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.

After months and months of hard, relentless and tenacious negotiations with Computer Corner and 1 day of porting, #amigazeux and iti are proud to present Diavolo Backup - your favourite Backup-utility from the 90s - in MorphOS native flavour.

Heinz M. of #amigazeux commented: "From backing up to tape streamers over other devices and even files everything is possible. I like the boss of the 2nd level most!"

This action packed backup program with GUI elements offers everything the spoiled amiga user needs when he feels bored and is in pressing need to create backups of his most precious data.

One of the best features of this exciting backup program experience with its long lasting appeal is that it doesn't come in any pre-release version. The version you will download is full and free.

Download is available here.

As per the invitations sent to all MorphZone members, and as mentioned in this THREAD, free developer level memberships and forum memberships have been opened at www.Power.org .

Power.org Forums:  The discussion forum at Power.org, use the registration link to join in the discussions.

Power.org Registration: The main membership area, also this registration is required to access developer documents and specifications of a certain well known hardware platform!

Genesi announces the development of a sub-laptop machine with the internal workname "4U2", based on the EFIKA 5K2 reference design and the Freescale MPC5200B.

In the month December 2005 we have a special offer for all Amiga & MorphOS Users.

The german print mag Amiga Future with CoverCD 1 year subscription WORLWIDE for only Euro 51.90.

http://www.amigafuture.de

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

Ported (at last) from the GP32, BOLCATAXiAN! is an old school vertical shooter with evolutive weapons, bonuses, big bosses, highscore saves and so on. Preview version limited to 5 levels only.
Requires a recent version of the PowerSDL library.
Freeware! Download and enjoy...
http://home.freeuk.net/bolcatoid/JBBproggies/Bolcataxian

Free QuikPak 060 card to one lucky winner.

Happy Holiday's Amiga 4000T owners. DiscreetFX is giving away a QuikPak 060 card to one lucky winner. The card and the shipping are 100% free; you will have to track down your own driver disk though. We will even include some EDO memory if we can find some before we ship the card. E-mail our sales department to be added to the contest list. Winner will be chosen @ random on Dec 25th 2005 and is required to own a 4000T. We hope you will enjoy the speed of an 060 and will not sell it. This offer is for true Amiga fans only not e-Bay profiteers. If you like we will even throw in a free issue of NewsTek #1, our new magazine/zine.

:)


Best regards

DiscreetFX Sales

www.discreetfx.com

Today we release the new APC&TCP Info/Demo/Update CD with all Demos and Patches from APC&TCP.

This CD include all issue from the german onlinemag NoCover, too.

http://www.apc-tcp.de

We don't want the big homepage of No Risc No Fun to get lost so we decided to integrate all articles in the Amiga Future article database. The articles have been sorted in the different categories.

Using the following link you can always read the German and English articles of No Risc No Fun: http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php

Some photos for instance of the World of Amiga 2000 have been built into to Amiga Future photo album: http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/album.php

Of course we didn't forget about the downloads. You can find them in the Amiga Future downloads database (BETA): http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/downloads.php

http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.risc-amiga.de
http://www.trotta.de

October and November have been two quite busy months for us. The following is a short summary of the most important changes- a detailed list can be found at our news section.

Martin Blom has released v6.0 of his audio driver software AHI.

There are version for AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3, MorphOS and AROS available.

News & recent changes [Read on]

Here are all the major changes since the last stable release, v4:

o Anti-click mixing routines, which makes AHI search for a zero-crossing before playing a new note
o Playback of 32 bit samples.
o Multi-channel audio. Eight channels are supported.
o Support for four more architectures: MorphOS/PPC, AmigaOS4/PPC, Amithlon/ix86, AROS/ix86.
o Support for PowerPC accelerator cards (MorphOS and AmigaOS4 only).
o A new driver, device.audio, can be used to make all low-level AHI applications, which normally open AHI in exclusive mode, behave as if they used the high-level API which allows several AHI applications to work simultaneously.
o The 68000 processor is no longer supported; a 68020 or better is required.

For a full log of everything that has been updated, see the ChangeLog file below.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/ahi/#docs

On http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=cat&cat=10 you can read the old issue 20, 21 and 22 from the german print-mag Amiga Future.

http://www.amigafuture.de

A first release of the Pegasos book in english is now available at http://wikipeg.free.fr/ThePegasosBook

I recall that the original version of the Pegasos Book ("Le livre du Pegasos"), is a free document of 148 pages in PDF format in french language.

Its goal is to gather a whole of information and articles on the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, MacOSX with MacOnLinux) in only one document which can be consulted off line or printed easily.

This first release in english does not include the MacOSX and a half of Linux part.

Note that you can now make donations to help translators and authors for updates on the ebook's page.

Translations in other languages are still in progress (german, spanish, italian, portugese, swedish and polish).

The OpenAladdin4D site has been quiet for a good while due to several things. Initially we ran into a minor glitch with our donation system, which was easily fixed, then...

Katrina hit. We really stopped thinking about Aladdin 4D and we worried about all those people and participated in giving what we could to the people there and the groups that were helping them. Then more storms hit. When we finally did think of Aladdin 4D again, we realized it wasn't a good time to ask for donations on an Open Source project.

Time has passed, we've all done our parts for our fellow people, but now it's time to relaunch.

Even better - we've got news!

APC&TCP is proud to announce the worldwide distribution of MED Soundstudio 2.

MED Soundstudio 2 is the official successor of the world famous OctaMED Soundstudio v1.03c and there may be a version available for MorphOS sometime in the future.
http://www.apc-tcp.de

Descent:Freespace2 for MorphOS....

Today the issue 57 (november/december 2005) of the Amiga Future has been released.

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

This issue contains reports for almost all sectors. So we have reviewed Apache for Amiga, MorphOS on PowerUP and Amiga Forever 2005 Premium Edition thoroughly.

Hoever we didn't forget about games like Wild Flyin (with interview), Battle for Wesnoth or Truson.

Of course there is a variety of specials like TroikaNG, Amiga 1200 in a car, a report about the Games Convention and a programming workshop.

But these are only a few of the articles.

The much anticipated issue 22 of Total Amiga Magazine has now gone to print, if you haven't subscribed yet, here's what you are missing out on in this, filled to bursting point, issue....

A new version of the Pegasos Rescue CD Project Mupper has been released. It has reached version 1.0 and the name Xtreme Makeover Edition. This one includes X.org, Mozilla Firefox and a few GUI applications like QTParted. GTK2+ Toolkits, QT and complete GCC was added. All previous filesystems like ASFS are still supported. To make things easier for you Kudzu Hardware Detection is also included.
Another major feature is WiFi support for your WiFi PCI card. Supported WiFi chips are Atmel, MadWifi and Prism.
Mupper is based on the Gentoo Linux 2.6.13 kernel.

If you like this project, please support Mikael Karlsson with a few Euros.

Mupper Official Website
Download (ISO 331 MB)

Paolo 'the Alien' Cattani and Alassoft released the full version of Virtual Grand Prix 2 for MorphOS FREE OF CHARGE!

You can find the preview and trial of the Amiga Future 57 (November/December 2005) online.

In this issue we have articles for all sectors. So we have reviewed Apache for the Amiga, MorphOS on PowerUP or the Amiga Forever Premium Edition.

But also games like Wild Flyin, Battle for Wesnoth or Truson we haven't forgotten.

Of course there is again a huge selection of specials about the TroikaNG, Amiga 1200 in a car, a report about the Games Convention and a deloping workshop.

But these are of course truly not all articles.

Patric Klöter wrote:

I was too busy the last weeks to keep my Amiga website uptodate. Because of
this I make the following announcement: The articles of the Commodore Amiga
Information Source will be transferred into the Amiga Future website.

Hexen2 for MorphOS...

APC & TCP are glad to announce that we will distribute the Land of Genesis - The Original Soundtrack CD. The audio CD includes 13 tracks of the Amiga game Land of Genesis and 4 bonus tracks. 

The CD has been created by the original song writer of the game, Andreas Stürmer.

The audio CD is available at the APC&TCP online shop worldwide now.

http://www.apc-tcp.de

An update for the MorphOS version of the filesharing program BitTorrent is available. The port was done by Sigbjørn 'CISC' Skjæret.

The list of all changes and bugfixes can be found in the ChangeLog.