Index of /Boot Sounds Index of /Boot Sounds Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory 19-Nov-2009 11:12 - Amiga CD32 - Boot.wav 28-Jun-2007....

Cloanto has released the 2010 editions of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, the emulator, preservation, and support packages designed to offer "everything you need to run different emulation engines, operating system versions, games, and demoscene productions in simple one-click steps."

The new versions offer support for new emulated systems (CDTV, CD32, Amiga 600), an extended RetroPlatform Library 9over 20,000 titles), support for Open RP9 format, the ability to run CDTV/CD32 games directly from original CD media or RP9/ISO images, optimizations for power users, and more.

Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2010 can play games directly from different emulation sites and some types of original media, as it recognizes content with its built-in RetroPlatform Library database -- this allows the software to identify and automatically start the correct hardware configuration for the titles.

You can buy C64 Forever for $14.95 and Amiga Forever for $29.95 (Cloanto also sells Plus and Premium editions).

• XOR patent killed Commodore-Amiga : ‘Apparently Commodore-Amiga owed $10M for patent infringement. Because of that, the US government wouldn’t allow any CD-32’s into the USA. And because of that, the Phillippines factory seized all of the CD-32’s that had been manufactured to cover unpaid expenses. And that was the end’
  (tags: cd32 commodore computers history ip patents software swpats xor amiga)

• Thousands of Threads and Blocking I/O [PDF] : classic presentation from Paul Tyma of Mailinator regarding the java.nio (event-driven, non-threaded) vs java.io (threaded) model of server concurrency, backing up the scalability of threads on modern JVMs
  (tags: java async io jvm linux performance scalability threading threads server nio paul-tyma mailinator)

• autojump : interesting idea; extend “cd” to track which directories you cd to most frequently, then add a command to “jump” to the most-frequently used one which matches a substring you specify
  (tags: autojump cli bash command-line navigation terminal shell directory cd)

• Mac OS X command-line tricks : not quite up to par with modern Ubuntu, but still a few interesting ones here for when I’m stuck using the missus’ laptop ;)
  (tags: apple bash cli osx mac sysadmin shell tricks command-line)

• XOR patent killed Commodore-Amiga : ‘Apparently Commodore-Amiga owed $10M for patent infringement. Because of that, the US government wouldn’t allow any CD-32’s into the USA. And because of that, the Phillippines factory seized all of the CD-32’s that had been manufactured to cover unpaid expenses. And that was the end’
  (tags: cd32 commodore computers history ip patents software swpats xor amiga)

• Thousands of Threads and Blocking I/O [PDF] : classic presentation from Paul Tyma of Mailinator regarding the java.nio (event-driven, non-threaded) vs java.io (threaded) model of server concurrency, backing up the scalability of threads on modern JVMs
  (tags: java async io jvm linux performance scalability threading threads server nio paul-tyma mailinator)

• autojump : interesting idea; extend “cd” to track which directories you cd to most frequently, then add a command to “jump” to the most-frequently used one which matches a substring you specify
  (tags: autojump cli bash command-line navigation terminal shell directory cd)

• Mac OS X command-line tricks : not quite up to par with modern Ubuntu, but still a few interesting ones here for when I’m stuck using the missus’ laptop ;)
  (tags: apple bash cli osx mac sysadmin shell tricks command-line)

? Video Game Museum in Paris, Arch of la Defense www.museedujeuvideo.com / benzaie Designed exclusively for the European market, the Amiga CD-32, published by the British company Commodore, was the last hope of the firm. They were incredibly in debt since their computers were losing the race against PCs. Fiche Technique / Tech Specs PROCESSEUR / PROCESSOR : 32 bits ? 14,3 MHz / 32-bit @14.3 MHz M?MOIRE INTERNE (VID?O) / MEMORY (VIDEO) : 2Mo (N.C.) / 2 MB (N.D.) TAILLE DES JEUX / GAME SIZE : 540 Mo / 540 MB GRAPHISME / GRAPHICS : 320x200 pixels maxi / 320x200 pixels max 24 bits en 16,7 millions de couleurs / 24-bit in 16.7 million colors SON / SOUND : 4 canaux, st?r?o / 4 channel stereo