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| Amiga
Active News: |
| Amiga Active is going digital |
Amiga Active announces its relaunch as digital
magazine. |
| Defender Remix |
Cinemaware have announced the re-release of their Amiga
originals in 'digitally remastered' formats for PC and Macintosh. |
| Freespace Imminent |
Hyperion Entertainment's port of Descent: Freespace
entering the final stages of production. |
| MorphOS Motion |
Titan Computers open a new web site for their forthcoming
video editing package, MotionStudio. |
| Petro Roasted on Video |
The St. Louis Amiga 2001 show, including the 'roasting'
of Petro, is now available from www.amiga-stl.com. |
| Goodbye St. Louis. Hello... Baltimore? |
Bob & Diana Scharp announces the end of the Amiga
shows at St. Louis. Torch handed to Nova Design to organize an Amiga
and alternative computing show. |
| Elbox Triple Whammy |
Elbox announces the availability of their first 100Mbps
'Fast Ethernet' driver. |
| digital NextGen
News: |
| Bluetooth gets closer |
Cambridge Silicon Radio announce the availability of
their next generation single chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore 2. |
| Sony & Ericsson join Handsets |
Sony and Ericsson launch joint venture, merging their
handset business. |
| Mancunian Translator |
Transitive Technologies, a Manchester-based start-up,
promote a code translator program called 'Dynamite'. |
| Japanese 'e-platform' |
Matsushita, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi announce the
formation of the ePF Network Corporation. |
| GameCube rolls out quietly |
Nintendo's GameCube launches in Japan on September 14th
with little fanfare. |
| OCPA hits 50 |
Over 50 companies sign up for OCPA membership |
| Tao Japan |
Tao Group officially establish their Japanese subsidiary,
Tao Japan K.K. on October 4th, 2001 |
| Just do it |
Japanese software firm, JustSystem Corporation speak
briefly about their role in the OCPA. |
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Editorial:
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| digital Dreams |
David Stroud explains why Amiga Active is changing its
name. |
| Portability a Liability? |
Fleecy Moss, Amiga CTO, discusses the pros and cons
of portability. |
| TAO: New Faces, New Places |
Francis Charig, Tao Group chairman, gives his views
on Tao Group's expansion into China, the closure of Amiga Active,
and the launch of digital magazine. |
| Rants and Raves: |
| Don't blame the 'net |
Andrew Korn discusses the World Trade Centre tragedy
and discusses why the internet should not become a scapegoat. |
| Are you the Amiga People's Front? |
David Stroud takes a final swipe at Amiga Inc's lack
of visible progress and the community's constant infighting. |
| Features: |
| digital: Become the change... |
Four-page article on the reason for Amiga Active's 'rebirth'
as digital magazine, with suitable quotes from regular AA readers,
Mahatma Gandhi, Benjamin Disraeli, Andy Warhol, and Margaret Mead. |
| Amiga DE Revealed |
Amiga Inc. demonstrate an early version of the AmigaDE
Player, Ami2D, Ami3D, and concepts designs of the GUI. |
| Prints Charming! |
A roundup of the Canon S450, Epson Stylus Photo 790,
980, and 1290 printers. |
| Rack Off! |
Amiga Active takes a look at Eyetech's rackmounted systems
that take the Amiga into pubs and museums. |
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Reviews:
All review scores are marked out of four
'AmiYinYangs'.
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| Payback with POWER! |
Preview of the Payback update that will allow the use of PPC boards
and 3D cards. |
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| Previews |
| AmigaOS XL: Amiga OS XL & Amithlon |
Four-page preview of the revolutionary Amiga emulators. |
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| Mediator Multimedia CD |
Elbox release new drives for the Soundblaster and TV Tuner cards |
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| AR-601 ADSL modem/router |
A combined modem and router that connects a single computer or network
to the Internet. |
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| Blobula |
Review of Pagan Games new puzzle game for the Amiga DE. |
Unrated |
| Tutorials: |
| Ripping CDs mini-masterclass |
How to extract audio tracks for sampling or encoding. |
| Warp Factor 3D (Part 2) |
Second and final part of the Warp 3D tutorial. |
| Regulars: |
| Active Media* |
Artificial Intelligence movie, new Enterprise TV series,
NetMechanic.com, RedCross.org, and AmigaOS XL web site. |
| Active Shareware |
This month's Active Shareware gets in a spin about backing
up and converting special ASCII characters to HTML entities. |
| Interactive - Letters to the Editor |
This month's heated debate about the magazine and all
things Amiga involves laid back newsagents, "PC Losers",
cake, "sick" covers and a naked man in a sauna. |
| Ask the Guru |
While he waits for the universal forces of nature to
heat his vegetable soup, the Guru answers more of your questions. |
| Active Online |
Using Telnet to directly communicate with your mail
or web server |
| Debriefing** |
Amiga Active interviews Lost Toys founder and ex-Bullfrog
employee Glen Corpes, who reveals his part in defining the god genre. |
Comments:
In the final issue, David Stroud & Co. introduce digital
magazine as part of the NextGen section, defining the layout
and coverage of the new magazine. The four page feature on the
Amiga DE suggests that Amiga will play a small role in this
market, but it will only be mentioned if there is something
to announce.
As a point of historical significance, the closure of Amiga
Active ended the newsstand distribution of UK Amiga magazines
after almost 14 years. For the first time since December 1987
it is not possible to purchase an Amiga-orientated magazine
from the newsagent.
Quote of the month:
"After all this time, your favourite (we would hope) Amiga
magazine is just changing its name with barely a month's notice.
How are you, a loyal reader of this fine tome, going to cope?"
- David Stroud dispels fears that digital will ignore the Amiga.
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* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs,
and other media.
