All AmiWest 2008 hotel bookings made with the former Clarion Hotel Cal Expo before Sept. 8, 2008 have been canceled. The new owners of the hotel have lost them. Please rebook with the new hotel owners as soon as possible. The new hotel web site is http://www.capitolcityhotel.com and the hotel is called the Capitol City Hotel Cal Expo now.

Hosts: Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Bill Panagouleas, Eddie Cejvan.

Show notes to be added?

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With the author's (Massimo Tantignone) permission, I have uploaded another Compositing demo program to os4depot.net - this time, the Dice demo that was featured in one of the screenshots I did for the AmigaOS 4.1 press release.

As before, it requires AmigaOS 4.1 Enjoy!

We're pleased to announce that after half a year of hard work, the long-awaited, new, full AmiKit has finally been released.

Main features include:
- a fresh new look
- support of new 24bit themes (11 included!)
- support of Amiga Forever 2008
- choice of two automatic installers for Linux platforms
- and much more...

For everybody interested, I have uploaded two small demo programs to os4depot.net that show off some of the possibilities of the compositing engine of AmigaOS 4.1. Don't expect any miracles, though, they're very simple and just there to show that compositing goes beyond rounded corners

AmigaOS 4.1 required!

Developers! .....yes, ....you!

Have you have ever thought how you would really like to make your mark on AmigaOS?, maybe even have your work published as part of it?

If so, openamiga.org may be able to help.

Designed from scratch, openamiga.org offers a developer community portal, discussion forums, project management and source code repository all in one central place.
Projects included at openamiga.org are targetted purely at AmigaOS 4.x, and are submitted with the intention of becoming part of the operating system once mature enough.

If you are a developer interested in contributing to the future of AmigaOS, why not drop in and see if you can help out at OpenAmiga.org

AISS 4.3 is available on the AISS section of the Masonicons website.

Features:
- more than 2,000 toolbar images and animations
- 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit alpha channel
- updated PDF documentation
- AmiUpdate support
- real transparence for ghosted images

Warning! The installation process may take some time and no progress requester will be displayed.

Minimig update: Updated cores by Jakub Bednarski now available for download. These cores behave differently from my latest cores so read the readme first. Jakub's version fixes many bugs and finally adds floppy write support!

Today issue 74 (September/October 2008) has been published.

This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been sent to the postal office.

In this issue you'll find reviews of WinUAE, AmiBlitz, MorphOS 2.0, AMuse, Cave Story and lots of more.

Chicago, IL -- September 1st, 2008

DiscreetFX Founder Interviewed on the DV Show