#amigaguide NO. 1 - 2008 - ISSUE 4 - News - Interview - Amiga 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 2 the #amiga guide - Hammerveien 130 - N-8626 Mo i Rana, Norway - Email: [email protected] - www.amigaguide.net : editorial 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! Software: 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. KickStart, 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.