AMIWEST INFORMATION RELEASE # 5

This is the fifth information release for AmiWest 2007, the Amiga show in the Western United States. We're in the capital of California, the world's fifth largest "nation," and presenting the 10th version of AmiWest October 20-21, 2007. Please go to http://sacc.org/amiwest for the latest information.

Bootloader Grub2 for Pegasos and Efika has been released.


The author says:
Grub2 is a nice boot loader working on many platforms (x86, sparc, ppc) and now you can try it on your Pegasos/Efika. If you want know more about this program visit
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html

I tested it on Pegasos 1, Pegasos 2 and Efika and it works just fine on all of them (Yes on P1 too, but some adjustments in OF are required in case of this machine)

Download it from http://www.tbs-software.com/morgoth

There is still some problems, but it should be functional enough for normal use. I am not grub developer then I am not sure how correct my changes are, but I send patches to grub mailing list already.

Big ThX for 'nyu' from #grub for some background informations and help.

And finaly please in case of any problems do not ask grub developers for help as they are not resp for my changes just poke me here or on irc (FreeNode, #castor-cvs)

For Immediate Release September 28th, 2007

Al Lowe is our special guest. David Hasselhoff Big Band will make a comeback with Al Lowe playing the saxophone, Lackluster will play atmospheric live beats, Takomo's sounds fill the hall with dance beats and Kokeellisen elektroniikan seura has an experimental sound and electronics workshop.

OpenTTD is an open source reimplementation of the famous PC strategy game Transport Tycoon Deluxe from the early 90s.

The lastest release of the 0.5 branch mainly fixes bugs. Please read more about it on http://www.openttd.org/.

Alternatively to sourceforge archives can be downloaded via BitTorrent from http://torrent.openttd.org/.

The last weeks we have put much time and money into the Amiga Future homepage.
The time has come. Yesterday evening the new page went online.

"muigfx.library" has been removed from MUI beta distributions, thus preventing the Voyager web brower to run. Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin recently reimplemented the library in order to fix this problem.

Download muigfx.lha v1.0 (2,3 kB).

The German and English issue 68 (September/October 2007) of the Amiga Future has been released.

This means that all subscriptions and preorders have been brought to the postal office. Subscriptions to outside Germany have been shipped via airmail.

The article database of the Amiga Future homepage has seen a comprehensive update.

By now you can read over 2000 articles online in the article database.

Roughly 150 of these are in English language.

http://artikel.amigafuture.de

The German FAQ has been included in the article database aswell. The FAQ contains more than 200 submissions.

http://faq.amigafuture.de

We are looking for German and English articles to extend the article database even more. There were so many websites offering reviews and workshops. Lots of them have disappeared. We would like to republish them.
Have you made a page which isn't online anymore or have you written articles yourself? Then please contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future.

In the meanwhile the preview of the Amiga Future issue 68 went online.

http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=article&k=1306

This issue is going to be released on 5th September as a German and English edition. We ask all users interested to order as soon as possible.

Dealers wanting to offer this mag to their customers should contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future as soon as possible.

http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de

You can view the preview and some excerpts of the Amiga Future 68 (September/October 2007) at http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=article&k=1306 .

Starting with issue 67 the Amiga Future is available in German and English.