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`19.Jun.2001` Amiga Future [News]	Game: Aqua directly distributed by Emerald Imaging Emerald Imaging is selling their new game 'Aqua' from now on through CCNow, an online store that works with the Amiga and accepts all major credit cards. Amiga dealers will be supplied directly by Emerald Imaging. (ps) [News message: 19. Jun. 2001, 19:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jun.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Golem: Matrox Millennium G550 - Vertex Shader included »After rumors had been around for months, Matrox Graphics Inc. has now finally announced their long-awaited graphics card Millennium G550. The graphics chip G550 working on it integrates as second - after the much more expensive GeForce3 - a DirectX-8-compatible Vertex Shader. Matrox nevertheless does not target the card at hardware for game freaks but rather for online communication and web entertainment.« Full article in German at the titlelink. More news on the topic: AnandTech: Matrox Millennium G550: Matrox's Next-Generation chip arrives Toms Hardware: Matrox Launches The G550 (ps) [News message: 19. Jun. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Amiga: SCSI Driver for AmigaOS4 The AmigaOne specification contain an on-board IDE controller, but much of the Amiga users use SCSI hardware (harddrives, CD drives, scanners). That's why Amiga Inc.plans to develop a SCSI driver for the "NCR SCSI scripts chip" for Amiga OS4.x (today, NCR is a subsidiary company of LSI Logic). An internal document describing the reasons why these chips have been chosen was published on the AmigaOne mailing list (title link). The same chip was utilized in diverse Amiga products (e.g. in newer Phase5 acceleration cards). These chips are to be of first class at Amiga Inc. at this time, but this decision might change if a better solution would turn out. Fleecy Moss wrote: ".... - don't assume a PCI card is supported until we release the driver for it." (sd) [News message: 17. Jun. 2001, 20:31] [Comments: 1 - 19. Jun. 2001, 05:17] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2001` Amiga Extreme	Warp3D: Voodoo Driver Status Amiga Extreme has published an e-mail by Thomas Frieden (Hyperion) in which he reports the current status of the Voodoo driver for Warp3D. The Warp3D team converted almost everything relating the use of the FIFO command. As the team was suggested the frame-rate now majorly is independent from the resolution. The speed at 800x600 is exactly the same as at 320x200. Heretic 2 is still playable at 1024x768, but the Voodoo card starts to slow down from this resolution. Moreover the Voodoo version looks much better than the Permedia version. (Screenshots (left: Permedia2, right: Voodoo)). At this time it seems like the Prometheus version of the driver would be finished first. This might happen next week already. The G-REX and hopefully the Mediator version, too, will follow soon after. The Prometheus driver will be the first because of the G-REX prototype had a little problem preventing FIFO from working. So, development was done on the Prometheus board. Development of Warp3D now is done using the new gcc basing StormC 4 which creates fine code, already. Additionally it enables the use of Inline assembler. By some PPC assembler optimizations the Warp3D team now can almost fill up the bus with data to almost reach the maximum performance. Supplement 17 June 2001: Ben Yoris (Hyperion) wrote on ANN that Hyperion will do a presentation of their own games on the Prometheus PCI board with a Voodoo3 plugged in on the Benelux Amiga Show, which will take place on June 23rd, 2001. (sd) [News message: 17. Jun. 2001, 11:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Bjarke Viksoe (ANF)	PC: ADF view The ADF View is a Shell Namespace extension, which opens up the .ADF file extension. ADF files are Amiga Disk Files, or image dumps of AmigaDOS formatted disks. These files are used by most Commodore Amiga emulator software. Because ADF View is a namespace extension, it is integrated right into the Windows Explorer. Double-clicking on an ADF file brings up the familiar folder view, where you can copy, move, delete, recover and rename files as you would usually do with normal PC files. You can also drag'n'drop files from any Windows folder to an ADF folder, and back. ADF View works with Amiga floppy images and hard disk images. It even detects Amiga hard drives attached to your computer and adds a new drive icon to the "My Computer" folder under Windows NT/2000. New and empty disk images can be created using a Wizard under the Shell New commands (The File/New sub-menu in the Windows Explorer). Download: adfview.zip - 96 kB (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 19:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Schatztruhe (e-mail)	Schatztruhe: Aminet 43 available Aminet CD 43 - June 2001 - contains more than 900 MB (unarchived) of software in almost 700 archives. Since Aminet CD 42 many MB of new software have been added. As special highlight, Aminet 43 contains the full version of Wildfire 5 with the possibility to cheaply upgrade to Wildfire 7. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 15:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Amiga starts with delivery of the "Party Packs" According to a posting of Gary Peake (see titlelink), Amiga has begun last Thursday with delivery of the "Party Packs". (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 12:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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