27.Aug.1999
Andre Beer
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Update GeoWorld
After more than half a year of work, today we finally finished the long-awaited update to
version 1.1 of GeoWorld. GeoWorld, probably the best geographical software for the Amiga,
has been expanded by the following features in version 1.1:
- adding a new generic search function in the maxi search, enabling for the first time the
search for special keywords in the additional databases like economy, history etc. (full text
search)
- complete rework and bugfixes
- NewLook-Menus for OS 3.0+ (no more changing menu colors)
- flashing pointer for cities and small countries now working correctly
- scrolling of the maps pixel by pixel per keyboard
- sorting speed-up due to presorted databases
- faster search functions (in Assembler)
- VisualPrefs now supported nearly completely
- GeoWorld-Fonts can now stay in the same directory
- interaction with all requesters now completely by keyboard
- option to give distances in miles instead of kilometers
- requester "no information available" now with configurable time-out
- reworked and expanded prefs window (among others display mode, font,
use, save or reset prefs)
- expansion of the city database for Austria, Switzerland, Brasil and US
cities (over 1100 cities with ZUP code, 6119 cities total)
- expanding the city databases with details about country / state capitals
- expanding the country databases with details about the Internet abbreviation (e.g. .de, .uk, .us)
- informations about the databases are now kept in a seperate GeoWorld.data file,
so an expansion of the databases does no longer imply a change of the main program
- expansion of the info requester
- rewritten and expanded online help
- reworked and extremly expanded data about the inhabitants of the countries (over 100 kByte
text!!)
The Update Nr. 9 and a up-to-date demo version are available from our
homepage (title link), and should appear on Aminet (misc/edu) in the next few days.
Download (Demo): GeoWorld_E.lha
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27.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Redesign of the website and database ready
Amiga.org is here again full power, the website has a friendlier and cleaner layout now,
and it is (as before) possible requesting news sorted by subject from a database, like
hardware etc., seperately.
I am dreaming of a database like that, too, simply great :-). (ps)
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27.Aug.1999
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner News
Amiga No Piracy campaign
The campaign goes on: some more logos and the final one :) Discussion forum will start soon.
more ...
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27.Aug.1999
Markus Lunk by eMail
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ComputerWoche: Linux-based operating system competing agains WindowsCE
ComputerWoche writes: Amiga is not dead, new live as home information device
MUNICH (CW) - New details have surfaced about Amiga, the cult of the 80ies. It is intended
to be mainly used as Information Appliance in the future.
About two years ago, direct PC distributor Gateway purchased the rights of
the computing pioneer Amiga and its 47 patents from German Escom AG. Now, the name
shall be brought back to life.
Aside from PCs for the consumer market, future's Amigas will be mainly used
as information appliances in private households. CEO Jim Collas wants to present an
operating enviroment until the end of the year, and ship the first machines early 2000.
(Full story - German - at the title link)
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27.Aug.1999
Amiga
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No more executive updates
Amiga writes:
For the next several months, the Amiga staff will be focused on implementing our business
and product plans. We will not be discussing or commenting on future company directions during this time.
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27.Aug.1999
Compcity by eMail
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E4000
Computer City announces the availability of the E4000. The computer is based on a standard
A4000 mainboard with an Elbox tower and AmigaOS 3.5 (which will be delivered when available).
The processor boards are manufactured by Apollo / DCE. Technical specs:
- Midi tower with 230W power supply
- 68040 (40 MHz) or 68060 (50 MHz)
- 2 MB ChipRAM (on A4000 mainboard)
- IDE controller (on A4000 mainboard)
- SCSI2 controller (on the processor board) for hard drives and CD-ROMs
- 7 Zorro II/III slots
- 5 ISA slots (non-active)
- 2 video slots
- 3,5" floppy drive HD 1.76 MB
- original A4000 keyboard
- original Amiga mouse
- 40speed IDE CD-ROM drive
- 13.1 GB IDE hard drive
- AmigaOS 3.5
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26.Aug.1999
Future-Visions by eMail
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Info from Met@box about amiJoe PPC boards
Andreas Schmidt writes:
Today, I recieved some informations from Thomas Rudloff (Met@box) about the announced
amiJoe boards, including some price informations, which can be found on our webpage.
The title link is the German page, the English pages do not (yet?) carry this information.
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26.Aug.1999
Fun Time World
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Lame 3.25 Beta
Note: The Warp-Up version of this MP3 encoder can still crash at certain circumstances.
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26.Aug.1999
Amiga
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Pictures from the Downunder '99 Show
More pictures can be found at GP Software.
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25.Aug.1999
NewsTekniques TekTicker
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European Version of NewTek
European Version of NewTek.
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25.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert
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New ak-Datatypes Version 44.46
Download: akPNG-dt.lha,
akTIFF-dt.lha and
akJFIF-dt.lha as well as
akNAIL-dt.lha (44.3, from August 10th 1999).
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25.Aug.1999
AWD [News]
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Amiga Job offering, Amiga 2k announced, Amiga Downunder 99 show report
Various news from AWD:
more ...
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25.Aug.1999
Iwin
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Iwin: product specifications of A510MP and A1010MP online
At AmiUpdate, the entry in the
Sun Dealer Catalog is considered sufficient proof for the existence of Iwin. Here's the
entry.
At ANN, there are two more interesting postingsabout the subject: 1. The manufacturer of the tower casings has been found, it is the company Antec. 2.
Jeffrey D. Webster explains in a posting
to c.s.a.m. why it isn't that hard to get added to the Sun Dealer Catalog.
Comment about the technical specification: It reads all too well. You cannot run the
bus system with a 68060-50, however. You will never get the speed to the PCI bus to transport
the data fast enough for the pixel rates of the gfx card. Not to speak of AGP. I consider
that impossible with a 68060 CPU. A company without Amiga experience can never implement
this stuff. For this, the subject is far too complicated. And how is all this intended
to run without Amiga chipset?
more ...
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25.Aug.1999
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Bernhard Hembach dead
Attorney and bancruptcy manager Bernhard Hembach has died on August 20th
at the age of only 55 by heart attack. Our feelings are with his family.
Mr. Hembach managed the bancruptcies of Commodore and Escom, and by his
casual approach did his part in keeping the Amiga alive.
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25.Aug.1999
Jan Andersen by ML
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor Update Version 1.82b
Name: VirusExecutor v1.82b
Archive name: ve-182b.lha
Archive size: 48.337 bytes
Date: 24 August 1999
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes in this update:
- new prefs window added (BETA).
VE directly goes to the prefs window when new settings are added.
- hopefully fixed 'Error 12000'.
- vector check added. Not too well yet, but I'm working on it.
- VE can now display tasks, libraries and devices...
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24.Aug.1999
wARPgATe
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Statement about the current status of the warpTrans project by WARP9
Full text translator for English-German, German-English (details at the title link).
Since January 1999, a team based in Netherlands is working on the program.
Based upon a already finished dictionary the implementation has been possible at all.
The language recognition is almost finished, and is unique so far on the Amiga in its
high quality. An integration of this system into other applications is also possible.
To bring the warpTrans project to a final version, the time until November should
suffice.
Despite announcements, feedback of interested users has been sparse. While
everybody is calling for new, innovative software... One ought to think that such a
program deserved more attention. This does not seem to be the case. It seems like
everything is already there and no one needs something new? (Full text - German - at
title link).
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24.Aug.1999
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio version 2.01 Demo released
Download page
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24.Aug.1999
Camouflage
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First screenshot of CamX Transport Window
First screenshot of CamX Transport Window.
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24.Aug.1999
Alex Kazik by eMail
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RC5: Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers (User Group) reached 500.000 blocks
More infos at the title link or the statistics
page.
For having "only" five people cracking on it, a very fine achievement.
Congratulations!
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24.Aug.1999
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AmigaOS 3.5 briefly presented on TV
In the (German) TV show "Neues", AmigaOS 3.5 was presented in a one minute report.
Among others, the new HD-Toolbox was shown, which will support hard drives >4GB,
SCSI and IDE. Aside from Internet funtionality and online manual, the Preferences
were also shown. Although it wasn't a lengthy report, but it's great that the Amiga
is seeing more and more media attention.
Thomas Nosutta wrote on the subject:
Since there have been a report about the Amiga as well as about the Computer Games Museum
in Berlin, I wondered that the rest of the world would like to know more about it.
So here are two links for those interested:
8-Bit-Nirvana (German) and
Computer Games Museum.
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24.Aug.1999
Amiga [Events]
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Saku 99
On September 4th, 1999, Finland's largest Amiga show "Saku 99" is taking place
in Vantaa. Read the event's
press release.
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24.Aug.1999
M&M
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New screenshots from Maim & Mangle
New screenshots from Maim & Mangle.
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24.Aug.1999
AmiDog
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New Version 1.10 AmiDog's MoviePlayer
Download: AMP110.lha
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24.Aug.1999
Amiga
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Petro Tyschtschenko at NBC GIGA-TV
NBC GIGA-TV, a private TV station located in Duesseldorf, Germany,
invited AMIGA International, Inc. (represented by Petro Tyschtschenko)
to take part in a
talkshow of rather entertaining than technical character. AMIGA's
eventful past and its unique history in computer business will be part
of the talkshow which will
be broadcasted on September 7th at 7pm.
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23.Aug.1999
KDH
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KDH on holiday
From August 31st to September 15th, 1999, KDH is on holiday. Have a good time :-)
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23.Aug.1999
NewsRog
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NewsRog: Patch for version 1.8 available
This patch resolves the "memory corruption" problem, and should be installed by
all users using version 1.8. Download:
Patch1.8A.lha.
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23.Aug.1999
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Cracker group Digital Corruption: OS3.5 cracked?
Set aside the fact that you shouldn't use pirate copies at all (they are illegal,
and severly harm the Amiga), we can only warn of this cracked version, since it
contains some nice backdoors for sure (like those viruses that appeared on Aminet
recently, which did send out eMails unnoticed).
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23.Aug.1999
Delsyd Software
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Delsyd Software News
After it has been quiet around Delsyd Software for months, yesterday two new games
have been announced at once: "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" and a "Syndicate" clone so far
without a name.
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23.Aug.1999
Sunsite
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New Linux-Apus kernel
New Linux-Apus kernel.
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23.Aug.1999
Justine de Jong by eMail
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Iwin people: Put an End to This!
We have recieved several eMails by people who asked Tulip about the actual state of talks
about the Commodore logo. All recieved the same answer by Tulip:
more ...
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23.Aug.1999
Ron van Herk by eMail
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Audio Evolution now distributed commercially by Computer City
Audio Evolution (better known as PlayHD) is now available as PPC version. The commercial
distribution is now in the hands of Computer City
in Rotterdam. Details about the program and the distributor in the full press relase:
more ...
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23.Aug.1999
Vapor.com
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V³: Second prerelease available
Major changes since the first public prerelease include:
more ...
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22.Aug.1999
Vapor.com
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Contact Manager 1.5
The allround bookmark and addressbook by Simone Tellini is now available as MUI
custom class. Download: cmanager_15.lha.
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22.Aug.1999
V3.Vapor
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V³ website in new glamour :-)
Voyager's website in new glamour :-)
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22.Aug.1999
X-Arc
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X-Arc new beta version 1.4beta2
Changes: better subroutines, less bugs, new GUI design. Download:
X-Arc1_4beta2.lzx.
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22.Aug.1999
Hyperion
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Info about Worms: Armageddon
Info about Worms: Armageddon.
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22.Aug.1999
TWF
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New screenshots of Maim & Mangle
Those who have tried to subscribe to the M&M mailinglist without success can contact
collins-e@dnet.co.uk to be added manually.
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22.Aug.1999
Davy Wentzler
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Audio Evolution PPC
Audio Evolution (better known as PlayHD) is now available as PPC version.
More informations about the program.
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22.Aug.1999
AWD [News]
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First report from Downunder '99
The AmigaOS 3.5 was presented, and it's release scheduled for end of September.
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22.Aug.1999
Markus Fellhauer by eMail
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Diskmaster2 new beta version 2.5b1
Download: DM2beta.lzx.
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22.Aug.1999
Marc Albrecht by eMail
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Opera for Amiga
Marc Albrecht writes:
Just for your information: 1998 and 1999, we (A.C.T. and ETERNITY) have officially
offered OPERA to make the port of the Amiga version on our own - for payment as well
as without payment for royalities. We were informed the Amiga port was underway, and
therefore they had no need for our services.
With other words: Forget about Opera - it will never come.
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21.Aug.1999
Martin Endres by eMail
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News from Camouflage MIDI/Audio sequencer
Martin Endres writes:
The price has been cut back (including cross-update to CamX).
CamX (the successor) will probably be released in autumn/winter in German as well as
English.
The first version will be for Amiga68K only, with a Linux86 and perhaps an AmigaNG
version coming later (if AmigaNG is already available by then).
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21.Aug.1999
cucug.org
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Cucug: The Status Register - August, 1999
Cucug: The Status Register - August, 1999.
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21.Aug.1999
Vapor.com
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Bug Tracking System by VaporWare now online
Bug Tracking System by VaporWare now online.
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21.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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geeknews: Q & A with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner
Q: Will we see a project from Opera to support the upcoming AmigaOS?
A: We will have to wait and see. At this time we do not know what will happen
with the new Amiga and what it really means. I have had my share of Amigas in
the past and I still have a couple at home so I would love to see the Amiga
prosper. At this time, however, we do not know what is going to happen. There
have been a lot of announcements without results from Amiga Inc. and we are
still waiting to see real results. If they deliver we will consider a port.
more ...
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21.Aug.1999
WHOTA
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WHOTA Volume 2 - Issue 21 online
WHOTA Volume 2 - Issue 21 online.
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