The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 70 (January/February 2008) are online)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DiscreetFX Announcement:
Chicago, Illinois ? December 27th, 2007 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., launches Aladdin 4D Forums & Blogger website to support the existing Aladdin 4D community. Aladdin 4D has a very vibrant and talented installed user base and we want to give them a place to express their dreams and hopes for the rebirth of Aladdin 4D.

DiscreetFX is very happy to open a community website and news blog to support these loyal and creative customers. Expect the site to grow and mature over the coming weeks/months. Welcome to the DiscreetFX product family. The current Yahoo eGroup Aladdin 4D forums will stay open for legacy purposes. Please direct any questions or interests you have about Aladdin 4D to the forum website. DiscreetFX is looking for some volunteers to moderate the forums and create graphics for the forums. Simple Machine Forums experience is a plus. If you do a great job you never know what you might receive.

New Aladdin 4D Forum Website
http://aladdin4d.com/

New Aladdin 4D Blog
http://aladdin4d.blogspot.com/

My new Reggae classes are available to download from Reggae Homepage.

sunraster.decoder and sunraster.demuxer decode SunRaster image format from Solaris/Sunos operating system (1, 8, 24, 32 bit with or without RLE compression)

pcx.decoder and pcx.demuxer decode ZSoft PCX format (1, 4, 8, 24, 32 bit)

iffilbm.demuxer has been updated also

The Amiga Future Issue 70 release at the 15. January 2008. The Preview go online the next days...

We ask all users wanting to subscribe or extend a subscription to do this as soon as possible.
The next issue of the Amiga Future is going to be released on 5th September. We have to set the amount of issues to print very early because of holidays at the print office.
Besides of that the last days right before the printing appointment are always very stressful for the editorial office.
You would really help us if you could order a subscription of the Amiga Future as soon as possible.

The Amiga Future needs subscriptions to survive in a long term. Of course we offer single issues aswell but you can really support the Amiga Future by subscribing.

My new Reggae Classes are available to download from Reggae Homepage

jpeg.decoder and jpeg.demuxer decode popular JPEG pictures (24 Bit, 8 Bit grey, CMYK).

Right now all new Nova Design, Inc. MorphOS/Amiga products, when bought from Nova's online store, are half off for the Holidays!

This includes ImageFX and Aladdin 4D - our entire line of Amiga special effects and 3D rendering software! ImageFX is the award-winning special effects and image editing package that has been the standard-bearer on the Amiga for over a decade. Aladdin 4D is the easy-to-use and powerful in operation 3D modeling, rendering, and animation package.

Not only that, but we're completely ignoring the rising costs of shipping and keeping our shipping rates exactly the same as they've been for years!

Upgrades are not included. No hot mugs of cider either.

Buy early and often!

http://www.novadesign.com

Recent videos showing MorphOS 2.0 on Efika in action. Also check the videos about Cube.


http://amigagatchat.free.fr/alchimie7/videos/

My new Reggae classes (iffdeep and iffilbm) are available to download from:
http://krashan.ppa.pl/reggae/#downloads

Gallerius 2.1 is now available for download.
This release fixes a few small bugs, and contain new color management feautures.
You can download program from here.

Amigahellas, the Greek Amiga community, was present at the greatest Greek technological exhibition D.T.E. 2007 (Digital Technology Expo), in charge of the "computer history" stand. With the valuable help from the organizing company, we managed to give the opportunity to both young and older visitors to meet and use computers from the past.

A report of the Alchimie 7 show is now available, in French, on the Obligement's website :
http://obligement.free.fr/articles/alchimie7.php

Alchimie 7 was an alternative computing show held in Tain L'Hermitage (France) organized by the Triple A association. Highlights was the presentation of the MorphOS 2.0 status (lots of things to see), AmigaOS 4 Classic version (with photo of the box and the floppy disk), Amikit, Haiku, OpenSound, Deneb, Blender, Samantha & ACube, robots, etc.

The Amiga Future 69 (November/December 2007) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer orders have been shipped.

Using the URL http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=1864 you can find a more detailed description of contents and some excerpts.

Besides many articles covering the Amiga you can find reviews like Sputnik, AmiUpdate and lots of more in this issue.

We're looking to expand the show, so if you have a MorphOS related story or comment, please send it to us at amigaroundtable@gmail.com. And now, on with the show!

The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months :

- Amiga and MorphOS news of september/october 2007.
- Interview with Wolfgang Hosemann et Niels Schapke (Insane Software).
- Review of IBrowse 2.4.
- Review of Lords Of The Realm.
- Review of Turbo Jam.
- Review of Arkanoid.
- Review of Battle Chess.
- Review of Obliterator.
- Review of Marble Madness.
- Review of Mouse Trap.
- Hardware : d'Amiga Developer Workstation.
- File : History Of The Amiga - year 2001.
- File : the emoticons (update).
- File : Anti Gravity's try to buy the Amiga in 1999/2000.
- Tutorial : retrieve a not available web page.
- Tutorial : speed up a hard drive.
- Tutorial : code a Lego Game in E language.
- Tutorial : installation and utilisation of SFS on AmigaOS 4.
- Tutorial : FxPaint - draw a starry sky.
- Quizz of september/october 2007.
- Special quizz about adventure games.


Rendez-vous on http://obligement.free.fr for this nice reading.

The Amigahellas will attend at DTE 2007 ( http://www.dte.gr/default.asp?pid=1&la=2 ), the largest exhibition of digital technology in Greece. From the 8th until 11th of November the visitors of the exhibition will have an opportunity to see and use old and new hardware ranging from the C64, A1000, Amstrad 6128 through to the Pegasos, MicroAmigaOne and the Efika.

The Amigahellas is the biggest Greek Amiga community, with many active users. Visit us at http://www.amigahellas.gr and download our free Amiga magazine from http://mag.amigahellas.gr

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.