4 support, it's still in an early stage, but progressing 
well. This release is intended for people who want to try out this new 
toy, and write some simple stuff in it, but

                 NOT YET USEFUL FOR SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT.

It only has a limited number of AmigaOS 4 specific features. You can 
fully use this release though to generate interface headers and such 
stuff to support as many AmigaOS 4 features as you want.

With the contents of this package, you should be able build new FPC 
for AmigaOS 4 binaries by yourself from the FPC SVN. You will also 
need: AmigaOS 4 SDK, recent GNU Make (gmake) and recent abc-shell.


REQUIREMENTS:
====

A PowerPC CPU equipped computer, with Amiga OS 4 pre-release installed 
(only Update #4 was tested).


INSTALLATION:
====

Currently, only manual installation is possible. After uncompressing 
the archive, add the following lines into your S:user-startup file:

Assign FPC: <the_path_where_you_uncompressed_the_archive>
Path FPC:bin/powerpc-amiga ADD

Also, you should set PPC_CONFIG_PATH environment variable, to let
the compiler easiliy find its configuration file. This step is 
optional but recommended.

SetEnv SAVE PPC_CONFIG_PATH FPC:bin/powerpc-amiga/

Then you should reboot, to make the new settings work. It's also 
recommended to fine-tune your settings in 
FPC:bin/powerpc-amiga/fpc.cfg then, to fit your needs. You can run the 
compiler without arguments to have access to the help pages about the 
avaiable parameters.

THANKS:
=======

I'd like to send thanks to the followings for making this port 
possible:

- Colin_Camper, for the uA1 with 750GX, i used for the AmigaOS4 port
- Florian Klaempfl, and the rest of the FPC Development Team for 
  creating my favourite compiler
- Carl Eric Codere and Nils Sjoholm, authors of the original Amiga/68k 
  port Without their work i couldn't be able to come this far
- All people who helped me with the MorphOS port, which paved the way 
  for AmigaOS4 port, among others
- #amigadev people, for a lot of very useful hints and tips

- #amigahu guys on IRCNet, for not believing i'm able to do this, and 
  some Hungarian OS4 users/developers for the negative attitude which 
  motivated me :)


Nuff said.

Signed:
2006.08.20
Budapest, Hungary

Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh <charlie()scenergy.dfmk.hu>

(ps: And sorry for my bad english.)

http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/language/
fpc.lha

{From the Free Pascal website. Brad}

Advantages of Free Pascal
Advantages of programming in Pascal and Free Pascal
Maybe you think, why should I choose Pascal instead of, for example C. 
Or maybe you are comparing Free Pascal to another Pascal compiler. 
Well, in that case, be sure to read this page before making your 
decision. Well, for what is Free Pascal so good?

    * Very clean language Pascal is a very nice language, your 
      programs will be more readable and maintainable than for example 
      in C, and let's even forget about C++. And you don't need to 
      give up the power, the Pascal language is as powerful as you 
      want it.
    * No Makefiles Unlike most programming languages, Pascal does not 
      need Makefiles. You can save huge amounts of time, the compiler 
      just figures out itself which files need to be recompiled.
    * Pascal compilers are Fast with a big F and Free Pascal is no 
      exception. Yes, you no longer need to grow roots while compiling 
      your programs, just hit the compile key and it's done, even for 
      large programs.
    * Each unit has it's own identifiers In Pascal you never need to 
      worry about polluting the namespace, like in C where an 
      identifier needs to be unique accross the entire program. No, 
      in Pascal each unit gets it's own namespace and that's very 
      relaxed.
    * Integrated development environment Free Pascal comes with an IDE 
      which work on several platforms, in which you can write, compile 
      and debug your programs. You will save huge amounts of time 
      using the IDE, the best programming friend you have.
    * Great integration with assembler Do you think pascal is for 
      wimps who need to learn programming? WRONG! It's excellent for 
      high tech programming and for the supreme nerds among you we 
      have the integrated assemblers. You can easily mix assembler 
      code and Pascal code, in the language you wish? Prefer Intel 
      styled assembler? No problem, if it's needed Free Pascal will 
      convert it to ATT for you. Do you want to convert your program 
      into a source file for Nasm? No problem, and all ATT assembler 
      in your source files is automatically converted.
    * Object oriented programming And if you do the serious 
      programming, you are of course very interested in object 
      oriented programming. Use the Turbo Pascal and Object Pascal 
      ways of OOP according to your taste. The FCL and Free Vision and 
      provide you with the powerful object libraries you need. For 
      your database needs we support PostgreSQL, MySQL, Interbase and 
      ODBC.
    * Smartlinking Free Pascal's smart linker leaves out any variable 
      or code that you do not use. That makes small programs small 
      with a big S, while they are still statically linked, avoiding 
      DLL hell!
    * Distribution independence (Linux) As a result of this, software 
      compiled by the Linux version of Free Pascal runs on any Linux 
      distribution, making it much, much, easier to make your software 
      support multiple Linux distributions.
    * Available for a lot of platforms on several architectures Free 
      Pascal is available for more platforms than most other Pascal 
      compilers and allows easy cross-compiling, just change the 
      target in the IDE and compile! And there is work going on for 
      even more platforms and processors.
    * Compatible Have existing code? Free Pascal is more compatible 
      with it than any other Pascal compiler. We are almost completely 
      compatible with Turbo Pascal and quite well compatible with 
      Delphi source code. If you have code in another language, like C 
      or assembler, just use favorite compiler for it and call it from 
      Free Pascal. 
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   E P I S T U L A   M E S S A G I N G   S Y S T E M   U P D A T E  

15 August, 2006

 Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. For people 
not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can 
handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM 
and Yahoo Messenger.

I know JabberWocky can provide a similar service, but that requires 
extra setting up with Jabber ID's etc. This way, you can log straight 
onto your favourite protocol, by-passing any need for yet another IM 
account. One of the main reasons I started to write this client was 
because I couldn't be bothered with Jabber... I can't be the only 
one... can I?

Unlike GAIM, Epistula is written in a modular fashion in that each 
'protocol' is a plugin which can be installed, and updated, seperately 
from the main application and other plugins.

Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully 
in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, 
AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS, if and when I get access to the required 
hardware. However, those of you looking for individual 68k instant 
messengers available now wouldn't be going far wrong looking at 
JabberWocky, AmiMSN, AmiGG and AmigAIM.

Due to the resonably simple plugin interface, as part of the Epistula 
package developers can download a 'Plugin Development Kit' which will 
allow them to easily build and integrate a new plugin based on their 
favourite protocol. 

Epistula v50.18

Quite a big update this time; I have been working hard on this for a 
while and have managed to complete all of the features I outlined in 
the last release.

Read more for all the details...

So, in this release the following changes have been made, and features 
implemented:

- Documentation is provided in PDF form.

- All imagery within Epistula is now user configurable. I've used PNG 
  images as IFF won't display correctly on my machine. Note a word of 
  warning though; don't try and use a PNG image with more than 256 
  colours as it will crash. I need to adapt my code to work with high 
  colour images first.

- You can now add and remove contacts to and from your contact list, 
  although this will also depend on that functionality being 
  implemented fully in the plugin.

- Contacts can be moved (dragged and dropped) to and from any groups 
  you have with your contact list. Note that I've found a nasty bug in 
  the add group functionality, so it's disabled for now. A fix will be 
  released VERY soon.

- Full logging is provided should you need it. If I'm missing anything 
  which you'd like implemented and added to the logs, drop me a line 
  and I'll see it's added for the next update.

- Docky icon implemented, although it doesn't do anything yet and 
  looks err, dark. Best leave it off until I'm finished with it.

- Updated catalogs and missing translations from last version fixed. 
  If you spot anything which isn't translated let me know so I can fix 
  it. Note that you should remove any old epistula.catalogs.

- Nicely re-written plugin removal code which uses new features of 
  dos.library to stop those awful crashes and 'Cannot quit plugin'
  messages.

- Your installed MUI Classes are checked to make sure they're the 
  correct version or above

That's all I can think of right now, I'm sure there are lots of small 
fixed I've missed from that list so it'll be up to you lot to test 
everything for me.

TOC v50.0
TOC is a new plugin from myself which will allow you to connect to 
AOL's AIM service which amongst other things, allows you to add ICQ 
contacts to your buddy list.

I have tested this plugin with both official clients (AIM and ICQ) and 
I've had no problems so far.

The plugin is pretty much complete apart from two areas; your buddy 
list order will not be saved on exit, and file transfer isn't i
mplemented.

Documentation is provided with the plugin should you need it, but 
please keep in mind that this is a first release and as such, should 
be expected to contain some teething problems. Please let me know of 
these ASAP so I can address them.

Plugin Development Kit
The plugin development kit is almost complete and will be released on 
my website by Friday 18th August, and will include the catalog 
translation files for interested parties.

As usual, all of these updates can be (or will be eventually) found on 
my homepage which is The Snakepit Projects.

Thanks for your patience, and enjoy! Although I've got that feeling 
that I've forgotten something really important

Daniel Allsopp

http://www.the-snakepit.co.uk/projects/
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       A N D   W H I L E   W E ' R E   C H A T T I N G   . . . 

17 August, 2006

WookieChat Changes 2.3.1

What does this program do?

It allows you to connect to Internet Relay Chat networks (IRC!) and 
chat with other users in a text medium in real-time. Some of the 
server groups are preconfigured to join an Amiga chat channel upon 
sucessful connection.

WookieChat requires MUI + the custom classes: betterstring.mcc, 
nlist.mcc and nlisttree.mcc.

Get it from os4depot as I'm unable to upload files to my web space 
currently. It should be ready for download soon!

Register at my homepage for $15 usd! Or if you're too poor, dont worry 
about it because WookieChat is not crippled in any way!


- I've attempted to fix the instability when using DCC SEND under 
  OS3/MOS.. please report back to me if anyones still having problems
- RESUME support added for outgoing DCC SEND (Incoming RESUME has 
  worked for quite some time, but now it works both ways)
- There used to be startup text if wookie couldnt load a catalog for 
  your default language. I've since changed this so you only see this 
  text if you run wookie with the "debug" option from shell.

WookieChat is now in French, Swedish, German, Norwegian, and Polish!

Both OS3.x and OS4 binaries are in the same archive.

http://os4depot.net/
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            W I N U A E   M A R C H E S   F O R W A R D

6 AugUST, 2006

Ubiquitous (Universal?) Amiga Emulator for Amiga, New and improved 
features:

- AVIOutput codec settings stored in registry and other small tweaks.
- HRTMon updated to 2.30, WHDLoad-commands supported.
- Some custom chipset timing tweaks.

WinUAE 1.3 bugs fixed

- Uaescsi.device freeze problem fixed.
- Boot freeze if A4000 ROM was used without AGA.
- Original extended ADF read bug.
- Larger than 1280 wide fullscreen modes work.
- Sound "led" filter configuration data was read incorrectly.
- AVIOutput does not split the AVI anymore when focus was lost.
- D3D filter fullscreen/windowed switching should not freeze anymore.
- Integrated mousehack access fault fixed.

http://www.winuae.net/
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                 A N D   S O   D O E S   E U A E 

31 July, 2006

E-UAE

This is a version of UAE, the Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, with an 
emulation core largely based on WinUAE. It attempts to bring many of 
the great features of WinUAE to non-Windows platforms. This version 
now finally has a name, E-UAE, since that's what everybody was calling 
it anyway. The 'E' can stand for anything you fancy. Experimental, 
extreme, exciting, egalitarian, eggplant, . . .

Currently it will build and run (with a varying degree of supported 
features) on Linux and other Unices, Mac OS X, BeOS, AmigaOS itself 
(either for 68k machines or PPC machines with AmigaOS 4.0 and the 
AmigaOS clones MorphOS and AROS). OS X requires either LibSDL or an X 
server for graphics output, but native graphics are supported on 
AmigaOS and BeOS, although, at the moment, SDL is also preferred on 
BeOS since the native driver is incomplete.

E-UAE is open-source software and is made available under the terms of 
the GNU GPL. E-UAE is based on the work of dozens of contributors 
including Bernd Schmidt (the original author and maintainer of UAE), 
Bernie Meyer (the author of the x86 JIT compiler), Toni Wilen (the 
current maintainer of WinUAE), and many more.

To make full use of E-UAE you will need access to an image of some 
version of the Amiga Kickstart ROM (although UAE does include a ROM 
emulation which may work with some old games). The Amiga Kickstart 
ROMs are copyrighted material and may not be freely distributed (so 
don't ask me for a copy). If you don't have an Amiga from which you 
can legally make a ROM image, a selection of ROM images are available 
for purchase online from Cloanto - publishers of the Amiga Forever d
istribution.

http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
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 I G N I T I O N   S P R E A D S H E E T   ( * B E T A   O N L Y * ) 

20 August, 2006
    
ignition 1.0 beta 1 has been released!

ignition is a modern spreadsheet programme with a small but relational 
all-purpose database.

You can realize your address database and manage your apartment house 
or whatever you like. You can calculate with times and dates as if 
they were regular numbers. The whole system can be controlled via 
ARexx. 

Since the development of ignition proceeds much slower than originally 
anticipated, we decided to release an up-to-date and not restricted 
beta version.

Your support should push the further development forward. But we're 
also relying on your help to be able to complete the product. 
Particularly, we need help with the following things:

    * Revising and completing of the available documentation
    * Translation of that documentation to German and English - other 
      languages are welcome, too, of course
    * Translations of the program texts themselves
    * New and more icons that can be used in the tool bars
    * Reports of existing bugs in the whole package

At least the tree most contributing people will get a free version of 
ignition as a compensation for their help. A mailing list will be a
vailable, a bug tracker already is.

We're looking forward to your contributions! 

http://www.pinc-software.de/en_frames.html
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       O P E N   O F F I C E   T E A M   N E E D S   H E L P

29 August, 2006

The Development of the Amiga OS4 port of OpenOffice.org requires some 
assistance. We have currently completed some dependancies including 
libusb, aspell, neon and some work has been done on porting csh.

We need developers to produce a complete dependancy database plus
further the csh port.
All this needs doing prior to starting the actual OpenOffice.org code.

To join our discussions/offer help please join the list at:

https://lists.samfundet.no/mailman/listinfo/openoffice-os4
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             A I S S   S Y S T E M   V E R S I O N   3

11 August, 2006 

AISS is a system to store, access and maintain toolbar images under 
AmigaOS.

AISS 3 is available on the AISS section of Masonicons.de .

Features:
- more than 400 image sets (over 1200 single pictures).
- 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit alpha channel
- large documentation HTML format
- printable PDF preview of the images

The Powericons system is recommended for AISS3. If you still prefer 
Coloricons please use the special installation script in the 
'Glowicons' drawer of the archive (untested).

To do:

- developer documentation
- backup/restore system
- version string
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