igh frequency sound approaches the Nyquist
rate, we are only sampling about once per half-cycle. While this will
reproduce the frequency of the original, it will do it at a bare minimum of accuracy. In other words, as frequencies get higher, they get less detail.

So what does it really matter? Audio CDs play back at 44100 Hz. Not bad at all.
Television/DVD audio is usually at 48000 Hz. Nice. With the HDAudio chip in
the X1000 we support both of those frequencies. We also support 88200, 96000, 176400, and 192000. So we can double or quadruple the sample rates of common media! At first, I really thought it was all a numbers game, but when developing the driver, I can actually hear the noise decrease noticeably as
the playback rates went up!

And that is where I'll leave off. This was enough of a lesson for one day. I
am very happy that I could contribute to the completion of this driver. And
the chance to "raise the bar" regarding sound capability was really very nice icing on the cake. Like many of us, I have been using Amigas for a long time. Today, right here in front of me is an Amiga that supports high definition audio, a modern high performance video card. It uses standard, off the shelf keyboard, mouse, monitor and many USB accessories as well. Most of these we unheard of in the classic days. But with all the new and shiny, it is still AmigaOS to the core.


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AMIGAREMIX
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AmigaRemix web page lets you listen to your favourite Amiga music remixes. However during the last few weeks the website has added the following Amiga music mixes : Pushover (Main Titlescreen Loop), Stardust Memories Dancemix, Elysium, De Die Hards, Golden Axe (Remix), Sidepanther (Childhood memories remix), Doodlebug Remix 2010 v3.0 and Cannon Fodder.

To hear more head to the following URL www.amigaremix.com/


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YAM 2.8P1 RELEASED
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YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is an email client for the AmigaOS. Recent Changes in this version include : Updated translations: Czech, Greek, Swedish, French, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. Improvements: BetterString.mcc, ADDRLOAD, Drafts folder management and many other small errors are removed. New: WRITEIDENTITY ARexx command.

yam.ch/


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TOD
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TOD simulates a game of Tetris experienced under the influence of drugs. The game can be played with the joystick or the keyboard. The game will start as a normal Tetris game, but as time goes by you start to lose track of what's happening on the screen. If you play with two players you can send your opponent garbage or a dose of hallucinogens.

The game can be downloaded from here

www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=game/puzzle/tod.lha

Here is part of the game description. TOD(TM) simulates a game of TETRIS(R) experienced under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. Officially, TOD
stands for Tetanus On Drugs, but it also is German for "death."

Errrm like Far out MAN!


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AMIGAONE X1000 FIRST CONTACT
LATEST BATCH
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Amiga Kit said

"We are pleased to confirm that the third consumer batch of AmigaOne X1000 "First Contact" has started to arrive with us this week from Varisys.

We ask all remaining outstanding customers who have registered interest with
us to Checkout here in order to not miss out. Thank you for your patience whilst the new batch was being manufactured and quality tested.

Important: Some customer email addresses have since expired or bounced back when we have tried to contact, please make contact with us if you have not received an email. We will try emailing twice before removing you from the list.

There will be some new driver updates installed on the latest systems as software development has been on-going in the meantime."

www.amigakit.com/x1000


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AMIGA=POWER ISSUE 51 RELEASED
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Issue 51 of aMiGa=PoWeR is available.

Articles : Interview with David Pleasance...

Reviews : Ask Me Up, Frogatto, AOrganiser, Gribouillis, HxC, USB-DB9 Retronic Design Adaptor...

Tutorials : HTML coding, Installation of WB3.1 on a Minimig...

and many other articles, all in full colour !

aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by AFLE (French association). Created in 1998, aMiGa=PoWeR became thanks to the experience of AFLE (created in
1994), the 1st French-speaking Amiga newspaper. Entirely laser printed, aMiGa=PoWeR is distributed around the world

amigapower.free.fr/ap51.html


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LENARD ROACH: BRINGING FICTION
BACK TO THE COMMODORE
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lenardroach.com/Home.php

Computers, both now and then, are usually written about either in the ways of programming the machine or about the history of the machine either of the
model or the company that manufactured, or produced, hardware or software.
Very few, if any, fictional articles or stories are written starring the computer, not like it was in the beginning when computers were starting to
make the rounds in homes around the world. Mostly nowadays it's just information only.

One middle aged man from the Midwest wishes to reverse the tide again and once more bring computers, and the Commodore in particular, back into the fictional field. His name is Lenard Roach.

Lenard, a stand-up comedian from the late 70s to early 80s, started writing fiction on his Commodore back in 1989 using the techniques learned from screen writing expert Syd Field. Since then, Lenard has gone on to writing stories, skits, and plays on a regular basis, but his greatest aspiration has been to use his Commodore computer, which sits quaintly in his Kansas City home.

Lenard's interest in making the Commodore the forefront of fiction again came with the surprising success of his 1996 short story, "Raiders at Midnight," which was about two cats raiding the desktop where a Commodore resided and tearing up the stand in the process of exploring the machine. Lenard wrote the story in an espionage style format which intrigued many readers of the "Ryte Bytes" Commodore newsletter, the monthly publication of the now defunct Commodore Users Group of Kansas City. This sparked the story to be reprinted
in several Commodore newsletters throughout the United States over the course of the next several months.

The surprising success of this story sparked the interest of Lenard in such a way that he proceeded, back then, to write a tongue in cheek, left handed
story simply based on the on/off switch found on every computer device in the detention centre where he worked as a custodian. This story, entitled "Advertisement For OFF," was posted on the bulletin board of Lenard's job and was quickly circulated throughout several complexes in the local government, sparking a few chuckles and a couple of "attaboys" from appreciative readers; some readers took his article seriously and began shutting off the monitors on the computers to save the government money in electrical fees.

Lenard has watched as computers like the Commodore slowly became less of a fictional interest and more of a "what can it do for me" mentality basis by users. Computers today do to not work with their users anymore but they do
more of telling the user what to do and what not to do. Commodore showed the greatest possibility of a strong man/machine relationship than any of the computers of any era. To access a computer's DOS is no longer done by the at-home, run-of-the-mill user, but is left more to be done by the IT engineers who basically have sucked the soul out of the computer just to turn a profit. This was not done maliciously or even intentionally; it was just the way computing went as it crossed into the threshold of the 21st century.

So why, with over a decade past the 2000 year mark, does one think that drama

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