http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 06:19:32 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19737/A_History_of_the_Amiga_Part_7:_Game_on!/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19737/A_History_of_the_Amiga_Part_7:_Game_on!/ Ars Technica's Jeremy Reimer has published the 7th instalment in their series on the history of the Amiga platform. Part 7 deals solely with gaming on the Amiga, detailing various classic Amiga games that in one way or the other pushed the envelope. "The Amiga started out its life as a dedicated games machine, and even though it grew into a full computer very quickly, it never lost its gaming side. The machine's 4096-color palette, stereo sampled sound, and graphics acceleration chips made it a perfect gaming platform, and it didn't take long for game companies to start taking advantage of this power." Tue, 13 May 2008 06:24:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19668/Mini-Review:_AmigaOS_4_for_Classic_Machines/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19668/Mini-Review:_AmigaOS_4_for_Classic_Machines/ Reviews of AmigaOS 4 are hard to come by, due to the rare nature of the operating system as well as the hardware it runs on. So, whenever a review does pop up, no matter how short, it's worth a look. This review, posted in the forums of Amigaworld.net, takes a quick (very quick) look at the classic version of AmigaOS 4, released early December 2007. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:45:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19589/New_AROS_Distribution_Announced/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19589/New_AROS_Distribution_Announced/ VmwAROS started in november 2007, as a pre-installed AROS environment for VMware, but starting with the new version 0.7, published today, it has turned into a complete distribution called VmwAROS LIVE!. From now on, it will be available in two flavours: pre-installed in a virtual machine, and as a live-CD. New users will be able to boot their computers straight into a enhanced AROS environment, with DHCP network support and preliminary web browser. A complete list of new features is available at this site. VmwAROS VM beta 0.7 can be downloaded from here. VmwAROS LIVE! 0.7 can be downloaded from here. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:42:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News paolone http://www.osnews.com/story/19371/AROS_Status_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19371/AROS_Status_Update/ A few days ago the AROS team published quite an extensive update on AROS' status. Progress has been made on porting AROS to the sam440 board, Traveller (Webkit-based browser for AROS) has made some strides, and work has begun on a load of manuals for AROS, among other things. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:50:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19320/A_History_of_the_Amiga:_Stopping_the_Bleeding/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19320/A_History_of_the_Amiga:_Stopping_the_Bleeding/ Ars has published part VI in their series of articles on the history of the Amiga. "When a corporation is bleeding money, often the only way to save it is to drastically lower fixed expenses by firing staff. Commodore had lost over USD 300 million between September 1985 and March 1986, and over USD 21 million in March alone. Commodore's new CEO, Thomas Rattigan, was determined to stop the bleeding." Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:58:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19250/WinAROS_01-2008_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19250/WinAROS_01-2008_Released/ "A new version of WinAROS is available. The virtual Harddisk is contains two partitions. A 20MB Partition with Fast File System (FFS), that contains only the Boot Files. And a 480MB Partition with Smart File System (SFS) that contains a fresh AROS setup. WinAros comes with a Windows typical setup program, that creates shortcuts on the desktop and in the start menu. It also comes with an uninstaller." WinAROS is a virtualised AROS installation executable which you can install and run on Windows. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:04:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19240/AmigaOS_Emulation_Under_Linux/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19240/AmigaOS_Emulation_Under_Linux/ "There are two major players in the Amiga emulation arena, UAE and E-UAE and two major players in the pre-configured Workbench arena, AIAB and AmiSYS. If I was to give a preference as to which two of those four one should use I would need to be honest and say E-UAE and AmiSYS make for a better Amiga/Workbench experience. That said, all four could very easily be interchanged." More here. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:48:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Amiga & AROS 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19186/Amiga_Forever_Adds_Support_for_OLPC_Eee_PC_Platforms/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19186/Amiga_Forever_Adds_Support_for_OLPC_Eee_PC_Platforms/ Two interesting newsbits from the Amiga Forever camp. First, they got Amiga Forever running on the OLPC, and secondly, they also got it running on the Eee PC. The next version of Amiga Forever will support both these platforms. The release is scheduled for somewhere in 2008. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:38:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19125/AmigaOS_5_Surfaces_Sort_of/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19125/AmigaOS_5_Surfaces_Sort_of/ "AmigaOS 5 made a covert appearance at an event outside the CES, turning up in the guise of a version of Space Invaders running on a Windows Mobile 6-based phone. Amiga - the company - was ostensibly showing AmigaAnywhere 2, the new version of its virtual machine technology. But taking Amiga President Bill McEwen aside for a moment, we discovered that AmigaAnywhere 2 is AmigaOS 5." Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:41:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19053/The_Pegasos_Book:_New_v2.3_Full_Release;_VmwAROS_0.5_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19053/The_Pegasos_Book:_New_v2.3_Full_Release;_VmwAROS_0.5_Released/ The Pegasos book is a free multilanguage ebook dedicated to the Pegasos computer from Genesi/bplan. It is a 223 pages PDF document, splitted in 4 volumes, which contains information about the Pegasos I and II PowerPC computer and all its main supported operating systems. The latest version (V2.3) can now be freely downloaded both in English or in French. Partial older versions are also available in Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian language. Elsewhere, VmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS environment for VMware. New beta 0.5 improves reliability, networking, development and gaming, with more software and bugfixes. Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:38:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Amiga & AROS 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News lugduweb http://www.osnews.com/story/19029/A_History_of_the_Amiga_Part_5:_Postlaunch_Blues/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19029/A_History_of_the_Amiga_Part_5:_Postlaunch_Blues/ Ars has published part 5 of their history of the Amiga. "By July 1985, Commodore had everything going for it. The Amiga computer had been demonstrated in public to rave reviews, and everyone was excited at the potential of this great technology. That's when the problems started." Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:57:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18991/Amiga_OS4.0_Classic_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18991/Amiga_OS4.0_Classic_Released/ Amiga OS4.0 for Classic Amigas is now available. "ACube Systems Srl is pleased to to announce the immediate availability of the awaited AmigaOS 4.0 for Amiga 1200, 3000(T) or 4000(T) with a PowerPC CPU, developed by Hyperion Entertainment VOF. It is now possible to benefit of all the features of this new AmigaOS release, an operating system famous for its efficiency and small footprint. AmigaOS 4.0, thanks to its power and optimization, succeeds in using at the maximum even systems running at 160Mhz, allowing the multimedia performances and the usability everyone expects from AmigaOS." Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 85 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News AlexZOP http://www.osnews.com/story/18984/AROS_Ported_to_64Bit/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18984/AROS_Ported_to_64Bit/ A new AROS status update has been published. The biggest news: "Michal Schulz has made the miracle, and a whole new chapter in AROS history begins. Starting from today, you can grab the 64 bit native flavour of AROS from our website. This new version is obviously more advanced than the usual one, and has limited memory protection and GRUB loading modules. A initial wall for 4 GB of RAM will be removed as soon as proper MMU handling is done. In order to run the 64 bit native version of AROS a 64-bit x86 processor like AMD Athlon 64s or latest Intel Core2s is needed." Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:11:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18966/AmigaOS_4.0_for_Classic_Amiga_Goes_Gold/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18966/AmigaOS_4.0_for_Classic_Amiga_Goes_Gold/ "Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that AmigaOS 4.0 for PowerPC equipped Amiga 1200/3000/4000's has gone gold and should be available for sale around 30 November depending on location. Further information can be found here. Prospective customers are once more encouraged to verify the (regularly updated) compatibility list prior to purchase. AmigaOS 4.0 for classic Amiga's will be distributed worldwide by Acube Systems." Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:20:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 38 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News AlexZOP http://www.osnews.com/story/18961/AROS_Status_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18961/AROS_Status_Update/ "AROS has gained lots of bugfixes and improvements in the lastest weeks. For istance, Neil Cafferkey has corrected some important bugs is his beloved AROS Installer; Nic Andrews has worked on his RTL8139 network driver; and Robert Norris has fixed file notifications, which previously broke preferences, just to name three." Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:44:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News