Workbench August 2002 Issue 183 OS 4 Feature List Inside !!!

Protect your investment !! Check those Batteries !! AUG’s Resident Tech Tells You how!! More Amithlon News! Xine Multi media Bill Speaks !! player coming News from the USA AmiWest to Amithlon!! Amiga Show !!!

August 2002 Workbench 1 Editorial Ho ho ho... what a month. Here I was, near the end of the Workbench deadline and I had hardly any decent news.When suddenly bang... out of the Editor blue, I’m up to my neck in Ami news. Tony Mulvihill 0415 161 271 We have news of updates for Amithlon, news of a new multimedia player for [email protected] Amithlon, the feature set for OS4 has been published, as well as a bit of extra Contributions news from Ben Hermans of Hyperion, and Amiga Inc have spoken at the Contributions can be soft copy (on floppy½ disk) or USA Amiwest show. hard copy. It will be returned if requested and On the AUG front, the financial report has been prepared and published in accompanied with a self- addressed envelope. prep for next months AGM. Plus one of AUG’s inititives for this coming The editor of the Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter year is to promote the group at swap meets. Tony Mulvihill Workbench retains the right to edit contributions for clarity and length. bringing in a production model of the Send contributions to: Amiga Users Group Thylacine Amiga Zorro USB card. P.O. Box 2389 Seaford Victoria 3198 We many even be able to demonstrate [email protected] it in operation. Advertising Advertising space is free Plus well have all the usual Amiga for members to sell private items or services. news brought to us by AUG’s For information on Meeting Chair David Myers. commercial rates, contact: Tony Mulvihill 0415 161 2721 [email protected] Last Months Meeting Next Months Meeting July 21st 2002 September 15th 2002 Deadlines Workbench is published Great meeting last month. Good It’s the annual AGM meeting!!! each month. The deadline attendance. Lots of things to see and for each issue is the 1st Tuesday of the month of experiment with. Our assistant co- Membership Renewals publication. ordinator Peter Margerison brought Membership renewals have been in his amplifier and speakers and was Reprints slowing trickling in. Those of you All articles in Workbench demoing Prayer II playing MP3’s are Copyright 2002 the who haven’t yet renewed will receive Amiga Users Group Inc. We also did a bit of networking and a reminder with your issue of unless otherwise indicated. played some LAN AmigaQuake. Articles may be reproduced Workbench. Remember it’s your for noncommercial purposes if accompanied by membership of AUG that makes a credit line including the This Months Meeting AUG the group it is today. original authors name and the words. August 18th 2002 Reprinted from Workbench I’ll be demoing encoding MP3’s with Annual General Meeting the newsletter of the Amiga Users Group. SecondSpin on Amithlon. Fellow Next month will be our http://www.aug.org.au AUG member Merv will be bringing Annual General Meeting. Disclaimer in his PPC powered A3000 so we can The AGM is where committee The views expressed in the do a bit of head to head speed Amiga Users Group Inc. positions are voted on and new newsletter Workbench are checking. Which machine will win? directions for the group discussed. those of the authors and do Amithlon or the PPC A3000 beast. not necessarily represent Also a reminder that all current the views of the editor or You’ll have to be there to find out..... committee members are required to the AUG committee. be in attendance. Scott of Boing.Net will possibly be More info next month.

August 2002 Workbench 2 In This Issue Bytes & Pieces Headliners 1 Editorial 2 The only thing Amithlon slowly increases Group News 2 holding back the number of CPU cycles it Bytes & Pieces 3 Amithlon is an ties up in a non-productive unresolved CPU intensive loop till it gets OS4 Features 4 to about 94% of CPU usage. licensing issue with AmiWest News 5 (takes about 20 min). If you Tech Talk 6 Picasso 96. pay your $99 you get a key Xine MultiMedia 8 Everything else is go and has that removes this throttle. AUG Finances 10 been for at least the last Imagine millions of Amithlon Ben Hermans OS4 11 month. How long before demo CD’s on magazine Picasso give the green light? I covers all over the world! Future Tech 12 don’t know. Ask Picasso? Dealers 14

Everything: setup, drivers, Directory 15 I do know that Bernie has ease of use, , etc... programmed his way out of has been improved in About The Group 16 more than one corner. I also Amithlon 2. Australian Designed know that Bernie specializes in graphics. If Picasso aren’t BTW: Amithlon will be careful they may lose a nice getting a new name! The old little licensing agreement. name might have some For Bernie such a move intellectual property issues would simplify his licensing attached that are better markedly plus significantly discarded before they become improve his income. problematic. Bernie seems to

This is all speculation on my like Amigator! part. Bernie gave no indication that he was likely Imagine an alli-Gator with to wander down this path... Bill Gates or M$ in its jaws? but he might? Jump now I’m sure you can think of a guys! The grass is greener on few more? $134.95 +GST + S&H Bernies side of the fence! Michael Czajka http://thylacine.boing.net The new demo version of [email protected] I have just made the third Amithlon contrib pack available on www.amithlon.net. This one has a couple of new patches, a small correction to the previously released fpu patch, as well as replacement serial and gfx drivers. It also includes a bunch of small useful utilities, most of which were posted to this list at some time, but never collected in a handy archive. As always, you can find it in the “Updates” section on the site. While this archive should have something for everyone, it is especially interesting for people who can only use VESA mode for their display — the replacement gfx driver allows resolution and depth switching even on “unsupported” cards... Enjoy, and keep the feedback coming, Bernie Meyer Amithlon Author

August 2002 Workbench 3 OS4 Feature List

Listed below are the management modules that make up the Optional core of AmigaOS 4. Most memory protection of the OS modules WarpOS backwards (including the kernel) are compatibility finished and being tested internally by the OS 4 Just in Time development team. (JIT) 68K emulation Current work centers around and Reaction, 2D/3D PPC native drivers, A1 Bios, additional TCP/IP stack & kernel functionality (virtual PPP drivers addressing and page-based memory handling) and the fastest on the integration of the 68K platform emulation into the system. Re- Here are the modules that implementation of make up AmigaOS 4: the Amiga file system (FFS2) PPC native arithmetically for PPC optimised version of Second Generation layers.library (Exec SG) PPC native CD Filesystem (3D driver system) Exec is the kernel of the with limited Mount AmigaOS and is currently Rainier support (use your OpenGL 1.3 support (Mesa written in 68K assembly. CDRW as a floppy) 4.0)

The following features Recovery and Salvage tools PPC native RTA system are planned for ExecSG: for FFS2 and SFS based on AHI

Hardware abstraction PPC native CD back-up tool with Soundblaster Live! layer (HAL) Drivers Virtual addressing (for OS 4 will include a automatic stack enlargement simple tool which allows the PPC native GUI system etc.) user to back-up files by (Intuition and Reaction) Page-based memory burning them to an ISO 9660 handling (less fragmentation CD which also allows for PPC native shell and more efficient) exchanging data between Virtual memory systems) PPC native version of New library interface PPC native RTG system “Amidock” Resource tracking and Picasso 96 V3 PPC native utility for

August 2002 Workbench 4 News From AmiWest Bill McEwen speaks at OS4 Feature List AmiWest 2002. This is a From page 4. short transcript from just one of his show speeches. can begin testing ourselves. archiving and de-archiving Now, real quick, there’s a lot of Now, to the update, I got this from fuzz, and all kinds of fun... I SCSI drivers for onboard Ben literally just before I left. So, wouldn’t say attacks but some (UW) SCSI controllers most OS modules including the interesting volleys going on out kernel are finished, and being there about Amithlon. AmigaInput API (for tested internally by the OS4 Amithlon 2.0 is 100% legal, is multimedia controller devices) development team. Current work centres around Intuition and 100% signed and they have a license from us. The other guys USB stack ReAction, 2D/3D drivers, the “AmigaOne” BIOS and additional don’t, they never signed their already adapted for the license, a year after them shipping kernel functionality, virtual Highway and Subway addressing, page-based memory their products we are yet to receive any royalties due to us, and they hardware handling, and 68k emulation are the ones who have illegal So, what happened was, with the copies out there. PPC native datatypes

extra time... If you remember, New HDToolbox (”Media some time ago we had 4.0, 4.2, et I’ll make it very clear, that no c. Basically, everything that was in matter what you hear out there, the Toolbox”) reality is they don’t have a license, 4.2 is now in 4.0. So it will be a Support for stand-alone new OS that will run Bernie Meyer does. So all copies on PPC hardware. So that will of Amithlon 2.0 are absolutely TrueType/OpenType fonts allow us some flexibility, some legal. Now we’ll probably do a name change, because to be honest Web-browser (Ibrowse 2.3) growth opportunity, and some I don’t like the name Amithlon. other opportunities we haven’t MUI PPC (for legacy had... for... Because we were That is the only change you’ll see there, we’re planning to do all applications) expecting that another year from kinds of stuff with it in the future. now. So, while a real big pain in Reading/printing of PDF the butt, the good news is that it’s So, beyond what you read out files here, it’s working, and all the other there, on the boards and the goodies are on their way. So we nonsense and people willing to PPC native rewrite of DOS expect that after the next 60 days throw a bunch of crap up and see library that external testing will begin what sticks, the reality is that they happening so you guys can check (Haage & Partner) don’t have a PPC native movieplayer it out, and in the next few weeks I license. They haven’t had a license expect to have a lot more and unfortunately now we have to “Action” with DivX and information for you and we expect go the ugly route, you know we’ve MPEG4 support to have a machine in house so we been trying for over a year to get it cleaned up the nice way. So PPC native devices

Amithlon is legal and they’re not. So, enjoy Amithlon, and and we’ll Generic PPC native PCI have some other stuff going after library that and you’ll see some more answers later tonight

Thank you. Bill McEwen

August 2002 Workbench 5 Amiga Tech Talk

By David Myers. Commodore-made are facility that can handle old now over 8 years old, it is batteries and other similar This is the first in a series of important that the batteries are materials. articles dealing with Amiga checked, and if necessary The photo shows a typical hardware issues which may be replaced. leaking battery in an A2000. If of interest to most users. Some From my experiences, over this picture won’t convince will be of a DIY type, where 90% of all Amigas now have you to check your own battery, you will need the right tools leaking batteries, so it is vital then nothing will! As you can and a knowledge of you check your battery see the leakage is very electronics. Other articles will without delay. If you don’t, extensive. One end of the simply provide some your Amiga will stop working battery was coated with a background information, and one day and it may not be white crystalline “fuzz” and hopefully will be of interest to possible to repair it as part of you can see the extent of the all. the motherboard may be leakage on the surface of the My first article has been dissolved away!. You have motherboard. It even adapted from a page on my been warned! penetrated into the CPU website , and I consider it socket and was starting to Some Amigas such as the important enough to be the corrode the CPU pins. A4000 use a multilayer first article. It deals with that “sandwich” construction on As you can imagine, it is very ticking time-bomb in almost their motherboards, which difficult to clean it out all Amigas - the dreaded clock means that the internal properly from under all those battery. conductors can be eaten away, parts. All Amiga models use Most Amigas use a even if the surface looks OK. similar batteries. They are all rechargeable 3.6 volt NiCd It is almost impossible to the same size and shape. They battery to keep the clock repair such damage. all leak eventually, especially operating when the Amiga is Furthermore, the chemicals if the Amiga is not used switched off. These batteries from the battery can even regularly. So, if you intend to deteriorate with age and start “wick” along the pins of ICs store your Amiga for a long to leak corrosive fluids after and work their way inside the time (more than a few several years. These fluids will IC, completely destroying it. months), I strongly advise you eat away the copper tracks of to either replace or remove the Note that these batteries circuit boards and destroy ICs battery first. contain cadmium, which is and other components, ruining toxic. Some 3rd party devices may your Amiga. PCs don’t have that problem as they only last It is strongly advised to have a “coin” type battery. at most a couple of years thoroughly wash your hands if These are lithium and are before they are thrown out and you come in contact with any unlikely to leak. upgraded, long before their leaking matter from these If you have a leaking battery, batteries have a chance to batteries. For this reason it is it is vital it be removed leak. also advised to not simply immediately. Ideally it needs throw it out in the garbage but As even the newest to be replaced by a new one. to dispose of it in a recycling

August 2002 Workbench 6 Amiga Tech Talk

To do this will require some If you are soldering skills. still using a NiCd battery, Remove the motherboard from you may the case (after disconnecting want to the mains power!). Unsolder consider the old battery and clean all mounting it signs of spilt liquid from the remotely and area with some electronic running wires cleaning fluid or methylated to the spirits. An old toothbrush is motherboard useful here. Make sure you try so that if it to scrub thoroughly in all the leaks again, it places where the battery fluid will cause PCB. Clean off all traces of collects. less damage. It is also possible gunk as outlined above. The Finally scrub again with to replace the battery with a Amiga will continue to electronic cleaning solvent or lithium one. These last at least function with the exception methylated spirits. Don’t 10 years and do not leak. They that the clock will need to be forget to check underneath the are not rechargeable, so the set each time on power-up. PCB as well. charging circuit must be disabled, usually by placing a Some A3000 versions have To finish off, submerge the diode in series with the some system settings stored in whole PCB in hot water with a battery. There is a file on battery-backed RAM, they dash of detergent and work in called “lithbatt.” may need to be input each thoroughly with a small with the details. time on power up. A500 paintbrush. Repeat and finish owners with the A501 with a long rinse in the hottest If you don’t have the required expansion will need to remove water you can stand. Shake the soldering iron and the tin shield around their board vigorously and leave it replacement battery, or you A501 before checking the to dry in a warm place for a don’t have an electronics battery. day or two. knowledge, take the board immediately to someone who Feel free to bring your Amiga Solder in the new battery, does. An AUG meeting is a to an AUG meeting if you observing the same polarity as good place to start. can’t check it yourself. the old one. It is a good idea to We can inspect it and use one of the newer To minimise the risk of any recommend a course of action technology Nickel-Metal damage getting worse in the for you. We will also remove Hydride (NiMH) batteries as meantime, I strongly advise the battery for you if required, they are far less likely to leak. removing the battery by breaking it off. but note that we don’t have Most Jaycar Electronics shops stocks of replacement sell the appropriate type of Bend it back and forth batteries. NiMH battery lengthwise gently until the battery breaks away from the http://www.starnet.com.au/davem (cat No. SB-1609) /amiga.html

August 2002 Workbench 7 Amithlon Multimedia

To complement Bernie Xine Overview like AVI, MOV, ASF and Meyer’s recent Amithlon Xine is a free, gpl-licensed others. These file formats update release, Bernie has video player for unix-like don’t define how video and demonstrated a soon to be systems. The software is based audio are encoded but how the released port of Xine. Xine on a modular, advanced multi- encoded data is mixed is a multiplatform threaded architecture together (multiplexed). An multimedia player he is composed of: AVI file, for example, may developing for Amithlon have Divx4 video and MP3 use. Scott Pringle of 1. xine-engine audio, MPEG2 video and AC3 Boing.Net had this to say The core of xine is responsible audio, etc. about the demonstration of for synchronizing audio, video Xine. and overlays. It provides high 4. decoder plugins performance comunication These plugins receive the Scott Pringle functionality between encoded data (video, audio or subtitles) and deliver them Xine is a multimedia player, modules, logging capability, unified configuration system, uncompressed to the engine to we watched 2 DVD’s at the be played or shown. Examples same time and also tried On Screen Display support, fast MMX/MMXEXT/SSE of encoding formats (also Quake and a DVD and called “codecs”) are MPEG2, shapshifter and a DVD. All memory transfers, among other important things. MP3, Ogg Vorbis and with no slowdown. We had Windows Media Video 7/8. some power leftover to playback MP3s. We were also 2. input plugins They provide input data to 5. output plugins able to send each app to a xine runs on a wide variety of different screen which was xine and may be seen as an abstraction layer for DVDs, hardware and operating very nice, if a little confusing systems therefore it need to at first. Hows that for files, http, pipes, VCDs so that the rest of xine does not need have different means of AmigaOS showing how to displaying video and audio. make effective use of the to know from where the data is coming. These plugins are like drivers, hardware. they talk directly to the system 3. demuxer plugins so xine-engine does not need Read on to find out a few of to handle the details. Some the highlights of XINE. These plugins are responsible for understanding file formats video output plugins have been developed to utilize

August 2002 Workbench 8 Amithlon Multimedia several hardware capabilities like color conversion, scaling Bernie Meyer and refresh sync to provide the demonstrating xine best multimedia experience with five monitors and at the same time, being driven by requiring less CPU Amithlon processing.

General features o Skinnable GUI o Navigation controls (seeking, pause, fast, slow, next chapter, etc) o On Screen Display features o DVD and external subtitles o DVD/VCD menus (requires o Configuration dialog o Cinepak external plugin) o Aspect ratio changing o ms video 1 (msvc) o Audio and subtitle channel o Fullscreen display o ms rle selection o DTS passthrough o Sorenson Video o Closed Caption support o TV fullscreen support using o creative yuv (cyuv) o Brightness, contrast, audio nvtvd o roq video, via external volume, hue, saturation o Streaming playback support win32 codecs (not included in adjusting (requires hardware, xine): driver support) Some of the xine supported o Indeo 3.1-5.0 o Playlists video formats. o Window Media Video 8 o Image snapshot o On2 VP3.1 o Audio resampling Video codecs supported: o I263 o Software deinterlacing o mpeg 1/2 algorithms o mpeg 4 Audio codecs supported: xine playing a DVD (aka o mpeg audio (layer 1,2,3) OpenDivX o a/52 (aka ac3, dolby digital) ) o aac (used in .mp4 files) o ms o dts (via external decoder) mpeg 4 o vorbis o divx o pcm 3/4/5 o adpcm (MS/IMA/DVI) o o roq dpcm, via external windows win32 codecs (not included in media xine): video 7 o DivX audio (WMA) o motion o MS GSM jpeg o Intel Music Coder

August 2002 Workbench 9 AUG Financial Report Amiga Users Group Financial Report 2001-2002 Opening Balance 2042.46 Add Income Memberships 1732.00 Meetings 344.20 AUG Promotional and Auction Sales 2862.00 Other - (Coke sales, munchie sales, misc sales) 235.50 Income for the Year 5173.70 Total Funds 7216.16 Less expenses Workbench 1030.75 Meeting Room Hire 470.80 Insurance 526.00 Auction Share Megatron 525.00 Sydney Comdex Promotion 191.45 Sundry expenses 150.40 Bank Fees 41.00 Total Expenditure 2935.40 Closing Balance 4280.76

It’s been a great year for AUG. Memberships have been increasing, the amount of people attending meetings is increasing and we consolidated our position as Australia’s largest Amiga User Group by far. The coming year will promise to be even better with the arrival of the AmigaONE, OS 4 and Amithlon V2.Again AUG will be at the forefront of Amiga developments. Last Months Meeting Pictures Yet another good meeting last month. Vice from Comprepair was in attendance with a table of goods to purchase. It’s always a good idea to bring some cash to the meetings as you never know what you might miss out on. We also set up a basic network and demoed Lan AmigaQuake and FTP daemon configuration and file transfer.

August 2002 Workbench 10 Hyperion On OS4

In this short interview This is why we intend to tinkering with the actual with Ben Hermans of supply a small ISO 9660 back- datatype-system yet (this is Hyperion, Amiga fan up utility for interchanging planned for 4.1 where we will John Davis posed several data with other systems. introduce streaming support in the datatype system but there questions to clarify a John Davis: BTW, I’m too we are planning for couple of aspects of the pleasantly surprised by this as backwards compatibility). development of OS4. it was totally unexpected. Would I be right in thinking John Davis: Networking John Davis that it’s the first OS out of the Capability. Obviously TCP/IP [email protected] box, with CD-MRW support has been mention as being built-in? improved. What about general John Davis: PPC native CD networking to other Filesystem with limited Mount Ben Hermans: I would not go machines? Rainier support (use your that far as we don’t adhere CDRW as a floppy) I’m fully completely to the Mount Ben Hermans: We hope to aware what CD-MRW is, but Rainier specification. include a new port of Samba I’m just wondering what is by Olaf Barthel with OS 4.0. limited? This is planned for 4.1 where a UDF filesystem will be John Davis: Well, carry on Ben Hermans: I should first introduced. with the good work. Hopefully of all point out that the CD the fruits of all your hard filesystem supports UDF John Davis: PPC native work will see the light of day bridge which basically allows datatypes. Is there a list of the soon. you to read all current DVD’s. datatypes that have been done/ are to be done? Ben Hermans: Still plenty of The Mount Rainier support work to go around but we’re will be limited (initially) in Ben Hermans: The datatypes getting there. the sense that you can only use are being handled by Oliver it with FFS2. Roberts (WarpDT’s) and will Best regards, basically be OS 4 compiled A CD-RW may be formatted versions of these datatypes Ben Hermans with FFS2 and files can be (JPEG, GIF, PNG etc.) Managing partner Hyperion written to it/read from it in Entertainment FFS2 format. John Davis: Also, will 68k versions still work? There are This isn’t compliant with full lord knows how many Mount Rainier which calls for DataTypes out there and a UDF filesystem to be used. surely you’re not converting them all? UDF formatted CD-RW’s could be read by any platform Ben Hermans: They should unlike FFS2 formatted CD- still work as we are not RW’s.

August 2002 Workbench 11 Future Tech

creatures and cool toys. As are actually usable. In fact to Floppy TV & usual in these type of movies produce them requires very only one Astronaut makes it high heat and a vacuum, both back to the ship but the movie of which are a high computer itself was not what fascinated contributing factor to the yield me. What did fascinate me of usable LCD displays was some of the cool toys the produced. displays Astronauts were equipped with. Now lets take a step to the By Tony Mulvihill future. In the near future, One of these toys in particular possibly only a few years, was a computer screen that you’ll walk into a store to Have you ever rolled up much like a holland purchase a display and it will seen the movie blind and was around the size be printed out for you. You’ll of a gladwrap box. roll it up and take it home. “The Red Planet” Sound too far fetched ? Some Guess what? These types of of the giants of technology are Probably not. The movie screens do actually exist in already producing just such wasn’t that notable even development and prototype displays. The thing that makes though it was filmed here in form. all this happen is the new Australia and stared Val developments of plastic Kilmer. We’ve pretty much all seen the transistors and LEP or Light cool, thin LCD displays that Emitting Polymer, which is In the movie a group of are becoming more common basically light emitting plastic. Astronauts are forced to place. Previously only seen on abandon their space ship and , these displays while By creating a polymer crash onto the surface of thin, light weight and not very “sandwich,” researchers have Mars. From then on their power hungry, are plagued been able to charge two plates, mission is one of survival and with production problems that fill the insides with polymer like most Hollywood sci-fi means only a certain molecules, and then paste the movies is filled with strange percentage of those produced sandwich onto either a glass or plastic surface. A polymer sandwich housed on plastic Diagram of an LEP section translates to a wafer-thin display you could roll up and put in your pocket or simply read like a large sheet of paper at the breakfast table. And because the technology doesn’t require backlighting, the colours remain bright and vibrant from any angle.

August 2002 Workbench 12 Future Tech

Best of all, an LEP anywhere and the Technology is producing some display is resolutions are superb pretty amazing stuff these created by as well. All normal days. Just look at some of the an inkjet computer recent advances.... New printer. displays have a theories on the speed of light standard may mean Einstein’s famous Seiko- resolution of theory of relativity will be Epson has 72 dots per blown out of the water and the come up inch. With human race will be able to with a printable travel at faster than light speciality LEP speeds. Also, look at the printer that Australian researchers who can spray red, have performed the worlds green and blue first teleportation. I have to polymer inks (the say I’m excited. base colours necessary for Next month in “Future Tech.” creating every colour we’ll take a look at a product the human eye can that stands to revolutionise distinguish). books as we know them. “Electronic Ink”, will it Using three separate change the print industry cartridges, and then forever? mixing with a fourth displays cartridge that contains a Below: A possible future that resolution is conductive polymer, the mass production line of LEP upped to around 200 printer “prints” small drops of display screens being dots per inch. the four inks onto a thin printed. screen, which combined with Currently the electrodes make an LEP technology is display. They are also working still in on large scale printers capable development of printing displays up to but a small full around four metres across. colour screen is in commercial Think of the applications of use in mobile such technology. Wallpaper phones. that is actually a television screen, a photo or print hung Above: on the wall can be hundreds of An LEP screen photos or prints that change in use in a each day. You’ll be able to mobile phone. stick a screen up just about

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August 2002 Workbench 15 AUG Contact Information Coordinator Michael Green 9576 2291 [email protected] Assistant Coord Peter Margerison 9742 5190 [email protected] Treasurer Michael Mavracic 9783 8503 [email protected]

p Secretary Tony Mulvihill 0415 161 271 [email protected] Membership Michael Mavracic 9783 8503 [email protected] Meeting Chair David Myers 9417 7750 [email protected] Newsletter Editor Tony Mulvihill 0415 161 271 [email protected] General Committee John Hopkins 5995 7304 [email protected] Damien Stewart 9435 7836 [email protected] Merv Stent 9574 1416 [email protected] Barry Woodfield 9523 7854 [email protected] Jim Lewis 0412 392 099 [email protected] Web Master Michael Green 9576 2291 [email protected] Disk/Book Librarian Colin Roberts 9889 1819 [email protected] . About The Group Amiga Disk and Book Library The Amiga Users Group Inc. is a non-profit AUG has a collection of Amiga books, magazines and association of people interested in the Amiga programs. Members can borrow for a period of one month. The library is available at most meetings. family of computers and related topics. We do not support or condone software piracy. To World Wide Web Access The vast array of internet providers can make choosing a contact us provider for yourself a difficult task. The AUG can help http://www.aug.org.au with advice and a helping hand with setting up your own Membership internet access. The AUG Inc. membership year runs from Members Mailing List August to August. If you are joining in: The AUG moderates a members mail list at Yahoo August-September ...... $25 Groups. Help, advice or anything Amiga related can be discussed. October-November ...... $21 http://yahoogroups.com/group/Amiga_Users_Group_Vic December-January ...... $17 The Dead Letter Department February-March ...... $13 The AUG's BBS run by Craig Hutchison has access to April-May ...... $33 all the latest AmiNet files as well as other goodies. June-July ...... $29 Registration is free to all members. Mail to. Phone: (03) 9571 7194 Amiga User Group Meetings PO Box 2389 Seaford Vic 3198 The Amiga Users Group meets at the Moorabbin Arts Centre Complex, 979 Nepean Hwy, Moorabbin (see map) on the 3rd Sunday of each month from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. There is ample parking at the rear of the complex off South Road. Meetings are held in either Workshop 1 or the Sun Room. Ask at reception if you get lost. Cost: $2.00. This is to cover some of the rental costs. Membership Form First Name:...... Surname:...... Address:...... Post Code:...... EMail:...... Phone (AH):...... Phone (BH):...... I have enclosed a cheque or money order as outlined in the table above. Once admitted as a member of tha Amiga Users Group (Vic) Inc. I agree to abide by the rules of the association for as long as I continue to be a member.

Signed: Date: / / 2002

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