Hi Glen! I love your idea for a new magazine, I've been thinking of trying to start one myself for some time, or at least contribute to any others that are being made. There's also the Amiga Point of View magazine which is also available only as a PDF but it's mainly about classic games, and not so much current Amiga news.

I do a lot of betatesting of new Amiga software, games and hardware, as well as contributing to some upcoming game projects, and I like to follow all the latest happenings in the Amiga community as best I can, trying to keep informed. Although I'm currently pretty busy with all these projects, I'd love to write up an occasional article for your magazine. I'm currently designing a couple of websites, one was going to be a site about Amigas for girls with the intention of trying to get more girls to use Amigas, and for this I was going to write an occasional article and review a game. If you don't mind publishing an article that I would also have on my personal site, I could contribute those too if you'd like.

I was also thinking, would you mind if we tried to make a CD version of the magazine that would contain all the articles as well as a few videos, demos, and software that will boot up on a CDTV, CD32 or any Amiga with a CD drive (or hard drive/CF card with enough space)?

I'm sorry if you're not into any of these ideas, my head is just full of them, and I'm incredibly passionate about the Amiga and trying to revive the scene a bit.

Moya

1) I wonder how Paypal handles the selling of large things like Cars with the 21 day hold thing..? Sucks.

2) Transformers. Hated the first one, even though I watched the series as a kid. It was ok, until they got into the 45 minute battle scene at the end where you couldn't tell which robot was which, and really didn't care. Animated characters were far easier to tell apart in battle.

As such, I haven' been on the groove to see the sequel. Maybe cable.

re: pirated copies, I just hate when that happens. I really do.

Back in the day when all I had was my 040 powered 1200 (still in a desktop case) and an otherwise unexpanded A600, I used parnet to connect the two and had a directory on the 1200's hard disk to hold OS2.05 for the A600. The floppy just had enough to start up parnet and then run a customised startup sequence.

It was pretty slow, but faster and more convenient than running software from floppy

Whether Envoy or Samba, a proper PCMCIA NIC is a bit faster than the old parallel port for such shennanigans, I'd wager.

Envoy would probably work better than SMB for remote booting. Supports Amiga file permissions etc. Of course, the remote host has to be an Amiga (real or emulated).

I was actually wondering whether or not I could get away with configuring a bootable floppy with the bare minimum on it to start a network stack and then assign all the system stuff over to a samba share with the full OS proper on it. Might be a fun way of working. Might be a total disaster