Chicago, Illinois -- October 18th, 2007 -- Today DiscreetFX LLC, VisualFX software developer works to stimulate development on the Amiga Video Toaster 4000. We want to give every Amiga owner in the world a chance to taste the fun and excitement of the Amiga Video Toaster.

Back in 2004 everyone was shocked when DiscreetFX, with the help of NewTek, Bill Evans and Aaron "Aarexx" Ruscetta gave away the source code to the Amiga Video Toaster Flyer. DiscreetFX opened openvideotoaster.org and released the source code to the world. This Asm & C code is a blueprint to how video editing software works on the Amiga operating system. Now it is time to stimulate the Amiga Toaster community again with a compelling contest and content development offers. When the Video Toaster was released on the Amiga it was NTSC only and the rest of the world, Europeans especially did not get to experience the power and fun of the Amiga Video Toaster. Well, the world has moved on and the NTSC/PAL format incompatibilities don't matter as much today. Most TV's sold in Europe do PAL or NTSC and many computer display cards from NVidia & ATI will display/capture either format without problems.

DiscreetFX enjoyed the awesome Amiga demos that came out of the demo scene in the 1990's and even last year an impressive Amiga demo won at Assembly ?06 (Starstruck). This is a true testament to the Amiga and the Amiga demoscene. But DiscreetFX wants more, we want to see a demo coded to run on the Amiga Video Toaster 4000. You have the source code.

All Issues from the german online.mag "Amiga Times" are now on the Amiga Future page for free download online.

The Amiga Future Gallery has seen some comprehensive updates the last days.

http://www.amigafuture.de/album.php

Some images have been uploaded in the "fairs / shows" area. But many images have been put in other areas online aswell.

You can view the preview and some excerpts of the Amiga Future 69 (November/December 2007) at http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=1864 .

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

Besides many articles covering the Amiga there are reviews of Sputnik, AmiUpdate and much more in this issue. A more detailed description of contents can be found at http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=1864 .

The cover CD of the Amiga Future features many full versions besides lots of PD software.

The Amiga Future is available as a single issue or subscription. You are free to choose whether you want it with or without a cover CD.

The Amiga Future is available directly from the editorial office at http://www.amigafuture.de and some Amiga dealers like Alinea, Vesalia, AmigaKit, GGS Data, ASB, Samuli...

If dealers are interested in offering the Amiga Future for their customers then simply write us an email.

Also we ask all users especially the ones getting the English edition to extend their subscriptions as soon as possible or letting us know if they aren't interested anymore. This would ease the planning of the next issue of the Amiga Future heavily.

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

Shame on us for not announcing here before..apologies

For downloading, please make liberal use of our mirror and iTunes.

<Available on Aminet eventually too, as always>

Ok.. Show Notes you ask? Here we go.....

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

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.

Due to the fact that some issues of the Amiga Future have been sold out in the meantime we have put new full versions for free download on the Amiga Future homepage.

You can download them at: http://download.amigafuture.de

The Big Red Adventure, Wendetta and some other.

We look for someone who wants to take care of the downloads section of the Amiga Future. In fact it is about writing system requirements and small descriptions for each software package in German and English.

The issue 67 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Right now we work hard on issue 68.

No. 67 is the first Amiga Future issue being published in both German and English.

You can order the first English Issue of Amiga Future from our online shop.

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

What?
Alternative Party is a demoparty that concentrates on alternative platforms (obviously including, but definitely not restricted to MorphOS & Amiga)
When?
November 2-4 2007
Where?
at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
How much?
Ticket prices start from 25€

For more information, check http://www.altparty.org