During the day of 22nd and 23rd of September held at Empoli ( Florence ) the eleven edition of " Pianeta Amiga ", even this year full of news. Like the others editions was possible to have a free stand thanks to our sellers and Jasa Communications ( promoter of Pianeta Amiga ). In this edition there were a lot of exhibitors and a lot of things to touch by hand.

The exhibitors are :


Starting from ACube-Systems was possible to touch by hand and buy the famous SamEP440, future board for the Amiga OS 4.0. On SamEP 440 is possible, now, to install the distro Linux Crux PPC. This motherboard is sell in four different versions, with 256 Megabyte of ram, with 512 Megabyte, with the cpu at 556 Megahertz or with the cpu at 667 Megahertz. ACube also held a conference and you can watch it downloading the file from our site.

Alternative Holding Group, Virtual Works and Soft3 ( ACube-Systems ) also were selling hardware and software for the Amiga/PC/Linux.
Another news for this edition was the possibility, by the stand of BitPlane, to subscribe at the magazine AmigaFuture. From now this magazine will be translated also in english (until now it was available only in german ). At the stand of BitPlane was possible to receive the new issue of this italian magazine, from the tireless Nicola Morocutti.


At Pianeta Amiga was also present the seller AmigaKit.com with hardware and software for all the amiga os versions.
Another exhibitor was present at Empoli, AmiKit, this is not only the name of the exhibitor but also is the name of the famous software that is able to install a full and complete package for the amiga emulation on Intel systems.
With the help of a friendly installer, will be installed Amiga OS 3.9 ( not included ) with a lot of utilities or patch, already configured, that upgrade Amiga OS 3.9. This is very usefull as, all the classic amiga users known, they must be installed by hand. Now thanks to AmiKit, a unique package will be installed and upgraded with a friendly utility.


At Empoli was present also a great italian journalist, the famous Paolo besser. Paolo works for one of the most important italian magazine The Games Machines and here at Pianeta Amiga he held a conference about AROS and shown the last version of this young operating system Amiga-Like that for the first time bring the Amiga OS on Intel® chipset ( off limit until now ).

Michele Battilana of Cloanto Italia couldn' t miss the amiga event of the year and other than show his famous distro Amiga Forever, held an interesting conference about it.

At PalaEsposizioni was present also Rebol Italia with the program language Rebol, created by Carl Sassenrath. They presented and introduced the fundamental concepts of this program language.

IksNet was also present at this edition. It is an important italian website dedicated to the Amiga OS and the I.T.. The author Riccardo " Ikir " Merlo showed its Amiga One XE with Amiga OS 4.0 and some MacMini®

AmigaDemoMania take place to this edition with its system Amiga-like Amithlon, a good environment that gives the possibility to use the amiga 68k programs of Amiga OS 3.9 at full speed

By our stand was possible to see and try the new emulator Katana, a frontend to run under a complete and friendly gui different systems. The program is still in an alpha stage was working and could emulate the following systems : Nintendo 8 Bit, SuperNintendo 16 Bit, Master System 8 Bit, GameGear 8Bit and Megadrive 16Bit. Katana with a usefull plug-in system read and the recognizes the rom running the right console. It also gives the possibility to continue the last session played but not saved of one game ( very usefull imho ).

A lot of features are still missing but when it will be ready to be released we will inform you.

We also showed somes games ported using the Allegro Library. Even if it was a beta it was full working under Amiga OS 4.0 and it seemed lighter than the SDL.

For this eleven edition Lorraine Design created a set of 50 icons for the Amiga OS 4.0 and its videogames. The icons are in PNG format and support the dual image of Amiga OS 4.0. Moreover it created a set of wallpapers always for Amiga OS 4.0 and its videogames.

The Vague is the name of a new MagDisk created using the Warp3D accelleration and will run under Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS Classic and Morph OS.
A lot are the articles inside this issue and as a tradition they speak about a lot of arguments like the programming under Amiga OS, the Demo-Scene, the music and obviously the graphic. As background music we can listen four music modules, one of them created by the mighty FBY, well-known musician of the Amiga Demo-Scene.

From the exhibitors there was also the Crux PPC team who takes care of porting its distro on SamEP440. Unfortunatly for a problem of the last minute it wasn' t possible to held the conference and made the official presentation at Pianeta Amiga.

Stefano Guidetti has shown the last version of TuneNet a powerfull multimedia player that now support the graphical skins. Stefano kindly showed the program allowing us to make a video.

At Empoli was possible to see and test Morph OS, the Amiga like operating system, showed by Andrea " Guruman " Maniero with games and programs like Robin hood and the last beta of Sputnik a very good browser. They are amazing and we hope to see them very soon on Amiga OS 4.0.

The last but not the least was the stand of the Phoenix Project showed by the tireless Andrea Palmate' an active and good programmer of the Amiga scene. The Phoenix project has born by a group of programmers from all around the world, which the main purpose is to bring Amiga OS to upper levels with all the programs that given to it all its popularity. At Empoli we could see an alpha version of Bourriquet ( a P2P client ).

Unfortunatly we weren' t able to meet Evert Carton of Hyperion-entertainment who arrived at Empoli too late and we could stay only for the day of Saturday. We hope to meet him the next year or even before for some special event ( if it will ).

For this year it' s all folks, see you next year with a lot of news.

Here the links for the photo gallery and the video of Pianeta Amiga 2007 :

Photo gallery
PianetaAmiga2007 386Mb

To download the video with IBrowse click with the right mouse button on the link and select " Save to Disk "