# NO. 1 - 2008 - ISSUE 4

- News - Interview - at NASA • Computer in your car? : info Contents

1 Front cover page: Darkness these dark times? «There are a lot of Amiga freaks When the day is over, it is getting colder. in the Croatian Republic» It is getting darker, the sun is setting and With the sound of Ravels Bolero playing 3 ReadMeFirst - Editorial all the creeps of the night gains power of in your ears, your increasing fear fills the the realm of the darkness. Evil forces air like fog over a dark forest, and you 4 Disk.info - News wins terrain, and the hollow wind bears start to escape towards the only rescue 7 Cars and Computers news about a near future filled with that you can see: A cross standing in the - Erlend writes about why you should despair and coldness. hillside. It is not promising you anything, install a computer in your car... the only reason you run towards it, is that

The ages of the good times are gone, left the cross is shining and white, in 10 Amiga at NASA are we with the sorrow and fears worrying complete opposite to the surrounding - Article about use of the Amiga at NASA our minds about what to eat, where to darkness of the night. The thought of 13 Trashcan sleep and where our heads shall find nearing this cross of light fills your heart rest. with promises of peace and love and 14 Interview: Edvision protection from the abandoned ship - Who are Edvision? Interview tells... The sun has settled, the singing birds has nearing the shore, from the ghosts of the 16 Amiga promotion products been silenced, even the easy waves of crew of the ship, and from the fears of the the ocean are awaiting the horrors of the darkness and the night having a tight night. grasp about this moment.

In the horizon of the ocean something As you runs towards the cross, your heart black occurs. It is getting nearer, and is increasingly filled with joy and warm because you are frozen after a long dead feelings, and your body is getting filled fire on the beach that has gone cold, your with feelings of happiness of this shining heart reaches for hope from the sight of symbol being here in this lonley world a this black shadow nearing the shore. good omen for you. Your eyes gets tired staring at this dark spot which forms are getting more visible Your heart cries out for this moment of as the thing comes nearer land. What can love and joy, and you realize that you are this be? Will it bring any hope or light into back in the light, you are once again this long forgotten world of sorrow, under His protection, you are blessed by Editor darkness and coldness? Will it bring love the Lord, you are back in Gods hand. Tommy Stramd to our hearts? [email protected] And as you raise your voice, shouting a ff It is a ship. It is a big ship! With proud «Hallelujah» with fresh air from your full Co-Producer sails and cannons along both sides telling lungs, the sun suddenly is rising. Your Michael Blackburn Heltne stories from the sailings on the seven nightmare is over. The birds starts singing [email protected] seas. But why are the lanterns dark? And once again, the darkness is being chased where is the crew of the ship? away from the ligth of the beams of the Webmasters sun, the sand of the beach is shining from Erlend Kristiansen Your heart is filled with panic as you the light of the morning sun, and the ship [email protected] realize that the ship is abandoned, and is vanished and gone, together with all Stian Strøm you start thinking of what happened to the the fears and the anxiety. [email protected] crew. What gruesome fate has forced them to abandon their ship? This cross is my faith in Jesus. Treasurer Tommy Strand Your lips are shivering, your forehead «You shall have no other god but me.» [email protected] bathing in sweat, your mind is filled with Amiga is not my god. #amiga guide sta anxiety and your feet are loosing their God is. Jesus is Lord. Amen. balance. Is there no hope for the future in

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About this magazine

the #amiga guide is the English sister magazine of the Norwegian Amiga magazine Amigaguiden (the Amiga Guide) which I have been the editor of for 16 years now and running. readme.first the #amiga guide, or #AG for short, is produced mostly using one or several Amiga models, just the way Amigaguiden, or AG for short, has been produced since Rare popularity because of social engineering, 1992. It all started back then. In these times of mass production it is very much thanks to the internets ability to common to produce a lot to get prices connect people across borders and We have a very strong community at IRC, down. Things are being spit out of the geographical distance, across religious and and we want to mention #AmigaWeb and manufacturers machines in a speed that political meanings and gives no respect to #amigaguide especially. Both channels are can impress any hardworking man. Things otherwise known factors of man kind like at the EFnet IRC Network. can be bought for an astonishing small being rich or poor, being good or bad, or sum of money, especially when you think even sexual relationships, sex or the ability We also want to give credits to #amiga of about what effort has been done to of being good and kind or evil and bad. We EFnet, and to give thanks to Opus of produce this little thing. are mostly treated the same way by these #amiga (Hi, Andrew) for giving us his social meeting permission to use the name of this Fabrics are places at the magazine. producing 24 internet, quite hours a day, 7 opposite to the Please visit: days a week, way we meet amigaguide.net and human people irl (in amigaweb.net resources are real life). mostly needed to control the The internets production, or to meeting places sit by a band like Facebook Facts doing mostly the or the same working Norwegian routins over and Nettby, or Cover page: over again, with chatting Design: Tommy Strand no or little applications Produced with: PageStream @ AmigaOne diversity in terms of movements needed by like IRC, MSN, AIM and other instant Content pages: Design: Tommy Strand the worker, causing bad health due to messaging platforms, live their lifes 24 Produced with: muscle stress. hours a day, 7 days a week and the servers Hardware: are working contstantly on serving their AmigaOne G4 XE @ 800 MHz, OS4.0 When the working man and woman gets huge number of public with services of the final, 512 MB RAM back home after work, some time is spent social website. Printers: HP LaserJet 1200 making food, some playing with and caring HP DeskJet 970 Cxi about the children, and some time is spent Numbers gotta be high! Quantity matters! : sitting by the computer connected to the Everything successful gotta be popular! PageStream v. 4.1.5.6 internet. Money matters! All but increasing figures is DirectoryOpus v. 4.16 no good! Digita Organizer v. 2 The internet has a overwhelming variety of No of issues printed: 20 Printed by Johansen & Michalsen, Norway offers that you can dive into and enjoy for WRONG! Love is rare in this world! Quality www.jm-as.no little or no sum of money. Much of it is free, counts more than quantity! Diversity is Number of subscribers atm: 3 whether it be legal or illegal. The internet good! Let us embrace the seldom and rare! has grown, and it has gained a lot of Amiga is rare! Long live Amiga! The views of expressed in this magazine are those of the author of each piece, they do not necesseraily reflect the views of Amiga is a registered trademark, and the Amiga logo, Boing ball logo, AmigaDOS, Amiga the editor or other contributors. , Amiga Workbench, Autoconfig, Bridgeboard and Powered by Amiga are trademarks © Copyright AmigaWeb.net 2008 belonging to Amiga Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are propriety to the respective owners. Reprint or reproduction only with permission.

3 : news disk.info

MorphOS 2.0 - Public Release 3c589.device) that support PCMCIA cards notification, logging and log reloading, The MorphOS development is proud to under AmigaOS4 and MorphOS are now sound alerts, utf8 conversion and even announce the public release of the much available for download. Thanks must go to nudges (they shake the window just like anticipated version 2.0 of MorphOS. Chris McGonagle for testing several on Windows) versions of the OS4 drivers on a PPC- Source: amiga.org You can download a time-limited ( 30 equipped A1200. minutes ), yet full-featured version of Source: amiga.org MSSIAH cartridge delayed MorphOS 2.0. A MorphOS 2.0 key is Mssiah MIDI Cartridge available for 111,11 EUR (includes 19% The long awaited mssiah cartridge , which VAT) as an introductory offer. On Tuesday, Poseidon 4.1 update was expected to ship some weeks/months the 15th of July, the price will go up to 150 Poseidon V4.1 update for Subway, ago has been delayed further due to the EUR (includes 19% VAT). Highway, Algor and Deneb available manufacturer being fully booked for this A new update of Poseidon is available summer. There is no new estimate on full MorphOS 2.0 runs on the 1/2 and today. It can be downloaded using Trident blown production but will happen. the Efika, a PPC mac version is planned online update or from my website Read more on 8bitventures.com but no estimate is given on when or if its http://www.platon42.de Starting from V4.0, Source: amigaweb.net released. Poseidon is no longer keyfile bound – it is only licenced to E3B hardware (and Georg Braun A1000 project MorphOS). You cannot upgrade Poseidon C64 on Norwegian TV What is it? The Georg Braun A1000 is a to V4.x for using it with the Spider, Amithlon The Featured On remake of the , it all apparently or Thylacine, so please don’t attempt to do Norwegian TV Music Magazine started when Georg’s a1000 died. Not so, I will not provide the legacy archives for The Commodore 64's amazing ability show taking no for an answer, he created some downgrading. on norwegian tv This fantastic miracle sort of cross breed, between an ocs amiga Source: amiga.org machine most thought to be dead, has 1000 and an ecs 500+/3000, donor parts risen once again, this time to take over the can be taken from these boards. SabreMSN for AmigaOS3.x world! Well, atleast the music we hear. The PCB costs 60 dollars, cheap a500+ The new MUI based MSN client for OS4 boards pop up from time to time, some which development was started two During this interview, of which Glenn Rune extreme solidering skills required, and months ago now reached AmigaOS3.x! Gallfoss, the artists from which Timbaland accsess to a SMC oven. stole the C64 version of Acidjazz evening, Read more on gba1000.info SabreMSN for OS4 has been in a beta originally made by Janne Suni from phase for some time now and finally Os3.x Finnland, makes some revealing comments PCMICA drivers for OS4 and MorphOS users get this wonderfull client. about the situation today. OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJYOcsBK PCMCIA network drivers The Alpha 20 supports nearly everything MDo Beta versions of prism2.device and the OS4 version had. It has file transfer, Source: amigaweb.net etherlink3.device (a replacement for emoticon support, “user is typing”

4 : news TLSFMem 1.4 back online Time being there are already 14 people on extremely simple and by default requires TLSFMem 1.4 can now again be the list of participators. only a few mouse clicks on the Windows downloaded from platon42.de. However, side. Chris, the developer, has not changed his For information of how to participate, write mind about l eaving the Amiga community. us an email at [email protected] or have a look Amiga Explorer is available as a stand- TLSFMem makes memory allocation over at the BBQ Party news item at NAF site alone package, or as part of twice as fast on the classic amiga, it (sorry, Norwegian text only). Plus Edition, where it can be installed from reduces memory fragmentation and Source: amigaweb.net the CD. generally improves performance. Source: amigaweb.net #AG magazine free PDF Main Features #amiga guide magazine issue 2/3 free PDF AmiKit Script Free PDF issue of #AG is released! - Copy data to and from the Amiga, and AmiKit Linux Wrapper Script (beta) UPDATED! move, rename, delete, format and examine This simple script makes installing AmiKit properties of Amiga files, directories and on Linux and hopefully BSD just as easy as #amiga guide magazine free PDF issue volumes, through the familiar Windows on Windows. 2/3-2007 is released, free for registered Desktop and Explorer interfaces users at AmigaWeb.net It downloads AmiKit v1.4.0 and E-UAE from Write and read ADF (floppy disk image) the AmiKit’s official site and configures #amiga guide magazine issue 2/3 - 2007 is files with a simple drag-and-drop (e.g. everything correctly. finally out with a free PDF issue for all download an ADF file from the internet to registered users of AmigaWeb.net. the PC, then drop it over the Amiga floppy Enjoy the script. disk icon with Amiga Explorer to write the http://topphemmelig.info/~ag/AmiKit- As an editor of this fanzine, I appologize Amiga disk) nix.tar.bz2 for the inconvinience, and promise that we will be back stronger, faster, more furious, Access and copy virtual HDF (hard disk Changes dedicated, frustrated, working hard for you images, or hardfiles) and ROM image files 0.01 to have engagement, dedication, hope, from the Amiga to the PC, very useful for * Initial version. 0.02 future, love and inspiration for our common archiving and emulation purposes * “Ops!” factor reduced by a hundred and future in the Amiga computing platform. probably increased by a thousand. View Amiga-specific file attributes, view * Added uninstall. You can find more information about #AG geometry information for disk partitions, * Added –USER-AGENT=AmiKit-nix- 2/3 - 2007 here, and you can download it and format disks on the Amiga Installer0.02. from here. * Added symlink from to . Run the Windows and the Amiga side on * Now actually working, or so it seems. #amiga guide magazine is copyrighted the same computer to access the content Source: amigaweb.net Tommy Strand, and license includes of ADF and HDF files (requires installation reading, not sharing of this PDF document. of the Amiga side in an NAF Amiga BBQ Party 2008 environment) Norwegian Amiga Association invites to Spread the word, not the file! Source: amigaweb.net BBQ party! Source: amigaweb.net Eric Scwarz Amiga Tribute Norwegian Amiga Association invites to Cloanto’s Amiga Explorer 2008 Brilliant new animation from Eric Schwartz BBQ Party in the land of Giants, in the City New version available Animated Amiga Tribute Beneath the Arctic Circle The software makes it possible to access Another brilliant animation by Eric Norwegian Amiga Association (NAF) invites the resources of an Amiga computer from Schwartz hit youtube some time ago. to “NAF Amiga BBQ Party 2008” in the one or more Windows systems. Land of Giants, Country of Polar Bears, in Eric describes this best: the City beneath the Arctic Circle: Mo i Amiga Explorer 2008 released. Includes The song “Still Alive” is a little past it’s Rana, Norway: Saturday, 2nd of August. new Software Director and support for prime today, and in fact I could have had Amiga Forever 2008. Traditionally, the this up in January, but I’d been trying since There will be held a so-called “blue tour” release of the new Amiga Explorer as then to get usage permission from Valve with unknown and secret destination the included in Amiga Forever precedes by a software, with no response at all except same day which will have an experience to few days the launch of a new version of some positive comment from songwriter offer in terms of nature sightseeing. Amiga Forever itself. The update is free to Jonathan Coulton (Thanks John!). So - I’ll all Amiga Explorer users. just recommend that everyone who likes NAF invites both members, computer The Amiga Explorer networking software the music either buy the game Portal, or freaks and people with symphati for the makes it possible to access the resources the music CD/track downloads from Amiga computer platform to this BBQ of an Amiga computer from one or more Amazon. Hope you enjoy the vid. Party. Windows systems. Configuration is Source: amigaweb.net

5 : news MorphOS: The Lightning OS In this update: How we missed this for a whole day is Comprehencive MorphOS Article beyond me, since just about everyone has A new kernel that fixes outstanding issues been holding their breath once again for A thorough well written article covering just with the Mediator 1200/Voodoo another hit. Read it, eat it, enjoy it, here it is about everything there is on MorphOS combination as well as some other minor A history of the Amiga, part 6: stopping the bugfixes bleeding Small, light weight, fast, flexible, did i http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amiga mention beautiful? And the icing on the Support for all Mediator models, including -history-part-6.ars cake, It’s roughly 50% AmgiaOS. Sounds the new Mediator 1200 TX Source: amigaweb.net like the perfect OS doesn’t it? Well thats what OSnews figured too, so they went Updated and Layers modules that New mini system available! ahead and wrote a six page long article fix a rare occurance of graphics trashing When the myth becomes mini... about it. This article covers just about everything you would want and need to Fixed queue-handler ACube Systems announced the availability know about MorphOS, including some of the highly acclaimed . history amongst other things. Two AREXX-libraries that have been missing in the original release Bassano del Grappa (Italy), 10 February Read full article at: 2008. http://www.osnews.com/story/15209 Updated RealTek 8029 network driver that ACube Systems is pleased to announce Source: amigaweb.net fixes a lockup problem. the availability of the highly acclaimed Minimig. AmigaOS 4.0 update A new version of DvPlayer SE. AmigaOS 4.0 February 2008 update The Minimig can be ordered directly from for CyberStormPPC and BlizzardPPC ACube Systems and soon from other The update is highly recommended for all resellers. Two options are available: VOF have users of either CyberStormPPC or released a new update for AmigaOS 4.0 on BlizzardPPC. As usual, you can find the Fully assembled board with 1GB SD Card CyberStormPPC and BlizzardPPC update in our download area. at the price of 138 EUR. equipped . Fully assembled board with 1GB SD Card and a PSU at the price of 149 EUR. Leuven, Belgium - 23. February, 2008 We once again wish to take this opportunity to reassure our customers that You can order writing a mail to Hyperion Entertainment VOF is pleased to development of Amiga OS 4.x continues [email protected]. announce the immediate availability for apace on a number of platforms. Due to the high number of requests, all download for registered customers of orders will be shipped whithin 7 working another service update of Amiga OS 4.0 Read more at Hyperion Entertainment’s days. which addresses some outstanding issues Website on BlizzardPPC and CyberStormPPC For more information please visit the machines. A history of the Amiga Part 6 ACube Systems homepage. Stopping the bleeding Source: amigaweb.net

Part 6 of this epic tale was published by our friend Mr. Jeremy Reimer yesterday.

The plan for a anchestor I have a multi vitamine pill! We are safe TAKE IT! QUICK! for a while now... Ey’? This is what If something happens to you call a blessing me, Fred is your leader! with bad taste...

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There’s a PC in the car!!! There is no need for a PC in a car... No?(?) Our technician Erlend has been installing a computer in a car.

Photos:

Not hing about this trunk tells there is a computer installed, not until you open the correct doors. Text: Erlend Kristiansen [email protected]

Today everything is full of technology. Our OK, for starters, there is no problem at all do with a computer in the car? Well.... If houses are flooded by technical things. to get room for a computer in a car. You you take a look into the windows of the Even the shower has a computer. The can buy computers in Norway for under cars of a big parking lot, you will discover a fridge informs you when the salad you 5000 NOK (I guess you can also buy few things. There is quite a lot of cars with bought last week should be dismissed to computers in any country for under 5000 navigation units, there are some cars with the eternal hunting grounds. Are you going NOK, which is about 980 USD or about 630 maybe 50 CDs laying around, and it is to the cabin this Eastern? Then you gotta Euro or 500 GBP), which have a height of becoming increasingly more popular with a remember to send an SMS first to start the 6 cm, a width of 25 cm and a depth of 20 DVD player to entertain the children with heating of the cabin. At the same time I am cm. A computer like this you can get room cartoons on the log trip home to granny on sitting and enjoying my new music at my for in some empty space in the trunk of the holiday seasons. dear iPod touch, I am also writing this your car. Now you just stretch cables to a With a computer in the car you can article and is surfing the internet with my touch screen that you fit at your dashboard combine all these functions, plus many iPod. for instance. A 10 inch touch screen cost more, without being ruined, and without under 1800 NOK in Norway (about 350 using a lot of space in the car. A relatively new area of use for computers USD / 230 Euro / 180 GBP) You can also is the car. For the sake of the Lord, what on buy 9 inch portable computers for under Here are some examples of what to use a Earth are you going to do with a computer 3000 NOK (about 590 USD / 380 Euro / computer in the car for: in a car, you might ask. And how will you fit 300 GBP) that you can “nail” to the car, - GPS navigation it? Is there room? And isn’t this way too taking up a minimal room of space. - collect all the music in one place - watch expensive? But here’s a question to answer: What to movies

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- surf the internet (you need for instance you forgot your reservation number for your room at their internet site. Or you even cell phone internet connection) hotel in Birmingham. Lucky you, you are forgot to order a hotel room. In this case - tuning of the engine from the computer connected to the internet, you just connect to the internet and order a (you can tune whenever you want) you simply log in to your hotel room online, together with the other - play computer games email program and things you need. - surveillance (rear backing cam for check the inbox for the mail instance) you received from the hotel The photo shows a Skoda Octavia with a when you ordered the mounted PC. The trunk looks completely If you calculate what the different options innocent, empty and clean, but only until here would have cost you, you come to a you open the correct doors and all the quite interesting conclusion that you save a wires becomes visible. The wiring lot of money. Let us look at the price of upfront to the screen is well hidden, each option: so it looks just like the computer has GPS: 200 Euro been there from the factory. At the DVD-player: 250 Euro dashboard you can see the Computer tuning: 500 Euro touchscreen very clearly. Of course it Gaming console: 200 Euro is possible to mount more screens, so Rear view cam: 350 Euro that the kids can see DVD at the Sum: 1500 Euro same time that you navigate the car from town to town. These functions cost by themself about 1500 Euro!!! And you also should have in I really think I am going to save some mind all the other advantages of having money myself doing this, because as a computer in your car. Just imagine you I have been writing about this, doing are travelling by car during your research and even installed a holidays, and you wonder of the shortest computer in a car at work for a road from Liverpool to Birmingham. customer; I just see more advantages Then, instead of looking up the road and areas of use the more I am maps, you simply punch start and end thinking about this. place in the navigation software you have preinstalled on your computer, and Has the time come to install a you are being guided all the way. When computer in YOUR car? you start from Liverpool you realize that

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9 : amiga

Amiga screen displays live user data from the orbiting space shuttle!

He continued “We then looked at the PC, but the hardware architecture was really as bad then as it is now. So Hal was the first one who brought out one of the Amiga Amiga at NASA 1000's and we played with it.” The Amiga was for a few yeers ago Hal Greenlee added; “I brought it out and in daily use at NASA space center showed it to Dave Brown and about a month or two didn’t pass before Dave had one of his own. We were both talking to Skip, we need to get some of these babies and find out if we can make them work for Report : Amiga at NASA (Article written by of data from each spacecraft; during this job.” Bob Castro - march 1999) ground tests, through the countdown and liftoff and out into space. There is no room Gary Jones replied; “And Commodore was “So the next time you see a space shuttle for error in the acquisition and processing easy to work with back then, when we launch, you can tell your friends which of this data. It must be accurately asked for documentation they sent us a is rated for mission- calculated and reliably sent from the stack of documentation about four feet critical use in the United States space hanger to distant space centers around the high. They were willing to tell us everything program.” world participating in the mission. All in real about their machine. Since we had to time and without interruption. Since Hanger design some custom hardware to go Amiga owners know their machines can do AE also supports some telemetry from the inside, it really helped to know exactly how a lot with a little. Because of its flexible and space shuttle, that importance is even everything worked.” integrated video-friendly hardware as well greater since human lives are on the line. as its tight, efficient multi-tasking operating “It just turned out that it was a good system, Amigas can be found doing things machine. The things that make a machine such as driving stadium scoreboards, Thanks to the efforts of Space Coast Amiga good for playing games tend to make it interactive kiosks, agricultural irrigation member, Hal Greenlee and retired Air good for processing and displaying data. systems and the flight schedule displays at Force Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Johnson, Because you’ve got some of the same Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport. Amiga Atlanta was allowed an exclusive problems. You need an television tour of Hanger AE during the that very efficient, very fast and the Amiga The Amiga was chosen for those flight of the space shuttle Endeavour to the has that and has got very little overhead. applications because its reliable hardware Russian MIR space station. That’s what makes it nice; we don’t load and low-overhead software means less down the system running the overhead we down time for those crucial jobs. But most Gary Jones, the principle systems engineer can just process the data.” Amiga owners would be suprised to learn for NASA’s software systems at Cape just how much their machines’ reliability is Canaveral told us the Amigas take in all the “Most of our customizing is hardware trusted to carry out one of the toughest telemetry data from the spacecraft, scale it customizing. The Amiga operating system jobs in the world- or off of it. by applying coefficients up to fifth order is flexible enough we have to drop into polynomials and convert the data back to assembly only once in a while to initialize For more than a dozen years, Amiga engineering units for display to the some of the special boards we use, but computers have been hard at work at Cape engineers working the launch. otherwise the operating system is fine we Canaveral’s Hanger AE supporting the Gary went on to tell us that their first don’t do anything unusual with it. We use it launches of every American spacecraft choice was the , but as it was a just like it is and build hardware for our including the space shuttle. closed system, Apple wouldn’t give NASA interfacing requirements because we have enough information to get into it at the level to pull the data out of the data in this Since after all, this IS rocket science, that was needed. Talk about blowing a building and put the data back in.” NASA must downlink a tremendous amount marketing opportunity! 10 : amiga

Gary Jones (Left) and Hal Greenlee (Right) in Hanger AE, Cape Canaveral Air Station

Seven Amigas are online assigned to Amiga to an archive and then transferring the Amiga, we remote it to them on another operational support, six are dedicated to them to a Sun machine. With just a few Amiga which then pulls up data and sends routing data to remote space centers and minor adjustments to the top of the it to their PC which controls an another six are reserved for hardware and program and the declare statements, I environmental chamber so that they can software development. could compile and run it on the Sun. I did duplicate the environmental conditions on all the debugging on the Amiga and then the shuttle down here except for gravity. So The spacecraft supported by the Amigas took it to the Sun.” that’s their control group. They can have a include; all of the Atlas-Centaurs, Delta II group of animals or insects on the shuttle and Delta III, the Orbital Sciences Gary Jones; “If its not a PC, NASA gives us in zero G and the same animals in the Pegasus, Lockheed-Martin Athena, a a lot of grief when we try to buy anything to same environmental conditions with normal couple different models of the Titan, GOES go with the Amigas. They want us to buy G about five hangers down the road from and GPS spacecraft data and some user PC’s and run Windows 95 and NT. We here. And the Amiga data is what they use data off the space shuttle. keep trying to tell them its not fast enough to control their growth chamber to keep the so they tell us to buy DEC Alphas. We tell environment the same.” Because of way the Amiga is laid out and them its too expensive. They don’t like the because the software is all tied together, if Amiga, it doesn’t cost enough.” the bit rate isn’t too high, they can actually support more than one spacecraft at a time During our January 1998 visit to Hanger in the same Amiga. A multi-tasking, multi- AE, the space shuttle Endeavour had just spacecraft personal computer! finished retrieving David Wolff from the Russian Mir space station. Even though the Amigas play an important role in handling telemetry, they are Gary Jones; “This is data coming down versatile enough to interface with other from the shuttle the STS-89 flight that was NASA computers. Augie Friscia of Boeing docked with the MIR up until yesterday. Aerospace told us; “I figured out a way of This is some of the environmental transferring files from the Amiga to a Sun parameters that the life sciences people development system by converting the source files I had on the use. They take this data, we process it with

11 : amiga In the NASA Amigas, custom interface an effect or two just by way of making the support as other microcomputers, Gary hardware is built and used inside. But the tape look more interesting. But mainly the remained cautious about Gateway’s most important difference between their Toaster is used to overlay time or camera purchase of the Amiga platform. Amigas and ours is on the outside. An angle; some kind of text data that they armor-plated power button was built out of want to add to the picture.” “We’ve gotten a little feedback from Hal on a 23-pin video connector because the Gateway’s purchase of the Amiga. If we engineers were concerned that the crucial Three hundred video monitors are fed by a start seeing that they’re shipping some switch was just a little too exposed on the routing system large enough to run a hardware we’ll get interested then. But it’s front of the Amiga case! ommercial TV network. In addition to video, an uphill battle trying to convince NASA it can also route data over the entire space that they want to go with something other To prove how useful even stock Amigas center. than one of the standard, accepted can be, we found out that although the platforms.” 4000's have Workbench 3.1, the 2000's are Future plans for the NASA Amigas include still running 2.1 because the advantages of supporting another model of the Titan So the next time you see a space shuttle the newer operating system were not really rocket. They are also in the process of launch, you can tell your friends which needed. writing software for the next generation personal computer is rated for mission- Delta rocket called the Delta III. The critical use in the United States space Even after seeing Amigas hard at work in American Atlas-Centaur rocket is program. the telemetry lab, another surprise was scheduled to have Russian engines found in the television center. Hal installed onboard that will also need new Note: this article was based on a ten Greenlee; “We have a toaster system. We Amiga telemetry software. Gary’s team will minute videotape taken during Amiga add titles during the launch. We might do also build a new display capability for the Atlanta’s visit to Hanger AE. Contact Bob users that will be driven by the Amiga. Castro (bcastro AT mindspring POINT com) “We’ll send them the data over an for details. system, and they’ll use PC’s just to do Special thanks also go to Amiga Atlanta Amiga 4000's photographed displays.” member Mike Ellenberg who grabbed the at work during Jan. 1998 shuttle still frames from the video you in this mission to Russian Mir. Although not as easy to purchase and article.

12 : our sick world Trashcan

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AmigaLight future version with AmigaOS6

13 : interview development labels, the first of which is called “Lower Mars”.

Why did you settled on founding Edivision ?

PR: We had been negotiating with some console publishers and got tired of the politics so we decided to create a company we could control ourselves. SH: We knew we wanted to create a software company. We were looking into console games. Though when Edivision we got the opportunity to jump into something new, like the Amiga DE, Interview with Edivision from Obligement Magazine we couldn’t resist.

How many people are currently working at Edivision (full time or/and Interview with Edivision (Interview now many of the best applications contractors) ? realized by Lionel Menou and from and games on other platforms come Obligement 31 - january 2002) from former Amiga developers. I like PR: There are currently only 3 of us the Amiga community because the part-time. (We all have to keep our Could you introduce yourself, and people who make it up were able to day jobs until the DE makes us the two other founders of Edivision ? recognized and chose the millionaires :P ) Although many superiority of the Amiga platform (long) weeks we all put in more time PR: My name is Patrick Roberts and compared to competitors who had after-hours on Edivision projects I’m 33. My most famous better marketing. That spirit still than we do at our current day jobs. achievement is surviving making exists today in the community... we Disney’s Dinosaur, were I was an all know how messed up Where are you located ? effects supervisor. mainstream computing is now and SH: Steven Haun, 35 and my most know it could be better. PR: Studio City, CA. (Part of Los famous achievement is being able to JE: A 500 as well. Amigas were Angeles County/the greater Los survive Hollywood so far. certainly ahead of their time. Angeles area). JE: Jeremy Engleman, 29 and I suppose that would have to be Are you still using an Amiga, and in Could you describe the working on Riven: The Sequel to this case, what is your current “atmosphere” at Edivision ? Myst. configuration ? PR: Virtual :P (we don’t have offices How did you discovered Amiga PR: Due to space limitations I had to yet). computer and why are you still loan my last Amiga to a friend. It SH: Curious. We wait to see what interested in Amiga Community ? was an A3000/040-25/CyberGFX. will happen in the AmigaDE world. JE: I still have a 1200 actually, but JE: Hopeful. That the platforms can PR: The first Amiga I had was a 500 do not use it at all-more of a support and facilitate the kinds of (couldn’t afford a 1000 so I just had museum piece really. things we would like to do. to drool over friends’). It was the natural progression for me as before Where does the name Edivision You were planning to create 3 I had a C64, Vic20, and (at work) a come from ? development labels. Could you talk PET. The Amiga community created about those labels ? What is software far ahead of its time. Even PR: Edivision is a parent LLC for our 14 : intervie currently developed for each ones ? negotiating with a couple of Jackpot! when Sharp releases their companies to license titles. When PDA. PR: We still plan to create 3 labels. that happens we will start outside As we grow and bring on staff it will staffing. At some point in the future Are you planning to release games help organize development. we also want to be able to serve as adapted for other platforms that “Jackpot!” is being developed under an incubator for garage developers. PDA ? “Lower Mars” which will primarily PR: Possibly in the future, but for create first-rate original What are the kind of games suited now we’re just concentrating on entertainment titles. We have a for PDA market, which seems to be PDA titles. utility label which will come next- really peculiar ? that project is currently in R&D Could you talk about your co- phases and looks to be very PR: PDA owners buy games that operation with Amiga Inc ? exciting. Finally we will put any are commonly familiar (don’t need a games we license under a third lot of instructions) and can be PR: Amiga has been great providing label. played in short spurts. Current golf us with support. As for our part back, and casino titles are among the we’ll be giving Amiga license to Could you talk especially about the most popular for these reasons. distribute many of the tools and slot game you released screenshots libraries we create as open-source few weeks ago on amiga.org ? What is your foresight for the and free for commercial development of the PDA market ? development. We also look to grow PR: Jackpot! is our first title. It’s a this relationship even more in the electronic casino simulator featuring PR: As the machines become more future. slot machines, video cards, and powerful and cheaper I think they video slots. There will be a total of will be what Gameboy fans move up “Three people from Disney” made 10 different games in the virtual to when they get older. some concept design of hardware casino. We have some really really for Amiga Inc, some months ago. fun game designs and Jeremy has What do you think about other Are you those people ? created fantastic graphics for the development platform, for instance machines. Our design goal was to Linux on SL-5000 ? PR: I was one of them. Michael create a casino game that would be Daugherty and Archie Agote were entertaining for both gamers and PR: As opposed to the AmigaDE, the other two. non-gamers, and I think we’ve done they lock you in to a platform. With a good job to that end. Virtual the DE we can create a title that will Do you have interest in other Amiga casinos are among the most popular run on not only the most popular related project (AmigaOne, OS4, titles on PDAs and we think ours will current platforms, but also any and also MorphOS/Pegasos) ? be better than any of current crop. capable platform in the future. This gives us a tremendous market SH: Due to limited resources, right When will we see first Edivision advantage over competitors who now we’re focused just on AmigaDE products ? would need to port their titles for and even only AmigaDE PDA. In the new platforms. The Amiga DE is future if resources are available and SH: We have to wait until AmigaDE also much less expensive than most it makes financial sense we would. PDA hardware is available to the commercial middleware licenses, public, which should be Q1/Q2 which provide only some of the A message for our readers ? 2002. Jackpot! will be released at cross-platform benefits of the SH: Stayed tuned ! roughly the same time. AmigaDE.

Are you currently looking for game Are you planning to advertise for developers ? your products in a near future ?

PR: Not right now. We are currently PR: Yes. We will be marketing

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