Latest news relating to Amiga Imagine owners:

6th May 2001

- Added updated S.A.R.E. archive to the beta section of the ACUP download area.
This release includes an updated PPC render engine, and HTML documentation.

14th Apr. 2001

- We have now (finally!) registered our domain name. The new address is:
http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk
Our email addresses have also been updated to reflect this - simply replace the
"@cadtech.demon.co.uk" part with "@cadtechnologies.co.uk".
Note: The old web and email addresses will remain operational.

12th Apr. 2001

- Bill McEwen of Amiga has posted a Technical Update at the Amiga website.
Part 2 of the Technical Update outlines the steps that will be taken to update the AmigaOS
from 4.0 to 5.0.

1st Apr. 2001

- Fleecy Moss of AmigaOS has revealed some more information on the AmigaOS updates:

- TCP/IP stack - Brand new, written from scratch.

- Resource tracking - Provided by the Amiga Component Model (ACM).

- New datatypes system, with streaming capability for anims - The ACM and streaming system
will provide this.

- SMP - Will be in OS5.

- Audio system - The Audio system will be the best of any system out there. We have 5 of the
best audio people in the world working on it.

- 2D and 3D graphics APIs - Already underway (with the help of Hyperion and the Picasso team),
and with our close alliance with Matrox, there will be not only standard high level APIs but
GLIDE like low level APIs to really take advantage of Matrox cards.

- New filesystem - Provided with OS4.0

- Hardware independancy - Provided with OS4.2

- Updated printer system - Probably OS4.2, waiting for USB, and for the full benefits, OS5,
the PDP media system.

- New Workbench, and Intuition library - Provided with OS4.5

31st Mar. 2001

- AmigaOS 3.9 Update Available. Amiga have released Boing-Bag 1, which includes extensions and
some bug fixes to the OS3.9 release.

- Amiga have announced AmigaOS 4 - a PPC version of the OS (also includes Virtual memory),
classic 68K applications will run under emulation.
This OS will only run on "Zico" reference platforms (e.g. the AmigaOne boards from Eyetech or bPlan)
In AmigaOS 4.2, a fully integrated AmigaDE layer will be provided.
AmigaOS 5 will include Memory protection.
OS 4 release is scheduled for this summer, and the 4.2 and 4.5 updates will be released at intervals of 6
months. OS 5 will be available late next year.

- Amiga have announced a partnership with Sharp , where Amiga will develop content for next-generation
Sharp handheld computing devices.

- Bill McEwan of Amiga stated:
"A few weeks from now, a Psion notebook PDA running the Amiga DE will be released".

"This summer, Eyetech is to ship beta AmigaOne boards, followed quickly by the final
AmigaOne boards. One of three already fabricated functional AmigaOne boards was shown at the
(Amiga show) banquet by a representative of Eyetech.
Later boards will have full ATX form-factor implementations."

30th Mar. 2001

- Mr Hardware will introduce 2 new "PC on a card" add-ons for the Amiga market at the Amiga show in
St. Louis.

- G-REX 4000 PCI board: A new Riser Card Design has been created for the G-REX 4000 desktop version.
Pictures can be found here.

29th Mar. 2001

- Matay will release a PCI board (named Prometheus) for the Amiga.

17th Mar. 2001

- Amiga 2001 show: The Gateway computer show Amiga 2001 will be running from 30th March
to 1st April. Many Amiga vendors will be attending, and Amiga are reported to be making an exciting
announcement. Also, we have supplied a copy of ImagineV6 (ACUP) CD; if you attend the show, you have a
chance of winning this great prize.

16th Mar. 2001

- Warp* datatypes updated: Oliver Roberts has updated his JPEG, PNG, and BMP datatypes.
These 68K and PowerPC datatypes form a great partnership with the 24Bit datatypes
support of Imagine!

12th Feb. 2001

- Updated electronic manual: Added draft versions of Chapter 2 (Forms Editor) and
Chapter 7 (Stage Editor). Also, Chapters 3 and 9 have been revised cosmetically.
Archive available from the ACUP download server.

10th Feb. 2001

- Updated electronic manual: Added draft version of Chapter 3 (Spline Editor).
Archive available from the ACUP download server.

4th Feb. 2001

- Updated electronic manual: Added draft version of Chapter 9 (Project Editor).
Archive available from the ACUP download server.
ACUP status report sent to the Imagine mailing list.

9th Jan. 2001

- AmigaOS 3.5 Update Available. Amiga have released Boing-Bag 2a, which includes bugfixes to the BB2
release.

3rd Jan. 2001

- AmigaOS 3.5 Update Available. Amiga have released Boing-Bag 2, which includes extensions and
some bug fixes to the OS3.5 release.

24th Dec. 2000

- Website redesigned. A frames based system has been implemented, and all of the pages should now have
a fresher look. Please report any site problems to webmaster@cadtechnologies.co.uk
Added LOTS of links to the "More Tutorials" area of the tutorial section.

We wish everyone a Happy Christmas, and a prosperous New Year!

10th Dec. 2000

- Added two 3D hardware accelerated OpenGL examples (PPC only) to the
new downloads/general page.
Added new page - PPC_graph, which demonstrates a speed comparison between Imagine V5.0 and the
current beta version of Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine). More graphs, and an updated
site design, will be provided over the Christmas holiday period.

5th Dec. 2000

- Trogladite software are hosting the TS Awards 2001. If you would like to vote for
Imagine in the software awards section, Click here.
If you would like to vote for CADTech in the developers awards section, Click here.

20th Nov. 2000

- We are still awaiting an update to the C compiler system. Hopefully it will arrive soon...

5th Nov. 2000

- Added QuakeGUI page to the products area of this site.

30th Oct. 2000

- Amiga announce the release of AmigaSDK for Windows.
The AmigaSDK for Windows 95B, 98, NT Workstation 4.0 (with SP3), 2000, ME is now available for
purchase directly from Amiga's SDK page.
The Amiga introduces Windows Development Environment for Multi-platform Applications page briefly
outlines the benefits to software developers of using their Amiga environment.

28th Oct. 2000

- Version 1.01 of the Amiga SDK for Linux has been released.

22nd Oct. 2000

- ppclibemu V0.8c - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS update.

21st Oct. 2000

- Amiga announcement from the Alternative Computing Expo in Melbourne, Australia:
Amiga announces plans for its new specification of computers that host the Amiga Digital Environment - the
AmigaOne.
AmigaOS3.9 announced - specification details should be available from the Haage and Partner website soon.
Eyetech will be producing upgrade systems for the A1200 and A4000 to give them an AmigaOne specification.
This upgrade should allow the use of MAC PPC cards, as well as introducing PCI slots to the classic Amiga.

13th Oct. 2000

- Voodoo CyberGraphX drivers announced for the G-REX PCI expansion system.

30th Sep. 2000

- ACUP status update: PPC version of the SARE updated, additional functionality
implemented in the project submit tool. Issued to beta testers.

4th Sep. 2000

- Added new tutorial (bin) to the tutorial section.

28th Aug. 2000

- ACUP status update: PPC version of the SARE updated, Effects also work. Procedural textures
not fully functional. Issued to beta testers.

- Gary Peake of Amiga says that a Windows version of the Amiga software developer kit (SDK) will be out soon.

17th Aug. 2000

- ACUP status update: SARE GUI updated. Queue list now functional, frame selector implemented.
Issued to beta testers.

6th Aug. 2000

- ACUP status update: Added GUI, and general improvements made, to the SARE. Issued to beta testers.

4th July 2000

- Updated gallery and projects areas with new files.

28th June 2000

- ACUP status update: The PPC version of the Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has
been issued to the beta testers.

25th June 2000

- ACUP status update: The Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has been issued
to the beta testers. Almost all of Imagines rendering functions are supported in this release, and over the next
few beta updates we will see enhancements to the client/server design, and PPC support. (PPC rendering already
works with the current ImagineV5.18 beta release)

22nd June 2000

- Quake ports for Amiga 68K, PPC (PowerUP and WarpOS), and GLQuake are now available
from your local Aminet mirror.
Quake ports: Frank Wille, Steffen H�user.
GLQuake: Massimiliano Tretene.
QuakeGUI: Martin McKenzie.
clickBOOM will also be providing Amiga quake and these ports with their soon to be released game Nightlong.

10th June 2000

- Updated gallery, animations and projects areas with new files.

6th June 2000

- ACUP status update: Work is progressing on the next phase of the ACUP update; A client/server
orientated rendering system is being introduced, where this will aid in the provision of 68K/PPC support. These
changes will also help us to, in the future, provide stand-alone rendering software and improve network rendering
support.
In the meantime, for those of you not in the beta testing group - there is a new test program for users with PPC
and 3D gfx cards available. It can be downloaded from the ACUP server, on the beta table at the bottom of the
page "000529-edgl". This is an example of hardware accelerated OpenGL support, showing texture/environment/
multi-texture mapping, along with PPC support.
More information will be posted here, and to the Imagine Mailing List, as the steps to the next ACUP release are
completed.

5th June 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre7 update released.

4th June 2000

- Bill Mc Ewen announces that the official World Launch of the new NG-Amiga SDK
(software development kit) will be at the big Amiga-Show in Neuss (near D�sseldorf) Germany.

31st May 2000

- Latest CyberGraphX V3 drivers are available from http://www.vgr.com/cybergfx/files.html.
It is highly recommended that cgfx V3 users download this update.

25th May 2000

- ppclibemu V0.7e - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS update.

22nd May 2000

- Amiga has implemented a new e-mail support list for AmigaOS 3.5. Details can be found
on the support page of their website.

14th May 2000

- ACUP status update: To implement the PPC rendering code, it was necessary
to utilise a new compiler system; The V5.17 ACUP (68k) release was produced with this new compiler,
but unfortunately a number of problems showed up with the generated code (hence the release of the
V5.17 patch, and the V5.17a update).
During the wait for an update to the compiler, work continued with PPC rendering support. The results
of the work so far has been issued to the beta-testers; On the systems where the code worked as
anticipated, a significant speed increase was gained with the PPC over the same test with a 50Mhz 060.
Unfortunately, due to the problems which appear when compiling Imagine with this system, a backup
solution of using an alternative PPC compiler is in the process of being implemented.
Since extra work has to be done to get Imagine tested and running under the alternative compiler,
the public release of the V5.18 ACUP update will have to be pushed back a bit.
More information will be posted here, and to the Imagine Mailing List, as the steps to the next
ACUP release are completed.

10th May 2000

- WarpJPEG.datatype v44.11 - PPC (WarpUp) JFIF-JPEG picture datatype update released.

3rd May 2000 - New beta release of Imagine V5.18 issued to beta testers.

19th Apr. 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre6 update released.

11th Apr. 2000

- Cloanto make three of their Amiga commercial programs free for private, non-commercial
and non-profit uses: Personal Paint v7.1b, ColorType v3.1, and Personal Fonts Maker. These software
packages can be downloaded from the biz/cloan directory of your local Aminet mirror.

15th Mar. 2000

- Ben Vost releases announces that Amiga Format magazine is to close...

1st Mar. 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre5 update released.

23rd Feb. 2000

- ppclibemu V0.7d - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS update.

18th Feb. 2000

- Warp3D V3.0 released.

14th Feb. 2000

- Amiga and H&P announce a full and long term strategic
partnership designed to benefit both the classic Amiga, and the Amigas of the future.

11th Feb. 2000

- DCE Computer Service GmbH release details of their
production of PPC accelerator and BVision/CVisionPPC gfx cards.

10th Feb. 2000

- CGX 4.2 pre1 update released.

3rd Feb. 2000

- Executive Update - Feburary Executive Update.

29th Jan. 2000

- ACUP V5.17 bug-fix added to the ACUP download server.
This update solves the problem with the mix/morph value corruption, and also adds new functionality
to the stage editors goto-frame window.
Added V5.17 "new user" archives to the ACUP download new user section

24th Jan. 2000

- Updated the V5-V6 GUI comparison and ACUP description pages to reflect some
of the changes made for the V5.17 release.

23rd Jan. 2000

- New ACUP release now available for download - V5.17
The V5-V6 GUI comparison and ACUP description pages will be updated to reflect this release soon.