24
Jun/10

More mystery hardware hype

by admin under Hardware, Nostalgia

A-EON won’t tell us the CPU of the Amiga X1000 and now there’s more mystery coming from DiscreetFX, the company that seems to do a little bit of everything. This time it’s mystery hardware for Classic Amigas.

According to their website there seems to be three new hardware items coming up on June 30th.

  1. “We have never sold this type of brand new hardware before but retro Amiga fans will be very pleased. Look for something exciting from us soon that will help you get more enjoyment out of your Amiga.”
  2. “Why have one when you can have two. Your Amiga is going to break the sound barrier.”
  3. “Use something virtual to speed up your 3D renders.”

So, anyone care to make an educated, or not so educated, guess on what it might be?

More info (well, not really) on DiscreetFX Amiga & MorphOS iShop.

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9
Jun/10

Firefox for Amiga released

by admin under AmigaOS 4

The Frieden brothers have released an alpha version of their Firefox port, named Timberwolf, for AmigaOS 4.x today.

“We have to apologize for the long absence. Workload, personal issues and other things slowed down development considerably.

However, we’re finally able to make the first binary release of Timberwolf. This is going to be an Alpha version, meaning it will be prone to crashing and misbehavior, it will be slow, and not all functionality is implemented yet.”

More at AmigaBounty.net

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9
Jun/10

MorphOS 2.5 released

by admin under MorphOS

MorphOS 2.5 was released a few days ago. With this new release the Apple eMac is now a officially supported platform. There are a lot of changes in the 2.5 release, so have a look at the release notes.

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16
May/10

The Amiga as evidence

by admin under Nostalgia

Apparently an Amiga 1000 was used as evidence when IP Innovations tried to sue Red Hat and Novell for patent infringement about “User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects“.

An Amiga 1000 was shown in court displaying that Workbench did have the multiple workspaces prior to the IP Innovations patent and therefor helping Novell win the case over the Linux patents.

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9
May/10

Origyn Web Browser 3.27 for Amiga

by admin under AmigaOS 4


It wasn’t too long ago when I wrote about the new 3.25 version of Origyn Web Browser (OWB) for AmigaOS 4.x. OWB has been updated twice since and is now up to version 3.27. There are a couple of bug fixes in the new version and disabling of SVG support and the removal of rarely used character sets in ICU has made it possible to free 8 MB of RAM.

Get the file at OS4 Depot.

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9
May/10

Trevor Dickinson of A-EON talks about the AmigaOne X1000

by admin under AmigaOS 4, Hardware

Obligement has published an interview with Trevor Dickinson, one of the founders of A-EON. A good read for everyone interested in knowing more about the AmigaOne X1000 project.

Among other things, he speaks about the mystery dual core CPU:

”It will be the first time this CPU has been used in any “desktop” computer and suffice to say we think it’s quite special.”

Interview with Trevor Dickinson.

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6
May/10

AmigaOne X1000 case photos

by admin under Hardware

A-EON Technology have posted photos (may of course be some montage photoshop action going on, but still) of the eagerly awaited AmigaOne X1000. So, what do you guys think of the case?

AmigaOne X1000For those of you who have not paid attention lately, here are the AmigaOne X1000 specs:

  • Dual-core 1.8GHz PowerISA™ v2.04+ CPU
  • “Xena” 500MHz XMOS XS1-L1 128 SDS
  • ATI Radeon R700 graphics card
  • 2GB RAM
  • 500GB Hard drive
  • 22x DVD combo drive
  • customised case, keyboard and mouse
  • 7.1 channel HD audio
  • 4x DDR2 RAM slots
  • 10x USB 2.0
  • 1x Gigabit Ethernet
  • 2x PCIe x16 slots (1×16 or 2×8)
  • 2x PCIe x1 slots
  • 1x Xorro slot
  • 2x PCI legacy slots
  • 2x RS232
  • 4x SATA 2 connectors
  • 1x IDE connector
  • JTAG connector
  • 1x Compact Flash
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4
May/10

New shoot-em-up coming soon for MorphOS

by admin under Games

Polish developers Encore Games are soon releasing their old-school shooter Fortis for MorphOS. Fortis is a classic 2D shoot-em-up with 3D graphics will also be available for Windows and iPhone/iPod. 36 levels of shooting is what’s awaiting us!

Have a look at the MorphOS trailer of Fortis:

Head on over to Encore Games for more info on Fortis.

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1
May/10

AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 available

by admin under AmigaOS 4

Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 2 of AmigaOS 4.1 for AmigaOne, SAM440EP and Pegasos II.

This update includes an updated Python, Cairo 1.8.10 with partial hardware acceleration, updated Ringhio notification system, a new version of AmiDock, several fixed system libraries, a new version of the Python scriptable installation utility and some updated Shared Object files.

Perhaps most importantly is that Hyperion states that “Installation of this Update 2 is required for the upcoming public alpha of Timberwolf.”

Link:
Update 2 of AmigaOS 4.1 available for immediate download

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30
Apr/10

NewTek demonstrates Video Toaster back in 1990

by admin under Nostalgia

It’s time for a golden oldie. Here are two NetTek guys demonstrating the famous Video Toaster package on an Amiga 2000. It actually still is kind of impressive. :)

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