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Nov 30th, 2010:
AVD Video posted from AmiWest 2010

Hello everyone, below is a link to a video of the AVD presentation
I gave at the AmiWest 2010 show last month.

<-- Click on the image to view the video If you have any problems with the direct viewing this video by clicking on the image, you can use the following link to search the blip.tv site for the video by title. [Search Blip.tv AmiWest video]

Official AmigaONE X-1000 Beta Test Member

I received my official acceptance as a member of the AmigaONE X1000 Beta Test Team today, and am looking forward to getting one of these new machines in hand and start testing it out. The AmigaONE X1000 is an awesome next step in the production of high end AmigaOS4(tm) based systems, with a tremedous potential. <-- Click on the image to view the high resolution version. [Click here to view the PDF version]

Oct 25nd, 2010:
From AmiWest 2010 - Post Show wrap up

Hello Folks! Still posting from the hotel room here at AmiWest 2010, before flying back home in the morning.

This year has been a fantastic show and I am extremely happy that I was able to make my return as an active member of the AmigaOS4(tm) development community, and to promote the rebirth of the AVD project in person at this year's show.

With both Carl Sassenrath and Dale Luck from the original Amiga team there to attend the 25th anniversary of their creation, was nothing short of history making.

My very great thanks goes out to the all of the terrific people I talked with at the show (far too many to list here), many of whom were just as excited as I was about my return to the show and the restarting of AVD development. Not to forget AmiWest Show team for putting on the best Amiga Show I have attended in many years. Thanks Guys! See you next year.

I had hoped to complete the testing of the SDK Browser v2.0 and release it before coming to the show, but my schedule did not permit it. I demoed the SDK Browser v2.0 along with the current GUI Builder at the show during my seminar on Sunday, and will post a link to the video of that presentation as soon as it gets put up (on blip.tv and or youtube.com I believe).

I found a couple of minor things I need to fix before version 2 of the SDK Browser will be ready for release, so I will be making those quick changes, retest everything again and release it shortly after I can get back home.

Donated signed Amiga Beach Ball to the show's raffle.

This year I decided to donate one of my own past Amiga treasures to the show for the raffle, and brought along an official Amiga Beach Ball that I got from a past Amiga show back in the days of Petro Tyschtschenko, where a number of these were dropped from a large net above the show floor.
The Beach Ball was then signed before I donated it, by many of the key people there at the show, including (but not limited to); Carl Sassenrath, Dale Luck, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden, Ben Hermans, Trevor Dickinson, Jens Schoenfeld, and others I am getting too fuzzy to remember right now (very tried).

Here are a few pictures of the signed Amiga Beach Ball that Trevor Dickinson was nice enough to take of it for me. You can try to figure out which signature are which if you wish. :-)

Click on the thumbnail images below to view the hi-resolution versions (up to 2.5 Meg each).

Images of AmiWest 2010 Signed Amiga Boing Ball:

Oct 22nd, 2010:
From AmiWest 2010 - A Blast from the past, and eye to the future.

Hello Folks! I am posting this from my hotel room here at AmiWest 2010.
I am returning to AmiWest for the first time since attending the show back in 2006. Sitting here getting ready for things to kick off for pre-show Friday, I find myself recalling the events of the 2006 show and looking back at where we were then and looking forward to seeing where we are now.

For me I feel a bit like I am starting over again, picking up the pieces and preparing to charge forward into the future. I have I believe a fresh perspective on the AVD project along with the entire scope of my life's work. It feels a lot like coming home really. Stepping out of the haze to find that the road ahead of you is clear.

I did not have much time to prepare for this year's show, in fact I very nearly didn't make it at all; but being here now I am glad to have made the trip. It should be a very interesting show, and I am mostly here this year to have a chance to talk directly with a lot of great people and see what I can do to help bring the completed AVD project to the Amiga Community as quickly as possible. I will be posting more throughout this weekend as the show progresses.

For now, here is a blast from the past for you:
These are the AVD promotional materials create by Eliso Bianchi for the Pianeta 2006 Amiga show in Italy, which I also presented at the AmiWest 2006 show in Sacramento, California here in the United States. They include a slideshow presentation that was created with Hollywood and presented with an AmigaOS4(tm) machine at the show, along with the PDF documents of the AVD Flier that was handed out at AmiWest 2006. Please keep in mind that while these materials still present good information about AVD, they are now dated and some things have changed since then -like my address :-).

1. AVD Slideshow from AmiWest 2006 [LHA Archive]
   
2. AVD Flier from AmiWest 2006 [LHA Archive of PDF files]
3. AVD Flier files:
   [README for AVD Flier]
   [PDF of the Front Cover] (Low Res Version)
   [PDF of the Inside] (Low Res Version)

Oct 7th, 2010:
AmiWest 2010!

Well it's official folks, I will be returning to AmiWest this year.

I was not sure that I was going to make it this year or not, but I'm happy to say that I booked my
travel arrangements and will be there for all three days. I plan to release the newest version of
AVD's SDK Browser (version 2.0) at the show, and will be demonstrating many of it's new features.
I will also be on hand to answer any questions about the restarting of AVD/FreeAVD's development.

I hope to see you at the show!

Sept 14th, 2010:
FreeAVD Sponsorship Program and AVD Pre-Sale option REOPENED!

Now that development on AVD/FreeAVD has been restarted, I have reopened Donations,
FreeAVD Sponsorship Subscriptions, and Pre-Sales of the AVD Suite with easy payment options.

Please consider supporting the AVD/FreeAVD development efforts with one of the donation or purchase items above. Thanks!

Sept 7th, 2010:
AVD Project Development Restarted!

I am happy to announce that at long last I have my AmigaONE back
online, and have officially restarted development on the AVD project.

If you have not yet seen my post about this on
www.amigaworld.net I have reproduced it below, so read on.

I have heard from many of you over the last several months asking more or less this same question; "What is going on with Amiga Inc. and am I still employed by them?" Up to this point my answer has always remained a (hopefully) polite "Sorry, I can not comment."

While I will still refrain from any comment or even personal opinion, good or bad, about Amiga Inc. as a company, here are the facts about my status that I can now share:

1. My employment contract with Amiga Inc, started on November 1st, 2007 and ended on November 1st, 2009. The contract further required that I could not "compete" with Amiga Inc. for a period of six months after the completion of my contract. That clause has now expired as well on May 1st, 2010. While I still consider myself under a general NDA not to discuss the previous or current state of Amiga Inc. as a company, my direct employment and obligation to them has now ended. I no longer work for Amiga Inc. in any way. I am still in contact with them and may do some specific contract work for them in the future if they ask, but I do not plan to reinstate my current contract to become a full time employee again at this time.
   
   
2. During this two and a half year period, development on AVD was either directly or indirectly forbidden. For the two years of direct employment I was not permitted (according to my contract) to work for any other company, even my own. After the contract was complete, there still existed a "Non-Competition Covenant" for the six months after that. I have heard some opinions that neither of these facts should have prevented me from continuing my development of AVD. Those opinions are simply naive. There have been several cases where the hard work of an individual has been laid claim to by previous employers. There is no way I was going to allow that to happen to AVD. So whether you agree with my choice or not, that is now in the past.
   
   
3. I am currently working as an independent contractor again under my BITbyBIT Software Group company. I am doing power systems software integrations for larger telecommunications and data center companies looking to centralize their power monitoring and management solutions. The same field I was previously working for 10 years in before returning to Amiga development.
   
   

Best Regards,

Jamie Krueger

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