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Issue No: 25 Price: £5.95
Publication Date: Thursday September 27th, 2001 Page Count: 68
Month: October 2001 Editor: David Stroud
Issue 25

Highlights
We're still here
Amiga Active is two years old, but what does the future hold?

MediaPoint
Can this presentation program like up to the likes of Scala?

Series Zero
Amiga's first batch of content for the Sharp Zaurus is just about ready to rock 'n' roll

WES: The future of MAME on the Amiga
The latest on Amiga arcade emulation.

Also inside...
Amiga Active News:
Australian IT Expo Report Amithlon, PCI cards and AmigaDE on display.
Prepare for AmigaOne Eyetech announces bare-bones configuration ready for the AmigaOne motherboard
More Real-Time Strategy French developer Melina Softworks announces Voodoo Wars - real-time strategy game
Listen up, Soldier Pagan Games set up mailing list for Earth2140 owners
PCI comes to the A4000T DCE announces the availability of the G-Rex A4000T PCI busboard.
AmigaOS XL? US-based designers ErrorWare launch Amiga 'Guru Meditation' T-shirts.
Reader Survey 2001 Reader survey that appears pointless in retrospect.
NextGen News:
Tao much money Tao Group receives an equity investment of $18m from a team of investors.
Enterprising Pocket PC Microsoft's new handheld operating system, codenamed Merlin, due for release on October 4th, 2001
Tao and Terraplay enter partnership Tao Group announces a strategic partnership with Ericsson-backed Swedish networking company, Terraplay Systems.
Embedded XP Microsoft offering second beta of its embedded version of Windows XP
Nearly 3G... Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo reveals it will be launching 3G mobile technology in Tokyo on October 1st, 2001.

Editorial:

Mind the Gap David Stroud reflects upon the importance for gaming on portable devices and the networks that will provide these technologies, while eating birthday cake.
Hair Today Francis Charig, Tao Group chairman, reflects upon the company's origins and the current targets it aims to achieve.
Rants and Raves:
Start making Cents Andrew Korn discusses the changing need of online advertising
Control of the community Mark Wilson reminds Amiga Inc. that they should not forget the Amiga community
Features:
We are 2! Four page article that summarises the magazines' origins in a paragraph and predicts four possible future's for the Amiga.
WES: The Future of MAME on the Amiga Amiga Active takes a look at the latest MAME port for the Amiga and the authors' attempts to optimize the emulation process.
Active Gamer: Edivision Amiga Active interviews Pat Roberts, Steven Haun, and Jeremy Engleman of Edivision.
NextGen: ECTS 2001 - A Docklands Odyssey The Sonys' and Nintendos' of the computing industry avoided the ECTS 2001. What were the little fish showing?
NextGen: Terraplay Four-page article on Terraplay System's solution to networking.

Reviews:

All review scores are marked out of four 'AmiYinYangs'.

Media Point First appearing in 1994, MediaPoint has been reissued with a number of improvements. 4 out of 4
NextGen: Series Zero Three-page review of Amiga's first batch of games for the Sharp Zaurus  
Amiga Classix 3 Compilation of commercial and PD games for retro Amiga, Windows and Mac owners. UAE supplied. 3 out of 4
Tutorials:
Mirror, Mirror Mini-Masterclass Two-page masterclass on backup software for disk-to-disk copying.
Install in Style! (Part 2) Install libraries correctly, sort out your tooltypes and polish off your scripts with some colourful eye candy.
Warp Factor 3D! (Part 1) Tutorial on coding Warp3D
Regulars:
Active Media* Instant JavaScript book, The Victorian Internet book, TechTales.com, BoingDragon.com, Searching for your name on Google and Brave New World CD-ROM.
Active Shareware A closer look at some video tools, a PowerPC native implementation of LhA and some Workbench utilities especially for programmers.
Interactive - Letters to the Editor Excitable, suspicious or just slightly mad... that's us! As for our readers, we'll let them speak for themselves...
Ask the Guru As he doesn't have ears, the Guru's glasses keep fall off, so when you send in your questions, please use block caps!
Active Online Setting up your own mailing list - administration, netiquette and filtering.
Debriefing** Amiga Active interviews Martyn Brown, founder of Team 17.
Comments:
The penultimate issue expanded the generic technology coverage, strengthening their ties with Tao Group. One particular omen for the magazine's closure is the appearance of a mock cover in the letters page that announced the AmigaOne was finally here. CU Amiga had a similar cover in its penultimate issue that predicted the launch of the Gateway A2-1000. Coincidence? David Stroud would like you to believe it is </Global Conspiracy>.

* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs, and other media.
** Debriefing - Interviews with some of the best-known names of the Amiga market, past and present.


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