Chicago, Illinois ? August 27th, 2008

For Immediate Release

Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX


The Amiga computer represents a lot of firsts in the computer industry but it also represents many missed opportunities. Since the death of Commodore in 1994 the Amiga has descended into dark times. They say you learn most from your failures and not your successes and this is most certainly the case when it comes to Amiga. And yet some good things have happened as well.

Here is an announcement of RELEC and Pegasos-Suisse.com :

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RELEC at the Colmar Multimedia EXPO 2008 !

Your distributor of AmigaOS/MorphOS Software & Hardware "RELEC + Pegasos-Suisse.com" is happy to announce to you its participation at the 2nd edition of the largest IT meeting in the North-East of France : Colmar Multimedia l'Expo 2008, the next 24-25-26 October.

Since Porter/Duff style image compositing will be part of AmigaOS 4.1, I've decided to try and start a series of articles on the topic. Part one is now up, and can be found here. I want to extend this series in the future, and also go into the programming itself, including sample code.

#amiga guide magazine, #AG for short, is ready with issue 4. Both paper based and PDF based formats are ready.

Paper based magazine is for subscribers only, but PDF version is downloadable free of charge after a registration at AmigaWeb.net. This registration is also free of charge.

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Source: AmigaWeb.net

The BBC Micro, was microcomputer well known in the 1980s in the United Kingdom and associated with the British education. Designed with colorful graphics, great expandability and quality OS, the BeebEm still have strong fanbase. Now thanks to BeebEm you can enjoy its enormous software base right on your AmigaOne. BeebEm is a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator.

Over the last few months, I found that the tabs in wookie were messing up on ocassion, and I could never reproduce the errors on demand... until this month! It turned out opening a private tab manually was the cause. It would cause weirdness that eventually led to a crash. It's now fixed!

Unsatisfactory announces a preview/beta release of a AmigaOS 4 native port of NetSurf.

NetSurf is a fast CSS-capable web browser for RISC OS and other systems. This port is incomplete but already supports:

ELBOX COMPUTER is pleased to announce a new addition to its leading FastATA controller line for Classic Amiga computers with the FastATA 4000 MK-V controller.

Like its predecessors, FastATA 4000 MK-V provides high performance support (up to PIO 5) for up to four ATA/EIDE storage devices. The FastATA 4000 MK-V controller is the half-length Zorro III card which can be used in any Amiga with Zorro III slots.

Amiga Arena talks with Hans-J?rg Frieden about AmigaOS4.1.

Googlian version: here

HivelyTracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid '90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss.
The format was relatively popular, and many songs were created and used in scene productions and games.
AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga.