05.Sep.1999
ICOA
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The man behind the new Amiga patents
The man behind the new Amiga patents.
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05.Sep.1999
Tumult
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New MCC classes registered at Tumult
Tumult is collecting all information and news about MUI MCC-classes. As of late,
MathString.mcc and GLArea.mcc have been added.
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05.Sep.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail
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amiga.gr now also available in English
amiga.gr is now also available in English.
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05.Sep.1999
Amiga.org
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MIRA Amiga 99 in Portugal
MIRA Amiga 99 in Portugal.
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05.Sep.1999
KATO
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New software for Twister 1200 version 1.36
The driver has been optimized. Download: twister.lha
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05.Sep.1999
H&P [News]
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Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign
Haage & Partner has created an own domain for the NoPiracy campaign, which is available
at www.amiga-planet.de/nopiracy/. Starting today, a
discussion forum dedicated
to this campaign is available.
Since we explicitely support this campaign, we have added a link to our Quick Link list,
which can be found in the right-hand menu.
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05.Sep.1999
Sinan Gürkan by eMail
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Zune - Open Source Reimplementation of MUI
Zune is a project to reimplement Stefan Stuntz' MUI as Open Source. To achieve this,
the project makes use of the API and the freely redistributable includes of the MUI SDK
only. The project is based on the LPGL.
Currently Zune is developed under Linux. It is however planned to be portable
to other Unixes and, if possible, more or less easily portable for Windows and BeOS.
The project is 20% finished. This includes a good dozen key classes like Notify,
Window, Group, Area, Text, Image and the dynamic loading of classes as well as other
features.
The current source code
can be downloaded as tgz archive from the homepage.
On this page, you can find some screenshots of the GUI system.
A mailinglist is available from EGroups.
Non-members have access to the archive, too. The list can be subscribed by sending an empty
eMail to zune-subscribe@egroups.com or with
the form on the bottom of the homepage.
A CVS repository is planned, all participation is warmy welcomed.
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05.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail
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Saku 99: Petro Tyschtschenko about MCC and OS 3.5
Petro Tyschtschenko was unable to attend the Saku 1999 in Finland in person, but gave those
present a short status report on development by phone, and made a point not to panic.
Moreover, Petro Tyschtschenko said that he was not fired, and will have a meeting
with the new President of Amiga soon. Additionally, he said that AmigaOS 3.5 will be shipped
by end of September and that the MCC will appear, however the schedule might be delayed a
little.
More information about the meeting can be found at
batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/. A MP3
(5 MB) with the speech of Petro Tyschtschenko is available for download:
saku99sp.mp3.
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04.Sep.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert
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New: akNAIL 44.4 and akMPEG (September 3rd, 1999)
Download: akNAIL-dt.lha
The akMPEG animation player has been released recntly (see Aminet: gfx/show). Several
changes and improvements have been done in the meantime, bugs have been fixed etc. V2.60
of akMPEG2 contains, among others, a new GUI, PPC support, in-window and on-screen-player
and an 8 bit AGA version. Download: akMPEG2.lha.
Regnet, register by credit card.
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04.Sep.1999
Magnus Holmgren
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ReqChange Update Version 3.15
Download: ReqChange.lha
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04.Sep.1999
Amiga Central
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New IRC network irc.shagged.org
New IRC network irc.shagged.org
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04.Sep.1999
TWF
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The World Foundry Update
The E2260 and
M&M pages have been
updated with the monthly news. TWF worked on the backgrounds, the Audio/CD player
and the textures in Explorer 2260, and the internal data organisation has been
changed in Mame & Mangle, explosion animations been added and some bugs removed.
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04.Sep.1999
Virtual Dimension
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Update of feature list "Othello - the virtual boardgame"
"Othello - the virtual boardgame" is a modern variant of the old Othello game.
New among the features is a highscore list, and an option for human opponents
to take over a game from an artificial opponent.
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04.Sep.1999
StrICQ-Support
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New beta version 0.1496 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha
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04.Sep.1999
Vapor.com
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AmTelnet 2.0 / AmigaNCP FileSystem upgrade
AmTelnet 2.0
AmTelnet now supports SSH1 for secure remote administration. This update is free for
AmTelnet 1.x users.
Download: amtelnet_20.lzx
more ...
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03.Sep.1999
Darek Dulian by eMail
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FastATA'99 & AllegroCDFS new software for PowerFlyer controller
ELBOX releases FastATA'99 version 4.x. FastATA'99 4.x
is the fourth generation of the ATA/ATAPI controller software for ELBOX FastATA/PowerFlyer/Winner
HighSpeed Controller for Amiga 1200:
more ...
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03.Sep.1999
Stuart Walker by eMail
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Digital Images suspending Amiga development
Reply-To: digital-images-news@egroups.com
From: Stuart Walker
To; digital-images-news@egroups.com
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:20:52 +0000
Subject: [digital-images-news] Digital Images Update
To Amiga users worldwide,
Due to recent announcements and problems with Amiga, Digital Images regrets
that we will be suspending all AmigaMCC projects including Sabrina Offline.
Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097 will be released as planned, but we will
be suspending all other Amiga developments until further notice.
Everyone behind Digital Images has enthusiastically supported the Amiga
through the good times and the bad times. But with the recent troubles with
Amiga, the entire team has unanimously decided to suspend all Amiga
developments (with the exception of Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097). We
regret to have to take these measures, but Digital Images cannot afford to
spend time, resources and money developing for a computer which now, as it
seems may never appear.
We hope that everybody reading this understands our position as this is the
last thing that any of us would ever have wanted to do, but Amiga have made
promise after promise that something would appear, but it has not.
We deeply regret this decision, but it is a final measure that has to be
taken. We wish that we wouldn't have to go this far, but we now have no
other option - it is the last thing that any of us wanted to do. We would
appreciate it if everybody understood our position and wouldn't send e-mails
of anger and abuse. We have done everything in our power to avoid this, but
it just isn't possible.
If the Amiga does indeed rise again, which we hope it does, we will return.
We hope that you will enjoy our upcoming releases of Space Station 3000 and
Wipeout 2097.
If you do have any questions or queries concerning this announcement, please
e-mail info@digital-images.demon.co.uk
We thank you all once again for your loyal and devoted support.
Kind Regards,
Stuart Walker
Digital Images
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03.Sep.1999
Rebol
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REBOL/core 2.1.2 released
Rebol has released version 2.1.2 of the REBOL Internet Messaging Language.
The language is meanwhile available for 35 platforms.
more ...
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03.Sep.1999
CAD-Technologies
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Imagine: Update Version 5.16
The "new user" archive has been expanded by the PPC version of the effects.
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03.Sep.1999
.amiupdate
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Perfect Paint Version 1.1
Download: PfPaint.lha - 486 KB
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03.Sep.1999
Amiga
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Amiga News
Since today, the English Amiga news page carries the following:
Jim Collas has resigned.
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03.Sep.1999
Herbert Markart by eMail
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IBrowse2 available
IBrowse2 available.
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03.Sep.1999
Andy Mueller-Maguhn by eMail
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CCC Press Release about MS Crypto API Backdoor
Press Information from Chaos Computer Club
Microsoft Operating Systems with builtin Backdoor:
Secure cryptography with Windows jeopardized
By detailed research with the WindowsNT operating system by an American
Security Software developer, a massive software backdoor could be revealed in the
operating systems Windows95, 98, NT and Windows 2000 (beta), which is likely dating
back to an initiative by the US secret service NSA. This has a heavy impact on
Microsoft's operating systems security.
After the initiatives of the American secret service NSA (National
Security Agency) for worldwide communications control by means of internationally
standarised regulation of encryption have suffered severe setbacks, now obviously
it is attempted to reach the same goals by implementing backdoors in the American
software products dominating the market. (Rest of the press release at the title
link.)
more ...
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03.Sep.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail
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VirtualGP
Thomas Steiding writes:
If everything goes right, our Formula One game "VirtualGP" will be shipped starting mid next
week. More information about "VirtualGP" is available at News. There, you can also download
the latest and last demo version for the probably best Formula One simulation for the Amiga.
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03.Sep.1999
Stefan Instinske
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TGV Haupt: Z4 bus board available
The long waiting is over: the Z4 bus board is available
Z4-busboard for MicroniK, Elbox, Winner, Power-Tower
Features:
- 5 Zorro2-Slots - 2 Z4-LocalSlots (double bus width (upto 19MB/sec) than Zorro3)
- 2 Zorro2-Slots switchable to Fast-Z2 (double speed) for specially adjusted boards,
available in about 3-4 weeks: Buddha-FastZ2 (IDE-Contr.), CV64-3D-FastZ2
- Videoslot (video adapters necessary for activation) - 4 Clock Ports
- compatible to all common accelerator boards with RAM in upper memory area
- P8/P9 power supply port for standard AT power supplies
more ...
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03.Sep.1999
Kamil Iskra in c.s.a.p
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gcc 2.95.1 for AmigaOS
Kamil Iskra has released the binaries of "gcc 2.95.1" for AmigaOS. They can be found on the GeekGadgets servers at
amiga/m68k/alpha/misc/gcc-2.95.1-bin020.tgz
(6.47 MB).
They are compiled for 68020+ CPUs, and can be loaded residently. The sourcecodes are
available by anonymous login from the GeekGadgets CVS server.
With gcc version 2.95, the seperate branches of gcc and egcs are merged back together,
so GeekGadgets again uses exclusively gcc.
Improvements have been made e.g. in register handling, so the previously common
"fixed or forbidden register was spilled" error should be less frequent with this version.
More informations about gcc 2.95 are available at
gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html.
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03.Sep.1999
Thomas Rudloff by eMail
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Met@box: Informations about amiJoe1200
Some time ago, we asked Met@box about some info about the amiJoe1200 board, and
recieved the following eMail by Thomas Rudloff:
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02.Sep.1999
.amiupdate
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New Interview with Iwin
New Interview with Iwin.
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02.Sep.1999
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Amiga Airlines
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02.Sep.1999
Spiegel
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Spiegel: Birthday - Internet gets 30
In his article, Detlef Borchers describes the long way to the info highway.
"Thirty years ago, US-American scientists for the first time connected
a computer to an IMP (Interface Message Processor), and by this, created the
foundation for today's networking technology. With the historical connection,
the long birth of Internet began." (Full article - German - at the title link.)
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02.Sep.1999
Amiga Nutta
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New "Virtual Grand Prix" demo released
The game has been completely reworked on basis of 'AlienF1', and is now available as demo
from Aminet under the name Virtual Grand Prix Demo. Download:
AF1last.lha (1.25 MB)
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02.Sep.1999
SAKU
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Petro Tyschtschenko cancels visit at SAKU 99
Due to the resignment of Jim Collas, Petro Tyschtschenko cancelled his visit at
the big Finnish event SAKU 99, which is taking place this weekend - he is flying
to important meetings in the USA.
It has been confirmed today that Jens Schönfeld of
individual computers, known for
products like Catweasel, Buddha etc., will be attending SAKU 99.
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02.Sep.1999
Pascal & Rainer by eMail
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driver software for laser
Bytei & McScotty (Pascal & Rainer) write:
For about 6 years we run a small laser show rental. Our lasers are exclusively driven by
Amigas (1200 50 MHz 10 MB 68030+Co). Sadly, our driver software leaves a lot to be desired!
The developer of the software (Edward Skorus) has given us sourcecodes and rights. For a
long time now we are looking for alternatives or someone able to expand the driver software.
Is there someone among your readers who knows this stuff, or knows someone who knows?
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02.Sep.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn
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Alicia Silverstone Rainboot Configs
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Starting immediately, two great Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) Rainboot configs are available
for download from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. They have been done by Jean-Yves Auger of
Pixel Art jauger@caramail.com. A must for all Alicia
Silverstone fans...
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02.Sep.1999
Peter Ratschiller by eMail
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Dr. Awesome released old Mods as MP3 files for download!
Peter Ratschiller writes:
I am a fan of Bjorn Lynne, aka Dr. Awesome (an old-time Amiga scene musician). On his homepage
(title link) he now posted that he is reworking old MOD pieces and offers them for
download on the MP3 page as MP3 pieces!
Also available at http://www.amp3.net/drawesome/.
He wants to bring some new pieces online every month!
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02.Sep.1999
Foundation
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Foundation News
A new update will be released ASAP. The last version 1.25 was not released because
this update has been done for the new version 'Foundation Directors Cut', and was
not fully compatible to the old 'Foundation' version. Paul Burkey works on the new
Update 1.26 and is trying to make this update compatible with the old version, too.
Moreover, Paul informs also that he is increasing his work on 'Foundation's Edge',
and that this work is taking most of his time.
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02.Sep.1999
ADX (Mr. Dombrowski) by phone
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Phase5: Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards
Phase 5 writes:
TOP NEWS 02.09.99:Join the exclusive club of GigaFLOPS users now - with the
Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards from phase 5 digital products!
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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet
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Collas out as Amiga president
According to ZDNet, Jim Collas is no longer president of Amiga.
Summary of the article:
Jim Collas leaves the company for personal reasons, and has registered his 118.000
stock shares for sale. Moreover it is reported that Gateway paid 13 million US-Dollar
for 47 Amiga patents, and that Collas himself asked Gateway president Ted Waitt for
the Job at Amiga. He moreover asked to run Amiga as a seperate company.
Tom Schmidt takes over the post from Collas. Before his joining Amiga,
Schmidt has worked as General Manager for Allied Signal. He was not available for
comment. PS: CNet also reports:
Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship
The article states that Collas' leaving does not imply a change in plans, and the
planned route will be continued by Schmidt.
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01.Sep.1999
amigaonline.net
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AMIGAOnline.NET
Today, AMIGAOnline.NET is going online officially as Internet Service Provider
for Amiga users in the USA and Canada.
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01.Sep.1999
AHI
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AHI v4 - Status
Martin Blom reports back from holiday, and has good news for PPC users since
the PPC assembler mixing routines are much faster than the C version. Details
at the title link.
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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet [News]
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Coppermine early - Pentium III with 700 MHz comes in October
USB 2.0 being 40 times as fast as current USB
IFA: First DVD on Linux worldwide
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01.Sep.1999
v3.vapor.com
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V³ - TearOff classes not complete in archive
The TearOff-classes in the V³pre 1/2 archives are incomplete. Please download the
compete installation from either amiga.org.pl/~szulat/tearoff/
or VaporWare at MCC_TearOff.lzx
and install the new archive.
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01.Sep.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise Newsticker (German)
IFA: DVD-Player for Linux
StarDivision takeover doesn't bother Microsoft
Sun: Into the Web with StarOffice
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01.Sep.1999
Fabian Jimenez
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Another Loss
* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400
Hello All,
I regret to inform that Bill McEwen told me as of
Tuesday he will no longer be under contract at
Amiga. Sigh.
I called him about some newsletter plans he had
in mind, only to receive yet another bit of
disappointing news.
Regards,
Fabian
--
Fabian Jimenez : fabian@cais.com : ICQ# 21377601
Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org
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01.Sep.1999
Magnus Rivertz Torgersen by eMail
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Amitory/Oratory for Amiga released as shareware
Amitory/Oratory is a chat program for use on a LAN, and is probably the best chat
program to use on a internal network between pc's and Amiga's.
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01.Sep.1999
HEW
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Home electronic world in Cologne
The Amiga show so far known as Computer(xx=year) is named "Home electronic world" this year.
It will take place from November 12th to 14th in the exhibition center, Cologne, in hall
11.2. The official website is online since today.
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01.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail
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Press Release: Finnish Saku 99 Event this Saturday
From: Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To: siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject: Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Webcam and IRC Channel Available
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.
For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).
Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).
About Saku 99
Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
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01.Sep.1999
Volker Mohr by eMail
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Amiga Patents
At the title link, you will find a posting to comp.sys.amiga.misc, listing the patents
filed by Amiga. We didn't take a closer look at the list, but perhaps one reader or
another has the time to read them :-).
Comments are wellcome in the forum.
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01.Sep.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail
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FMdriver Update Version 1.12
Stefan Robl writes:
The FMdriver packet has been improved further:
All programs can now save in IFF format, too (8 as well as 24 bit). All problems with
flicker or lines in small resolutions should be fixed, the FPS rate now looks much more
stable, too. A serious bug has been removed that occured when there was no Prism24 module
connected. The FMRecorder now offers several file formats, so it will work with every
video software. Small changes and bugfixes.
Download: FMdriver.lha
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31.Aug.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail
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amiga.gr online
Alexandros Pourikas has created an Amiga website in Greek language at www.amiga.gr. Aside from Amiga news and
a forum in local language, there is an interesting picture gallery to be found here.
more ...
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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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Fast 3D gfx chip by nVidia
Heise writes, among other:
California gfx chip manufacturer nVidia presented the 3D chip for
PC graphic gards previously dubbed "NV10" in Berlin. The GeForce 256
is the first graphic chip for consumer PCs that processes and displays 3D data mainly on its own.
With 23 million transistors, the GeForce 256 is more than twice as complex as a Pentium-III CPU
(9 million transistors). Since it does geometry transformations and lighting calculations much faster than
the PC CPU, it can create 3D objects and 3D virtual realities with much more detail and fluid moves. Thus,
PC games can make use of curved and organic structures like in movies a la "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life".
(Full article - German - at the title link).
Here is another interesting link on the subject.
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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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StarOffice goes OpenSource
Heise writes, among other:
As expected, Sun Microsystems today confirmed the purchase of the software company Star Division
based in Hamburg, Germany. At the same time, Sun announced the office package StarOffice to be
available for Internet download. (Full
article - German - at the title link).
Bernhard Kuhn in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
posted more interesting
details
about the press conference, like StarOffice now being free for _commercial_ use, too.
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31.Aug.1999
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Seybold Conference: First Macs with PowerPC G4 CPU
MacGadget, among others, writes:
As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented a new generation of Macintosh computers in his keynote
to the Seybold Conference in San Francisco, which are powered for the first time by the top-performing
PowerPC G4 CPU. Apple called the new Macs "supercomputers", offering significantly more speed than
the current Power Macintosh G3 product line. Apple starts shipping the first 400 MHz G4 system today.
Versions with 450 and 500 MHz are bound to follow in the next two weeks.
The main performance specs are a 2x AGP bus, integrated AirPort technology, an Ultra 66
ATA system and an accelerated PCI bus. Jobs spend special attention on the AltiVec technology.
This especially speeds up operations heavy on numerical calculations, like graphic applications.
A special AltiVec-optimised expansion to Photoshop is included with every G4 Mac. The new systems
will cost between 1599 and 3499 USD. A PowerPC G4 with 500 MHz is said to be much faster than a
Pentium III with 600 MHz. The Power Macintosh G4 will be shipped in the same casing as the current
G3 line, but not in blue-white but silver-white.
The new configurations in overview:
Power Mac G4/400, 64 MB memory, 10 GByte-HD, 32speed CD-ROM; 1599 $
Power Mac G4/450, 128 MB memory, 20 GByte-HD, DVD-ROM; 2499 $
Power Mac G4/500, 256 MB memory, 27 GByte-HD, DVD-RAM; 3499 $
(More details at the title link - German -)
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31.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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Amiga filed a Patent
At Nr. US5935230, the following patent has been registered: "Multiprocessor arrangement including bus
arbitration scheme involving plural CPU clusters that address each other as "phantom" CPUs".
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30.Aug.1999
Audio Evolution
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Audio Evolution PPC
New PPC RTFX:
- 3-band equalizer with mid-sweep (includes new GUI when version v2.0829 or higher is used)
- low shelving filter (bass control)
- high shelving filter (treble control)
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30.Aug.1999
AER
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A/NES 8-bit emulator for Amiga
A/NES CGFX Preview 2 released! Changes: bug fixes, and the emulator is much faster now.
Download: anescgfx.lha (early beta).
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30.Aug.1999
VirusHelp Denmark
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VirusExecutor new version 1.82e
Download: ve-182e.lha
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30.Aug.1999
Hyperion
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Hyperion brings "Smacker" to Amiga
"Smacker" is an industrial standard video codec, developed by RAD Game Tools and
used in over 1400 games. Currently, Smacker is only available for MAC (68k and PPC),
DOS, Windows 3.x, 95 and NT. At first, Hyperion considered developing an own video
codec, but since Heretic 2
by Activision and Shogo:MAD
by Monolith make use of Smacker, it was decided to save developing time and purchase the
license for the port, since Smacker is really fast and efficient when used with only 256
colors. smacker.com.
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30.Aug.1999
StrICQ-Support
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New beta version 0.1485 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha
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30.Aug.1999
Amigart
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MAME new version PPC 3.6b2
Download: mameppc36b2.lha (3.8 MB)
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30.Aug.1999
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame News
Michael Carillo Interviews Andrew Reed of Crystal Interactive Software
Delsyd Software Announce More Games
Alive Mediasoft Go Serious
Amiga Downunder Show
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30.Aug.1999
FutureZone
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Hotmail cracked completely
FutureZone writes:
Mail of every user readable | no password needed | details unknown so far | FutureZone has tested Exploit
The free mail service Hotmail has been cracked heavily today. With a web form it is possible
to read any user's mail - without password. FutureZone has a corresponding link, first tests
revealed: Every Hotmail account is readable. (Full article - German - at the title link.)
August 31st, 1999:
Heise writes, among others: Hotmail
hole fixed for now About twelve hours after the Hotmail hack became public, Microsoft
reported the bug has been fixed. In the meantime, the Hotmail server was offline. Our editors
however recieved messages until late in the night that readers were able to scan Hotmail
accounts without the need for a password. After the Microsoft announcement at 2:00 AM
local time, this seems to be impossible. Microsoft has not yet commented about the technical
background making the attack possibe.
Spiegel Netzwelt, among others, writes:
Hacker group claims
responsibility for Hotmail hack According to informations of the online news service
"Wired", a so far unknown hacker group claimed responsibility for the move on Monday. The
online magazine cites a Swedish spokesman that is reported to have made contact with "Wired".
According to him, the group named "Hackers Unite" consists of a Swedish and seven US-Americans.
The hackers made the backdoor public to bring attention to the insufficient security of
Microsoft's products: "We didn't make this hack to destroy, but to show the world how
bad the security really is at Microsoft, and that the company nearly has a monopoly on
computer software", a 21-year-old group member is cited.
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30.Aug.1999
BGUI
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New BGUI version 41.10
Download: bgui.lha (333077 bytes) of August 30th, 1999.
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30.Aug.1999
PPCRulez
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AmigaOS 3.5 preview with pictures
Steve Zoneff has attended the presentation of AmigaOS 3.5 at the Amiga Downunder in Canberra,
and created this little preview with pictures.
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30.Aug.1999
V3-Portal
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V³ image decoder and VFlash update
Download: v3_imgdecoders_73.lzx
and v3_vflash_014.lzx
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30.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Imagine Update
A new update for Imagine version 5.16 Amiga Constant
Upgrade Programm (ACUP) is available. Download page.
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30.Aug.1999
HiSoft
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iBrowse 2.1 to come this week
The beta test results have all arrived, and Stefan will remove the final bugs. If
everything runs smoothly, iBrowse will be released this week.
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30.Aug.1999
Andreas Küssner by eMail
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New Wildfire pricing and Wildfire for Movieshop Video!
Starting immediately, the recommended retail price for the award-winning special
effects software Wildfire, version 7\PPC, is cut back. This includes the bundle
"Wildfire for Movieshop".
Additionally, the example video "Wildfire for Movieshop" will be released
early September. In this video, all special effects offered for the Wildfire-Movieshop
combination are shown. The video runs for approx. 100 minutes. For the new pricing
and distributor pricing please directly contact Andreas Küssner. All programs
can be ordered directly from the Wildfire support:
Andreas Küssner Marrinksweg 5
48531 Nordhorn Germany
EMail: eksec@eure.de
Phone: +49 - (0)5921 / 330420 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, working days
Andreas Küssner, Wildfire Project Manager.
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30.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert by eMail
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GIF licence for Webmasters?
Are you a webmaster and want to get a web licence from Unisys for your GIF pictures?
No problem, Unisys offers a licence for webmasters for a meager 5,000.00 USD ;-).
Heise writes: Unisys wants to rip of websites for GIF pictures.
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30.Aug.1999
Guvenc Kaplan by eMail
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Free Amiga postcard service
Amigart started a free postcard service. Send your friends Amiga greetings.
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30.Aug.1999
Marc Albrecht by eMail
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A.C.T. new address
Finally, A.C.T. has completed its move and is from now on available at the following address only:
Albrecht Computer Technik Glinder Str. 2
27432 Ebersdorf Phone Hotlines: Amiga and Web Service:
0700-ACT-AMIGA (numerical: 0700-228-26442) Apple/Be/QNX: 0700-ACT-PHONE
(numerically: 0700-228-74663) (Presumably available starting September 10th, 1999)
Office: +49-(0)-4765-8300-60 Fax: +49-(0)-4765-8300-64
Note: The old phone numbers will be redirected for some more weeks.
EMail: info@act-net.com and WWW offers:
support@level-2.com.
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30.Aug.1999
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Iwin, part two
more ...
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30.Aug.1999
Arne Hinrichsen by eMail
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userfriendly.org: Amiga logo in good company?
Aside from Arne, several other visitors have pointed to this cartoon in userfriendly.org;
as always in these cases, the first one is cited as "source".
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30.Aug.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail
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VMdriver new version 1.10
Stefan Robl writes:
The new version 1.10 of the FMdriver packet contains numerous innovations; e.g. the
limitation to graphic cards has been removed, programms are now running in satisfactory
quality in 2-256 colors (!!). New are the programms FMInit, FMGrab (great for WebCams!),
FMRecord/FMRecordDec and FMRecorder.
FMRecorder makes it possible to comfortably record videos with the FrameMachine.
The program contains, aside from an anim viewer, a converter to encode the video as MPEG
later on. You can download screenshots from the programs, and a MPEG animation recorded
with FMRecord (and encoded with CreateMPEG) from my homepage.
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30.Aug.1999
Robert Niessner by eMail
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PFS3 finished
The most important new features:
- PFS Doctor, a repair program for the difficult case
- expansion of the delete directory to up to 992 entries!
- extra long filenames, (optionally) up to 100 characters!
- HDInsttools for easy installation
- own PFS format command
- miscellaneous bugfixes
Available from Schatztruhe and other distributors.
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30.Aug.1999
Patrick Beerhorst by eMail
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Prelude library bug
Patrick Beerhorst writes:
Version 4.52 of prelude.library causes problems with the Prelude 1200 (card is not
initialised in certain circumstances). A fixed version v4.55 for both cards (Prelude
1200 and Prelude Z-II) solves these problems. Download:
PrlLib455.lha.
Additionally, there is a new Mixer v2.1 available from the homepage. Download:
PreludeMixer21.lha.
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