Amiga & AROS Archive

Amiga, Inc. in Trouble?

Submitted by RobertDupuy 2003-05-02 Amiga & AROS 66 Comments

In a posting at ANN.lu, ex-Amiga, Inc. employee Bolton Peck breaks his silence. He reports about his time at Amiga Inc., the court trial against his former employer and informs us who is the real CEO of Amiga. Moreover, Bolton gives a general overview into what has happened behind the scenes during the past 3 years. Where does this situation leave the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 remains to be seen. Update: AmigaWorld.net has a thread about the situation as well.

AmigaInput – The new Gaming-API for AmigaOS

Mike Bouma 2003-05-02 Amiga & AROS 38 Comments

Amiga has released a new article, this time regarding AmigaOS4's new Gaming-API written by Steffen Haeuser. If you are interested to ask Hyperion and Amiga employees questions then note that some of them frequently participate at AmigaWorld's forums or chatroom.

Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss – Week 7

Mike Bouma 2003-04-26 Amiga & AROS 3 Comments

Week 7 of the 'Weekly Questions and Answers' sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology Officer Fleecy Moss is now live at AmigaWorld.net. A few days earlier than originally planned.

AROS Status Update and Screenshots

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-25 Amiga & AROS 32 Comments

AROS, the AmigaOS re-implementation posted a status update dicussing their latest advancements. Two new screenshots also posted. The team is looking for active developers to join them.

Weekly Q&A with Amiga’s Fleecy Moss – Week 6

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-21 Amiga & AROS 11 Comments

Week 6 of the 'Weekly Questions and Answers' sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology Officer Fleecy Moss is now live at AmigaWorld.net. Also Question 3 & 5 from Week 5 have now been updated.

Nomad Team Officially Reveal NomadGMS

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-04-14 Amiga & AROS No Comments

The Nomad Team has revealed their first piece of software for the AmigaDE and AmigaOS, NomaGMS a Game and Multimedia application programming interface. For the latest Q&A session with the Amiga CTO, turn to the AmigaWorld community portal.

AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS4

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-04-12 Amiga & AROS 20 Comments

Amiga has released an article describing its application launcher AmiDock in AmigaOS4. The article originally appeared in the March issue of Club Amiga Magazine. This description is meant as an addition to the AmigaOS4 feature list. Note however that the default appearance of AmigaOS4 is yet to be revealed.

Fleecy Moss Q&A Interview, Week 4

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-06 Amiga & AROS 8 Comments

Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc, answers a fourth session of the community's questions over at AmigaWorld.net.

AROS Updates and New Screenshots

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 Amiga & AROS 38 Comments

The AROS team has updated their web site with new information about their operating system, plus a number of new screenshots. The team is also looking for active developers to help out the project.

Eyetech’s AmigaOne speech from AmiGBG 2003

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-04-01 Amiga & AROS 21 Comments

Media files and a transcript of Alan Redhouse's AmiGBG speech are now available for download. The speech was held at a Swedish Amiga show last Saturday and includes information on plans for a MicroATX version of the AmigaOne-XE board, to be targeted mainly at server farms and a SE-lite version targeted at embedded uses.

Amiga Gamecards Available at Mainstream Shops

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-03-30 Amiga & AROS 14 Comments

After much delay, the first 2 Amiga Gamecards (offering 4 games each) are currently selling at CompUSA stores. This was shared in latest of the weekly held AmigaWorld Q&A sessions with Amiga's CTO. Some of the most notable games were written by the AmigaDE/AmigaOS software development house Zeoneo Limited.

Fleecy Moss Answers Community Questions – Week 2

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-03-23 Amiga & AROS 18 Comments

Amiga's CTO answered 10 more Amiga community questions at the AmigaWorld community portal. Mr. Moss has recently agreed to answer 10 questions a week from AmigaWorld visitors.

English Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002 Video Coverage Available

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-03-15 Amiga & AROS 12 Comments

Virtual Dimension has released an English version of their Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002 show report. New products which were sold at this small fair, include AmigaOne systems running Linux, Pegasos systems running MorphOS and even a new C64 compatible Retro motherboard, called the c-one, was being presented at the fair. Regarding the AmigaOne motherboards, initial G3/G4 benchmark comparisons are now available.

Fleecy Moss Answers Amigaworld’s Questions

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-15 Amiga & AROS 19 Comments

Amiga.org reports that Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc replies to the first batch of questions from the AmigaWorld thread created for this purpose. This is the first of a planned series of similar sessions.

Amiga CTO to Answer Community Questions Weekly

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-03-09 Amiga & AROS 28 Comments

In an effort to enhance the communication between the Amiga community and Amiga companies Amiga's Chief Technology Officer, Fleecy Moss, has agreed on offering weekly Questions and Answers sessions at the AmigaWorld.net community portal.

AmigaNews.de Interviews Hyperion Boss Ben Hermans

Guest post by MB, submitted by Iggy Drougge 2003-02-21 Amiga & AROS 5 Comments

An insight into the current state of AmigaOS 4 development is offered in this interview with Ben Hermans, leader of Hyperion Entertainment, charged with the development of the new OS.

SciTech Software to Add Graphic Power to AmigaOS 4

Submitted by Andrew 2003-02-19 Amiga & AROS 21 Comments

SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced that they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.

SWAUG reviews IBrowse 2.3

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-02-10 Amiga & AROS 32 Comments

The South Wales Amiga User Group has reviewed the latest version of IBrowse, one of the three main Amiga webbrowsers and the default browser for the soon to be released version 4.0 of the Amiga Desktop Operating System. I have uploaded some additional screenshots here, but note that the browser can be configured to look prettier. Also IBrowse is compact and will function on 14 Mhz (or better) classic Amiga systems. Regarding the new PPC Amiga platform, Soft3 recently posted some pictures of the AmigaOne-XE motherboard in combination with a Dual 7410 cpu module.

Amiga: Live Another Day

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-23 Amiga & AROS 25 Comments

Olin Wread writes for ExtremeTech the story of Amiga, from the very beginning.

AmigaOS4 Feature Set: Release 1

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-01-13 Amiga & AROS 63 Comments

Amiga Inc has revealed more details on the new Amiga Operating System: "Amiga is pleased to publish this first version of the feature set of the up and coming AmigaOS4.0. The document will undergo revision in subsequent issues but because of the massive demand for information made by the public, we have decided to release it in its current state." The official launch of the PPC based AmigaOne platform together with AmigaOS4.0 is sheduled for March at the upcoming CeBit tradeshow in Germany.