The ill-fated Alive Mediasoft are back, under the name Alive World. On their website they are selling Mac games, DVDs and, funnily enough, R'n'B music. In addition, MacWorld claim in their news item that "the company plans to ship a CD compilation of games called Amiga 4 Mac. It will be a collection of classic Amiga games and an Amiga OS emulator."

Guvenc Kaplan writes: "Hi, as Amigart, we have opened a petition page for AmigaOS4.0 upon an idea on this unmoderated forum. We invite everybody to join and submit his opinion. The description on our page is as follows: 'Haage & Partner (authors of AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9) is waiting for the approval of Amiga Inc CEO. BillMCEwen to begin coding Amiga OS V4.0 . This new version will probably feature a new kickstart rom and full PowerPC support. If you want an official AmigaOS for PPC please join the petition for Amiga OS 4.0. Leave Your Message to Amiga Inc. and let your voice be heard...P.S.:Please do not start MorphOS vs AmigaOS discussion here...We think that MorphOS is a new PPC OS and should be considered seperately from AmigaOS.'" You can sign the petition here.

The Trogladite Software awards 2001 voting has now commenced. Voting and nomination can be done here. You can vote for ANN in the website category by clicking here. :)

Amigart have posted some test results for the Mediator with a Voodoo 3 card here.

Amiga have opened an online store at amiga.com.

Here's the homepage of a new open source MPEG4-based video codec, called 3ivX. It's to be launched on December 15th. Amongst other things, Amiga support is promised.

henrik@jointamigadevelopers.org>Henrik Mikael Kristensen posted a link to Fabio Trotta's interview with Mariusz Wloczysiak from Elbox.

Nectarine is an Internet radio station that specializes in demoscene music. Numerous Amiga-artists are represented on the playlist of over 2000 tunes. You can make requests for your favourite tunes on the site as well as send new ones to be added to the playlist yourself. The station uses a sreaming MP3 format that can be listened to on the Amiga with for example StreamMP3 or Streamer (both from Aminet)

OSOpinion have a nice article, entitled "Wanted: A Modern-Day Amiga". In it, they throw in a challenge for someone to create "a modern-day Amiga500" to fill the gap between PCs and consoles.