It's official ! The Italian manufacturer ACube Systems and your Swiss distributor RELEC announce the presentation of AmigaOS 4.1 on the PowerPC micro motherboard SAM440ep, for the first time in France and to the French-speaking general public.

It will be on their common stand, and during a single conference, that this so much awaited event will be revealed to the visitors of Colmar Multimedia EXPO 2008 the next 24-25-26th October, the most important IT meeting in the North-East of France with a hundred exhibitors and more than 10.000 awaited visitors !

Issue 42 of aMiGa=PoWeR is available.
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Antwerp, Belgium - 17 September, 2008. Hyperion Entertainment VOF and ACube Systems SRL are pleased to announce that they have entered into an OEM license agreement which will allow ACube to offer its customers an OEM version of Hyperion's AmigaOS 4.1 operating system for their SAM440 range of motherboards.

NoWinED is a MUI-based TextEditor that can handle more files simultaneously, using different "pages" for each file. The fact that it is impossible to find a MUI TextEditor on Amiga powerfull enough to be used instead of Notepad/Editpad and other editors does not have a reason. Moreover, switching from one AmigaOS flavour to the other it is not always possible to use the same editor due to incompatibilities.

Finally it arrives, OWB 2.9 is finally released.

New features includes using the OS4.1 Cairo engine for rendering.

Read more, for .. more.

So, AOS 4.1 is finally out, and has started to reach users!
With AOS 4.1 came a beta of MiniGL 2.0, so SDL/GL ports are finally possible.
Here's a couple from us, enjoy!

HighGFX is a monitordriver for ECS/AGA-screenmodes up to 1024x768.

Changes from HighGFX 40.5 to HighGFX 40.6
- higher AGA frequencies (54 Hz 22,24 kHz -> 55 Hz 22,22 kHz)
- higher ECS frequencies (50 Hz 20,25 kHz -> 54 Hz 21,81 kHz)
- hopefully all known bugs are fixed

All AmiWest 2008 hotel bookings made with the former Clarion Hotel Cal Expo before Sept. 8, 2008 have been canceled. The new owners of the hotel have lost them. Please rebook with the new hotel owners as soon as possible. The new hotel web site is http://www.capitolcityhotel.com and the hotel is called the Capitol City Hotel Cal Expo now.

Hosts: Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Bill Panagouleas, Eddie Cejvan.

Show notes to be added?

Download or listen via flash based player

With the author's (Massimo Tantignone) permission, I have uploaded another Compositing demo program to os4depot.net - this time, the Dice demo that was featured in one of the screenshots I did for the AmigaOS 4.1 press release.

As before, it requires AmigaOS 4.1 Enjoy!