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. 

 

 

 

 

Only a short while after the initiation of the Best of the Demo Scene section here on Classicamiga, we are now proud to announce a good growth in contents. At the present moment over 100 productions has been added. You can now find information and downloads concerning demos, slideshows, intros, packs and much, much more. For some of the productions you can even listen to the original music through the site. There are also a few reviews and interesting facts about some of the demos which can be an interesting read.

 

In the coming future we at Classicamiga will be adding more content to this section regularly, so please be sure to stop by from time to time so you don't miss any of the updates. If you would like to discuss some of the demos you have seen on the site, you can also drop by our discussion forum and participate there.

 

Have fun browsing!

Apologies  

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.  

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.

 

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