ACube Systems Srl and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced that Amiga OS 4.0 is available for Amigas Classic with a PowerPC CPU ((A1200, A3000(T) et A4000(T)). The Amiga OS 4.0 package including the installation CD, a DD boot floppy disk and a printed quickstart guide of several pages. It is sold directly by ACube Systems and also through local resellers. A compatibility list is available at ACube Systems website. It seems that AmigaOS 4.0 for Amigas Classic is already a huge success as orders are already twice than expected. Welcome to these new users!

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Word Me Up XXL, our first game for AmigaOS, combines action with reflexion and memorization. First screenshots are now online.

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More details on WordMeUp XXL.

Amiga Inc and Kaliko Entertainment announced BrainTeaser game availability for PocketPC devices. As all products distributed by Amiga Inc, it uses an Amiga-Anywhere integrated engine that allows game creators to concentrate on gameplay without the need of spending time on target device various hardware characteristics. In this puzzle improved game, player should put together falling tiles to make them disappear. It is sold 14,95$.

Official announcement from Amiga Inc website.
More details on Brainteaser from Amiga Inc website.

Amiga Inc, Word Me Up distributor, organizes a big contest with Handango Entertainment. The luckily winner will get a superb "Victory Vegas Jackpot" motorcycle. Buy at least one Amiga game from Handango website between March 3rd and May 31st and you perhaps will be the one. Word Me Up is thus today sold from Handango website at a promotionnal price of 6,26$ for PocketPC devices and 8,09$ for Smartphone devices.

Read official announcement from Handango website.
Buy Word Me Up for PocketPC devices from Handango website.
Buy Word Me Up for Smartphone devices sur le site d'Handango.
More details on Word Me Up.
Download Word Me Up demo from Amiga Inc website.

Quoted from Hyperion Entertainment website:

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Leuven, Belgium - 8th February, 2006

Hyperion Entertainment announces the immediate availability of the fourth update of the AmigaOS4.0 Developer Prerelease.

The new features in this pre-release include:

New Word Me Up release is now available for PocketPC and Smartphone units. Still more captivating and funny, our first Amiga-Anywhere game, that combines arcade with reflection and memorization, is today sold at a Christmas price: only 8,99$ (about 6,81¤) instead of 12$ (10,22¤), that is to say almost half of previous price! This first update is of course free of charge for previous happy purchasers of the game. Don't hesitate to try Word Me Up by downloading demo (only for PoketPC right now) that contains 4 levels (60 ones in full version). With Word Me Up, take fun!

Test/buy Word Me Up PocketPC release from our distributor Amiga Inc website.
Buy Word Me Up Smartphone release from our distributor Amiga Inc website.
More details on Word Me Up.

Boing Attitude :) team is happy to announce free dowload of Word Me Up demo availability for PocketPC devices. This release, using Amiga-anywhere engine, contains 4 of 60 full game levels. With Word Me Up, take fun!

Download Word Me Up demo from Amiga Inc, our distributor.
More details on Word Me Up.

Boing Attitude :) team is very happy to announce official release of Word Me Up for PocketPC PDAs and Smartphone phones. Game is now available from website of our distributor Amiga Inc.

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We are happy to announce that a new version of Untar Me Up is available for AmigaOS 4.0. We fixed a few bugs thanks to Pierre Giroux that gave us important feedback. This tool allows to extract data from a tar file.

Download it.

We are looking for a graphical artist to join us into Word Me Up development for AmigaOS 4.0: sprites design, levels drawing (60, 15 graphical themes), interface, etc. You should know 2D design, especially cartoon-styled drawing in usual resolutions (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc). These are a few screenshots of AmigaDE (phone/PDA) version.

Word Me Up is a commercial product. So you will sign a contract and you will be paid for your work. We need this artist as soon as possible. A beta version of Word Me Up is already running on AmigaOS 4.0.

Please contact us for more details.

OpenOffice is a free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites like M$ Office (Word, Excel, etc). Since AmigaOS 4.0 is now available for a few months, it would be great to use OpenOffice on it. If you are REALLY interested in it and think you can help by coding (C++) or managing, please vote to poll created by Thomas Frieden from Hyperion Entertainment.

Hyperion Entertainment website.

Hyperion Entertainment released a few days ago the second AmigaOS 4.0 update. This version seems to be minor when you compare it to previous one that brought many new features. However, as well as bugs fixes and small evolutions (kernel, graphics, DOS, etc), USB stack was improved and allows now to use USB keys and even some cameras. Let's notice too that Moovid (native version), which allows AVI and MOV films watching, was included in this release. Don't miss it if you are an AmigaOne owner. You need first update installed though.

Hyperion Entertainment website.
Official announcement.

Since AmigaOS 4.0 is now available for all AOne owners, we ported our two home products to it: UntarMeUp (tar extraction tool) and StartMeUp (startup-files manager) are now available from our website.

Download StartMeUp.

Download UntarMeUp.

AmigaOne users are finally getting their so wanted AmigaOS 4.0 prerelease. Hyperion Entertainment, which managed and largely contributed to AmigaOS 4.0 development, had announced a few days ago that they were having CDs in their hands and that they were sending it to local distributors. If you still don't have received yours, that shouldn't be so far from now :o). If this is the case, you can go on amigaworld.net website to see how it looks like.

It is the end of a long wait... But the begin of effervescence! You can already get native programs from Peter Gordond website. You can also download several emulators (ported by Steffen Haeuser) from AmigaShare website. You will also find soon from our website native versions of untar Me Up and Start Me Up, two of our home products. Moreover, as promised, an official download website will be soon opened by Hyperion Entertainment.

A lot of work is still to do to get an AmigaOS 4.0 final release: SNAP (graphical engine) integration, JIT emulator integration, native graphical management, etc. It looks like we will have to wait until end of year to get full AmigaOS 4.0 release. However, prerelease is caracterized by its stability, its speed ans its so important "amiga spirit", that makes the long wait easier to accept :o). Amiga rulez!

AmigaOS official website.

Hyperion Entertainment website.

This is the official announcement from the Slash team:

The famous french party "Slach PARTY 5" web site is open to public: not yet fully finished, but all basic stuffs (forum, inscription) work (at least, i hope so...). For english and spanish people, please register yourself and then select your langage in your profile (langage is not fully implemented right now).

Slash Team.

The Slash Party website.

AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release production will indeed begin monday, the 19th April. This AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release batch will be sent to AmigaOne owners who contract "Earlybird" offer. It seems people will have to wait for more than 10 days: they finally get the CD at home about end of April.

Thanks to a well-written guide, pre-release installation is very simple, even if you have to upgrade Uboot before. Once installed, This pre-release will give reliability and speed, intended for coders who will be able to use Gcc (2.95.3 and beta 3.4) and Vbcc 0.8 C/C++ compilators, GDB debugger and of course all needed documents concerning system development. Others users will be able to install numerous available 68K applications (cf our compatibility list). Moreover, after have received their pre-release, users will be able to register themselves to get others applications, this time natives for AmigaOS 4.0.

Read official announcement from Hyperion Entertainment website.

The AmigaDE © scene has been relatively quite over the past twelve months. For a product that offers content portability across many different platforms, it seems to be having a hard time finding converts. All is not lost however and there are individuals, groups and companies working hard in the background. One such company is Zeoneo Ltd,...

Personal Paint, the Cloanto 2D drawing software, will be ported to AmigaOS 4.0 by Amiga Inc. This release (7.1) will be of course 100% PPC and will be uploaded to Cloanto and Amiga Inc websites to allow free download for AmigaOS users.

A new Amiga Forever release could exist for AmigaOS 4.0. Let remember that Amiga Foverer package contains notably UAE, an Amiga 68K emulator(A500, A1200, A4000, etc).

Read official announce.

Castle Wolfenstein screenshots are available here from www.amigaworld.net website. However, no detail is given concerning status.

Simple Mail, with its 0.21 version, is now ported to AmigaOS 4.0. This e-mail managment program, like the famous YAM, becomes more and more popular.

More details on Simple Mail website.

Hyperion Entertainment announced that Gorky 17, a RPG game, will be ported to AmigaOS 4.0. Porting process has even already begun.

More details on hyperion-entertainment website.

All AmigaOne owners will receive a CD containing AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release in early January. It will be free of charge and will contain numerous coding tools/languages like for example GCC and VBCC.

More details on hyperion-entertainment website.

Word Me Up was reviewed by Damien Navillat in last issue of Obligement, a free french e-zine!

This is a sum-up:

• Graphisms: 12/20
• Sound: 16/20
• Jouability: 19/20
• Interest: 18/20

Word Me Up was shown during Pianeta Amiga 2003 by Joachim Thomas. Many thanks to him! During this italian (Empoli) Amiga show, demo was made for PocketPC PDA (Dell Axim) and everybody could try it. You can see Word Me Up screenshots here, from Joachim website.

Boing Attitude :) team and myself are pleased to announce you that Word Me Up, our first game for AmigaDE, is now finished. We'd like to thank all these people that support and help us. Many thanks to you!

However, we can't give any release date as we don't deal with distribution. Browse regurlarly to our website (http://boing.attitude.online.fr) to be aware.

This is the Word Me Up final feature list:
- An arcade/memory/reflection game.
- 3 worlds (Sport, Country, Game), 60 levels.
- 5 characters available with different skills.
- You can update skills of one character.
- English, french, spanish and italian manuals.
- English, french, spanish, italian and deutsch localization.
- 15 graphical themes, cartoon style.
- Funny sound effects.
- Multidirectionnal scrolling.
- 7 AI levels for baddies.

Amiga rulez,

Glames / Boing Attitude :)

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