In 2003/2004 Amiga Inc. published 9 (IIRC) issues of "Club Amiga Monthly", a HTML magazine only available to people who were part of their "$50 coupon" scam.

I'm occasionally providing stuff like that to the people at archive.org, who have the technical and legal means to preserve things like that for posterity. While striking off things from my todo list, I came across my backups of "CAM": Back then, two articles were released to the public ("AmigaInput - The new Gaming-API for AmigaOS" and "AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4"), I have proper copies of those.

But I never had access to the rest of CAM - I'm sure some of the former 'club' members are still reading this, did anybody happen to make backups of those things? I'd be very interested in those.

@cgutjahr

i'd be very interested in reading material from the early days of AOS4 development. best wishes in getting copies.

-- eliyahu

_________________
"Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. When the laws do not operate, there is no reality. All of this is unreal."

@cgutjahr

I was such a member in those days. I don't remember saving the magazine, though. If a copy still exists, it will be on an old PC HD, and I'm sure I recycled them all as Amiga disks, thus wiping the PC contents.

I'll take a look next week.

@Eldee: That was not OS4 as we know it. It was the "Amiga under Windows" plan, running the "new" API on x86. Amiga Inc put no work into it and the project died.

It was a year or so later that Amiga Inc commissioned Hyperion to start again.

Last edited by tonyw on 21-Jan-2016 at 09:28 PM.

_________________
cheers
tony

Hyperion Support Forum: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php

@tonyw

Quote:

I'll take a look next week.

Thank you! I'm not expecting much from this inquiry anyway, not sure how many people saved stuff like that on their hard disks anyway.

Quote:

That was not OS4 as we know it. It was the "Amiga under Windows" plan, running the "new" API on x86. Amiga Inc put no work into it and the project died.

No. OS4 "as we know it" was announced in April 2001 as a H&P project. In autumn 2001, the project was given to Hyperion instead. Like I said, "Club Amiga Monthly" is from 2003/2004, way after Hyperion took over.

The coupon scam was actually "$50 off the purchase price of your A1 with OS4, once it hits the market", and the 'club' was introduced later to hide the fact they didn't really plan to honor those coupons.

Here's the teaser content I mentioned that was made available to the whole public, not just 'club' members:

http://gutjahr.hallenradsport-forum.de/share/Amidock.html
http://gutjahr.hallenradsport-forum.de/share/AmigaInput.html

Obviously damage control done by the OS4 team.

@cgutjahr

I did make backups of CAM issues. I'm not sure if I have all of them. I was using AWeb at the time, so I may have modified the HTML a bit to get it to render properly on that browser, but I didn't modify the content of any articles.

I put them on CD. It might take me a while to find the CD because it might still be at my parents' place. :)

@cgutjahr i am just a poor frenchy MorphOS user but why not simply browse archive.org backups (and remove &PHPSESSID at end of urls) ?

Issue #2 AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4 by Stefan Robl

Issue #3 AmigaInput - The new Gaming API for AmigaOS by Steffen Haeuser

Issue #4 Something old, something new: the Amiga Fast File System, past, present and future by Olaf Barthel

Issue #5 A Short Story on the V50 DOS Library by Colin J. Wenzel

Issue #6 Shared Libraries in OS4 by Hans Joerg Frieden

Issue #7 ExecSG in Detail: Memory by Thomas Frieden

Issue #8 An Introduction to OS4 Datatypes by Oliver Roberts

Issue #9 This is "Roadshow" by Olaf Barthel

Always keep it simple ;-P

Last edited by bigdan on 23-Jan-2016 at 06:48 AM.
Last edited by bigdan on 23-Jan-2016 at 06:45 AM.
Last edited by bigdan on 23-Jan-2016 at 06:43 AM.

@cgutjahr

Ok maybe it'not exactly what you were searching for but I found a Polish page of that old articles:

http://www.ppa.pl/os4/artykuly-cam2.php

_________________
BACK FOR THE FUTURE

http://www.betatesting.it/backforthefuture

Sam440ep Flex 800 Mhz 1 GB Ram + AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6
AmigaOne XE G3 800 Mhz - 640 MB Ram - Radeon 9200 SE + AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6

@bigdan
Many thanks for the Archive.org links - I'd tried looking myself, but failed.

Sadly they are not a complete solution - some pictures are missing, and also no Issue 1 at all. ALSO, it looks like there were many more pages each issue than the special article that was made available for download.

P.S. Did they ever go past issue 9? I can't remember, and am really surprised that I never saved any CAM issues. (edit: Looks like they never did.)

Last edited by ChrisH on 23-Jan-2016 at 10:31 AM.
Last edited by ChrisH on 23-Jan-2016 at 10:28 AM.

_________________
Author of the PortablE programming language.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue...

@robo-ant

Quote:

I did make backups of CAM issues. I'm not sure if I have all of them. I was using AWeb at the time, so I may have modified the HTML a bit to get it to render properly on that browser, but I didn't modify the content of any articles.

Brilliant! I'm glad to hear that.

Take your time digging them out, just don't forget about us

@bigdan

Quote:

why not simply browse archive.org backups (and remove &PHPSESSID at end of urls) ?

Heh, I didn't think of removing the Sessio ID, thanks a lot. The missing pictures can be taken from the polish translations that samo79 found.

But as ChrisH pointed out, that's just the teaser content the released to the public, the whole CAM issues were bigger. So we still have to hope robo-ant locates his CD backup one day.

@cgutjahr

An anonymous donor provided us with complete backups of all CAM issues (there are twelve in total). I'll see what I can do about making them available somehow.

@cgutjahr

Wow. Great finish. Lots of entries and an anonymous winner.

@cgutjahr

Quote:

An anonymous donor provided us with complete backups of all CAM issues (there are twelve in total). I'll see what I can do about making them available somehow.

Great!

I did grab a stack of backup CDs last night when I was visiting my mom, but I haven't had time to get the CAM issues from there yet. I'm glad someone else had them, too!

@cgutjahr

Sorry, I thought you were asking about the mags that Fleecy Moss produced. I don't remember these others that have been listed.

_________________
cheers
tony

Hyperion Support Forum: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php

@cgutjahr

https://archive.org/details/Cam_1-12_FullVersion

(edit: Thanks a lot to everybody who assisted in making this happen!)

Last edited by cgutjahr on 05-Feb-2016 at 01:41 PM.

@cgutjahr

Thanks for making these available!

Regards
Kotler

it is interesting reading so far, I like to see things like "The PowerAmiga 500 Why that name? Well AmigaOne is a good development name, but not a good marketing one. Having too many numerals confuses, and, say, AmigaOne 500 isn`t as easy to market as PowerAmiga 500..."

They also get AmigaOS 4 update every month wow :)

Kamelito

Last edited by kamelit0 on 06-Feb-2016 at 10:01 AM.

@cgutjahr

Thanks!