Amiga & AROS Archive
AmigaAnywhere: Now Available with all U3 Powered USB Smart Drives
Consumers will be able to play graphically rich, high-performance Amiga content on U3 powered USB smart drives. AmigaAnywhere is the digital environment that enables and simplifies access to the same applications from a variety of devices. Amiga lets consumers enjoy rich-media content featuring extraordinary audio-visual quality, high-speed interactive gaming, education and entertainment, all playing on a diverse universe of devices. Click here to read the full article.
MikeB’s Guide for WinUAE updated
To celebrate the release of WinUAE v1.0 and the new versions of AIAB and AmigaSYS packages I have updated my guide for WinUAE accordingly. Screenshot of AIAB r10.5
WinUAE v1.0 released
Tony Wilen has released WinUAE 1.0 of his Classic Amiga emulator.
Also, UAE review here.
WinUAE 1.0 Released
After a long waiting, WinUAE 1.0 is released for all nostalgic Amiga fans.
AMIGA Introduces AmigaAnywhere SDK version 1.5
Amiga, Inc. today announced the launch of the new AmigaAnywhere™ SDK (software development kit) version 1.5, providing increased performance, time to market and revenue opportunity for Amiga's global developer community.
New AmigaOS4 video
From Amigaworld.net: "Thanks to Crisot, finally a new AmigaOS4 video showing Petunia JIT, WarpOS, Warp3D 5.0 and many many other fantastic features". The video shows AOS4's speed, stability, and responsiveness on a PPC G3 800HMz.
Live Q&A IRC session with Amiga CEO Garry Hare
KMOS, Inc. announced that it has completed all registrations to change its corporate identity to Amiga, Inc. Amiga also announced the launch of AmigaAnywhere version 1.5 and mentions a new Amiga SDK under development. For some background information with regard to this technology and a summary of past developments have a look here. Coming Sunday AmigaWorld.net will arrange a Q&A IRC session with Amiga's CEO.
AmigaOS4 Pre-release review by DatorMagazin
AmigaWorld.net is hosting a translated OS4 pre-release review from the latest issue of the popular Swedish computer magazine DatorMagazin. Also Michael "The Terminator" Rozeboom has written an article for IntuitionBase.com within which he tries to explain why the PPC platform is currently a good choice for AmigaOS4.
Mikey C’s MicroA1 Review
Michael Carrillo has written a small first impressions review and report after being voted AmigaWorld.net's 'Moderator Of The Year' and winning a new MicroA1. However for more in depth pre-release information turn to the recent Ars Technica review. And for Amiga users who need to use Windows but don't want to leave their Amiga environment there's a new Remote Desktop client available (Screenshot).
AROS gets native TCP/IP stack
Neil C. has committed a first release of the AROS native TCP/IP stack to the CVS.
Ars Technica reviews MicroA1 and OS4 pre-release
Ars Technica has published a review of the AmigaOS4 Developer Pre-release (+Update 1) and the MicroA1-C. For a short summary regarding the most recent AmigaOS4 happenings I wrote a small update summary.
Quick Review: ArosMax for Windows
As stated on their website, "AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas." ArosMax is a version of Aros that can be run from within a Windows environment for easy evaluation.
Another AmigaOS4 update available
Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS4 development team have announced the immediate availability of another update of the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release for all registered users. Also in addition to AmigaOne hardware and older BlizzardPPC / CyberstormPPC equipped classic Amigas, new AmigaOS4 supported PPC hardware for classic Amiga 1200 computers has recently been announced.
AROS-Max On Windows
Nicholas Otley has built a QEMU hosted version of AROS Max for MS Windows. It's easy to use, just run the self extracting archive and double-click the winaros.bat file to run AROS-Max in a window. Get the file here or visit the Aros-Exec message board.
MikeB’s Guide for WinUAE: Updated
I have updated my guide for WinUAE at AmigaWorld. Check in for more info.
AROS-Max-0.2.2 Available
AROS Max is a pre-configured live bootable CD image, made to show off the best that AROS has to offer. It requires an AROS capable PC, your mileage may vary. Download from here.
Updated AmigaOS4 SDK Available
Closely following the update for the AmigaOS4 Pre-release, the updated Software Dev Kit (SDK) is now also available. Meanwhile some first people have been able to buy Mini-ITX MicroA1-C boards and last weekend at a British Amiga Party one was even raffled amongst its visitors. Also some first photographs of the Micro AmigaOne Industrial motherboard (aka u-A1-I) have been revealed at the party.
First AmigaOS 4.0 Pre-Release update available
The company leading the AmigaOS4 project has announced the immediate availability for download of the first Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release update for registered Amiga OS 4.0 users. For an impression with regard to AmigaOS4's current state of development, within this recent show report there are links to some earlier demonstration videos.
‘Fun of Computing 2004’ show report
Here you can find a show report of last weekend's multi-platform 'Fun of Computing 2004' event which was held in Ilmenau, Germany. The highlight was a demonstration of AmigaOS4. These presentation sheets from a French Amiga event which was held one week prior to this event, shows the current development status of AmigaOS4.