Today the 50th issue of the Amiga Future (#60 May/June 2006) has been released.

This means that all subscriptions and preorders have been brought to the postal office today.

If you wonder why it's the 50th issue but the issue has the number 60: The first issue of the Amiga Future has been distributed by the ICP Verlag. Because of some terms of distribution this issue had to carry the number 11.

The magazine can be obtained directly at the editorial office in the APC&TCP online shop and also some Amiga dealers.

AmiGG is an instant messenger application which can handle Gadu-Gadu protocol (Gadu-Gadu protocol is widely spreaded in Poland). Right now AmiGG may not be useful for many of you but pretty soon plugin system will be implemented and another protocols will be supported (Jabber, Tlen (also known in Poland) and more).

To celebrate this we have decided to push down the prices of many APC&TCP products in the online shop permanently.

APC&TCP is more active than ever. CygnusEd 5 is right before its release and also the release of MED Soundstudio 2 is coming closer and closer.

I am happy to announce the release version of the updated Remote Desktop client for MorphOS! This version adds a number of significant improvments to the client. A few highlights:

-Based on the latest code base, version 1.4.1 adding a number of improvements
-Connection Bar now available in Full Screen mode for easy screen swapping
-Persistant Cache option - will cache upto 20 MB of data for increased performance, especially over slow links or the Internet
-Slow mouse/no mouse option - will significantly reduce mouse data (to improve performance)
-Bug fixes and other enhancements (see changelog on HD-Zone)

This updated version is available immediately to those users who have donated to support the project. (In fact, they already have it!)

Please help support the development and make a donation. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you for supporting the project!

Please visit HD-Zone to donate.

Thank you!

AmiRevival aims to be the premier Amiga Show in the UK, and with that in mind we have booked a large, technology orientated venue right in the centre of Scunthorpe. We hope to be able to draw some high calibre exhibitors and maybe even one or 2 VIP's. Please check out our Exhibitors section to see who have already agreed to exhibit, and please check back regulally as we are willing to do all in our power to make this show the best we possibly can. As well as this there will be a Raffle, and several games competitions going on.

Since today you can find the preview and try-outs of the Amiga Future #60 online.

The issue is going to be available on 5th May 2006 and will be available directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers.

Besides a brand new review of CygnusEd 5, the Amiga Emulation Box and Retro Classix you can find of course many other articles in this issue.

On the cover CD you can find besides the full versions of StormC, Wendetta, Larry and the Robbery of the Ardies, Antispyrel and TinToy Adventure the unreleased game Dragons Kingdom aswell as the newest version of AmiKit.
As a very special bonus we have included some music tracks by Andreas Stürmer in the MP3 format on the cover CD.

A deeper description of contents and try-outs can be found here: http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=article&k=568

Please notice that we celebrate a small anniversary. The first person who sends us an email (redaktion@amigafuture.de Subject: "Jubiläum") telling what is meant by that will receive a trial subscription of the Amiga Future for free beginning with the issue 59. And no, we don't celebrate the "#60". :)
(the judges' decision is final, editors of the Amiga Future aren't allowed to take part and so on...)

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

The official Support-Forum for CygnusEd 5 are now online.

http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=25

New MorphOS version of well known C64 emulator is released. It is soon available at Aminet and via my MorphUp repository.

APC&TCP is proud to announce that it has taken the distribution of the well known text editor CygnusEd.

CygnusEd will be able to run on the classic Amiga and AmigaOS 4. A version supporting MorphOS is planned.

In only a few weeks the program will be available.

The support homepage for CygnusED will be online in a few days aswell.

http://www.apc-tcp.de

New Remote Desktop client beta versions are now available to users who have donated. These are beta versions but do include some nice features...you can get them from: http://www.hd-zone.com

If you would like to donate, visit http://www.hd-zone.com and click on the Donate button, and you will be e-mailed the latest version for your OS.

The MorphOS version includes:

another CTRL-C crash fixed
AHI bug which could cause a crash (fixed)
Speed and compiler Optimizations

The connection bar may be added to MorphOS if possible/feasible.

If you do not wish to donate, you can continue to use the existing versions available on http://www.hd-zone.com

PointRider is the first PowerPoint viewer for MorphOS and OS4. I released it yesterday and even if we were the first day of april, this is not a joke : the first beta version is available at http://amigadev.free.fr/pointrider/

You could watch almost all your PPS files even if there are many things to improve. I hope you'll enjoy it !

It is now less than a month until PUSH 2006.1 starts. This time we will probably be more people than ever. The price is the same (200 SEK) but we arrange the party over four days (Friday evening to Monday afternoon). Since Monday is May 1st most people are off-work we rented the house for this day aswell.

The party will take place at Wartagården where previous parties have been. It's a good house with everything we need. This time we welcome everyone running anything besides Microsoft Windows(tm). This is no longer a Pegasos/PowerPC-only event.

Pavel Fedin vel Sonic, the author of TCP/IP stack for MorphOS has been interviewed by PPA (Polish Amiga News Portal).

Read it here.

Some MorphOS services will be periodically offline during the next few days due to restructuring of a few machines as well as relocation...

As has become a small tradition, I make older versions of my software available for free every once in a while. This time, it's a version from 2002: GoldED Studio AIX SP2. It can be downloaded here:

DOWNLOAD.

We, the Amiga demogroup IRIS have just released the newest issue of the well-known chartmag 'the Eurochart'. This time we have released it for 6 platforms, and we have some massive content in it.

However, you might be especially interested in the fact that IRIS has now made it possible for any MOS/AOS4 owner to make his own diskmagazine! The diskmag engine can be used freely by anyone wishing to do so, as long as you give out the proper credits.

If you are interested in setting up a MOS/AOS4 electronic magazine, get in touch with Chris Dragan at: chris@dragan.name.

For downloading the Eurochart, go to www.eurochart.dk

A forum is now opened for the Pegasos book. Its aim is to centralize remarks about it (technical, translation errors, suggestion of articles or updates... etc ...).

That should let more people to participate.
Don't hesitate to use it !

It's here : http://wikipeg.free.fr/forum

There is nothing to worry, 0.4.5 was not crawling with bugs, well at least not with very obvious ones, but we didn't feel like you should wait another long time to get the latest changes. For 0.4.6 we have backported changes from the main tree. In normal terms this means no new features, only a more stable gameplay. It is encouraged to upgrade from 0.4.5, as some issues might also affect you. 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openttd/

OpenTTD is an open source clone of the famous strategy game Transport Tycoon Deluxe for MS-DOS and Windows platforms. Compared to the original this new version is powered up with a lot additional features, f.ex. network play (LAN, Internet) to just name one.