The Amiga Future issue 82 (January/February 2010) has been released today.

In issue 82 you'll find reviews of AmigaOS 4 Update 1, Maniac Mansion - Day for the Tentacle, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World and much more. Furthermore there are interviews with Markus Wei? and Carlos Peris.

FINALLY! A NEW HIGH END AMIGA COMPUTER! - THE WAIT IS OVER!

At the start of this journey, we posed the question 'what is X?' The answer is that X is many things. X is the Xena/XMOS chip, and the Xorro slot that accompanies it. X is the mystery CPU, and above all, X is the AmigaOne X1000, the new complete desktop computer system from A-EON.

It's almost 25 years since Commodore released the A1000 model that launched the line in the summer of 1985, and with the launch of the X1000 we will usher in a new beginning for the AmigaOS platform. Just as Commodore did with the A1000, we're aiming at the high-end first, with a powerful desktop computer aimed at the professional and serious hobbyist markets (although you won't have to wait until summer, and it should be a little cheaper!) The launch of the A1000 offered something new, and the X1000 will do the same. The world has moved on and custom chips no longer make much sense, but the X1000 offers a customisable chip as standard instead - 'Xena'.

Thanks to Xena and the Xorro interface, the X1000 offers extraordinary flexibility. We believe that with this easy gateway to the world of 'Software Defined Silicon' and a path to massive parallelism, the X1000 will once more make the AmigaOS platform the best choice for truly creative and unique applications. For custom hardware control from robotics to theatrical lighting, for hobbyist creativity, for hardware hacking and for a multitude of applications we haven't even imagined yet, the X1000 is a dream platform - and therein lies another meaning of 'X', the unknown. It is you, not us, who will define the future.

Of course that's far from all there is to the X1000. Even if you have no interest in the co-processor concept, the X1000 is by a large margin the most powerful and up-to-date platform for running AmigaOS. With a fast dual-core CPU and a full range of modern interfaces such as PCIe x16, SATA and USB 2.0, the already extremely responsive AmigaOS will at last have a truly high-end platform to run on. While AmigaOS has progressed massively over the last few years (and continues to develop more and more features at an impressive rate), the hardware to run it on has not kept pace. There was a time when we had great hardware as well as a great Operating System, and with the AmigaOne X1000, we can finally say that time is come again. While the entry level is currently well catered for by ACube's SAM motherboard, it is this return of AmigaOS to the high-end that truly ushers in a new beginning.

For more details, visit this Page on the a-eon.com Website.

I recently moved file transfers code to a linked list. But because of that, in some situations incoming switchboard connections (chat connections) would not establish because of uninitialised values.. so you'd open a tab to someone and it would never connect. It's fixed now though...

Go get it..
http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com

Alpha software, yay!

Happy new year everyone! I?ve spent the last several weeks rebuilding our Amiga website. I hope you will give the new layout a look.

We are proud to announce our first little project for all Amiga developers.
Our goal was to develop some tools to get you started with "cross development for Amiga OS4.1".
As we have been working quite some while on it, we noticed the lack of a clean method to produce a cross compiler for the Amiga. For this reason, we created a special script which will build a complete cross compiler toolchain for you.

Airsoft Softwair are very proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.5 (Codename: Snowflake). This is a huge update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 4.0. In this update we paid special attention to all the wishes that reached us from the ever growing Hollywood community. We carefully listened to all these requests and tried to realize as many wishes as possible.

RunInUAE is designed to make it incredibly easy to run old Amiga games on Amiga OS4, and it comes with an easy installer, so that you can:
* Run almost any ADF or HD installed game or program in E-UAE, by simply dragging & dropping it onto RunInUAE's icon in AmiDock or RunInUAE's program window!
* Run WHDLoad & JOTD JST installed games directly, by just double-clicking on them!
* Run ADF games by double-clicking them. (Needs a little bit of manual set-up.)

SHORT RUN DOWN OF MONTHLY PAGE ISSUE NINE :

- Interview with Dave Wentzel creator of Audio Evolution
- Linux / OS4.1 game comparison - Abuse
- General Talk
- Music Talk
- Stargus Update report
- Mac Moment
- Wallpaper Credit Idea

ENJOY!!!!

2010-01-03: Alpha 62
- Multiple files can be transferred at once now
- Sets status to idle if you're away for 10 minutes but ONLY if you're set to Online
- MSN changed their servers recently. It's now necessary for 3rd party clients to change
the users display name manually once connected, or else the display name equals your
email address. This fix is now in place.
- Clicking on a contacts name in your list and then waiting for the help bubble to appear
will display semi accurate information about whether you're still on the other persons
contacts list. MUI 3.x has a bug where you need to move the mouse pointer out of the
window, and back into the window for the help bubble to change when you click on a
different contact though. Zune doesnt have this issue.

The first release candidate of EasyUAE - the E-UAE GUI - is now available in the projects files section.

Read more about this release in the Update on the projects site.