http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:10:30 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25488/AmiKit_1_6_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25488/AmiKit_1_6_0_Released/ AmiKit 1.6.0 is available for free download. It's a compilation of more than 300 Amiga programs that turns your Windows, Mac or Linux computer into an Amiga environment. This new version includes full and registered version of Directory Opus Magellan II, as well as a new emulation engine, full video replaying support, etc. For AmiKit to work, you do need Amiga ROMs and the AmigaOS, which can be obtained via AmigaForever, for instance. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:41:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News AmiKit http://www.osnews.com/story/25267/Interview_Pavel_Fedin_AROS_Developer/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25267/Interview_Pavel_Fedin_AROS_Developer/ Obligement has an interview with Pavel Fedin (the original French version is also available), a key AROS developer. "Current pace of AROS' development can be perceived on www.ohloh.net/p/aros. Though as can be seen here, the Russian developer Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin is alone responsible for more than 3400 commits in eleven years, while the other four most important AROS contributors are inactive or almost since five years (apart of Georg Steger who was still active one year ago)... One can then see how much Pavel is important in current AROS evolution." Note that the English version is a translation by a non-native speaker. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:46:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25251/AmigaOne_X1000_To_Ship_by_Year_s_End_Amiga_Netbook_Announced/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25251/AmigaOne_X1000_To_Ship_by_Year_s_End_Amiga_Netbook_Announced/ Big news from the Amiga world this weekend. That stubborn bunch are holding AmiWest 2011 this weekend, and it's been one heck of an eventful little, uh, event. Not only will the AmigaOne X1000 start shipping by year's end, Hyperion also announced something many in the Amiga world have been waiting for for a long time: an Amiga laptop. Update: Steven Solie, AmigaOS' team lead, also held a presentation about the past, present, and future of AmigaOS. The team is working on some pretty interesting stuff - protected address space, multicore support, USB3, new printing subsystem, and much more. Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:58:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 62 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25242/Icaros_Desktop_1_3_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25242/Icaros_Desktop_1_3_2_Released/ Version 1.3.2 of the Icaros Desktop is now available. Icaros Desktop is one of the prime AROS distributions, ready to be used on your desktop today - no fancy PowerPC hardware required (like with AmigaOS or MorphOS). If I can get this running, it might be about time we took a closer look at this, don't you think? Thoughts? Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:59:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News Ola Jensen http://www.osnews.com/story/25114/AmigaOS_4_1_Update_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25114/AmigaOS_4_1_Update_3_Released/ AmigaOS 4.1 has seen another update; we've hit update 3 already. This one's got all sorts of fixes and updates, including updated PATA and SATA drivers, updated Intuition and GUI components, updated USB stack with USB 2.0 (EHCI) support, updated and improved Warp3D support, faster 2D graphics support, various kernel fixes for increased stability, and lots more. Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:27:54 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25041/AmigaOne_X1000_To_Ship_to_Beta_Testers_Next_Week/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25041/AmigaOne_X1000_To_Ship_to_Beta_Testers_Next_Week/ How about we end this weekend on a happy note? Something we can all agree on is a good thing, so that we can all be happy and frolic and hand out hugs and kisses? I've got a video for you guys and girls. A production video of how a certain motherboard is being assembled. However, this is no ordinary board. This is the rev. 2.1 versions of the A-eon AmigaOne X1000 - which will be shipped out to beta testers next week. Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:30:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24932/AROS_A_Year_in_Review/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24932/AROS_A_Year_in_Review/ The AROS project has published a year-in-review item... In July. But alas. "Once again, the news has been long delayed, mainly because we've been too busy adding features and fixes to AROS. In fact, so much has happened in the last year that what follows is only a selection of highlights." Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:19:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News Richie http://www.osnews.com/story/24817/Icaros_Desktop_Reaches_Version_1_3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24817/Icaros_Desktop_Reaches_Version_1_3/ A new "point release" of Icaros Desktop, distribution of the AROS Research Operating system (an effort to re-create the original AmigaOS in a open source fashion, that may be ported on any platform), has been released today. The new version includes new software and games, but also enhances and extends some of the goods already included in the former releases. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:13:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Amiga & AROS 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News paolone http://www.osnews.com/story/24715/AmigaOS_4_1_for_Classic_Amigas_Imminent/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24715/AmigaOS_4_1_for_Classic_Amigas_Imminent/ "Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is pleased to announce that all materials comprising the AmigaOS 4.1 distribution for Amiga 1200/3000/4000 equipped with the appropriate PowerPC based accelerator card (Cyberstorm PPC or BlizzardPPC) have now been completed. AmigaOS 4.1 brings Amiga1200/3000/4000 the wealth of new functionality which was made available to other supported platforms in August of 2008 - up to and including - Update 2 released on April 30th, 2010." Mon, 09 May 2011 21:20:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News Darren Eveland http://www.osnews.com/story/24368/Icaros_Desktop_1_2_6_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24368/Icaros_Desktop_1_2_6_Released/ Icaros Desktop, the distribution for i386 PC of the AROS Research Operating System (an open source revival of classic AmigaOS) reached version 1.2.6 and introduces new improvements and features. Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:24:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Amiga & AROS 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News paolone http://www.osnews.com/story/24151/A-EON_Reveals_AmigaOne_X1000_Processor_Through_Cake/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24151/A-EON_Reveals_AmigaOne_X1000_Processor_Through_Cake/ A few moments ago, a woman appeared at my doorstep with a package for me. Since it was about 19:30, I was a little perplexed - this isn't a very usual time to be delivering packages. Also, this was a woman who I've seen walking around town before - she's a local. She handed over the package, and when I saw the note on top, I was even more intrigued: "From Trevor Dickinson, A-EON Technology". Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:56:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 40 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/23983/Amiga_Inc_Selling_Amiga_Trademark/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23983/Amiga_Inc_Selling_Amiga_Trademark/ Always wanted to own the IP and trademarks of one of the most innovative computer brands in history? A brand carried by a computer which was easily ten years ahead of its time, capable of multitasking (in colour) with multiple resolutions displayed at the same time, while Windows were still windows and the Mac couldn't hold more than 8 pages in its word processor on its single-tasking monochrome operating system? Yes, Bill McEwen's Amiga, Inc. is selling the Amiga trademark and all associated IP. It's not like the guy was doing anything with it anyway. Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:00:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23651/25_Years_of_AmigaOS_Development/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23651/25_Years_of_AmigaOS_Development/ Hyperion Entertainment have posted a visualisation of the AmigaOS source code repositry. You can see it grow from AmigaOS 1.0 back in 1985 right through to today. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:01:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Amiga & AROS 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News Peter Gordon http://www.osnews.com/story/23466/Amiga_X1000_Spotted_in_the_Wild_Other_News/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23466/Amiga_X1000_Spotted_in_the_Wild_Other_News/ The fabled Amiga X1000 has been spotted in the wild, in the homeliest of places--Station X, a.k.a Bletchley Park. "The AmigaOne X1000 is a custom dual core PowerPC board with plenty of modern ports and I/O interfaces. It runs AmigaOS 4, and is supported by Hyperion, a partner in the project. The most interesting bit, though, is the use of an 500Mhz XCore co-processor, which the X1000's hardware designer describes as a descendant of the transputer - once the great hope of British silicon." With thanks to Jason McGint, 'Richard' and Pascal Papara for submissions. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:46:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Amiga & AROS 89 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23431/Firefox_on_Amiga_Timberwolf_Goes_Alpha/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23431/Firefox_on_Amiga_Timberwolf_Goes_Alpha/ After much, much development, the developers behind AmigaOS 4 have released the first alpha of Timberwolf, the AmigaOS 4 port of the Firefox web browser. I tried it out on my Amiga, and indeed confirmed that this is very much alpha material. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:12:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News