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Re: Latest Issue of Club Amiga Monthly Available Now
« on: April 02, 2003, 06:09:21 PM »
I just skimmed it briefly... From what I can remember...  Hmm....

-There's a page on their "featured" dealer of the week.
-There's a page on their "featured" developer of the week.
-Some babble about "Amiga Generation 1" or "AG1" is their new term for "Classic Amigas" I think... and "Generation 2" is their PPC based amigas.  (I skimmed through it.)  Something about how they were originally thinking that the DE would be their new AmigaOS and then dropped it after a year to concentrate on OS4.   *cough* *cough*  :-D

Probably the more important bit is the info on what's left to be done on OS4.0.  What I remember:

-They're almost done with the input libraries ("soon to be signed off" was the term used).  I'm not going to comment on the architecture at the moment.   There's a picture of the prefs GUI and well, the window was rounded.
-PPC Boot is now UBoot (PPCBoot2.x)
-Working on defining the default OS4 look.
-Umm...  There's some work still required to migrate from the CSPPC based systems (which still have custom chips) to a non-"Classic Amiga".  Stuff like the Input Library/ies is part of it.
-Still working on the 68K emulator and tying it into the OS.  (Part of their acid test will be to install and run OS3.9 AFAIK.)
-There are still lots of stuff from OS3.x to be ported.
 on it.

I wonder why NEWS has to be posted on it since "club members" should have gotten notified by e-mail anyway.     :-?
Steph
 

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Re: Latest Issue of Club Amiga Monthly Available Now
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2003, 07:15:17 PM »
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Personally, I sent them $50 in the hope that it might help contribute to me getting a new Amiga. I was quite prepared to lose that money if it didn't work out - still am.


That pretty much sums it up for me.  It was a choice between a video-game and/or a chance to put in *some* contribution which could work out with some sort of bonus.

With that said, it didn't work out.   And I won't be sending them anymore cash if/until I get to evaluate the product. ;)

With that said, I don't mind sharing what's in CAM.  See my previous post. :P
Steph