Finally after a very long wait it is finally here!
MindCandy Vol. 2 DVD
Volume 2: Amiga Demos (Video-DVD)
We had to wait 4 long years, but now it's there: This Video-DVD is a compilation of 30 of the best Amiga demos created in 15 years of demoscene evolution. All demos were captured using several models of the original Amiga hardware and then scene by scene optimized for best possible performance in framerate and audio/video quality on your TV. The DVD comes with three different audio tracks to choose from, incl. remastered 5.1 surround sound and a special audio commentary track for 1st hand background stories. Furthermore it includes multi-language subtitles, a 19-minutes featurette about the german Breakpoint demoparty, a truly impressive special about the technical background of the DVD production and more. The DVD can be played back on any standard DVD-player.
Visit maz-sound.com now to order your copy for just 15 Euro + shipping.
New graphics formats are now supported thanks to various DataTypes by
Andreas Kleinert. The update package also contains two new backdrop
pictures which were "Amigized" by Ken Lester.
ADDED: akFAXX DataType 45.55 by Andreas Kleinert
ADDED: akNAIL DataType 45.55 by Andreas Kleinert
ADDED: akSVG DataType 45.55 by Andreas Kleinert
ADDED: French KingCON.catalog by Eric Luczyszyn
ADDED: Two new AmiKit backdrops by ArbitraryReason and
sbrown1038.
Modified by Ken Lester. (AmiKit:Prefs/Presets/AmiKit/Backdrops/)
UPDATED: akGIF DataType 45.55
UPDATED: akJFIF DataType 45.55
UPDATED: akPNG DataType 45.55
UPDATED: akTIFF DataType 45.55
UPDATED: PlayOGG 6.0
UPDATED: WookieChat 2.
Look at some screenshots at the AmiKit homepage here.
"After the last update about three months ago, we mainly received bug
reports that referred to writing Amiga disks. The errors could not be
reproduced on our test systems immediately, therefore the solution took
longer than we wanted our customers to wait. Many thanks must go to
customers who paitiently reported bugs and helped us test the new
drivers. The new beta version (now a release candidate) can be
downloaded for free from our support page.
The cause for the error that has been finally resolved was the floppy
drives that are currently available on the PC market, where DD-disks
practically do not exist any more. These drives have been extremely
optimised for low production cost. We know about one drive that does
not work with DD-disks (720K, 880K) any more, it's the Samsung SFD-321B.
The re-configurable architecture of the Catweasel MK4 allows hardware
updates through the driver. We found a possibility to write DD-disks
with such disk drives. However, they cannot be verified or read with
that kind of drives, but they can be read with most DD drives in
classic Amiga computers. This lets you use the drives temporarily until
you can install a recommended true dual-mode drive, for example by
Teac. One thing that you should avoid is writing HD disks with DD
density.
Some customers wanted to connect 5,25-inch drives with 360K
capacity to the Catweasel. The imagetool now allows the necessary
configuration for that. Last not least, a problem with the middle and
right mouse buttons of an Amiga mouse has been resolved."
Classicamiga would like to apologise for the current issues being experienced with our forums.
On the 15th November the server hosting our forums suffered a hardware failure. Due to the nature of the hosting, backups of the board data were in the hands of the forum host, and we took it for granted that they were backing up the forums regularly. This appears to have not been the case as the backup they used to restore the forums was from March 2006, meaning our forum is missing the past 8 months worth of posts and topics, along with all board settings and structure changes.
Due to this failure they are still currently trying to recover the lost data for the board using data recovery on the damaged harddrive. They have just updated the situation by saying they finally hope to be able to recover what they can this week.
Until they do recover the data, if you visit the forums you will find many topics with broken posts and a message saying posts are currently missing. Hopefully once restored these missing posts will return, along with many forums that were added since March and are also currently missing completely. If you wish to post a topic or message on the board please create a new topic. Do not post in any broken topics as these posts might be lost when the final recovery takes place.
The forums are moving
Due to the bad management of the backups and the long downtime this has caused (now two weeks+) we have decided to part company with our current forum hosting company.
We don't wish to lose any of our many years worth of forum topics and
posts so we are waiting for the current host to finish restoring the
data before we request a copy of the database ready for the move. Once
moved the forum will be hosted and managed by classicamiga itself. This will ensure we can maintain a regular backup of the forum database.
Switching forum software
The current board is using a version of Invision Power Boards (IPB) forum software and it was a choice between switching to the latest self managed version of the same forum software, or look for something better. After much research and testing we have decided to stop
using IPB forum software for our forums and switch to vBulletin (vB) board forum software instead as it offers much greater scope for customisation and expansion to fully realise the goals we have in mind for the forum in the future.
A new update package is available through AmiKit Live Update program. It updates your AmiKit 1.2.3 to 1.2.4. Among various updates the two new programs have been added:
QuickSketch 1.03 by Daniel Westerberg. Have you ever
felt the need to just sketch something down, just to see it visually,
but you hate to do in on paper which gets lost or lies around on your
desk or sits stuck to your screen making the whole scene of the room
ugly? Or have you tried using text-editors just to see that it really
isn't the same as a quick graphical sketch, or a drawing program just
to realize that it's too clumsy, using it's own screen and stuff? Well,
then this is the program for you! Use the startbar -> Tools menu to
run it. IsoMount 1.24 by megacz. It's an ARexx script that
makes it possible to mount CD ISO and/or floppy images automatically.
Thanks to Magellan support it is enough to click and hold a right mouse
button over an image file to mount it. Supported images are ADF, MsDOS,
Atari, Mac and CD ISO.
ADDED: QuickSketch 1.03 by Daniel Westerberg (AmiKit:Utilities/QuickSketch/)
ADDED: IsoMount 1.24 by megacz2k6 (AmiKit:C/)
ADDED: DOpus5 FileTypes for mounting ADF, CD ISO, Atari and MS-DOS floppy images. Use right-mouse to mount the images.
UPDATED: CDDA-FileSystem 1.1
UPDATED: DataTypes and Libraries from Scalos 41.4 distribution
The classicamiga forum is down. I came home (on the 15th) to discover this and then found the whole of the invisionfree.com network is currently down too.
I did some digging and found the Invisionfree staff members latest blog entry that reads as follows:
Yoda: Seth break the Support Board? It’s not loading for me.
Brandon: s1 is broken
Yoda: how long til it unbreaks
Brandon:a few hours minimum
Ah the chaos that ensues afterwards should be interesting.
And of course:
NO we are not Upgrading to Zetaboards. The Server’s got a problem. Personally, I blame Seth. :p
The s1 server is the original and main Invisionfree server, and classicamiga's forum runs from the original s1 server as we created the forum whilst InvisionFree was in beta testing so have been with them since the start.
The s1 server being down also means it has brought down their own support Invisionfree site and support forums too, hence the "chaos that ensues" quote above.
Lets hope they can get it back up and running as soon as possible.
Update: The forum is now showing the message "This domain is not setup for an invisionfree board". This message is also displaying for all other invisionfree boards including the main support one so it seems to be a generic message.
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