JVK's Amiga Links
Amiga, now sold by Gateway, will be developing a new machine - not the same dream machine we anticipated in 1998 - but instead they are linking up with Tao, QNX and Sun and going for it with something new.

I wish them well with AmigaObjects and the new Operating Environment, they have dropped the fast QNX real-time core and gone for a Unix kernal instead, so I don't know if I'll buy an Amiga One.

To keep up with Amiga news, try Amiga.Org, ANN, AmigaCentral, Czech Amiga News, Amiga News, AmiUpdate, Planet Amiga, Status Register, Amigart, PPCRulez!, Amiga Update, AmiSITE, Squid, SlashDot, & Amithyst.

Anyway, my Amiga is still working and very useful! Its responsive OS and elegant text and graphics tools are superb: better than my Mac in some ways and better than Windows in all ways. Now I have AmigaDOS emulated on my Mac, and no longer own a physical machine.

So at the end of 1999, I cannot honestly recommend that anyone buy an Amiga unless they have a specific video or graphics application in mind, or they only need a machine for writing.

For old times sake, I'm leaving the following links up on the web

John V. Keogh, August 2000.

Amiga International
3D, AmiNet, animation, audio, C, CD-ROM, dealers, DTP, emulation, games, graphics, GUI, hardware, ICQ, info, internet, IRC, ISPs, Java, links, mags, misc., music + MIDI, NOSTALGIA, OS, Poland, RC5, rendering, RTG, shareware, shows, software, sound, tools + utilities, word processing, web. Dead links zapped 31 Oct. 99

Meanwhile the current "Classic" Amiga OS has got an upgrade, with the release on CD-ROM of AmigaOS 3.5 in 1999, incorporating the H&P PPC software engine, new icon library... The rest of the links on this page are for the Classic Amiga.

These Amiga links are meant to help you see the wood despite the trees. Please let me know if you want a site listed - especially if you give me a link back - or described differently. Cheers, mateys!

AMIGA OS ANIMGIF

WEB BROWSERS

The big three are Voyager-NG VNG Now!, IBrowse IBrowse and AWeb AWeb Now!


So what does the web look like on an Amiga browser?

JAVA

  • Amiga Java News from the Built With Amiga site.
  • AmJay Java Development Kit implemented on the Amiga by Richard Gansel. "I hope you enjoy my cup of coffee"
  • Kaffe and Guavac Frequently Asked Questions from the GG-Java Mailing List
  • Kaffe AWT beta page - I'm now compiling and running Java on my Amiga with this!
  • Merapi Java Virtual Machine by Haage & Partner. This version still has a licensing problem with Sun, despite the tiny Amiga market. Come on Sun, give us real Java and H&P some income! H&P may release Merapi as freeware.

AMINET
The massive shareware and freeware (program / art / music / samples) resourceAminet

Every two months a CD-ROM is released with one gigabyte (compressed) of new uploads, but if you can't wait the files are accessible online. Each set of files is compressed with LHA and has a .readme file with a description.

In the UK the Imperial College mirror is usually the fastest, or try the UniNa mirror in Naples.

The Aminet Charts lists the most downloaded and highest rated files.

Germany has a nice GUI at AminetGUI. At Clausthal University there is a Full Text Search of all or selected .readme files. The Aminet Gateway provides a different front end for browsers that can't do FTP.

If you want to use FTP, the main Aminet site is at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and there are local mirrors at Paderborn University in Germany and many other sites.

The CUCUG used to maintain a list of AmiNet mirrors world-wide.

INTERNET

  • AmiComSys an alternative to ICQ
  • Amiga Apache webserver software with httpdaemon and RX-GATE for AREXX scripts
  • Amiga.tm free redirection URLs
  • Amiga Internet Guide to Networking Products (1998)
  • AWS Amiga Web Server
  • Built With Amiga aims to cover serious Amiga net uses such as Java, HTML, browsers, TCP, ICQ, ISPs and sites
  • ISN newsreader
  • Laser Stars Web Site Construction
  • Miami TCP/IP stack by Nordic Global, the most up-to-date on any platform
  • NetConnect comprehensive internet software suite
  • THOR newsreader
  • Usenet FAQs info on UUCP, AmiTCP/IP, Mosaic, WWW, books, and comp.sys.amiga.games.
  • Vapor - creators of great net software Voyager NG, Microdot II, AmIRC, AmFTP, AmigaNCP, AmTelnet, AmTalk, AmTerm, NetInfo
  • Web Design HTML editor at Boy Of The North
  • WebTV This is me using WebTV on my Amiga (183K image)
  • YAM is Yet Another Mailer, an excellent POP3/SMTP mail client with MIME support

ISPs with Amiga support

ICQ - (mICQ is on AmiNet)

IRC

  • This is me using AmIRC recently - i use different colours now!
  • #AmigaCafe IRC channel home page - beautiful but getting out-of-date
  • #AmigaCafe new IRC channel home page but more up-to-date!
  • #AmigaCafe Java chat interface to Dalnet
  • #AmigaChat channel on Undernet
  • #AmIRC channel on Undernet (where I was an Op!)
  • AmIRC scripts
  • IRChelp.org help archive - over 800 files
  • RDesign Home of the WildIrc scripts for AmIRC
  • Simple's page with TCL source etc.

TEXT, WP, DTP

  • AmigaWriter word processor
  • CygnusEd Pro Release 4. If only there was a PC text editor half as good as this!
  • Digital Quill
  • Final Writer by Softwood
  • GoldEd If only there was a PC text editor half as good as this (again)!
  • MathScript WYSIWYG Equation Editor for all kinds of scientific and technical documents.
  • PageStream by SoftLogik is the Amiga's flagship DTP suite
  • WordWorth by Digita. Lovely clean interface. This is me using WordWorth 7 in a small window.

GRAPHICS

3D RENDERING AND ANIMATION

CARTOON ANIMATION - plenty to see on these sites!

MUSIC, MIDI, AUDIO

  • AHI Audio System R4 Audio Hardware Interface, software to retarget the audio and make it hardware-independent.
  • GMPlay support site - MIDI
  • Mr. Lou's Mod Page - MODs are a standard for Amiga music. These ones are by someone I met on IRC.
  • Music Links
  • OctaMED SoundStudio by RBF Software. This legendary tracker is now available on Win95 as well
  • Prelude sound card; AmigaAMP, Advanced AHI Recorder and Play16
  • Amiga Alternative Audio
  • Sign now! Amiga Realplayer - Realaudio for the Amiga - Petition, sign now!
  • SoundFX sample editor and modulator
  • WaveBeast a Descent analogue synthesizer emulator with oscillators, filters, sequencer and envelopes - eee, those were the days (points at graph of wave harmonics)

CD-ROMs

AMIGA OS

  • Amiga OS 3.5 coming in 1999
  • AROS Amiga Research OS project to make AmigaOS 3.1 compatible system that could be run on other CPUs or as an emulation on other systems. In July 1998, the task of converting 1308 functions is 51.9% done. AROS FTP site.
  • FTP ade, aminet, geekgadgets, kaffe, linux, netbsd, priv, unixtools archive
  • The Linux/m68k Home Page, FTP site (pub/linux/680x0/) and Installation Guide.
  • NetBSD (Unix) Official NetBSD Foundation. NetBSD is a freely-available UNIX-like OS which runs on Amiga and everything else - FTP archives
  • OpenBSD (UNIX) OpenBSD
  • p.OS by ProDAD
  • REBOL OS by Carl Sassenrath

C PROGRAMMING

EMULATION

  • Fusion and pcX Comprehensive Mac, PC (Pentium and 686) and now Apple II/+ and Atari 400 emulation on Amiga
  • MAME Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for Amiga and other kit
  • ShapeShifter and Frodo Macintosh and PowerMac emulation on Amiga, PPC and BeOS
  • SNES9x Super Nintendo emulation
  • VIC-20 information
  • Linus' VIC-20 Page
  • Amiga Forever Run Amiga on Windows, DOS or Mac
  • UAE The Unix Amiga Emulator runs on many set-ups, even on the Amiga!? (UAE is now also on the Amiga Forever CD)
  • WINUAE

GUI

  • Betty BOOPSI-based GUI system
  • BGUI BOOPSI-based GUI library - developers' site
  • Birdie a dirty hack for patterns in window borders
  • ClassAct user interface toolkit
  • DOPUS Directory Opus Magellan by GPSoftware
  • DOPUS Themes and links
  • MBench workbench replacement
  • MUI and MagicWB at SASG. MUI has enhanced the Amiga toolkit and GUI significantly. Check out the screenshots in the MUI art gallery and the MagicWB showroom, if your screen has enough colours!
  • NewIcons now incorporated in AmigaOS 3.5
  • SCALOS workbench replacement by Alien Design
  • TUMULT the unofficial MUI custom class list
  • pixelStudio featuring the very groovy GlowIcons

RTG for graphics boards

  • CyberGraphX Retargetable Graphics System by Vision Factory Development that works on CyberVisionPPC, BlizzardVisionPPC, CyberVision64 + 3D, Domino, Picasso, Spectrum, Piccolo (+ SD64), Retina BLT Z3, A2410, DraCo Altais, Inferno boards and AGA.
  • Picasso96 RTG environment, 95% compatible to CyberGraphX, that works on CyberVision3D (ZorroIII), CyberVision64, Domino, Merlin, oMniBus, Picasso, Piccolo (+SD64), Pixel64, Retina BLT Z3, Spectrum and UAEgfx boards.
  • Village Tronic GmbH Makers of Picasso hardware and add-ons

TOOLS AND UTILITIES

SOFTWARE downloads

  • AmigaWorld Support - Support site for numerous titles, with software downloads and docs
  • Delerium Centrale domain of weird and home of SuperCache
  • Exotica "music, utilities, diskmags and other nostalgic and beautiful Amiga items"
  • FUNET FTP Directory: funet, Fish disks 1 to 1000. Before the AmiNet, we Amigans used to get these floppies in the mail...
  • Geek Gadgets - GNU is Not Unix (Fred Fish). Here you can get this developer's environment or order a snapshot on CD. It can run C, C++, Fortran, and ADA compilers, Java (Kaffe and Guavac), assembler, linker, groff and TeX and the X Window System.
  • Geek Gadgets FTP site Fred Fish's FTP site with source, binaries, and diffs; BeBox stuff including a partial port of Geek Gadgets for BeOS, various Cronus CDs, gnu and some Picasso material.
  • Inner Circle BBS Washington

POLAND

  • BlaBla Polish Amiga system programmers' group - Uwaga!
  • Home of Amiga HOI, HOI! even my Polish friend doesn't know what this means!

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Amiga at NASA with pictures!
  • PTV Playable Television, a new multimedia suite to drive touch-screen information kiosks. Runs on A4000 with NewTek Video Toaster/Flyer.
  • Net_Condition Art Presentations and live broadcasts running on Amigas.

NOSTALGIA by JVK
These are lists of commercial Amiga Products announced from 1985 to 1988, and those 1985 disk and memory prices look incredible now! The lists include software, hardware, books and magazines.

  • List 1 September 1985 to February 1987
  • List 2 March 1987 to August 1987
  • List 3 August 1987 to November 1987
  • List 4 June 1987 to January 1988

GAMES

SHOWS in date order

  • International Amiga 98 Photo report by Laura Bird and Larry McGahey
  • International Amiga 98 report from the NCAUG
  • Amiga Show 98 Poland, 20-21 June 98, Warsaw, ul. Koncertowa 4. "Nie PC uj sobie nerwów"
  • Fun of Computing 98 Ilmenau, Germany, June 27-28 1998
  • Hack IX, Amiga Computer Group Demo-Party, 24-26 Juli, Umeå, Northern Sweden
  • BSE 98, Belgian Scene Event, August 7-9, Diepenbeek, Belgium
  • SIAcH Party, 21-4 August, Perigueux, France. (Fun Party)
  • PowerPicniC 8th August, hosted by Amiga Atlanta, Inc. in Atlanta, USA.
  • Planeta Amiga 26-27 September, Palazzo delle Esposizioni di EMPOLI (FI), Italia.
  • Midwest Amiga Expo (MAE) held by Amiga Central Ohio Network (AmiCON) 1998, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • InfoMedia '98 3-4 October, Antwerp, Belgium, organized by Waaslandia Amiga Club.
  • RadyKal Party hosted by the Spanish Amiga Users Group, 10-12 Octubre, Granada, Spain
  • AmigaFest98, Amiga Expo hosted by the Australian Amiga Gazette. 24-25 October, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia
  • Computer 98, 13-15 November, Cologne saw the big Amiga/QNX news
  • BCS India 98, 9-11 December. Broadcast, Cable and Satellite show in New Delhi, India
  • MIA 98, Mouvement Informatique Alternatif, 20 December, Bordeaux, France
  • Midwinter 99, 29-31 January 1999. Multimedia/Games and Creativity - Demo event including the traditional "Joltlopp" in Noliahallarna, Umea, Northern Sweden
  • Kickstart Show 27 Feb, Brook Hall, Brox Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, UK
  • Amiga 99 Gateway Computer Show, March 12-14 1999, St. Louis, US.
  • AmiWest '99 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento, California US. For 3 days July 23-25 1999, with Allan Havemose and Carl Sassenrath.
  • World of Amiga 99, Kensington Town Hall Conference Centre, London, UK. July 24-25 1999, with Jim Collas, Petro Tyschtschenko, Tom Schmidt and Rick LeFaivre.
  • Amazing Computing/Amiga have video tapes of the presentations at the WOA 99 Show
  • ASSEMBLY 99 6-8 August, Finland. Annual three day party, now in its 8th year.
  • AmigaFest 99 28-29 August at the Dayton Computerfest, Dayton, OH, US.
  • distance '99 Demo-party, at Eikeli Videregående Skole in Bærum, close to the center of Oslo, Norway. 30th Sept - 3rd Oct 1999.
  • Amiga 2k Gateway Computer Show, March 31-April 2 2000, St. Louis, MO, US.
  • Swiss Computer Fun 2000, April, Switzerland
  • Icing 2000 Demo-Party, May?, Sweden
  • AmiWest 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento, California US. July 29-30 2000.

    Check out these pages for more shows:

  • Amiga International, Inc. diary dates
  • DemoParty Calendar and Scene links for those of you into staying awake for 48 hours!

HARDWARE

  • AMIGA
  • Catweasel the Advanced Floppy Controller that can read and write Amiga, Commodore, Macintosh, Atari and Sinclair floppies!
  • DCE Computer in Germany
  • Epson make the excellent Amiga-compatible Stylus Color printers
  • Escena make the new G3 PowerPC Zorro III board which can take processors from 233 to 400 MHz with 512KB or 1MB Backside cache and up to 512MB SDRAM
  • Eyetech (UK dealer) sell a big range of Amigas and peripherals
  • ics Intrinsic Computer Systems, manufacturers of Amigo A1200 or 4000 MMS (Multimedia Station) tower systems -- with optional Ateo Expansion Card & Pixel64 Graphics Card -- and other products
  • IBM PowerPC Microprocessor The RISC chips at the heart of most new Amigas
  • Index Information Ltd Manufacturers of new Amigas: the Access motherboard, the BoXeR and the mysterious InsideOut which will be part of the Amiga OS5dev machines
  • MicroniK Manufacturers of Amiga infinitiv A1300-A1500 Tower systems and Classic A500-A4000 Towers
  • Motorola 680n0 makers and PowerPC collaborators. Very good, these Motorola microprocessors...
  • Motorola Semiconductor Products includes the PowerPC processor, now in 366 MHz versions
  • phase 5 digital products: The PowerPC champions, now offering G4 boards for the Amiga. Well known for their PowerPC accelerator boards PowerUP®, 68000 boards like Blizzard and CyberStorm; and CYBERVISION64/3D Graphics boards...
  • (Haage & Partner PowerPC software)
  • Power Computing big UK dealership with their own lines of peripherals, from digital cameras to tower systems
  • Randomize, Inc make the Genesis Alpha tower system with 68060/50, optional PowerPC and Fusion/MacOs 8. They also sell Amiga stuff, clothing! and much more
  • Siamese Systems: if you have an Amiga and a PC you should consider a Siamese System to link them and run Amiga screens on the PC, with the Siamese RTG v2.5 software.
  • Rob's Web Site info on Siamese Systems
  • Tom's Amiga Hack Page - The Hardware Hack's resource
  • Village Tronic make the Picasso IV graphics board and add-on boards, and the Ariadne Ethernet board

DEALERS

  • Active (UK) sell the NetConnect 3 internet package, stfax, modems, serial cards etc.
  • Amiga Deals (UK) Reseller specializing in old stock: hard/software, parts, CD-ROMs, games, books, manuals...
  • Anti Gravity (US) selling Alien Boxer and Infinitiv tower systems in California
  • Blittersoft (UK) sell Village Tronik, Mikronik and Phase 5 hardware and lots of sexy software
  • Classic Amiga (UK) Games, CDs, drives, etc.
  • De Vine (US) have a good range of Amiga products
  • Digital Arts (US) specialize in Video systems: they sell Amigas, Alpha and NewTek stuff
  • Epic (UK) Games, software, cables, joysticks etc.
  • HiSOFT Systems (UK) Amiga hardware and software
  • National Amiga (Canada) Amiga hardware and software
  • Productive Computer Systems (US) offer bespoke systems, multimedia cable TV advertising and lots of Amiga information on their site
  • Ramjam Consultants (UK) in Reading
  • Tech Exchange (UK) in Nottingham have A1200s
  • Vesalia (Germany) new dealer, linked from Amiga's site!
  • White Knight Technology (UK) in Ware, Hertfordshire, specializing in Amiga, Desktop Video Products and Nonlinear Video Editing. All Phase 5 products in stock
  • Wonder Computers International Canada's Home of Amiga!
  • Amiga Yellow Pages lists dealers, shops and repair centres with a map of UK shops
  • Don't forget the AmiBench OnLine Market (and Dealer Directory) for private sales - ads appear instantly and run for two weeks.

RC5 Team

  • RC5 Team If you're using less than 99.5% CPU time on your Amiga, why not use those spare cycles to help this global code-cracking project? The client runs at a priority of -20, so you won't notice it.

    This is my contribution!

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