Earlier than planned the new Amiga Future Issue 58 (January/February 2006) has been released.

Again you can find reports regarding all sections.

We have reviewed Desert Racing for the Classic Amiga, BlobWars for AmigaOS 4 and Virtual GP for MorphOS.

Hello,

there are some news from "Tales of Tamar":

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Betatesters wanted for Tales of Tamar Version V0.54

Screenshots of the current version:
http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6717

The first step towards the new 3D map has been made! Tales of Tamar
can now run at a higher resolution and give the project a whole new
look, thanks to a new GUI and handling.

With the near-release of this exciting software package that we have been hinting at for months, AmigaZeux and Stevo hosted an IRC Q&A session. You are previledged enough to read the transcript of this exciting session, presented in such a way that no hard questions were asked. Download is available here!!!

New version of ShowGirls is available. ShowGirls is a powerfull image viewer/browser and processing application. Version 0.8 fixes some bugs and adds new features which probably introduces new problems. Various functions were improved and enchanced. Read more for feature list and list of changes in this version.

The Pegasos book, is a FREE downloadable document in PDF format (127 pages in english, 148 in french).

It is a compilation of articles and tutorials about the Pegasos PowerPC computers.
It is designed to gather information which can be consulted off-line or printed easily.
It contains hardware information, also as running operating systems information
(MorphOS, Linux, and MacOSX via MacOnLinux...).

Genesi has licensed ODM Technologies Inc. to produce the EFIKA design with the Pegasos HAL/OF. The license agreement includes a provision for a minimum production quantity of 50,000 units. The EFIKA board is to be the foundation for number of ODM products. The centerpiece to the EFIKA is the Freescale MPC5200 SoC (system on a chip).

For more, see the Official Press Release!

Already today the preview of the Amiga Future issue 58 (January/February 2006) has gone online.

In this isue there are all articles for all sectors included again.

We have tested Desert Racing for the classic Amiga, Blobwars for AmigaOS 4 and Virtual GP for MorphOS.

David Holm (dholm) has released the source code needed for writing your own bootable kernel on the Pegasos. This includes the mysterious CrabOS and a bootloader. Everything is released under a BSD-style license. You are free to modify it in any way you want.

David also gives you links to various information sources. Everything is in a new topic over at PPCZone Forum.

Around this time of year, every year, there is a a special GoldED x-mas promotion. It's usually about selling the latest and greatest version at a ridiculously low price to gifted developers. But this year, it will be a bit different:

Sponsor a development package for a developer!

That's right: purchase a state-of-the-art Cubic IDE development package not for yourself but for somebody else. At a ridiculously low price, of course. Make another Amiga/MorphOS developer happy and give him a brand new development package as recognition for good work done. If you are not familiar with creating software and can't program for toffee, sending a development kit to a gifted programmer might be the next best thing to writing software.