26th June
Personal Paint Patch Released
A PPaint patch aimed at bringing the program up to date with the
new RTG modes, double buffered animation and chunky pixel modes
was released today.
Link: www.cloanto.com
Source: Cloanto
26th June
AmigaFest to be held in late August
The AmigaFest show, which will be held inside the Daytona
Computerfest, will be on August 28th and 29th. Don't miss it!
30th June
Photogenics 4 CD-ROM Released
Yep, the long awaited Photogenics 4 CD was released today.
Lots of major updates to the program make it something you really
shouldn't miss out on.
Link: http://www.photogenics.co.uk
9th July
Collas Announces Linux
In a sensational move by Amiga, they ditched QNX (for various
reasons) and decided to go with Linux instead. Bear in mind that
this is not the Linux OS, but the kernel. The OS will be AmigaSoft,
but based around the Linux kernel. In-depth evaluation this issue!
Link: www.amiga.com
Source: afb
10th July
Collas' Comeback
Jim Collas defends Amiga's move from QNX to Linux after a day
of flaming, name calling and insulting.
Link: www.amiga.com
Source: Amiga
10th July
Indipendent Amiga?
There are certain rumours flying around the place saying that
Amiga are going to break away from Gateway so they can own them
selves.
Link: no official confirmation
Source: classified
13th July
New Amiga
Apparently, the new Amiga will have a custom chipset, much like
the current one, it'll be able to emulate the current Amiga,
but will not keep the numbering system of the machines (well,
we don't think so). Now all we need to know is what processor
it'll use
Link: none
Source: classified
July 22, 1999 - San Diego California - Today, Amiga announced that they are working closely with Corel Corporation to insure that several of Corel's award winning software applications will be supported on Amiga's new line of products that are scheduled for release later this year. This announcement follows Amiga's recent announcement that they have selected Linux as the OS kernel for the new Amiga Operating Environment. "We are extremely excited about our relationship with Corel and their entire product line", said Jim Collas, President and CEO of Amiga, "This insures that our customers who purchase the new Amiga systems will have world class personal productivity applications such as the upcoming WordPerfect Office for Linux."
Customers have made over 1 million download attempts for Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® since Corel made the product available on their web site last December. "We expected the Linux version to do well," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, Chief Executive Officer and President of Corel, "but one million download attempts is extraordinary. Not only does it speak volumes for WordPerfect, I think it is somewhat indicative of the growing popularity of Linux. We expect the release of WordPerfect Office for Linux will be an even greater success when we release it early next year."
As Amiga approaches the release dates of the new Amiga Operating Environment and the Amiga MCC (Multimedia Convergence Computer), we will be announcing more details on these and other products and their availability dates.
www.amiga.comphase 5 Digital Products has announced it's Amirage K2 computer which they hope to have shipping by the year 2000. Wolf Dietrich says "Based on our license agreement with QNX Software Systems Ltd., we are now able to provide our customers with a powerful realtime OS with all the necessary functionality - and much more - that can make a next- generation multimedia computer fly.
"The lack of a decent OS, which can support our hardware vision, has been the major reason that earlier projects for stand-alone systems at phase 5 had been put on hold. That problem is solved by integrating the QNX Neutrino OS, so we now can push forward our demanding vision of a new powerful computer generation."
Upon reading the press release for myself (which we can't fully reproduce because of copyright) I was quite taken aback by the features that phase 5 say they will implement, and the timescale they intend to implement it in.
According the phase 5, not only with the QNX Neutrino OS be available on the new computer phase 5 are producing, it will also be ported to PowerUP so it will be usable on the "classic" Amiga.
"We are excited that we finally can create a product technology which we could not realize in the past, due to the lack of OS support and a competition with non-existing but announced projects, which we were faced with" says Wolf Dietrich. "The new AMIRAGE K2 design extends the proposed features of our older pre\box project, and contains many elements of the earlier A\BOX concept, but without the neccessity to design customized hardware right now. As the QNX Neutrino OS concept is also in full accordance with our vision of a new OS - in the past and today - we feel that we finally can make the dream of many Amiga users as well as other computer users come true."
Aparrently, the Amirage will not be low cost, but it will be reasonably priced, and planned features include the following:
The software support seems just as impressive.
Note: These specifications are subject to change with ongoing progress in
the computer industry, and will be updated to meet the latest standards.
phase 5 say the Amirage will also be the first fully-featured Personal Network&Media Server that will function as a heart of a new generation of computing.
"AMIRAGE K2 is not designed to only impress with a potential hardware overkill. We do hear a lot about new applications and even revolutions in the computer industry these days. We at phase 5 digital products also believe that computing will differ in the future, and new services will be expected by the users
"But still the necessary hardware functionality counts, to make such new services available. If you e.g. want your multimedia and 3D data streams to appear somewhere else than on your local monitor, than a typical 3D display card that outputs a single high-frequency analog signal, which allows a maximum of 1.5 meters shielded cable, is not very helpful. For such applications, fully digital processing units - as provided with the AMIRAGE processor and coprocessor units - and networking capabilities are needed to process the data and distribute it to any device or appliance that can communicate with the user. The hardware of the AMIRAGE K2, as well as the superior functionality of the QNX Neutrino OS, perfectly meet the requirements of such demanding next-generation applications."
It sounds very promising, and more information can be found at the phase 5 website (www.phase5.de)