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New OS4 beta and MOS 1.5 beta in Finland

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-24 Amiga & AROS 10 Comments

The Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to demonstrate the best of the both worlds at its annual meeting this coming Saturday: AmigaOne running a new AmigaOS 4.0 beta and Pegasos II running MorphOS 1.5 beta.

KMOS acquired Amiga Inc

Submitted by Dennis Trabandt 2004-07-27 Amiga & AROS 27 Comments

At the AmiWest 2004 show in Sacramento KMOS CEO Garry Hare announced that KMOS has acquired Amiga Inc. A few months ago we reported that KMOS acquired AmigaOS4 assets, but now it seems that the whole Amiga, Inc. belongs to this not-so-public company.

AmigaOS4 video demonstrating MooVId movie player

Mike Bouma 2004-07-24 Amiga & AROS 21 Comments

AmigaOS4 beta tester Crisot has made another one of his unofficial AmigaOS4 demonstration videos available. This time he demonstrates AmigaOS4's default movie player MooVId. Download Video (DivX codec required, 4.96 MB) This Saturday Dr. Garry Hare Ph.D., the CEO of the AmigaOS owning company KMOS will make announcements at the AmiWest banquet dinner and hold a live interview on Sunday. People will be able to follow AmiWest by updating webcam images, live audio and live video streaming coverage.

Better quality AmigaOS4-beta Video demo

Mike Bouma 2004-07-12 Amiga & AROS 68 Comments

Due to criticism regarding Crisot's first video, the beta-tester created a new video (24.7 MB file) to demonstrate the speed of OS4 running with a native version of P96 combined with an accelerated Voodoo 3 driver. This version shows almost no flickering and also shows Quake launching and running. Like with the previous video this is not an official OS4 demonstration.

New AmigaOS4 Demonstration Videos

Mike Bouma 2004-07-09 Amiga & AROS 55 Comments

A video (20MB, DivX) made by an OS4 betatester, demonstrating the native graphics drivers has been made available. This is not an official OS4 demonstration, just one users machine. The picture quality is low, but it gives an idea of the current graphics speed.

Recompiling Old Software for AmigaOS 4

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-01 Amiga & AROS 14 Comments

If you have an old C program from years ago, it is possible to re-write it for the AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4. Most of the author's experience is with SAS 6.5x and Storm C (which is based on GCC). Click here to find some tips to get your software converted. Update: Two more such articles, here and here.

OS4 Presentation Report with Picture Gallery

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-16 Amiga & AROS 17 Comments

The Pegasos user group had a look at the developer pre-release version of AmigaOS4.

More on AmigaOS 4.0

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-14 Amiga & AROS 25 Comments

Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci has written an article about AmigaOS4 and its differences with AmigaOS 3.9.

First Impressions Review of AmigaOS4-Prerelease

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-13 Amiga & AROS 26 Comments

Read here for a not-so-short first-impressions review of the developer pre-release version of AmigaOS4.

AmigaOS 4.0 Status Report

Mike Bouma 2004-06-09 Amiga & AROS 26 Comments

Core AmigaOS 4.0 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a status report with regard to the current state of AmigaOS. Various advances have been made since the Developer Pre-release version of AOS4 was completed. Meanwhile AmigaWorld.net has launched a new File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting Amiga OS4 files and related resources.

Amiga OS4 pre-release review

Mike Bouma 2004-06-07 Amiga & AROS 51 Comments

Sascha "SieGeL" Pfalz has written a small review about his first experiences with the Developer Pre-Release version of AmigaOS4. For help and advice by developers and beta-testers AmigaworldNET has set up a new IRC channel. Some first customized screenshots by an user: Screenshot 1 Screenshot2

Uboot (AmigaOne firmware) Article Published

Submitted by Elwood 2004-06-02 Amiga & AROS No Comments

A comprehensive UBoot AmigaOne guide has been released on IntuitionBase.com. You'll find everything required to use Uboot and start/configure your next boot, be it with AmigaOS 4.0 or Linux.

Updated OS4 Installer Guide

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-31 Amiga & AROS 23 Comments

Here are some updated notes and walkthroughs on how to update, configure and install the soon to be released AmigaOS 4.

Video of Amiga OS4 Event in Germany

Mike Bouma 2004-05-19 Amiga & AROS 24 Comments

Marcus Neervoort has made a MPEG video (136 MB) of last Saturday's Amiga OS4 event which includes demonstrations of Hollywood, Audio Evolution, Mame and Arteffect 4.0 Alpha on Amiga OS4. Many event pictures are available. Also Elena Novaretti and Massimo Tantignone recently ported Elena`s PowerIcons (32-bit PNG icons) project to AmigaOS4: Screenshot1 Screenshot2

Video of AROS presentation at AmiGBG

Submitted by Fabio Alemagna 2004-05-16 Amiga & AROS 7 Comments

Adam Chodorowski wrote: "Finally, after more than a month, the video from the AROS presentation at the AmiGBG 2004 fair is available for download! For those that don't understand Swedish (or who can't hear what's said), subtitles are provided (which is one reason why it took so long to produce the video)."

New Programming Language for Amiga

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-27 Amiga & AROS 19 Comments

eCommerceLogic is working on a new programming language for Amiga that resembles Java and C#.

AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release Goes Gold

Submitted by Ronald St-maurice 2004-04-17 Amiga & AROS 34 Comments

Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team announced that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.

Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 6.0

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-16 Amiga & AROS 10 Comments

Cloanto released today version 6.0 of Amiga Forever, the Classic Amiga emulation, OS, connectivity and support suite officially licensed by the Amiga companies. Amiga Forever is available in a downloadable Online Edition and in a CD Edition which includes premium content of historical interest (all Amiga OS versions, gallery, videos, games) and KX Light.

Amiga OS4 Developer Pre-release Install Guide

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-13 Amiga & AROS 12 Comments

The HTML procedure that will be included on the Amiga OS4 developer pre-release CD for the AmigaOne has been given to Amigaworld.net. The procedure is simple to follow and will walk users of all experience levels through the painless task of installing the developer pre-release on to an AmigaOne. Elsewhere Amiga Forever 6.0 is now available.

Amiga Forever 6.0 Launch at AmiGBG

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-31 Amiga & AROS 2 Comments

Ann.lu reports that Amiga Forever 6.0 will premiere at AmiGBG in Gothenburg on April 3rd, 2004. This new version is the result of more than two years of work and constitutes its most significant update.

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