NEWS

 

Latest news relating to Amiga Imagine owners:

20th Dec. 2003

- CAD Technologies would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a
Happy New Year!

14th Dec. 2003

- Photos from the Bath OS4 on tour show
The South Essex Amiga Link website now has some photos available which were taken at the OS4
on tour show in Bath, UK on 13th December 2003.

9th Dec. 2003

- New CAM available
The Christmas edition of the Amiga CAM magazine (issue 11) is now available.
http://os.amiga.com/cam/

2nd Dec. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 24
Session 24 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

21st Nov. 2003

- AmigaWorld interview with Alan Redhouse.
AmigaWorld.net has interviewed Alan Redhouse (Managing Director of the Eyetech Group) regarding the
AmigaOne motherboards.

15th Nov. 2003

- OS4/AmigaOne demonstration report.
Mick Sutton of SEAL demonstrated a development version of AmigaOS 4 running on his AmigaOne-XE
G4 system at two U.K. usergroup meetings recently (ANT on Sunday the 9th and SEAL on Friday the 14th).
A report, photos and some video clips are now available on the SEAL website.
(news source: http://www.ann.lu/)

11th Nov. 2003

- Screenshot of Warp3D running natively on AmigaOne.
In this article at AmigaWorld.net, a screenshot is shown of Warp3D running natively on PPC OS4 on
the AmigaOne.

9th Nov. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 23
Session 23 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

26th Oct. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 22
Session 22 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

26th Oct. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 21
Session 21 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

8th Oct. 2003

- More pictures, videos and a report from Benelux Amiga show in Rotterdam.
For more pictures, a video in various formats, and a show report click here:
http://www.benelux-report.webhop.net

6th Oct. 2003

- Video from Benelux Amiga show in Rotterdam.
A video taken at the show can be found here:
http://www.amigapage.de (click on the download link)

4th Oct. 2003

- Pictures from Benelux Amiga show in Rotterdam.
At the show in Rotterdam, AmigaOS4 was shown running on the AmigaONE hardware.
To view pictures, refer to:
http://home.arcor.de/andreas.weyrauch/RotterdamShow/

28th Sept. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 20
Session 20 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

20th Sept. 2003

- Pictures from Pianeta Amiga show - AmigaOS4 running on the AmigaONE motherboard.
At the Pianeta Amiga show, AmigaOS4 was shown running on the AmigaONE hardware.
To view pictures and some AVI animations, refer to:
www.lightelements.com/gallery.php
lecta.altervista.org/private/gallery
(news source: http://www.ann.lu/)

18th Sept. 2003

- Soft3 post images of (pre-production) mini-ITX form-factor AmigaONE motherboard
Click here to view the images.
(news source: http://www.ann.lu/)

14th Sept. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 19
Session 19 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

31st Aug. 2003

- Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Session 18
Session 18 of the Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

28th July 2003

- Ben Hermans AmigaOS4 presentation at Amiwest
At the Amiwest event, Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainment provided an AmigaOS4 presentation.
A copy of the presentation can be viewed/downloaded from http://os.amiga.com/amiwest-2003/

27th July 2003

- Alan Redhouse Q&A session at Amiwest
At the Amiwest event, Alan Redhouse of Eyetech participated in a Q&A session regarding the AmigaONE.
An MP3 file can be downloaded from http://falcon1.free.Fr/redhouse.mp3

8th July 2003

- Ben Hermans speech from Gothenburg OS4 tour event
At the OS4 tour event in Gothenburg, Ben Hermans provided a talk on the progress of OS4.
An MP3 file can be downloaded from www.acggbg.org

7th June 2003

- Official OS4 Screenshots from Hyperion
Click here for actual OS 4 shots, taken on an A4000 running ExecSG and all the latest stuff such as the
new default intuition look and Font Anti-Aliasing.
(news source: http://amigaworld.net/)

2nd June 2003

- Hyperion OS4 BPPC Survey
Ben Hermans of Hyperion-Entertainment released the following announcement:
" As Amiga OS4 for AmigaOne and CSPPC based machines nears completion, Hyperion is undertaking
a survey to gauage demand for the BPPC version
Therefore if you are an Amiga1200 owner with a Dual Blizzard PPC card and would like to see
OS4 ported to this machine, please send an email to:timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com
Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental task which will require
enormous effort in both Time and Money. Therefore only email us if you have every intention
of purchasing OS4 for BPPC.
Your support is very much appreciated in this matter.
Ben Hermans.
Hyperion-Entertainment"

2nd June 2003

- Flashroms announced by 3rd parties for OS4
Jens Schönfeld of Individual computers announces the new product "Kickflash OS4" - a highly
optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4
significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to
100,000 re-programming cycles.

E3B are producing the "ALGOR" and "ROMulus" flashrom hardware.

11th May 2003

- Various show reports and pictures from the Webb.it show in Padua (Italy)
Quantum Leap has published some photos of AmigaOS4 and AmigaOneXE-G4 Demo.
Webb.it picture gallery
AmigaWorld.net: Francesco Z.'s short show report.
(news source: Czech Amiga.News)

11th May 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 9
Week 9 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

9th May 2003

- Demonstrations of AmigaOS4 (68K beta components), and AmigaOne-XE
"Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane magazine are demoing Amiga One and Amiga OS 4 beta (68k) at the Webb.it show in Padua (Italy)
An Amiga One XE G3 800Mhz with Debian Linux PPC and an Amiga 4000 with Os 4.0 beta are present and running at the booth of Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane. Also an ipaq with Amiga Anywhere is present and the last issue of Bitplane magazine is available. Attenders seems very interested about the Amiga One and the OS 4".

4th May 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 8
Week 8 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

2nd May 2003

- AmigaInput in AmigaOS4 information
Amiga releases an article describing AmgaInput in AmigaOS4. The article originally appeared
in an issue of Club Amiga Magazine.

27th Apr. 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 7
Week 7 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

20th Apr. 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 6
Week 6 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

18th Apr. 2003

- AmigaOne XE boards shipping
Alan Redhouse, of Eyetech Group Ltd, has posted information to the AmigaOne Yahoo mailing list
group about the current status of the AmigaOne-XE:
"...we are currently (from Wednesday last) shipping the A1-XE in volume, first to the dealers,
then to the developers who ordered the SE way back but decided to change to the XE, then to
board purchasers by order date, then to system purchasers by order date. We expect to get the
backlog cleared by the end of the month, but only if people avoid the temptation to ring up and ask
how their order is doing - all that does is slow things up for everybody."

13th Apr. 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 5
Week 5 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

11th Apr. 2003

- AmiDock in AmigaOS4 information
Amiga releases an article describing AmiDock in AmigaOS4. The article originally appeared
in the March issue of Club Amiga Magazine.

6th Apr. 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 4
Week 4 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

30th Mar. 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 3
Week 3 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

23rd Mar. 2003

- Weekly Q&A with Fleecy Moss - Week 2
Week 2 of the Weekly Questions and Answers sessions with Amiga's Chief Technology
Officer Fleecy Moss is now up online at Amigaworld.net.

16th Mar. 2003

- First Q&A session with Fleecy Moss
"AmigaWorld are proud to announce that Amiga's Chief Technology Officer Fleecy Moss has
agreed on offering us weekly Questions and Answers sessions. You can ask your questions and check
already asked questions here on our forums as well."
Here is the first session of answers from Fleecy on AmigaWorld.

10th Mar. 2003

- Rework of the AmigaOne firmware
Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware
adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians. The new
firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly.
Newly implemented functionality includes:
- Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0)
- Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's
- Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration
- Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration
- Support of additional types of memory modules
- Integration of diagnostic code
- Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults
- New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM
- Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers

18th Feb. 2003

- AmigaOS 4 graphics card chipset support
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered
into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x
which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
SciTech SNAP, SciTech's leading edge graphics device support, allows for the rapid development and
deployment of embedded solutions across multiple platforms and currently already supports well over
170 different graphics chipsets including all the latest offerings from industry leaders ATI, nVidia and Matrox.
A full list of supported chipsets can be found here.

14th Feb. 2003

- AmigaOne-XE and PPC G4 modules - information update
Alan Redhouse, of Eyetech Group, has posted information to the AmigaOne Yahoo mailing list group
about the current status of the AmigaOne-XE and PowerPC G4 modules:
"Enough A1-XE's and G4 modules (800MHz 7451 with 32+32k L1; 256 L2 & 2M 64/72bit L3) to
more than satisfy all earlybird orders have already been built and are currently in Tiawan waiting to
ship. All these boards are fitted with the new Articia chipset (date code 0103)."

7th Feb. 2003

- Pictures of AmigaOne G4-XE
Pictures of an AmigaOne G4-XE and the Dual 7410 CPU module are available at the Soft3 website.

21st Jan. 2003

- Eyetech AmigaOne news
The A1XE-G3 now has a 750FX cpu running at 800MHZ, making it around 60-70% faster than the
A1G3-SE.

14th Jan. 2003

- AmigaOS4 Feature Set (Release 1)
Amiga has published the first version of the feature set of AmigaOS4.0.
click here for further details.

22nd Dec. 2002

- CAD Technologies would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a
Happy New Year!.

3rd Nov. 2002

- More World of Amiga 2002 pictures and show reports.
SEAL website
DivX movie. Note this links to a large AVI movie, approx 600MB!
Some more photos.

2nd Nov. 2002

- World of Amiga 2002 pictures and show report.
Click here for Ian Stedman's show report.

- AmigaOS 4 Kernel "ExecSG" demonstrated.
Hyperion Entertainment demonstrated AmigaOS 4 Kernel "ExecSG" on an AmigaOne at
the World of Amiga show. For a photo of "ExecSG" running on the AmigaOne hardware, Click here

Steffen Haeuser of Hyperion Entertainment: "This 'Boot Console thing' is ExecSG running on the
AmigaOne with a small console to be able to do some things already including:
- Showing that the Multitasking works (ExecSG is fully completed)
- Showing that the Virtual Memory already works
- Showing that it actually works on a G4 machine
- Showing that PPCBoot is used and what sort of data it gives about the machine

2nd Nov. 2002

- Amiga Executive update: November 2002.
Click here for further details.

1st Nov. 2002

- Eyetech announce AmigaOneG3-SE and AmigaOne-XE Earlybird Systems.
Click here for further details.

27th Sept. 2002

- AmigaOne PPC boot complete.
Hyperion is pleased to report that it has completed the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed
PPCBoot project. Click here for further details.

9th Sept. 2002

- Amiga OS4 status update.
Click here for further details.

6th Sept. 2002

- Amiga Executive update: September 2002.
Click here for further details.

8th August 2002

- Amiga Inc: List of Amiga OS4 features updated.
The feature list
for OS4 has been updated at Amiga Incs OS4 website.

11th July 2002

- Photos from the meeting in Toulouse (France), June 22-23 2002.
Gallery 1:
Photos 13 - 20: AmigaOne G3 SE,
Photo 34: AmigaOne Running Linux,
Photos 96 - 103: AmigaOne XE.

Gallery 2:
Photos 37-40: AmigaOne running Linux,
Photos 64-68: AmigaOneXE,
Photo 68: AmigaOne XE CPU Module.

1st July 2002

- Please note that our postal address is changing. Refer to the contact page for new address details.

1st July 2002

- Amiga Executive update: Promotion Clarifications and Update.
Click here for further details.

24th June 2002

- New Amiga Executive update. A Coupon can be purchased for $50, in return you will get a free
T-shirt and $50 off AmigaOne/AmigaOS 4.0.
Prize draw also announced for numbered tiers of Coupon sales.

30th May 2002

- Eyetech have updated the AmigaONE information on their website. Details include news of new
motherboard models including a socketed CPU, along with news of support for the PowerPC G4
and trade-in from G3 to G4 systems.

28th May. 2002

- New screenshots from AmigaOS 4.0 released (HDToolBox replacement) - http://os.amiga.com/os4/.

26th May. 2002

- The AmigaOne is presented at a show in Leeuwarden. Photos of the presentation can be viewed at
http://www.amigascene.nl/nieuws/nieuws.htm.

21st May. 2002

- ATI Radeon graphics card 2D driver for AmigaOS 4 to be developed by Forefront Technologies, Inc.

10th May. 2002

- Amiga Inc have updated their website:
Amiga Corporate - www.amiga.com
Amiga OS - os.amiga.com
Amiga Support Network - www.amigadev.net
Amiga Anywhere -www.amiga-anywhere.com

9th May. 2002

- Hyperion Entertainment's managing partner, Ben Hermans, posted to the ANN.lu news site about the
new Matrox graphics card: "It destroys the Geforce 4 completely. We've seen it in action already."
Later he posted: "Yes, it will be supported by OS 4. But not right away, this type of advanced
architecture requires Warp 3D V5 ("Nova"). It's simply miles ahead of anything out there on
the market now. The only that comes close is the P10 from 3DLabs".

1st May. 2002

- The 68K emulator for AmigaOS4, Project Petunia, has an updated website with new benchmark figures.

22nd Apr. 2002

- 1st batch of AmigaOS 4 screenshots released - http://www.OS4.hyperion-software.com .

25th Mar. 2002

- Bill McEwen of Amiga has posted a new status update at the Amiga website.
Includes details of the new hardware, and OS4.0.

20th Mar. 2002

- AmigaOS 3.9 Update Available. Haage&Partner have released OS3.9 Boing-Bag 2, which includes
many bug fixes, enhancements and new features in the areas Multimedia, Shell, Workbench,
ReAction and Harddisk support.

15th Mar. 2002

- Eyetech have released the latest details of the AmigaOne project.
The AmigaOneG3-SE is now production ready and orders for discounted developer/dealer/
OS4 beta-tester boards/systems are now being taken (only until midnight on Sunday 24th
March GMT 2002) for delivery in April. Closing date is required to assess the volume
required for the initial production run.
Purchasers of these boards will also be able to obtain a discount on the full user
version of OS4.0.

13th Mar. 2002

- Amiga has posted a press release announcing the "Amiga Anywhere" line of products for
PDAs, Cell phones, Set-Top-Boxes, Internet Appliances, Desktops, Digital TVs and more.

22nd Jan. 2002

- Small reduction of ImagineV5/ACUP/V6 credit card sales costs.
Added EURO prices to the product ordering page.

21st Jan. 2002

- Project managers of the AmigaOS4 updates, Hyperion Entertainment, have issued a status update.
Click here for further details.

23rd Dec. 2001

- CAD Technologies would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a
happy New Year!.

22nd Dec. 2001

- AmigaOS 4 news. Ben Hermans states "One of the features of OS 4 is "WarpInput" (working title)
which is an analog to DirectInput allowing a programmer to use the same API to address different
kinds of input devices: analog and digital joysticks, keyboard and mouse, PSX port, gamepads,
trackballs etc.".

7th Dec. 2001

- Amiga's Board of Directors have elected former Ravisent Technologies CEO Frank Wilde as
its new Chairman of the Board.

18th Nov. 2001

- Amiga 2001 show: Further news of the AmigaOS 4 update:

  • PPC native Picasso96
  • New Warp3D with "Matrox, Permedia3 and Radeon1/2 support"
  • Generic PCI drivers
  • USB support
  • Integrated 68K emulation
  • PPC datatypes
  • Price approximately the same as OS3.9

30th Oct. 2001

- Eyetech have released a status update on the AmigaOne project.

29th July 2001

- ACUP status update: added 3 new AREXX scripts for the Stage editor to the ACUP download
area.

- AmiWest show news: AmigaOS for the x86 platform announced (and demonstrated), scheduled
for release on 1st November.
AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOne motherboard scheduled for release on 1st November.
Merlancia have obtained the rights to the Walker and MCC system designs.

18th July 2001

- ACUP status update: released maintenance update of the SARE submit tool - V1.1.

17th July 2001

- WarpJPEG.datatype v44.21 - PPC (WarpUp) JFIF-JPEG picture datatype update released.

6th May 2001

- Added updated S.A.R.E. archive to the beta section of the ACUP download area.
This release includes an updated PPC render engine, and HTML documentation.

14th Apr. 2001

- We have now (finally!) registered our domain name. The new address is:
http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk
Our email addresses have also been updated to reflect this - simply replace the
"@cadtech.demon.co.uk" part with "@cadtechnologies.co.uk".
Note: The old web and email addresses will remain operational.

12th Apr. 2001

- Bill McEwen of Amiga has posted a Technical Update at the Amiga website.
Part 2 of the Technical Update outlines the steps that will be taken to update the AmigaOS
from 4.0 to 5.0.

1st Apr. 2001

- Fleecy Moss of AmigaOS has revealed some more information on the AmigaOS updates:

- TCP/IP stack - Brand new, written from scratch.

- Resource tracking - Provided by the Amiga Component Model (ACM).

- New datatypes system, with streaming capability for anims - The ACM and streaming system
will provide this.

- SMP - Will be in OS5.

- Audio system - The Audio system will be the best of any system out there. We have 5 of the
best audio people in the world working on it.

- 2D and 3D graphics APIs - Already underway (with the help of Hyperion and the Picasso team),
and with our close alliance with Matrox, there will be not only standard high level APIs but
GLIDE like low level APIs to really take advantage of Matrox cards.

- New filesystem - Provided with OS4.0

- Hardware independancy - Provided with OS4.2

- Updated printer system - Probably OS4.2, waiting for USB, and for the full benefits, OS5,
the PDP media system.

- New Workbench, and Intuition library - Provided with OS4.5

31st Mar. 2001

- AmigaOS 3.9 Update Available. Amiga have released Boing-Bag 1, which includes extensions and
some bug fixes to the OS3.9 release.

- Amiga have announced AmigaOS 4 - a PPC version of the OS (also includes Virtual memory),
classic 68K applications will run under emulation.
This OS will only run on "Zico" reference platforms (e.g. the AmigaOne boards from Eyetech or bPlan)
In AmigaOS 4.2, a fully integrated AmigaDE layer will be provided.
AmigaOS 5 will include Memory protection.
OS 4 release is scheduled for this summer, and the 4.2 and 4.5 updates will be released at intervals of 6
months. OS 5 will be available late next year.

- Amiga have announced a partnership with Sharp , where Amiga will develop content for next-generation
Sharp handheld computing devices.

- Bill McEwan of Amiga stated:
"A few weeks from now, a Psion notebook PDA running the Amiga DE will be released".

"This summer, Eyetech is to ship beta AmigaOne boards, followed quickly by the final
AmigaOne boards. One of three already fabricated functional AmigaOne boards was shown at the
(Amiga show) banquet by a representative of Eyetech.
Later boards will have full ATX form-factor implementations."

30th Mar. 2001

- Mr Hardware will introduce 2 new "PC on a card" add-ons for the Amiga market at the Amiga show in
St. Louis.

- G-REX 4000 PCI board: A new Riser Card Design has been created for the G-REX 4000 desktop version.
Pictures can be found here.

29th Mar. 2001

- Matay will release a PCI board (named Prometheus) for the Amiga.

17th Mar. 2001

- Amiga 2001 show: The Gateway computer show Amiga 2001 will be running from 30th March
to 1st April. Many Amiga vendors will be attending, and Amiga are reported to be making an exciting
announcement. Also, we have supplied a copy of ImagineV6 (ACUP) CD; if you attend the show, you have a
chance of winning this great prize.

16th Mar. 2001

- Warp* datatypes updated: Oliver Roberts has updated his JPEG, PNG, and BMP datatypes.
These 68K and PowerPC datatypes form a great partnership with the 24Bit datatypes
support of Imagine!

12th Feb. 2001

- Updated electronic manual: Added draft versions of Chapter 2 (Forms Editor) and
Chapter 7 (Stage Editor). Also, Chapters 3 and 9 have been revised cosmetically.
Archive available from the ACUP download server.

10th Feb. 2001

- Updated electronic manual: Added draft version of Chapter 3 (Spline Editor).
Archive available from the ACUP download server.

4th Feb. 2001

- Updated electronic manual: Added draft version of Chapter 9 (Project Editor).
Archive available from the ACUP download server.
ACUP status report sent to the Imagine mailing list.

9th Jan. 2001

- AmigaOS 3.5 Update Available. Amiga have released Boing-Bag 2a, which includes bugfixes to the BB2
release.

3rd Jan. 2001

- AmigaOS 3.5 Update Available. Amiga have released Boing-Bag 2, which includes extensions and
some bug fixes to the OS3.5 release.

24th Dec. 2000

- Website redesigned. A frames based system has been implemented, and all of the pages should now have
a fresher look. Please report any site problems to webmaster@cadtechnologies.co.uk
Added LOTS of links to the "More Tutorials" area of the tutorial section.

We wish everyone a Happy Christmas, and a prosperous New Year!

10th Dec. 2000

- Added two 3D hardware accelerated OpenGL examples (PPC only) to the
new downloads/general page.
Added new page - PPC_graph, which demonstrates a speed comparison between Imagine V5.0 and the
current beta version of Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine). More graphs, and an updated
site design, will be provided over the Christmas holiday period.

5th Dec. 2000

- Trogladite software are hosting the TS Awards 2001. If you would like to vote for
Imagine in the software awards section, Click here.
If you would like to vote for CADTech in the developers awards section, Click here.

20th Nov. 2000

- We are still awaiting an update to the C compiler system. Hopefully it will arrive soon...

5th Nov. 2000

- Added QuakeGUI page to the products area of this site.

30th Oct. 2000

- Amiga announce the release of AmigaSDK for Windows.
The AmigaSDK for Windows 95B, 98, NT Workstation 4.0 (with SP3), 2000, ME is now available for
purchase directly from Amiga's SDK page.
The Amiga introduces Windows Development Environment for Multi-platform Applications page briefly
outlines the benefits to software developers of using their Amiga environment.

28th Oct. 2000

- Version 1.01 of the Amiga SDK for Linux has been released.

22nd Oct. 2000

- ppclibemu V0.8c - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS update.

21st Oct. 2000

- Amiga announcement from the Alternative Computing Expo in Melbourne, Australia:
Amiga announces plans for its new specification of computers that host the Amiga Digital Environment - the
AmigaOne.
AmigaOS3.9 announced - specification details should be available from the Haage and Partner website soon.
Eyetech will be producing upgrade systems for the A1200 and A4000 to give them an AmigaOne specification.
This upgrade should allow the use of MAC PPC cards, as well as introducing PCI slots to the classic Amiga.

13th Oct. 2000

- Voodoo CyberGraphX drivers announced for the G-REX PCI expansion system.

30th Sep. 2000

- ACUP status update: PPC version of the SARE updated, additional functionality
implemented in the project submit tool. Issued to beta testers.

4th Sep. 2000

- Added new tutorial (bin) to the tutorial section.

28th Aug. 2000

- ACUP status update: PPC version of the SARE updated, Effects also work. Procedural textures
not fully functional. Issued to beta testers.

- Gary Peake of Amiga says that a Windows version of the Amiga software developer kit (SDK) will be out soon.

17th Aug. 2000

- ACUP status update: SARE GUI updated. Queue list now functional, frame selector implemented.
Issued to beta testers.

6th Aug. 2000

- ACUP status update: Added GUI, and general improvements made, to the SARE. Issued to beta testers.

4th July 2000

- Updated gallery and projects areas with new files.

28th June 2000

- ACUP status update: The PPC version of the Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has
been issued to the beta testers.


25th June 2000

- ACUP status update: The Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has been issued
to the beta testers. Almost all of Imagines rendering functions are supported in this release, and over the next
few beta updates we will see enhancements to the client/server design, and PPC support. (PPC rendering already
works with the current ImagineV5.18 beta release)

22nd June 2000

- Quake ports for Amiga 68K, PPC (PowerUP and WarpOS), and GLQuake are now available
from your local Aminet mirror.
Quake ports: Frank Wille, Steffen Häuser.
GLQuake: Massimiliano Tretene.
QuakeGUI: Martin McKenzie.
clickBOOM will also be providing Amiga quake and these ports with their soon to be released game Nightlong.

10th June 2000

- Updated gallery, animations and projects areas with new files.

6th June 2000

- ACUP status update: Work is progressing on the next phase of the ACUP update; A client/server
orientated rendering system is being introduced, where this will aid in the provision of 68K/PPC support. These
changes will also help us to, in the future, provide stand-alone rendering software and improve network rendering
support.
In the meantime, for those of you not in the beta testing group - there is a new test program for users with PPC
and 3D gfx cards available. It can be downloaded from the ACUP server, on the beta table at the bottom of the
page "000529-edgl". This is an example of hardware accelerated OpenGL support, showing texture/environment/
multi-texture mapping, along with PPC support.
More information will be posted here, and to the Imagine Mailing List, as the steps to the next ACUP release are
completed.

5th June 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre7 update released.

4th June 2000

- Bill Mc Ewen announces that the official World Launch of the new NG-Amiga SDK
(software development kit) will be at the big Amiga-Show in Neuss (near Düsseldorf) Germany.

31st May 2000

- Latest CyberGraphX V3 drivers are available from http://www.vgr.com/cybergfx/files.html.
It is highly recommended that cgfx V3 users download this update.

25th May 2000

- ppclibemu V0.7e - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS update.

22nd May 2000

- Amiga has implemented a new e-mail support list for AmigaOS 3.5. Details can be found
on the support page of their website.

14th May 2000

- ACUP status update: To implement the PPC rendering code, it was necessary
to utilise a new compiler system; The V5.17 ACUP (68k) release was produced with this new compiler,
but unfortunately a number of problems showed up with the generated code (hence the release of the
V5.17 patch, and the V5.17a update).
During the wait for an update to the compiler, work continued with PPC rendering support. The results
of the work so far has been issued to the beta-testers; On the systems where the code worked as
anticipated, a significant speed increase was gained with the PPC over the same test with a 50Mhz 060.
Unfortunately, due to the problems which appear when compiling Imagine with this system, a backup
solution of using an alternative PPC compiler is in the process of being implemented.
Since extra work has to be done to get Imagine tested and running under the alternative compiler,
the public release of the V5.18 ACUP update will have to be pushed back a bit.
More information will be posted here, and to the Imagine Mailing List, as the steps to the next
ACUP release are completed.

10th May 2000

- WarpJPEG.datatype v44.11 - PPC (WarpUp) JFIF-JPEG picture datatype update released.

3rd May 2000 - New beta release of Imagine V5.18 issued to beta testers.

19th Apr. 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre6 update released.

11th Apr. 2000

- Cloanto make three of their Amiga commercial programs free for private, non-commercial
and non-profit uses: Personal Paint v7.1b, ColorType v3.1, and Personal Fonts Maker. These software
packages can be downloaded from the biz/cloan directory of your local Aminet mirror.

15th Mar. 2000

- Ben Vost releases announces that Amiga Format magazine is to close...

1st Mar. 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre5 update released.

23rd Feb. 2000

- ppclibemu V0.7d - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS update.

18th Feb. 2000

- Warp3D V3.0 released.

14th Feb. 2000

- Amiga and H&P announce a full and long term strategic
partnership designed to benefit both the classic Amiga, and the Amigas of the future.

11th Feb. 2000

- DCE Computer Service GmbH release details of their
production of PPC accelerator and BVision/CVisionPPC gfx cards.

10th Feb. 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre1 update released.

3rd Feb. 2000

- Executive Update - Feburary Executive Update.

29th Jan. 2000

- ACUP V5.17 bug-fix added to the ACUP download server.
This update solves the problem with the mix/morph value corruption, and also adds new functionality
to the stage editors goto-frame window.
Added V5.17 "new user" archives to the ACUP download new user section

24th Jan. 2000

- Updated the V5-V6 GUI comparison and ACUP description pages to reflect some
of the changes made for the V5.17 release.

23rd Jan. 2000

- New ACUP release now available for download - V5.17
The V5-V6 GUI comparison and ACUP description pages will be updated to reflect this release soon.


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